Read the Latest Technical Articles for Lab Professionals - Technical Articles

Sort

Three Issues of LIMS/Laboratory Informatics That Can Cost Money
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Gloria Metrick
Laboratory information management system (LIMS) and laboratory informatics (LI) projects still have too many significant cost overruns, as do many other software projects. read more
Staistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 28—Statistically Derived Detection Limits
Friday, December 28, 2007
David Coleman Lynn Vanatta
In the previous article (Part 27, American Laboratory, Sept 2007), the world of detection was shown to revolve around three variables: 1) the detection limit, 2) the probability of false positives, a,... read more
Robust Solutions for High-Temperature Biodiesel Analysis: Combining Deactivated Metal Columns, Leak-Tight Coupling, and Built-In Retention Gap Technology
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Jaap de Zeeuw Barry L. Burger
There has been a huge increase in the use of biodiesel fuels. read more
Foam Drainage Investigated Using Terahertz Spectroscopy
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Justin A. Heuser Anita R. Taulbee Wolfgang U. Spendel Michael R. Hughes Gilbert E. Pacey
The region of the electromagnetic spectrum known as terahertz (tera = 10 12) has remained relatively unexplored due to the limitations of microwave and infrared sources. read more
A Comparison of Real Versus Simulated Contraband VOCs for Reliable Detector Dog Training Utilizing SPME-GC-MS
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Michael S. Macias Ross J. Harper Kenneth G. Furton
Odor detection has become a focused area of research because of its importance to the forensic, law enforcement, and legal communities. read more
Minimizing Liquid Delivery Risk: Laboratory Environmental Conditions as Sources of Error—Barometric Pressure and Thermal Disequilibrium
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
A. Björn Carle
This is the fourth in a series of articles entitled, “Minimizing Liquid Delivery Risk,” addressing the most common causes of liquid delivery error and providing guidance on how to address and ... read more
PCR Amplification Performance Comparison
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Pauline Littlewood Vikki Mitchell
Microbiological testing is a large and expanding worldwide market encompassing both research and industrial sectors. read more
Flavor Release From Food Emulsions Varying in Their Composition in Fat and Proteins and Its Effect on Flavor Perception
Monday, February 18, 2008
Elisabeth Guichard Marjorie Fabre Perla Relkin
Acceptability of food by consumers is highly governed by its flavor (aroma and taste) perception. read more
Modern Trends in Atomic Force Microscopy of Soft Matter
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sergei Magonov
The invention of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has revolutionized contemporary microscopy and empowered researchers with a unique method to study materials at the submicron scale. read more
Method Development in Thermal Analysis: Part 1
Monday, February 18, 2008
Markus Schubnell
The development and validation of methods is of major importance in today’s quality assurance systems. read more
Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 29—Statistically Derived Detection Limits (continued)
Thursday, February 28, 2008
David Coleman Lynn Vanatta
Part 28 (American Laboratory, Nov/Dec 2007) laid the framework for discussing detection limits. The relationship among the detection limit (DL), the probability of false positives (a), and the ... read more
Absolute Size Exclusion Chromatography
Monday, March 24, 2008
Ulf Nobbmann
Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) are common technologies in protein laboratories. read more
Flow Injection Spectrophotometric Determination of Acetochlor in Food Samples
Monday, March 24, 2008
Jasmin Shah M. Rasul Jan Nadia Bashir
Acetochlor is an herbicide widely used for controlling grass weeds in various crops. read more
Evaluating Candidate Lead Compounds by Rapid Analysis of Drug Interactions with Human Serum Albumin
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Vered Bronner Oded Nahshol Tsafrir Bravman
Human serum albumin (HSA) plays a fundamental role in the transport of drugs, metabolites, and endogenous ligands. Binding to HSA controls the free, active concentration of a drug; provides a ... read more
Long Life, No Lag: Overcoming the Limits of Photoactivation
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Dennis Donley
Photostimulation techniques are among the most powerful microscopy tools available to life science researchers. read more
An All-Digital Cantilever Controller for MRFM and Scanned Probe Microscopy Using a Combined DSP/FPGA Design
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Dick de Roover La Moyne Porter II Abbas Emami-Naeini Seppe Kuehn Sean Garner Doran D. Smith John A. Marohn
An all-digital cantilever controller for magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) was developed through a close collaboration between SC Solutions (Sunnyvale, CA), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), ... read more
Absorption and Emission Red Shift in Stained Cell and Tissue Samples
Monday, May 05, 2008
Eugene Barash Pavel A. Fomitchov Robert Filkins Mark Mayers Anup Sood Radislav A. Potyrailo Hua Xia Michael Montalto
The design of fluorescence microscopes and selection of dyes are better served by the knowledge of environmental effects on dyes, whether they are in vitro or in vivo. read more
Separation of Spinach Chloroplasts Using a Large-Volume, Fixed-Angle Rotor
Thursday, May 29, 2008
O. Mitch Griffith
Chloroplasts were successfully separated by centrifugation in a sucrose density gradient into particle fractions using a zonal rotor. read more
Gas Chromatographic Applications for a High-Performance Cyanopropylphenyl-Substituted Polydimethylsiloxane Column Technology
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Frances Sutherland Jim Luong Ronda Gras Peter Heijnsdijk
Many generic stationary phases are available for use in contemporary capillary columns for gas chromatography. read more
Using FTIR Spectroscopy to Analyze Gemstones
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Stephen Lowry
Due to the increasing popularity and high prices of quality gemstones, there is a large market for less expensive stones that resemble the real thing. read more

Technical Articles

Sort

Three Issues of LIMS/Laboratory Informatics That Can Cost Money

Staistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 28—Statistically Derived Detection Limits

Robust Solutions for High-Temperature Biodiesel Analysis: Combining Deactivated Metal Columns, Leak-Tight Coupling, and Built-In Retention Gap Technology

Foam Drainage Investigated Using Terahertz Spectroscopy

A Comparison of Real Versus Simulated Contraband VOCs for Reliable Detector Dog Training Utilizing SPME-GC-MS

Minimizing Liquid Delivery Risk: Laboratory Environmental Conditions as Sources of Error—Barometric Pressure and Thermal Disequilibrium

PCR Amplification Performance Comparison

Flavor Release From Food Emulsions Varying in Their Composition in Fat and Proteins and Its Effect on Flavor Perception

Modern Trends in Atomic Force Microscopy of Soft Matter

Method Development in Thermal Analysis: Part 1

Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 29—Statistically Derived Detection Limits (continued)

Absolute Size Exclusion Chromatography

Flow Injection Spectrophotometric Determination of Acetochlor in Food Samples

Evaluating Candidate Lead Compounds by Rapid Analysis of Drug Interactions with Human Serum Albumin

Long Life, No Lag: Overcoming the Limits of Photoactivation

An All-Digital Cantilever Controller for MRFM and Scanned Probe Microscopy Using a Combined DSP/FPGA Design

Absorption and Emission Red Shift in Stained Cell and Tissue Samples

Separation of Spinach Chloroplasts Using a Large-Volume, Fixed-Angle Rotor

Gas Chromatographic Applications for a High-Performance Cyanopropylphenyl-Substituted Polydimethylsiloxane Column Technology

Using FTIR Spectroscopy to Analyze Gemstones

Product Guide

Micromachined HPLC Columns Can Revolutionize Proteomics Workflows

Buyer's Guide: GC-MS for Monitoring Environmental Pollutants

Refocusing the Lens of Cancer Screening

Study: NGS Should Be Go-to Technology on Day Zero of the Next Pandemic

Overcoming Common Challenges in Sample Viability for Single-Cell Research