Topic Hub
This hub presents an alphabetical directory of topic pages, providing easy access to collections of content on key areas of interest in the life sciences, analytical chemistry and drug discovery.
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Advanced Cell Models
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to advanced cell models. Content will cover aspects from the creation of organoids and organs-on-chips, to how they are applied to solve research questions, discover and test therapeutics and improve health.
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Air Analysis
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to air analysis. Content will cover aspects from sources and types of air pollution and the techniques used to detect and monitor them, to innovative solutions to combat issues.
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Anticancer Therapies
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to anticancer therapies. Content will cover aspects from chemo- and radiotherapies, to cell-based treatments and cancer vaccines.
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to AI and ML. Content will cover aspects from how these technologies are benefitting science and the challenges and concerns, to the role they may play in the future.
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Automation
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to automation. Content will cover aspects from robotics, autosamplers and liquid handlers to total laboratory automation.
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Behavioral Neuroscience
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to behavioral neuroscience. Content will cover aspects from behavioral tests, mental processing and conditioning to phycology, psychiatry and conditions affecting mental health and behavior.
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Biomarkers
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to biomarkers. Content will cover aspects from the strategies employed to identify biomarkers, to their utilization in disease diagnosis, prevention, management and treatment.
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Cancer Diagnostics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to cancer diagnostics. Content will cover aspects from cancer biomarkers, diagnosis and monitoring to precision oncology.
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Cancer Genetics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to cancer genetics. Content will cover aspects from cancer-associated genes and genetic risk, to exploiting genetics to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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Cancer Immunology
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to cancer immunology. Content will cover aspects from the tumor immune environment and immunosurveillance, to cancer immunotherapies and vaccines.
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Cell Culture
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to cell culture techniques and applications, including 2D and 3D culture, cell lines and contamination issues.
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Cell Signaling
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to cell signaling. Content will cover aspects from the importance of signaling for normal cellular and biological system function and aberrant signaling seen in diseases such as cancer, to the signal transduction process and therapeutic opportunities.
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Clinical Omics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to clinical omics. Content will cover aspects from the discovery of clinical omics disease biomarkers to their role in managing and combatting disease in the clinic.
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CRISPR and Genome Editing
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to CRISPR and genome editing. Content will cover aspects from advances in genetic engineering technologies to the plethora of applications in which they are finding utility.
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Cryopreservation
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to cryopreservation techniques and applications, including biobanking.
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Data Reporting, Compliance and Integrity
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to data reporting, compliance and integrity. Content will cover aspects from how these can be achieved in a lab environment, to their importance and impact in a regulatory setting.
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Drug Kinetics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to drug kinetics. Content will cover aspects from advances in drug-target binding research to factors affecting the a drug's performance and dosage.
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Drug Targets
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to drug targets. Content will cover aspects from identification and validation of new drug targets, to therapeutic development and the benefits to health.
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Electron Microscopy
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to electron microscopy techniques and applications, including SEM, TEM and cryo-EM.
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Electrophysiology
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to electrophysiology techniques and applications, including intracellular and extracellular recording of excitable cells, tissues and organs.
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ELISA
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to ELISA techniques and applications, including assay design and optimization in research, diagnostic and therapeutic development settings.
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Exosomes
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to exosomes. Content will cover aspects from their role in cell biology to their potential as diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
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Flow Cytometry
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to flow cytometry techniques and applications, including mass cytometry, spectral flow cytometry and imaging cytometry.
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Food and Beverage Analysis
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to food and beverage analysis. Content will cover aspects from contaminants, safety, adulteration and fraud, to improving tastes and textures.
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Future Foods
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to future foods. Content will cover aspects from cellular agriculture, plant-based protein and insects to advances helping to reduce and reuse food waste and make agricultural practices more sustainable.
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Gas Chromatography
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to gas chromatography techniques and applications, including GC x GC and hyphenation to other analytical techniques.
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GC-MS
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to GC-MS techniques and applications, including its use in food and beverage, petrochemical and environmental sample analysis.
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Gene and Cell Therapy
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to gene and cell therapy. Content will cover aspects from the techniques and technologies used, to the increasing numbers of conditions being addressed by these therapies.
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ICP-MS
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to ICP-MS techniques and applications, including ICP-QQQ and LA-ICP-MS.
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ICP-OES
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to ICP-OES techniques and applications, including food and beverage, petrochemical, environmental and pharmaceutical analyses.
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Immunoassays
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to immunoassay techniques and applications, including immunohistochemistry, western blotting, ELISAs and lateral flow assays.
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Infectious Disease Diagnostics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to infectious disease diagnostics. Content will cover aspects from testing techniques, surveillance and differentiating infected from vaccinated individuals to selecting and improving diagnostic targets.
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Infectious Diseases
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to Infectious diseases. Content will cover aspects from pathogen biology and immune evasion to diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
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Infrared Spectroscopy
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to infrared spectroscopy techniques and applications, from microplastic, food and pharmaceutical analysis to clinical screening and forensics.
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Lab of the Future
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to the lab of the future. Content will cover aspects from digitization, automation and the internet of things, to AI, ML, augmented reality and sustainability.
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LC-MS
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to LC-MS techniques and applications, from quantitation, pharmaceutical and food analysis to proteomics and infectious disease research.
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Light Microscopy
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to light microscopy techniques and applications, including fluorescence, phase contrast, confocal and super-resolution microscopy.
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LIMS and ELNs
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to LIMS and ELNs. Content will cover aspects from how informatics systems are changing the lab environment and the benefits that can be gained, to addressing challenges in implementing these systems.
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Liquid Biopsies
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to liquid biopsies. Content will cover aspects from advances in early cancer diagnosis and response to treatment, to their use alongside traditional biopsy techniques.
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Liquid Chromatography
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to liquid chromatography techniques and applications, including 2DLC, HPLC, uHPLC, size exclusion, affinity, partition and ion chromatography.
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Mass Spectrometry
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to mass spectrometry techniques and applications, including single and triple quad, tandem MS, time-of-flight, MALDI, DART and XL-MS.
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Microbiomes
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to microbiomes in humans, animals and our environment. Content will cover aspects from the techniques used to interrogate microbiomes and the organisms that inhabit them, to the role they play in health and how to maintain and improve them.
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Microplastics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to microplastics. Content will cover aspects from microplastic detection techniques and remediation, to the issues they cause for the environment and health.
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Multiomics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to multiomics. Content will cover aspects from the collection and integration of information from "omes" including the genome, transcriptome, epigenome, proteome, metabolome, lipidome and microbiome, to the questions being addressed with this data.
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Neurodegeneration
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to neurodegeneration. Content will cover aspects from understanding the underlying causes and associated neurological changes, to preventatives and potential therapeutics.
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Neurogenomics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to neurogenomics. Content will cover aspects from heritable brain features, gene expression and it's role in studying health and disease to the technologies applied to the field.
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Neuroimaging
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to neuroimaging techniques and applications, including MRI, fMRI, CT, PET, DTI and MEG imaging in health and disease.
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Neurotechnology
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to neurotechnology. Content will cover aspects from brain implants, neuroprostheses and neuromodulation to deep brain stimulation.
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Next-Generation Sequencing
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to next-generation sequencing techniques and applications, including sequencing technologies and DNA and RNA-based techniques utilizing anything from cultures and tissues, to single cells and environmental samples.
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NMR Spectroscopy
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to NMR spectroscopy techniques and applications, including proton, carbon, 2D and solid-state NMR.
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PCR
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to PCR techniques and applications, including qPCR, RT-qPCR and dPCR.
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Personalized Medicine
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to personalized medicine. Content will cover aspects from driving forces and technologies, to the impact it's having for patients.
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Pesticides
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to pesticides. Content will cover aspects from pesticide screening, safety and residue analysis to the development of pesticide alternatives.
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Petrochemicals
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to petrochemicals. Content will cover aspects from formulation and testing during extraction, production and quality monitoring, to the diverse uses of petrochemicals, environmental impacts and remediation.
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PFAS
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to PFAS. Content will cover aspects from PFAS detection and remediation to their potential environmental and health impacts.
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Pharmacovigilance
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to pharmacovigilance. Content will cover aspects from drug and vaccine safety and efficacy to surveillance and strategies to manage and investigate adverse events.
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Psychedelics
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to psychedelics. Content will cover aspects from the impact of psychedelics on the brain to their therapeutic potential.
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Screening Strategies in Drug Discovery
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to screening strategies in drug discovery. Content will cover aspects including fragment-, cell- and target-based screening, high-throughput screening, phenotypic screening and virtual screening.
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Single-Cell Analysis
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to single-cell analysis. Content will cover aspects from isolation of single cells and omic analyses, to interpreting heterogeneity at the single-cell level.
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Spatial Biology
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to spatial biology. Content will cover aspects from the techniques that provide insights on heterogeneity and distribution from the cellular to molecular level, to how studies improve understanding of health and disease and offer potential for improving therapies.
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Structural Biology
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to structural biology. Content will cover aspects from advances in the analytical techniques used to the insights and wider benefits that these analyses provide.
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Synthetic Biology
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to synthetic biology. Content will cover aspects from the systems used to create synthetic DNA, proteins and organisms, to their utility in areas such as biopharmaceutical production and biosensor creation.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Content will cover aspects from diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention, to viral genomics, pathogen-host interactions and the immune response to infection.
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The Immune System
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to the immune system. Content will cover aspects from the cells and molecules from which it is formed, how they interact and how we can study and harness them, to the immune system's role in health and disease.
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Therapeutic Antibodies
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to therapeutic antibodies. Content will cover aspects from developing, purifying and testing antibodies and antibody–drug conjugates as therapeutics to their mechanisms of action in the conditions they treat.
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Therapeutic Delivery
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to therapeutic delivery. Content will cover aspects from routes of administration for vaccines, pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals to novel techniques and technologies to improve delivery, safety and efficacy.
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Vaccine Design and Testing
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to vaccine design and testing. Content will cover aspects from identifying vaccine targets, developing a vaccine and adjuvant selection to safety and efficacy testing and clinical trials.
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Vaccine Manufacture and Supply
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to vaccine manufacture and supply. Content will cover aspects from scale-up, purification, quality and standardization to spoilage, transport and access.
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Water Analysis
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to water analysis. Content will cover aspects from established and emerging contaminants and detection and monitoring techniques, to remedial action to prevent or remove problem substances.
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Western Blot
This page provides educational resources, events, news and products related to western blot techniques and applications, including assay optimization, detection techniques and reproducibility.
