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A Greener Future: Our Energy Efficiency and Waste Reduction Strategies

With over 25 million samples currently stored at UK Biocentre, maintaining our freezer operations requires significant energy resources. Across our two sites...

Meet the Machines - Liquid Handling

Liquid handling is fundamental to sample processing. All of the sample processing in our labs, regardless of sample type revolves around a process of liquid...

Preventing disasters in cold storage

What if your freezer system fails? What if your lab space loses electricity? What if your freezer room floods? In the current climate of uncertainty, disasters...

Meet the Machines - Sample Storage

Manual freezers have traditionally been the norm for sample storage in the past. While they are still a usable option for storing samples, we recognise the...

My experience at The Festival of Genomics 2024

I recently had the privilege of attending the Festival of Genomics 2024, and here is everything that I have to say about FoG2024. As the Head of Scientific...

Importance of Data Quality in the Age of AI/ML

When I signed up for the Multi-Omics workshop at the Festival of Genomics, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. As the Head of Scientific Development at UK...

Our Future Health and the Path to Personalised Medicine

Our Future Health is a groundbreaking and ambitious research programme. It aims to revolutionise the way to prevent, detect and treat diseases, paving the way...

From Laboratory Asset to Maintenance Liability

The -80.C freezer is such a ubiquitous and familiar item of equipment in most life science laboratories we often forget it is there. It’s an important, and...

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