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  • Do Your Work Cleanly With Gloveboxes

    Thursday, February 02, 2012
    Gloveboxes are used in laboratories across the sciences. This article will focus on the use of gloveboxes in the life sciences—especially in those laboratories housed in academic institutions, government institutions, biotechnology companies, and ... Read More

  • Guide to Purchasing a Rotary or Nitrogen Evaporator

    Thursday, September 06, 2012
    Evaporation systems have many industrial, medical, and basic science applications. Read More

  • Spectrophotometers Overview

    Tuesday, April 23, 2013
    Spectrophotometers measure the amount of light of a specific wavelength that is absorbed by a sample. A spectrophotometer is used chiefly to measure the concentration of analytes in solutions, but is also used to characterize liquid and solid ... Read More

  • Particle Sizing Systems: Key to QC and Product Testing

    Thursday, September 05, 2013
    A particle size analyzer, also known as a particle sizer, is used to measure the sizes of particles in a sample. It can also determine distributions of particle sizes. 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

  • Pharmaceutical Mass Spectrometry

    Wednesday, March 09, 2016
    In the pharmaceutical industry, accurately identifying the components of a mixture can be the difference between life and death. Read More

  • 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

  • Flow Cytometry

    Monday, September 12, 2016
    “Now you can find very rare cells and do things that were not even feasible until a couple of years ago,” says Andrea Cossarizza, president-elect of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) and professor at the University of ... Read More

  • Compact HPLC Systems for the Analysis of Pesticides, Dyes and Drugs

    Thursday, January 19, 2017
    Despite advances in stationary phase chemistry, liquid chromatography instrumentation and particle miniaturization, the development of a portable LC system has remained elusive because of the difficulty of downscaling hardware and reducing solvent ... Read More

  • Boosting Bioprocessing

    Tuesday, January 31, 2017
    The term bioprocessing covers a lot of ground. Read More

  • Best Practices: Incubators

    Monday, May 08, 2017
    Microbiological incubators are temperature-controlled ovens that operate within the range of 5–70 °C, providing stable, precise conditions for growing cell cultures. Read More

  • A New Era in Filtered Fume Enclosure Safety

    Wednesday, June 07, 2017
    Many common laboratory procedures result in the generation of hazardous fumes. Read More

  • NMR’s New World

    Thursday, June 22, 2017
    To determine the structure of an organic sample, chemists often turn to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Read More
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