Obtaining blood samples of sufficient volume and quality is important in many scientific studies. If the collected samples are of insufficient volume or compromised quality, collection of additional ...

Many assays have integrated, built-in, or internal controls to demonstrate their operability at specific procedural steps. What role do these built-in controls play in quality control to assure ...

Doctors may recommend a biopsy to obtain a sample from a thyroid nodule. Testing the sample in a laboratory can help indicate whether the nodule is cancerous or benign. Though most tend to be benign, ...

Centuries of scientific research and development have led to techniques that have set the foundation for the future of automated research with high-throughput sample processing (HTSP). The world is ...

A survey of 75 biomedical articles dealing with stress-dependent blood parameters in caged primates revealed that the conditions under which blood collection occurred were in most cased described ...

Students will determine the total concentration of free iron in freshwater and/or municipal drinking water via visible absorption spectrophotometry. This exercise will require students to create ...

Written Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) relevant to health and safety concerns are required for laboratory operations involving hazardous chemicals. This document contains SOPs covering various ...