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Honeybee queens too conservative in the bedroom

October 7, 2009
The answer to the decline in honeybee numbers could lay in the bedroom habits of the queen say University of Leeds scientists.

The here and now of pathology reform

October 6, 2009
In the first of a two part series, we catch up with the recent Roche Diagnostics Managers' Forum and get to grips with the ever changing landscape of modern pathology

Eureka moment offers neuron breakthrough

October 5, 2009
Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists finally have an idea of the function of a microscopic network of tubules found in neurons.

Is it time to change how we think of fossil fuels?

October 2, 2009
Battling with scientific consensus, one scientist says we have got it wrong when to comes to oil and gas

Hey scientist – just how do you think?

September 24, 2009
Dr Nancy J Nersessian has studied the cognitive processes that underlie scientific creativity by observing scientists at work in their laboratories – and she thinks she has the answer.

Notation for biologists

September 24, 2009
The first standard graphical notation for biology has recently been launched by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute. The notation aims to be as useful to biologists as...

Scientists turn off ‘obesity gene’ in mice

September 24, 2009
Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a gene that appears to control obesity in mice, and have shown that by switching the gene off, mice remained thin even...

Laboratory Productivity on the up

September 24, 2009
In today's cost-conscious world, maximising efficiency is more important than ever for contract testing laboratories. In this article Dr Nicola Vosloo explains how to meet the challenge of reducing instrument...

Pure and simple

September 24, 2009
Water is the most widely utilised analytical laboratory reagent, and is used daily to make buffers, lab reagents, calibration standards, instrument blanks, as well as culture media and sample dilutions....

Nanotube separation wins BNC new contract

September 23, 2009
Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) has signed its largest contract to date with an unnamed chemical company.

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