YOU don’t have to be psychic to share my delight at the publication of some ‘negative’ scientific results this week in PLoS One, the free-access online journal.There remains a bit of a stigma around so-called negative results, but as my…
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Weekly newsletter: blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the micropledge
IN THESE times of austerity, raising funds for scientific research is becoming quite a challenge. The regular channels – public agencies, universities, and private sector sponsors – are all having to trim their spending, and meanwhile the shortage of commercial…
LabHomepage weekly news, 2 March 2012: instruments and alphabet soup
IN THE arms race that defines the chromatography market, each new iteration of instrument technology brings with it the need for new terminology. Back in the dark ages, we may have divided chromatography into simply ‘gas’ and ‘liquid’ methods, but…
LabHomepage weekly news, 24 February 2012
WELCOME to the first weekly newsletter from LabHomepage, the new web resource for everybody involved with laboratory technology and operations. Each edition will bring a summary of the week’s most interesting lab-related news, direct to your inbox. We will report…