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More spectroscopic equipment is becoming interfaceable with desktop computers — and even the Bunsen burner is going high-tech.

The wide range of monoclonal antibodies now available includes murine antibody to human calcitonin and antibodies to cytokeratin proteins.

Cell biology has been in existence for over 400 years. But only recently has it been possible to study cells in massive numbers.

Recent developments on the neuroscience market include a range of receptor markers, two stimulators and a catecholamine assay.

An exhibition of new labware is being run alongside Nature's San Francisco conference ‘Update in the New Biology’.

The problems involved in producing unlimited quantities of hormones and similarly useful proteins by recombinant DNA techniques are fast being solved. With their solution comes the chance for those involved to reap almost equally unlimited financial rewards.

The increasing number of laboratories engaged in recombinant DNA research is supporting a thriving industry.

The American Chemical Society is meeting in Chicago on September 8 to 13. Here are some new products of interest to chemists.

Although too often associated in people's minds with star wars weaponry the laser has become an invaluable tool in many varied and peaceful applications.

A user-group based at Culham gives access to high-power lasers, and laser Raman microscopy is becoming established.

The Nature conference under the above title takes place in London on 25–27 June. Alongside the conference is an exhibition of laboratory equipment

These pages feature computer hardware and software for the automated laboratory, from a ‘metabolic computer’ to a Digital Paintbrush graphics package.

The Achema-85 exhibition takes place in Frankfurt on 9–15 June. Halls 6-I, -II and -III cover laboratory and analytical techniques, Hall 2 research and innovation.

New items available for the tissue culture laboratory include carbon dioxide incubators, novel bioreactors and media.

This year's meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is at Anaheim, California, opening on 21 April.