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Mitigating implicit bias in your laboratory

Added: 22 Feb 2022

In the ongoing battle for workplace equity, diversity and inclusion, we are all responsible for our…

Biopharma: The trials of scaling-up

Added: 19 Mar 2020

Struggles with scale-up mean that the biopharmaceutical industry can’t keep up with ever-increasing…

The character of a medical revolution

Added: 4 Mar 2020

Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. H…

Formaldehyde

The death of formaldehyde?

Added: 20 Feb 2020

Back in 2016, Formaldehyde was reclassified by the EU as a carcinogen – and it looks as though that…

A glimpse into the miniature world

Louisa Hearn | Added: 1 Jun 2016

New measurement techniques are delivering new insights into the character and size of ever-smaller …

Pharma & bio – the march of modernisation

Rob Smith | Added: 17 May 2016

Giants of the pharmaceutical industry are becoming more flexible as modern processes start to take …

The small matter of nanomaterials safety

Rob Smith | Added: 21 Mar 2016

Nanomaterials have the potential to ignite, explode and cause serious damage to human health. There…

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The secret life of cells

Added: 6 Jul 2015

Instruments that can capture the covert processes within cells are bringing laboratory research int…

Image analysis & microscopy

Editor's comment | Image analysis & microscopy web magazine

Added: 6 Jul 2015

We have launched the first issue in a new series of web magazines.

Mixed gender lab

Editor's comment | Those 'troublesome' female scientists...

Added: 12 Jun 2015

Female scientists have been hitting back at Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt this week after he made sex…

Zebrafish heart beating

Head towards the light

Added: 14 May 2015

Advances in light sheet microscopy are opening an entirely new world of discovery for the imaging r…

PM David Cameron

Editor's comment | A bolt from the blue

Added: 8 May 2015

With a hugely surprising Tory majority now confirmed, investment in UK science could be the real wi…

QA QC

Quality control: quality is King

Added: 13 Apr 2015

From the laboratory to the production line, Robert Smith looks at the technologies that are helping…

Large Hadron Collider

Editor's comment | Ring in the new

Added: 8 Apr 2015

As the world’s largest scientific experiment gets underway, what are the Large Hadron Collider (LHC…

Omron beverage inspection system

Machine vision: visual aid

Added: 8 Apr 2015

Smart camera technologies are redefining quality in the process plant, writes Louisa Hearn.

Exam Hall

Editor's comment | Sayonara Science?

Added: 4 Mar 2015

Ofqual, the examination regulator for England and Northern Ireland, yesterday announced a new appro…

Robert Langer

Editor's comment | The awards debate

Added: 18 Feb 2015

Should awards be considered worthwhile recognition for great work, or a worthless distraction?

Ebola

Ebola faces vaccine triple threat

Added: 21 Jan 2015

Three major pharmaceutical firms are leading the charge to develop the world’s first widely availab…

Liberty Blue

Tide turns for microwave chemistry

Added: 5 Jan 2015

Microwave chemistry is fast becoming the most highly-prized asset in a laboratory’s peptide synthes…

Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a crisis for the health and wealth of nations

Review: The future impact of antimicrobial resistance

Added: 11 Dec 2014

The first of five independent reviews that address the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance wa…