Lab Operations
CompuChem, a division of Liberty Analytical based in Cary, North Carolina, recently improved sample delivery, measurement protocol and rinse-out times by coupling a rapid sampling system with an ICP-MS system, reducing the time required to analyze a typical CLP sample by 80 percent.
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Students, researchers and business owners around the world will soon be able to use Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's multi-million dollar experimental equipment online from their own computers.
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There is currently no governmental body, no state or federal agency that oversees the forensic labs that run tests on DNA, fingerprints, ballistics, even on the blood of drunken driving suspects.
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LabX, a leading online business-to-business website for buying new and used laboratory equipment and related hi-tech industrial products, joins scientists and engineers from around the world looking for lab products.
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Are ever-growing stacks of paperwork interfering with your productivity? When you sit down to work, do you find yourself buried beneath a stack of paperwork and never being able to lay your hands on the one piece of paper you need for the task at hand? Organizing paperwork is key.
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More than 2,000 urine and blood samples will be tested during the Vancouver Olympics as part of a $16.4 million effort to catch drug cheats. A state-of-the-art doping lab for the Feb. 12-28 Games has been unveiled at the Olympic speedskating oval in Richmond.
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A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Dept. of Energy will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.
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The document provides standards to facilitate accurate and timely electronic exchange of data and information between the automated laboratory elements. This will allow and encourage scalable, open systems, and extendibility and interoperability of automated laboratory elements.
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Speed in completing product and process development projects means fewer surprises. There is less likelihood that the market has changed when teams complete projects and get new products to market quickly.
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Scientists working collaboratively, at the same time, but in different locations around the world, can now do so thanks to ultra-high-speed, broadband networks and special software developed as part of a National Science Foundation-funded program called the "OptIPuter."
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Symyx Technologies Inc. has announced a new online seminar for scientists involved with aggregating, analyzing and reporting R&D information from multiple experiments.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers.
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