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LABTips: Zebrafish Breeding and Embryo Handling

Monday, November 15, 2021

Methods and advice for working with this valuable model organism, from breeding to microinjection and imaging read more

LABTips: RNA Extraction and Purification for COVID-19 Testing

Monday, July 19, 2021

Viral RNA extraction is more than a routine task — this process can impact the success of downstream analysis read more

LABTips: Purifying His-tagged Proteins with IMAC

Friday, February 11, 2022

Strategies for optimizing protein yield and purity from sample preparation to elution read more

LABTips: Preventing Cell Line Misidentification

Friday, March 17, 2023

Did you know?: As many as one-third of cell lines may be misidentified or contaminated. Follow these steps to help ... read more

LABTips: Preparing Tissue Samples for Histology

Friday, August 19, 2022

From fixation to sectioning and everything in between, there are many opportunities to optimize histology preparation ... read more

LABTips: Overcoming Food Microbial Testing Challenges

Friday, July 15, 2022

Food matrices often contain interfering components that can result in false positive or false negative results if not ... read more

LABTips: Life Science Sample Prep

Friday, August 13, 2021

Try these methods to prevent bottlenecks and errors in sample prep for PCR, NGS, forensic testing and more read more

LABTips: How to Select a Tissue Clearing Method

Friday, September 16, 2022

Organic solvent, aqueous and hydrogel embedding-based methods each have their own advantages and disadvantages to ... read more

Laboratory Planning and Operations Recommendations in a Pandemic Environment

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Scott Kreitlein

Laboratory planning and operating practices for safely reopening clinical and research laboratories (they differ) entail... read more

Lab Digitalization: Delivering Efficiency and Traceability

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Jean-Charles Wirth

Despite the abundance of digital tools on the market, the life science laboratory trails behind in solutions for digital... read more

Keeping Drinking Water Safe: Precise, Reliable Determination of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Using Advanced Technology

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Chris Shevlin

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are prevalent in aqueous environments and known to be potentially ... read more

It’s Time to Embrace Whole Genome Sequencing

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

There are approximately 7000 rare diseases that are known, and according to the Rare Disease Day Organization, they ... read more

Interview With Professor Emeritus Barry L. Karger

Friday, September 28, 2018

Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

Professor Barry Karger discusses his 55+ years in the field of separation science. read more

Interview With Amay Bandodkar, 2016 Metrohm Young Chemist Award Winner

Friday, May 13, 2016

Mr. Amay Bandodkar, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Professor Joseph Wang at the University of California in San ... read more

Integrated SEM Workflow Creates Powerful 'Nano-lab'

Monday, July 19, 2021

Combining tabletop SEM with built-in EDS, 3D analysis and automated sample prep can allow for more streamlined and ... read more

Innovative Non-Invasive Technology Supports Liver Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring at Point-of-Care

Friday, May 15, 2020

Jon Gingrich

Clinical laboratories can support health care providers as the front-line of defense against asymptomatic liver diseases... read more

Innovative GC Technology is Key to Agilent’s Success: Interview With Agilent President and CEO, Mike McMullen

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

In celebration of American Laboratory’s 50th anniversary as well as Agilent’s 50 years in the analytical sector, I had ... read more

Infectious Diseases Detection Platform: COVID-19

Friday, May 15, 2020

Varouj Amirkhanian Eric Tsai Neo Yang Jerry Liu Meya Kuo

The COVID-19 Pandemic has forced an aggressive global testing strategy. Most of the standard viral detection methods ... read more

Increasing Throughput for Cloning and PCR Workflows with Ultrafiltration Tools

Friday, November 05, 2021

Ultrafiltration can enable rapid subcloning with smaller initial DNA quantities and help circumvent obstacles frequently... read more

How We Can Prevent “Unknown Unknowns”

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Sridhar Iyengar

Half of life science research and development fails, costing $28 billion or half the cost of pre-clinical research that ... read more

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