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How do Food Sensitivity Assays Work?

Food sensitivities/allergies are in the public spotlight now more than ever –with approximately 5% of adults and 8% of children worldwide being affected by them.

14 Feb 2020

ATR-FTIR: An Overview

FTIR stands for ‘Fourier-transform infrared’ spectroscopy: a technique that can be used to procure an infrared spectrum of a sample.

14 Feb 2020

ATR-FTIR in the Food and Beverage Industry

Attenuated total reflection (ATR) is an analysis method used with traditional IR spectroscopy, allowing specimens to be examined in either a liquid or solid state, without additional steps beforehand.

14 Feb 2020

The Human Metabolome Project

Metabolomics is the study of the metabolome, a number that is characterized as a complete set of low molecular weight metabolites present in the cells, tissues, biological fluids, or the body.

14 Feb 2020

Metabolomics in Toxicology

Metabolomics plays an essential role in toxicological research by providing a detailed analysis of altered metabolic pathways that are targeted by harmful chemicals.

14 Feb 2020

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

Any cell type in a multicellular organism, except germline cells, is called a somatic cell. In contrast, stem cells are unspecialized cells with self-renewal capacity.

14 Feb 2020

Life Science Applications of Chromatography

Chromatography is used to separate mixtures of compounds and is essential to many sectors of the life science industry.

14 Feb 2020

How does Fingerprint Drug Testing work?

Fingerprint drug tests analyze the sweat left behind in the grooves of a person’s fingerprint to determine whether that person has consumed various drugs.

14 Feb 2020

GC-FID Analysis of CBD and THC

GC-FID has recently been used to identify and quantify the concentrations of CBD and THC in cannabis products.

14 Feb 2020

Is Machine Learning the Future of Bioinformatics?

Machine learning is currently employed in genomic sequencing, the determination of protein structure, microarray examination and phylogenetics.

14 Feb 2020

Carbon Nanotubes and Drug Delivery

Carbon nanotubes are promising drug delivery platforms that can be functionalized with a variety of biomolecules, such as antibodies, proteins, or DNA.

14 Feb 2020

What is Genetics?

Genetics is the study of heredity. This article investigates the definition behind genetics as well as how varying genes can give rise to different traits.

14 Feb 2020

Use of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Forensics

mtDNA was used as evidence for the first time in US courts in 1998, and it has since become a staple in many cases where DNA evidence is presented.

14 Feb 2020

What is Forensic Toxicology?

Forensic toxicology is defined as the determination of drug use, poisoning, or exposure to toxic substances as part a legal investigation.

14 Feb 2020

Discovering Misfolded Proteins using Fluorescent Probes

Researchers have established a new method of viewing the folding state of proteins in vivo, equipping scientists with a tool to measure cellular health.

14 Feb 2020

Creating a Nanobody Library with PCR

A nanobody is a small antibody fragment consisting of a single monomeric variable antibody domain.

14 Feb 2020

What are Therapeutic Antibodies?

Recent years have seen therapeutic antibodies, specifically, monoclonal antibodies, grow rapidly in their use in treating a range of diseases and illnesses.

13 Feb 2020

Lab Automation in Hemostatic Testing

Hemostasis is the physiological process in which bleeding is stopped at the site of injury while preserving blood flow elsewhere.

13 Feb 2020

What is the Endocannabinoid System?

The existence of the endocannabinoid system was discovered in the 1990s by researchers investigating the main psychoactive cannabinoid of cannabis, THC.

13 Feb 2020