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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…

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…

Microwave tech turns clothes into wearable diagnostics

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Specialists at a Finnish university are developing a series of wearables that use microwave technol…

Lab News in brief: seed funding, research citation, lead exposure, in vitro models

Added: 17 Nov 2025

University of Glasgow scientists suggest that a single gene is the biological mechanism responsible…

An alternative to conventional ovens and furnaces for your laboratory

Added: 10 Nov 2025

Conventional ovens and muffle furnaces are used daily in hundreds of laboratories for many differen…

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 …

China, obesity and biologics to fuel drug sales growth, says Evaluate report

Added: 1 Aug 2025

China’s bioscience sector growth will be a key factor in the growth of global prescription drug sal…

Miele Professional launches glass washers to cater for all laboratory needs

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Miele Professional, a global leader in premium commercial appliances, has announced the launch of i…

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 …

Innovation centre invests in algae to tackle minewater contaminants

Added: 1 Jun 2025

Synthetic biology hub SynbiCITE has awarded grant funding to aid a firm’s research into the use of …

Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’

Added: 29 May 2025

Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…

Nominations open for the 2025 Lab Awards

Added: 23 May 2025

The nominations process for this year’s Lab Awards has opened, with the winners to be announced at …

Call for biomedical collaboration as ‘window of opportunity’ looms

Added: 23 May 2025

Biomedical and health research body the Academy of Medical Sciences has called upon industry, unive…

Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil

Added: 1 Apr 2025

It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then compos…

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…

EPO: UK patent activity increases for third year but lags behind lead nations

Added: 27 Mar 2025

UK-based innovators have increased their patent filing activity in Europe for the third year in suc…

Further grant-aided purchase boosts AIME’s status as regional science leader

Added: 18 Mar 2025

Grant money of £1.5 million has enabled installation of a new mass spectrometer at Aston Institute …

Transplanted microbiota offers hope in fight against cotton disease threat

Added: 18 Mar 2025

A disease that has devastated cotton crops worldwide is being tackled by a novel method of plant tr…

UK life science ‘needs 145k new hires by 2035 to maintain global lead’

Added: 9 Mar 2025

Biopharma and medical technology will drive a huge growth in demand for life sciences employees ove…

Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness

Added: 22 Feb 2025

UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…