Jan/Feb 2015
Volume 47, Number 1
New products that will be introduced at Pittcon are featured in this issue, as is a sampling of trends in automation to be showcased at SLAS2015. Also included is an article on optimizing drug nanosuspensions, and one that poses the question, “What does your particle size data mean?”
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Steve Ernst
Speaking with Allison Paradise, the executive director and co-founder of my green lab (www.mygreenlab.org), is a heady
experience, with all the passion that led her to leave a research career and ...
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Rémi André, Link Brown
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is used in the pharmaceutical, polymer and biotechnology industries to study the effect of temperature on a variety of solids or liquids, including those that ...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Dennis H. Leung, Timothy Rhodes, Annette Bak
Inadequate absorption and bioavailability often make it difficult to deliver the drug to the target in vivo and pose significant challenges to the discovery and development of new drugs. A number of ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
William Lipps
There are currently no promulgated U.S. EPA methods for the determination of total nitrogen in ambient water and wastewater. There are approved methods for the determination of inorganic nitrogen (NO3...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Paul Kippax, Deborah Huck-Jones
Laser diffraction is a mature technology with extensive capabilities. Highly automated and easy to use, modern laser diffraction systems efficiently meet the requirements for particle size data
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Robin Gall
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) are valuable tools in the forensics laboratory, streamlining the documentation and management of evidence including sample accession, extraction, ...
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Frank Gatzemeyer
Both vital and versatile, water is used in all laboratories, in preparing media, buffers and additives and for heating, cooling, cleaning and rinsing.
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Emilia Raszkiewicz
Laboratory automation is becoming increasingly more present, reliable and affordable. Debbie Bowers, VP of robotic operations at Hamilton Robotics (premier sponsor at SLAS), answers our
questions ...
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Lina Genovesi
Spectrofluorometers are used in a variety of disciplines, such as for the analysis of biofuels and polymers and in biotechnology and medical diagnostics. This article outlines the components of a ...
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Josh P. Roberts
Most life science laboratories rely on microplate readers for assay analysis. For this reason, it is important for the lab to consider the many features available in instruments that read microplates....
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Now in its 66th year, Pittcon continues to be the world’s foremost annual conference and exposition on laboratory science. One of the notable features of Pittcon is the global exposition, which ...
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