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Taking on a grand challenge

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2012

Mike Peck discusses one of the grand challenges facing the UK – food safety. He thinks to meet it w…

Palaeontology bites back…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2012

In last month’s Laboratory News Brian J. Ford suggested that dinosaurs were aquatic – here Darren N…

How effective is your lab?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2012

The inaugural S-Labs Awards Scheme has been set up to reward and encourage best practice in lab des…

Monitoring the revolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2012

Deep shale gas development is viewed by many as critical to future global energy security and many …

Hand in glove – are you doing it right?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2012

With so many different gloves available for the laboratory market, how do you know which one would …

A century of constants

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2012

Over 100 years ago, two men set out to provide a compilation of physical and chemical constants. Af…

Have you considered rental?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Apr 2012

Laboratory News takes a look at the benefits of renting rather than purchasing equipment for modern…

What makes E. coli 0104 so deadly?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Apr 2012

In May last year a major outbreak of foodbourne illness was caused by E.coli. Genomic and mass spec…

Point of care and the art of instrument design

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2012

Point of care testing offers a range of benefits for patients, nursing staff and laboratory personn…

HPV DNA testing: Is primary screening now within reach?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2012

HPV triage is being rolled out across England as part of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme; Dr T…

Food Fighters – measurement to combat food adulteration

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2012

How science is facing up to food fraud!--more--

Picture the early 1800’s where the deliberate adulte…

Speeding up sepsis diagnosis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2012

Diagnosing sepsis in intensive care units can be a difficult, but critical task – Edward W. Burnham…

Rigged explosion linked to cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2012

How is a broken beaded necklace related to DNA? Laboratory News takes a look at exploding chromosom…

Seeing in a new light

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2012

We delve into the newest applications for multispectral imaging!--more--

Multispectral imaging provi…

Taking the chance out of CF diagnostics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2012

Cystic Fibrosis is currently diagnosed with a sweat test – but is this the best way?!--more--

Cyst…

Has your lab got a liquid centre?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2012

Greg Pilbrow of ELGA Process Water looks at how a central laboratory water purification system can …

A prehistoric revolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2012

Many dinosaurs were big – Very big. So just how did they manage to support themselves and get aroun…

The diverse biomarker

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2012

A biomarker for early, real-time assessment of Acute Kidney Injury is now also proving valuable in …

Where are you in the waste hierarchy?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2012

Does your lab comply with the latest changes in the Waste Framework Directive? !--more--

Implementat…

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate: the extinction of a dinosaur laboratory test?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2012

Sabrina Chetcuti asks if plasma viscosity is replacing the widely used erythrocyte sedimentation ra…