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Electronic Pipetting: The Call for Innovation
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Application Note
Paula Heimler
Take a close look around most laboratories and you will find an old, barely used fixture. No one knows who ordered it or who it belongs to. It is yellowed, dusty, and top heavy, with a small keyboard ... read more
Bioassays and Bioanalytical Method Development 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Biotherapeutics are generally large molecules with a heterogeneous complex structure that is directly related to their ability to modulate biological reactions. This precludes defining a meaningful ... read more
Innovation Thrives at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2013
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Technical Article
Paul O Danis
When J.J. Thomson, the father of mass spectrometry, published his seminal book, Rays of Positive Electricity, 100 years ago, he could not have imagined the vast array of applications that would be ... read more
Fast, Efficient Antibody Biotinylation for Cleaner Immunodetection Assays
Friday, June 07, 2013
Application Note
Amedeo Cappione Masaharu Mabuchi David Briggs Timothy Nadler
Many protein detection methods, including Western blotting, flow cytometry, ELISA, and immunohistochemistry, require the use of target-specific probes, such as antibodies, that are detected via two-... read more
Advances in Mass Spectrometry at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Brian Musselman
This has been a busy year for mass spectrometry companies and with the Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry occurring last fall. This year at Pittcon®, several new high-end mass ... read more
Putting the “More” in Morphology: Part 1
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Technical Article
Barbara Foster
Segmentation, the ability to define the unique features in a region of interest, has always been the greatest challenge in image analysis and quantitation. A new suite of tools, available from ... read more
An Ultrasensitive Immunoassay Detection System for Biomarkers Utilizing Raman Scattering Methods
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Technical Article
Samar Kundu Charles Ginsburgh Sandra Lynch Neal Siegel
Detection of low levels of biomarkers utilizing enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technology is demonstrated through the use of Raman scattering techniques and a convertible substrate for ... read more
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2012 Product Showcase
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Technical Article
Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
Mass spectrometry is a fundamental technique used by chemists and life science researchers for determining unknown samples across various research areas, such as environmental analysis, toxicology ... read more
Pittcon® 2012 Roundup of Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
Monday, May 07, 2012
Technical Article
Jeffrey M. Perkel
This past March, some 15,754 people from 90 countries descended on Orlando, Florida, for the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon®). read more
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
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