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Attenuated Total Reflection Explores the Terahertz Region
Monday, October 01, 2007
Jelena Obradovic David A. Newnham Philip F. Taday
Terahertz (1 THz = 1012 Hz) spectroscopic techniques provide the ability to noninvasively explore low-frequency motions in molecular systems in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. read more
Attomole Quantitative Chemiluminescence for Molecular Diagnostics
Monday, January 01, 2007
Aaron Ho Jian Tajbakhsh
The study and use of bioluminescence and chemiluminescence have increased dramatically in recent years. read more
Automatable Processes and Future Directions in Dried Blood Spot Analysis
Friday, October 01, 2010
Chester Bowen
The application of dried blood spots (DBS) for the storage, shipment, and quantification of xenobiotics has been gaining popularity in recent years. The invention of this technology can be attributed ... read more
Automated Assays and More at SLAS 2013 and HCA 2013
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The second annual meeting of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS 2013), held January 12–16, attracted 3800 scientists and engineers to the Gaylord Hotel in Orlando, FL for an ... read more
Automated Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection
Monday, February 25, 2013
Karine Bagramyan Aneela Reddy Dobrin Nedelkov Markus Kalkum
Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is undoubtedly the most potent biological toxin known. Intravenously injected it could paralyze and kill a human being at a dose of just 1.2 ng BoNT per kg body weight. read more
$Automated Refractive Index Calculations for Particle Size Analysis Using Laser Diffraction$
Automated Refractive Index Calculations for Particle Size Analysis Using Laser Diffraction
Monday, June 03, 2013
Mark Bumiller
Laser diffraction has been the most common particle size analysis technique for many years. The technique is fast, flexible, and easy to use for a wide variety of sample types. read more
Automated Sample Preparation to Resolve Homogenizing Bottlenecks
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Karl Jahn
Shorter product life cycles and rapidly expanding data processing capability are driving businesses to seek ever-faster methods of development. read more
Automated Structure Verification by NMR, Part 1: Lead Optimization Support in Drug Discovery
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Philip Keyes Michael Messinger Gonzalo Hernandez
The pharmaceutical industry has always relied on testing and evaluating novel compounds in a wide range of chemical space to feed its pipelines. read more
Automated Structure Verification by NMR, Part 2: Return on Investment
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Philip Keyes Michael Messinger Gonzalo Hernandez
The pharmaceutical industry depends on testing and evaluation of novel compounds in a wide range of chemical space to feed its pipelines. read more
Automated, Economical Sample Preparation: Bottle Liquid–Liquid Extraction
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
John R. Troost
The extraction of organics from water is fundamental in environmental, pharmaceutical, process, food, forensic, and other laboratories. Nearly all laboratories that perform organic analyses are ... read more
Automation of Solid-Phase Extraction for Urinary Opiate Analysis
Friday, October 24, 2008
Jeffery Hackett Michael J. Telepchak Michael J. Coyer
The identification and confirmation of opiates extracted from biological matrices such as blood, plasma/serum, and urine may often lead to more questions than answers, as many exponents of forensic ... read more
Awarding Innovation: The Pittcon® 2013 Editors’ Awards
Friday, May 10, 2013
Marian Nardozzi
Pittcon® offers many different award ceremonies for outstanding scientific achievement to members of the scientific community; however, there is only one award for innovations in instrumentation. The... read more
Best Practices for Using a Water Purification System
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Estelle Riche
How can you optimize the water quality obtained from your water purification system? Do you know the impact of an old final filter on UHPLC chromatogram? Dr. Estelle Riche, Senior Scientist from... read more
Bioassays 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
During the last decade, tremendous strides have been made in proteomics and genomics. read more
Bioassays and Bioanalytical Method Development 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The 8th Annual Bioassays and Bioanalytical Method Development conference, organized by the Institute for International Research (IIR) in Sarasota, FL, attracted more than 100 scientists to the classic... read more
Bioassays and Bioanalytical Method Development 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Biotherapeutics are generally large molecules with a heterogeneous complex structure that is directly related to their ability to modulate biological reactions. This precludes defining a meaningful ... read more
Biological Imaging: What More Can It Provide?
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Larry Scipioni Shawn McVey Lewis Stern
The physicist Richard Feynman famously said in reference to (what is now called) nanotechnology, that “there is plenty of room at the bottom.” read more
Breaking the Sample Preparation Bottleneck With a New Approach to Microwave Digestion
Monday, November 01, 2010
Tim Michel
Closed-vessel microwave digestion is widely recognized as the most effective technique for the digestion of samples for metals analysis by graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA), inductively ... read more
Bridging the Gap Between Research and IT
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Matt Hahn
At the heart of every scientific research and development effort is a significant amount of data. read more
Calorimetry: Getting the Winning Combination
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Ed Sullivan
Ultrasensitive calorimetric instruments for measuring very small heats of reaction at constant temperature (isothermal titration calorimetry [ITC]) and small heat effects induced by temperature (... read more