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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

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

Humans and nature can pollute the environment, and our health often depends on tracking and analyzing the toxic compounds. Read More

A differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) is a benchtop instrument used to determine thermodynamic transitions and heat capacities of a variety of substances. A small sample—typically 5–20 mg, around the size of the tip of a #2 pencil—is placed in ... Read More

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

A little over 8% of the population in the U.S. has diabetes mellitus (DM), with about 27% of these cases not diagnosed. Type 1 DM is an autoimmune disease, accounting for about 5% of cases. Effective treatment requires insulin. Type 2 DM accounts for... Read More

Atherosclerosis is the fundamental process behind coronary artery disease, stroke, and many other vascular diseases. Although the rates of death associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke have decreased in the United States, the burden ... Read More