Features

RNA and the frontier of personalised medicine

March 29, 2011
Europe must invest in RNA research to unlock the potential of personalised medicine says Professor Jörg Vogel

Battle of the information management systems

March 24, 2011
Which information management system is better for your laboratory – LIMS or SAP? Robert Pavlis investigates

Fume hood filtration comes of age

March 22, 2011
As we all become increasingly "green aware", one company has been working to solve a problem presented in laboratories around the globe

The thin green line

March 17, 2011
The ever increasing demand for greener power sources will result in the need for tools that can elucidate the chemical properties of ultra thin films and interfaces. Here,Tim Nunney and...

It’s a small world after all

March 15, 2011
Throughout the course of their work, scientists take not only informative technical images, but beautifully artistic pictures that can speak a thousand words – Laboratory News takes a look at...

Safe soil – identifying PAHs

March 10, 2011
Suli Zhao and Andy Zhai take us through some of the analytical techniques used for identifying polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil samples

Nanotech – a bead of hope for big pharma?

March 8, 2011
One of the greatest challenges for those working in the research and development of pharmaceutical products is the step from laboratory to full-scale production. Nanotechnology has provided a real step...

Film analysis: No stone unturned

March 3, 2011
Jo Smewing explores new methods to help pharmaceutical manufacturers quantify and analyse the performance characteristics of pharmaceutical film applications

Use of animals in research: What do you think?

March 1, 2011
Over the past two issues we have presented arguments from the BUAV and the Dr Hadwen Trust on how and why they think the use of animals in scientific research...

The good, the bad and the colourful

February 17, 2011
E numbers are bad: artificial colourings make children hyperactive; MSG causes headaches; artificial sweeteners cause cancer – with press like this, it's easy to see why the public think E...

Nano goes to the extreme

February 15, 2011
Dr Ben Beake explains why testing at sub zero and elevated temperatures is essential to the development of more reliable advanced materials operating in extreme environments

The best of both worlds

February 10, 2011
Resolution and analytical power are combined in confocal Raman spectroscopy - but there are some problems. However, these can be overcome says Dr Olaf Hollricher

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