Moisture within a cannabis flower is an essential factor for determining the quality of consumer or intermediate products. Moisture not only impacts shelf life and taste sensation but could also affect the percentage of THC in cannabis products; as moisture… Read More
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Pipettes for Cannabis Testing
The expanding cannabis industry must comply with strict regulatory requirements to help ensure the quality and safety of cannabis and other cannabis-derived products. Testing for any impurities like heavy metals, fungicides, and pesticides requires highly sensitive methods such as HPLC,… Read More
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Moisture Analyzer for Medical Devices
Moisture content is an essential variable that has to be monitored for and controlled during the primary production of plastic medical device parts. Resin manufacturers provide some material specification sheets detailing the true maximum moisture specification or maximum allowable ratio… Read More
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PCR with Picus Pipette
The sensitivity of quantitative polymerase chain reaction, or qPCR-based assays, is one of the fundamental reasons for their success and abundant use in specific laboratories. However, other factors, including pipetting technique, can influence PCR assay results. PCR Master mix is… Read More
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Performing Serial Dilution with Picus Pipette
Serial dilutions play a significant role in drug discovery. In plenty of laboratories, serial dilutions are usually prepared with some handheld pipettes or with pipetting automates. The accuracy of serial dilution is typically assumed based on the reliability of the… Read More
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Ergonomic Pipetting
Ergonomics around pipetting could affect one’s pipetting technique and pipetting results. Applications and assays are more sensitive, miniaturized, and perform quicker. To get some reliable data out of the assays, smaller volume errors have to be avoided since they could… Read More
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Avoiding Contamination for Your Pipettes
Preventing contamination with your pipettes is vital for achieving reliable results. It will require the identification of the possible contamination mechanisms so that they can all be adequately addressed. Aerosols, suspensions of any liquid or solid particles in a gas, are formed… Read More
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ISO Calibration Vs. Non-ISO Calibration
All ISO 9001 accredited organizations will require them to develop a calibration system that conforms to the standard requirements of ISO 9001. The versatility of the ISO standard could cover plenty of processes, and calibration is a big one. Read on to… Read More
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Redefining 1 kg – New Kibble Balance
The everlong quest for a redefined international system of units has become quite a global undertaking. The watt balance, which Dr. Bryan Kibble first conceived, is a mass metrology apparatus that balances out the weight of an object against an… Read More
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Metrologist – What Is It? What Do They Do?
Many people who work in science and medicine might be unaware of what metrology is. Metrology is the primary measurement science, and NIST is the federal agency regulating our Metrologic system. It is mainly used to standardize measurements for different… Read More