Learn About all the Latest News From Lab News
Laboratory News is our partner magazine and has been a regular part of science life since it was first published in 1971. Laboratory News (Lab news) is a great source of news analysis, comment and detailed technical articles covering a wide range of lab topics.
Below is a collection of the most recent Lab News articles, which we think do a great job of telling stories we’ve not managed to cover in Lab Horizons but are well worth a read. Click through to read the stories, you won’t be disappointed.
- To mark Lab Innovations, we are producing a special show supplement available with the forthcoming new edition of Laboratory News that will also be distributed free at the event. Designed to be light enough to fit in a pocked or bag, the separate publication will feature highlights of key themes, contributions from speakers and exhibitors […]
- Scientists have identified a previously unknown microorganism with the smallest genome yet found in an archaeon, a type of single-celled organism distinct from bacteria. Named Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, it appears to retain the genetic machinery needed to reproduce and make proteins despite having lost almost all the genes required to produce its own nutrients and […]
- A £3.75 million research programme led by the University of Glasgow will investigate how environmental change could alter the risk of mosquito and midge-borne diseases across the UK. The four-year PAMEC programme, funded by UKRI as part of a £20 million interdisciplinary research fund targeting epidemic threats, will combine laboratory and field research to identify […]
- This year’s three Nobel Prizes for natural science have been shared by six laureates from the USA, Germany, Japan and France. The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth (USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University), German biochemist and biophysicist Peter Hegemann (Germany, Humboldt University of Berlin), and […]
- The UK’s cell and gene therapy sector is at a turning point, with conditions increasingly in place to translate the country’s research strength into company growth and investment, according to the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s 2026 Annual Review. During 2025/26, CGT Catapult worked with 81 companies on advanced therapy innovation, 70% of which were […]
