Industry news
Keep up-to-date with the latest industry news!
How can robots help in a pandemic?
While epidemiologists search for a vaccine for the novel COVID-19 virus, researchers at the University of California – San Diego are championing robots as an effective tool for managing the pandemic.
© International Lab Mate
Breakthroughs in Laboratory Medicine
From brain biomarkers to common mutations and COVID-19 consolidation, The Pathologist magazine share a snapshot of the latest news in pathology and lab medicine.
© The Pathologist
Chemical Recycling of Bioplastic Offers Up Bonus Solvent
A faster, more efficient way of recycling plant-based “bioplastics” has been developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath.
© Technology Networks
Will our climate bounce back as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown?
Researchers at Stanford University are studying the energy and environment landscape as people shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. According to the Global Carbon Project, emissions have dropped as much as 17 percent globally. But will there be a permanent change or pattern post-pandemic? Or will roar back next year?
© Nature Climate Change
Transforming clinical to COVID
© The Francis Crick Institute
Scientists on Standby
In the UK alone, we need to scale up to delivering 100,000 tests per day. Can you lend your scientific skills and experience to support COVID-19 testing and screening? Or provide laboratory space and equipment? If so, Scientists on Standby need your help.
© Scientists on Standby
Transforming clinical to COVID
L7 Informatics and Contamination Source Identification (CSI) are partnering to provide ‘ready to go’ COVID-19 workflows based on CDC testing protocol.
© Scientific Computing World
COVID-19 testing in an inflatable lab
The Beijing Genomics Institute have worked in collaboration with Etopia to jointly design the Huo-Yan Air Lab, an inflatable P2 level biosafety laboratory to rapidly build up COVID-19 screening and testing.
© Laboratory News
A small solution to the plastics problem...
German scientists have found a small solution to the plastic problem… bacteria that can feed on toxic polyurethane based plastic products!
© BioTechniques
Could artificial intelligence be the key to fighting coronavirus?
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, scientists are utilizing artificial intelligence to develop new solutions to the coronavirus pandemic.
© BioTechniques
Going round in circles - single use plastic in the lab
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution problem. Here Bill Walford talks to Jeremy Carter about his recently launched campaign to increase the use of re-usable glassware…
© Laboratory News
GSK and Vir Biotechnology enter collaboration to find coronavirus solutions
GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology announced today they have signed a binding agreement to enter into a collaboration to research and develop solutions for COVID-19.
© GlaxoSmithKline
Francis Crick Institute and UCLH develop COVID-19 testing service
NHS staff testing for COVID-19 has been boosted by repurposing the Francis Crick Institute’s laboratory facilities as a testing facility, to help combat the spread of infection and allow key workers to perform lifesaving duties and remain safe.
© The Francis Crick Institute
If you’re working or studying from home over the next few weeks, perhaps remember the example Newton set. Having time to muse and experiment in unstructured comfort proved life-changing for him — and no one remembers whether he made it out of his pajamas before noon.
© The Washington Post
New COVID-19 test delivers diagnoses three times faster
A new test for the novel coronavirus has been developed by researchers at Oxford University. They say the test yields results more than three times faster than current diagnostics and is simpler to use. The new test detects a positive or negative result in half an hour, whereas previous virus RNA tests typically take up to two hours to produce a finding.
© Chemistry World
3M partners with Ford to help accelerate COVID-19 response
3M and Ford will collaborate on making more powered air purifying respirators to help in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak
© Cleanroom Technology
Revised biopharma R&D tax credit cap
The UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) has welcomed revised proposals put forward by HM Treasury to ensure genuine biotech companies are not penalised by a cap on R&D tax credits. The new cap design proposal follows the BIA campaign for the cap to limit R&D tax credit payments to SMEs to three-times their PAYE and NI contributions.
© Manufacturing Chemist
Managing laboratories in the cloud
There is an increasing tendency for cloud-based laboratory informatics systems to scale business growth and allow lab managers to collaborate and share data with peers and organisations in different locations. Estimates suggest over the next 5 years the global laboratory informatics market will reach $3.8 billion!
© Scientific Computing World
Researchers will continue to work together after Brexit
Directors of the Francis Crick Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory wrote a joint letter outlining continued collaborations between researchers in the UK, Europe and beyond. Brexit won’t stop the researcher’s work to tackle pressing problems such as disease, climate change and ageing.
© The Francis Crick Institute
Ditching pipettes for computers?
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has made a lasting impact in the bioprocessing sector. AI is making its mark across modern medicine with companies making use of it to increase efficiency in manufacturing of medicine to create the best outcome for patients. At the start of 2020, some said that AI was more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer. The question is… how quickly do we think AI will be at the forefront of the laboratory sector?
© Manufacturing Chemist
Taming the smoking gun
Safety regulators have been scrambling to catch up with the explosion of popularity of vaping. Chemicals given off by the device itself are one of the biggest concerns but studies of extractables and leachables could make vaping safer. These are essentially chemical compounds that are extracted out of device materials under laboratory conditions.
© Laboratory News
Genetic rewiring drives cancer’s drug resistance
The Institute of Cancer Research in London have identified a micro RNA which may improve susceptibility to chemotherapy of bile duct cancer
© Laboratory News
What is fantastic to see? The top 5 awards in America's National STEM contest awarded to all women for the first time ever!
At a U.S. national science and engineering competition for middle schoolers, all five top prizes were awarded to girls for the first time ever this year.