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The legislation is getting more and more severe about pollutants. Thus, the need to analyze ambient air, water or waste arises equally. The...

Drug discovery is long and costly: bringing a new drug to market can take 15 years and cost over $2 billion. It is also risky: of the thousands of...

Working in highly-regulated environments requires solid equipment. Industrial fermentors and bioreactors exist but, sometimes, processes require...

Physiological reactions to peptides, proteins or drugs are generally mediated through interactions with cell surface receptors. To identify these...

Chilling stories and movie plots depicting a hidden, global black market for human biospecimen such as organs, tissue and other elements of the...

A few readers of this blog series might recall the thrill of operating the so-called Genetics Computing Group “Wisconsin Package” running on the...

The life science industry is fortunate to enter the area of big data at a time when other scientific disciplines/industries have paved the way. Big...

For many people, project management means to plan, to implement and to monitor the work of a team. Indeed, these are important. But consider also...

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is the resonance of a plasmon wave that occurs when a light wave is sent to a metallic surface. When the surface...

In scientific research, metabolomics is the study of all the chemical process involving metabolites in a biological system whether it is a single...