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UPS Ensures a Stable Outlook for Diamond Light Source
Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron facility and is used by over 7,000 researchers from both academia and industry to conduct essential experiments that keep the UK at the forefront of scientific research. Due to the sensitive nature of the equipment, it is therefore imperative that a stable power supply is maintained to the equipment.
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Biosafety and the Agents of Doom
To combat harmful pathogens it is vitally important that scientists have facilities available that enable them to work on them safely. These facilities should prevent the operator from becoming infected with the agent they are working with and prevent the organism from escaping the laboratory setting and potentially initiating new outbreaks of disease.
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Cell Culture Quality Control: Blissful Ignorance?
How can quality control efforts keep up with the rapid advances in cellular model research? Read on for insights into challenges in recognizing and managing issues in cell culture quality control.
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Strawberry’s Properties are More than Skin Deep
Everyone loves a perfectly ripe strawberry, right? They count towards your five a day and contain important nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants. But what if science could help breeders make them even better?
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Creating Innovative Tools to Solve Complex Problems
With 15 issued US patents, 45 published patent applications and nearly 50 refereed publications, Michael Weiner, PhD, Vice President, Molecular Sciences at Abcam is an expert in molecular biology. We recently spoke with Michael to learn more about the specific inspirations that ignited his interest in science. He tell us more about his research interests and the molecular biology methods that he has invented over the years.
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CO2 Shortage Highlights that It’s Not Always the Bad Guy
Say the words “carbon dioxide” to many people and often the first connotations that come to mind are negative things like emissions and global warming. Many governments around the globe are going to great lengths to reduce harmful emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2), which remain worryingly high. However, believe it or not, a CO2 shortage is currently causing havoc in many areas of the food and beverage industry.
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How the Internet of Things is Connecting Up Lab Ecosystems
If the 20th century was about improving technology, the 21st century has focused on improving access to technology. In this article, we look at how the "Internet of Things" (IoT) movement is changing research, and find that IoT in the lab is at an important crossroads
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Proteogenomics: The Path to Personalized Medicine?
Proteogenomics - a multiomic discipline which combines gene, protein and RNA data, has potential to give a true systems perspective on the human body. We look at the techniques that enable proteogenomics analysis, and the potential of the field in the clinic to personalize medicine and battle cancer.
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Metabolomics: The Long Journey from Lab to Clinic
Recent improvements in technology are enabling the simultaneous detection and quantitation of large numbers of metabolites from biological samples. Here, we examine the challenges and innovations in metabolomics technologies and find out how these tools are impacting on clinical biomarker discovery.
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Multiomics and Metaproteomics: Why More Is Better In Proteomic Data Analysis
Developments in next-gen multi-omics have made it possible to generate and process massive amounts of data that cover anything from genomic mutations to metabolomic and microbiological processes. However, handling and analyzing all this data continues to present challenges to even the most experienced bioinformatics experts. In this article we explore some of the solutions and advancements in multi-omics and metaproteomics data analysis approaches.
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