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New forms of life on Earth

December 3, 2010
It turns out phosphorus isn’t a necessary part of our DNA say American scientists who discovered a bacterium which can thrive in a toxic arsenic environment

Beyond the lab coat

December 2, 2010
Risk assessment is more than just getting staff to wear a lab coat and safety specs, it can ensure the continuity of your business. Simon Flanagan explains

Divergence of the mosquitoes

December 2, 2010
Mosquitoes responsible for spreading malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are evolving into two separate species say scientists who have just sequenced the genomes of two strains of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito

Science and Harry Potter

December 1, 2010
The Harry Potter story is coming to an end – all seven books in the series have been published and in six months the final chapter will be released in...

Size Matters says Mark Miodownik

December 1, 2010
This year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures are returning to the BBC so we caught up with this year’s under-pressure lecturer Mark Miodownik for a quick chatAs a materials scientist, Mark...

Laboratory servicing – as easy as child’s play

December 1, 2010
How can a managed laboratory service help improve efficiency and maintain quality for effective patient-centred care? Laboratory News finds out

Funding secured for home blood clot test

November 29, 2010
Microvisk Technologies have raised over £2.5 million through a rights deal with existing investors to bring their handheld blood clotting sensor to the market by 2011.

Rapid stem cell culture promises cartilage repair

November 29, 2010
Damaged and disease joints could be repaired with cells derived from embryonic stem cells after scientists in Manchester developed a method to grow copious amounts in just 14 days.

Science is Vital!

November 26, 2010
The science budget has miraculously avoided drastic cuts in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review. Leila Sattary looks back at the events leading up to the announcement and the part scientists...

Sci-Fi or the future of near-patient testing?

November 26, 2010
Wireless handheld diagnostic devices, utilising biosensors for the detection of diseases, sounds like something straight out of Star Trek, but serious research and development by major players is showing that...

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