The Column-11-19-2010

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Waters has launched a programme to support scientific innovation in the fields of health and life science research, food safety and environmental protection.

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The mechanism that allows sea snails to inject their victims with paralysing venom has been uncovered by proteomic analysis of the creature?s highly specialized biology.

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Solar power

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Researchers at NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, are using their Solar Thermal Test Facility to expose a unique mass spectrometer to the extreme conditions that it will face on a mission to Mercury.

Student science

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MIT has integrated the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyser into its biological engineering department?s undergraduate laboratory course.

Summer Reflections (Part 3)

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Incognito concludes with a discussion on attempts to improve the selectivity of GC separations.