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To improve reproducibility; look first to pipetting

Added: 4 Jan 2021

With years of experience and expertise with pipettes, Gustavo Chavarria outlines pipetting factors …

Developing the next-generation genomics toolkit

Added: 21 Sep 2020

Bob Daber from Genosity and Michael Wong from EPAM unveil the secrets behind the Integrated Genomic…

Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?

Added: 17 Aug 2020

Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president an…

Encapsulating the COVID-19 vaccine race: the investor

Added: 27 Jul 2020

Having worked with Stabilitech in various capacities over the past decade, Colin Maltby, Director o…

Encapsulating the COVID-19 vaccine race: the developer

Added: 27 Jul 2020

Since January, weekends have been a thing of the past for Chairman Wayne Channon and his colleagues…

A question of reagents

Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020

At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have b…

Good science communication is vital

Added: 28 Apr 2020

There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, say…

Five things you learn from working in cleanrooms

Added: 19 Aug 2019

Want to avoid committing a serious faux pas before you start working in cleanrooms? That would be h…

Just play the game

Added: 10 Jun 2019

Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…

A very fertile mind

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 3 May 2019

Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel …

Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 5 Apr 2019

Malaria is one of the biggest killers on the planet. Early diagnosis is considered an incredibly im…

Reading the immune system

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 14 Feb 2019

It is a combination of academia and industry which is helping Aleksandr Kovaltsuk read the logbook …

Shooting down HIV hope

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 4 Feb 2019

When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, all passengers and crew were…

Perfecting the inside job

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 6 Jan 2019

An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of tradit…

Taking the wider view

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 3 Jan 2019

The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citati…

A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 29 Nov 2018

This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year histor…

Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 28 Nov 2018

Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is …

Getting the right exposure

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 6 Sep 2018

Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do…

The money man

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 15 Jun 2018

We are all aware of the sweat, tears, and stress required to win a grant bid… but what does it look…

The flora and fauna of modern forensics

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 6 Jun 2018

The postmortem microbiome, forensic botany and some very angry creationists… when Professor Nathan …