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Let’s talk about sex, maybe
Added: 30 Mar 2023
As the Natural History Museum hosts the first European display of Patagotitan, Brian J Ford revisit…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Not wanted – bot with GSOH
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Reinforced learning won’t make ChatGPT a lab competitor for Matthew Partridge. Not until it masters…
Keener on greener
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Sustainability was the core of Lab Innovations’ MyGreenLab/Laboratory News seminar series. In the f…
Game Theory: Genotype
Added: 20 Mar 2023
Based on Mendelian genetics, Genotype is absorbing and challenging, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr I…
Colouring our view
Added: 20 Mar 2023
The work of spectroscopy’s early pioneers continues to influence us today, says Brian J Ford, and i…
Light shined like a neon show
Added: 12 Mar 2023
Good quality visuals help convey information in research papers. Contrary to what many scientists s…
Lab Diary: Aurora provides lecture time enlightenment
Added: 7 Mar 2023
Recent days have offered a rare opportunity to view the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights in the U…
International Women’s Day 2023: the voices of experience
Added: 7 Mar 2023
To mark International Women’s Day 2023, three women who play leading roles in the life science sect…
Investing in futures
Added: 5 Mar 2023
It’s not only students who need to take placements seriously. Lab managers too must adopt a long-te…
Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture
Added: 5 Mar 2023
As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in t…
The Pauper Paradox
Added: 27 Feb 2023
The degree machine pumps out poorly paid young graduates. Someone’s doing well out of it, observes …
From petri dish to dinner plate
Added: 27 Feb 2023
Lab grown meat is developing into a multibillion pound industry but scaling up has challenges, expl…
A coordinated advance
Added: 20 Feb 2023
Deep virology knowledge, urgency and partnership form the crucible for rapid antibody development t…
Weighing: the environmental impact
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smalle…
Help us to open the lab to talent and disability
Added: 8 Feb 2023
Katherine Deane explains how your input can ensure the Access All Areas project enables science to …
Sunak shuffle: strategic sense or rearranging the deckchairs?
Added: 8 Feb 2023
From a political perspective, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s predicted mini-reshuffle is either far s…
Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…
A guarantee of security?
Added: 6 Feb 2023
One of Europe’s leading microbiologists wants EU legislators to follow the UK’s lead and relax the …
Aligning asset services to put lab needs first
Added: 30 Jan 2023
Good asset management ensures that key considerations such as validation, compliance and maintenanc…
The downsides of ‘social’ science
Added: 30 Jan 2023
Familiarity with online media hasn’t made Russ Swan any fonder of it.
