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Minimizing Liquid Delivery Risk: Automated Liquid Handlers as Sources of Error
Friday, June 01, 2007
This is the second in a series of articles entitled, “Minimizing Liquid Delivery Risk,” addressing the most common causes of liquid delivery error and... Read More
Using Dynamic Light Scattering to Improve Protein Solution Behavior for Crystallization
Friday, June 01, 2007
Improving protein solution behavior is critical in the field of structural biology since it impacts protein crystallization and the ability to ... Read More
Acidic Digestion of Soils to Determine Mercury Concentration
Friday, June 01, 2007
Soils are notoriously heterogeneous and difficult to analyze. The authors developed a digestion method to extract mercury from clay soils using ... Read More
Establishing a Microbial Control Strategy for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Friday, June 01, 2007
In the pharmaceutical industry, defining the control strategy for a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is a main goal during development of ... Read More
Centrifuge Rotor Selection and Maintenance
Friday, June 01, 2007
Laboratory centrifuges are common, everyday instruments. Yet selecting the proper centrifuge and rotor system for a specific application can sometimes... Read More
Statistics in Analytical Chemistry: Part 26—Detection Limits: Editorial Comments and Introduction
Friday, June 01, 2007
We believe that detection limits (DLs) should go away. Read More
Use of Dual-Selectivity IC-ESI-MS for the Separation and Detection of Anionic and Cationic Arsenic Species
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
There are times when an analytical challenge demands a solution that reaches beyond standard methodologies. Read More
New Technologies in Human Genetic Analysis
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Human genetics has benefited in the last decade from spectacular technological advances in DNA analysis. Read More
A Nanoparticle Spectrofluorometer With Upgraded Performance Features
Sunday, April 01, 2007
A spectrofluorometer has been specially optimized for recording near-IR fluorescence from nanoparticles, and offers a number of improvements over ... Read More
Fused Core Particles for HPLC Columns
Sunday, April 01, 2007
In recent years, there has been a strong movement toward the use of HPLC columns with smaller particles. Read More
Rapid, Quantitative Analysis of Multiple Mycotoxins by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Sunday, April 01, 2007
The classical example of detrimental effects caused by bacteria, such as E. coli or Bacillus Anthracis, is through invasion of the host. Read More
AFM/Raman Opens New Horizons for Research and Industrial Characterization
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Atomic force microscopy (AFM)/Raman is the latest trend in hybrid imaging/chemical analysis instrumentation. Read More
Improving Refinery Laboratory Productivity 20% While Increasing Accuracy With LIMS
Thursday, March 01, 2007
In process manufacturing, a laboratory information management system (LIMS) implementation will deliver exceptional value if it eliminates redundant ... Read More
Multistep Thermal Characterization of Polymers Using GC-MS
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Analytical pyrolysis has been used for decades in the analysis of polymeric materials with techniques not typically compatible with polymers, such ... Read More
A Charged Aerosol Detector That Reduces Vaccine Development Time
Thursday, March 01, 2007
The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI, Seattle, WA) is a not-for-profit corporation that has developed the first defined vaccine for ... Read More