A cholesterol biosensor
From the University of Tehran, Iran, Hedayatollah Ghourchian and colleagues have developed an electrochemical biosensor that was able to determine cholesterol levels in serum samples. Cholesterol levels in blood is a good indicator of diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and coronary heart disease.
A nanocomposite based biosensor for cholesterol determination
Somayeh Karimi, Hedayatollah Ghourchian, Parvaneh Rahimi and Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25826A
Extracting and quantifying the ingredients of Prozac®.
A team from Canada and the US have optimized a method for extracting the active pharmaceutical ingredient from Prozac® capsules. Kevin. B Thurbide, from Calgary University, and colleagues worked on a method using enhanced fluidity liquid extraction. Read more by clicking on the link below.
Characterization of sample preparation of Prozac® capsules using enhanced fluidity liquid extraction
Fadi L. Alkhateeb, Kevin B. Thurbide, Gordon Lambertus and Eric Jensen
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25737H