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  • Temperature Chambers and Environmental Test Chambers

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    The best way to understand how a product or material will perform in the field or over time is to use a laboratory test chamber to model those conditions. This is done in one of two ways: the test chamber may model the conditions exactly as they are,... Read More

  • 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

  • Portable XRF: Nondestructive Testing in Seconds

    Monday, July 01, 2013
    We are all familiar with X-rays, the short, highly energetic waves used by dentists to check for cavities, and by airport screeners to look for contraband. We experience fluorescence—the phenomenon by which something absorbs energy and in turn ... 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

  • Environmental Monitoring, Protein Determination, and Quality Control: An Introduction to Nitrogen Analyzers

    Thursday, April 24, 2014
    Nitrogen is a common element, present in every living organism. It is vital to lifecycles and important in many industrial processes in its different forms. Organic nitrogen occurs in proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, urea, and many synthetic ... 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

  • Environmental Mass Spectrometry

    Monday, February 08, 2016
    Humans and nature can pollute the environment, and our health often depends on tracking and analyzing the toxic compounds. Read More

  • Analyzing an Array of Particles

    Tuesday, January 31, 2017
    A walk along most any body of water—inland or ocean—will soon reveal plastic waste, and this is just the big things, like soda bottles. Read More

  • Super Sustainability

    Wednesday, March 01, 2017
    Sustainability applies across all organizations, from universities to industry, and many of the biggest life science and pharmaceutical companies support sustainability initiatives. Read More

  • Separation Science at Pittcon 2017

    Monday, May 08, 2017
    As a business segment, chromatography is still the largest single technology segment ($8 billion global sales) in the chemical and life science laboratory space ($48 billion annual sales). Read More

  • Managing the Complexity of Microbial Biofuel Production With Integrated Informatics

    Tuesday, May 09, 2017
    While advances in the metabolic and genetic engineering of E. coli bacterial strains have made it possible to produce a wide range of alternative biofuels through highly optimized, commercially viable processes, they present challenges involving ... Read More

  • The Silent Treatment on Regulatory Road

    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
    I still remember the chirps erupting when I opened the door to the cricket room at Cornell University in the late 1980s. Read More

  • Molecular Motions

    Friday, August 18, 2017
    Infrared light stirs vibrations in molecules, and how they shake reveals what they are. Read More
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