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Schenectady, NY – October 24, 2022 – UTECH® Products Inc., a medical and laboratory equipment and supplies company is pleased to announce expanding operations to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, making it its 8th office worldwide.

UTECH is bringing its expansive offerings to the Middle East market as a global leader in medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.

Rakesh Madan, President...

Adam Equipment will mark 50 years in business at Arablab with a very special ‘golden anniversary’ laboratory balance.

The global balance and weighing scale manufacturer has created a one-off lab balance that can be seen taking centre stage on their stand, which is number 912 in Hall S3.

It will be showcased alongside standard models from the company’s Luna precision and analytical balance...

SEFA and its members are proud to announce that they have organized a series of presentations on October 24th and 25th inside the SEFA Theatre at ARABLAB 2022.

David J. Sutton, Executive Director of the Scientific Equipment & Furniture Association (SEFA) will begin the day in The SEFA Theatre on Monday morning, October 24, 2022 at 10:30 with “SEFA - A Year in Review.”

We hope you will joi...

For connoisseurs of seafood, there’s no problem in paying extra to ensure their red snapper is of the highest quality, their wild salmon was sustainably and ethically sourced at sea, or their lobster is fresh off the boat that morning. However, a rising tide of food fraud has meant that opening your chequebook wider doesn’t always guarantee that you get what you pay for.

Thankfully, one Duba...

Forensic disciplines combine to develop new fingerprinting technique that could help spot document fraud.

New forensic approach utilises existing tools to determine when a fingerprint was deposited on a questioned document.

As one of the foremost innovators within the fields of fingerprint evidence and forensic document examination, researchers at foster+freeman have plenty of combined ex...

Over the last few centuries, the rapid acceleration of urbanisation has meant that today, over half of the global population lives in a city. What’s more, that percentage is expected to grow to more than two-thirds by 2050, meaning cities will become where a significant majority of humans live and work.

But as well as displacing the countryside as the primary human habitat, cities could also...

According to recent research conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region suffers the third highest incidence of foodborne infections per capita. It is behind only Africa and South East Asia in terms of its food-disease burden.

Nonetheless, there is a staggering lack of information about the risk factors associated with commonplace pathogen...

Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have made history by deploying nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to determine the structure of a nanobody. It’s the first time that such a technique has been used for such a purpose in the UAE and offers significant advantages over previously favoured methods such as X-ray or electron microscopy.

The nanobody in question, Nb23, is a small protein which is only foun...

Researchers from the UAE have discovered that the presence of certain bacteria in the gut may lessen the severity of Covid-19 symptoms in sufferers. Carried out as part of a collaboration between the Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi and the University of Sharjah, the study builds upon previous work linking the composition of the gut microbiome and coronavirus intensity....

A recent spate of salmonella infections in the UK has grabbed headlines of late, with one product on sale in the UAE being recalled by distributors as a result. Although no cases of salmonella linked with the company have yet been recorded in the Emirates or indeed the wider Gulf region, the move is a precautionary measure.

Nonetheless, it should be recognised that salmonella is one of the m...