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NIH-Funded Researchers Make Progress Toward Regenerating Tissue to Replace Joints
Posted: 7/30/2010
A team of NIH-funded researchers has successfully regenerated rabbit joints using a cutting edge process to form the joint inside the body, or in vivo. Regenerative in vivo procedures are performed by stimulating previously irreparable organs or tissues to heal themselves. In this study, bioscaffolds, or three-dimensional structures made of biocompatible and biodegradable materials in the shape of the tissue, were infused with a protein to promote growth of the rabbit joint... READ MORE
NSLS Scientist Demonstrates Power of Intra-lab Collaboration
Posted: 7/29/2010
NSLS researcher Peter Siddons can't remember the first time he approached the BNL Instrumentation Division for assistance, but he has been a steady customer and collaborator for at least 20 years. And recently, he has relied on the division's expertise and services more heavily... READ MORE
Michael K. Miller named UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow
Posted: 7/29/2010
UT-Battelle has appointed Michael K. Miller of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow. The honor is reserved as the highest level of recognition for career achievements in science and technology, performance and leadership... READ MORE
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Global Management
Forming and managing effective global research teams with members located in far-flung countries and different time zones is a
major challenge for lab managers at multinational companies and at companies outsourcing lab work overseas... READ MORE
Project Management Software
Judicious use of project management software can enable lab managers, team leaders and team members to keep informed on all team members progress in meeting their goals... READ MORE
Competing Priorities
Doing a good job of establishing project priorities and focusing on the highest-priority projects can enable laboratories to compete
effectively with labs having much larger staffs and budgets... READ MORE
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Into the Field
Increasingly, analysts perform routine analysis where the action islocations of environmental interest, manufacturing suites,
crime scenes, loading docks, and packaging facilitiesthrough transportable instruments... READ MORE
Specialty Gases
In many applications, continuous emission monitoring is required to collect and analyze at least one sample every fifteen minutes
from industrial processes. High-purity gases are vital for this purpose, as are custom standards for head space analysis of water and soil samples... READ MORE
Presumed Accurate
The notion that a temperature can be exactly X is erroneous, in the strictest sense of accuracy. In reality, all measurements are
subject to uncertainty, and a measured value is only complete if it is accompanied by a statement of the associated uncertainty... READ MORE
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Crime Lab Design
Design requirements for forensic laboratories are unique. While forensic labs share certain features with academic, research, and other laboratories, the composition of these elements and the addition of other characteristics make these facilities an uncommon challenge... READ MORE
Leaning Toward Lean?
Although the basic concepts and techniques of Lean are straightforward, adapting them to a particular lab situation and integrating
them into a defined process that uses resources well is quite a challenge... READ MORE
Best and Brightest
Of late, designers and operators of laboratory spaces are beginning to encourage clients to consider an unusual and often unconsidered
aspect of research facilities: how laboratory design and amenities contribute to a research organizations ability to attract and
retain top scientific talent... READ MORE
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Perspective On: A Biotech Lab
Although Jonathan Sweedler is the director of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigns Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, he insists that the management of the center, its 36 full-time staff, plus the students who work part time in the various facilities, is a shared task... READ MORE
Financial Intelligence
For a laboratory to be able to survive in a difficult economic environment, it is crucial that the scientific and financial sides of the
business be in sync... READ MORE
Valuing Specialization
Biotech organizations that hire more project managers and fewer programmers, invest in strategic sourcing personnel and adopt
risk-based approaches to vendor selection may be better able to adapt to the ever-changing biotech landscape... READ MORE
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Using the NanoDrop 3300 Fluorospectrometer for Cancer Research Applications
Epigenetic modifications are defined as heritable information other than nucleotide sequences (1) that have the ability to control how and when transcription takes place. DNA methylation and secondary DNA structures such as DNA Gquadruplexes
are among the epigenetic modifications currently under study because of their common associations with cancer (1,2)... READ MORE
Automated Detection of Drug-Induced Lysosomal Cytotoxicity - Automation of the Lyso-ID Red Assay Using the EL406 Combination Washer Dispenser
Almost all drug compounds will elicit deleterious effects on cells at some concentration. Lysosome perturbation as a result of ion trapping of amine containing compounds has been demonstrated to cause the formation of autophagosomes and autophagic cytopathology. Here we describe the use of the EL406 Combination Washer Dispenser to automatically aspirate media, wash cells and dispense reagents for the Lyso-ID Red Detection kit, part of the CELLestial Live Cell Analysis platform from Enzo Life Sciences... READ MORE
Determination of Heavy Metals in Wine Using Simultaneous ICP-OES with Mini Torch
Wine is one of the oldest cultural
products in human history. Vines have
been cultivated for over 8000 years. The
oldest known archaeological evidence
of winemaking is an 8000-year old wineand
fruit press found near Damascus.
Awareness of the medicinal effects of
wine also date back to this time... READ MORE
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Microarrays, Inc. Purchased from Vanderbilt University by Management Team and Investors
Microarrays, Inc. (MI), an innovator of array-based technologies for biological research, detection and diagnostics, today announced that the company's management team and a group of independent investors have purchased MI from Vanderbilt University. The new company structure will allow MI to more quickly and nimbly respond to client's rapidly expanding needs, especially within the diagnostic and health care arenas... READ MORE
JEOL Microscope Makes U.S. Debut at M&M and Northwestern University after Winning R&D 100 Award
This August, JEOL USA will demonstrate the first correlative microscope to enable concurrent light microscopy and atmospheric scanning electron microscopy (ASEM) for observation of and experimentation on samples in their native state. The new JEOL ClairScope will make its debut in the United States at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) in Portland, Oregon August 2-5, 2010, just prior to installation at Northwestern Universitys Biological Imaging Facility where it will be used for demonstrations and applications development... READ MORE
Brookfield on the Move in the UK
Brookfield Engineering, the worldwide leader in viscosity measurement and control, announces the expansion and relocation of their United Kingdom headquarters. The move to the new Brookfield Technical Centre was necessary to accommodate Brookfields significant growth in recent years. While remaining in Harlow, Essex, the new Stadium Way location is twice the size of their previous office... READ MORE
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