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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK government chemist review 2007 published</title>
      <description>Government chemist has statutory roles and is appointed by the minister to advise government, industry and others on the dependencies between analytical chemistry, policy, standards and regulation</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>LGC</category>
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      <title>Ushering in a new era of nasal inhalers</title>
      <description>Melbourn Scientific has been involved in a number of device developments for companies taking a lead in this field, providing a wealth of experience in this new area.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Melbourn Scientific</category>
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      <title>Quantitative analysis of western blots</title>
      <description>FluorChem Q is a fully quantitative imaging system for fluorescent and chemiluminescent western blots and offers flexibility for visualising and quantifying samples from a wide variety of sources</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GRI</category>
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      <title>New method for DNA analysis is 'unique'</title>
      <description>LGC Forensics, the UK's largest independent provider of forensic services, is pleased to announce that its latest innovation, DNA SenCE, is now in operational use with several police forces</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Scientific services enhanced with new R+D staff</title>
      <description>Icon has announced the appointments of Tom McCloskey as associate director, cellular immunology, research and development and Alamelu Chandrasekaran to the position of manager, molecular diagnostics</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Miniaturising electronics to the nanoscale</title>
      <description>As the demand for the miniaturisation of gadgets meets with the quest for infinitely larger memories, the critical limitations are those posed by the traditional silicon chip</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>STFC Daresbury Laboratory</category>
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      <title>ACM-Pivotal increases staff to accommodate growth</title>
      <description>ACM-Pivotal has announced a 20 percent growth in personnel across the organisation</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>LNA-mediated microRNA silencing in primates</title>
      <description>Santaris Pharma reports the publication in Nature (Advance Online Publication, AOP) of a groundbreaking peer-reviewed study entitled LNA-mediated microRNA silencing in non-human primates</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Santaris Pharma</category>
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      <title>GBP45 million to boost UK medical engineering</title>
      <description>Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announce the launch of a joint £45 million initiative to boost innovation in medical engineering within the UK</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wellcome Trust</category>
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      <title>Lab21 acquires NPTech</title>
      <description>Lab21, a provider of health and environmental diagnostics, has acquired NPTech, an independent clinical laboratory providing diagnostic testing services for the NHS and private healthcare providers</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Lab21</category>
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      <title>Inexpensive alternative to method USP 730</title>
      <description>Limit test for heavy metals demonstrates that the content of metallic impurities that are coloured by sulphide ion does not exceed the limit specified in the pharmacopeia standards</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Exeter Analytical (UK)</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/exr/exr126.html</link>
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      <title>Predictive genetic test for bowel cancer</title>
      <description>Amgen UK and Lab21 have announced a partnership to introduce a new genetic therapy test for advanced bowel cancer treatment in the UK</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Lab21</category>
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      <title>Liver disease diagnostic development programme</title>
      <description>Lipomics is developing blood-based diagnostics for the early detection of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and the ability to distinguish between it and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (Nash)</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Lipomics Technologies</category>
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      <title>X-rays shed light on magnetic bacteria</title>
      <description>Daresbury Laboratory's synchrotron creates highly polarised X-rays to examine bio-nanomagnetic bacteria dosed with cobalt to change in their magnetic properties</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>STFC Daresbury Laboratory</category>
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      <title>Phlexglobal is coming to America</title>
      <description>Following a sustained period of growth in the UK, and increasing interest from current and potential clients based in the USA, Phlexglobal is expanding into America.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cholesterol analysis in minutes: test coming soon</title>
      <description>L3 Technology, a spin-out of Daresbury Laboratory, has secured a second round investment of £1.75m, enabling it to commercialise technology that will provide rapid point of care cholesterol testing</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Daresbury Laboratory (CLRC)</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/dar/dar114.html</link>
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      <title>Forensic support for Jersey children's home dig</title>
      <description>Forensic scientists from the victim identification and mass fatalities unit at LGC Forensics are assisting States of Jersey Police in its ongoing investigation at Haut de la Garenne</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>LGC</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/uka/uka190.html</link>
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      <title>Clinphone eliminates common integration headaches</title>
      <description>ClinPhone has launched its new combined electronic data capture (EDC) and interactive voice response/interactive web response (IVR/IWR) system</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>New equipment expands Quay Pharma's capabilities</title>
      <description>Formulation and development specialist Quay Pharmaceuticals has expanded its range of outsourcing services with new extrusion and spheronisation equipment for the production of spheroids and pellets</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Quay Pharmaceuticals</category>
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      <title>Chemist takes part in world's toughest foot race</title>
      <description>Not content with the challenges of his day job as an analytical chemist for Melbourn Scientific in Melbourn, Martin Westcott, 30, is about to embark on the biggest test of his life</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Melbourn Scientific</category>
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      <title>Solid Dose Injector attracts further interest</title>
      <description>Glide Pharma has signed an agreement with a leading pharmaceutical company to evaluate its proprietary Glide SDI - Solid Dose Injector - technology for the delivery of a branded peptide product</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Glide Pharma</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/gli/gli103.html</link>
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      <title>Trial of potential new therapy for COPD</title>
      <description>Argenta Discovery has initiated a Phase II clinical trial with ADC4022 for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and steroid-insensitive asthma</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Argenta Discovery</category>
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