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rssLip up: Fatty molecules investigated
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Fatty lipid molecules in the human body act not only as energy storage molecules and structural elements but are also important signalling compounds. Lipids with their head in a molecular cage have now been used to study such molecules and their roles in diseases such as atherosclerosis and diabetes.
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Back to basics: MRI reveals spinal infection
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the site of injection could be used to identify fungal spinal or paraspinal infection
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Satisfying your curiosity: The bigger picture
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Images recorded by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and sent back to Earth have been composited into what is the equivalent of a 1000 megapixel photograph of the surface of the Red Planet.
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Fuel matters: Insights into enzymatic conversion
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Altering the crystalline structure of cellulose from its native form to another can lower its binding partition coefficient for fungal cellulose enzymes by 40-50 percent but surprisingly boost hydrolytic activity. This new finding could thus help open the road to more efficient enzymatic production of biofuels from biomass rather than petroleum.
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Vendor Column: Uses for Scientific Search
Date: Jun 26, 2013
Author: Chris Stumpf
In this third article in the latest series, Waters Corporation's Chris Stumpf looks at several analytical chemistry-based roles where Scientific Search could have a measureable impact at science focused organizations.
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Journal Highlight: Tissue proteomics of the low-molecular weight proteome using an integrated cLC-ESI-QTOFMS approach
Date: Jun 24, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
A tissue proteomics approach involving tissue homogenization followed by depletion of large proteins and then capillary LC-MS analysis has been evaluated for examining the low molecular weight/low abundance tissue proteome.
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Journal Highlight: DCE-MRI: a review and applications in veterinary oncology
Date: Jun 24, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
This review summarises the derivation of the models developed to assess dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI), its applications to the study and treatment of human and animal cancer, and challenges in reproducibility.
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Journal Highlight: Core consistency diagnostic in PARAFAC2
Date: Jun 17, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
The possibility of applying the core consistency diagnostic which is currently applied in PARAFAC1 to determine model complexity in PARAFAC2 has been investigated theoretically.
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Microbore protein digestor: Hollow fibre reactor for online proteolysis
Date: Jun 15, 2013
Author: Steve Down
A microbore enzyme reactor constructed from a hollow fibre that is linked directly to an LC/MS system has been designed for the online digestion, purification and analysis of low amounts of proteins.
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Sudan dyes in seconds: Paper spray mass spectrometry for chilli powder tests
Date: Jun 15, 2013
Author: Steve Down
Paper spray mass spectrometry has been applied to measure five Sudan dyes simultaneously in chilli pepper within 60 seconds, providing a green, high-throughput method that could be used in quality control labs.
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