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AstraZeneca and Bia Analytical dominate Lab Awards 2025

Added: 3 Nov 2025

AstraZeneca dominated a hard fought contest for this year’s Lab Awards at Lab Innovations, winning …

Neurobiology trio honoured for 2025 Eppendorf Prize

Added: 2 Nov 2025

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre fellow Sara Mederos was one of three finalists at this year’s Eppendorf a…

Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein

Added: 27 Oct 2025

A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

No-braining training

Added: 26 Oct 2025

New job, same old induction, rues Matthew Partridge.

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…

Protein integrity in the cause of science

Added: 20 Oct 2025

The IMPALA-NET network is developing a polymer-lipid particle technique to preserve the lipid envir…

Firm claims successful results for test identifying 50 cancers

Added: 19 Oct 2025

US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing mor…

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…

Broadening the baseline

Added: 13 Oct 2025

As the technology underpinning genome studies continues to improve, an over-reliance on Eurocentric…

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.

November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million

Added: 6 Oct 2025

One of the UK’s largest public-private initiatives for antimicrobial drug and diagnostic developmen…

Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour

Added: 6 Oct 2025

A so-called peptide switch developed by university scientists could offer a means to prevent the bu…

Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?

Added: 6 Oct 2025

Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowle…

Saving lives, protecting livelihoods

Added: 29 Sep 2025

Zoonotic disease Nipah virus (NiV) killed more than 100 people in a 1999 Malaysian outbreak. Simon …

Scaffolding cells could be key to targeting diseases, says study

Added: 28 Sep 2025

Fibroblasts which produce proteins vital to the framework for the body’s cells and tissues could pr…

Huntington’s result 'could boost' ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy

Added: 26 Sep 2025

Recent clinical success in combatting the effects of Huntington’s disease could herald wider advanc…

Three essential elements for science-fit Generative AI

Added: 24 Sep 2025

Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…

Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures

Added: 21 Sep 2025

A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment…