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Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…

The road to eliminating cervical cancer
Added: 10 Feb 2025
January marked cervical cancer awareness month; it’s a reminder, says Paul Holmes, that more must b…

Tell it to the spin doctor
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope
Added: 9 Feb 2025
Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

AstraZeneca’s Speke U-turn deals blow to Government’s life sciences ambition
Added: 3 Feb 2025
AstraZeneca’s shock reversal of its plans to expand vaccine manufacturing at itsSpeke plant on Mers…

Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine
Added: 28 Jan 2025
Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…

Coolly compliant
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only …

Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…

Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise
Added: 21 Jan 2025
Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…

At the heart of things
Added: 20 Jan 2025
London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

Access your free copy of the Laboratory News Christmas issue…
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepar…

Biobanks: a vital investment in precision medicine
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

Durham points the way for rapid delivery global surveys
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Durham university says it has achieved one of the highest ever response rates for a global, large s…

New body aims to deliver on chemicals sector green pledge
Added: 8 Dec 2024
A new body designed to speed the transition to sustainable chemicals and materials in the UK has be…

Scientists beat chefs to the skinniest spaghetti
Added: 25 Nov 2024
UCL scientists have ousted a renowned Sardinian pasta maker’s record for the thinnest pasta ever cr…

Lab Babble: A certain ratio
Added: 18 Nov 2024
And the award goes to... a man. Perhaps we need to look more critically at the gender imbalance amo…

Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research
Added: 14 Nov 2024
Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…

Transparency is key to tackling drugs shortages
Added: 11 Nov 2024
However fast labs develop new therapies, the complex route to patients exacerbates shortages that c…

Build the wall!
Added: 11 Nov 2024
Relax, Matthew Partridge hasn’t gone MAGA; his target’s lab chore dodgers.