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A Multi-Laboratory Investigation of Drug Background Levels

September 9, 2019
Author(s)
Edward R. Sisco, Marcela N. Najarro
Identifying, quantifying, and analyzing the drug background in operational environments such as forensic laboratories is an emerging body of research. Understanding these levels can provide critical information to address issues like occupational exposure

Evaluation of a lateral flow immunoassay for the detection of the synthetic opioid fentanyl

April 26, 2019
Author(s)
Edward Sisco, Daniel J. Angelini, Tracey D. Briggs, Michele N. Maughan, Michael G. Feasel, Jennifer W. Sekowski
In the United States in 2016, 64,000 overdose deaths were reported to be associated with the abuse of opioids, including prescription painkillers (e.g. oxycodone), opiates (e.g. heroin), or synthetic opioids (e.g. fentanyl). The recent spike in the

A Method for Measuring the Quantity of Drugs on Surfaces in a Forensic Laboratory

September 19, 2018
Author(s)
Edward R. Sisco, Marcela N. Najarro, Amber Burns
While background studies have been commonplace in many occupational fields for a long time, attempts to understand the chemical background in forensics labs has been largely understudied. However, given the increasing sensitivity of instrumentation and

Strategies and Considerations for the Trace Detection of Fentalogs

October 26, 2017
Author(s)
Edward Sisco
Fentanyl and fentanyl analogs pose a significant and ever changing threat in the United States as both pure compounds and in complex mixtures. While commonly considered detection techniques require visible amounts of powder (i.e. color tests or GC/MS

Best Practices for Evaluating Single Nucleotide Variant Calling Methods for Microbial Genomics

July 7, 2015
Author(s)
Nathanael D. Olson, Steven P. Lund, Rebecca Colman, Jeffery T. Foster, Jason W. Sahl, James M. Schupp, Paul Keim, Jayne B. Morrow, Marc L. Salit, Justin M. Zook
Innovations in sequencing technologies have allowed biologists to make incredible advances in understanding biological systems. As experience grows, researchers increasingly recognize that analyzing the wealth of data provided by these new sequencing

Development and Demonstration of a Method to Evaluate Bio-Sampling Strategies Using Building Simulation and Sample Planning Software

June 10, 2010
Author(s)
William S. Dols, Jayne B. Morrow, Andrew K. Persily, Brett Matzke, Landon Sego, Lisa Nuffer, Brent Pulsipher
response and recovery sampling approaches and technologies, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with several other agencies, have simulated a biothreat agent release within a facility at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on two separate
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