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Choosing an appropriate digestion process for your laboratory
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…
Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures
Added: 21 Sep 2025
A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment…
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…
ABPI and NCUB: lack of competitiveness undermining UK life sciences
Added: 14 Sep 2025
Britain’s place as a global leader in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors has plunged in r…
Psychedelics compounds used to combat inflammatory conditions
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Birmingham researchers aim to establish whether psychedelic drugs can be harnessed to combat neurod…
Hearing pioneer James Hudspeth dies aged 79
Added: 24 Aug 2025
A. James Hudspeth, the American neuroscientist credited with discovering how the inner ear translat…
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…
Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem
Added: 15 Aug 2025
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pe…
Double dose ultrasound delivers BPA water pollution breakthrough
Added: 9 Aug 2025
Developments in ultrasound technology have provided a means for tackling difficult pollutants in wa…
Weight loss and growth hormone patients could swap injections for pill suggests research
Added: 8 Aug 2025
Creators of a new technology say it could extend the number of therapies that can be administered v…
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…
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…
Shopping mall technicians ‘offer solution to NHS eye appointments bottleneck’
Added: 14 Jul 2025
Technician staffed virtual eye clinics in shopping centres can help significantly reduce serious ap…
Eppendorf young investigators award recognises neuron-tumour expert
Added: 14 Jul 2025
This year’s Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators has gone to an expert in neuron-tumour…
UK leads in Europe for life science foreign investment projects
Added: 29 Jun 2025
The UK was Europe overall’s leading European destination for life sciences foreign direct investmen…
