May 2011
Volume 43, Number 6
Reviews of new instrumentation exhibited at Pittcon® 2011 are prominent in the May issue of American Laboratory. Especially noteworthy are novel products for optical spectroscopy and laboratory consumables. Rounding out the issue are an article on food safety management and one on cellular reprogramming.
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Table of Contents
Mukta Shukla
Since the dawn of civilization,
access to safe food and water has
been vital for the survival and
health of human and animal populations.
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Cynthia Bosnak, Ewa Pruszkowski
The elemental and dynamic range
of inductively coupled plasma-mass
spectrometry (ICP-MS) makes it ideally suited for the analysis of food materials.
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Steve Zelenak
In 2007, the U.S. Marshals Service
seized 10,939 cases of extra virgin
olive oil and pomace olive oil, valued
at approximately $628,000, in Long
Island City, NY.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
At Pittcon® 2011, most new
products appeared to be evolutionary,
not revolutionary.
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George M. Frame II, Eileen M. Skelly Frame
Of the 979 exhibitors at Pittcon®
2011, held March 13–18 in
Atlanta, GA, 115 were first-time
exhibitors, and more than 200
identified themselves as having something to do with spectroscopy, from ...
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Vi Chu, Amy Noble, Louise Rollins
In 2007, researchers created the
first human induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPS cells) by infecting
skin cells with four transcription
factors (Oct-4, Klf4, Sox-2, and
c-Myc).
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Frank Gannon
One of the most valuable emerging tools for prognostic indication of cancer is
the detection and quantification of circulating tumor cells (CTCs).
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Frank Brown
Regardless of their area of specialization, today’s biotechnology
companies want to do two things: improve the speed and success of their research efforts and lower the costs involved in doing so.
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Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
Each year, manufacturers and distributors flesh out many innovations for the laboratory, ranging from simple accessories to large, more complex instrumentation.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Columns, chemicals, and consumables
(CCCs) account for more
than 30% of the chromatography
market.
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