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  • Cannabis Mass Spectrometry

    Monday, August 08, 2016
    According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Museum’s website, “The oldest known written record on cannabis use comes from the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung in 2727 B.C.” Read More

  • Determination of Pain-Management Drugs in Human Urine Using “Flip-Flop” Chromatography and Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

    Tuesday, July 19, 2016
    An estimated 21.5 million Americans aged 12 and above had a substance use disorder in 2014; 1.9 million had a substance-use disorder involving prescription pain relievers. Read More

  • Sample Handling

    Friday, July 01, 2016
    As clinicians, scientists and technologists deal with an extensive variety of samples for more types of analysis, the handling process takes on an increasingly important role. Read More

  • Forensic Mass Spectrometry

    Tuesday, May 24, 2016
    The job keeps getting more complicated for forensic scientists. “Over the past 15 years,” says Thomas J. Gluodenis, forensic and forensic toxicology marketing manager at Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, Calif.), “there’s been remarkable growth in ... Read More

  • Clinical Sequencing

    Wednesday, March 09, 2016
    After the completion of the Human Genome Project, it was expected that medicine would change, indeed, our lives would change. Read More

  • A Micro Look at Microplates

    Monday, May 11, 2015
    Microplates, also known as microwell plates, are widely used in molecular biology, clinical and analytical workflows. Multiwell microplates are a staple for performing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). Read More

  • Cryoware: Essential Tools for Cryopreservation

    Friday, February 27, 2015
    Cryopreservation is the process of freezing cell cultures and storing them at extremely low temperatures. During that process, cultured cells are mixed with a cryo-protective solution and added to labeled storage vials, which are then cooled to ... Read More

  • Refrigerated Laboratory Centrifuges: Cold Spinners

    Thursday, September 18, 2014
    At their most basic, centrifuges are little more than a motor that spins around, effectively pushing objects out with a force exponentially proportional to their distance from the center of rotation. Some centrifuges sit on a desk and do little more ... Read More

  • Take Your Samples Around the World in an Environmental Test Chamber

    Monday, February 17, 2014
    Did you ever wonder just how would your dependable lab equipment—or your smartphone, for that matter—function in, say, Antarctica? Or even just blocks from your home or lab? How long would your smartphone or tablet last if it were accidentally left ... Read More

  • Positive Patient Identification for Patient Protection

    Thursday, October 03, 2013
    Positive patient identification (PPID) is an approach to avoiding patient misidentification for the prevention of medical errors, which include errors in medication, transfusion, and testing, as well as wrong-person procedures and the discharge of ... Read More

  • Blood-Alcohol Analysis by HS-GC Using 0.15-i.d. Columns

    Friday, September 27, 2013
    Forensic laboratories face the need to analyze many samples of human blood and body fluids for alcohol content. The most important compound in blood-alcohol (BAC) analysis is ethanol, but the detection of several other significant alcohols and their ... Read More

  • Pipets: Delivering Precise and Accurate Liquid Volumes

    Tuesday, September 24, 2013
    Pipets are used widely in biology, chemistry, and medical laboratories to transfer small, measured volumes of liquid in the region of 0.1 µL to 10 mL. Pipets can be manual or electronic, single or multichannel. Read More

  • Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Facilitates Blood Glucose Control

    Thursday, July 04, 2013
    Monitoring patient glucose levels and determining the diabetic patient’s response to intervention is critical to the long-term health of the patient with diabetes. Read More
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