August 2012
Volume 44, Number 7
Safe practices in the food industry are outlined in an interview with a food safety training lab manager, who also discusses risk assessment and preventative approaches to minimize risk of food-related illness. This issue also includes advances in Western blotting using optimized procedures.
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Table of Contents
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Next-generation sequencing technology is capable of sequencing human genomes for $1000/patient in about a week.
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Liang Gao, Zhiyong Wang, Stephen T.C. Wong
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Intrabiopsy and intraoperative cancer detection has been a major challenge for early diagnosis of cancer and accurate determination of surgical margin.
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Varouj Amirkhanian, Eric Tsai
Most laboratories currently
utilize slab-gel electrophoresis
systems for DNA and protein
analysis. However, both
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and agarose slab-gel electrophoresis ...
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Lorie Croston
As a practical alternative to glass, plastic is quickly becoming the material of choice in many laboratories.
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Hanan Davidowitz
Many solutions are available for sample tracking and identification.
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Christian A. Hassig, Layton H. Smith, Michael Jackson
Finding new treatments for human diseases is a challenging, lengthy, and costly endeavor.
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Food safety practices are a major public concern because about one in six Americans endured a food-related illness in 2010.
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Tiffany C. Wirth, Jakob B. Later, Joseph L. Oliphant, Edgar D. Lee, Douglas W. Later
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed when chlorine and other disinfectants are used to clean drinking water. At certain concentrations they are considered an environmental pollutant and are carcinogenic....
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Catherine Shaffer
Advances in technology make the Western blotting procedure both faster and quantitative. Solutions for faster Western blots include faster transfer equipment and faster reagents. Purchasing a ...
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Emily S. Tozzi
Chemistry and life science laboratories utilize lab vacuum pumps for applications such as providing suction to drive the aspiration or filtration of liquid or suspended samples, and inducing or ...
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Caitlin Smith
This article explains the concept of laminar flow hoods, which include laminar flow clean benches and biosafety, or biological safety, cabinets. The prospective purchaser of a laminar flow hood will ...
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Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
Mass spectrometry is a fundamental technique used by chemists and life science researchers for determining
unknown samples across various research areas, such as environmental analysis, toxicology ...
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T. Keith Brock
Laboratory gas generators are a safer, more convenient, and more economical means of generating gases in the laboratory, and as such are a good alternative to cylinder-based gas sourcing. Because of ...
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