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  • High-Throughput Drug Screening of Multicellular Tumor Spheroids

    Tuesday, September 27, 2016
    Application Note
    Ana Maria P. Pardo Hannah J. Gitschier David H. Randle Terry Riss
    Three-dimensional (3-D) culture models are increasingly being used for drug discovery in oncology, as they better represent the complexity of the in vivo microenvironment of solid tumors. read more

  • New Products for Gas Chromatography at Pittcon® 2014

    Tuesday, May 06, 2014
    Application Note
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Pittcon® is changing rapidly. After decades where separation science including GC/MS and LC/MS dominated the meeting, a report by Dr. Matt Wilkinson in this issue demonstrates that optical ... read more

  • Sample Processing at Pittcon® 2014

    Tuesday, May 06, 2014
    Application Note
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The tenfold increase in speed for the analytics (GC, HPLC, and SFC [supercritical fluid chromatography], all with MS) over the last decade has shifted the choke point in many workflows from analytics ... read more

  • The Scales of Scientific Justice in Translational Science: Data Reproducibility and Verifiable ...

    Tuesday, March 04, 2014
    Application Note
    Tristan Berto
    The traditional “scales of justice” represent truth and fairness. For the scientific community, the balance is between big data (terabytes of data across numerous databases) on one scale and ... read more

  • Pittcon 2013®: Developments in Liquid Chromatography

    Monday, May 13, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The first commercial liquid chromatograph was probably an amino acid analyzer. These ion exchange chromatographs were so specialized that they had almost no impact on chemical analysis outside of ... read more

  • Automated Cell Staining in Drug Discovery

    Tuesday, April 09, 2013
    Application Note
    Amy Yoder Li Liu
    Cell and molecular biology become more integral pieces of the modern drug discovery process on a seemingly daily basis. Monitoring the interaction of cells and internal cellular activity provides ... read more

  • Automated Assays and More at SLAS 2013 and HCA 2013

    Wednesday, February 06, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The second annual meeting of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS 2013), held January 12–16, attracted 3800 scientists and engineers to the Gaylord Hotel in Orlando, FL for an ... read more

  • Focus on Separation Science at Pittcon® 2012: Advances in Gas Chromatography

    Monday, May 07, 2012
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    For gas chromatography (GC), the big news at Pittcon® 2012 was the absence of Agilent and PerkinElmer. This was a consequence of an overall downsizing caused by the “six-year effect” where the cycles ... read more

  • Separation Science Highlights From Pittcon® 2011

    Tuesday, May 10, 2011
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    At Pittcon® 2011, most new products appeared to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. read more

  • Automated ELISA Liquid Handling With a Combination Microplate Washer Dispenser

    Friday, April 17, 2009
    Application Note
    Paul Held Jason Greene
    Many biochemical assays involve the addition of different reagent fluids interrupted by delays or incubations to allow for a reaction to occur. read more

  • Increased Throughput in Method 8270 Analysis

    Monday, January 01, 2007
    Application Note
    William D. Goodman Frank DeLorenzo
    Method 8270 is a GC-MS method created by the U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste for the analysis of semivolatile organics by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. read more

  • Automated Chemical Ionization in GC-MS

    Monday, January 01, 2007
    Application Note
    Chris Sandy Jean-Francois Garnier Bernhard Rothweiler Fred Feyerherm Sihem Ben Mahmoud Harry F. Prest
    Gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection using chemical ionization (CI) has demonstrated great utility in a wide variety of application areas ranging from forensics to environmental to ... read more

  • Fast Gravimetric Testing of Multichannel Pipets

    Monday, May 02, 2005
    Application Note
    Karl Heinz Lochner
    Piston pipets with air cushions have long been the standard equipment in many laboratories, especially in medical research and the life sciences for the transfer of liquids in the microliter range. read more
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