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  • Single-Cell RNA Detection to Identify Cell Subpopulations in Heterogeneous Mixtures

    Tuesday, March 25, 2014
    Application Note
    Don Weldon Victor Koong Alex Ko Yuko Williams Laura White
    Traditional RNA detection methods, which analyze RNA levels in lysed, permeabilized, or fixed cell samples, make it challenging to understand the role of one gene in the context of a tissue, organ, or... read more

  • Detection of siRNA-Mediated Gene Modulation Using RNA Detection Probes

    Monday, May 20, 2013
    Application Note
    Don Weldon Grace Johnston
    To study the function of genes and biological pathways, researchers often use techniques such as RNA interference (RNAi) to modify gene expression. In RNAi experiments, it is important to determine ... read more

  • Awarding Innovation: The Pittcon® 2013 Editors’ Awards

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Marian Nardozzi
    Pittcon® offers many different award ceremonies for outstanding scientific achievement to members of the scientific community; however, there is only one award for innovations in instrumentation. The... read more

  • Microscopy + Spectroscopy: Pittcon® 2013 Celebrates the Power of Two

    Thursday, March 07, 2013
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    The year 2013 celebrates a new benchmark for imaging at Pittcon®. Historically, Pittcon has not been considered an imaging meeting, despite the fact that a review of Pittcon 2012 statistics revealed ... read more

  • Product Showcase: Blood Gas Analyzers

    Wednesday, March 06, 2013
    Technical Article
    Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
    Blood gas analysis, more specifically referred to as arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis, is a standard clinical diagnostic test that measures a patient’s blood gases; oxygen and carbon dioxide blood ... 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

  • 2012 Light Scattering Colloquium: Advances in Nanotechnology, Protein Structures, and Biomedical ...

    Wednesday, November 28, 2012
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Light scattering provides the most effective technology to characterize large molecules and subvisible particles. read more

  • New Products at Pittcon® 2011

    Thursday, March 10, 2011
    Application Note
    Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
    The following includes some of the latest advances in laboratory instrumentation debuting at Pittcon® 2011. read more

  • Image-Based Cell Analysis in Microplates

    Friday, January 23, 2009
    Application Note
    Valerie Vincent
    Robert Hooke, a pioneer of microscope illumination techniques, looked through his compound microscope in 1665 and made the first image-based analysis of cells. read more

  • Multicapillary Columns for Chromatography

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Yuri P. Belov Marina M. Ulyanova Vladimir N. Sidelnikov
    The principles and theory of high-speed capillary chromatography have been known since the 1960s. To realize the maximum speed capabilities, it is necessary to use capillaries with a diameter of ... read more

  • Rapid Testing of Toxic Chemicals

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Nathalie Boucher Lucie Lorrain Marie-Eve Rouette Elisabeth Perron Nancy Déziel Louis Tessier François Bellemare
    The measurement of chlorophyll fluorescent signals from photosynthetic enzyme complexes (PEC) has becomeone of the most powerful indicators for ecophysiologists. read more

  • Miniaturized FTIR for Maximized Productivity

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Ken Fredeen John S. Seelenbinder Mark L. Norman
    In today’s fast-paced business environment, many companies are under pressure to improve their productivity. This is especially true in the pharmaceutical industry, where reducing time-to-market ... read more

  • LC-MS With Simultaneous Electrospray and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Wayne P. Duncan Patrick D. Perkins
    Today, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (LC-ESI-MS) is increasingly being used as the technique of choice for high-throughput pharmaceutical analysis. read more
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