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NIH-Funded Researchers Make Progress Toward Regenerating Tissue to Replace Joints Posted: 7/30/2010 A team of NIH-funded researchers has successfully regenerated rabbit joints using a cutting edge process to form the joint inside the body, or in vivo. Regenerative in vivo procedures are performed by stimulating previously irreparable organs or tissues to heal themselves. In this study, bioscaffolds, or three-dimensional structures made of biocompatible and biodegradable materials in the shape of the tissue, were infused with a protein to promote growth of the rabbit joint... READ MORE NSLS Scientist Demonstrates Power of Intra-lab Collaboration Posted: 7/29/2010 NSLS researcher Peter Siddons can't remember the first time he approached the BNL Instrumentation Division for assistance, but he has been a steady customer and collaborator for at least 20 years. And recently, he has relied on the division's expertise and services more heavily... READ MORE Michael K. Miller named UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow Posted: 7/29/2010 UT-Battelle has appointed Michael K. Miller of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow. The honor is reserved as the highest level of recognition for career achievements in science and technology, performance and leadership... READ MORE LABORATORY NEWS ARCHIVES

Current Issue Highlights
LEADERSHIP & STAFFING	TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS	LAB DESIGN & FURNISHINGS	BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Global Management Forming and managing effective global research teams with members located in far-flung countries and different time zones is a major challenge for lab managers at multinational companies and at companies outsourcing lab work overseas... READ MORE Project Management Software Judicious use of project management software can enable lab managers, team leaders and team members to keep informed on all team members progress in meeting their goals... READ MORE Competing Priorities Doing a good job of establishing project priorities and focusing on the highest-priority projects can enable laboratories to compete effectively with labs having much larger staffs and budgets... READ MORE LEADERSHIP & STAFFING ARCHIVES
Into the Field Increasingly, analysts perform routine analysis where the action islocations of environmental interest, manufacturing suites, crime scenes, loading docks, and packaging facilitiesthrough transportable instruments... READ MORE Specialty Gases In many applications, continuous emission monitoring is required to collect and analyze at least one sample every fifteen minutes from industrial processes. High-purity gases are vital for this purpose, as are custom standards for head space analysis of water and soil samples... READ MORE Presumed Accurate The notion that a temperature can be exactly X is erroneous, in the strictest sense of accuracy. In reality, all measurements are subject to uncertainty, and a measured value is only complete if it is accompanied by a statement of the associated uncertainty... READ MORE TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS ARCHIVES
Crime Lab Design Design requirements for forensic laboratories are unique. While forensic labs share certain features with academic, research, and other laboratories, the composition of these elements and the addition of other characteristics make these facilities an uncommon challenge... READ MORE Leaning Toward Lean? Although the basic concepts and techniques of Lean are straightforward, adapting them to a particular lab situation and integrating them into a defined process that uses resources well is quite a challenge... READ MORE Best and Brightest Of late, designers and operators of laboratory spaces are beginning to encourage clients to consider an unusual and often unconsidered aspect of research facilities: how laboratory design and amenities contribute to a research organizations ability to attract and retain top scientific talent... READ MORE LAB DESIGN & FURNISHINGS ARCHIVES
Perspective On: A Biotech Lab Although Jonathan Sweedler is the director of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigns Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, he insists that the management of the center, its 36 full-time staff, plus the students who work part time in the various facilities, is a shared task... READ MORE Financial Intelligence For a laboratory to be able to survive in a difficult economic environment, it is crucial that the scientific and financial sides of the business be in sync... READ MORE Valuing Specialization Biotech organizations that hire more project managers and fewer programmers, invest in strategic sourcing personnel and adopt risk-based approaches to vendor selection may be better able to adapt to the ever-changing biotech landscape... READ MORE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ARCHIVES

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Five Causes of Employee Negativity Top Ten Ways to Retain Your Great Employees Top Ten Time Management Tips LAB MANAGEMENT		Corrosive Gas Safety Tips The Correct Way to Insert Glass Tubing or a Thermometer into a Stopper Preventing Chemical Spills LAB SAFETY TIPS

LAB PRODUCT NEWS
Centrifuges Centrifuges are among a select group of laboratory instruments that are as scalable as they are configurable. Individuals who have used benchtop centrifuges that handle sub-milliliter volumes may be surprised to learn that centrifugessome as large as roomsare used in industrial processing... READ MORE Microscopy Accessories Optics lie at the heart of microscopy, and advances in optics design continue to push the limits of resolution. For instance, the use of motorized microscopes and laser light sources now help in defining the plane of focus... READ MORE Product Focus: GC Systems Gas chromatography (GC) has long been the backbone of organic chemical analysis... READ MORE LAB PRODUCT NEWS ARCHIVES

PRODUCT APPLICATION NEWS
Automated Detection of Drug-Induced Lysosomal Cytotoxicity - Automation of the Lyso-ID Red Assay Using the EL406 Combination Washer Dispenser Almost all drug compounds will elicit deleterious effects on cells at some concentration. Lysosome perturbation as a result of ion trapping of amine containing compounds has been demonstrated to cause the formation of autophagosomes and autophagic cytopathology. Here we describe the use of the EL406 Combination Washer Dispenser to automatically aspirate media, wash cells and dispense reagents for the Lyso-ID Red Detection kit, part of the CELLestial Live Cell Analysis platform from Enzo Life Sciences... READ MORE Determination of Mercury in Waters by U.S. EPA Method 245.1 Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy Mercury is a toxic element found throughout the environment. Its mobile nature allows it to diffuse through the air, soils and ultimately into water systems. Fish have the ability to bio-accumulate mercury (in its methylated form) at much higher concentrations than the waters they inhabit. People and wildlife that consume fish high in mercury are at risk... READ MORE Using the NanoDrop 3300 Fluorospectrometer for Cancer Research Applications Epigenetic modifications are defined as heritable information other than nucleotide sequences (1) that have the ability to control how and when transcription takes place. DNA methylation and secondary DNA structures such as DNA Gquadruplexes are among the epigenetic modifications currently under study because of their common associations with cancer (1,2)... READ MORE PRODUCT APPLICATION NEWS ARCHIVES

COMPANY NEWS
Labsphere Opens New Manufacturing Facility in China Labsphere, a global leader in light metrology, has expanded its presence in Asia with the opening of a new sales and service facility in Shanghai, China. Operating under the name Shanghai Lanfei Optical Equipment Co. Ltd., the wholly owned foreign enterprise is now positioned to provide light measurement products and customer support at a local level... READ MORE Brookfield on the Move in the UK Brookfield Engineering, the worldwide leader in viscosity measurement and control, announces the expansion and relocation of their United Kingdom headquarters. The move to the new Brookfield Technical Centre was necessary to accommodate Brookfields significant growth in recent years. While remaining in Harlow, Essex, the new Stadium Way location is twice the size of their previous office... READ MORE Microarrays, Inc. Purchased from Vanderbilt University by Management Team and Investors Microarrays, Inc. (MI), an innovator of array-based technologies for biological research, detection and diagnostics, today announced that the company's management team and a group of independent investors have purchased MI from Vanderbilt University. The new company structure will allow MI to more quickly and nimbly respond to client's rapidly expanding needs, especially within the diagnostic and health care arenas... READ MORE COMPANY NEWS ARCHIVES

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