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Innovation in digital imaging is essential for the modern lab

Added: 6 Sep 2023

Technological advances mean switching from microscopes to digital alternatives can be achieved with…

Look beyond the Horizon

Added: 3 Aug 2023

While many scientists are keen to see the UK back in the Horizon Europe programme, Professor Brian …

Accelerating cancer research with automation

Added: 30 Jul 2023

Chemotherapies that rely on replication-associated DNA damage can affect healthy cells as well as c…

New tools for an old enemy

Added: 30 Jul 2023

It’s 30 years since the World Health Organisation identified the resurgence of tuberculosis as a gl…

Stopping the rot

Added: 23 Jul 2023

The global cold chain is functioning but often ineptly, with consequences for food and vaccine supp…

Lab Babble: Today’s fact, tomorrow’s retract

Added: 10 Jul 2023

You can withdraw a discredited paper, but the long tail of citations lingers on and on, cautions Ru…

Sponsored Feature: Global leader LTE Scientific celebrates 75 years of excellence

Added: 7 Jul 2023

LTE Scientific, a global leader in the design, manufacture, and supply of laboratory, scientific an…

Sponsored Feature: Culturing Innovation with Don Whitley Scientific

Added: 6 Jul 2023

‘Culturing innovation’ is the message being shared by Don Whitley Scientific (DWS), a company proud…

Time to get VOCal

Added: 3 Jul 2023

We rightly pay attention to CO₂ and methane, says Chang Foo, but more consideration is needed of th…

Embrace the new

Added: 26 Jun 2023

Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the …

Game Theory: Doctor Livingston Jr jigsaws

Added: 5 Jun 2023

They’ve seen many science games, but Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner can’t hide their enthusia…

Leading ex-sample

Added: 22 May 2023

Liverpool University spin-out ReNewVax’s goal of creating the first universal pneumococcus vaccine …

Synthetic affinity reagents: new possibilities for diagnostics

Added: 24 Apr 2023

Fast and effective diagnostic testing is key to disease management but a challenge for antibody-bas…

Collaboration on life sciences – do we need the UK?

Added: 17 Apr 2023

Undoubtedly, yes, says Jan Wauters. The benefits to Britain and Europe are too great, he argues, an…

Game Theory: Genotype

Added: 20 Mar 2023

Based on Mendelian genetics, Genotype is absorbing and challenging, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr I…

Light shined like a neon show

Added: 12 Mar 2023

Good quality visuals help convey information in research papers. Contrary to what many scientists s…

A coordinated advance

Added: 20 Feb 2023

Deep virology knowledge, urgency and partnership form the crucible for rapid antibody development t…

Scientific nesting places

Added: 6 Feb 2023

If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Something for the weekend

Added: 23 Jan 2023

Matthew Partridge wonders where does a shorter working week leave that staple of the lab, the weeke…

The EU clinical clock is ticking

Added: 9 Jan 2023

With the 31 January 2023 switch to new EU Clinical Trial Regulations fast approaching, Werner Engel…