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Forty years is a long time, but what has happened in the laboratory supply industry over that period? This article celebrates those forty years by looking at how the UK...

Speeding up cholera diagnosis

October 14, 2011

Laboratory News learns how the latest molecular diagnostics technology is helping to manage the cholera crisis in HaitiA recent study published in the Lancet predicts that there may be as...

What about the next 40?

October 13, 2011

Science and technology have shaped our world immeasurably - so how will it look in another 40? An intriguing and exciting question - we put it to some of our...

Meeting the needs of modern pathology services

October 12, 2011

At two meetings hosted recently by Roche Diagnostics in central London, delegates learned how developments in diagnostic technology and processes are helping modern pathology services meet clinical and operational needs....

As time goes by…

October 11, 2011

In the 40 years that we have been publishing Laboratory News we have seen vast advances in our understanding of the world around us. With space-based telescopes to particle colliders,...

Making it to market

October 7, 2011

The many benefits of microfluidics suffer from transition problems when moving from research to a commercial product - Neil Campbell and Paul Wilkins discuss how to change this. Although microfluidics...

Flashback

October 6, 2011

A birthday just isn’t a birthday without a good helping of nostalgia, so we thought we’d take a romp through the archives and look at some of the Highlights, lowlights...

Taking imaging to the third dimension

October 4, 2011

It is a stalwart for the medical sector, but now X-ray CT could breakthrough into the world of product testing. Tom Ray discusses a new technique for 3D imagingMicrostructure affects...

Past masters…

October 4, 2011

Many editorial staff have made Laboratory News what it is over the last 40 years - here some past Editors share with us their thoughts on their time at the...

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Improving human health in space

September 29, 2011

New therapeutic approaches are required to battle deteriorating health and mission performance during spaceflight. Using worms as model organisms, RNA interference which is used as a method to silence gene...

Our chemical romance – how chemistry touches our lives

September 27, 2011

The International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011) is an entire year devoted to the celebration of chemistry. Under the unifying theme “Chemistry – our life, our future,” IYC 2011 reaches...

GC-MS: The superior forensic tool

September 22, 2011

In the wake of the recent dioxin poisoning scare in Europe that sparked import bans on some German farm products, GC-MS is emerging as the perfect analytical tool for forensic...