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Cover Story

Hidden Treasure

By Bernard Tulsi | November 10 2010

Driven by the need for greater cost effectiveness and the desire to extract the most value from pricey assets, laboratory managers are converting their unused, excess and replaced equipment into cash.

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Hidden Treasure

Leadership and Staffing

Time Out!

In order to thrive in todays work environment, you need to change the way you look at time. The key is not just managing your time, but maximizing it.

Home

Scientific Talent Wars

In the great global game to woo and win scientific talent, more employers are extending non-cash motivators as the proverbial carrot. Attracting and retaining talent without pay increases is absolutely a discussion people are having.

Leadership and Staffing

LAB MANAGER ACADEMY: Is Your Team Ready for the Play offs?

In order to win, allmembers of a team have to understand the vision and recognize their role in accomplishing the teams goals.

Technology

Five Common Mistakes in Lab Labeling

Labels can be a powerful, effective tool that impacts the overall success of not only your lab, but labs around the world. Labels can increase efficiency; improve accuracy; reduce errors; and enable a scientific community to share data, resources an

Maximizing the Value of Scientific Data

How one LC column manufacturer used a scientific data management system to decrease operational costs and accelerate product delivery.

Incubators

Incubators: An Enabling Technology For Translational Medicine

Incubators are enabling cell and microbiological culture for industry as well as basic research.

Surveys

What Incubators are Others Buying? See the Survey Results

As part of our online Lab Products Survey series, Lab Manager Magazine has compiled the responses of 172 lab professionals regarding the use of incubators in their labs. Read on to get the results.

Lab Product News

Vacuum Pumps: The Widest Dynamic Range of Any Lab Device

Vacuum pumps are essential, but little understood by users.

Surveys

Need a Vacuum Pump? See the Survey Results

As part of our online Lab Products Survey series, Lab Manager Magazine has compiled the responses of 194 lab professionals regarding the use of vacuum pumps in their labs. Continue reading to get the results.

Lab Product News

GC-MS: Adding a Second Dimension to GC

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is the fastest-growing GC method.

LIMS: Flexible Software Platforms for Every Lab

LIMS may be processor workflow-oriented, industry-oriented, or incorporate aspects of both.

Lab Product News

Evolution of Lab Refrigerators and Freezers

Tracing the origins of lab refrigerators and freezers and looking ahead to future advances.

Safety Tips

Indoor Environmental Quality During Construction and Renovation

In order to maintain employee and occupant health, comfort and productivity, it is essential to manage indoor environmental quality (IEQ) effectively.

Special Reports

ASK THE EXPERT: How to Set Up Lab and Data Security

Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D., talks to Tanuja Koppal about the new technologies he is creating for mining and sharing various types of data without compromising the security or privacy of the information.

Perspective On: A Municipal Water Lab

Connie Schreppel, director of water quality at Mohawk Valley Water Authority, oversees a 2,100-square-foot water quality lab, a 300-square-foot laboratory located in a treatment plant as well as the operations of the less-than-typical Adirondack

Home

Instrument Life-Cycle Management

A key factor in maximizing return-on-investment in the lab is the ability to align the right scientific instruments, i.e., fixed lab assets, with science initiatives. Maintaining the right scientific instruments can help companies increase efficienc

Management

The Economics of Rapid Microbial Testing

The four key criteria in selecting the right rapid microbial method share a common trait: a strong correlation to financial results. Without a strong value proposition, you simply wont have the support of your finance and operations management.

Lab Product News

Technology News - November 2010

The latest equipment, instrument and system introductions to the laboratory market

LabManager

Technology News qPCR Reagent

Optimized for users of PCR systems employing ROX as a passive reference for normalization

Technology News Ductless Fume Hood

Features Silconazyne™ filtration system, allowing for one gas phase filter that fits most gas phase applications

Technology News Energy-Saving Ductless Fume Hood

Minimizes stress on HVAC systems without compromising protection for personnel and the environment

Technology News Fume Hoods

Feature unitized flame retardant composite resin construction for total chemical and corrosion resistance

Technology News Laboratory Freezer

Bio-Cool Provides low temperature cooling to either -40ºC or -80ºC Does not require expendable liquid nitrogen and the associated pumping, re-filling, and storage challenges posed by a cryogenic liquid Immerses sample

LabManager

Technology News Reagents for Glycobiology and Glycoanalysis

Allows easy quantification of sulfated GAGs in tissues such as cartilage, cultured chondrocytes, and chondrocyte culture solution

Technology News Recirculating Evaporator

Includes an Auto-Fill feature allowing unattended evaporation of samples generated by any separation or extraction system

Technology News Liquid Handling Workstation

VERSA™ LLE Validated for the organic solvent extraction of 25(OH)D from blood serum using liquid-liquid extraction (partition chromatography Automated process takes 60 minutes for a set of 96 samples with no detectable cross co

Technology News Microplate

Optimiser™ Features a microfluidic channel as the reaction chamber (instead of the well), reducing assay times and sample/reagent consumption Compared to traditional microplate wells, Optmiser microchannels have a 10x higher bi

Technology News Karl Fischer Volumetric Titrator

AQUACOUNTER® AQV-2200S Small volume titration cell requires only 20mL of titration solvent for accurate measurements Combining one additional KF station with either a volumetric or coulometric module enables two different measure

Technology News Spectrophotometer + Fluorometer

Scans full wavelength spectrum (absorbance, percent transmittance, intensity) in less than one second

Technology News Microplate Evaporator

UltraVap™ Designed to quickly and safely remove solvents from 96- or 384-well plates Open-access design, combined with full RS232 control of every parameter, enables integration with laboratory robotics Side panels ensure

Technology News Microplate Dispenser

Dispenses up to four independent, parallel reagents in volumes from 1 µL to 3 mL, and microplates from 6- to 1,536-well, including low-profile, standard height, deep well and even microtubes

How It Works

A Personal Microarray System

The GeneAtlas System is the first personal microarray solution that makes the power of microarrays accessible to life scientists in their own labs.

Advancing Spectrophotometric Flexibility

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed the Thermo Scientific Multiskan GO UV-Vis spectrophotometer which offers free wavelength selection for both 96- and 384-well plates and various types of cuvettes.

Increasing Fluorescence Spectroscopy Sensitivity Requirements

The most accurate method of measuring SNR is to ratio the peak Raman intensity to the average intensity of a signal free baseline region.

Purchasing Guides

Lab Manager Magazine's Independent Guide to Purchasing a Vacuum Pump

Laboratory vacuum pumps are one of the most ubiquitous pieces of laboratory equipment, and also one of the most difficult to choose.

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