Featuring: Wake Forest® Baptist Health Steven Wong, Ph.D., DABCC (TC), FACB, Past President AACC, Professor of Pathology, serves as Director of the Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Core Laboratory and is Co-director of the Clinical and Translational Mass Spectrometry...
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Software Licensing Comparison: Subscription or Perpetual?
Are you confused by software licensing? Do you want to know the difference between a subscription and a perpetual license? In this blog, we compare both options and explain the value of each choice for your laboratory. Years ago, the perpetual license model was the...
Make the Leap from GC to LC-MS/MS
Choosing the best technique for your analysis can be tough. Should you go with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS) or liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)? That’s the key question. That’s why we’re here to help. The Limitations of...
Why Mass Spectrometry for Your Clinical Lab?
Aaron Hudson, VP/GM, Clinical Diagnostics, SCIEX Aaron Hudson is Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Diagnostics at SCIEX. Aaron has been with SCIEX for over 17 years, beginning as a Sales Representative, and holding various roles including Director Global...
Bad Leftovers: Antibiotic Residues in Food
We know that antibiotics used to treat livestock can end up in the food we eat. Routine food testing labs are essential for detecting compounds, like these, that can be dangerous to our health. Antibiotic residues include both parent molecules and metabolites left...
Canada’s Focus on Cannabis Quality and Safety Intensifies
The Second in a Three-Part Series Welcome to the second in a series of blogs from the cannabis team at SCIEX, designed to bring you up to speed and put you in the lead of the recently legalized cannabis market in Canada. In the first blog, we introduced the Cannabis...
Looking for Ethanol Metabolites and Barbiturates in Urine? Get the Fast and Sensitive ‘Two Bird, One Stone’ Method
Alcohol is legal and widely available, but it is an intoxicating and addictive substance that can have harmful effects on the human mind and body. It reduces inhibitions and distorts judgment and rational decision making, making it the number one cause of criminal...
The Advantages of a Software Maintenance Agreement
You’ve bought your mass spectrometer. You’ve installed all your hardware. You’ve got your operating software set up. You’ve mastered your software workflow modules to optimize quantitative and qualitative data processing. That’s it, right? Even though your system is...
You’ve Edited the Gene. Now What?
Protein-Level Verification Without The Need For Antibodies Using SWATH® Acquisition. Fast, Comprehensive, and Highly Reproducible Although humans have been able to influence the traits of plants and animals for thousands of years through domestication and selective...
Trailblazers: Oscar Cabrices on Food Testing Trends to Watch for in the Americas
With the rapid shift in diet consciousness and environmental concerns, and the emergence of new technology, it’s a new food world. As a result, food testers are beginning to have a greater need for rigorous food testing techniques to ensure food safety and quality....
Why Quant?
Every decision you make requires a number As a pharmaceutical scientist, you understand the challenges in getting a new drug through the discovery and development pipeline. As an innovation partner in mass spectrometry, SCIEX works continuously with you, our...
6 Tips to Keep Your Lab’s Software Up and Running
6 Tips to Keep Your Lab’s Software Up and Running Is your lab utilizing SCIEX instrumentation but hesitant about upgrading to the latest software release? Perhaps you are uncertain about key features, error codes, or output. Not to worry, behind every great mass...