April 2011
Volume 43, Number 5
Two of the spectroscopy articles featured in this issue of American Laboratory include one that examines the use of mid-infrared spectroscopy for determining carbonate contents in soil. Another focuses on a benchtop spectrometer with microwave electronics for electron spin resonance spectroscopy.
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Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
Pittcon 2011 was held March 13–18, 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. The exhibition displayed an assortment of laboratory products, including anything from small plastic ...
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Michael Tatzber, Franz Mutsch, Ernst Leitgeb, Michael Englisch, Axel Mentler, Martin Gerzabek
The carbon pool in soils consists of both organic and inorganic carbon.
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Christopher J. White, Colin T. Elliott, James R. White
Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge in the availability of miniaturized sensing technologies.
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Scott Jordan
In the 1980s, Sun Microsystems coined the trademark “The Network is the Computer” to herald the days of distributed computing.
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Ronald Kappler, Dave Lydon, Ted Turnquist
Single crystals exhibit different properties, depending on the material and their orientation.
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John J.S. Cadwell
The production of secreted products from mammalian cells such as recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies is generally performed in the laboratory by standard flask, roller, or spinner culture.
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Lindsey Bunn, Afaf El-Sagheer
To visualize DNA and RNA on a gel requires the use of a dye or a radiolabel.
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Ben Lich
Most cellular structures and organelles involved in physiologically important processes are too small to be resolved by optical microscopes.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
With each year, Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s (CHI) Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference continues to expand.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Automating the laboratory is driven by the desire to reduce costs and improve consistency in results by substituting mechanization for labor.
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Edith Perret, Tobias E. Balmer
Spectrometer calibration accuracy is of critical importance for many optical characterization techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and interferometry.
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Mark Dawson
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
As the science of HPLC has evolved over the years, we have witnessed many changes to HPLC chemistry and instrumentation.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
At Pittcon in 2004, Waters (Milford, MA) introduced the ACQUITY UPLC chromatograph with a 15,000-psi Pmax, and the rest of the LC world had to play an intense game of catch-up.
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David Coleman, Lynn Vanatta
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
In the past articles, the discussions about methods have always dealt with procedures that estimate sample concentrations over a range of levels.
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