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Ensuring Food Authenticity and Quality
Monday, June 13, 2011
Gerry Broski
Protection of consumer rights, the prevention of fraudulent or deceptive practices, and the adulteration of food are important challenging issues facing the food industry. read more
Focus on Columns and Consumables at Pittcon® 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Columns, chemicals, and consumables (CCCs) account for more than 30% of the chromatography market. read more
Separation Science Highlights From Pittcon® 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
At Pittcon® 2011, most new products appeared to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. read more
Modifications of DNA in Relation to Diabetes: Identification of Carboxymethyl-2’-Deoxyadenosine From Glycoxidation Reactions, Calf Thymus DNA, Human Urine, and DNA
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Zeenat Ara Lila Paulette Allen Tameka Greenwood Kadeem Bartley Rafida Idris Mahtabuddin Ahmed
Glycoxidative modification of proteins involving free radical intermediates and reactive carbohydrates leads to complications in diabetes, atherosclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. read more
Advancing Food Safety Technology Into the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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. read more
The Determination of Toxic, Essential, and Nutritional Elements in Food Matrices Using an ICP-MS
Monday, May 09, 2011
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. read more
Pittcon® 2011 Exposition: New Product Introductions in Optical Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
Monday, May 09, 2011
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 ... read more
General Laboratory Equipment: Innovation Showcase
Monday, May 09, 2011
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. read more
Elimination of Water Vapor Bands Under Low but Fluctuating Humidity During Acquisition of a Far-Infrared Spectrum
Monday, April 18, 2011
Yanqin Hu Yujing Chen Yanping Xu Hai-Shui Wang
Many different types of transitions appear in the far-infrared (FIR) region. read more
High-Content Analysis Comes Full Circle in Only Eight Years
Monday, April 18, 2011
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
In eight short years, high-content analysis (HCA) has circled back to its roots, where many practitioners are again using personal instruments. read more
Label-Free Screening of Drug–Protein Interactions by Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Monday, April 18, 2011
Carsten Kötting Klaus Gerwert
Screening for the interaction of small molecules with proteins is usually carried out by indirect methods by means of artificial labels or reporter systems. read more
Providing Purge Gas for FTIR Systems
Monday, April 18, 2011
Peter Froehlich Kim Myers
While a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer provides a number of benefits relative to a scanning IR spectrophotometer,a significant disadvantage of an FTIR system is that the presence ... read more
UHPLC’s Seven Year Itch: Quo Vadis?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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. read more
Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy for Determinations of Carbonate in Soils—What is Important?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Michael Tatzber Franz Mutsch Ernst Leitgeb Michael Englisch Axel Mentler Martin Gerzabek
The carbon pool in soils consists of both organic and inorganic carbon. read more
Highlights From LabAutomation 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
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. read more
Climbing the Informatics Mountain—It’s Not a Bubble: Highlights From the 2011 Tri-Conference
Friday, April 08, 2011
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
With each year, Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s (CHI) Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference continues to expand. read more
Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 42—Pass-Fail Methods
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
David Coleman Lynn Vanatta
In the past articles, the discussions about methods have always dealt with procedures that estimate sample concentrations over a range of levels. read more
Effective UPLC Implementation
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Mark Dawson
As the science of HPLC has evolved over the years, we have witnessed many changes to HPLC chemistry and instrumentation. read more
Pittcon® 2011 Editors’ Awards: A Two-Way Tie for the Gold Award
Friday, April 01, 2011
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 ... read more
Micro-ESR: Miniature Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
Friday, April 01, 2011
Christopher J. White Colin T. Elliott James R. White
Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge in the availability of miniaturized sensing technologies. read more