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Chemical compliance for the medtech industry: new whitepaper

Added: 27 Apr 2022

Chemical compounds are used both within the constituent materials used to make medical devices and …

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…

Sustainable savings: 4 ways labs can reduce water use

Added: 3 Feb 2022

In times when sustainability and waste reduction remain high on the agenda of laboratory managers d…

Electrical pulses identify live bacteria 

Added: 20 Jun 2019

A new bioelectrical device that can differentiate dead or alive bacteria within minutes could offer…

Laboratories need to be safe, whilst enabling researcher to achieve their potential

Lab-grown insect meat 'alternative to livestock sources'

Added: 13 Jun 2019

Researchers have outlined proposals for lab-grown insect meat as an alternative to harmful livestoc…

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Measurement science goes back to nature for landmark change

Added: 14 Nov 2018

As expected, more than 60 leading scientists attending the General Conference on Weights and Measur…

Brexit a growing influence on UK firms’ decision to delay investment increases

Added: 1 Oct 2018

The UK’s low productivity performance is likely to dip further as British businesses withhold inves…

Construction starts on Queen Mary University's 'Neuron Pod'

Added: 16 May 2018

Construction has begun on ‘Neuron Pod’ – a 23-metre long free-standing structure which will be used…

Chemical fingerprinting is being used to combat food fraud

Engineering body funding for Liverpool University research tops £3 million

Added: 27 Mar 2018

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Liverp…

Is there a risk in being a beach bum?

Added: 22 Mar 2018

A recent study looking at the gut bacteria of surfers has given good reason for concern over the po…

UK pharma and biotech patent applications soar

Added: 13 Mar 2018

UK applications for pharmaceutical and biotech patents recorded the second highest rise in percenta…

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Chemistry failing in battle for STEM recruits warns industry survey

Added: 15 Feb 2018

Shortcomings in academic teaching are making it harder to recruit STEM students as professional che…

Boom year for UK life science investment

Added: 8 Feb 2018

An analysis of investment in life sciences in European capital cities has shown London raised the m…

HEFCE money to enable Southampton to share UK photonics skills

Added: 25 Jan 2018

Southampton university has received £0.2 million from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) …

Chemical fingerprinting is being used to combat food fraud

China assumes lead in science and tech research paper output

Added: 25 Jan 2018

China has overtaken the USA as the world’s leading producer of scientific and technological researc…

Laboratories need to be safe, whilst enabling researcher to achieve their potential

The value of medical research is: 25 pence (for every pound, for ever)

Added: 17 Jan 2018

A decade-long study by Brunel University claims to have an answer to the question that has taxed ac…

BBI’s purchase of Maine Biotechnology Services adds 80 antibodies to portfolio

Added: 17 Jan 2018

Cardiff-based BBI Solutions has added more than 80 antibodies to its product portfolio following th…

Research

Pfizer cuts neuroscience research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

Added: 11 Jan 2018

Drug giant Pfizer’s announcement that it will withdraw from neuroscience research into products aim…

Optimising the proof test burden

Added: 23 Dec 2017

Asset owners and operators are continuously being driven by the regulators to demonstrate that the …

Graduates

STEM grads more likely to be out of work says CIPD report

Added: 17 Nov 2017

Young people who study STEM subjects have the highest rate of graduate unemployment immediately aft…