Laboratory Conferences - Materials Science Events

How Many People Does it Take to Pipet a 384-Well Plate?
Chemical, biochemical, analytical, molecular biology, research laboratories, and so on all use pipetting, one of the oldest and most basic techniques in the lab. read more
Facilitating Scientific Information Accessibility with a Next-Generation Search Solution
Information access is central to the success of a science-driven organization. Implementing laboratory informatics solutions that provide timely, regular, and accurate search results can have ... read more
Five Secrets to a Hazard-Free Laboratory
Whether industrial or academic, laboratories all over the world have many aspects and features in common, one of which is the type of accidents that their equipment and personnel encounter. Below are ... read more
Volume 45, Number 7
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Nano Sensors Measure the Wall
Continuous real-time monitoring of critical bioprocesses has intuitive appeal as an improvement over discrete sampling. I was impressed with a paper reporting the development of tattoo electrochemical... read more
A Simple Chip for Circulating Tumor Cells
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is a high interest topic. Several methods have been proposed for capturing CTCs, including field flow fractionation and high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE)... read more
The Role of Synthetic DNA in Big DNA and Genetics Research
Synthetic biology is defined as the de novo design and construction of biological devices and systems, and as such is heavily reliant on the use of synthetic DNA. The size and sequence of potential ... read more
Product Intelligence: UHPLC: Pushing the Limits of HPLC
Ultra high-performance liquid chromatography, or UHPLC, is faster and provides higher resolution compared to conventional HPLC. This article discusses UHPLC operation, from sample through detection, ... read more
Product Intelligence: Viscometers: The Science of Measuring Fluid Flow
Viscometers find application in the food and beverage, materials science, and chemicals industries, among others. The applications and uses of viscometers are many and varied. This article aims to ... read more
Innovation Thrives at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2013
When J.J. Thomson, the father of mass spectrometry, published his seminal book, Rays of Positive Electricity, 100 years ago, he could not have imagined the vast array of applications that would be ... read more
Crossing the Chasm of Death for Biomarkers
Biomarkers, or biological markers, have intuitive appeal, since chemists and biochemists are trained to relate activity to molecular structure and metabolism. I attend over 20 scientific meetings per ... read more
Translational Medicine and the ’Omics Electronic Lab Notebooks
Translational medicine research (TransMed) is a new environment in which groups of stakeholders come together to review increasingly complex data with the goals of improving outcomes, getting more ... read more
Determination of Total Mercury Content and Trace Metal Analysis in Wood Materials—Part 1: ICP-OES Using Mercury Cold Vapor
The transition metal mercury has many exciting properties; for example, it is the only known metal that is liquid at room temperature, hence its use in thermometers. Other common applications are in ... read more
New Drug Development Tools (DDT): Connecting the Dots Between Biomarker Discovery and Improved Patient Outcomes
For at least two decades, biological markers, or biomarkers, have been promoted as key advances in scientific discovery that provide a measure of biological function. Researchers and, indeed, the ... read more
High-Resolution Separation of Nucleic Acid Fragments
The invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the early 1980s revolutionized molecular biology and molecular medicine. Since then, PCR has developed into a widely used technique for ... read more