The Column-05-09-2011

The Column

African drug testing training

May 19, 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.

Looking for biomarkers

May 17, 2011

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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.

A mammoth task

May 12, 2011

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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.

Testing chromium in drinking water

May 10, 2011

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