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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…
The Amazon is vital to the global ecosystem but it is nobody’s ‘lung’
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The rainforest makes a crucial contribution, says Brian J Ford but it does not produce the oxygen w…
Image integrity in academic papers
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Academic papers are the most important medium for introducing results to the scientific community, …
Lab Babble: The Modern Prometheus
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Not content with streamlining all scientific research, Russ Swan now offers a blueprint for human e…
Sustainability’s other R-words
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Environmental practice has its own version of the Three Rs, says Colin Shandley, so why stop at ‘Re…
The final frontier
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …
Dystopia calling…
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.
…The agile response
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Sustainable lab practice allied to uncompromising quality and safety standards are vital for the op…
View from the business end
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…
Lab 2050: Four pillars of transformation
Added: 7 Nov 2022
To prepare for the laboratory of the future we must ask, decades ahead, how it will look? Pistoia A…
How can AI advance laboratory research?
Added: 21 Oct 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across industries, and laboratory research may be the …
Reproducibility’s new rule of three
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Could multiplexing offer the way around one of science’s great conundrums? Russ Swan contemplates.
…Supporting innovation in life sciences
Added: 20 Sep 2022
The life sciences’ response to Covid-19 has spurred intense interest worldwide in British R&D, says…
Avoiding common pitfalls deploying customised fume cupboards
Added: 23 Aug 2022
Fume cupboards are vital in an industrial setting but they need to be tailored carefully to the ind…
Healthcare must learn from experience to combat global challenges for patients’ sake
Added: 22 Aug 2022
With nearly one in 20 of global drug trials affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it’s essential…
Disruptors: how Cloud tech is reshaping the laboratory
Added: 22 Aug 2022
Technological transformation is driving change in the modern lab as Cloud-based systems, automation…
How to get lab equipment ‘field’ ready
Added: 31 Jul 2022
Having gathered evidence from at least two field researchers, Dr Matthew Partridge discusses the pe…
Creating places for people to drive life science
Added: 24 Jul 2022
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commut…
How to implement data-driven R&D
Added: 18 Jul 2022
While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max …
Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’
Added: 31 May 2022
You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a…