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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…
Study links variants in single gene to incidences of dementia
Added: 11 Jan 2026
New research from UCL has identified variations in a single gene as an under-recognised target for …
New towns challenge Oxbridge supercluster domination
Added: 9 Jan 2026
Two of Britain’s post-war new towns are challenging Oxford and Cambridge’s domination of the countr…
Breast cancer is world’s most studied disease for fifth year
Added: 8 Jan 2026
Phesi’s annual report on the world’s clinical trials has revealed that breast cancer has maintained…
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…
Biotech launches redox biology global award
Added: 8 Dec 2025
A Finnish biotech has launched its own global award for scientists specialising in redox biology, w…
Pistoia Alliance survey warns of ‘AI scientific content crisis’
Added: 8 Dec 2025
AI systems for scientific organisations are too often being built on incomplete or insufficiently t…
Warwick launches £6 million R&D space investment
Added: 1 Dec 2025
University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) is to invest millions in redeveloping one of its key site…
New UK–Brazil research group to pioneer novel bone surgery paste
Added: 30 Nov 2025
Two British institutions have set up a new research group with a peer organisation in Brazil to dev…
UK’s nuclear material offers plentiful source for new cancer therapy
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Britain’s recycled nuclear material is to be used for the production of new precision cancer treatm…
Kingston study proposes invertebrate solution to decline of in vivo lab skills
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Invertebrate creatures could offer the means to tackle a life sciences skills gap, suggests a new r…
Lab News in brief: CGT Catapult, PacBio, Isakson Prize, Hartwell, Exogene, Swansea Uni, Metir, Berry Genomics, diaago…
Added: 10 Nov 2025
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s annual report reveals last year it worked with 70 companies on adv…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
