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Safe Guarding Your Food from Harmful Microorganisms and the Impact of Our Changing Climate
ArticlePrevention and detection of harmful microorganisms within the food industry, be it in your own kitchen, during the production chain or right back at the producer is imperative to keeping consumers healthy. Changes occurring in our climate are also causing shifts in the niches inhabited by microbes, and scientists must keep ahead of the game to prevent emerging issues.
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Genetic Analysis Adds Weight to Cannabis Strain Name Concerns
ArticleInconsistent naming and labeling of cannabis strains continue to pose challenges for consumers and researchers alike.
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4 Considerations for Creating Standardized Cannabis Extracts
ArticleDosing and labeling are currently big issues for cannabis consumers and these results could help improve the quality and consistency of cannabis extracts.
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Food Safety Warnings Are Making Eating More Dangerous
ArticleFood hazard warnings are making eating more dangerous
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The Glycome and Cancer
ArticleThe surfaces of cancer cells frequently express different types of glycoproteins, and because healthy cells don’t express these molecules (or do so at a much lower level), there has been significant interest in them as potential anticancer targets. Recent advances suggest we are about to see a resurgence in cancer glycomics.
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Scientists Explore the Molecular Mechanics that Drive us to Sleep
ArticleScientists describe how phosphorylation of 80 synaptic proteins drives our sleep/wake cycles
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Cisplatin Efficacy: The Importance of Measuring Uptake in Cancer Cells
ArticleAlthough cisplatin is clinically proven to combat numerous human cancers – bladder, head and neck, lung, ovarian, testicular – resistance to treatment remains a key challenge, and cisplatin patients can often relapse. Having the ability to determine the cellular uptake of cisplatin is key to developing novel strategies to increase tumor cell sensitivity to cisplatin.
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Case Study: Improve your lab’s efficiency and data compliance with a chromatography data system
ArticleIn this Case Study, Peter Zipfell of Thermo Fisher Scientific explains how Broughton Laboratories, an analytical laboratory that supports method development and validation projects across pharma, implemented and upgraded a chromatography data system (CDS), increasing lab efficiency and improving data verification processes for overall time savings.
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Shaking Hands is Disgusting – Here’s What Else You Can Do
ArticleLets take a look at the science behind the gesture
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The Gene Factory: Can Enzymes Revolutionize Man-Made DNA Synthesis?
ArticleBuilding artificial DNA sounds like a technology out of science fiction, but has been conducted in labs for nearly 40 years. To make the potential of synthetic DNA a reality, new methods are being developed that aim to make creating DNA as fast as sequencing it.
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