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Volume 41, Number 6
Friday, May 01, 2009
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Automated ELISA Liquid Handling With a Combination Microplate Washer Dispenser
Friday, April 17, 2009
Many biochemical assays involve the addition of different reagent fluids interrupted by delays or incubations to allow for a reaction to occur. read more
Evolving Products in the Homogenizing Field
Friday, April 17, 2009
As technology moves forward in laboratory research and development, new products are emerging within the field of sample preparation. read more
Focus on Microscopy: One Button and Two Heads—Mainstreaming AFM
Friday, April 17, 2009
The past decade has seen dramatic growth in scanning probe microscopy (SPM) technology, both in functionality and in broader acceptance. Market research conducted in mid-2007 by The Microscopy and ... read more
Selecting Centrifuge Consumables
Friday, April 17, 2009
Selecting a centrifuge and rotor can sometimes feel like the easy part when faced with choosing the consumables in which to centrifuge samples. There are many suppliers of centrifuge tubes to choose ... read more
A Weak Cation-Exchange, Reversed-Phase Mixed-Mode HPLC Column and its Applications
Friday, April 17, 2009
Basic compounds are widely used in many areas, such as pharmaceutical development, biological research, consumer products, and in the chemical industry. Although reversed-phase (RP) liquid ... read more
Comparison of Methyl Benzoate and Ergosterol for the Quantification of Mold in Indoor Buildings and Materials
Friday, April 17, 2009
Over the last few years there have been many school and business closures related to mold and bacteria buildup, which have affected the health of the occupants. Mold growth has been potentially linked... read more
A Chromatography Detector for Multicomponent Analysis of Macromolecules and Polymers
Friday, April 17, 2009
The properties of long-chain molecules and polymers are tailored to meet the demands of a specific application in a range of different ways. In the production of “smart” materials and other high-... read more
Decoding the Nanoworld: Pushing the Envelope in Atomic Force Microscopy
Friday, April 17, 2009
Over the past decade, atomic force microscopy/scanning probe microscopy (AFM/SPM) has emerged as the leading tool for investigations at the nanoscale—doing everything from imaging, to compositional ... read more
Volume 41, Number 5
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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21st Century Gel Documentation in Research and Production Environments
Friday, March 27, 2009
Standard gel documentation has been performed for decades with some variation of the “camera on a stick” approach, that is, the camera and lens are positioned above the target pointed downward at the ... read more
A Flexible Imaging Detector for Nanoliter Volume Bioanalysis
Friday, March 20, 2009
Most organic molecules, especially biomolecules, absorb light in the UV range with the response being proportional to their concentration. read more
Sub-2-Micron Performance With a Conventional HPLC Instrument Using 2.7-Micron Fused Core Particles
Friday, March 20, 2009
Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) utilizes sub-2-µm-diam stationary phase particles to provide improved performance over conventional HPLC. This can be realized either in a higher ... read more
Key Requirement Differences for Electronic Notebooks in Discovery, Development Research, and cGMP Manufacturing Environments
Friday, March 20, 2009
Many leading life science companies have cost reduction initiatives to eliminate the routine, nonvalueadded tasks through automation. In most regulated companies, approximately 70% of laboratory-based... read more
$A Fully Automated Benchtop X-Ray Diffractometer for Structure Determination of Small Molecules$
A Fully Automated Benchtop X-Ray Diffractometer for Structure Determination of Small Molecules
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Single-crystal crystallography provides accurate and precise measurements of molecular dimensions in a way that no other science can begin to approach. Small-molecule crystallographers study ... read more