Most of us are familiar with bar codes, those small black stripes with numbers below, known as the Universal Product Code or UPC label, that appear on commercial products. We scan them at the grocery store or to check a price, or have to cut them out and send them in for a rebate.

The entire population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said.

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) recently achieved first signal on the Cryogenic Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-FTMS) being developed at the school’s Cardiovascular Proteomics Center (CPC).