Articles tagged with "In Depth"

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Casting light on the sunshine vitamin

December 6, 2010
You've got to stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer, but too little sun leads to deficiency – Dr Keith Williams lets us in on the importance of...

Beyond the lab coat

December 2, 2010
Risk assessment is more than just getting staff to wear a lab coat and safety specs, it can ensure the continuity of your business. Simon Flanagan explains

Laboratory servicing – as easy as child’s play

December 1, 2010
How can a managed laboratory service help improve efficiency and maintain quality for effective patient-centred care? Laboratory News finds out

Forensic toxicology: Get inside the crime

November 28, 2010
Forensic toxicology has evolved greatly in recent years and today it plays a vital role in courts and other public forums throughout the world, with the potential to resolve the...

Sci-Fi or the future of near-patient testing?

November 26, 2010
Wireless handheld diagnostic devices, utilising biosensors for the detection of diseases, sounds like something straight out of Star Trek, but serious research and development by major players is showing that...

Water water everywhere…

November 23, 2010
Contamination events can happen at any time – day or night – and analytical laboratories must act fast to produce rapid, accurate contaminant identification, how can they be sure their...

Getting to the matter of the heart

November 22, 2010
What can a three-generational study in a small American town tell us about cardiovascular disease? The potential is endless says George Lipscomb - as long as the techniques used to...

Breaking the code of neuroblastoma

November 19, 2010
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...

Diamond discoveries

November 19, 2010
Kerry Taylor-Smith left Lab News Towers and ventured into the heart of the Oxfordshire to discover what's new at the Diamond Light Source - and finds rusty hedgehogs, volcanic diamonds...

Battling the big C

November 16, 2010
Laboratory News learns about the award-winning work of the Gene Function Team at the Institute of Cancer Research.

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