Lab Management
More than a year after an internal audit highlighted widespread deficiencies within the Baltimore Police Department's crime lab, the division has a backlog of thousands of analysis requests.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) announced on March 1, 2010 that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.
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North Carolina's attorney general has ordered an independent review of the state's crime lab following revelations about practices there that led to the exoneration of a man wrongly accused of murder.
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Merck KGaA announced on Sunday that it will purchase Millipore, a supplier of life science tools and equipment to the biotech industries, for $7.6 billion (5.3 billion euros).
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Many labs' budgets and staff time to prepare documents and presentations are quite limited. One way to make the most of this time may be to revise and update existing print documents for posting on company websites. By taking advantage of the unique
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Sanofi-aventis has signed a research partnership with Aviesan (National Alliance for Life Sciences and Healthcare), comprised of the CEA, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, Inserm, Institut Pasteur, IRD, conference of university presidents and conference of regional and university hospital CEOs.
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Waters Corporation and DAISO CO., LTD. jointly announced today that they are entering into a collaborative agreement to globally market and supply DAISOGEL bulk packing materials for process chromatography.
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Although the vast majority of Olympic athletes rely on their strength and skill alone, the possible financial rewards of victory can be so great that a few will almost certainly resort to the use of performance-enhancing substances in an attempt to gain the winning edge over their competitors.
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Dr. Paul Gilna is joining the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory as director of the DOE BioEnergy Science Center (BESC).
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SP Industries Inc. has announced that as of 1st February 2010 that it will adopt the new trading name - SP Scientific for its VirTis, Genevac, FTS Systems and Hotpack brands.
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As the athletes take centre stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition.
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Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are essential tools for managing data for QA/QC/Process labs throughout the chemical and petroleum industries.
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