Features

No room for error in today’s medical industry

July 9, 2009
Overcoming common engineering challenges to minimise costs and speed time to market

Don’t be floored by contamination

July 7, 2009
Contamination in a cleanroom environment can be disastrous – in order to avoid particulate contamination, says Gerry Prout – you have to get the floor right

What does the future hold?

July 2, 2009
Pathology laboratory managers have come together to find out how commercial change will impact the field

Revolution ’ in the high speed imaging of cells

June 18, 2009
Live cell imaging has a problem – how do you image fast cellular events without loosing spatial information? The answer, it turns out, is to get your optics in a...

Taking Control of Tuberculosis

June 16, 2009
Current diagnostic tools take weeks to provide accurate results allowing time for co-infection and spread of disease. Here, Dr Ellen Jo Baron sets the scene for a new diagnostic test...

In a spin

June 11, 2009
Just like a DJ working a club - when it comes to getting the perfect mix, it's all about how you spin…

How to solve a problem like C. difficile

June 9, 2009
Detecting the highly infectious and dangerous Clostridium difficile is fraught with false positives and negatives – Professor Wren says the answer lies in a two-step approach

Particle size analysis as standard

June 4, 2009
With the advent of high power computers and high resolution video cameras, microscopy with image analysis is becoming one of the highest resolution techniques available today. Here we look at...

Not such a good egg?

June 2, 2009
Vaccine production has never been more in the limelight and traditional egg-based production has proved it's self to be robust – but is it time to take on the adaptability...

Making science child’s play

May 21, 2009
How do you get kids excited about the various different careers available in science? It's down to scientists to 'sell' a scientific career to the next generation says Georgina Lavender....

Good results on a plate

May 19, 2009
When it comes to choosing the right microplate for your automated processes, there is a lot to consider. Here Toby Hampshire gives us a handy guide

Access to expertise

May 12, 2009
Here we get the low-down on a new £4 million proteomics facility in Newcastle launched by Cels - the organisation driving the growth of the North East's healthcare economy

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