Nucleic acid amplification techniques are commonly used currently to diagnose viral diseases and manage patients with this kind of illnesses. These techniques have had a rapid but unconventional route of development during the last 30 years, with the discovery and introduction of several assays in clinical diagnosis. The increase in the number of commercially available methods has facilitated t...

plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing thematerial into useful products that sometimes differ completely in form from their original state. an importantissue in plastic recovery and recycling is that plastic waste usually contains a variety of plastics that differ intheir physical and chemical properties. separation of recovered plastics into dis...

Students in advanced undergraduate chemistry laboratories are required to undertake a wide range of complex and multistep syntheses analytical procedures, prospective employers graduates seek students with proven skills these areas. Our approach has been use video resources which made available both ahead of, during, their laboratory classes assist preparation provide just-in-time self-help dur...

N MANY INSTANCES the needs of a modern clinical laboratory are not completely satisfied through the usual commercial outlets. The item desired may be completely unavailable; it may be outside the budgetary limits of the laboratory; or a commercially available item may be unsatisfactory for the particular and peculiar needs of a clinical laboratory. The following discussion of clinical laborator...

We developed a computer model to study the use of patients' specimens to assess compliance of cholesterol measurement performance with the 1992 goals of the Laboratory Standardization Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program. The model uses Monte Carlo techniques to simulate cholesterol measurements that are subject to both systematic and random error. Split-sample measurements by a ...