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Did you know that, if you wash five pairs of new jeans for the first time, enough microplastic (MP) leaches out to make a plastic bag? There are a lot of different sources for the intake of MP into th...
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eProcurement, B2B, punchout, hosted catalogs. … You may have heard these terms thrown around but, for some reason, they do not sound appealing and certainly do not get much traction. Besides, what do ...
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The idea that humanity will be wiped out by a meteorite was recently popularized in the film “Don’t Look Up!” But how likely is this to happen? The answer, disturbingly, is perhaps more likely than we...
This is the first in a series of four blog posts on quality risk management and how you can stay on top of expected regulatory updates in 2023. The start of a new year always brings a sense of proacti...
After 20 years of working in the pharmaceutical industry scouting active drugs in research to take to market, along with method transfer to the manufacturing site, I have learned that there is no such...
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I recently saw a tweet polling the proteomics community on the relative importance, price, and technical difficulty of mass spectrometry-based proteomics: sample prep, liquid chromatography (LC), mass...
Everything is perfect. You’re on the beach, sunlight is ideal, just a calm breeze to gently move the hair and you snap the photo using your mobile phone. You immediately look at the picture in gleeful...
The uncertainty in the market around the helium shortage continues. Industries, hospitals and scientific laboratories relying on helium gas are experiencing — since mid-2021 — the fourth wave of the s...
This is the fourth blog post in the Biopharmaceutical Basics series. Over the past 30 years, noteworthy progress has been made in the field of oligonucleotide therapeutics, beginning with antisense ol...
Chemical disinfectants used to protect municipal drinking water from potentially dangerous microbes can produce disinfection byproducts – oxyhalides (chlorite, chlorate, bromate, etc.) that are harmfu...
This is the third blog post in the Biopharmaceutical Basics series. Sometimes the whole or part of a gene is defective or missing from birth. This is typically referred to as a genetically inherited m...
Every Lunar New Year is associated with one of 12 animal zodiacs. The action-packed Year of the Tiger is over, and on January 22, 2023, we hopped into the gentler Year of the Rabbit. As with every Lun...
On National Cheese Lover’s Day, I would like to tell you about my cheesy life. I was born in the Far East many years ago. Cheese was not in my diet back then and was very difficult to get. As a young ...
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After a long period of recovery — such as the holidays or a vacation — you will probably find it difficult to get back into a work rhythm. Your HPLC instrument feels the same way after a complete shut...
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