Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation

February 2008: Volume 13, Number 1

Table of Contents

• ORIGINAL REPORT

  Assessing Near-Infrared Quantum Dots for Deep Tissue, Organ and Animal Imaging Applications
  By Warren Chan, Wen Jiang, Anupam Singhal, Betty Kim, Jianing Zheng, James Rutka, and Chen Wang

  Modular Approaches To Automation System Design Using Industrial Robots
  By John David Manley, Thomas Smith, John Holden, Gary Liptrot, and Rob Edwards

  Strategies to Maintain Sample Integrity Using a Liquid-Filled Automated Liquid Handling System with Fixed Pipetting Tips
  By Zheng Ouyang, Susi Federer, Gregory Porter, Christoph Kaufmann, and Mohammed Jemal

  Electrical Immunoassays Towards Clinical Diagnostics: Identification of Vulnerable Cardiovascular Plaque
  By Shalini Prasad, Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy, Thomas Barrett, and John Carruthers

• TECHNICAL BRIEF

  An Instrument for Automated Purification of Nucleic Acids from Contaminated Forensic Samples
  By Andre Marziali, David J Broemeling, Joel Pel, Dylan Gunn, Laura Mai, Jason Thompson, and Hiron Poon

  Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Cross-Bar Junction Formation Via Microcontact Printing
  By Yamini Yadav, SudhaPrasanna Kumar Padigi, Shalini Prasad, and Xiaoyu Song

• REGULAR COLUMNS

  From the Executive Editor: A Process of Invitation
  By Douglas Gurevitch

  From the Executive Director: A FIRST for ALA
  By Greg Dummer

  Automation Highlights from Literature
  By Kerstin Thurow and Hilmar Weinmann

  World News

  Meetings & Events Calendar

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