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  • Integrating Microscopy Into the Analytical Scheme: A Pittcon® 2014 Microscopy Review

    Monday, February 24, 2014
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    Microscopy is often overlooked at Pittcon®, yet of the 12,000+ scientists who attend, approximately 30% use microscopy in some form (according to ongoing research from The Microscopy & Imaging Place, ... read more

  • Product Intelligence: Buyers' Guide to Biological Confocal Microscopes

    Thursday, May 24, 2012
    Technical Article
    T. Keith Brock
    Confocal microscopes offer the user a number of important advantages, including high resolution, ability to electronically adjust magnification, and improved signal-to-noise ratios. In addition, the ... read more

  • Light-Emitting Diodes: A New Solution for Fluorescence

    Saturday, October 01, 2011
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    From the dramatic increase in new fluorophores to the proliferation of techniques like total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF), photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), and stochastic... 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

  • 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

  • New Solutions for Surface Texture Analysis

    Monday, November 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    Most microscopists are familiar with confocal microscopy from neuroscience or cell biology. However, very quietly and abruptly, confocal has jumped the fence into industry, becoming a major tool-of-... read more

  • Tips to Prevent Streaking on 2-D Gels

    Tuesday, November 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Tom Berkelman Mary Grace Brubacher Haiyin Chang Tim Cross William Strong
    The most common problem encountered with 2-D gels is protein streaking, whether in the horizontal or vertical direction. read more

  • An Automated Alternative to SDS-PAGE for Protein Analysis

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Sang Jeong Sherri Biondi Jim Mikkelsen Bahram Fathollahi Adrian Winoto Michael Spaid Andrea Chow
    Now that the Human Genome Project is finished, the next important phase is understanding the expression and function of proteins. read more
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