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  • Ten Tips for Proper Pipetting

    Monday, November 07, 2016
    Application Note
    A. Björn Carle
    Pipetting proficiency is one of the most critical elements to ensure accuracy and precision, particularly in the face of high personnel turnover, growing laboratory workloads and increasingly complex ... read more

  • Achieving Accuracy and Reproducibility With Electronic Pipettes

    Monday, November 07, 2016
    Application Note
    Nora Meneceur Beatrice Guieu-Presle
    Researchers are continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency while ensuring that their methods are reliable and their research is reproducible. read more

  • Best Practices for the Use of Micropipets

    Friday, June 13, 2014
    Application Note
    A. Björn Carle Doreen Rumery George Rodrigues
    Every day, air-displacement pipets are used to quantitatively dispense sample and reagent aliquots for reaction, routine analyses, and specialized tests. read more

  • 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

  • Direct Sample Analysis/Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

    Thursday, February 06, 2014
    Application Note
    Avinash Dalmia Andrew Tyler
    There have been many developments in mass spectrometry ionization techniques in recent years, enabling the investigation of diverse sample types across the molecular weight range. Some of these ... read more

  • Analysis of Potable and Wastewaters Using An Autodilution/Calibration System and ICP-OES

    Monday, October 07, 2013
    Application Note
    Laura Thompson
    In 1970, the United States government established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to growing public demand for a cleaner environment. The Agency was not only given the ... read more

  • Impact of New Pipetting Techniques on Safety in the Laboratory

    Monday, September 02, 2013
    Application Note
    Bobby Chavli Annette Summers Mary Napier
    According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), on average, it takes between 18 and 36 months to develop and implement a new regulation, trailing the pace of science. As a ... 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

  • 37th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography

    Tuesday, July 02, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Capillary chromatography is in the mainstream of the technical evolution of chromatography, driven primarily by improvements in column technology that generally precede the development of the ... read more

  • A Novel Sample Preparation Method for Complete Digestion of Complex Pharmaceutical Matrices

    Friday, June 07, 2013
    Application Note
    Reynhardt Klopper Eric Fox
    For more than 100 years, the USP General Chapter <231> concomitant visual test was the standard method for the determination and quantification of heavy metal impurities present in pharmaceutical products ... 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

  • Advances in Gas Chromatography Instrumentation at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The buzzwords for Pittcon® 2013 in gas chromatography instrumentation were “smaller,” “portable,” and “helium.” Despite the fact that some of the major vendors did not exhibit, others were on hand ... read more

  • What’s New in Optical Spectroscopy at Pittcon® 2013?

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Mark Fisher
    Soon after the first spectrophotometer was built, the challenge of improving it began. How could we make spectrophotometers better? Could we make them smaller, faster, or perhaps improve the ... 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

  • Exhibition of Chromatography Columns at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The technology and market for liquid chromatography columns continue to mature, with applications-specific columns on the rise. The chromatography columns target specific assays in the clinical ... 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

  • Sample Prep for LC, GC, and SFC at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    At Pittcon® 2013, sample prep stood out as a major focus, perhaps because of the few advances in chromatography instrumentation. In addition, some sample preparation is spilling over into other ... read more

  • Putting the “More” in Morphology: Part 2

    Wednesday, April 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    Part 1 of this article discussed the impact of multiplexing morphological methods, multiparametric techniques, and supervised machine-learning to answer the question "what" is there, as well as "where... 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

  • New Electronic Pipetting Technology

    Thursday, March 07, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert McNeil
    Pipetting of samples and reagents is essential for reliable results. To meet this goal, pipetting has to be done with the highest precision and accuracy, but it must be done safely, without causing ... read more
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