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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…

CrossSense smart specs win Longitude dementia award £1mill grand prize
Added: 21 Mar 2026
CrossSense, the smart glasses-based AI assistant designed to help early stage dementia sufferers wi…

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…

Product Update: Liebherr expands UK lab portfolio
Added: 10 Mar 2026
Commercial refrigeration specialists Liebherr have introduced seven high performance countertop and…

Bath combines biology and chemistry to thwart cancer drivers
Added: 4 Mar 2026
University of Bath researchers are harnessing bacteria to develop millions of potential drug molecu…

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…

Swedish researchers cite biomarker advance for early stage Parkinson’s
Added: 1 Feb 2026
Biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease have been identified by a Scandinavian research team, pinpointin…

Britain continues to dominate European biotech investment, says BIA
Added: 26 Jan 2026
The UK remained Europe’s leading national biotech market in 2025 throughout the year, accounting fo…

‘World first’ brain cancer implant therapy nets £4.5 million investment
Added: 25 Jan 2026
Cheshire-based medtech business QV Bioelectronics has won £4.5 million in investment and grant fund…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…