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Latest Lab Talk news in brief: major investment, sector ‘vulnerable’, contracts, sales and acquisitions
Added: 15 Oct 2025
University of Nottingham spin-out Forge Genetics has raised a total of £2 million to expand its com…
Lab Talk news in brief: London/Oxford lab space, city investment, charity fellowships, contracts
Added: 30 Sep 2025
The Royal Veterinary College has signed a memorandum of understanding with Emulate Inc. to build on…
LabTalk news in brief: Proofig AI, Atelerix, Closed Loop, OGT, RSSL, Mettler-Toledo and more
Added: 25 Sep 2025
The board of The Biotech Growth Trust PLC has appointed professor Dame Jenny Harries as an independ…
Lab Talk news in brief: PV tech, CRO expansion, MHRA licensing and US market
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Research project HI-SCOT is examining how photovoltaic technology can be integrated into Scotland’s…
Lab Talk news in brief: AI screening, synthetic genomes, scaled up production
Added: 14 Aug 2025
UAE-based health company M42 group says it has conducted one of the largest real-world clinical val…
Glasgow firm claims a first for robot-assisted surgery
Added: 13 Aug 2025
Glasgow’s CardioPrecision says its technology has completed the first clinical cases of robotic aor…
Change of name for cleanroom firm Cherwell
Added: 7 Aug 2025
Cleanroom microbiology solutions firm Cherwell is to be renamed AnalytiChem UK from September.
Lab Talk news in brief: relocations, company purchase, new sites and remote learning
Added: 4 Aug 2025
An acquisition, a headquarters expansion, new site launches and a key pharmacovigilance course offe…
Saturated sites and design complexity undermining phase 3 trials, warns Phesi chief
Added: 20 Jul 2025
Complex trials and saturated investigator sites risk wasting billions in money spent on clinical in…
Collaboration provides lead theme for UK’s largest lab professionals event
Added: 18 Jul 2025
Collaboration, sustainability initiatives and tech innovation will be core theme dof this year’s La…
North West’s Build a Biotech winners expanded to four for 2025
Added: 14 Jun 2025
Build a Biotech, the competition founded by a student-created platform set up to link academics and…
MDC’s first patented technology licensed to Selvita
Added: 13 Jun 2025
Contract research organisation Selvita has become the first CRO to license the Medicines Discovery …
Refeyn chair Flint steps down
Added: 12 Jun 2025
Mass photometry and analytical instrument firm Refeyn’s chairman Jonathan Flint has stpped down fro…
Gates Foundation gifts US$0.5 million to gene editing firm
Added: 11 Jun 2025
Biotech firm Gene Weaver has received more than US$515,000 from the US Gates Foundation for its gen…
New diagnostics labs chief for RVC
Added: 10 Jun 2025
Dr Libby Graham has been appointed as the new diagnostic laboratory manager at the Royal Veterinary…
LabTalk News in brief
Added: 20 May 2025
US tariffs have disappointed profit expectations for 2025/26 among Europe’s medtech manufacturers, …
Carbon capture pioneers honoured
Added: 13 May 2025
UP Catalyst, Far Eastern New Century Corporation, and Oxylus Energy were recognised at the Best CO2…
ELRIG reveals keynote speakers for Drug Discovery 2025
Added: 13 May 2025
Not-for-profit organisation for the global drug discovery community ELRIG has revealed the keynote …
Kromek celebrates “significant” year-on-year success
Added: 13 May 2025
Developer of radiation and bio-detection technology solutions for advanced imaging and CBRN detecti…
Refeyn celebrates 500th installation
Added: 13 May 2025
Mass photometry technology pioneer Refeyn says it has installed its 500th system based on its novel…
