Contaminants are substances that make something impure or undesirable. Contaminants can impact various environments such as air, water, or soil. In addition, biological samples can become contaminated compromise the results of tests perdormed in medical or research laboratories.
DATE: May 18th, 2017TIME: 6:00AM PDT 2:00PM UK 3:00PM CETSafety and authenticity of food are major global issues. With an estimated 150 million allergic consumers worldwide an...
DATE: February 28, 2017TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CETContamination is the #1 cause of hydraulic component failure, being responsible for an estimated 60% to 75% of all problems...
DATE: February 24th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETPesticide residue analysis of baby food products represents a challenge for routine control laboratories as consequence of the string...
First established in the 1880’s, cell culture is the process by which cells are grown in a laboratory under controlled environment. The culturing of different kinds of cells supports sc...
DATE: January 19th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETLiquid biopsies have the potential to be a less invasive method than traditional biopsies to detect advanced solid tumor mutational st...
DATE: November 3, 2016
TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET
Patient safety is at the core of biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Ensuring virus safety of biopharmaceutical products p...
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) have been extensively explored as circulating biomarkers in various cancers. Due to their rarity, heterogeneity and stem cell-like properties, detecting and pro...
The global trend towards industrialization and urbanization has led to ever more people living and working indoors. Some studies estimate that humans in industrialized countries spend as much...
It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...
Neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), are excellent resources for disease modeling and d...
DATE: May 31, 2016
TIME: 7am Pacific time, 10am Easter time, 4pm Central European Summer time
Pipetting is an every-day task in a cell culture lab. We pipette so often that we...
DATE: March 10, 2016
TIME: 8:00am Pacific time, 11:00am Eastern time
SCIEX has recently introduced an easy-to-use magnetic bead based sample preparation workflow, enabling the prepa...
DATE: November 17th, 2015TIME: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm GMTBiobanks provide important capacity to collect large genomic data sets intended to enable the study of genetic signatures of an...
Date: Nov 17, 2015 8AM Pacific, 11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT
Routine pesticide residue food testing laboratories are constantly adding more comprehensive analyses in order to meet customer demand...
While genomics has been used as a tool for research for many years, globally there is increasing momentum to deploy microbial genomics for routine public health microbiology. This technology...
Date: Nov 10, 2015 8AM Pacific, 11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT
Transporting smaller volumes of a sample, injecting less matrix, examining lower limits of detection and staying ahead of government r...
Background: The extracellular vesicle (EV) research field has dramatically increased in the last five years. Using a high-speed flow cytometric sorter, EVs may be isolated at high...
Over the past twenty years there has been an accelerated attack on the use of preservatives in cosmetics. This increased scrutiny of preservatives has forced cosmetic companies to change thei...
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
Rapid advances in sequencing technology and spectroscopy have led to new measurements of the microbiome. Labs make choices based on their environment of interest and the questions they wish t...
Managing microbial contaminants is critical during the manufacturing of biologics, food and beverage to ensure that products meet the high quality product standard as well as staying complian...
With current NGS platforms, the boundaries of variant detection and gene content for genetic disease panels has been vastly expanded leading to increases in detection rates. However these pla...
Contamination is an everyday challenge in cell culture labs. Undetected or ignored contamination and misidentification of cell lines endanger the reliability and reproducibility of experiment...
Blood culture contamination is a huge problem in the hospital. If strict aseptic technique is not used, patients can be treated unnecessarily, leading to complications from intravenous antimi...
DATE: May 18th, 2017TIME: 6:00AM PDT 2:00PM UK 3:00PM CETSafety and authenticity of food are major global issues. With an estimated 150 million allergic consumers worldwide an...
DATE: February 28, 2017TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CETContamination is the #1 cause of hydraulic component failure, being responsible for an estimated 60% to 75% of all problems...
DATE: February 24th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETPesticide residue analysis of baby food products represents a challenge for routine control laboratories as consequence of the string...
First established in the 1880’s, cell culture is the process by which cells are grown in a laboratory under controlled environment. The culturing of different kinds of cells supports sc...
DATE: January 19th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETLiquid biopsies have the potential to be a less invasive method than traditional biopsies to detect advanced solid tumor mutational st...
DATE: November 3, 2016
TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET
Patient safety is at the core of biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Ensuring virus safety of biopharmaceutical products p...
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) have been extensively explored as circulating biomarkers in various cancers. Due to their rarity, heterogeneity and stem cell-like properties, detecting and pro...
The global trend towards industrialization and urbanization has led to ever more people living and working indoors. Some studies estimate that humans in industrialized countries spend as much...
It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...
Neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), are excellent resources for disease modeling and d...
DATE: May 31, 2016
TIME: 7am Pacific time, 10am Easter time, 4pm Central European Summer time
Pipetting is an every-day task in a cell culture lab. We pipette so often that we...
DATE: March 10, 2016
TIME: 8:00am Pacific time, 11:00am Eastern time
SCIEX has recently introduced an easy-to-use magnetic bead based sample preparation workflow, enabling the prepa...
DATE: November 17th, 2015TIME: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm GMTBiobanks provide important capacity to collect large genomic data sets intended to enable the study of genetic signatures of an...
Date: Nov 17, 2015 8AM Pacific, 11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT
Routine pesticide residue food testing laboratories are constantly adding more comprehensive analyses in order to meet customer demand...
While genomics has been used as a tool for research for many years, globally there is increasing momentum to deploy microbial genomics for routine public health microbiology. This technology...
Date: Nov 10, 2015 8AM Pacific, 11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT
Transporting smaller volumes of a sample, injecting less matrix, examining lower limits of detection and staying ahead of government r...
Background: The extracellular vesicle (EV) research field has dramatically increased in the last five years. Using a high-speed flow cytometric sorter, EVs may be isolated at high...
Over the past twenty years there has been an accelerated attack on the use of preservatives in cosmetics. This increased scrutiny of preservatives has forced cosmetic companies to change thei...
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
Rapid advances in sequencing technology and spectroscopy have led to new measurements of the microbiome. Labs make choices based on their environment of interest and the questions they wish t...
Managing microbial contaminants is critical during the manufacturing of biologics, food and beverage to ensure that products meet the high quality product standard as well as staying complian...
With current NGS platforms, the boundaries of variant detection and gene content for genetic disease panels has been vastly expanded leading to increases in detection rates. However these pla...
Contamination is an everyday challenge in cell culture labs. Undetected or ignored contamination and misidentification of cell lines endanger the reliability and reproducibility of experiment...
Blood culture contamination is a huge problem in the hospital. If strict aseptic technique is not used, patients can be treated unnecessarily, leading to complications from intravenous antimi...
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