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London Lab Live: A capital investment

Added: 6 Apr 2026

Launched last year as part of the Future Labs’ stable, the London show looks here to stay.

Benchmark for success

Added: 6 Apr 2026

The Gatsby Foundation’s benchmarks are helping transform school careers guidance. Good news for STE…

Maths award adds up to nearly £2.8 mill for exchange research

Added: 30 Mar 2026

Two of Sweden’s leading institutions have donated the equivalent of £2.78 million to fund 16 mathem…

Infrastructure fails put science investments at risk, report authors warn

Added: 28 Mar 2026

The UK risks wasting billions in potential capital investments in science unless it improves the in…

Pistoia to publish guide to pharma firm social media listening

Added: 28 Mar 2026

The Pistoia Alliance is for the first time engaging health patients in its research, in order to ai…

From Injection to Ingestion: can yeast make vaccines more accessible?

Added: 28 Mar 2026

Vilnius University reports how its Life Sciences (VU LSC) Center and the U.S. National Cancer Insti…

Gut health issues ‘raise risk for heart failure patients’

Added: 13 Mar 2026

People with heart failure have 8% more chance of being hospitalised or dying if they also have poor…

Consultation measures support for fast track access to medical device imports

Added: 11 Mar 2026

Plans to speed up access to new healthcare devices by aligning regulation with the European Union a…

NMRC site provides first ‘terrestrial anchor’ for UK space manufacturing

Added: 4 Mar 2026

Work has finished on what will be the UK’s first in-space manufacturing hub, the new National Micro…

To PhD or not to PhD: Deciding if a research degree is right for you in today’s STEM landscape

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Once the ultimate academic accolade, a PhD is now just one of many paths in science. Katy Linkens o…

Ellison purchase swells Triangle’s lab space market but problems remain

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Oxfordshire, a key part of UK life sciences’ Golden Triangle region, had an annual take-up of lab s…

How to solve a problem like implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks

Added: 22 Feb 2026

Changing circumstances now favour more widespread adoption of Electronic Lab Notebooks. Yet the pro…

Technology's spotlight should be on abusers, not victims

Added: 22 Feb 2026

The proliferation of intrusive and humiliating online representations of female celebrities and oth…

Cambridge funds revolutionary underground work

Added: 22 Feb 2026

Nature recovery programme Cumbria Connect has received funding from a key conservation group for it…

Phesi founder: digital twins offer potential for combatting rare diseases

Added: 21 Feb 2026

Digital twins are offering new therapeutic possibilities for diseases where the number of sufferers…

Digital dilemmas

Added: 16 Feb 2026

Lab 4.0 is double-edged, notes Matthew Partridge.

Biosimilars and the post-patent environment

Added: 16 Feb 2026

The market and frameworks for biologics and their biosimilars are growing and ever-evolving, as ill…

Crick Institute’s Swanton wins US$1mill Sjöberg Prize

Added: 15 Feb 2026

One of oncology research’s largest awards worldwide, the annual Sjöberg Prize, has been awarded thi…

Our new edition: PhDs, biosimilars, Future Lab, ELN and more…

Added: 14 Feb 2026

Is the PhD still a good investment for a STEM career? The new edition of Laboratory News offers a p…

UK-Finland study extends obesity health risks to include infectious diseases

Added: 14 Feb 2026

More than one in 10 deaths from a number of infectious diseases are associated with obesity worldwi…