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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…
Look to your assets
Added: 15 Apr 2024
Waste reduction or recycling is usually the focus for driving greener practice in the lab but what …
Playing it cool
Added: 8 Apr 2024
In the lab, the need for effective temperature control is a given. And as demands have increased, s…
Science in the round
Added: 2 Apr 2024
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) remains one of Europe’s largest multidisciplin…
Scaling the digital mountain
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. Ursula Costa out…
(Almost) one hundred and eighty!
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Time was when three scientific disciplines sufficed, says Russ Swan. They’ve multiplied, to say the…
Identity crisis?
Added: 18 Mar 2024
When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…
Translating to liquid assets
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Biotech ValiRx’s new spin-out prompted its evolution from a virtual operation to encompass wet labs…
A vision beyond gold
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to t…
Unravelling the secrets of RNA
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…
Stat… fact… friction?
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.
Starry, starry night
Added: 5 Feb 2024
After just three years, the Lab Awards has come of age with a standalone event, a record number of …
Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…
Hearing’s the cue for wearing
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Feedback matters for any medical technology developer. When it comes to wearable devices, listening…
Turning down the heat
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…
Game Theory: Viral
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Turner and Robinson embrace their dark side in Viral to play the bad guys.
One indivisible truth?
Added: 27 Nov 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…
Building scientific communities
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…
Agents of change
Added: 9 Oct 2023
We have previously focused on the importance of diagnostic collaboration in combating TB. This time…
The root of it
Added: 2 Oct 2023
Seaweed is an intrinsic part of our existence on this planet and it could just be the very thing th…
