In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on the asbestos toxic tort case Betz v Pneumo Abex LLC, an expert witness simultaneously claimed that asbestos disease is dose dependent and that the inhalation of a single asbestos fiber can cause disease1. The court rejected these contradictory points and stated that use of the single fiber […]
Read MoreIn a recent article published in the peer-reviewed Nanotoxicology journal, RJ Lee Group’s Dr. Kristin Bunker, along with Dhimiter Bello, John Martin, Christopher Santeufemio, Qingwei Sun, Martin Shafer, and Philip Demokritou, explores the potential linking of printing and photocopying with environmental health effects by analyzing nanoparticles produced by the technologies. Here is the abstract:
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Read MoreMr. Gary Casuccio, Senior Scientist at RJ Lee Group, Inc., will conduct a number of sessions at the Symposium on Microscopic Methods and Applications to Ultrafine Particle/PM2.5/PM10 Characterization and Source Apportionment in Xi’an, China. The symposium, sponsored by The Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, RJ Lee Group, Desert Research Institute, and The […]
Read MoreRJ Lee Group will be hosting the “Science (Not the Politics) of Marcellus Shale” seminar at its office in Monroeville, PA on March 31, 2012. The event is sponsored by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh, and is open to the public. Rather than addressing the political issues surrounding Marcellus Shale, the speakers will […]
Read More(MONROEVILLE, Pa., March 21, 2012) Gary Casuccio, Vice President and Senior Scientist at RJ Lee Group, Inc., is a contributing author to the manuscript “Single Particle SEM-EDX Analysis of Iron-Containing Coarse Particulate Matter in an Urban Environment: Sources and Distribution of Iron within Cleveland, Ohio,” which has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue […]
Read MoreIn a press release issued on February 12, the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) demanded that the City of New York immediately release World Trade Center (WTC) cancer data. Officer Alonzo Harris, who worked for 700 hours during the rescue, recovery, and cleanup of the WTC, had sent the uniform he wore on […]
Read More(MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania) Dr. Kristin Bunker, Senior Scientist at RJ Lee Group, Inc., has been elected president-elect of the Microanalysis Society (MAS) and will serve a three-year term (2012-2014) first as president-elect, and subsequently president and past-president.
Read MoreAs reported on knoxnews.com (YourNews: Roane State receives new microscope), the electronic version of the Knoxville News Sentinel, RJ Lee Group, Inc. donated a scanning electron microscope (SEM) valued at approximately $75,000 to the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State Community College in Oak Ridge, TN.
Read MoreDuquesne University CHEM 691 Seminar PRESENTERS: Criminal Forensics Department Scientists Keena Zitkovich and Allison Murtha RJ Lee Group Forensic Scientists have testified in court numerous times on the subject of GSR including most recently at the Poplawski trial held in Pittsburgh.
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