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An Upgradeable FTIR Accessory for Microscopy and Imaging Applications
Friday, January 23, 2009
FTIR microscope systems allow the analysis of extremely small samples (<250 µm) using infrared spectroscopy. Mapping experiments utilizing a single-element detector can provide infrared image data ... read more
Overview of Efficient Laboratory Fumehood Exhaust Systems
Friday, January 23, 2009
A company long associated with research and development and growth through constant evolution, General Electric (GE) opened its first industrial R&D laboratory in the United States in 1900, a small ... read more
Image-Based Cell Analysis in Microplates
Friday, January 23, 2009
Robert Hooke, a pioneer of microscope illumination techniques, looked through his compound microscope in 1665 and made the first image-based analysis of cells. read more
A Method to Separate and Characterize Modified Forms of Histones Using HILIC and Electron Transfer Dissociation-Mass Spectrometry
Friday, January 23, 2009
Histone proteins are the highly basic core proteins of nucleosomes and play an important role in DNA regulation through post-translational modifications (PTMs), primarily at their N-terminal tails. read more
Measuring the Heat of Evaporation by TGA/DSC
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Heat of evaporation is the amount of heat required to make a physical change from the liquid phase to the gas phase. read more
Identifying Pharmaceuticals in Surface Water Using LC-MS/MS in Both Positive and Negative Ion Modes
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Compounds such as antibiotics, over-the- counter medicines, and caffeine drain through the sewage system largely unaltered into rivers and streams, and even enter the drinking water supply in very ... read more
The Use of Pressurized Liquid Dispensing Containers (PLDCs) With Flammable Liquids in Laboratories
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Large quantities of flammable solvents are used in today’s high-throughput analytical and biopharmaceutical laboratories. To minimize hazards, these laboratories have tried to adopt alternative ... read more
Volume 41, Number 1
Thursday, January 01, 2009
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Detecting the Future of Bioscience
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The potential to use antibodies as research tools has been known since the early 1890s, when Karl Landsteiner used antibodies to distinguish between the ortho and meta configurations of groups on ... read more
Achieving Consistency and Reproducibility in Cell-Based Research
Friday, December 05, 2008
In recent years, advances in mammalian cell-based research have enabled many scientific and medical discoveries. read more
Making Single-Molecule Sequencing a Reality
Friday, December 05, 2008
The quest to directly sequence individual strands of DNA has challenged genomic technologists for decades. read more
Desktop Biological Nanopatterning Using Dip-Pen Nanolithography
Friday, December 05, 2008
The ability to control the size and shape of deposited chemical structures on the nanoscale opens up new and exciting possibilities for the development of devices for use in the electronic, life ... read more
An Immunoaffinity Capillary Electrophoresis Biomarker Analyzer for Use in Toxicoproteomics Research
Friday, December 05, 2008
The slow pace of discovery of new protein biomarkers of toxicity or “toxicity signature protein/peptides” is partially due to the lack of high-throughput and high-sensitivity biomarker devices. read more
WS-CRDS: Precision Trace Gas Analysis and Simplified Stable Isotope Measurements
Friday, December 05, 2008
Wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy (WSCRDS) is fast gaining worldwide acceptance as a superior tool for trace gas analysis, because it combines operational simplicity and portability ... read more
What is “Hot” in Column Technologies for Liquid Chromatography?
Thursday, December 04, 2008
It has been just over 100 years since Russian botanist Mikhail Semionovich Tswett invented the separation technique that he named chromatography. read more