Cover Story | Volume 2 - Issue 12 | December 2007
On-Boarding New Employees
Hiring and retaining temporary employees
Sections
Leadership and Staffing
On-Boarding New Employees
Laboratory environments are some of the most challenging work settings. Typical laboratories are complicated places with inordinate amounts of detail, sophisticated technology, safety and regulatory policies, data systems, and potentially hazardous m
Hiring and Retaining Temporary Employees
Employing contingent workers offers laboratories staffing flexibility without long-term commitments.
Business Management
Laboratory Response Network, Part 2: Lessons Learned
Part 1 of this two-part series told the history of the laboratory response network-chemical, whose goal is to create a partnership between CDC and state public health labs to improve the public health response to a large-scale chemical exposure incident. Part 2 reviews the process of creating the network and its inherent successes and modifications.
Laboratory Technology
Adipose Tissue as a New Source of Adult Stem Cells
An alternative to bone marrow isolation.