Whether you like a good ten hours, or you can cope with just six a night — we all need sleep. The average person spends nearly a third of their life asleep in fact. And most sleep takes place on your bed — or more specifically — on your mattress. People tend to invest in [Read More...]
Chromatography is a laboratory technique used for separation of mixture and utilized in different ways. Chromatography is an essential technique for life science research, agriculture, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Chromatography technique isolates the mixture into two phases specifically mobile phase and stationary phase. The mobile phase travels through the stationary phase by taking compound to [Read More...]
A researcher at the University of Bayreuth in Germany has found a fascinating example of plants being deceptive to ensure that they are pollinated — and it is thanks to the help of gas chromatography with electroantennographic (GC-EAD) and mass spectrometry (GC-MS). So, let’s look at the deceptive plants and find out how chromatography helped. [Read More...]
With a price tag of $1 million, many schools can't afford the latest spectrometry equipment to help students conduct experiments, like determining the composition of a polymer or detecting the presence of cocaine in a hair sample. But that may soon change, thanks to the first virtual mass spectrometry system—an interactive, Web-based educational device developed [Read More...]
Identification of suspect substances depends on reference materials that are in short supply. Attempts to understand and control new synthetic recreational drugs are being hindered by analysis laboratories' inability to obtain pure samples of the compounds, experts say. The growing problem of synthetic drugs — which include mimics of cannabis and amphetamine — came [Read More...]