Volume 7 Issue 6 | July 2012
| July 6 2012
Two lab managers strike up a conversation at an international conference. Their research is complementary and their ambitions meld—surely they will do great science together. Gripped by great expectations, they agree to collaborate on a project....
Are Data Management Systems Right for Your Lab?
It’s been a while since our last INSIGHTS supplement, but never fear, this feature is still alive and well at Lab Manager Magazine with the next issue set for Septem - ber 2012. September’s INSIGHTS will focus on data management systems,
Last month we provided important and practical information about project management techniques and their usefulness in laboratory management. This month we turn our attention to a different management challenge that becomes more commonplace every
Two lab managers strike up a conversation at an international conference. Their research is complementary and their ambitions meld—surely they will do great science together. Gripped by great expectations, they agree to collaborate on a project....
Quality management systems (QSM) have been a reality in nearly 4,000 North American laboratories for some time. Almost everyone has heard of a quality system. Many relate the term to ISO standard ISO 9001:2008. However, for laboratories the more
Budget cuts force companies to spend every dollar effectively, and training, especially when it requires travel, is often the first line item slashed. Cuts in continuing education can have a negative effect on a company’s bottom line. A
Global R&D Demands Effective Communication
Over the course of my career in the sciences, I’ve had the opportunity to see firsthand the power of long-distance collaboration. For one research and development project, work was done in San Diego, California; Madison, Wisconsin; France;
The Three-Legged Stool for Training Success
The 16-session manager training program was phenomenally successful. Ninety percent of the attendees were offered promotions within a year of their graduation. Why was the program so successful? Because all of the legs on the Training Success
A highly valued operational goal of most technologydriven enterprises such as research and service laboratories is the seamless integration of processes and data into a tightly unified continuum to provide accurate updates on key metrics....
In September 2012, the Institute for Laboratory Automation and Lab Manager Magazine— as part of the Lab Automation University program— will offer a series of webinars under the heading “Lab Automation Is Inevitable: Are You
Portable instrumentation and analyzers are a booming business if recent announcements are any guide. Rigaku’s handheld Raman spectrometer, Thermo Fisher’s handheld X-ray and Raman analyzers, Centice Corp.’s Raman-based narcotics
Specifying gas handling systems that are as expandable as a child’s LEGO® set is a reality today, thanks to innovative systems designed for laboratory use with flexibility in mind. By using switchovers, manifolds, and the like, you can
Ask The Expert: What to Know Before Investing in an Ultrapure Water Purification System
Sarah Haviland, lab manager and graduate student in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the Medical University of South Carolina, shares her experiences with contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, Ph.D., on choosing and
A research technician enters a freshly decontaminated sterilization room to prepare or collect implements for research procedures. Almost immediately her nose and throat feel a tingling irritation, then she begins coughing and feeling a shortness of
Add to that bleeding, burns, medical situations, electric shock, and weather emergencies. The only good way to prepare for an emergency situation is to think through how you should respond and then practice doing it correctly. Regular drills and
Perspective On: A Drug Discovery Lab
Started up in 2000, A&G Pharmaceutical is an antibody-based drug theranostic (therapeutic and diagnostic) company focused on improving the screening, detection, and treatment of cancer as well as other diseases that affect people. Based in
The Right Choice For Mass Spectrometry Systems
AB SCIEX TripleTOF™ 4600 LC/MS/MS The AB SCIEX TripleTOF 4600 is a ‘workhorse’ system that brings the excellent functionality of TripleTOF technology to routine analysis. TripleTOF technology is considered
Product Focus: Biological Safety Cabinets
The phrase “biological safety cabinet” sounds straightforward enough. It’s clearly a cabinet meant to keep biological hazards safely contained. This technology, though, comes in a broad range of classes: Class I; Class II, Type A1
Turning a sample into a suspension— the essence of homogenizing—occurs in a wide range of laboratory applications. In life science and clinical research, scientists often homogenize tissue samples for various analytical studies. One of
In the mid-1930s, Arnold Beckman created one of the first commercial pH meters— made originally to measure the acidity of lemons. Then an assistant professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, he started selling his device
Product Focus: High-Purity Laboratory Water Systems
PRODUCT FOCUS: High-Purity Laboratory Water Systems Every laboratory requires high-quality water. Many labs or their parent organizations maintain dedicated plants to transform municipal water into a product lab managers can trust for routine
Titrators are basic laboratory tools that add solutions of one reagent to solutions of another with varying degrees of precision. Labs employ titrators mostly in analytic mode to measure concentrations of analytes. Labs also use titration to prepare
Are You in the Market for a Chromatography Data System?
The right chromatography data system (CDS) can spell the difference between a streamlined data collection process and one that is haphazard. CDSs are software packages that collect, store, and help users interpret data. Some have instrument control
Are You in the Market for a Vacuum Pump?
Vacuum pumps are an essential piece of equipment and are used in a wide variety of processes in most laboratories. However, despite numerous advances over the past 70 years, many lab professionals still believe that vacuum technology has not
Are You in the Market for a Microplate Handler?
Microplate handlers are specialized robotic devices that transfer microtiter plates in three-dimensional space from one location within a workflow to another. The “locations” are actually operations such as solvent addition (through
ANALYTICAL Raman Microspectrometer Apollo™ Fits to most of the major brands of optical microscopes Allows users to collect Raman spectra from microscopic samples or microscopic sampling areas of larger samples With
Note to readers regarding an error in the July 2012 Tech News section.
Problem: Cleaning and rinsing lab and process carboys and containers by hand inevitably leads to problems with cross-contamination. Hard-to-reach areas in carboys, like the bottoms and necks, and around the tops of other vessels can be difficult to
Problem: Chemical procedures commonly require the introduction of heat. This is typically in the form of a hot plate or open flame. While the best place to perform these types of chemical procedures is inside a chemical fume hood, most people are
A Non-Contact Sensor for Monitoring Solvent Levels Automatically
Problem: The use of laboratory automation increases productivity and precision, making it attractive for use in the pharmaceutical industry. However, in order to ensure that the automated equipment operates at optimal output, manual input is
Optimized Lab Equipment Maintenance
Problem: The pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries are experiencing watershed changes that are directly driving the need to increase research efficiency while minimizing costs. This “perfect storm” includes pressure to reduce
Improving Performance and Sensitivity of LC/MS Instruments Using Optimized LC/MS Solvents
Abstract: Increasing the sensitivity and resolution of LC/MS instruments has been an ongoing focus for instrument manufacturers. As a result of this increased sensitivity of today’s analytical instrumentation, the choice of high purity solvents
BioTek Continues to Set the Standard in Microplate Washing with the New 405™ Touch
For nearly 30 years, BioTek has led the market in developing microplate washing technologies, and is well recognized for the industry standard ELx405™ Microplate Washer. As a market leader, BioTek closely interacts with customers, responding
Twin Power Technology in 10mm, 16mm, and 22mm Sizes
Burkert Life Sciences division of Burkert Fluid Control Systems is the global leader in microfluidic systems and fluid control products. Employing innovative designs and lean manufacturing principles, we offer the most reliable fluid separated
Ultrapure water enables excellent chromatographic performance for LC -MS analysis
Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is a powerful analytical technique which combines the separation capabilities of either high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) with mass
PURELAB flex- innovating water purity
ELGA’s new innovative Type I ultrapure water purification system ensures accurate consistent results. The PURELAB flex 3 & 4 are the latest additions to the award winning PURELAB flex range of systems. Both systems deliver up to 10 liters
Elix® UV Technology Compared to Single and Double Distillation
Today, newer purification technologies have proven able to compete with long-established distillation. Following a brief review of these puri?cation technologies are data for performances of a single and double distillation system, and the Millipore
Eppendorf epMotion 5075: Automation made simple
The epMotion 5075 LH is the ideal solution for advanced liquid handling demands. It offers outstanding accuracy and precision making it an excellent tool for demanding, small-volume applications such as real-time PCR set-up or magnetic bead
Introducing the NEW RevElution™ Bio-Concentrator
The new RevElution Bio-Concentrator is the front end of rapid microbial detection in food and beverage, water treatment and other industries that require concentration of liquid microbial samples. It’s the only concentrator that can process
Know why Metrohm Titrators are Lab Favorites?
Because they give you everything you want, and do everything you need. What you need: • Precision – check • Accuracy – check • Reproducibility – check • High quality – check What you
Nor-Lake® Scientific -86ºC Select™ Ultra-Low Upright Freezers
Designed to meet the demanding requirements for scientific and laboratory research. Advanced engineered design incorporates the latest in cabinet, refrigeration, temperature control and monitoring features. Provides energy efficient, convenient,
The New Choice in Centrifugation
NuAire has partnered with AWEL International to bring you a full line of centrifuges. This comprehensive line of innovative, and ergonomically-designed centrifuges compliments NuAire’s biological safety cabinets, CO2 incubators, ultra low
Tough Tissue Homogenization with a Bead Mill
Introduction The effectiveness of sample preparation influences not only the quality and quantity of the results, but also the conclusions drawn from experiments. Some samples are easier to lyse, while others, such as fibrous human eye tissue
New Design • In 2Y series cable was hidden under the main housing now is folded behind the indicator • New bottom design of AS/3Y and PS/3Y. Operatin g System – Windows CE New operating system
Automate your Buffer Preparation with the Tecan Buffer Creation Wizard The Buffer Creation Wizard is a Freedom EVOware® Add-on and allows the fully automated preparation of your set of buffers e.g. for subsequent screening experiments like
Offering quality, flexibility and automation the new Thermo Scientific™ Indiko random access analyzer fits ideally to small clinical laboratory settings wanting to save time and money. Patient oriented testing produces results quickly thus
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