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

November 26, 2010
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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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Urine offers up climate change insight

November 24, 2010
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Urine from the rock hyrax which has crystallised over thousands of years is providing a previously untapped resource for studying climate change.
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Blood vessel genotype switch causes cancer stir

November 24, 2010
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An important breakthrough in the way anti-cancer drugs are tested has been made by scientists at the University of East Anglia – but it turns out they weren’t studying what...
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Your heart loves chocolate

November 24, 2010
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With Christmas fast approaching, the Lab News team are looking forward to the mountain of chocolate that accompanies the festive period – even more so now researchers have shown exactly...
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Tracing selenium

November 24, 2010
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The absence of selenium – a little known trace element – in the body may help scientists understand the role of free radicals say an international team based at the...
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Super-twisted

November 24, 2010
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Light that has been twisted like a corkscrew and then twisted even tighter has been used by Scottish scientists to probe incredibly small samples.
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Water water everywhere…

November 23, 2010
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Contamination events can happen at any time – day or night – and analytical laboratories must act fast to produce rapid, accurate contaminant identification, how can they be sure their...
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Getting to the matter of the heart

November 22, 2010
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What can a three-generational study in a small American town tell us about cardiovascular disease? The potential is endless says George Lipscomb - as long as the techniques used to...
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Powered by poo

November 22, 2010
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I’m all for recycling, but the news that residents in Didcot are using their own poo to heat their homes just sounds a bit too disgusting to imagine.
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Breaking the code of neuroblastoma

November 19, 2010
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Next-generation data analysis software reveals how the methylation profile of certain gene sets can reveal key information on tumour growth and treatment. Importantly it also allows the actual researchers involved...
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