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Transplanted microbiota offers hope in fight against cotton disease threat
Added: 18 Mar 2025
A disease that has devastated cotton crops worldwide is being tackled by a novel method of plant tr…

Space scientist Aderin-Pocock to present bicentenary Ri Christmas Lectures
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Space scientist and broadcaster Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock will present this year’s Royal Institutio…

Breaking the code
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Lab notebooks with cryptic code go back a long way, says Matthew Partridge.

A shared responsibility
Added: 17 Mar 2025
As World Health Organisation funding comes under threat, Hogan Bassey offers a reminder of how coor…

Demand for EU critical chemicals law to ensure production of key molecules
Added: 13 Mar 2025
The EU must take action to protect production of nearly 20 key molecules deemed vital to industrial…

Design for lab-ing
Added: 10 Mar 2025
Product and marketing manager at leading lab furniture and equipment designer and manufacturer Tekn…

UK life science ‘needs 145k new hires by 2035 to maintain global lead’
Added: 9 Mar 2025
Biopharma and medical technology will drive a huge growth in demand for life sciences employees ove…

Starlab survey reveals widespread laboratory cost cuts in major European economies
Added: 9 Mar 2025
Laboratory supplier Starlab Group has released a survey containing evidence of widespread cuts in s…

Banking on precision
Added: 3 Mar 2025
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
Added: 1 Mar 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…

Letters of mark
Added: 24 Feb 2025
Professional registration provides a clear indication of competency and access to valuable resource…

Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness
Added: 22 Feb 2025
UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…

Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save re…

Novel interrogation
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…

New facial detection system claims 10 times better image resolution
Added: 16 Feb 2025
Creators of a newly developed detection system say it provides accurate human facial detection over…

Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse
Added: 14 Feb 2025
They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …

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 …