A recent study published in the BMJ came to the conclusion that, "exaggeration in news is strongly associated with exaggeration in [academic] press releases."

Innovative Technology Allows Users Greater Control Over Conditions

In this presentation, we will show the development of a workflow using a very generic extraction procedure and full scan MS/MS and high resolution MS and MS/MS data acquisition to confidently identify and accurately quantify targeted and non-targeted chemicals based on retention time, accurate mass, isotope pattern, sample-control comparisons, MS/MS library searching, empirical formula finding, ChemSpider searching, and automatic MS/MS fragment ion interpretation.

This month, we spotlight companies that will be exhibiting at the Society for Lab Automation and Screening’s Fourth Annual Conference & Exhibition (SLAS2015). This year’s event will feature the new 2015 SLAS Leadership Forum, which is geared to the interests of executive-level professionals and co-located with SLAS2015. The event runs February 7-11, 2015 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Please remember that these particular products may not be at the show, but the highlighted companies will be on hand to answer any questions you may have.

This program lays out the rules for success – a perspective of how being a little “off” might be the secret. History shows that the people who end up changing the world are considered nuts, until they’re right, then, they’re geniuses. Learn how to ‘live out loud’ and remember – impossible is only an opinion.

A preliminary university investigation has revealed that University of Texas (UT) environmental health and safety officials disposed of multiple brain specimens in approximately 2002 in accordance with protocols concerning biological waste, according to a Dec. 3 statement  by the school.

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat chess wizard Garry Kasparov. This year, a computer system developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison equaled or bested scientists at the complex task of extracting data from scientific publications and placing it in a database that catalogs the results of tens of thousands of individual studies.

Everyday people should have more weight in what topics university researchers investigate, said Dutch education minister Jet Bussemaker and her junior minister Sander Dekker, according to English-language news site DutchNews.nl.

Turkey skin inspires researchers to create a new sensor that changes color when exposed to volatile chemicals

Does tryptophan in turkey make us drowsy? This ACS video explains the chemistry of the Thanksgiving meal

As the installation of photovoltaic solar cells continues to accelerate, scientists are looking for inexpensive materials beyond the traditional silicon that can efficiently convert sunlight into electricity.

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Join us on December 10 for a free webinar when Mark Baker, IP Specialist at Rich Products Corporation, will describe how Rich’s R&D went about selecting the ELN, conducting the pilot project, rolling out the ELN system and the results so far. He will be joined by BIOVIA’s Mats Kihlén who will show how an ELN enables organizations to increase researcher efficiency, streamline lab operations, and optimize experiment collaboration.

Googling the term “bead mill” retrieves dozens of links to large, process-scale devices. Add the word “laboratory” to the search string, and most products are still industrial strength.

Scientists use homogenizers in a long list of ways, including dispersing, emulsifying, cell lysis and extraction, milling, and more. These tools can homogenize a liquid and a solid, two different liquids, and other combinations of materials.