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  • 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

  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry—A Fundamental Thermal Analysis Tool

    Thursday, October 24, 2013
    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

  • Fluorescence Microscopy: Fundamentals and Resources

    Friday, March 14, 2014
    Fluorescence, a contrast technique known for its specificity and sensitivity, has not only become “the” technique of choice for biologists, but is also enjoying increasing use in medicine, pharma, materials sciences, and semiconductors.There is also... Read More

  • Lab Technology Face Off: ICP-AES vs. ICP-OES vs. ICP-MS

    Thursday, July 17, 2014
    The specificity of elemental analysis required and the laboratory budget are the biggest considerations in choosing an ICP-OES system over an ICP-MS system. The amount of samples to be tested per day, as well as regulatory testing standards and ... Read More

  • Raising Raman’s Bar

    Friday, September 18, 2015
    A sample’s Raman spectrum provides information about molecular vibrations that can identify and quantify the chemicals in a material. Read More

  • No-Slide Slides

    Thursday, October 15, 2015
    Watching a histologist mounting tissues on slides quickly reveals the complexity of the task. 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

  • S/TEM Platforms

    Thursday, March 24, 2016
    To understand the properties of a material, scientists often examine it with an electron microscope, sometimes using different levels of magnification. 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

  • Particle Analysis

    Tuesday, May 24, 2016
    Scientists and engineers must analyze particles to understand natural events such as volcanic eruptions, and to optimize industrial processes such as powder manufacturing. 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

  • UV/VIS/NIR Technology

    Monday, August 08, 2016
    “In an ideal world, spectrophotometers would be capable of measuring the entire electromagnetic spectrum on a single instrument platform, generating a variety of types of information from the sample,” says Ian Robertson, IR/NIR applications ... Read More

  • Automating Solvent Removal From Winterized Cannabis Oil Extract

    Wednesday, August 31, 2016
    Winterization is a key process in the refinement of cannabis extract to produce tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) oil for the medical and legal recreational marijuana markets. Read More
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