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Resilience head says Lords life science report ignores training role

Added: 16 Nov 2025

The head of one of the UK Medicines Manufacturing Centres of Excellence has said a recent Parliamen…

Lab News in brief: CGT Catapult, PacBio, Isakson Prize, Hartwell, Exogene, Swansea Uni, Metir, Berry Genomics, diaago…

Added: 10 Nov 2025

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s annual report reveals last year it worked with 70 companies on adv…

The cure for problem nails: a whiff of rotten eggs…

Added: 9 Nov 2025

Scientists at the University of Bath and King’s College London (KCL) say they have come up with an …

Heat, not light could shine the way for drug development, suggests study

Added: 9 Nov 2025

Drugs manufacture might be made speedier and cheaper if makers opted for heat technology in favour …

AstraZeneca and Bia Analytical dominate Lab Awards 2025

Added: 3 Nov 2025

AstraZeneca dominated a hard fought contest for this year’s Lab Awards at Lab Innovations, winning …

Neurobiology trio honoured for 2025 Eppendorf Prize

Added: 2 Nov 2025

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre fellow Sara Mederos was one of three finalists at this year’s Eppendorf a…

Sheffield engineers harness weather forecasts for industrial green energy

Added: 3 Nov 2025

University of Sheffield engineers are using the weather to time energy intensive manufacturing for …

RGU secures £800,000 grant to drive clean hydrogen innovation

Added: 26 Oct 2025

Researchers from Robert Gordon University School of Computing, Engineering and Technology have secu…

Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein

Added: 27 Oct 2025

A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

Firm claims successful results for test identifying 50 cancers

Added: 19 Oct 2025

US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing mor…

‘Commercial seeds could threaten native wildflowers’ claim

Added: 19 Oct 2025

Commercial seeds used to help revive meadowland and plant diversity could have the opposite effect …

Evident returns to focus on the small and scientifically beautiful

Added: 19 Oct 2025

One of the world’s best known photomicrography competitions, Evident’s Image of the Year, is inviti…

Uni receives quarter million lab funding despite widespread NSF cuts

Added: 12 Oct 2025

America’s Hawai’i Pacific University (HPU) has received a two year grant of nearly US$243,780 for r…

UK science institutions ‘vulnerable’ to political interference, warns report

Added: 9 Oct 2025

Leading UK scientific institutions such as the Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency lack su…

Immunology, quantum and MOF dominate Nobel Prizes for science

Added: 9 Oct 2025

Nine new Nobel Prize laureates have shared the three award categories for physiology/medicine, phys…

Time to change the SFC narrative

Added: 8 Oct 2025

Since inception, Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) has struggled for acceptance in some quar…

November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million

Added: 6 Oct 2025

One of the UK’s largest public-private initiatives for antimicrobial drug and diagnostic developmen…

Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour

Added: 6 Oct 2025

A so-called peptide switch developed by university scientists could offer a means to prevent the bu…

Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?

Added: 6 Oct 2025

Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowle…

UK’s rarest reptile takes firmer hold in Devon

Added: 29 Sep 2025

Conservation efforts to save Britain’s rarest native reptile have resulted in a 25% year on year in…