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Stratech acquisition signals further expansion for Europa Biosite

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Cambridge Bioscience has purchased its fellow life sciences product distributor Stratech Scientific…

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…

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…

Scientists find sweet spot for tackling resistant pathogen

Added: 4 Feb 2026

Australian researchers have designed antibodies able to recognise a sugar present only on bacterial…

UK’s first AI-driven Level 3 lab launches first commercial project

Added: 18 Jan 2026

A joint British-Canadian initiative for infectious disease vaccines will be the first commercial pr…

Lab Innovations organiser releases attendance figures for "most successful" show

Added: 18 Jan 2026

Organisers of the recent Lab Innovations trade show at Birmingham NEC have claimed 2025 was their m…

Researcher wins £2million for quantum tech ‘spy’ system

Added: 15 Dec 2025

Heriot-Watt University researcher Dr Aldona Mzyk has been awarded £2 million to develop quantum sen…

Immunology, quantum and MOF dominate Nobel Prizes for science

Added: 9 Oct 2025

Nine new Nobel Prize laureates have shared the three award categories for physiology/medicine, phys…

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…

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…

Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine

Added: 15 Sep 2025

Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal diseas…

Generative AI boost in battle against drug resistance

Added: 15 Aug 2025

Generative AI has enabled the creation of novel antibiotics capable of killing two highly drug resi…

Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment

Added: 6 Aug 2025

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…

Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report

Added: 28 Jun 2025

Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…

Glasgow team wins £0.4 million to harness cancer-fighting immune cells

Added: 10 Jun 2025

Nearly £0.4 million has been awarded to a University of Glasgow team researching the use of immune …

Study claims mRNA vaccines carry lower GBS risk

Added: 10 Jun 2025

A new international study claims that mRNA vaccines may be associated with a lower risk of developi…

Mosquito project overwhelmed by swarm of willing citizen scientists

Added: 5 May 2025

Citizen scientists working with the University of Glasgow have amassed more than 700 reports over a…

£10 million approved for Liverpool LSTM’s AI Level 3 labs suite

Added: 27 Apr 2025

Funding of £10 million has been cleared for AI powered robotic laboratories to be provided to Liver…

New survey finds lower levels of vitamins and iodine in UK milk

Added: 11 Apr 2025

A new survey of cows’ milk on sale in UK supermarkets has found that it contains lower levels of vi…

Peptide breakthrough curbs ‘undruggable’ cancer switch

Added: 28 Mar 2025

Researchers have outlined a means to apply drug treatments to previously resistant protein which ca…