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The road to eliminating cervical cancer
Added: 10 Feb 2025
January marked cervical cancer awareness month; it’s a reminder, says Paul Holmes, that more must b…

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…

The write stuff
Added: 20 Jan 2025
Procrastination gets you far, says Matthew Partridge. All the way to deadline time.

Financing smarter laboratories
Added: 13 Jan 2025
Everyone understands the importance of greater automation within the laboratory. Meeting that need,…

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…

Tree Bingo combines entertainment and enjoyment
Added: 25 Nov 2024
What is Tree Bingo?
Well sometimes a game does exactly what it states on the box; Tree Bingo is bi…

Get with the program
Added: 25 Nov 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

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…

Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor
Added: 17 Nov 2024
Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures fo…

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…
Build the wall!
Added: 11 Nov 2024
Relax, Matthew Partridge hasn’t gone MAGA; his target’s lab chore dodgers.

Get with the program
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

Stand by for the big freeze
Added: 26 Oct 2024
Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy
Added: 12 Oct 2024
Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…

Fundamentally unintelligent
Added: 30 Sep 2024
AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…

Do research AI rules disadvantage non-native English scientists?
Added: 6 Sep 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …