Blog - Genomic selection has been instrumental in dairy cattle breeding where it has essentially replaced progeny testing, enabling greater and faster improvements in terms of genetic gain
11 February 2019News - Host Matt Tebbutt tackled the subject of meat authenticity in takeaway meals and sought to have samples from 15 dishes tested for species confirmation
05 February 2019Blog - In 2019, the ampere – the SI base unit of electric current – will be undergoing some “electrifying ” changes.
20 January 2019News - First roadshow will take place on 29 January in Oxford
15 January 2019News - Includes popular courses on Statistics, Method Validation, Measurement Uncertainty
11 January 2019News - LGC's Government Chemist team recently responded to the Food Standards Agency review on how food standards work is delivered across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
31 December 2018Blog - Perhaps unsurprisingly, the candela was originally based on the light of a candle – but a definition based on something so variable was not good enough for measurement scientists. The candela, or ‘the new candle’, replaced candle-based definitions in 1948. In 1979 the modern definition of the candela was adopted:
20 December 2018News - Update for the half year ended 30 September 2018
18 December 2018News - Substantially increases the breadth of metal alloy reference materials portfolio
12 December 2018News - The strategy is a collective approach to transform the UK economy through bioscience and biotechnology
07 December 2018