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Stars present and future
Added: 5 Jan 2026
Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.
Big Ask: Bruntwood’s Kath Mackay
Added: 22 Dec 2025
Regional innovation ecosystems are crucial to ensure university spin-outs are retained and nurtured…
Lab Babble: Epochs of contamination
Added: 15 Dec 2025
LLMs and nukes: not so different, says Russ Swan.
Playing in the big league
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Smaller lab equipment suppliers can be overawed by the bid process for public sector contracts. The…
Powering the lab
Added: 8 Dec 2025
When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In t…
Three steps for an intelligent strategy
Added: 8 Dec 2025
Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…
Ri Christmas Lectures 2025: Universal truths
Added: 4 Dec 2025
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures mark two centuries of breaking barriers between science an…
Taking a jab at scientific conspiracy theory
Added: 3 Dec 2025
A brush with clinical research during the Covid epidemic set writer Lloyd Evans’ imagination racing…
Board of science
Added: 1 Dec 2025
Celebrating Game Theory’s 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 …
Breaking down barriers to scientific knowledge
Added: 10 Nov 2025
The journey toward Open Science is complex and varied, but at its core lies a shared vision: making…
Collaborative science in the spotlight
Added: 26 Oct 2025
As the NEC Birmingham prepares for this year’s Lab Innovations show from 29-30 October, the event’s…
Game Theory: Savanna
Added: 20 Oct 2025
Ecosystem’s latest iteration is Savanna, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner.
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Protein integrity in the cause of science
Added: 20 Oct 2025
The IMPALA-NET network is developing a polymer-lipid particle technique to preserve the lipid envir…
Mark of quality
Added: 13 Oct 2025
An important international standard, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 sets clear rules for how testing and calibr…
Broadening the baseline
Added: 13 Oct 2025
As the technology underpinning genome studies continues to improve, an over-reliance on Eurocentric…
Time to change the SFC narrative
Added: 8 Oct 2025
Since inception, Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) has struggled for acceptance in some quar…
Doctoring priorities
Added: 6 Oct 2025
The medical profession is a key laboratory client. So, it pays to understand the strategic prioriti…
Putting knowledge before prestige
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.
