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Book Review: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
I’ve been concerned about the practice of next-generation sequencing (NGS), especially about what information is generated and how it will be used. ... Read More
America Needs Laboratory-Developed Tests (LDTs)
Friday, August 08, 2014
On July 31, 2014, the FDA notified Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, of the FDA’s plan to ... Read More
Book Review: The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
The advent of low-priced fuels in the U.S.A. qualifies as a major disruptive change in the American economy. The reshoring of the petrochemical ... Read More
Book Review: Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Innovation is a unique human trait. Science is also. Roberta Ness, M.D., MPH, addresses these interrelated topics in a book that starts with a guide ... Read More
American Laboratory Puts the Focus on Application
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Our goal at American Laboratory is to help you, the lab professional, discover and adopt the latest technological applications that best fit your ... Read More
Book Review: The Future of the Mind
Monday, July 14, 2014
On April 2, 2014, President Obama announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, with projected ... Read More
Labor Pains: After 5-Year Gestation, Birth of the Forensic Science Standards Board (FSSB)
Thursday, July 10, 2014
It’s been five years since the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued the scathing report on forensic science1 in the U.S.A. In the meantime, ... Read More
DNA is Too Sensitive to be Infallible
Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Recently my local paper ran the article, “A Major Shake-Up for Legal Landscape,” reporting on the unintentional transfer of DNA evidence to a crime ... Read More
Book Review: Aggregation of Therapeutic Proteins
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
As an editor for American Laboratory, I responded to our subscribers for help in detecting and controlling aggregation of therapeutic proteins. On the... Read More
Robert Stevenson Honored by CASSS
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
In recognition of his many years of volunteer service to CASSS, Robert Stevenson, Ph.D., Editor of American Laboratory, was named a Fellow of the ... Read More
Book Review: The Physics of the Future
Thursday, May 22, 2014
During the last year, I’ve been attracted to books describing paradigm shifts enabled by today’s new technology, particularly big data and IT—hence my... Read More
Making Your Lab a Greener Place
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Life science research labs can be energy- and resource-intensive places, with the annual cost of running a lab estimated to be around four times that ... Read More
2014 Edition of the Liquid Chromatography Troubleshooting Bible
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
High-performance liquid chromatography is a complicated technology where many things can, and frequently do, go wrong. Read More
Book Review: The Decoded Company
Friday, March 28, 2014
I just finished reading The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers, which explores several different balls in a complex... Read More
The 7 Most Talked About Pharmaceutical Recalls in American History
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Drug recalls occur when a medicine is pulled out from the market because it has been found to be either faulty or potentially hazardous to health. ... Read More