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Show Preview: Chemical expansion

Added: 28 Apr 2025

After increasing to add a dedicated chemical lab zone last year, CHEMUK returns with a further addi…

Chemical expansion

Added: 7 Apr 2025

After increasing to add a dedicated chemical lab zone last year, CHEMUK returns with a further addi…

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Engineering biology: converting lab R&D into outputs

Added: 7 Apr 2025

IChemE’s Duncan Lugton, who submitted evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committ…

Lab Babble: The war on science

Added: 31 Mar 2025

Wake up and smell the rot, urges Russ Swan.

Design for lab-ing

Added: 10 Mar 2025

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

Banking on precision

Added: 3 Mar 2025

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

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…

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…

Greener diagnostics: The sustainable revolution

Added: 17 Dec 2024

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

Biobanks: a vital investment in precision medicine

Added: 8 Dec 2024

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

Lab Babble: A certain ratio

Added: 18 Nov 2024

And the award goes to... a man. Perhaps we need to look more critically at the gender imbalance amo…

Transparency is key to tackling drugs shortages

Added: 11 Nov 2024

However fast labs develop new therapies, the complex route to patients exacerbates shortages that c…

Get with the program

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology

Added: 6 Aug 2024

CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…

A matter of scale

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…

Casting light on the matter

Added: 4 Jun 2024

Instrument manufacturer Waters Corporation has teamed up with the University of Surrey to provide s…

Future Labs Live 2024: Digital, automated, connected

Added: 4 Jun 2024

Basel braces for anything up to 3,000 innovators, industry leaders and practitioners attending the …

Six degrees of separation

Added: 20 May 2024

Labs play an essential role in advancing sustainability in the wider world but they need to tackle …

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology

Added: 22 Apr 2024

CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…