{"id":1718,"date":"2016-02-08T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:08:48","slug":"introduction-to-science-lab-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2016\/02\/08\/introduction-to-science-lab-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Science \u2013 Lab Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2016\/02\/08\/introduction-to-science-lab-tour\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Students enrolled on one of Imperials evening classes entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/evening-classes\/autumn-spring-courses\/courses-available\/introduction-to-science\/\">Introduction to Science<\/a> (ItS) course visited the main analytical facility at South Kensington last week to hear how and why researchers in Computational Systems Medicine use high-resolution spectroscopic techniques in their research.\u00a0The Introduction to Science course is one of the many evening classes run at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/evening-classes\/\">Imperial by the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication<\/a>, and attracts a range of non-specialist adult learners with a keen interest in science.<\/p>\n<p>Lecturer Dr Toby Athersuch gave the class a short tutorial on the principles of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and chromatography, and how these can be used to interrogate complex biofluids and understand their composition. 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