All Health & Safety

Science and scientists held in high esteem across the globe
Added: 1 Oct 2020
As the world looks to scientists and the research and development process to bring new treatments a…

Machine Learning provides insight into cannabis strains
Added: 30 Sep 2020
Cannabis data lacking, but machine learning could help
THC and CBD; Anyone who has used, sold, stu…

Reimagining the face mask: a design upgrade
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Imagine a reusable face mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2, is comfor…

Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…

Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry
Added: 12 Aug 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients pres…

Manchester expert launches COVID-19 global task force
Added: 17 Jul 2020
A world-leading materials expert from The University of Manchester is helping to launch a new globa…

New antiviral technology supports reusable COVID-19 facemasks
Added: 25 Jun 2020
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and ITA RWTH Aachen, two of the most recognised academic …

Keeping governments accountable: The COVID-10 assessment scorecard
Added: 16 Jun 2020
A new commentary published in Nature Medicine calls for governments to recognise the urgent need to…

Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevent…

Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs
Added: 18 May 2020
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic…

Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing
Added: 18 May 2020
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work wher…

Virtual conference on low-carbon lifestyle changes
Added: 7 May 2020
More than 500 researchers from all around the world will gather virtually tomorrow Wednesday May 6 …

Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations
Added: 6 May 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organis…

Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…

An ode to imagination
Added: 15 Jan 2020
Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…

How to make Christmas cake with ingredients from lab supply companies
Added: 23 Dec 2019
So, it is the festive period once again and you are trapped in the lab – but fear not, Dr Matthew P…

Time to be selective
Added: 15 Dec 2019
As the AMR crisis looms large, we would do well to look beyond classic drug targets says Dr Thomas …

Time to reconcile science and philosophy
Added: 4 Nov 2019
Despite close historical ties, philosophy and science have had a bumpy relationship in the modern e…

Innovation and sustainability for your lab
Added: 14 Oct 2019
Source new technologies, future-proof your laboratory and find out ways to make procurement sustain…

Singing the praises of odd numbers
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Annoy peer reviewers and create an inclusive numerical policy? It’s a win win for Dr Matthew Partri…