Lab Management
Are you faster or slower than your peers? Are you more or less productive? Do you have more errors and repeat testing? How are others applying lean best practice principles to their lab operations?
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Technifab Products, Inc. announces a new west coast location to better serve their cryogenic liquid transfer equipment customers. The additional facility is located near the Bay Area in California to better assist our semiconductor, biotechnology, food and beverage customers.
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Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, this week announced a definitive agreement to sell its Specialty Chemicals business to an affiliate of New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. for a cash purchase price of $280 million.
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Cytometers, Inc., and eBioscience announced May 5 that they have entered into a worldwide co-marketing agreement. The collaboration is designed to offer scientists a better and more comprehensive solution for their flow cytometry research needs, harnessing the cost-effectiveness, ease-of-use, performance capabilities and accessibility of the Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer System with the market leading extensive line of high quality cytometer research reagents offered by eBioscience.
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on May 14 one billion dollars of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds have been awarded to construct, repair and renovate scientific research laboratories and related facilities across the country.
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Quantachrome Instruments, a leading manufacturer and supplier of powder and porous materials characterization instruments, has long offered measurement services through its application laboratory located at its corporate headquarters in Boynton Beach, Florida.
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Carl Zeiss Ltd. has agreed to acquire Imaging Associates Ltd. as part of its continuing investment into customer support and service delivery.
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One of the best approaches for proactively managing obsolescence is to develop and maintain a multiyear capital plan that explicitly designates a specific portion for instrument replacement each year.
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Lab managers will face an increasing challenge in the next decade managing a rising tide of data. To realize the full benefit and value of these diverse and voluminous data requires effective data management techniques, institutional arrangements, and policies.
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Despite the vigilance of federal, state and local regulators and of accreditation organizations that evaluate and certify laboratories, the development and maintenance of quality in laboratories are constant concerns.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Professor Bruno Domon, director of the new Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics unit (LCP), announced on April 22 a collaboration to develop workflows that overcome current bottlenecks in biomarker discovery and assay development for clinical proteomics research.
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PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC, a diagnostic genetic testing company based in Spokane, Washington.
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