CURRENT ISSUE | VOLUME 12 - ISSUE 4 | May 2017
COVER STORY
Moving to the Cloud
What you and your IT team need to know first
Business Management
A well-written service level agreement could make the difference between a successful implementation and an endless round of finger pointing and additional expenses.
New cybersecurity and quality control solutions log adverse events and anticipate future events.
Research-Specific Labs
“A lot of the powerful environmental events that happen in the oceans occur when we’re not there,” says Deborah Kelley, director of the OOI Cabled Array
Leadership and Staffing
IT departments play a critical role in the overall operation and success of organizations.
Laboratory Technology
For lab managers, researchers, and bench scientists, scores of apps are now available to simplify and improve a range of processes in the lab.
The latest equipment, instruments, and system introductions to the laboratory market.
More accurate protein insights help researchers and pharmaceutical companies drive scientific breakthroughs
Lab Health and Safety
The ‘office’ aspect of laboratory research should not be overlooked
INSIGHTS
How regulatory revisions ahead may impact its widespread use
Scientists have only recently come to understand the contributions of microbiomes to human health and illness.
Ask the Expert
Trends with chromatography data systems in regulated environments are focused around data integrity.
Jeremy Goecks, PhD, and Tommy Dang, PhD, talk about the key challenges in data visualization.
Product Focus
Triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry pulls more information from samples and simplifies the workflow.
Accuracy depends on you: know your pipette, maintain it, and practice good technique.
Labs are increasingly doing away with gas cylinders and acquiring on-site gas generators instead.
Core labs for medical testing and next-generation sequencing (NGS) are apparently here to stay
Surveys
Find out readers’ top 10 uses and more from our latest UV-Vis spectrophotometer survey results.
Learn readers’ purchasing plans and more from our latest microplate handler survey results.
Learn readers’ most common service and repair methods and more from our latest results.
Learn readers’ most common service and repair methods and more from our latest results.
How it Works
Vials are small containers composed of glass or plastic used to hold your sample.