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Preventing pandemics. Winter 12

By Dr Nathaniel Hentz
Over the years, influenza has taken the lives of millions. While vaccines are helping to reduce the damage caused by the virus, there is still a major capacity shortfall. Could access to ...

Cell Migration: probing cell movement with smarter tools. Winter 12

By Dr John Comley
Cell migration comprises the movement of cells from one location to another in response to events, biological signals or environmental cues. Cell migration plays a critical role in numero...

Epigenetics: are we hitting the mark? Fall 12

By Dr Andrew J. Pope and Dr Amy M. Quinn
During the last few years, advances in the understanding of epigenetic processes have led to an explosion in interest in this area as a potential source of new targets for the discovery o...

Nanobioscience: the future of personalised medicine. Fall 12

By Abhishek Gottipati, Joseph M. Sanders and Dr Scott A. Tenenbaum
Nanotechnology has been more than a buzz word in the business world for a long time now and has been striding ahead, living up to the hype.

In vivo imaging in drug development GAMMA SCINTIGRAPHY. Summer 12

By Dr Alyson Connor
Gamma scintigraphy is a non-invasive technique with applications in the development of drug products and the assessment of pharmacodynamic effects in humans. It enables the assessment of ...

Editing the Human Genome: role in functional genomics and translational medicine. Summer 12

By Dr Chris Torrance and Eric Rhodes
It is now readily accepted that we are in a post genomic era. With the steady flow of genomic information available to researchers worldwide, the focus turns to ways to analyse this infor...

Pharmaceutical & biomedical research likely to use $1 billion worth of microfluidics devices by 2016. Summer 12

By Frédéric Breussin
The proliferation of lower cost genomics tools, and the maturing of microfluidics lab equipment into more robust tools that better interface with established research flows, could drive m...

Small Scale Benchtop Automation: broadening the adoption of lab automation. Winter 11

By Dr John Comley
Driven by the need to enable technically challenging or repetitive processes, many labs in drug discovery that were not previously adopters of laboratory automation are being increasingly...




Epigenetics: targeting the mediator between environment and phenotype. Fall 11

By Dr John M. Rosenfeld, Dr Kan Saito and Dr Michael Sturges
Although it is still early days in terms of our understanding of epigenetics, the fast development of new tools and technologies to define genome-wide epigenetic variations in humans has ...

DNA diagnostics gets digitised. Fall 11

By Dr Mikael Kubista and Dr Anders St�hlberg
Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) has during the last two decades emerged as the preferred technology for nucleic acid analysis in routine as well as in research. qPCR has the sensitivity...

IN VIVO PRECLINICAL IMAGING: an essential tool in translational research. Summer 11

By Dr John Comley
In vivo imaging of small animals (mainly mice) is increasingly being deployed across the drug development process, particularly in the oncology/cancer therapeutic area. One of the main ap...

3D Cell Culture developments to improve in vitro analyses. Spring 11

By Prof Stefan Przyborski
Improved in vitro models are required to aid the identification and assessment of candidate molecules for pharmaceutical development. Conventional cell culture models involve the growth o...

Bulk Reagent Dispensers: ubiquitous liquid handling tool for microplate filling! Fall 10

By Dr John Comley
The initial success of the bulk reagent dispenser (BRD) as an automated liquidhandling product can be attributed to its simplicity and low cost. Its current role as an essential dispensin...

Mass Spectrometry in Drug Discovery and Development. Fall 10

By Dr Stephen Naylor and Paul T. Babcock
Mass Spectrometry is a mature technology predicated on a premise demonstrated almost a century ago. It is widely used in most scientific disciplines involving basic research or industrial...