The Column-07-15-2011

The Column

Food contamination test

July 26, 2011

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Responding to widespread recalls of potentially harmful phthalate?tainted food and beverages in Asia, AB Sciex has provided food safety investigators with a new method to identify the harmful plasticizer.

Nanoscale bone analysis

July 21, 2011

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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, USA, have developed a new technique that allows researchers to collect large amounts of biochemical information from nanoscale bone samples.

Collaboration yields E. coli discovery

July 19, 2011

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The collaboration between the UK?s Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Thermo Fisher Scientific has led to a significant development in mapping the proteome of the organism responsible for the recent E. coli outbreak in Europe.