Laboratory Conferences - Events | American Laboratory

Hungry?

Each year, 48 million Americans suffer from a foodborne illness. Of that number, 120,000 will require hospitalization and 3000 will die, according to 2011 estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease ... read more
Highlights of SLAS 2015

SLAS 2015 was the fourth annual meeting of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening. SLAS reflects a merger of the Society for Laboratory Automation with the Society for Biological ... read more
Carbon Capture at Half the Cost

UC Berkeley chemists (www.berkeley.edu/) have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily ... read more
Silk: New “Green” Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries

A material derived from silk can boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries, according to scientists reporting in the journal ACS Nano. read more
Tilting Trees Produce Better Biofuels

Researchers at Imperial College London (www.ic.ac.uk) used medical imaging techniques to explore why making willow trees grow at an angle can vastly improve their biofuel yields. Using micro-CT scans,... read more
Optimizing Biofuels Production

The popularity of biofuels has grown as petrochemical organizations seek to develop long-term production from sustainable resources. As a result, joint ventures and collaborations are becoming more ... read more
Importance of Laboratory Compliance

Before analytical results can be generated, a laboratory requires a suitable calibrated instrument, a trained analyst, an approved/validated method, appropriate reference materials, a standard ... read more
Evaluation of an Automated Solid-Phase Extraction Method Using Positive Pressure

Investigations for the determination of drugs in real samples, while gaining in importance, are limited by time and sample throughput. In response to this, the authors developed an automated solid-... read more
Stimulating Brain Tissue to Treat Neurological Disease

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; http://web.mit.edu) have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles. The... read more
Frozen Highly Charged Ions for Highest-Precision Spectroscopy

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (MPIK), the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig (PTB; www.ptb.de) and the University of Aarhus ... read more
Molecule-Making Machine Simplifies Chemistry

A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry what 3-D printing did for engineering: Make it fast, flexible and accessible to anyone. Chemists at the University of Illinois (http://illinois.... read more
Super-Resolution Microscopes Reveal Genome Packaging/Cell Pluripotency Link

For the first time, a group of scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG; http://www.crg.eu/) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO; http://www.icfo.eu) in Barcelona have been able ... read more
New Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) – Multiple Instruments, Many Applications

Two instruments, nine configurations, multiple modules and gel capillary cartridges to meet your needs for capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE), capillary ... read more
Detecting Trace-Level Pyrethroid Insecticides in Sewage and Ocean Sediments With GC-MS/MS

As the use of pyrethroid insecticides continues to increase in the United States, it is becoming increasingly important to monitor levels of the compounds in environmental waters, river and ocean ... read more
Simplified Bioanalytical Sample Preparation

The complexity of biological samples can pose challenges to downstream analysis in the pharmaceutical industry. Bioanalytical and drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK) groups often work with ... read more