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Analytical columns can fail over time due to particulates, solvent impurities, and sample contents. Filters and guard columns protect the column from damage.

Is buying pre-cut stainless steel tubing worth the premium? In this blog, we discuss the benefits of pre-cut vs. cutting your own length of tubing.

One of the biggest concerns in our world today is the state of the environment. Every day, our planet faces new challenges contributing to climate change, deforestation, and ozone depletion.

Many factors play a role in deciding which vial is best for your needs such as sample volatility, sample amount, and light sensitivity. Choosing the right vial is imperative to increasing ROI and operability and decreasing sample degradation due to improper collection or storage. Follow this guide for tips on how to select chromatography vials for the best results...

Liquid Chromatography can be achieved through many methods including reverse-phase and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC). Liquid chromatography is a form of column chromatography that uses an HPLC pump to pump an analyte in a solvent (the mobile phase) at high pressure through a column (stationary phase) to separate...

Vials and 96-well plates are standard consumables used in chromatography. While vials were previously the industry standard, well plates have become more popular in recent decades. Both vials and well plates still hold advantages that make them viable options in chromatography processes. Vials vs. 96-well plates for chromatography is a debate worth investigating before deciding which to use in your lab.

Chromatography is a vital tool used in many industries to determine the composition of a mixture. Chromatography is widely known for its role in scientific research, although it holds importance in other industries. Chromatography plays a vital role in industries we interact with quite often. Pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, environmental and chemical safety, food and beverage, drug testing, forensics, petroleum creation, and molecular biology are some of the most common uses of chromatography.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented struggles across the world due to symptom variability and high spread rate. As COVID-19 continues to surge through the U.S., there is an increasing need for technology that will help us understand viruses like COVID-19 faster.

Reliable and accurate results for pesticide and mycotoxin testing is of utmost importance for the safety of people consuming cannabis-derived products such as cannabis brownies and other edibles. Edibles are one of the most popular categories of consumption of cannabis-based products, and brownies are one of the most commonly consumed edible. Brownies contain high levels of potential interferences (carbohydrates and fats), so methods developed for this application will be a great starting point for similar matrices.

As many laboratories continue to experience drastic budget cuts, lab managers are tasked with difficult decisions on how they can spend less money without sacrificing throughput and accuracy of results. Chrom Tech offers high quality chromatography vials at an affordable price. As touched on in a previous blog article, Chrom Tech is now offering limited volume inserts pre-loaded into autosampler vials to reduce labor time and costs for your laboratory while maintaining fair and competitive prices on the vials.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected laboratories in many ways, including many cutting the number of employees in the laboratory at any given time. Spreading the virus is a main concern across workplaces, and eliminating unnecessary touch points between employees is more important now than it has ever been. An inhouse stand alone gas generator reduces the number of personnel contact involved with the use of gas bottles and cylinders in the laboratory. Once a generator is installed in the laboratory, minimum user interaction is required for 24/7 usage, and minimal maintenance is required.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to cause shortages on hand sanitizers as people are doing their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Hand sanitizers are hard for consumers to find, but some companies with laboratories equipped for laboratory testing are stepping up to help meet the demands by using their isopropanol and ethanol to make sanitizer.

The current economic situation revolving around the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to create lasting effects on our economy. Chrom Tech is working to support our customers throughout and beyond the COVID-19 situation. We continue to promote cost and time savings in the laboratory, while also adding to our chromatography portfolio for those who are on the front end of this viral pathogen research.

If you’re looking for Immunoassay Plates for ELISA in your COVID-19 research, we have them available in 96-well and 384-well formats. Our plates are made of clear polystyrene with flat bottoms. The standard footprint of the plates allows for automation to increase your laboratory’s throughput.

A message from the president: Chrom Tech has solutions to reduce your costs and increase efficiency in the lab. Laboratories experiencing these pressures is nothing new, and we’ve been on the front end of improving laboratory efficiency for years.

Eliminate unnecessary safety risks, and avoid citations for improper waste containment by utilizing our waste containment system kit. A properly plumbed HPLC system, from inlet, to outlet, to waste is a crucial aspect in ensuring the safety of your laboratory’s employees.

Laboratories across the world are responsible for quickly and accurately reporting research results. According to the CDC, 70% of medical decisions made depend on test results from a laboratory. An inefficient laboratory can cause unnecessary expenses, but also delay research and results and even have detrimental effects on patients.

Whether analyzing for drugs, forensic evidence, or specific compounds in a specific clinical matrix, accurate sample analysis is important. For example, as the American Chemical Society discusses, “The credibility of the legal system critically depends on forensic tests that are consistent, accurate, and scientifically valid.” If a sample is analyzed inaccurately, serious consequences may occur so it is important that precautions are taken to eliminate margins of error in every step of the analysis.

As the Cannabis industry grows in the United States, laboratories are required to follow challenging sample preparation and analysis procedures to accurately measure active compounds, according to Cannabis Science and Technology. The accuracy of the sample preparation phase is extremely important, and variability between analysts can be very problematic for laboratories with a manual dilution process. Using the Microlab 600 can reduce the %RSD by more than 50% when compared to hand pipetting.

Chrom Tech is constantly working to make shopping easier for consumers. Replacing the various capillary tubing connections in your HPLC can be intimidating and confusing. In our latest efforts, we put together a capillary replacement guide for your standard Agilent HPLC systems.

As women and men age, many face issues that can be treated by hormone replacement therapy, according to the Women’s Healthcare Associates. However, hormone steroids are metabolized differently from person to person, which leads to complexity in treating a patient effectively without increasing a person’s risk for diseases such as cancer, dementia, and loss of bone density. It is important for researchers to be able to quantitatively determine endogenous steroid levels in order to monitor patient health and success with the hormone replacement therapies.

Cannabis products have been marketed as a natural cure-all, leading way to CBD oils, creams, pills, and even gummies that can be found all over stores and marketplaces in America today. If you’ve ever picked up a bottle of CBD oil and read the label, you may have noticed Terpenes listed as an ingredient.

In a report by the National Highway Traffic Administration, it was found that an alcohol-impaired driver was involved in nearly one-third of all traffic crash fatalities. Impaired driving can result in several various penalties. Often times, the courts will order substance abuse evaluations, which can include a drug and alcohol urinalysis screening.            

The United States is experiencing an outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injuries (EVALI). In the latest November reports, over 2,000 cases of EVALI have been reported, and over 40 deaths have been confirmed, according to the CDC.

According to the EPA, PFAS are persistent in the environment and human body, and exposure to these compounds can lead to adverse health effects. Per/Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), can be found in food, commercial household products, the workplace, drinking water, and even in living organisms.

The impact of human mental disorders continues to burden the health and wellness of people worldwide. As these disorders become more and more recognized in modern-day living, the number of prescribed antipsychotics (APs) and antidepressants (ADs) continues to increase. According to the CDC, over a fifteen-year time span, the use of antidepressants has increased nearly 65%.

One in seven Americans say they use CBD products, according to a recent study by Gallup.

As the cannabis market grows, interest in more detailed analysis of cannabinoid profiles is expanding because more comprehensive data can be used for strain identification as well as to ensure more accurate potency testing.

Benchmark Scientific has been providing research laboratories with innovative, cost effective products and solutions designed to improve laboratory efficiency, safety and results.

Researchers use an Agilent HPLC and Poroshell Column to semi-automate synthetic opioid detection methods.