All Microbiology
FreshCheck funding enables expansion into healthcare applications
Added: 4 Jan 2026
Imperial College London Startup FreshCheck has been awarded £150,000 to aid the rollout of its hygi…
Particology joins £8.2 mill medicines manufacture consortium
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Particle science contract research and development organisation Particology has been chosen to join…
Powering the lab
Added: 8 Dec 2025
When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In t…
Research gives new meaning to a slug of wine
Added: 8 Dec 2025
Traditionally, slugs have been viewed with hostility by farmers but a new study suggests they might…
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…
Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report
Added: 28 Jun 2025
Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…
Integrity at all times
Added: 14 Apr 2025
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) plays a crucial role in engineering advanced materials but accur…
Combating microplastics
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…
Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine
Added: 11 Aug 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…
RSB and Pirbright launch new biorisk professional registration scheme
Added: 13 Jul 2024
The Royal Society of Biology and the Pirbright Institute have launched a new professional registrat…
Light technology ‘may offer sustainable AMR solution’
Added: 9 Jun 2024
New technology pioneered by an Italian company working with University of Birmingham scientists cou…
‘Moon lander’ molecule caught on the move
Added: 28 Apr 2024
A combination of spectroscopy and computer simulations have revealed how pyramidal molecules are ab…
A vision beyond gold
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to t…
Radio waves offer gentler and more efficient way to alter bacteria DNA
Added: 3 Mar 2024
Radio waves have been successfully harnessed to provide a less traumatic means to alter the DNA of …
Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds
Added: 11 Feb 2024
A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 m…
Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria
Added: 4 Feb 2024
A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a…
The changing diagnostic testing paradigm
Added: 22 Jan 2024
Despite laboratories’ longstanding reliance upon microbial culture for infectious disease identific…
Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…
Modern microscopy identifies Dutch master’s £175k handiwork
Added: 21 Dec 2023
A microscope discovered by chance in a house clearance has been authenticated as the work of ‘the f…
Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…
