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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 breakthrough

Carbon capture pioneers honoured

Added: 13 May 2025

UP Catalyst, Far Eastern New Century Corporation, and Oxylus Energy were recognised at the Best CO2…

Refeyn celebrates 500th installation

Added: 13 May 2025

Mass photometry technology pioneer Refeyn says it has installed its 500th system based on its novel…

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…

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 …

Endress+Hauser maintains course in ‘difficult’ year

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Laboratory and instrumentation supplier Endress+Hauser CEO Dr Peter Selders has reported a year of …

CN Bio and Pharmaron seal new partnership

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Drug discovery and development workflow solutions provider CN Bio has announced a strategic partner…

Lab Talk news in brief

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Covid-19 test pioneer Dr Despina Moschou has been elected a Fellow of the medical and biological en…

BDD opens Bio City base after MHRA inspection

Added: 9 Apr 2025

Contract research company BDD has opened its new 122m² BioCity, Glasgow manufacturing facility foll…