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.
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Date: March 23, 2021 Time: 5:00am (PDT), 8:00am (EDT), 2:00pm (CEDT) Using a global targeted method, this lipidomic approach to meat characterization analyzes over 2000 lipid species in both...
Date: March 15, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEDT) Centrifuges are pillars of most biology applications. As cell therapy manufacturing studies have been picking up pace, t...
Princess Margaret Living Biobank (PMLB) is a repository for patient-derived organoid models. PMLB has generated over200 organoid models from lung, pancreas, colon, ovary, esophageal and brea...
Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST) Glassware washers (GWW) serve two important roles in today's dynamic laboratory environment. First, by automating a routine task...
Date: December 14, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus and is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The...
Date: December 08, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Successful bioprocessing is complex and depends on many factors. From the selection of the expression host, media composition, the p...
Date: November 16, 2021 Time: 10:00am PDT In this talk I will show how the power of modern electron microscopy (EM) techniques, coupled with light microscopy and expansion methods, can open...
Date: November 4, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Rapid, reliable, and accurate identification of an infective organisms has a profound impact on treatment management and clinical out...
Date: Novermber 2, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas are currently the gold standard of meeting our energy needs. High levels of fo...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are abundant in the environment as a result of the use and disposal PFAS containing products including aqueous film-forming foams, textiles, carpet...
Aflatoxins are carcinogenic mycotoxins that have adverse health effects on both humans and animals consuming contaminated food and feed, respectively. A method has been developed for the hig...
Aroma is an important sensory factor in the perception of food. But what exactly makes a food smell pungent, or savory, or foul? The chemistry of aroma, or smell, can be very complex. There...
One significant challenge with SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring is the lack of optimized and standardized sample processing steps, from sample collection to RNA detection. Viral concentratio...