Nov/Dec 2015
Volume 47, Number 9
A state-of-the-art optical tweezer system combines innovative detection, calibration, beam positioning and data handling features in a compact device. Another article concludes that freshly prepared ultrapure water with consistently low TOC levels can be used reliably to prepare HPLC mobile phases.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Steve Ernst
Please sit down. Are you sitting? Okay, question: How fast are you going? Answer: About 66,000 miles an hour.
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Torsten Jähnke, Philipp Rauch
With accuracy down to single piconewtons, optical
traps measure forces exerted on microscopic objects without mechanically touching them.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Jeff Head, John Kinyunjui, Mark Talbott, Robert Clifford
UV/VIS spectrophotometry is a valuable tool for measuring the properties of liquids and solids.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Magnus Jansson
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing concern, and with good reason—an estimated 23,000 deaths and two million illnesses occur annually in the U.S.
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Friday, November 13, 2015
Mike May
A variety of new products offer solutions to keep cells or tissues on a microscope slides.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Joshua Fenrich
Seeking to identify the biochemical triggers that commit stem cells to distinct fates, researchers at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto assessed the culture...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Mike May
Many researchers use serum-free culture media to alleviate some of the problems encountered with traditional media.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
April DeAtley, Limian Zhao, Derick Lucas
Interference from lipids is a common problem for laboratories measuring trace residues in fatty foods or complex biological matrices: their presence in a sample can cause significant matrix ...
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Friday, November 20, 2015
Andrew Birnie
Next-generation sequencing (NGS), one of the most significant technological advances in the the last 30 years, allows millions of DNA strands to be sequenced in parallel.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Science-driven decisions depend on data, both structured (in tables) and from notes (natural language).
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Cecile Villemant, Grant Cameron, Jenny Schroeder
The study of cells in two-dimensional (2-D) culture systems, usually in a well plate or in a flask, has contributed to the understanding of many biological processes.
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