Characterize chemical waste correctly to ensure safety & avoid fines and penalties.

Five rules for maintaining stakeholder support, managing costs and achieving goals.

Strong growth in healthcare spending, especially in emerging economies, is driving increased demand for medical testing, drug discovery, genomics, and proteomics, as well as the instruments used to carry out these processes.

Problem: A mainstay in life science research, western blotting is commonly used to assess relative protein expression differences, such as when investigating cellular signaling pathways. Accurate quantification requires careful attention to procedural details and normalization.

Since the early 1990s, biobanking has been evolving as a key resource, increasing the availability and use of biological material such as DNA, RNA, tissues and cells for biomedical research.

HPLC systems are forced to their pressure limits under fast HPLC and high resolution HPLC conditions. System back pressure issues can arise from efforts to increase efficiency and resolution such as increasing flow rates and column lengths, as well as reducing particle size.

We recommend the establishment of a chemical management system. This system provides for the safe procurement, storage, use and disposal of chemicals.

Allis Chien, Ph.D., director of the Vincent Coates Foundation Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at Stanford University’s mass spectrometry shared core resource facility, discusses the advances being made in the instrumentation and applications for mass spectrometry (MS).

For companies processing hundreds or thousands of plates per day, one could build a business case for switching to an automated pipetting system on throughput alone. Robots are faster and less expensive to feed and care for than humans are.

In this Q&A, five expert end-users from both academia and industry discuss the automated liquid handling systems they use in their labs, what they are used for, and how they went about choosing the systems.

Service and maintenance for liquid handling equipment are approximately the same as for a liquid chromatography system, but the type of service differs. All vendors offer typical levels of on-site service, with premium plans including preventive maintenance visits.