11+ hour, 42+ min 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…...

1+ day, 20+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 19+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 12+ hour 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....

4+ day, 12+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 12+ 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…...

1+ 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,…...

1+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (440+ words) Laboratory News A time for vigilance, not panic Hantavirus has always been considered a disease of deer and rodents. We contract the infection by inhaling particles of infected dust. One of the most typical situations where Hantavirus can appear is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (403+ words) Research is about doing things you don't know uncertainly, says Matthew Partridge. There is a constant pressure to be efficient. There is a low-level constant pressure to optimise our days, streamline our workflows and squeeze more output from every hour....