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Life sciences' relief over SVB UK rescue but fears remain

Added: 13 Mar 2023

Ailing Silicon Valley Bank’s British arm has been acquired by HSBC in an eleventh hour deal that ha…

Light shined like a neon show

Added: 12 Mar 2023

Good quality visuals help convey information in research papers. Contrary to what many scientists s…

Putin invasion has seen loss of two out of three clinical investigator sites in Ukraine and Russia

Added: 12 Mar 2023

The number of recruiting clinical investigator sites in the countries most impacted by the invasion…

Investing in futures

Added: 5 Mar 2023

It’s not only students who need to take placements seriously. Lab managers too must adopt a long-te…

Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture

Added: 5 Mar 2023

As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in t…

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Northern Ireland deal appears to boost UK’s Horizon Europe hopes

Added: 1 Mar 2023

Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s achievement of an agreed new Northern Ireland protocol with his Europe…

First female Chief Scientific Adviser Dame Angela set to assume role in weeks

Added: 23 Feb 2023

Newly-appointed Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) Professor Dame Angela McLean will take o…

Treasury opts for stealth to ‘announce’ takeback of £1.6 bill EU Horizon funds

Added: 23 Feb 2023

Some £1.6 billion in funds allocated for scientific research has been taken back by the Treasury.

Replicating viruses work together to thwart opponents

Added: 19 Feb 2023

New research into the cooperative and competitive behaviour of viruses in the human body could help…

UEA survey seeks to improve disabled access to lab professions

Added: 14 Feb 2023

University of East Anglia researchers are appealing to participants nationwide to contribute to the…

Help us to open the lab to talent and disability

Added: 8 Feb 2023

Katherine Deane explains how your input can ensure the Access All Areas project enables science to …

Sunak shuffle: strategic sense or rearranging the deckchairs?

Added: 8 Feb 2023

From a political perspective, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s predicted mini-reshuffle is either far s…

Scientific nesting places

Added: 6 Feb 2023

If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…

'A fifth of cancer trial sites enrol only one patient'

Added: 3 Feb 2023

Nearly one in five cancer clinical trial enrolment sites surveyed worldwide failed to enrol more th…

Aligning asset services to put lab needs first

Added: 30 Jan 2023

Good asset management ensures that key considerations such as validation, compliance and maintenanc…

The downsides of ‘social’ science

Added: 30 Jan 2023

Familiarity with online media hasn’t made Russ Swan any fonder of it.

UK biotech investment plunges 60% from previous year's all-time high

Added: 29 Jan 2023

UK biotech investment for 2022 dropped from the previous year’s all-time record, reveals the latest…

Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi gain funding for ‘one second’ biomarker technology

Added: 29 Jan 2023

A project that aims to detect several cancer-associated biomarkers from a single blood sample in un…

Keeping laboratory data secure

Added: 23 Jan 2023

Data’s vital to the modern lab but attracts unwanted attention. Proper cybersecurity is paramount, …

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Something for the weekend

Added: 23 Jan 2023

Matthew Partridge wonders where does a shorter working week leave that staple of the lab, the weeke…