CURRENT ISSUE | VOLUME 15 - ISSUE 6 | July 2020
COVER STORY
Creating a Positive Lab Culture
Learn to use behavioral strengths to lead, motivate, and succeed
In Focus
From resources to support, the right partner can help you tackle cell culture contamination
A biological safety cabinet without compromise
Leadership and Staffing
Learn to use behavioral strengths to lead, motivate, and succeed
With hiring going virtual at many companies, Linda the lab manager shares her tips for attracting the best talent to your lab with a solid remote onboarding process
Understanding the unique traits of each generation ensures a cohesive work environment
Labs Less Ordinary
At the NOAA Charleston and Hollings Marine Laboratories, collaborative research is at the heart of safeguarding aquatic ecosystems
Business Management
To implement real change in the scientific workplace, participation is needed on both an individual and corporate level
Breaking down barriers for knowledge transfer supports creativity and innovation
Multimedia
In this month's comic, Linda shares how she creates a work environment where everyone feels included and can therefore do their best work
Lab Design and Furnishings
Proper planning cuts down on construction time
This workhorse in the desert needed to set a new standard for sustainability, as well as provide space for ever-advancing scientific research and discovery
Lab Health and Safety
Recommended procedures for donning and doffing PPE to prevent cross-contamination
INSIGHTS
AI can tackle big data and accelerate numerous applications in analytical chemistry
Ask the Expert
In this Q&A, Elizabeth Carbonella of A2LA outlines the process of laboratory accreditation and the associated benefits
Product Focus
Faced with limitations of egg-based vaccine production, researchers have turned to other approaches
Although freeze drying is a well-known technique, it still comes with some hurdles
Various forms of light-based analysis—including infrared and near-infrared spectroscopy—provide useful information from an easy workflow
Revolutionary approaches to drug discovery aided by informatics and guided toward precision medicine have helped bring new drug approvals back to pre-1996 levels
