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Shaking Hands is Disgusting – Here’s What Else You Can Do
Lets take a look at the science behind the gesture
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Case Study: Improve your lab’s efficiency and data compliance with a chromatography data system
In 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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The Gene Factory: Can Enzymes Revolutionize Man-Made DNA Synthesis?
Building 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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We're Not Prepared for the Genetic Revolution That's Coming
New technologies are making genetic information (and the power to manipulate it) more widely available that ever before. What the public do with that information, and the effects of those actions, could be a defining theme of the 21st century.
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The Ionic Basis for Electrosensation In Sharks and Skates
Neuroscientists have identified the ionic basis for electroreception in sharks and their relatives, skates.
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Cryo-EM and CX-MS: The Power Couple of Proteomics
An ambitious new workflow has married two cutting-edge proteomic analysis techniques to improve imaging of large protein assemblies. The combination of electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) and cross-linking coupled mass spectrometry (CX-MS) allows deeper interrogation of protein structures to a level of detail that the techniques are incapable of obtaining on their own.
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Understanding the Mechanisms of Streptococcal Infection and Disease
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan is a Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London. She leads a team focused on the mechanisms by which streptococcal infections cause serious disease. As well as her research work, Professor Sriskandan undertakes teaching within the University and is also a medic at Hammersmith Hospital.
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How Are We Developing Vaccines for the Future?
This article highlights the types of vaccine, trends in developing future vaccines and discusses new delivery methods and strategies to help advance our understanding of the immune system.
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How to Tell “Fake” Olive Oils from the Genuine Article
With olive oil’s popularity on the increase in recent years, olive oil production and sales have become big business. However, it also opens the industry up to fraudsters looking to profiteer from this trend. To tackle this problem, scientists have been exploiting differences at the chemical level to expose adulterated products.
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Mass Spectrometry in Biopharmaceutical Discovery
Biotherapeutics now makes up 25% of new drugs approvals. Their efficacy and safety are highly dependent on their structures, which are complex, heterogeneous and subject to modification. Advances in mass spectrometry are allowing more information on higher order structure and new imaging techniques are even providing insights into how biological drugs behave in vivo.
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