Many laboratories have historically clung onto the ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) as a test that can confirm that patients are unwell.
Even though the science behind ESR is seen as dubious b...
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World Aids Day took place on 1st December, with world leaders, the most prominent being President Obama, pledging support for estimated 15 million HIV carriers across the globe. In the UK an estimated...
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The choice of a particle size analyser has never been more difficult. There are several techniques from which to choose and variations within eachtechnique. Sales literature claims of specification an...
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Enormous quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG) exist within Arctic ice and frozen soils, so with the threat of global warming, a clear understanding of the relationship between GHG in the atmosphere an...
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Following the 2010 3-Day BMSS meeting in Cardiff, the same venue was chosen again to host the 2011 event. As a non-university venue there were misgivings about initially making such a move for the soc...
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High-pressure gas cylinders are a common sight in many laboratories: a default for supplying analytical instruments with their gas requirements, high-pressure gas cylinders are familiar and provide th...
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Texture analysis is an established technique originating from the 1950s when manufacturers in the food industry began to require a more objective assessment of their products. Textural (or rheological...
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A reliable food source is essential for life. To meet the requirements of the world’s growing population, food production will likely need to double by 2050 [1]. Overcoming this challenge will require...
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In analytical chemistry, sample preparation can be as simple as adding a solvent or as complex as performing chemical reactions to improve the instrumental measurements that follow. While sample prepa...
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Report on the 59th ASMS Conference, Denver, Colarado, USA, June 5th - 9th
Once again the mighty ASMS Conference flexes its muscles and heads into town, on this occasion Denver, Colorado, even allowin...
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In 2003 the Working Party on the Mechanics of Particulate Solids for the European Federation of Chemical Engineers endorsed the idea that a simple and inexpensive instrument to test powders in gravity...
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In this article we investigate the use of wavelet transform on the images produced by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) to obtain further information from the OCT images transformations in differe...
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High field asymmetric-waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS), also commonly referred to as differential mobility spectrometry (DMS), is an atmospheric pressure gas phase separation technique which...
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Analysing organic matrices for trace elements is a challenging proposition and frequently involves complex sample preparation steps. This is time consuming and potentially risks introducing contaminan...
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Liquid delivery is one of the most common processes in life science laboratories, from drug discovery and compound management laboratories to analytical chemistry and genomics/proteomics facilities. T...
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