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• 10/12/2007 - Productivity gains using electronic lab notebooks
  Novel electronic notebook solutions offer multi-dimensional approaches to biology-based research. Today’s generic electronic lab notebooks allow unprecedented flexibility.
• 01/06/2002 - ft-ir microscopy can help identify hit-and-run vehicles
  For many applications in the areas of forensics, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and semiconductor development it is essential to analyse two-dimensional samples by infrared (IR) spectroscopy with high spatial resolution.
• 01/06/2002 - Imaging crystalline protein grains in 3D using X-ray diffraction
  Preparing protein crystals has always been difficult because their growth mechanisms are not well understood. A better insight into these mechanisms is now possible, using a new imaging method based on coherent x-ray diffraction.
• 25/05/2006 - Cell analysis system has
  The cellWoRx High Content Cell Analysis System is integrated with powerful image analysis software to assist researchers with drug discovery and the identification of new targets.
• 01/06/2005 - Analysis helps to determine water content in hair samples
  Jonathan Bruce looks at a technique developed for the analysis of water in hair.
• 01/12/2002 - Computerised control of optical components
  The analy-SIS bx and ix control modules are an asset to support microscopy on the BX61 and IX 81.
• 01/06/2004 - Software-controlled microscopy
  Software-controlled microscopy is the catchphrase. New technologies and the opportunities offered by them have changed the way people work at the microscope and the entire world of the laboratory. Dr Manfred Kässens reports.
• 01/06/2003 - Ensuring digital image analysis in compliance with FDA 21 CFR 11
  Dr. Manfred Kässens reports on how image analytical software has been adapted to meet the demands of the regulation entitled FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
• 01/06/2003 - How to create a knowledge repository based on PDF reports
  New approaches in data storage allow organisations to move to an electronic environment capturing all raw data from instruments. The use of an industry standard format such as the portable document format (PDF) not only allows capturing reports in an electronic format, but also can improve compliance where necessary. PDF reports, says Freek Varossieau, can build a knowledge repository.
• 01/06/2004 - Enabling confocal microscopy
  Bio-Rad latest confocal systems CellMap ID and CellMap IC are the first two models in a family of products designed to produce high quality confocal images at an affordable price for individual laboratories.
• 01/06/2004 - Fluorescence diagnosis by using a CCD camera system
  Fluorescence diagnosis (FD) provides an innovative and promising technique for in-vivo diagnosis of dysplastic tissue and superficial skin tumours. Dr Gerhard Holst reports.
• 01/06/2002 - New generation of colony counters remove operator errors in the lab
  Laboratories with a high throughput of samples now demand faster results while maintaining accuracy. Here, Simon Johns looks at a new and novel generation of affordable colony counters.
• 01/12/2000 - DNA microarray technology provides rapid and parallel analysis
  The acquisition and analysis of sequence data is not an end in itself; rather it is a powerful tool to help understand the complex biology of host-pathogen interactions. It can, as Dr Barbara Gledhill finds out, be used to elucidate gene expression patterns and the relationship between genes by comparative genomics andgene product function on a whole genomic scale.
• 30/11/2005 - Botulism breakthrough as microbial risk assessments get real
  The mission of predictive microbiologists is to help regulators and industry ensure that foodborne disease remains rare, particularly when so many new foods and processes are being developed.
• 01/06/2002 - Storing and sharing analytical data for maximum commercial benefit
  Data-mining, viewing and comparison of data across the organisation are just a few of the issues surrounding the archival of analytical data to facilitate knowledge management. Here, Kevin Smith examines the issues in depth and introduces a new solution.
• 01/06/2003 - Sensitivity and dynamic range in chemiluminescence imaging systems
  The development of chemiluminescence as an alternative to radioactivity for documentation of electrophoresis blots (eg Westerns) has necessitated the development of a new generation of documentation systems with exceptionally high sensitivity and dynamic range.
• 01/12/2003 - Network remote control tailors to the need of light microscopy users
  Dr Manfred Kässons looks at a new package which provides network remote control for light microscopy applications.
• 01/01/2001 - Gel documentation systems: simplicity as a beneficial feature
  In recent years, the molecular biology aboom' has generated much development and diversity in gel documentation technology. Dr Paul N Goulding reports.
• 01/12/2002 - Software tools increasingly used in designing food processing products
  As consumer fashion today demands ever more new food products, software will play a greater part in food design. Eric Russell reports on the increasing use of computer aided design and finite element analysis.
• 01/12/2001 - A brief guide to quantitative analysis of electrophoresis gels
  Dr Paul N Goulding discusses some of the important aspects of getting anumbers from pictures' ­ that is quantitative gel analysis.
• 21/12/2005 - Digital imaging system for thin-layer chromatography
  Dr Matthias Loppacher looks at a solution especially dedicated to thin-layer chromatography image analysis.
• 01/06/2003 - Beamforming breakthrough boosts accuracy of ultrasonic technology
  Focusing the sound waves used in ultrasound devices has always posed a number of technical challenges. However, a new innovation from Germany that gives greater control over the sound waves could lead to far more accurate ultrasound-based tools.
• 01/06/2004 - Demand for high speed analysis drives clinical lab developments
  Every year consulting company Frost & Sullivan (F&S) presents its technology leadership award to the company that has pioneered and steered technological advances in its industry with cutting-edge products and concepts.
• 01/12/2001 - Determination of the hydroxyl number in edible fats and oils
  Competition is tough and continually rising demands on product quality mean more work in less time. This, in turn requires increased efficiency and optimised usage of equipment and personnel capacities. The only way for successfully meeting all these day-to-day demands on today's labs is by systematically avoiding anything and everything that wastes time, increases frustration and is prone to error.
• 25/05/2007 - Moving to electronic submissions: adopt a best practices approach
  The life sciences industry is accustomed to waiting. The process from molecule to market can take upwards of ten years, and many factors can limit progress along the way.
• 10/12/2007 - Biopharmaceutical development
  According to new study, improvements to the technology infrastructure for biopharmaceutical R&D could save the US industry alone hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
• 10/12/2007 - Electronic submission standards: opening the door to change
  Outsourcing the management of submission software and related services could be the key to the dynamism and agility pharmaceutical companies now crave, says Gilbert Kampfner.
• 01/12/2003 - Code of conduct to help integrated approach to bioinformatics
  At last a code of conduct for bioinformatic data providers has been formulated. As Adrian Fergus explains, this will help the industry handle its ever increasing volumes of complex and often interrelated data.
• 01/06/2004 - "Focus on food poisoning, seed selection, diet and productivity"
  In the UK, scientists are using the beneficial bacteria known as probiotics to destroy food poisoning bacteria in poultry before it enters the food chain.
• 25/05/2006 - Looking at live cells in the laboratory – the image solutions
  Formed in 1993 by owner and MD Ian Corless, Image Solutions has carved a niche for itself as a consultancy capable of putting together the type of imaging packages demanded by cutting-edge researchers: particularly those who work with live cells.
• 01/12/2003 - Advances in imaging are leading to improvements laboratory efficiency
  Advances in imaging technology are making laboratories ever more efficient. Here, eLab outlines three of the latest arrivals ­ a scanning platform for automatic rare cell detection, a display system for real-time stereoscopic images, and a new inverted observation tube.
• 01/12/2001 - Advances in the automated image analysis of particles and cells
  Particle shape and function are intimately linked. However, because of the lack of a universal shape analysis technique, the exact relationship between the two has been hard to define. As David Higgs explains, new technology is now likely to solve this problem.
• 20/12/2005 - Biotechnology-driven therapies boost innovative treatments
  Across Europe, biotechnology is driving advances in new therapies. Sean Ottewell outlines three of the latest innovations to tackle human serum albumin (HSA), hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA), and Alzheimer’s disease.
• 01/12/2001 - "The drawbacks of FT-IR are tackled, while NIR technology goes portable"
  High cost and poor performance have hampered development ofFT-IR imaging technology in the past. All that could change withthe development of new detector technology. At the same time, advances in NIR technology have produced a portable analyser capable of laboratory-quality results.
• 29/01/2008 - Gas-phase reactions on microscale
  In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts, researchers have successfully applied magnetic resonance imaging to the study of gas-phase reactions on the microscale.
• 29/01/2008 - Device spots small breast tumours
  A new medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumours that are half the size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems.
• 07/02/2008 - PET Outperforms CT
  Researchers found that positron emission tomography was far more reliable than computed tomography in detecting whether or not a nodule was malignant.
• 07/02/2008 - New, practical dimension to holography
  Optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes.
• 08/02/2008 - Construction and characterization of flavivirus
  The yellow fever virus, a member of the genus Flavivirus, is an arthropod-borne pathogen causing severe disease in humans.
• 18/02/2008 - 3-D imaging made easier
  According to researchers, newly developed technology can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate.
• 19/02/2008 - Optimal band imaging
  A study shows that optimal band imaging used with an endoscope provided images that clearly identified depressed-type early gastric cancer.
• 19/02/2008 - Exploring consciousness
  The scientists have made a significant step into the understanding of conscious perception, by showing how single neurons react to images.
• 19/02/2008 - Guaging memory better
  Researchers have identified patterns of brain activation linked to the formation of long-term memories, offering an innovative and more comprehensive method for gauging memories.
• 20/02/2008 - X-rays view nanoscale
  Scientists have developed a lensless X-ray technique that can take images of ultra-small structures buried in nanoparticles and nanomaterials.
• 20/02/2008 - Tracing emotions in brain
  First came direct marketing, then focus groups. Now, advertisers, with the help of neuroscientists, are closing in on the holy grail: mind reading.
• 22/02/2008 - Modified electron microscope
  A new electron microscope enables scientists to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another.
• 22/02/2008 - Electron filmed, a first
  Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom.
• 27/02/2008 - Peeking into the brain
  Scientists devised a new experimental technique that produces some of the best functional images ever taken of the human brainstem, the most primitive area of the brain.
• 29/02/2008 - Physics and the life sciences
  Many of the greatest inventions in modern medicine were developed by physicists who imported technologies such as X rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasound, particle accelerators and radioisotope tagging and detection techniques into the medical domain.
• 03/03/2008 - Arsenic aids tumour imaging
  Arsenic linked to a drug that binds to the blood vessels of cancerous tumours provides a powerful imaging agent that could one day allow physicians to detect hard-to-find tumours.
• 03/03/2008 - Imaging Runner's high
  In an imaging study researchers were able to show, for the first time, increased release of endorphins in certain areas of the athletes' brains during a two-hour jogging session.
• 05/03/2008 - Diagnosis of heart disease
  A research team reports their initial experience with a novel imaging technique that enables comprehensive diagnosis of heart disease based on a single CT scan.
• 07/03/2008 - MRI/PET Scanner
  Two kinds of body imaging -- positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- have been combined for the first time in a single scanner.
• 17/03/2008 - Detecting cancer earlier
  Doctors may one day be able to detect early stages of colon cancer without a biopsy, using a new technique developed by researchers.
• 17/03/2008 - Processing images in brain
  Scientists believe they have discovered a small part of the brain that processes both the images from a single eye and also the motion of our bodies.
• 18/03/2008 - Stress and the brain
  Individuals who experience military combat obviously endure extreme stress, and this exposure leaves many diagnosed with PTSD.
• 18/03/2008 - MALDI LTQ XL mass spectrometer
  The addition of MALDI to the LTQ XL linear ion trap provides information-rich spectra that are essential for the analysis of digested proteins and PTMs.
• 19/03/2008 - Scans spot hidden tumours
  Full-body PET/CT scanning can detect unsuspected, treatable tumours in 3 of 15 patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a rare genetic cancer disease.
• 19/03/2008 - Watching bleomycin
  Researchers have created the first three-dimensional image of how a well-established chemotherapy agent targets and binds to DNA.
• 20/03/2008 - Brain imaging study
  Researchers have conducted the first-ever brain imaging study that directly contrasts two different techniques for emotion regulation.
• 21/03/2008 - Precise 3-D imageing of the human brain
  New technology at is enabling researchers to translate the most abstract, complex scientific concepts into clearer, more precise 3-dimensional images.
• 25/03/2008 - MRI charts blood volume
  A special type of magnetic resonance imaging can depict changes in blood volume in the brain that often precede cancerous transformation of brain tumours.
• 31/03/2008 - Visualising magnetic fields
  Researchers have succeeded in a direct, three-dimensional visualisation of magnetic fields inside solid, non-transparent materials.
• 01/04/2008 - The untrained eye
  College-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women - but their female peers aren't far behind.
• 01/04/2008 - Anticancer nanoimpeller
  Researchers have developed a novel type of nanomachine that can capture and store anticancer drugs inside tiny pores and release them into cancer cells in response to light.
• 02/04/2008 - Stress response variability
  Inherited variations in the amount of an innate anxiety-reducing molecule help explain why some people can withstand stress better than others.
• 03/04/2008 - Influence of the irrelevant
  Can the irrelevant image of an alluring female posing by the merchandise actually encourage a heterosexual man to purchase it?
• 03/04/2008 - Working Memory
  A new study by researchers shows how our very short-term "working memory," which allows the brain to stitch together sensory information, operates.
• 11/04/2008 - Detecting prostate cancer with MRI
  The use of MRI without endorectal coil can detect prostate cancer and provide undistorted images with diagnostic image quality and accurate tumour localisation.
• 28/04/2008 - New computer applications classifies pigs
  Fast identification of animal meat for human consumption is especially interesting as it is a guarantee of quality for consumers and producers.
• 02/05/2008 - Accelerated image analysis
  Researchers have discovered how to significantly speed up critical steps in an automated method for analysing cell cultures and other biological specimens.
• 06/05/2008 - Autonomous robot surgeries
  The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations with minimal human guidance.
• 07/05/2008 - Hunger hormone discovered
  Ghrelin - a stomach hormone, acts on specific regions of the brain to enhance our response to food related cues and eating for pleasure.
• 09/05/2008 - Warming up for MRI
  Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods.
• 09/05/2008 - Video game protein folding
  A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory levels teach the rules, which are the same laws of physics by which proteins form.
• 13/05/2008 - Analysis of protein patterns
  Scientists have developed a software toolbox that is intended to help bioscience researchers characterise protein patterns in human tissues.
• 13/05/2008 - Seeing Alzheimer's amyloids
  Researchers have created a stunning three-dimensional picture of an Alzheimer's peptide aggregate using electron microscopy.
• 21/05/2008 - Research collaborations continue hunting drug targets
  In the ongoing search for novel drug targets, a number of existing collaborations have been extended while new ones have just been announced. Sean Ottewell reports.
• 21/05/2008 - Picking up the pace as labs make use of high-speed connections
  Tough market conditions coupled with intense global competition means not even the pharma industry can allow procedure and regulations to temper its advances. Gilbert Kampfner believes the answer lies in a new approach to software sourcing.
• 21/05/2008 - Plan properly for autoclave positioning and installation
  When planning and designing a laboratory the task of positioning or repositioning a Laboratory Autoclave can be at either end of the 'easy-impossible' scale.
• 21/05/2008 - Illumination corrected images improve sample measurements
  Douglas Wood Ph.D, Gilbert Feke Ph.D, Douglas Vizard Ph.D, and Rao Papineni Ph.D report on the analysis of fluorescence images applying multiple-band flat-field correction.
• 06/06/2008 - Multiple immunofluorescence labelling of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue
  The authors of this study present a robust optimised method for high resolution immunofluorescence labelling of FFPE tissues.
• 16/06/2008 - Developing unique brain maps
  Researchers from the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne are developing new technology to create individualised brain maps that will revolutionise diagnosis of disease.
• 18/06/2008 - DNA knot binds genes
  A novel twist of DNA may keep viral genes tightly wound within a capsule, waiting for ejection into a host, a high-resolution analysis of its structure has revealed.
• 19/06/2008 - Insulin receptor signalling
  Researchers demonstrated that insulin receptors in the brain can initiate signalling that regulates both the structure and function of neural circuits.
• 19/06/2008 - Smart tags for MRI
  Customised microscopic magnets that might one day be injected into the body could add colour to magnetic resonance imaging.
• 19/06/2008 - Image of the Day: The killer bird
  The Nazca booby, a Galápagos Island seabird, emerges from its shell ready to kill its brother or sister. Scientists suspect hormones cause its murderous urges.
• 20/06/2008 - Image of the Day: The Alpine newt
  The Alpine newt (Mesotriton alpestris) is the only known tailed amphibian with more than one Major Histocompatibility Complex II locus.
• 23/06/2008 - Image of the Day: Cardiomyocytes
  These stem cells, located in the surface of the heart, or epicardium, advance the hope of being able to regenerate injured heart tissue.
• 23/06/2008 - Crawling the Web
  Everyday, Scientist Live turns its eyes to the Web around it and highlights news and research across the Internet. Among today's finds - nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
• 25/06/2008 - Hard X-ray Nanoprobe
  The Center for Nanoscale Materials' newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful x-ray microscopes.
• 25/06/2008 - Crawling the Web
  Everyday, Scientist Live turns its eyes to the Web around it and highlights news and research across the Internet. Today's news: neuroprotective Wallerian Degeneration Slow mutations.
• 25/06/2008 - Image of the Day: Salmonella infantis
  Salmonella infantis can establish localised infections such as septic arthritis or more general infections such as Salmonellosis. Take a closer look at the bacteria using scanning electron micrography.
• 26/06/2008 - Pregnancy cancer protection
  Pregnancy seems to confer some protection against bladder cancer in mice, scientists have found.
• 26/06/2008 - Image of the day: E. coli O157:H7
  E. coli O157:H7 lives in the intestines of healthy cattle, preventive measures on cattle farms and during meat processing are being investigated.
• 27/06/2008 - Image of the Day: Quantum bits
  An international team has identified a new hybrid atom that could be used to develop quantum computers.
• 27/06/2008 - Crawling the Web: HIV and West Nile
  Everyday, Scientist Live turns its eyes to the Web around it and highlights news and research across the Internet. This installment features HIV and West Nile Virus findings.
• 01/07/2008 - Novel approach to Leishmaniasis
  Dr. Silvia Uliana and her colleagues found that Tamoxifen, a drug used to fight breast cancer, offers effective treatment of Leishmaniasis at decidedly less physical cost to the patient.
• 01/07/2008 - Very small, very clear
  At the core of TIGA, an imaging robot scans the tissue slices and displays them on the monitor for researchers at ultra high resolution and in various planes.
• 07/07/2008 - Crawling the Web: HIV and RNAi
  Everyday, Scientist Live turns its eyes to the Web around it and highlights news and research across the Internet. Today we look take an extended look at HIV replication and RNA-interference.