The question of permitting lab employees to work alone with dangerous materials and equipment has raised serious questions of whether prohibiting the practice would impede academic freedom

Compressed gas accidents occur too frequently and usually produce serious consequences

Iowa State University’s ATHENA Lab is all about helping people work better

With a myriad of laboratory testing services available in today’s market, quality is the feature that customers value most and which sets one lab above the others. 

Consumers have come to expect a higher standard of variety, pricing options, and customer service in the Internet age.

The labor market has seen a sharp increase in the number of free agents who choose to operate independently, moving as desired from job to job.

It's with an eye toward protection that laboratories have turned to employing the use of biosafety cabinets.

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

Portable technology remains as rugged, reliabile, fast, and easy as ever.

Raman spectroscopy opens new approaches in clinical diagnostics for many medical conditions.

Technological advances have enabled us to analyze increasingly lower concentrations of chemicals

Rich Brown is an executive director and scientist at MVA Scientific Consultants in Duluth, Georgia.

Aydogan Ozcan, PhD,  talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, PhD, about his fascinating journey bringing computational imaging into microscopy.

When working with highly polar compounds, HILIC tends to be the best choice for separation

To lyse cells, purify proteins, or develop nanotechnology, scientists and technologists often turn to ultrasonic liquid processors.

Today’s fume hood world features many options, including filtered hoods

Wherever there are materials that flow, there will likely be a viscometer nearby to ensure the quality and efficiency of the material.

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