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Point-of-Care Tests for the Blood Lipid Profile
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Blood lipid levels must be assessed to monitor for risk of cardiovascular disease, or CVD. The most critical lipids for risk determination are cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density ... Read More
Point-of-Care Tests for Anemia
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The presence of anemia, which is the insufficient oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, can be determined by the total hemoglobin concentration. This lab test is the most commonly ordered in hospital... Read More
Plate Washing in 1536: Evaluation of a Double-Column Aspirator Head
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Michelle Batchlett Jason Cassaday Carissa Ohart Kurtis Berry Oleg Kornienko Jim Chang
Plate assays (1536-well) that require washing (i.e., enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays [ELISAs] and cell-based), are not routinely implemented in high-throughput screening laboratories due to the ... Read More
Pittcon® 2011 Goes to the Peach State
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
The 62nd Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon® 2011) heads to the Peach State, so-called for the importance of peaches in Georgia’s agricultural ... Read More
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management Using Semantic Web Technology: Case Study
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Rob Gonzalez
The growing product portfolio of Biogen Idec was resulting in rapid domestic and international expansion, leading to an increasingly complex pharmaceutical supply chain. Read More
Pharmaceutical Dissolution and UV Imaging
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Stephen Wren Jim Lenke
The performance of solid pharmaceutical products is normally assessed using the pharmacopeial in vitro dissolution test. Read More
Pesticide Testing for the Cannabis Industry: The Importance of LC-MS/MS for Obtaining Accurate Results in a Complex Matrix
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
David Egerton Paul C. Winkler Craig Butt April Quinn-Paquet K.C. Hyland Phil Taylor David Monk
High-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has emerged as the method of choice for pesticide analysis because it offers superior selectivity, sensitivity, and ... Read More
Pesticide Analysis in Cannabis: Extracting the Pesticide From the Flower
Monday, April 29, 2019
Michael Steinert
The QuEChERS and SPE methods are the most popular methods for the cleanup phase when analyzing pesticides in cannabis. Read More
Person-Portable GC-MS for Rapid On-Site Environmental Screening of Contaminants in Drinking Water
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Tiffany C. Wirth Jakob B. Later Joseph L. Oliphant Edgar D. Lee Douglas W. Later
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed when chlorine and other disinfectants are used to clean drinking water. At certain concentrations they are considered an environmental pollutant and are carcinogenic.... Read More
Performance-Tested Controlled Atmosphere Glove Boxes
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Bob Applequist
Enhanced particulate containment is an important feature of Protector® Filtered Glove Boxes (Labconco Corp., Kansas City, MO). Read More
Performance Evaluation of an Integrated Analytical HPLC
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Glyn Russell Phuong Truong Lindsay Buck Frankie Button
As a routine analytical tool in the laboratory, there are many important performance requirements such as precision, reproducibility, and sensitivity for an analytical HPLC to achieve satisfactory use... Read More
Pathlength Considerations With ATR Sampling in FTIR
Friday, August 24, 2018
Michael Bradley
Variations in depth of penetration in ATR influence the effective pathlength, especially through the wavelength and refractive index dependencies. Read More
Particulate Analysis of Liquid Filtration Materials and Residues in Food Using FTIR Microscopy
Thursday, June 01, 2017
Michael Bradley Steve Lowry
Two sets of analyses are presented—one involving liquid filtration and the other examining particulate residues in food items—using a simple-to-operate FTIR microscope and attenuated total reflection ... Read More
Particle Characterization: Challenges Associated With Submicrometer-Sized Objects
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Craig S. Schwandt
Materials in the form of particulate or engineered objects are relatively easy to characterize in terms of their composition, shape, size, and size distribution, provided they are larger than 1 µm in... Read More
Overview of Efficient Laboratory Fumehood Exhaust Systems
Friday, January 23, 2009
Paul A. Tetley
A company long associated with research and development and growth through constant evolution, General Electric (GE) opened its first industrial R&D laboratory in the United States in 1900, a small ... Read More
Outsourcing Solution Preparations
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Edwin Neas
“Outsourcing lets companies save critical resources and spend more time on core competencies…they have used outsourcing to grow market value by billions while decreasing their book values." Read More
Optimizing Value With New Lab Technology
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The upcoming year promises to be busy and exciting for early adopters of laboratory technology. Read More
Optimizing the Western Blotting Procedure: Solutions for Faster Western Blots
Monday, July 30, 2012
Catherine Shaffer
Advances in technology make the Western blotting procedure both faster and quantitative. Solutions for faster Western blots include faster transfer equipment and faster reagents. Purchasing a ... Read More
Optimizing the Sensitivity of an Evaporative Light Scattering Detector
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Peter Froehlich Rodolphe Pennanec
The evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD) is a universal, mass-based detector for HPLC, ultraperformance liquid chromatography (UPLC), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and supercritical ... Read More
Optimizing Research Success With Smarter Scientific Informatics
Monday, May 09, 2011
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. Read More