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Gotta get yourself connected

July 5, 2012
More timely, inexpensive, and accurate data capture enhances a hospital’s competitive advantage, but aggregating medical devices requires real expertise, says Martin Poppelaars of LantronixRemote health monitoring, personal wellness, and assisted...

Open access policy strengthened by Wellcome Trust

July 4, 2012
The Wellcome Trust is to enforce its open access policy and withhold funding from scientists who do not make the results of their research freely available to the public.The Trust...

Cooler washes with nanodiamonds

July 4, 2012
Washing at lower temperatures is preferable, but what if you could do your week’s washing at just 15°C?Chemists, biologists and engineers from the University of Warwick think this might be...

Delivering on the promise of the paperless lab

July 3, 2012
Many labs have made significant investments in tools, technologies and solutions to help improve productivity, better manage data/information and optimise their business processes. However, the reality is that most have...

Diversity in science

July 2, 2012
Can good news also be disappointing? I think it can. Let me explain – The Royal Society has teamed up with the government to explore and promote diversity in the...

Nottingham and GSK launch Centre of Excellence

June 29, 2012
GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Nottingham have formalised a collaboration to establish a Centre of Excellence for sustainable chemistry, and to construct an innovative carbon neutral sustainable chemistry laboratory.GSK are...

Putting a little structure in your drug design

June 28, 2012
The logic seems sound: If you want to design an efficacious drug, then you need to understand the target well. Yet the use of structure based drug design still has...

Smaller is better

June 28, 2012
Mike Fisher tells us how emerging nanotechnology is set to revolutionise medical devicesThe ageing population, prevalence of chronic diseases and the rise of emerging economies in areas such as the...

Cutting down the cross-talk

June 27, 2012
Regulatory demands for the use of pesticides are ever increasing and triple quad GC-MS seems to be the tool to meet them. However ‘cross-talk’ issues can cause analytical problems –...

Obesity receptor structure solved

June 27, 2012
The structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor has been defined, and could help in the provision of treatments resulting from obesity and anorexia. Using X-ray crystallography,...

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