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Certificates of analysis: are you reading or merely receiving your COAs?
Added: 2 Nov 2026
When a new lot of a reagent arrives, the certificate of analysis (COA) is usually the first written…
Time spent on lab waste is time never wasted
Added: 26 Oct 2026
Laboratories can generate a complex mix of waste, from packaging and general waste through to sharp…
Lab Innovations: exhibitors and networking
Added: 16 Oct 2026
Lab Innovations at the NEC Birmingham on 4 and 5 November 2026, brings the laboratory community tog…
How tobacco scrutiny can drive product assessment
Added: 16 Jun 2026
Increased scrutiny on tobacco products including cigarette alternatives only serves to underline th…
Getting to grips with good practice for exports
Added: 7 Apr 2026
As Britain and the EU develop their relations further with Canada, Broughton’s Chris Allen explains…
From workshop to global presence: Kilian's 150 year journey
Added: 17 Dec 2025
In the 19th century, locksmith-turned-engineer Fritz Kilian turned a Berlin family workshop into wh…
European Laboratory Day focuses on AI
Added: 5 Nov 2024
Today (5 November) is European Laboratory Day – a continent wide annual opportunity to mark the vit…
Lab innovations 2024: automation and productivity in the laboratory
Added: 22 Oct 2024
With Lab innovations 2024 fast approaching, Russell Lotinga of show exhibitor Festo, explains how a…
Improving scalability and efficiency of production in process chromatography
Added: 12 Oct 2024
Pharma manufacturer Sanovaskale Technologies’ Dr Smita Kale discusses how her company improved scal…
Case study: Combating outages helps protect scientific institution’s research reputation
Added: 2 Apr 2024
World-renowned biomedical research centre The Francis Crick Institute called in the electrical expe…
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…
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…
The secret life of cells
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Instruments that can capture the covert processes within cells are bringing laboratory research int…
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.
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…
