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rssJournal Highlight: Waste glass, vessels and window-panes from Thamusida (Morocco): Grouping natron-based blue-green and colourless Roman glasses
Date: Jul 2, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
A collection of window-panes, vessels and alleged waste from Thamusida has been characterised by several techniques and compared with naturally coloured and colourless glasses of both Roman and later ages.
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Journal Highlight: Nanoscale chemical imaging using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: A critical review
Date: Jul 2, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
This review focuses on the prerequisites for the efficient coupling of light to the tip as well as the shortcomings and pitfalls that have to be considered for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy imaging, for its application to nanoscale analysis.
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Journal Highlight: Use of near-infrared spectroscopy to identify trends in regional cerebral oxygen saturation in horses
Date: Jul 2, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Near-infrared spectroscopy was used to identify trends in regional cerebral oxygen saturation in horses and establish a correlation between rSO2 and venous oxygen tensions.
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Portable infection: SERS detection
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
The optical technique of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been used to detect signs of infection in tissue samples before patients even show symptoms of viral disease. The system could be further developed into a portable lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices for use in the clinic with potential for applications in the developing world.
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Liquid study: Reveals tuneable colours
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Researchers in Japan have used NMR spectroscopy to study liquid materials with excellent light stability based on the skeleton of the organic fluorescent dye anthracene that could be used for full-colour tuneable luminescent systems.
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Lip 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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