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Getting the measure of success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2015

European environmental legislation covers a vast array of pollutants – but how robust are the stand…

Eating into the skills gap

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Apr 2015

The food and drinks industry is facing a looming skills crisis says Bertrand Emond. But there are s…

How age is affecting your mind

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2015

Prevailing theories of ageing suggest that higher cognitive abilities decline as part of a single p…

A light touch to fighting crime

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Apr 2015

Exploring how the uptake of digital technologies in light microscopy is changing the face of forens…

Forensic Science – Whither Quality?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2015

To find the best way forward in the new Forensic Science landscape, we must understand and address …

Going out on a LIM to improve food safety

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2015

The stringent standards expected of food production are vital to ensure safety, but compliance can…

Unlocking innovation in austere times

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2015

In the current climate of tightening budgets and complex relationships between service providers an…

The flying squad! Designer drugs and how to beat them

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2015

New ‘designer drugs’ are constantly emerging, and this presents increased challenges for forensic t…

An intimate solution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2015

Kimberley Bexon takes us through a new approach to tackle sexual assaults through microRNA analysis

The print revolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2015

Nanoparticles could well be the future of fingermark detection. Not only do they promise sensitivit…

The journey to the exascale

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Mar 2015

So much of modern science has become reliant on the correct processing and analysis of big data – b…

How to solve the funding puzzle…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2015

The biggest challenge facing start-ups and science SMEs? It has to be funding. Here, Dr Geoff Davis…

From villain to hero

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2015

‘The dose makes the poison’ goes the adage, but could it be so for carbon monoxide and hydrogen sul…

Is it time to go public?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Mar 2015

Mike King, an economist based at the National Physical Laboratory explores the benefits that workin…

The difficulties of defining ‘moderate’ drinking

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2015

Last year, national newspapers ran a story suggesting that drinking a bottle of wine a day isn’t ne…

The big squeeze

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2015

The physical properties of proteins, so vital for cellular function, are intimately linked to the c…

After the vote was over, after the count was done….

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Feb 2015

Dr Geoff Watts, who chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on mitochondrial transf…

Tweaking your ‘procurement engine’ - will your lab benefit?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jan 2015

Brand management is giving way to supply chain management in public sector laboratory purchasing mo…

The wonder stuff – How peptide hydrogels could change the face of biomedicine

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jan 2015

With a list of characteristics and applications long enough to make most bioengineers take notice, …

A new lease of life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jan 2015

When a large scientific company decides to leave a manufacturing or R&D plant, what happens to the …