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Lab Innovations 2023: sustainable solvent selection
Added: 9 Oct 2023
While much discussion around sustainability has focused on the energy efficiency of instruments and…
Getting drastic on plastic
Added: 25 Sep 2023
Our third feature on the Lab innovations My Green Lab/Laboratory News-curated sessions details Labc…
A lighter approach
Added: 18 Sep 2023
The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…
Informed consent: Maximising compliance and minimising risk
Added: 12 Sep 2023
While the principle of participant consent is better appreciated in clinical research today than in…
Water, the source of (lab) life
Added: 11 Sep 2023
When it comes to laboratory liquid, there’s just nothing that can top the peerless H20, argues Matt…
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…
Game Theory: Ocean Pods
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…
Cycling to zero
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…
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 …
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…
Hyper-space
Added: 16 Jul 2023
There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…
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…
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 …
Multi-tasked, ultrafast and kinder
Added: 26 Jun 2023
Ongoing technological advances to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are contributing to…
Guestbook: Formula for our future
Added: 15 May 2023
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly …
The industrial lab: at line or end of line?
Added: 15 May 2023
Sustainability, market pressures and tech innovation are impacting the chemicals and materials sect…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Telling it like it is
Added: 9 May 2023
How to temper the urge to make projects succeed at the expense of sustainability? It’s all in the n…
Health in the round
Added: 2 May 2023
In the second of our features on key talks from the recent Lab Innovations’ My Green Lab/Laboratory…
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…
