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Sample Prep for LC, GC, and SFC at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
At Pittcon® 2013, sample prep stood out as a major focus, perhaps because of the few advances in chromatography instrumentation. In addition, some sample preparation is spilling over into other ... read more
Automated On-Line Extraction and Analysis of Dried Blood Spot Cards
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Application Note
Lester Taylor Na Pi Parra Doug McIntyre
The use of dried blood spot cards for screening neonates for metabolic and genetic disorders was conceived and proposed almost 50 years ago. Since then, newborns in many countries have had their ... read more
Food Safety Testing and New Technologies
Friday, February 03, 2012
Application Note
Mukta M. Shukla
Just as Alexander Fleming’s groundbreaking discoveries on penicillin ushered in a new era of antibacterial agents to extend human lifespans, it was the work of Louis Pasteur that helped introduce the ... read more
High-Content Analysis Comes Full Circle in Only Eight Years
Monday, April 18, 2011
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
In eight short years, high-content analysis (HCA) has circled back to its roots, where many practitioners are again using personal instruments. read more
Providing Purge Gas for FTIR Systems
Monday, April 18, 2011
Technical Article
Peter Froehlich Kim Myers
While a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer provides a number of benefits relative to a scanning IR spectrophotometer,a significant disadvantage of an FTIR system is that the presence ... read more
Automatable Processes and Future Directions in Dried Blood Spot Analysis
Friday, October 01, 2010
Technical Article
Chester Bowen
The application of dried blood spots (DBS) for the storage, shipment, and quantification of xenobiotics has been gaining popularity in recent years. The invention of this technology can be attributed ... read more