June/July 2013
Volume 45, Number 6
The expanding applications of ion mobility spectrometry for food safety screening are discussed in the June/July issue. Another growing trend in spectrometry, portable and handheld FTIR spectrometers for materials analysis, is featured, as is an article on verification of liquid handler performance.
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Manuel C. Peitsch
The organizers of sbv IMPROVER (Industrial
Methodology for PROcess VErification in
Research) are currently accepting submissions
for the Species Translation Challenge, an
innovative crowd-sourcing...
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Anthony J. Midey, Clinton A. Krueger, Mark A. Osgood, Jianglin Wu, Ching Wu
Food safety detection requirements demand rapid analytical methods in both the laboratory and field. High-performance ion mobility spectrometry (HPIMS) provides the speed and portability of previous ...
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Alan J. Rein, John Seelenbinder
Industrial and academic scientists working in the development and application of engineered materials are increasingly in need of measurement
technologies that can be used closer to the source of the...
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Katriona Scoffin
The clinical chemistry analyzer can be found in a wide variety of venues, from physicians’ offices and other point-of-care settings to commercial, research, and high-throughput hospital laboratories. ...
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Reynhardt Klopper, Eric Fox
For more than 100 years, the USP General Chapter <231> concomitant visual test was the standard method for the determination and quantification of heavy metal impurities present in pharmaceutical products ...
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Elian Winstanley
Recently, while attending my company’s booth at the Pittcon® Laboratory Products Exhibition, a visiting lab manager began a conversation with me by stating: “The whole world is going mobile.”
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Katriona Scoffin
Stereomicroscopes find application in many areas of science, such as pharmaceutical, environmental, forensics, and foods. A common use of the stereomicroscope is to magnify biological samples. This ...
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Rachel Parshley, John Thomas Bradshaw, Karl Olson
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has become one of the most important solvents used for high-throughput screening (HTS) and compound management applications due to its ability to readily dissolve a wide ...
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Josh P. Roberts
The combined techniques of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry provide a powerful tool for which to conduct important analyses. Applications of LC/MS in proteomics and drug metabolite analysis...
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Peter Coffey
To compare vacuum pumps, it is imperative to look at the pumping speed at working vacuum levels. The working vacuum level is the vacuum at which you need to operate your application. Comparing the ...
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