Lab Management
Greater Job Continuity for Married Moms Masks Trend Toward Shorter-Term Employment Among Men, Never-Married Women.
Making a mistake here and there is the hallmark of human existence. None of us is perfect, and we can’t get everything right all the time.
In an effort to better meet customer needs for instrument design and development, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) has opened its new Shimadzu Solution Center. The facility, operating out of SSI’s North American headquarters in Columbia, Md., will enhance collaboration with customers and enable the company to more quickly respond to customer needs for new scientific instruments, software platforms, and applications.
Science has always been the paramount focus of laboratory managers. But that is no longer sufficient. Now, lab leaders need to be profoundly conversant with the business side of their operations as well.
Every laboratory manager and company executive has had these thoughts at some point: “Another regulation. OMG. What do they want now? Will the government ever leave us alone? How am I ever going to get anything done?”
Mollusk researchers at Virginia Tech in the U.S. and at the Freshwater Fisheries Research Center in Wuxi, China, are collaborating to promote freshwater mussel conservation, develop more robust and productive pearl-producing Chinese mussels, and possibly introduce a U.S. mussel to China that has the potential to produce colored pearls.
The federal agency speaks out about how to improve the quality of scientific research.
Research to focus on metastatic breast cancer.
Ambitious surgeon seeks educator who longs for a research partner. Let’s get together and chat about issues of mutual interest to consenting scientists.
According to a recent article by Jeff John Roberts of Gigaom, a 1997 patent held by Boston University (BU) could actually be detrimental to public research.
Michigan’s University Research Corridor ranks high among eight university innovation clusters in a new measure that examines research and development spending, research commercialization and talent production, according to a new economic impact report.
