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Lab Babble - It’s all just personality testes
Added: 20 May 2021
Go on... you know you want to because, as scientists, it’s a built-in imperative. Just by bringing …
How to keep your research on target
Added: 30 Apr 2021
Is a lack of focus baffling your team? Dr Matthew Partridge recommends setting research goals and s…
What should the new Advanced Research & Invention Agency look like?
Added: 15 Apr 2021
Following the announcement of the proposed launch of the new Advanced Research & Invention Agency (…
Ensuring quality through accreditation in our Lighthouse Labs: IBMS response to BBC Panorama
Added: 31 Mar 2021
Following the BBC Panorama’s undercover investigation into a COVID-19 lighthouse laboratory, the In…
Workplace wellbeing and outdoor green space
Added: 15 Mar 2021
Complementing our January issue cover story on bringing nature indoors, and against a backdrop stee…
2020's top 100 highlights in research and scholarly commentary
Added: 21 Jan 2021
Good science thrives - even during a pandemic! We all know what dominated most of our thoughts in 2…
Lessons learnt from a zero-carbon laboratory
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Mathew Butler reviews the operation of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemis…
Making it happen: young people aren’t just the leaders of tomorrow
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Freelance nextgen reporter, Amy Grace, interviews Mhairi McCann; one of the Women in Engineering So…
lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Stuck in the middle
Added: 23 Oct 2020
In sympathy with all those researchers out there trying to get the tough papers writer, Dr Matthew …
Career chances for technicians shouldn’t be a matter of luck
Added: 20 Oct 2020
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Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry
Added: 12 Aug 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients pres…
Keeping governments accountable: The COVID-10 assessment scorecard
Added: 16 Jun 2020
A new commentary published in Nature Medicine calls for governments to recognise the urgent need to…
Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…
How to make Christmas cake with ingredients from lab supply companies
Added: 23 Dec 2019
So, it is the festive period once again and you are trapped in the lab – but fear not, Dr Matthew P…
Singing the praises of odd numbers
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Annoy peer reviewers and create an inclusive numerical policy? It’s a win win for Dr Matthew Partri…
The good, the bad and the brexit
Added: 16 Sep 2019
The new Government has been in place for only a few weeks now and in that time, we’ve already had a…
Celebrating the improbable
Added: 13 Sep 2019
Another year, another heart-warming evening commemorating the silly, unusual and often random side …
Are you ready for show time?
Added: 9 Sep 2019
Once again we are delighted to have partnered with the Lab Innovations show – and we want you to be…
Going viral
Added: 28 Aug 2019
Foodborne viruses present a major challenge to the safety of a range of foods including ready–to–ea…
You are never too successful for lunch
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Everyone knows that the fulcrum around which a successful lab swings is, of course, lunch. But what…
