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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 …

Honing in on the chemical lab

Added: 15 Apr 2024

This year’s version of the CHEMUK show is the largest ever but it also has an enhanced focus on the…

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…

The far horizon

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Innovate UK has gone public this year with the research for its list of the top 50 emerging technol…

Unravelling the secrets of RNA

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…

Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…

Stat… fact… friction?

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.

Million dollar beep

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Digital hackers may be the bigger threat but don’t overlook the need for safeguards against more co…

Keep it clean

Added: 5 Feb 2024

Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…

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 …

A global leg-up

Added: 29 Jan 2024

Returning to the theme of sustainable reuse, Colin Shandley offers a reminder that the effect goes …

Where the action is

Added: 29 Jan 2024

As demand for lab space increasingly outstrips supply, alternatives are being sought to science par…

On the front line

Added: 22 Jan 2024

Increasing digitalisation creates a weapon for hackers, criminals and hostile states to employ far …

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…

Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science

Added: 7 Dec 2023

Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided t…

One indivisible truth?

Added: 27 Nov 2023

The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…

Shooting the lab

Added: 20 Nov 2023

If a picture tells a thousand words, a short video can do still more in the social media age. Autho…