Our six experts from both industry and acadmia provide their thoughts on HPLC systems in this Q&A, commenting on which systems work best for them, and more.

When the individual’s supervisor offers emotional and instrumental support, a stressed employee is more likely to recover without needing to take that extra afternoon or day off.

Laboratories are filled with hazardous chemicals, biological materials, animals, and equipment. It’s often the responsibility of lab managers to make sure everyone in their lab completes the various safety training, inventory, and individual registration requirements.

Macromolecular interactions enact vital functions necessary for life, including DNA replication, transcription, mRNA translation, protein degradation, and signal transduction.

Many laboratories generate thousands or even tens of thousands of files of important data which are frequently disorganized and scattered among multiple computers throughout the lab, and even on laptops that end up outside of the lab.

Nowhere is the controversy over instrument upgrades more animated than in HPLC, or more correctly, in the debate over switching from HPLC to UHPLC.

Although by no means the only operational issue involved in HPLC, cost of ownership is something everyone considers and ultimately comes to grips with. 

Unlike many other mature analytical technologies, HPLC seems to have entered a period of intense innovation and competition. 

On January 1st, 2012, the front page of The New York Times Sunday Business section featured a large, squalling New Year’s Day baby. The headline read: “I Just Got Here, But I Know Trouble When I See It.”

Sukhanya Jayachandra, Ph.D., Senior Research Investigator and head of the Cellular Resource Group, Lead Discovery Profiling Compound Management at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), discusses her cell culture core facility.

As the prospect of personalized medicine transitions from concept to reality and begins to truly impact the pharmaceutical industry, almost everyone who works in the sciences could be affected.