Graphite is all around us. The mineral can be used to accessorize as diamonds, write in school as a pencil, and was even used to write the drafts of this Continue Reading
What is Microelution and What are the Best Strategies When Using It?
Microelution Solid Phase Extraction(SPE) is essentially miniaturized SPE. The technique is ideal for analysts that have small or limited sample volumes or for those that want to save time by Continue Reading
Science of the Slushie, Discover What Goes Into Making the Famous Frozen Drink
The convenience store chain 7-Eleven, celebrates their day, July 11th, by doling out millions of free small cups of Slurpee® to their customers. However, while guzzling down your free frozen Continue Reading
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Wastewater Testing: Making Dirty Water Clean Again
Guest Author: David C. Kennedy, Ph.D A Look Into the Wastewater Testing Process and its Potential Impacts Treating domestic wastewater (sewage) to remove harmful contaminants is thought to be the Continue Reading
Celebrate Arbor Day by Updating Your Environmental Analysis
National Arbor Day this year is April 27, 2018, and is a day to come together and celebrate the importance of trees. The first American Arbor Day began in Nebraska Continue Reading
Solid Phase Extraction & In-Well Hydrolysis for Analyzing Abusive Drugs
The increase of testing drugs of abuse radically defines the workload for many laboratories, requiring testing methods to be accurate, reliable, and quick, which is where In-Well Hydrolysis and SPE Continue Reading
Sugar Intake and Cocaine Addiction—Are They Equally Dangerous?
Some researchers have claimed that sugar should be considered an addictive substance, and could even be equal with abusive drugs, like cocaine addiction. Cardiovascular research scientists James J DiNicolantonio and Continue Reading
Still Using Liquid-Liquid Extraction? There’s Now a CLEANER Way
How many scientists could honestly say “no” to less variability and increased reliability? Yet, time and time again, we see scientists who are content with Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE) as the Continue Reading
More Matrices, More Problems…or Maybe Not?
Guest Author: Jenny Cybulski In the clinical research industry, you deal with a plethora of different and dirty matrices that all need to be cleaned up before being injected into Continue Reading
Putting “Simple” Back into Your Bioanalytical Sample Preparation
Guest Author: Jenny Cybulski While we can’t always agree on the same thing, an overwhelming amount of bioanalytical lab analysts would agree that even though sample preparation is a necessary Continue Reading