CURRENT ISSUE | VOLUME 11 - ISSUE 4 | May 2016
COVER STORY
A Lab App For That
Not just for gadget gurus any more
Laboratory Technology
In this article, we look at more general applications that are useful in the laboratory, no matter the type, as well as specialty apps from instrument vendors.
As one looks to the future of industrial innovation practices, two challenges—externalization and harmonization of incompatible infrastructure—are apparent.
The latest equipment, instruments, and system introductions to the laboratory market.
First-of-its-kind lab coat guards against multiple hazards.
Business Management
In July 2015, the FDA released new comprehensive guidance for validation of analytical methods.
This new ability to ‘do something with the data’ is not driven by size but by analytical capabilities
Research-Specific Labs
The Frozen Zoo® is the largest, most diverse collection of cell lines in the world.
Leadership and Staffing
The use of information technology in the laboratory is changing the lab’s role within organizations
Lab Health and Safety
Heat stress is probably not a subject we give much attention to regarding laboratories
INSIGHTS
The food industry is doing a pretty good job of ensuring that people don’t eat things that give them an allergic reaction
Scientists have imaged live cells for more than 100 years
Ask the Expert
Dr. Emily Seo is the director of the Shared Instrument Facility in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia.
Tanuja Koppal, PhD discusses regular versus digital PCR with Drs. Emir Hodzic, Keith R. Jerome, and Ruth Hall Sedlak.
Product Focus
Protein mass spectrometry (MS) has profoundly expanded proteomics, from basic research to pharmaceutical and food science.
With the range of options available, most scientists can find something that fits many—if not all—of their needs in automating immunoassays.
Faced with rising delivery and rental costs and the inconvenience of relying on tanks, many labs today generate their own nitrogen
The adage of “adapt or die” applies to a laboratory information management system (LIMS) just as it does to evolution.
Surveys
Find out our readers’ top ten uses and more from our latest UV-Vis spectrophotometer survey results.
Learn which pipette types are most common and more from our latest pipette survey results.
Find out how readers use vacuum pump technology and more from the latest survey results.
Learn readers’ cold storage purchasing plans and more from our latest survey results.
How it Works
When combined with the inability to standardize and transfer analytical methods between labs, the conventional methods for large molecule analysis become inefficient.