The Column-05-09-2011

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Scientists from the national laboratories of five African nations, including participants from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Sierra Leone, have gathered in Accra, Ghana, Africa, to take part in technical training for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines.

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The Singapore Eye Research Institute will advance biomarker candidates that it has identified for chronic inflammatory eye conditions into large-scale clinical trials for validation using AB SCIEX technology.

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A mammoth task

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Researchers have successfully extracted proteins from 600000 year old mammoth bones, using a technique that could be used to identify remains of very old extinct animals from tiny bones fragments.

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Dionex has updated its methods to allow for more sensitive testing of toxic hexavalent chromium in drinking water.

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The three main types of volatile extraction techniques are purge and trap, headspace and thermal desorption equipment.