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Lab Innovations exhibitors to share on-stand expertise
Added: 13 Oct 2024
More than 4,000 attendees are expected to produce its largest-ever turnout for this year’s Lab Inno…
Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy
Added: 12 Oct 2024
Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…
AI, genes and proteins dominate Nobel 2024 prizes
Added: 11 Oct 2024
Pioneering work in AI, gene regulation and protein science underpinned this year’s Nobel Prize scie…
Uni-industry pairing to address UK lack of toxicology testing
Added: 6 Oct 2024
Kingston University is joining forces with an East Anglian based testing specialist to open a new f…
Leading marine survey finds home at enlarged Plankton Lab
Added: 6 Oct 2024
Charities supporter the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have…
Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…
Fundamentally unintelligent
Added: 30 Sep 2024
AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Added: 30 Sep 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…
Sheffield AMRC and Boeing science-industry partnership wins Bhattacharyya Award
Added: 30 Sep 2024
The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and Boeing have won the…
Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study
Added: 1 Oct 2024
Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital ha…
Europe to mark lab science’s key role again with dedicated day
Added: 30 Sep 2024
European Laboratory Day returns on 5 November to focus on the contribution of laboratory medicine p…
Universities launch programme to boost UK space sector graduate opportunities
Added: 22 Sep 2024
Three south of England-based universities have launched a project to provide hands-on industry expe…
BioGrad announces national expansion with opening of York site
Added: 22 Sep 2024
Laboratory testing specialist BioGrad Group has announced plans for a major site in York – the fift…
Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science
Added: 22 Sep 2024
The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston Un…
Alzheimer’s Society pledges £9 million for three dementia training centres
Added: 15 Sep 2024
The Alzheimer’s Society is investing in a multimillion pound project to tackle the talent drain of …
Bristol dominates uni cohort with double win at first AI awards
Added: 15 Sep 2024
The University of Bristol’s leading role in artificial intelligence for higher education received p…
Replacing ultra-processed foods in diet associated with reduction in type 2 diabetes risk
Added: 15 Sep 2024
A new study of the links between processed foods and diabetes risk suggests considerable variation,…
Young innovator turns to 3D to scale up stroke recovery tool
Added: 8 Sep 2024
Innovate UK’s 2023 Young Innovators award winner is using 3D printing to put his stroke recovery th…
Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research
Added: 8 Sep 2024
The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…
Study suggests potential heatwave impact on epilepsy
Added: 8 Sep 2024
Heatwaves could be associated with an increase in abnormal brain activity among people with epileps…
