If you’ve had to lug a tank of gas to an experiment station and secure it in place, you know the hassle and danger involved.

The technology behind visible light microscopes, the oldest true laboratory instruments, has not changed much in fundamental operation in 200 years.

Time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) works by imparting equal energies to all fragments. Since smaller particles thereby travel faster, their masses are determined by how quickly they travel from the source to the detector.  

Integration is the main reason for the virtual disappearance of the specialist GC or MS supplier that produces chromatographs for someone else’s mass detector, and vice versa.

Find what you need to know when buying a mass spectrometer and what our readers had to say about their MS instruments in our latest survey.

One of the primary safety devices in laboratories where chemicals are used is the laboratory fume hood.

The use of freeze dryers extends from applications in academic labs to zoos. Moreover, this technology contributes to basic research and manufacturing.

HPLC is, for many scientists, an essential apparatus for the separation, identification, purification and quantification of various compounds.

Flow cytometry is a powerful technology that allows researchers and clinicians to perform complex cellular analysis quickly and efficiently by analyzing several parameters simultaneously.

In HPLC columns, reverse-phase and normal-phase chromatography separation methods are based on polarity. Reverse phase columns separate analytes based on their hydrophobicity, with the more hydrophobic compounds being retained longer on the column.

As a mature market, filtration moves forward incrementally through improvements in filter media and housings.