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Article: FOCUS ON LABLOGIC: Products for a specialist field.
- Article from:
- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2008
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LABLOGIC'S products are used in a field of science called radio chromatography.
A number of specialist techniques - including High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography allow scientists to separate, identify and measure molecules in a compound by 'labelling' them with minute amounts of radioactive material.
The techniques are used in the development of new drugs and agricultural chemicals, hospitals and universities.
The company also supplies centres specialising in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) - a new method of scanning for cancer, heart disease and brain disorders by injecting a radio ...