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Shelf life

Unlike wine and whisky, beer tastes best when consumed fresh. After 6-12 months in storage, beer develops an unpleasant, bitter aftertaste. A study to identify the key substances that cause this bitter taste has been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

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.

Summer symposium

Thermo Fisher Scientific will hold a free summer symposium in the UK to present the latest developments in the field of laboratory solutions.

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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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Bioanalysis uses a variety of separation techniques to analyze samples ranging from plasma and urine to dried blood spots. Participants in this Technology Forum are Ling Bei, Patrik Appelblad, and Dave Lentz of EMD Millipore; Nadine Boudreau of PharmaNet Canada; Diab Elmashni, Jeff Zonderman, and Simon Szwandt of Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Debadeep Bhattacharya of Waters Corporation.

LGC has launched a new business unit, Health Sciences, which combines the group?s sport, food, consumer safety and pharmaceutical testing activities within a single entity.

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A mammoth task

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.

Applied Biology Company has purchased the assets of LAB Research, which consists of three facilities located in Hungary, Denmark and Canada.

A recent reinterpretation of the GC–MS results from the Viking landers that went to Mars in the 1970s has suggested that the possibility of life on Mars may be much greater than we previously thought.

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Flash chromatography is a type of preparative liquid chromatography commonly used in the separation of organic compounds.

Agilent Technologies has expanded its Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis Centre of Excellence in Bangalore, India.

Peak Scientific Instruments, Scottish manufacturer of nitrogen, hydrogen and air generators has been awarded the Queen?s Award for Enterprise 2011.

Dionex has partnered with Genevac to reduce solvent use in sample preparation. The result is the release of Genevac?s Rocket evaporator.