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Buzz about town

April 29, 2011
Insight
What’s all the buzz about honeybees? These precious pollinators of fruits and vegetables are disappearing and threatening our food supply. Despite the awareness of the problem and the seriousness of...
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RNA and the frontier of personalised medicine

March 29, 2011
Feature
Europe must invest in RNA research to unlock the potential of personalised medicine says Professor Jörg Vogel
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Southern carbon sinks on the rise

February 28, 2011
News
Polar carbon sinks may be increasing say researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who have studied collections of a marine bryozoa dating back to a 1901 expedition to the...
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Ginger attracts stag beetle

February 14, 2011
News
Ginger traps and miniature microphones are key to conserving the UK’s largest terrestrial beetle – the stag beetle, say researchers in London and York.
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The best of both worlds

February 10, 2011
Feature
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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Christmas Chemistry

December 20, 2010
Feature
As Christmas draws ever closer we take a look at the most important - and stressful - part of the festivities through science-tinted specs. Welcome to the season's tastiest chemcial...
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Divergence of the mosquitoes

December 2, 2010
News
Mosquitoes responsible for spreading malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are evolving into two separate species say scientists who have just sequenced the genomes of two strains of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito
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Breaking the code of neuroblastoma

November 19, 2010
Feature
Next-generation data analysis software reveals how the methylation profile of certain gene sets can reveal key information on tumour growth and treatment. Importantly it also allows the actual researchers involved...
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In Depth
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Boost for prolactin research

November 18, 2010
News
Understanding how the body responds to hormonal changes and inflammation could help treat diseases of the pituitary gland say researchers who have been awarded a £1.24 million to investigate the...
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Dual approach gets to heart of earthquakes

November 13, 2010
News
Earth scientists have made a huge leap forward in understanding how earthquakes are formed using state-of-the-art technology to monitor the movement of the Earth
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My precious…

November 4, 2010
Feature
The guarantees afforded by UKAS accreditation gives reassurance to all the UK Assay Office tests on your most cherished precious trinkets
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In Depth
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Smells like aphids

October 27, 2010
News
The orchid has come up with a clever trick to dupe hoverflies into laying their eggs in the flower and acting as a pollinator – smelling like a worried aphid.
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Lights, camera, action: science on film

October 19, 2010
Feature
What's the best way to get kids interested in science? Make a film about it. Katie Walsh lets us into some of the secrets of SciCast, an annual film competition...
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In Depth
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Tracking viruses on the nanoscale

October 19, 2010
Feature
Andrew Malloy from NanoSight tells Laboratory News about new instruments to track nanoparticles
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In Depth
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Tuatara acts as model for false teeth damage

October 13, 2010
News
An iconic reptile native to New Zealand has been used as the basis for a 3D computer model investigating how damage to teeth is prevented by the jaw, muscles and...
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The big freeze

October 12, 2010
Feature
From frozen fish fingers to stem cell storage, cryogenics is used in more applications than you might think - but whatever you do, don't ask a cryogenic technologist to freeze...
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Sterilisation updated

September 21, 2010
Feature
Despite a reticence to comply by some manufacturers, regulatory changes surrounding the sterilisation of health care products is leading to improved quality and reduced costs
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Building a healthy UK science sector

September 16, 2010
Feature
Philip Whiteman examines the formula to ensure future success in the science sector.
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Searching for a body of evidence

September 15, 2010
News
Dead bodies buried under patios are commonplace in soap storylines, but forensic scientists can find themselves searching for and recovering corpses in real life; it can be time consuming especially...
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Unsung Heroes

August 13, 2010
Feature
We are giving a Laboratory News salute to all those things in the life of a scientist that are taken for granted - this month, the pipette. A lab just...
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In Depth
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