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General Laboratory Equipment: Innovation Showcase
Monday, May 09, 2011
Technical Article
Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
Each year, manufacturers and distributors flesh out many innovations for the laboratory, ranging from simple accessories to large, more complex instrumentation. 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
Microscopy in 2011: The Imaging Suite is the Microscope
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Application Note
Scott Jordan
In the 1980s, Sun Microsystems coined the trademark “The Network is the Computer” to herald the days of distributed computing. read more
Benefits of an Integrated Laboratory (iLAB)
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Application Note
Robert Pavlis
An iLAB, or integrated laboratory, is a new type of laboratory informatics system—a total laboratory automation system. The value of an iLAB can best be appreciated by exploring four key problems with... read more