Laboratory and scientific books and publishing latest news on Laboratorytalk

Are you up to date with legislation and standards?

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT

Compliance with updated EU and UK regulations on contamination control should be at the top of every cleanroom manager's agenda

Help Laboratorytalk support speed record attempt

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT

Ten Laboratorytalk readers can win a place at a celebratory dinner in Nottingham, UK, on 19 May 2008, to raise awareness of the UK attempt on the world water speed record by Quicksilver

Introducing Laboratorytalk TV

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT

We went to Analytica 2008 armed with a video camera, and recorded some of the new products on display as well as general scenes at the trade fair - more information here on the products shown

Social media 'is important' in the life sciences

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT

Survey, fielded by the Science Advisory Board and co-sponsored by BioInformatics and PJA, found that 77 percent of life scientists participate in some type of social media

ISPE launches Gamp 5 technical document

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT

Gamp 5 addresses the entire lifecycle of computerised systems, with principles applicable to a wide range of information systems, lab equipment, integrated manufacturing systems, and IT infrastructure

New guidance to nanotechnology

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT

BSI British Standards publishes nine documents for nanotechnology terminology and guidance for UK industry which will support safety and underpin commercialisation and procurement

Chromatography newsletter highlights HPLC/LCMS

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments announces the availability of its winter 2008 LC World Talk newsletter for researchers and scientists who work with HPLC and LCMS

Movers and shakers in the lab sector

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT

The new year has seen multiple new appointments, with moves involving staff at BioTek, AdvanDx, Brookfield, Jai, Molecular Profiles, ClinPhone, Good Products, Adept Scientific, and RTS Life Science

Support and resources for pharmacy professionals

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT

The Institute of Clinical Research (ICR) has launched a new career booklet to provide information to those wishing to enter the pharmacy profession or pharmacy staff seeking a career move

How chemical discovery changed society

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT

In Molecules That Changed the World (Wiley-VCH), the award-winning chemist, KC Nicolaou reveals the secrets behind the history and the chemistry of these ground-breaking discoveries

Scientific portal for easier information searching

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT

After its relaunch in November 2007, Vascoda, a German language internet portal for scientific and scholarly information, now has a new look

Fifth edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT

Since the first edition published 25 years ago, Molecular Biology of the Cell has become the leading cell biology textbook, lauded as "the most influential cell biology textbook of its time"

A look ahead to Lab Automation 2008

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT

Nest week sees the Lab Automation exhibition and conference at Palm Springs, California, at which many leading suppliers will launch new and updated equipment. Russ Swan provides this preview

Early coverage of research with commercial impact

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT

Nature and BioCentury have announced SciBX, a new publication that will distill and analyse newly published life science research, aiding the translation of academic science into commercial products

Technology steps up in counterfeit drug battle

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT

Fake pharmaceuticals offer fast profits for their unscrupulous manufacturers, at the expense of the health of the unwitting victims but, reports Russ Swan, technology may hold the answer

80 years of Nature now online

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT

Many of the historic moments in modern science can be explored online, now that the archive of the first 80 years (1869-1949) of the famous science journal Nature has gone live

New appointments in the lab sector

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT

A compilation of the latest announcements of new people in new positions in our industry, from senior management teams to field sales personnel

Nature Geoscience covers green issues in green way

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT

Nature Geoscience is a new research journal publishing some of the most significant new research in the Earth and planetary sciences from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), the publishers of Nature

Copyright breakthrough for genomic research

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT

Nature is introducing a Creative Commons licence for original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism's genome for the first time in any of the Nature journals

Leveraging business intelligence for science

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT

Nature and BioCentury will improve the efficiency and speed with which innovative life science research is translated into commercial value by the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries

How low can a genome go?

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT

Sequencing the first human genome cost a large fortune; today, the same job can be done for merely a small fortune - but, asks Russ Swan, how close are we to a truly affordable individual genotype?

Appointments round-up, November 2007

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT

A collection of movers and shakers who have changed position recently in the laboratory sector, part one of a new series of reports

Asturias award money to boost Nature prize fund

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT

Nature Publishing it will be adding tnhe proceeds of its euro25,000 share of the Principe de Asturias Award to the NPG Awards, a philanthropic fund

NPG to launch Nature Chemistry magazine

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that the company is planning launch of a new title called Nature Chemistry in 2009 and the publisher is now recruiting for the editor-in-chief

Private UK laboratory companies face takeovers

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT

Business analysts Plimsoll Publishing say in a new report that the UK's dwindling number of privately owned scientific and laboratory equipment firms are looking more like potential takeover targets

Breaking the bioinformatics bottleneck

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:00:00 UT

The rapid growth of high-throughput laboratories presents an enormous data management challenge which, reports Russ Swan, is being met by a new breed of software

Free document-sharing service for scientists

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT

Nature Publishing and partner organisations have launched Nature Precedings, a free online service enabling researchers to rapidly share, discuss and cite early findings

Launch in Beijing and Shanghai for Nature China

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT

Every week, Nature China's editors select some of the best recently published research from across the scientific and medical literature, and provide short easy-to-understand summaries of the results