As a multidisciplinary activity, drug discovery relies on a range of life science analytical and processing platforms.

Disease and drug response testing from the bottom up

DNA sequencing keeps getting faster and covering more bases, and today’s fastest approach is  massively parallel sequencing (MPS)—also known as next-generation sequencing.

Cell culture media fuel modern life sciences research. Whether the objective is cell-based assays, antibody production, or virus replication, the medium is a make-or-break component

Those applying pesticides and producing foods that have been treated with pesticides must follow specific rules

Agencies and consumers demand more vigilance...and that takes new technology

While HPLC and mass spec make inroads into nontraditional markets, interest remains in molecular techniques that address the unique needs of  clinicians and drug developers.

Western blotting separates proteins by size and shape with an electric field applied to a gel, and then targeted proteins are stained with antibodies

Because drugs tend to be small-molecule structures, gas-chromatography-MS (GC-MS) serves as confirmation both for alcohol level and for most drugs.

While no one will call a handheld “everything” field environmental laboratory a concrete goal, that is where the industry is heading.

Standardizing the methods will improve products for recreational and medicinal applications

Across health care and drug development, experts need advanced tools to manage specimens and their associated data