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Just because something eludes the naked eye, doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful as images from the Nikon Small World Photography Competition show It’s odd to think that some of the...

The changing face of bioanalysis

December 8, 2011

Industry challenges and solutions for bioanalysis were top of the agenda for an exclusive bioanalysis seminar organised by Quotient Bioresearch The seminar was attended by representatives from pharmaceutical and biotechnology...

Solving a meaty problem

December 6, 2011

ß-agonists can be used illegally to beef-up our meat – but how do we catch those who are doing it? Here we discover that LC/MS is on the front line...

Where does all the data go?

December 1, 2011

Modern science and huge data sets go hand in hand, but are you sure yours is being backed-up correctly? Laurent Fanichet gives us some top tips on how to make...

Finding Charlie

November 29, 2011

As the second most used illicit drug in Europe – forensic toxicology labs need a sensitive and accurate way to detect cocaine. Here we discover that GC-MS could be the...

Shortcut to drug discovery success

November 24, 2011

New software approaches can supplement the expertise of medicinal chemists to guide the rigorous exploration of chemistry around hit and lead compounds – and the key is prediction power… Drug...

Thought for food

November 22, 2011

How do we ensure our food is safe? Stephen Harrison’s lets us in on a few on of the secrets of food testing In February 2010 China announced intensified efforts...

Going to extremes

November 17, 2011

Life in the world’s harshest environments could help us tackle climate change, boost food production, develop new drugs and search for extraterrestrial life. Now hundreds of scientists have come together...

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Cell culture media optimisation: a new application for NMR

November 15, 2011

The traditionally empirical trial and error process of cell culture media selection can be both inefficient and potentially expensive. Now, a new approach using proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance provides a...

Revival of the Chemistry Set

November 10, 2011

Hard core A-levels are back in fashion, with a revival in students wanting to study chemistry Only five years ago the sense of despair among the chemistry teaching community in...

Solving the mystery of human spontaneous combustion

November 8, 2011

After a recent case of death by spontaneous combustion Brian J Ford proposes a new theory for why a human might suddenly burst into flames The demise of Mr Michael...

Diagnostics and personalised medicine – the next 40 years

November 3, 2011

As personalised medicine moves ever closer, we look at what’s changed in diagnostics and what the next 40 years hold During the last century we have seen enormous advances in...