
CURRENT ISSUE | VOLUME 6 - ISSUE 10 | December 2011
COVER STORY
Changing Spaces
How workplace trends are reshaping research facilities today and tomorrow
Surveys
Did You Know?
Lab Product

Lab water, purified by any of a number of means, is a vital resource in most laboratories. Purified lab water ranges from Type I, which is suitable for analytical tests requiring minimal interference and maximum precision and accuracy, through Type II for analytical tests in which the presence of bacteria can be tolerated, to Type III, which is suitable for general washing and for use as feedwater for producing higher grade water, as well as bacteriological media preparation.
How it Works
Ask the Expert

James Gibson, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S), and Nancy Wayne, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), discuss the recently formed UC Center for Laboratory Safety, its mission and its goals.
Product Focus
Business Management

Patents are more than just boring legal documents. “A patent is the link between R&D and the legal processes,” notes Pierre Buffet, executive vice president of intellectual property information firm Questel. “Patents can be used for various interesting business purposes outside of simply protecting a new invention,” adds Director Ronald Kaminecki with Dialog LLC.
Leadership and Staffing
Laboratory Technology

Consolidation, collaboration and configurability seem to be the three C’s driving the need for more tightly integrated lab workflows and systems, especially in the life science market. The challenge now is integrating data coming from many different sources and to decipher patterns that lead to insight and innovation.

The application of instruments and strategies to reduce the sample prep blank is often called the application of Clean Chemistry techniques. Learn the factors impacting blank quality, in particular when microwave digestion is used, and about some Clean Chemistry products and technologies designed to help the analyst generate superior analytical data.
Editor's Buzz
Lab Health and Safety Tips
Lab Health and Safety
Lab Design and Furnishings
Research-Specific Labs

Developers of analytical instrumentation for food laboratories are constantly being kept on their toes—foremost by the competing technical advancements and expanding market demands inherent in their business, and also by the need to help customers comply with changing and more stringent regulatory requirements worldwide.











