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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

In the last installment (Part 32, American Laboratory, Nov/Dec 2008) of this series, three detection limits (DLs) were calculated (via the 3-Sigma [3s] approach, where a is set to be 0.01) for a ... read more

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