Judging by this month’s cover story as well as the results of our latest Laboratory Spending Trends survey, it’s safe to say that federal budget cuts have created serious challenges for the scientific research community.

The escalating competition for research funding

Storytelling, shadowing, and mentoring are only part of an effective knowledge retention and transfer program.

Cautious optimism for an improved 2014 laboratory products market

A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) serves as the interface to a laboratory’s data, instruments, analyses and reports. For many analytical laboratories, a LIMS is an important investment that assists management in evaluating the efficiency of the laboratory’s operations and reducing costs.

CO2 incubators are designed to copy a cell’s natural environment with a relative humidity of around 95 percent, a temperature of 37°C and a pH of 7.2 to 7.5. They are most common in biology labs performing tissue or cell culture and are used in any process where cells need to be cultured for a few hours or many weeks or where cells need to be expanded or maintained.

Have you ever found yourself wrapped up in the fear of looking stupid in front of others?

We’re just now starting to see the drawbacks of how technology is affecting our interactions in the real, physical world

Management by walking around can reveal how your employees really feel

Justin Ringling, senior scientist in Analytical R&D at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, PhD, about his work, which involves developing and validating analytical methods using HPLC, UHPLC, ICP, and MS.

Cyber attacks against universities are on the rise, but academic and company labs are fighting back to protect their sensitive data.

Managing laboratory animal allergens

There are surely going to be times when experiments must continue running on their own while you do other things (go out to lunch or home to sleep). At these times, it’s important to consider all the things that could go wrong in your absence and to prepare for them.

As regulators have redefined environmental methods for low-abundance analytes, and demanded the analysis of more analytes, column manufacturers have done well to provide greater sensitivity and selectivity.

A lab washer provides convenience, saves water and energy, and provides many more options for cleaning. In fact, the options just keep growing.

Matching the machine to the task provides longer life and better results

New applications are being developed for homogenizers and are important in mixing suspensions, lotions, pastes, and dry-grinding solid materials.

Probing New Ideas: Dr. Les Satin's lab provides an environment in which science is the main motivation

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

Today's laboratory designers understand that in environments that support complex tasks, workflow should dictate design, not the other way around.

New regulations, increased use, flagging performance and signigicant maintenance main drivers to buy

Problem: Advancements in technology in the scientific arena have led to the requirement to store larger numbers of compounds including small molecules, potential drug candidates or biological samples.

Problem: With their critical needs for indoor air quality, power, temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions, labs traditionally have had a difficult time balancing the growing pressures for energy efficiency with the technical requirements of the required functionality within the facility.