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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.

On November 16th, the ITT Corporation (White Plains, New York) acquired O.I. Corporation for a reported $29 million. The acquisition will enhance ITT?s analytical instrumentation business, which was started earlier this year.

Wyatt Technology?s instruments are to be used by the Biological Macromolecules Joint Research Unit of the Université de Provence and Université de la Méditerranée in Marseille, France, to eliminate bacteriophage infections in dairy production.

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Solar power

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

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

Agilent OpenLAB software helps you shorten the time from analysis to final insight by bringing applications, instruments, and data together under a single, vendor-independent lab environment.

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GC System Maintenance

What are the basic elements of preventative maintenance for a GC system?

The University of Sydney and Agilent Technologies have formally opened their state-of-the-art Oxidative Stress Bioanalytical Facility (OSBF) in the Medical Foundation Building.

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Licence to krill

A study into the composition of krill oil may offer new insights into the complexity of this source of omega-3.

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Micro-brews

Beer is one of the world?s oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverages, and a recent study of its proteome may provide brewers with ways to make it even better.