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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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 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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The development of techniques to grow cells in culture was a major breakthrough for the field of biology providing an instrumental tool in drug discovery, developmental biology, stem cell studies and...
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Hospital acquired infections (HAI), often referred to as ‘superbugs’, are never far from the news. MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) leads the way in press coverage but is just one of...
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The immunoassay is a powerful tool in diagnostics; antibody technology provides exquisitely specific capture of biological markers for disease. In the last 15 years there has been a drive to transfer...
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Hospital acquired infections (HAI), often referred to as ‘superbugs’, are never far from the news. MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) leads the way in press coverage but is just one of...
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Peltier cooled silicon drift detectors (SDD) were originally developed for space research to avoid the need of liquid nitrogen for cooling X-ray detectors. Figure 1 shows one of the first SDDs on Mars...
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If UK nanotechnology expertise is going to be securely embedded in the global market, we need to ensure that UK SMEs are including international business development and collaboration in their sales a...
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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an advanced high-resolution non-invasive imaging tool, which delivers three-dimensional (3D) images from the microstructure compartments within the skin tissue. U...
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The market for nanotechnology is rapidly expanding and has been predicted to be associated with 15% of all manufactured goods by 2014, worth roughly $2.6 trillion and equating to 10 million jobs world...
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Dip Pen Nanolithography® (DPN®) came to light as a novel research tool back in 1999 with a paper in Science from the a group at Northwestern University in the USA (1). Like many new technologies, the...
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The RADAR-enabled Xevo TQ-S method enables the collection of spectral information on background components in the sample matrix while simultaneously collecting MRM data for the quantitation of target...
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The microscope retains a vital and wide-ranging role in modern industrial processes.
For instance, the pressure to optimise the quality of cast components requires a means of examining large, polishe...
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