A new study demonstrates the potential of using ultrasmall gold nanoparticles for imaging or delivering drugs into the brain. As its name suggests, the blood-brain–barrier provides a defence against...
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Researchers set out a new method that has marked advantages for the large-scale, high-throughput quantitative analysis of proteins without the need...
The Key Role of Pure Water in Clinical Diagnostics and Patient Management Pure water plays a key role in clinical diagnostics, with applications...
HPLC is an established technique for the quantification and characterisation of viral particles in vaccine development, and identifying and...
A new study suggests that measuring short-chain fatty acids in the gut may offer a way to predict which cancer patients will benefit from...
Water is used in virtually all aspects of important clinical testing and when lives are at stake, there is no margin for error. But how pure is the...
We all know purity is important, but impurities can be more frequent and damaging than commonly realised – that’s why we’ve highlighted 5 everyday...
Surveys of tiny pieces of fragmented plastic – microplastics – have so far largely focussed on marine environments. A new study investigates their...
What is CLSI water and is it the same as CLRW? What are the guidelines for the preparation and testing of reagent water? Find out in our latest...