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Scientist.com is working to implement an improved contractual landscape ahead of GDPR implementation in May, in order to ensure global compliance...

In recent years, everything from news and entertainment media to payments has gone digital. Now we can add medicine to that list: In December, the...

The life science industry is fortunate to enter the area of big data at a time when other scientific disciplines/industries have paved the way. Big...

For many people, project management means to plan, to implement and to monitor the work of a team. Indeed, these are important. But consider also...

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is the resonance of a plasmon wave that occurs when a light wave is sent to a metallic surface. When the surface...