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Painting a pathogenic picture

September 17, 2013
This year’s Lab Innovations show will include a special Campden BRI theatre featuring talks on the latest tests and technologies available to food and drink manufacturers. By way of a...

Striking gold with Dengue virus detection

September 16, 2013
Dengue viruses have become one of the most dangerous pathogens of our time. Here James Carter and Malcolm Fraser discuss a novel Dengue virus detection method based on gold nanoparticles...

Automated liquid handling for every lab

September 12, 2013
As automated liquid handling technology improves, could it move from specialist screening tool to routine lab staple? As he sums up the technology so far, Joby Jenkins finds some answers…The...

An update on STIs

September 11, 2013
Clare Doggett reports from The Society for Applied Microbiology meeting which this year covered “STIs in the 21st century”After a cup of coffee and a chance to peruse the trade...

Levelling the playing field

September 10, 2013
The increasing legislation in the commercial laboratory sector is putting more and more pressure on government laboratories to be accredited. Rob Clinton tells us about this increasingly familiar trend and...

Showing you the money

September 5, 2013
Growing demand for transparency in research is fuelling a digital revolution in funding measurement and evaluation. This could not only mean easier access to information for funding bodies, but also...

Calling time on osteoarthritis

September 4, 2013
Osteoarthritis is a painful and disabling condition of the joints affecting more than 6 million people in the UK alone, with no cure currently available. Here, Nicole Gossan explains how...

Scientific freedom and security: striking a balance

September 3, 2013
Much of science is done for the benefit of society, whether this is medical advances or research into agricultural productivity. Our increased knowledge, however, comes with the risk that it...

Making it elemental

August 15, 2013
Advancements in spectroscopy have meant that precision and accuracy are the watchwords of modern metals analysis – here is our guide to the wide range of techniques available, and which...

The bright light of biophotonics

August 13, 2013
High speed, low cost and non-invasiveness – is biophotonics the future of clinical diagnostics? Professor Martin Leahy takes us through this growing and diverse discipline Light is at the heart...

On the tip of your tongue…

August 13, 2013
Malaria kills an African child every 30 seconds, many of whom die because they are unable to reach medical help in time. A new sublingual spray developed by Norwich Research...

Race for the prize

August 8, 2013
Whether it is sports doping, or food traceability issues – detection and quantification of Clenbuterol is becoming vital. Here we discover that LC-MS is more than up to the task...

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