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Person-Portable GC-MS for Rapid On-Site Environmental Screening of Contaminants in Drinking Water
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Application Note
Tiffany C. Wirth Jakob B. Later Joseph L. Oliphant Edgar D. Lee Douglas W. Later
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed when chlorine and other disinfectants are used to clean drinking water. At certain concentrations they are considered an environmental pollutant and are carcinogenic.... read more
Use of a Pen-Shaped Capillary Gel Electrophoresis Cartridge for Cost-Effective DNA Fragment Analysis
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Application Note
Varouj Amirkhanian Eric Tsai
Most laboratories currently utilize slab-gel electrophoresis systems for DNA and protein analysis. However, both polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and agarose slab-gel electrophoresis ... read more
Use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for Sample Tracking
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Technical Article
Hanan Davidowitz
Many solutions are available for sample tracking and identification. 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
Molecular-Med Tri-Con 2012: Big Information Technology Faces Gigantic Problems
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Next-generation sequencing technology is capable of sequencing human genomes for $1000/patient in about a week. read more
Food Safety Practices: Interview With International Food Safety Training Laboratory Manager Janie ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Food safety practices are a major public concern because about one in six Americans endured a food-related illness in 2010. read more
Optimizing the Western Blotting Procedure: Solutions for Faster Western Blots
Monday, July 30, 2012
Application Note
Catherine Shaffer
Advances in technology make the Western blotting procedure both faster and quantitative. Solutions for faster Western blots include faster transfer equipment and faster reagents. Purchasing a ... read more
Product Intelligence: Laboratory Vacuum Pump Buyers' Guide
Monday, July 16, 2012
Technical Article
Emily S. Tozzi
Chemistry and life science laboratories utilize lab vacuum pumps for applications such as providing suction to drive the aspiration or filtration of liquid or suspended samples, and inducing or ... read more
Product Intelligence: Laminar Flow Hoods and Biological Safety Cabinets
Monday, July 16, 2012
Technical Article
Caitlin Smith
This article explains the concept of laminar flow hoods, which include laminar flow clean benches and biosafety, or biological safety, cabinets. The prospective purchaser of a laminar flow hood will ... read more
The FRITSCH premium offensive – The new dimension in size reduction
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sponsor

Four new High-Tech mills from FRITSCH: even easier to operate, more powerful, faster and safer. We are now extending the FRITSCH premium line by 4 additional new high-tech laboratory mills for ... read more
Product Intelligence: High-Purity Gases on Demand: A Laboratory Gas Generators Buyers' Guide
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Technical Article
T. Keith Brock
Laboratory gas generators are a safer, more convenient, and more economical means of generating gases in the laboratory, and as such are a good alternative to cylinder-based gas sourcing. Because of ... read more
Use of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) to Meet the Challenges of Intraoperative Imaging
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Technical Article
Liang Gao Zhiyong Wang Stephen T.C. Wong
Intrabiopsy and intraoperative cancer detection has been a major challenge for early diagnosis of cancer and accurate determination of surgical margin. read more
Shape and Size Analysis with the NEW Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28
Friday, March 30, 2012
Sponsor

The two models of the NEW FRITSCH ANALYSETTE 28 measure particle shape and size of powders and bulk solids as well as in suspensions and emulsions with Digital Image Analysis. Fast, easily and ... read more
NEW: Vibrating Cup Mill – now with higher grinding performance!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Announcement

For extremely quick grinding down to analytical fineness! Now even much faster – more user-friendly – safer for optimal sample preparation of hard materials for spectroscopy preparation, infrared and ... read more