Last month we provided important and practical information about project management techniques and their usefulness in laboratory management. This month we turn our attention to a different management challenge that becomes more commonplace every day in every industry.

Methods for determining which undesirable conditions require root cause analysis and which do not.

Classroom training sandwiced between pre- and post-course online activities delivers strong results.

Collaborating and communicating effectively around the world should be a top priority for most science companies and labs if they hope to compete on a global level.

Superhighway for lab communication amoung disparate laboratory software systems.

Sarah Haviland, lab manager and graduate student in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the Medical University of South Carolina, shares her experiences with contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, Ph.D., on choosing and installing a new point-of-use water purification system.

Vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilization is effective, but not without hazards.

The only good way to prepare for an emergency situation is to think through how you should respond and then practice doing it correctly.

Started up in 2000, A&G Pharmaceutical is an antibody-based drug theranostic (therapeutic and diagnostic) company focused on improving the screening, detection, and treatment of cancer as well as other diseases that affect people.

The phrase “biological safety cabinet” sounds straightforward enough. It’s clearly a cabinet meant to keep biological hazards safely contained. This technology, though, comes in a broad range of classes.

Turning a sample into a suspension— the essence of homogenizing—occurs in a wide range of laboratory applications. In life science and clinical research, scientists often homogenize tissue samples for various analytical studies.

This article covers the trends in laboratory pH Meter technology from the early days to the latest updates to pH Meter requirements.

Every laboratory requires high-quality water. Many labs or their parent organizations maintain dedicated plants to transform municipal water into a product lab managers can trust for routine jobs.

Titrators are basic laboratory tools that add solutions of one reagent to solutions of another with varying degrees of precision. Labs employ titrators mostly in analytic mode to measure concentrations of analytes.

The right chromatography data system (CDS) can spell the difference between a streamlined data collection process and one that is haphazard. CDSs are software packages that collect, store, and help users interpret data.

Vacuum pumps are an essential piece of equipment and are used in a wide variety of processes in most laboratories.

Microplate handlers are specialized robotic devices that transfer microtiter plates in three-dimensional space from one location within a workflow to another.

Increasing the sensitivity and resolution of LC/MS instruments has been an ongoing focus for instrument manufacturers.

Today, newer purification technologies have proven able to compete with long-established distillation. Following a brief review of these purification technologies are data for performances of a single and double distillation system, and the Millipore Elix UV system.

The effectiveness of sample preparation influences not only the quality and quantity of the results, but also the conclusions drawn from experiments.