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Combating microplastics

October 28, 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations, especially with small particles. Emerging methods such as holographic imaging and fluorescent dyes show promise, yet further...

Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine

August 10, 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-methane, responsible for an estimated 14% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

RSB and Pirbright launch new biorisk professional registration scheme

July 13, 2024
The Royal Society of Biology and the Pirbright Institute have launched a new professional registration scheme for specialists in biorisk.

Light technology ‘may offer sustainable AMR solution’ 

June 8, 2024
New technology pioneered by an Italian company working with University of Birmingham scientists could provide an innovative and sustainable approach to tackling antimicrobial resistance.

A vision beyond gold

March 11, 2024
Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to take its bacterial detection application through the first stage of clinical...

Radio waves offer gentler and more efficient way to alter bacteria DNA

March 3, 2024
Radio waves have been successfully harnessed to provide a less traumatic means to alter the DNA of bacteria cells.

Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds

February 11, 2024
A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 million in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria

February 4, 2024
A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a rise in treatment-resistant bacteria but not in every instance.

The changing diagnostic testing paradigm

January 22, 2024
Despite laboratories' longstanding reliance upon microbial culture for infectious disease identification, the pressures of the pandemic have increased interest in the uses of alternatives, not least molecular diagnostics, argues Tim...

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