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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…

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…

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…

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…

Heat, not light could shine the way for drug development, suggests study

Added: 9 Nov 2025

Drugs manufacture might be made speedier and cheaper if makers opted for heat technology in favour …

The cure for problem nails: a whiff of rotten eggs…

Added: 9 Nov 2025

Scientists at the University of Bath and King’s College London (KCL) say they have come up with an …

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 …

Neurobiology trio honoured for 2025 Eppendorf Prize

Added: 2 Nov 2025

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre fellow Sara Mederos was one of three finalists at this year’s Eppendorf a…

Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein

Added: 27 Oct 2025

A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

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…

Launch of three new microwave digestion systems

Added: 13 Oct 2025

Quality analysis with ICP-MS and AA/ICP-OES starts with good sample preparation and for this to be …

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…