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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…

PM reintroduces graduate visa
Added: 18 Sep 2019
A new work visa introduced by Boris Johnson’s government will allow international science students …

The good, the bad and the brexit
Added: 16 Sep 2019
The new Government has been in place for only a few weeks now and in that time, we’ve already had a…

Celebrating the improbable
Added: 13 Sep 2019
Another year, another heart-warming evening commemorating the silly, unusual and often random side …

Are you ready for show time?
Added: 9 Sep 2019
Once again we are delighted to have partnered with the Lab Innovations show – and we want you to be…