Lab+Life Scientist

Lab+Life Scientist has an editorial mix of business news, research and funding updates, industry comment, technical articles, conference previews, case studies and succinct new product items, making it a 'must read' for those managing laboratories and research facilities across all sectors. Comprising a bi-monthly print/digital magazine and twice weekly eNewsletter. Check out magazine back copies below.

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• Propelling the digital lab in the revolution of AI
• Major limitation discovered in cellular biology analysis tool
• Smart bandage enables onsite chronic wound monitoring
• Early embryonic development stage finally mapped in humans
• Rapid pathogen detection from a single DNA molecule

• Why rugged laptops are a good alternative in laboratories
• Meat analogue made from fermented okara
• The role of weighing equipment in microbiology
• Some coral reefs demonstrate tolerance to ocean warming
• When skin cancer therapy backfires

• Newfound brain cell type based around navigation and memory
• Pharmacogenomic approach to cure the pain of the ‘burning man’
• Immune system boosted to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• Linearity in weighing instruments: an explainer
• Blood test monitors cancer treatment outcomes in real time

• Researchers create human–monkey chimeric embryos
• New technique for better doping detection
• Beneficial bacteria can boost heat tolerance in wheat
• Lab-created heart valves grow with the recipient
• 2D electrolytes: a new type of intelligent material

• Gut bacteria prompt mother mice to neglect their pups
• Experimental HIV vaccine trialled in humans
• Early human embryos models generated from skin cells
• Pocket-sized microscope based on nanoLEDs
• Innovation in life sciences amid a pandemic

• What lab designers need to know about equipment planning
• The placebo effect, the proteome and a potential cure for nausea
• The antibiotic potential of CBD
• COVID-19: six challenges to large-scale testing
• Hydrogen sensor inspired by butterflies, powered by light

• Not all gas regulators are created equal
• Robot chemist discovers a new catalyst
• Genomic elements preserved across 700 million years of evolution
• Single daily pill for Parkinson’s disease developed
• Water discovered on the sunlit surface of the Moon

• The nbn is coming — is your lab ready?
• Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells
• Synthetic peptide takes away bacteria’s drug resistance
• ‘Breastfeeding’ hormone present in new dads
• Fast data acquisition with a high-speed spectrometer

• Nerves of steel — working on the frontline of COVID-19
• Gene editing on demand — fast, precise and activated by light
• 9 key points to consider when buying face shields
• Antidiabetic drug turns sugar into stool
• MRI may enable early detection of Alzheimer’s

• Considering LC-MS/MS for therapeutic drug monitoring?
• COVID-19 vaccine trialled in Australian volunteers
• 3D imaging tech makes fluorescence microscopy more efficient
• Plants control their own microbiome diversity
• Diagnostic test tracks the spread of infectious diseases

• Second patient cured of HIV, study claims
• Rapid detection of Salmonella in food
• Bacteria engineered to protect bees from colony collapse
• Custom interfaces cut turnaround time for COVID-19 testing
• Ensuring traceability in Australian and New Zealand laboratories

• Genetically modified mozzies completely resistant to dengue
• Human nerve cells transplanted into a mouse brain
• The challenges of working in a lab
• Whooping cough vaccine may prevent food allergies… but will it protect against superbugs?
• Smartphone device detects harmful algae in 15 min

• Peering into the epigenome like never before
• Safe and practical sign usage in laboratory settings
• Airborne chemicals can now be instantly identified
• Threefold approach to improving anticancer drug
• Immunity boost provided by extinct human species

• All flared up about inflammation
• Light-sheet microscopes customised for imaging the brain
• Deep learning deciphers what rats are saying
• Managing fire safety in laboratories
• Natural antibiotics best at combating resistance

• HIV completely eliminated from mice
• DNA microscopy — a new way to image cells
• Biologics Innovation Facility opens at UTS
• Unhealthy microbiome linked to breast, colorectal cancer
• 'Fingerprint' spectroscopy in real time

• Melbourne researchers on the cusp of treating MND
• Major discovery or ‘fake news’? Don’t let cytometry assays fool you
• Twins study reveals how the human body changes in space
• Biological tissue could be 3D printed
• Scientists combine influenza and pneumococcal vaccines

• Antarctic mission to measure nature’s air purifier
• New drug developed to treat heart attack damage
• Keep your HCA under control
• Coffee and testosterone could help slow prostate cancer
• Reprogrammed pancreatic cells relieve diabetes in mice

• Metabolic reprogramming in cancer
• Hydrogen loss hints at the impending death of a galaxy
• Safety at hand
• Variable gene expression helps plants survive environmental change
• Stem cell analogues grown without animal products

• Solving the genetics puzzle
• TRIM21 and antibody immunity
• Better blood analysis with lab-on-a-chip devices
• Directed evolution
• Automation to fast-track commercialisation

• Why are potentially important genes ignored?
• Genetic variation discovered in cancer cell lines
• Ultrahigh-resolution TEM unveiled in Sydney
• Bye bye, E. coli
• DNA detection of crown-of-thorns starfish to improve monitoring

• An education in ethics
• Impactful science
• Voyage to an underwater volcano
• How a magnetised wire attracts tumour cells
• Stomatal development

• The Virologist in Wonderland
• Transforming trials
• Kidney disease trial
• The hidden costs of NGS
• Tackling antibiotic resistance

• The road to reproducible research
• Biotech boom
• Drink up!
• Medication caught meddling with the gut microbiome
• Women in STEM

• The power of proteomics
• The silent revolution in molecular biology
• ‘Programmable droplets’ could replace pipettes
• Redefining the kilogram
• High-throughput screening 10 times faster

• The future is frozen
• A miniature laboratory in a plastic bag
• Rare diseases and the power of precision medicine
• When the cat’s away, the mice will train
• Nucleic acids and immunity

• Fighting antimicrobial resistance
• 8 habits of great laboratory technicians
• Slip, slop, slap — and avoid midnight snacks
• Asbestos reporting protocols
• DNA sequencing programs vulnerable to cyber attack

• How eating our greens led to the rise of antibiotic resistance
• Treating childhood allergies with gut bacteria
• Understanding plant-microbe interactions
• Patenting biotech in Australia — an update
• Sequencing completed for wild wheat, mutant rice genomes

• Shining a light on microbial dark matter
• Key to superbug antibiotic resistance discovered
• How to choose the right pipette tips
• Chamber vs room monitoring
• Are you the scientist-entrepreneur?

• How to heal a broken heart
• What’s my age again?
• Data storage in a drop of DNA
• Better in 3D: nanomachines observed in living cells
• Do you work in a biological, chemical or veterinary laboratory?

• From bread to beer — the gene mutation in barley
• Blasting cancer cells with plasma
• Clutching at straws — the science of spill prevention
• Nitrogen key to gut health
• Fish in space — a study in gravitational biology

• Improving efficiency and safety in Australian labs
• Just add water — on-demand pharmaceutical manufacturing
• The mystery of the dimming galaxy and the starving black hole
• How much Neanderthal DNA is in modern humans?
• We could grow jet fuel on gum trees

• Self-destructing bacteria to fight cancer
• Microscopic imaging under the sea
• Norovirus cultured in the lab
• Effective fertility treatment without the drugs
• Plate tectonics and pizza dough

• Golden Goose Award
• What do gravitational waves and bone grafting have in common?
• Artificial sweeteners make you hungrier
• ’Omics for all
• Innovations in medical science

• Plumbing the depths of ancient Naples
• Education genes linked to neuroticism
• Exploding bacteria
• An amazing laser
• From pest research to driving policy

• Working hard for the mummy
• Direct determination of trace hormones in drinking water
• Like a drone over troubled water
• Should I eat the vegetables I grow in my backyard?
• Where did that foreign body come from?

• Tips for thriving in the age of diversified laboratory testing
• Calibration and adjustment of humidity instruments
• The stunning diversity of gut bacteria
• Kill switches for synthetic bacteria
• Spinifex condoms — thinner than a human hair

• Lupus: in search of the wolf
• Blocking neuroblastoma
• Your fingerprint can reveal whether you are male or female
• Beauty is in the eye of the bee
• Inside the innovation agenda

• Funding a cure for type 1 diabetes
• No snow-white apple fairytale for Australia
• Bad karma is causing million-dollar palm crop failures
• Single-cell genomics to combat inflammation
• The risky business of cell culture

• The phoenix factor
• Comparative genomics: a must for winemaking
• From little grants big labs grow
• Hormonal traders make risky decisions
• How to lose weight without exercising

• The pharmaceutical scientist
• The drive for connected labs in pharmaceutical QA/QC
• New tool shrinks big data
• Exploring the moral minefield of hyperkalaemia
• Microscopy and mobile phones

• Antimicrobial drug resistance and corruption
• The tribulations of clinical trials
• Encouraging innovation in Australia’s life science and biotechnology industries
• Exploding giant microbes anyone?
• Are you tweaking your experiments?

• Empowering women to stay in science
• Forensic scientist sticks to his guns
• Genetically modified E. coli dependent on synthetic nutrients
• Alzheimer’s may be an autoimmune disease
• Pancreatic cancer researcher is NSW Woman of the Year

• A microbial portrait of the New York City Subway system
• Engaging Australia’s science industry
• Clearer than crystal
• Long non-coding RNAs
• DIY: How to measure Planck’s constant using LEGO

• The gene genie
• Close encounters of a comet kind
• Life science conference season in Lorne
• A pipette tip is a pipette tip, right? - Not even close
• The bioprinted liver

• The organic polymer chemist
• Isolated DNA is patentable in Australia
• Ancient roots of mammalian immune response
• Overcoming the limits of optical microscopy
• Rapid malaria detection

• The business of collaboration
• Crystallography: revealing the structure of matter
• Life Sciences = Future. Jobs. Exports.
• Medical devices on trial
• Potential new treatment for GVHD