Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
The potential of liposomes as drug-delivery vehicles is currently receiving much attention. But new research uses are also being developed, in areas from modulating the phosphatidylinositol cycle to modelling antigen-presenting cell functions.
The 27th annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology will be held next week in St Louis, Missouri. Roughly 210 companies have booked exhibit booths, and some of the wares they will have on display are described below.
Laboratories large and small can benefit from the products in this week's selection, with instruments for mass-producing microplates and washing loads of glassware, to a miniature laser.
Integrating spectra from analytical instruments directly into scientific documents is a boon to scientific word processing. Software packages are now available for PC's and mini/mainframe computers.
This week's feature on plastics and other disposables for laboratory use ends with a preview of several products to be exhibited next week at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in San Diego, California.
Plastic disposables have become essential equipment in most medical and industrial laboratories. The benefits they offer in cost, sterility and safety suggest that this trend is likely to continue.
From an accessory for differential weighing to an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, this week's feature offers solutions to analytical problems, large and small.
This week's New on the Market is a combination of laboratory conveniences and advances, including a snap-in database and systems for keeping track of chemicals, animals and chromosomes.
Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) microspectrometry has created a renaissance in infrared analysis, with applications from cosmic dust to the analysis of plastic laminates.
Next week, 10,000 chemists will flock to New Orleans, Louisiana, for the American Chemical Society's annual meeting. Here are some of the products they will see in the over 400 exhibit booths.
An intracellular ion measurement system, a cell length monitor, and a new perspective on NMR are part of this week's feature on the discipline where physics meets biology.
Visualization of the vascular system, and the assessment of blood flow and organ perfusion are several applications of this emerging area of medical imaging.
