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Stars present and future
Added: 5 Jan 2026
Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.

Big Ask: Bruntwood’s Kath Mackay
Added: 22 Dec 2025
Regional innovation ecosystems are crucial to ensure university spin-outs are retained and nurtured…

Lab Babble: Epochs of contamination
Added: 15 Dec 2025
LLMs and nukes: not so different, says Russ Swan.

Playing in the big league
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Smaller lab equipment suppliers can be overawed by the bid process for public sector contracts. The…

Powering the lab
Added: 8 Dec 2025
When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In t…

Three steps for an intelligent strategy
Added: 8 Dec 2025
Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…

Ri Christmas Lectures 2025: Universal truths
Added: 4 Dec 2025
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures mark two centuries of breaking barriers between science an…

Board of science
Added: 1 Dec 2025
Celebrating Game Theory’s 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 …

An alternative to conventional ovens and furnaces for your laboratory
Added: 10 Nov 2025
Conventional ovens and muffle furnaces are used daily in hundreds of laboratories for many differen…

Breaking down barriers to scientific knowledge
Added: 10 Nov 2025
The journey toward Open Science is complex and varied, but at its core lies a shared vision: making…

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…

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 …

Collaborative science in the spotlight
Added: 26 Oct 2025
As the NEC Birmingham prepares for this year’s Lab Innovations show from 29-30 October, the event’s…

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…

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…

Launch of three new microwave digestion systems
Added: 13 Oct 2025
Quality analysis with ICP-MS and AA/ICP-OES starts with good sample preparation and for this to be …

Mark of quality
Added: 13 Oct 2025
An important international standard, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 sets clear rules for how testing and calibr…

Doctoring priorities
Added: 6 Oct 2025
The medical profession is a key laboratory client. So, it pays to understand the strategic prioriti…

Putting knowledge before prestige
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.
