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Advanced clinical therapy trial framework launched
11+ hour, 23+ min ago (519+ words) A new national framework aimed at supporting the expansion and standardisation of advanced therapy clinical trials across the UK has been launched by the Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre (ATTC) network, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and Skills for Health....
Chemical sector warns REACH registration will increase industry burden
11+ hour, 8+ min ago (668+ words) The Alliance of Chemical Associations (ACA) has criticised the UK Government's response to consultation on the UK REACH Alternative Transitional Registration model (ATRm), warning that the approach risks imposing major costs and administrative burdens on the chemicals sector while doing…...
Lab Babble: Case not proven
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (601+ words) Efforts to pin Covid on lab error fail the fact test, says Russ Swan. What if I told you that a forensic trail of scientific investigation had shown the pandemic-causing virus was created in a laboratory, and escaped into the…...
Chemicals are a political "C-word" warns CBA chief in CHEMUK interview
1+ week, 1+ day ago (346+ words) Chemicals have become "the C-word" for politicians in Britain, said an industry leade, ahead of his keynote speech for the CHEMUK show. Tim Doggett, chief executive of the Chemical Business Association, warned that the UK must confront the value of…...
Derby superlab wins four design nominations for architects
1+ week, 2+ day ago (340+ words) Lab architects Morrison Design have received multiple nominations for their University of Derby Bioscience Superlab project, in two major industry award ceremonies. These include citations in the Best New Campus Development and Best Retrofit & Reuse Building categories for the CN…...
Laboratory Talk News in Brief: industry round-up from our sister website
1+ week, 4+ day ago (752+ words) Laboratory News Laboratory Talk News in Brief: industry round-up from our sister website Antibodies. com has received a King's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for 2026. The award recognises the company's international growth since its founding in 2015. Antibodies....
Phesi founder warns AI "is scaling, not solving" clinical trial flaws
1+ week, 4+ day ago (397+ words) Phesi has published an analysis of more than 600, 000 clinical trial protocols, which concludes that fewer than one in three are linked to publicly documented patient data and outcomes. The company said only 29. 3% of protocols across all disease areas could be…...
Virtual certainty
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (1092+ words) Core skills are lacking in the lab and in medical manufacturing, says Ivan Wall, but VR can play an essential role in solving the challenge. The life sciences sector is vital for the UK's economy, but there are serious skills…...
Heriot-Watt team's breakthrough makes light work of electromagnetic waves
2+ week, 1+ day ago (355+ words) Dr Marcello Ferrera, of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, said controlling how light oscillates directly affects how it interacts with matter. "How light oscillates has a huge impact on how it interacts with the physical world around us,…...
Attending CHEMUK? Join us at our stand
2+ week, 2+ day ago (225+ words) The two day CHEMUK show at Birmingham NEC has plenty to interest lab professionals, not least an entire zone dedicated to the chemical laboratory. Laboratory News will be there for both days at stand H76 in the Chemical Laboratory zone with…...