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Design of the times
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2007
Commissioning the design for commercial buildings is a fairly straight forward process, but when it…

Finding the needle in the haystack
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2007
Many conventional analytical techniques provide averaged data for the whole sample, but what if thi…

Is this the answer to fast, cheap DNA sequencing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Sep 2007
The consequent demand for faster, cheaper DNA sequencing methods means the next generation of DNA s…

Making the most of real-time PCR
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Sep 2007
Quantitative PCR can be an expensive technique but, says Geoff Simmons, incorporating automated pip…

Clean glassware - a clear favourite
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Sep 2007
When striving for good laboratory practice, clean glassware is a must – here, Lee Marshall tells us…

Getting the measure of uncertainty
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Aug 2007
The work of the laboratory is dependant on taking measurements. But are you certain you know the im…

Friend or foe?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2007
Chemicals have been used to boost agriculture for decades, and have resulted in increased yields an…

Changing the nature of separation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Aug 2007
Label-Free Intrinsic Imaging (LFII) is a new method of separation that promises substantial advanta…

Leading the way in rapid detection technology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Aug 2007
It is not just academia that can spawn successful spin-outs – here we find out how to go from defen…

An expert at your shoulder
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2007
Most modern analytical systems help the user to make good measurements, some advertising ‘single cl…

Partners at the cutting edge of technology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Aug 2007
Dr Xue-Feng Yuan and his team at Manchester’s new Interdisciplinary Biocentre are working in collab…

Fibre optics - laser delivery for the future
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jul 2007
Instrument builders are under constant pressure to create more functional, more reliable, higher-pe…

Water Purification
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jul 2007
No other compound is so widely used in the laboratory, but is your water of sufficient quality? Her…

Hitting the spot
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2007
In the post genomic era new techniques seemed to appear overnight and many disappeared just as quic…

Man or mouse
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2007
When it comes to understanding and modeling human disease, clinical chemistry of the mouse has prov…

Medical technology - a question of convergence
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2007
As the initial group of students complete their projects at the UK’s first medical device doctoral …

An explosive solution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2007
By their very nature explosives are difficult to analyse in a laboratory setting. But as Christophe…

The major pitfalls of microarray analysis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2007
In the second of a two part series we give you the low down on the final five most common problems …

Locum lifelines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2007
The use of locum workers within UK laboratories has become commonplace over recent years and as a r…

Time for change
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2007
The spiraling cost of developing drugs is due, in part, to time spent assessing compounds that subs…