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Answer to What is This on the Cover of American Laboratory September
Sunday, September 30, 2012
The September cover of American Laboratory depicts soap film, specifically a soap solution of dish soap, glycerine, sugar, and water. The solution was... Read More
Are Blood Alcohols Reliable?
Monday, September 24, 2012
Recently, I was contacted by an attorney seeking an expert witness for assay of blood ethanol by headspace sampling using gas chromatography with a ... Read More
Guess the Cover of American Laboratory—September 2012
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Correctly identify this month’s cover image and be entered to win a $10 Amazon gift card (one entry per person; you must be 18 years of age to be ... Read More
Answer to What is This on the Cover of American Laboratory August
Friday, August 31, 2012
The image on the cover of the August issue of American Laboratory showed a thin section of granite pegmatite. Pegmatite is an igneous rock composed of... Read More
Next Gen Sequencing: Trends and Survey
Monday, August 20, 2012
Next gen sequencing (NGS) has substantially evolved since its earliest developments back in the early 1970s. Frederick Sanger discovered and coined ... Read More
Five Ways to Demystify Light Scattering
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
More and more scientists are realizing that characterizing polymers and biopolymers (and particles, too!) with a multiangle light scattering ... Read More
How to Save Water and Money in Your Lab
Friday, August 10, 2012
With drought ravaging nearly two-thirds of the country, there may be a small device in your lab that is wasting a lot of water—the water-jet vacuum ... Read More
Guess the Cover of American Laboratory—August 2012
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Correctly identify this month’s cover image and be entered to win a $10 Amazon gift card (one entry per person; you must be 18 years of age to be ... Read More
Quality Control to the Power of X: The New Era of Scanning Electron Microscopes
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The first Industrial Revolution ended more than a century ago. However, there’s been another revolution of sorts in the last five years, specifically ... Read More
Answer to What is This on the Cover of American Laboratory June/July
Monday, July 30, 2012
The image on the cover of American Laboratory’s June/July issue showed “Star Sand,” or Foraminifera, from Okinawa, Japan. Read More
8 Practical iPad Apps for the Life Science Researcher
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
The adoption of mobile tablets for the laboratory has resulted in an emergence of handy applications that have been created to support the laboratory ... Read More
Guess the Cover of American Laboratory June/July 2012 and win a $10 Amazon gift card
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Identify this month’s cover image and be entered to win a $10 Amazon gift card (no purchase necessary; one entry per person; you must be 18 years of ... Read More
Answer to What is This on the Cover of American Laboratory May
Thursday, May 31, 2012
The image on the cover of American Laboratory May showed a Sarcoptes scabiei, the cause of a skin infection in humans known as scabies. Read More
Guess the Cover of American Laboratory—May 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
The image on the cover of the May issue of American Laboratory was provided by Dr. Fred E. Hossler, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anatomy & Cell ... Read More
Answer to What is This on the Cover of American Laboratory April
Sunday, April 29, 2012
The cover image of the American Laboratory April issue was DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane). Read More