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Microscopy makes amazing glazing

June 26, 2012
The York Glaziers Trust, Britain’s oldest and largest specialist stained glass conservation studio, has recently embarked upon the conservation of York Minster’s Great East window, Britain’s largest expanse of medieval...

Carbon measurement – providing the foundations for addressing climate change

June 21, 2012
Jane Burston, Head of the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory, explains why the development of measurement infrastructure is vital to understanding climate change impacts and advancing...

Best of both worlds

June 20, 2012
Microscopy provides high information content that can be used to discriminate cells based on their appearance but analysis is often subjective and lacks statistical power. Combining the information content of...

High time for synthetic cannabinoid analysis

June 19, 2012
Herbal incense blends containing synthetic cannabinoids are being developed and introduced to the market at an alarming rate. Today’s forensic laboratories are challenged to confirm and quantify the controlled forms...

The trouble with sleep

June 14, 2012
We all need sleep – but what happens when sleep goes wrong? Laboratory News investigatesIs sleep an evolutionary mechanism developed to keep us out of harm’s way in the dark...

The EU definition of nanomaterials – getting what you wished for?

June 12, 2012
To gain public trust, nanotechnology needs a regulatory framework – but before this can be happen we need to know one thing – just what is a nanomaterial? Jeremy Warren...

Row, row, row your boat…

June 12, 2012
Blood gas analysers can have a role beyond the walls of the healthcare institution and here we look at how the GB rowing team is ready to unveil its secret...

The case for a MenB vaccine

June 6, 2012
With a long history of public health interventions against meningitis in the UK – we are the perfect test bed for a MenB vaccine, but it will need a whole...

SAA emerges as both marker and mediator of degenerative lung disease

May 22, 2012
Gary P Anderson tells us about recent research on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from the University of MelbourneThere is a global epidemic in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but hardly...

Taking on a grand challenge

May 15, 2012
Mike Peck discusses one of the grand challenges facing the UK – food safety. He thinks to meet it we need to understand bacterial pathogens One of the grand challenges...

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