The Column-07-04-2012

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Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California, USA) has announced the recipients of its latest Thought Leader award: Dr Jens Frisvad and the centre for microbial biotechnology in the department of systems biology at the Technical University of Denmark.

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Deceptive orchids

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A team of researchers from Australia has conducted a study into the way in which Drakaea livida (Orchidaceae) is pollinated.

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The Column spoke to Martin Giera of Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, about developments in biomarker discovery.

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A team of scientists from Taiwan has developed a nanoparticle/virus mass spectrometry technique to make rapid and accurate mass and mass distribution measurements of nanoparticles and viruses.

Food focus

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Waters (Milford, Massachusetts, USA) and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) (York, UK) have announced that they will open a new laboratory-based training facility which will combine their respective regulatory, scientific and industry expertise to help solve the global food safety challenge.