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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Machine vision: visual aid
Added: 8 Apr 2015
Smart camera technologies are redefining quality in the process plant, writes Louisa Hearn.
Editor's comment | Sayonara Science?
Added: 4 Mar 2015
Ofqual, the examination regulator for England and Northern Ireland, yesterday announced a new appro…
Editor's comment | The awards debate
Added: 18 Feb 2015
Should awards be considered worthwhile recognition for great work, or a worthless distraction?
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…
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…
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…
