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Thanks to Iceland for the reality check

May 26, 2010
As Iceland’s glacier-covered Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues to erupt and send plumes of ash over Western Europe, Leila Sattary takes a positive look at the situation and imagines a world without...

Cheese to improve immune system

May 26, 2010
Cheese can help preserve and enhance the immune system of elderly people by acting as a carrier of probiotic bacteria.

Thinking outside the box

May 26, 2010
Highly creative people have a similar dopamine system to people with schizophrenia according to new research from the Karolinska Institute.

Track, predict and spit

May 26, 2010
By tracking the movements of their prey and predicting where they will be 200ms later, snakes are able to fire off their venom with incredible accuracy when under threat according...

Putting packaging to the test

May 24, 2010
Materials testing has long been an established part of quality control procedures in laboratories throughout many sectors of industry. But sometimes efforts have focused mostly, or entirely, on the products...

Making LIMS affordable

May 20, 2010
Kim Shah discusses how laboratory management systems can be affordable for all labs of all sizes

Divide and divide

May 19, 2010
Almost 600 genes play a part in mitosis according to the results of a study into the most common form of cell division, which involved filming over 22,000 genes for...

Five new genetic variants that could cause cancer

May 19, 2010
More than 45,500 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year, and scientists have now discovered five new regions of the genome that can increase a woman’s risk of...

Are you concentrating?

May 18, 2010
Keeping high levels of analytes during the drying and concentrating stages of GCLC can be tricky. Here, Robert S Johnson explains why a fully automated sample concentrator could help your...

From laboratory to art gallery

May 14, 2010
An artist has swapped the laboratory for an art gallery window and used microtitre plates in his latest project, which depicts cutting edge heart research.

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