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A laughing matter: humour boosts science communication

Added: 15 Mar 2025

The traditional image of scientists as solemn, white-coated figures might soon give way to a lighte…

Design for lab-ing

Added: 10 Mar 2025

Product and marketing manager at leading lab furniture and equipment designer and manufacturer Tekn…

Integrity at all times

Added: 10 Mar 2025

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) plays a crucial role in engineering advanced materials but accur…

Banking on precision

Added: 3 Mar 2025

Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

Keep your lab data close to your product release decision points

Added: 2 Mar 2025

Automation can guarantee that product releases don’t fall foul of compliance rules on account of re…

Letters of mark

Added: 24 Feb 2025

Professional registration provides a clear indication of competency and access to valuable resource…

Virtual reality, actual implications

Added: 24 Feb 2025

Digitalisation is transforming the nature of healthcare by sidestepping previous physical constrain…

Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save re…

Novel interrogation

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…

The road to eliminating cervical cancer

Added: 10 Feb 2025

January marked cervical cancer awareness month; it’s a reminder, says Paul Holmes, that more must b…

Tell it to the spin doctor

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…

The Future of Lab Informatics

Added: 30 Jan 2025

What will 2025 bring in terms of lab informatics? How will advanced technologies drive new discover…

Coolly compliant

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only …

At the heart of things

Added: 20 Jan 2025

London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

The write stuff

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Procrastination gets you far, says Matthew Partridge. All the way to deadline time.

Lab Babble: Citizen riff

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Russ Swan does his bit for volunteer science.

Financing smarter laboratories

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Everyone understands the importance of greater automation within the laboratory. Meeting that need,…

Focus through time

Added: 6 Jan 2025

How had Robert Hooke’s engravings attained detail beyond the apparent powers of his microscope? Pro…

Promotion: Less shout… more ‘about’

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Sponsored Content offers advertisers a subtler alternative to the hard sell – a chance to tell the …

Greener diagnostics: The sustainable revolution

Added: 17 Dec 2024

From eco-friendly materials to innovative technologies such as spectroscopy, molecular diagnostics …