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Bioanalytical applications of flu orescence spectroscopy. Frank V. Bright of the State University of New York at Buffalo discusses the theory and instrumentation of fluo rescence measurements and their applications to bioanalytical sys tems, including DNA and RNA de terminations, enzymatic methods, protein-ligand interactions, fluoroimmunoassays, and fiber-optic sensing
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On the cover. Robotics in the lab oratory: a generic approach. Since robot technology was intro duced into the laboratory, a large number of redundant procedures have been automated. But even less redundant tasks are amenable to this technology. Robert L. Sharp, Richard G. Whitfield, and Lloyd E. Fox of the Upjohn Company de scribe a flexible approach to one such procedure, laboratory sample preparation
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Peter Dervan of Caltech is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. • First atomic hologram is developed in a joint effort between the University of Arizona and M I T > David Dollimore of the University of Tole do is the 1988 recipient of the Thermal Analysis Award BOOKS
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Critical reviews. Books on handling data, including statistics, quality assur ance, and experimental design, are reviewed by Bruce R. Kowalski, John Mandel, Muhammad A. Sharaf, and Gary W. Small FOCUS
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Advances in liquid chromatography were discussed at the Twelfth Interna tional Symposium on Column Liquid Chromatography in Washington, DC. The meeting brought together 1300 chromatographers from around the world NEW PRODUCTS & MANUFACTURERS' LITERATURE AUTHOR INDEX
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