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First active TB test created

April 12, 2017
Scientists from three American universities have developed the first rapid test to diagnose active tuberculosis cases.

Novel diagnostic test to detect pathogens created

April 11, 2017
A new lab-on-a-chip has been created that can detect a wide array of molecular pathogens.

A right royal success

March 6, 2017
Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set about developing an oncological knock-out punch. Here she talks microbeads, cancer starvation, and the...

Nanoparticle screening breakthrough

February 20, 2017
Scientists in Switzerland have discovered an innovative method to enable them to screen the safety of nanoparticles for medicinal use.

Time to dissolve bias in STEM

February 10, 2017
On the eve of the UN’s International day for women and girls in science we spoke to Dr Sarah Hosgood about the importance of a sustained effort to encourage women...

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos

November 23, 2016
As we slowly come to terms with the damage caused by the antibody validation crisis – there is hope says Dr Anita Bandrowski. But in order to solve the problem...

Our greatest achievement or our biggest mistake?

October 25, 2016
Artificial intelligence carries as many risks as benefits, especially when it comes to military uses, says Dr Michael Reinsborough as he implores us to demand openess to avoid the mistakes...

Climbing Everest

October 8, 2016
Greg Foot, Science Presenter on the BBC and YouTube will be speaking at Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s leading event dedicated to laboratory professionals, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on...

Translational research…and beyond

May 19, 2016
Professor Nicholas Lemoine, keynote speaker for ON Helix 2016, tells us about how translational research improves health outcomes for patients.

Did the dinosaurs suffer with malaria?

May 16, 2016
A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 100 million years ago, and the first vertebrate hosts of this disease were...

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