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High-Content Analysis Comes Full Circle in Only Eight Years
Monday, April 18, 2011
In eight short years, high-content analysis (HCA) has circled back to its roots, where many practitioners are again using personal instruments. Read More
Label-Free Screening of Drug–Protein Interactions by Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Monday, April 18, 2011
Screening for the interaction of small molecules with proteins is usually carried out by indirect methods by means of artificial labels or reporter ... Read More
Providing Purge Gas for FTIR Systems
Monday, April 18, 2011
While a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer provides a number of benefits relative to a scanning IR spectrophotometer,a significant ... Read More
UHPLC’s Seven Year Itch: Quo Vadis?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
At Pittcon in 2004, Waters (Milford, MA) introduced the ACQUITY UPLC chromatograph with a 15,000-psi Pmax, and the rest of the LC world had to play an... Read More
Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy for Determinations of Carbonate in Soils—What is Important?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The carbon pool in soils consists of both organic and inorganic carbon. Read More
$Use of X-ray Diffraction Analysis to Determine the Orientation of Single-Crystal Materials$
Use of X-ray Diffraction Analysis to Determine the Orientation of Single-Crystal Materials
Friday, April 08, 2011
Single crystals exhibit different properties, depending on the material and their orientation. Read More
Expediting the Discovery Process With an SEM Work Flow Solution for Life Sciences
Friday, April 08, 2011
Most cellular structures and organelles involved in physiologically important processes are too small to be resolved by optical microscopes. Read More
Chromatographic Characterization of a Highly Retentive Stationary Phase
Friday, April 08, 2011
When developing a new method, one of the most important goals for the chromatographer is to achieve a consistent, reproducible separation. Read More
A High-Precision Calibration Method for Spectrometers
Friday, April 08, 2011
Spectrometer calibration accuracy is of critical importance for many optical characterization techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and interferometry... Read More
Highlights From LabAutomation 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
Automating the laboratory is driven by the desire to reduce costs and improve consistency in results by substituting mechanization for labor. Read More
Climbing the Informatics Mountain—It’s Not a Bubble: Highlights From the 2011 Tri-Conference
Friday, April 08, 2011
With each year, Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s (CHI) Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference continues to expand. Read More
Microscopy in 2011: The Imaging Suite is the Microscope
Thursday, April 07, 2011
In the 1980s, Sun Microsystems coined the trademark “The Network is the Computer” to herald the days of distributed computing. Read More
Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 42—Pass-Fail Methods
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
In the past articles, the discussions about methods have always dealt with procedures that estimate sample concentrations over a range of levels. Read More
Effective UPLC Implementation
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
As the science of HPLC has evolved over the years, we have witnessed many changes to HPLC chemistry and instrumentation. Read More
Production of Recombinant Proteins and Monoclonal Antibodies in Hollow-Fiber Bioreactors
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
The production of secreted products from mammalian cells such as recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies is generally performed in the ... Read More