October 2014
Volume 46, Number 8
Real-life physiological conditions can be replicated accurately for a wide variety of fields in cell-based research, according to an article on a new generation of hypoxia workstations. This issue also features an overview of FDA Regulations for the Food, Drug, and Medical Device Industries.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
In just half a decade, hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells has greatly improved the economic competitiveness of America. This is leading to new employment opportunities for hard hats and also ...
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Emilia Raszkiewicz
Welcome to the October issue. In the previous month’s issue, we reflected on our approach to
improvement: improving our research, as well as improving access to knowledge, methods, and
personal ...
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Yoonhee Beatty, David Lim
The United States Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) regulates, but is not limited to, the food, drug, and medical device industries, which are subject to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Jim Keary
Water purity is a fundamentally important factor in many laboratories, yet it is frequently overlooked.
Researchers use water in most lab processes,
and poor water quality can quickly lead to
...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Lina Genovesi
The pharmaceutical industry, food industry, petrochemicals industry, and forensics industry are just some areas in which LC columns are used for sample purification and analysis. Liquid chromatography...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Josh P. Roberts
The modern research laboratory can select among many options in refrigerated centrifuges. Centrifuges are available in a host of configurations, and sizes, and offer different options for speed and ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Joerg Jinschek
Prof. Seiji Takeda leads a research group in the Department of Nanocharacterization for Nanostructures and Functions of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at the Institute of Scientific and ...
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
For decades, the clinical laboratory has been recognized as the leading model for applied analytical chemistry labs. Clinical chemists
are the first to deal with real-world concerns such as large-...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Yan Li, Dong Zhang
Heavy metal pollution in water has been a public concern for decades.Heavy metals, which include lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, zinc, copper,
and nickel, are highly toxic with hidden pollution,
...
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Monday, November 10, 2014
Michael Rau
There is a rapidly growing need for systems capable of creating precise, reproducible, and physiologically relevant cell environments in the laboratory in order to
enable accurate analysis of both ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Jennifer Reed, Kim Petro
With the increasing importance of large-scale data generation, many pharmaceutical labs are using robots to speed data collection. One such strategy is to automate the real-time PCR workflow.
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