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Shock tactics

November 7, 2013
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From aircraft safety to extra-terrestrial life – how understanding lightning associated with a volcanic eruption is key to many breakthroughs. Here we learn how Dr Karen Aplin is beginning to...
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Doing the groundwork

November 5, 2013
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Soil testing is crucial, both to comply with environmental regulations and to diagnose ‘soil health’. Here we learn that the latest ICP-OES offers a reliable technique for the difficult task...
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POC testing? There’s an app for that…

October 21, 2013
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Testing for infectious diseases in minutes rather than days is becoming a reality using new smartphone-based biosensor technology says Dale Athey Infectious diseases like flu afflict millions of people every...
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Relocation, relocation, relocation; negotiating the potential risks

October 17, 2013
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John Best outlines some of the critical issues that must be considered when choosing a relocation company for the transfer of laboratories, either internally or externally, from facility to facilityWhether...
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Targeting the genome

October 15, 2013
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Genomic target selection using individually synthesised capture probes may translate cutting edge research in the laboratory into personalised medicine in the clinicGenomic target selection enables faster development of clinical sequencing...
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From anecdote to evidence: the flying ant survey

October 12, 2013
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Citizen science has rapidly increased in popularity, but for decades volunteers have contributed to ecology through species recording schemes. Today, projects vary from counting butterflies in your garden to cataloguing...
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Barley genotyping: a path to the sustainable production of food and drink

October 10, 2013
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Barley is the world’s fourth most important cereal crop _– now geneticists think that with the elucidation of its genetic code and a powerful new genotyping assay we are closer...
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Adhering to label legislation

October 9, 2013
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Working with potentially hazardous substances is an ever-present risk in a lab and a threat safeguarded against with specialist equipment, protective clothing and vigilant storage of chemicals in a properly...
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An epigenetic panic?

October 8, 2013
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 Epigenetics is a hot topic. DNA now has six bases rather than four and there are modified versions of the proteins that wrap DNA into chromosomes. Should we be developing...
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Leading lights

October 2, 2013
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The use of photonics is expanding rapidly with applications across the scientific spectrum. We speak to several experts and find out why photonics is one of the UK’s fastest growing...
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