Features

Not just horsing about

October 9, 2007
Following on from last month's feature on Liverpool's small animal hospital, we now take a look at how our equestrian friends are treated at the other end of the veterinary...

Will new legislation increase costs to labs

October 4, 2007
The Hazardous Waste Regulations (England & Wales) 2005, which replaced the Special Waste Regulations 1996 created turmoil for the industry at the time of introduction, and the full impact is...

Asking those ‘what if’ questions

October 2, 2007
Successful automation can give companies the ability to ask more 'what if?' questions – but there are many considerations when planning and implementing pharmaceutical automation

Personalised medicine? The keys in the bank

September 27, 2007
Biobanks are likely to be vital in the era of personalised medicine, but the sheer scale of the data involved presents many problems. The key to biobanking success, says Ben...

Plastic fantastic

September 25, 2007
The provision of a safe, plentiful alternative to donated blood has come a step closer recently thanks to pioneering work at the University of Sheffield, as transfusion scientist Barry Hill...

Leading the way in chemical instrumentation

September 21, 2007
One company, Beckman Coulter, Inc. can claim to have contributed more to this field than most competitors. Andrew Mark looks at what it has achieved.

Microbiology in a box

September 19, 2007
With the ever increasing need to reduce costs and respond to Government initiatives and infection control issues relating to emerging resistance, as exemplified by Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and...

Accidents do happen

September 15, 2007
Wherever there is a hazard, such as chemicals, toxic substances, solvents or dust, there is a risk of an accident, no matter how strictly a company adheres to stringent health...

Design of the times

September 13, 2007
Commissioning the design for commercial buildings is a fairly straight forward process, but when it comes to facilities for pharmaceutical development laboratories and clinical trials facilities, the experience is more...

Finding the needle in the haystack

September 11, 2007
Many conventional analytical techniques provide averaged data for the whole sample, but what if this doesn't produce the information required? What if product performance depends on the physical location of...

Is this the answer to fast, cheap DNA sequencing

September 6, 2007
The consequent demand for faster, cheaper DNA sequencing methods means the next generation of DNA sequencing technology must reduce costs without sacrificing data quality

Making the most of real-time PCR

September 4, 2007
Quantitative PCR can be an expensive technique but, says Geoff Simmons, incorporating automated pipetting brings significant savings in staff time and reagent costs

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