Talking to your staff, your customers, and to upper management is common sense, natural and instinctive, right? Think again.

How honest communication reduces workplace rumors and earns credibility

The ability to negotiate successfully in today’s turbulent business climate can mean the difference between success and failure.

The mistakes we all made coming up in the industry—the “freshman effect”—were almost unavoidable. Checking and rechecking kept us in check, and this was our go-to strategy as we became experts.

A simple tool for calculating ROI can determine which investments are best for your lab

New U.S. patent offices create hubs of innovation and economic activity

It's all in the planning 

Asset Utilization Monitoring Captures the Data Necessary to Improve Instrument Uptime and Lab Productivity.

The latest equipment, instruments and system introductions to the laboratory market.

Dr. Amanda Capes-Davis, an independent cell culture consultant and founding manager of CellBank Australia, talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, PhD, about the imperative need to establish best practices in a cell culture laboratory.  

One of the oldest and most common forms of absorption-based analysis, ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometry continues to evolve.

The evolution of incubators started with the control of heat. Then, scientists wanted humidity control. The desire to control an incubator’s pH spawned CO2 incubators.

Product and Technology Roundup: Hold the Decibels

Advanced Controls Keep the Temperature Accurate Throughout the Box

New Designs Reduce Fatigue and Increase Throughput

Systems for Comprehensive 2D Chromatography

Electrophoresis relies on a basic process — particles moving in an electric field.

TOC (total organic carbon) analyzers are a mainstay of environmental and quality control chemistry.

Freezers and refrigerators are an integral part of any laboratory that requires temperature controlled storage.

A laboratory information management system (LIMS) consists of software that serves as the interface to a laboratory’s data, instruments, analyses and reports.

Low-temperature (or ultra low) laboratory freezers will achieve temperatures of -40°C to -85°C — much lower than their kitchen-based counterparts.

Troubleshooting, scheduling, communicating, and consulting are just part of lab manager Lisa Wright's many responsibilities

A 3-Step Program for Working with Autoclaves

For too many years at academic institutions and some companies, health, safety and the environment have been something extra. It’s time that it becomes part of the process.

The answer is simple: if you use your balance at all, regular calibration is critical. The question frequently comes up when a balance is initially purchased. A new balance operator’s manual almost always recommends calibration before use

The oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay is an analytical method to determine the antioxidant potential of nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and food ingredients.

Chemical, water or other analysis requiring exact measurement and dispensing of liquid reagents relies on the use of pipettes. Some pipettes are disposable, however, reusable glass pipettes are preferred because they are typically of higher quality and are calibrated more exactly.

Designed to meet the growing need for personalized solutions, Gilson’s PLC 2020 is one of the only benchtop purification systems on the market capable of performing high pressure reverse phase applications at pressures greater than 500 PSI.

The i.C³ user interface is icon driven, featuring a 7” full-color touchscreen that is door mounted at eye-level on all upright lab refrigerator models. 

Recognized worldwide as the leader in enterprise Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and instrument interfacing software, announces the release of LabWare ELN v2.0.