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Equipping Researchers in the Developing World

Friday, April 08, 2016

Having shipped 87 tons of scientific equipment to 35 institutions based in 24 countries in the developing world since 2003, the nonprofit organization... Read More

Link Connects Instruments with Cloud, Centralizes Remote Control, Monitoring and Data Storage

Monday, April 04, 2016

The TetraScience Link (TetraScience Inc., Boston, Mass.; www.tetrascience.com) is a small Wi-Fi and ethernet-enabled hardware module that connects ... Read More

Not a Drop

Friday, February 05, 2016

Whatever details emerge from ongoing investigations of the water quality crisis in Flint, Michigan, and count the FBI among the agencies reviewing ... Read More

Aye, Robot

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

At the annual SLAS meeting (January 23–27, San Diego, Calif.)—the “main event” of the year in automation, if you will—American Laboratory spoke with ... Read More

Beijing Coughs, Paris Talks

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Headlines today, November 30th: Beijing is experiencing its worst air pollution of the year. Read More

Good Planets are Hard to Find*

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Please sit down. Are you sitting? Okay, question: How fast are you going? Answer: About 66,000 miles an hour. Read More

Exxon’s Climate Research: Disinformation and Denial

Thursday, November 19, 2015

It’s clear from the New York Times op-ed of Oct. 9, 2015 (“Exxon’s Climate Concealment,” Naomi Oreskes) that the oil behemoth Exxon engaged in a ... Read More

The Deeper You Dig, The More You Find

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

”The deeper you dig, the more you find” is frequently heard in proteomics, particularly at Proteins Powering NexGen Healthcare—Revolutionizing ... Read More

Pfizer’s Inversion Initiative Imperils Lab Jobs

Monday, November 02, 2015

Scientists, especially those employed by Pfizer in North America, need to be aware that their company’s proposed inversion (relocation of corporate ... Read More

Should We Trust Computer-Aided Weapons Modeling?

Friday, October 30, 2015

Rational drug design relies on creating 3-D models of drug candidates and receptor active sites. Read More

The Past, Present and Future of Gene Therapy

Thursday, October 01, 2015

Gene therapy to correct disease has intuitive appeal—if a disease is caused by a genetic defect, then repairing the gene should correct it. Read More

Cool it: Review of National Geographic’s Climate Change Issue

Friday, September 25, 2015

The cover of the November 2015 issue of National Geographic has a satellite image of the Eastern hemisphere (Africa to Asia), over which is printed ... Read More