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Microscopes to market: Exporting for innovation
Added: 2 Feb 2026
Lab and life science innovators often lack the knowledge and resources to expand into foreign marke…
Creating a digitally enabled, automated R&D environment
Added: 2 Feb 2026
Digitally enabled lab environments, driven by AI, can help accelerate innovation, reduce lab errors…
Sounding cocci-ed
Added: 11 Jan 2026
Broadcasters have a duty to promote science but when they do, it helps to get the details right, ca…
Stars present and future
Added: 5 Jan 2026
Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Saving lives, protecting livelihoods
Added: 29 Sep 2025
Zoonotic disease Nipah virus (NiV) killed more than 100 people in a 1999 Malaysian outbreak. Simon …
Three essential elements for science-fit Generative AI
Added: 24 Sep 2025
Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…
Front line safeguards
Added: 15 Sep 2025
Effective monitoring is essential for sample storage and never more so than in the race to halt a p…
Lab Babble: Turning basic science into TV gold
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Move over Mary Berry, writes Russ Swan.
Sensing what’s right
Added: 25 Aug 2025
Rigorous cleanroom certification requires accurate, real-time data. Microchip technology provided b…
