Electronic vacuum control pays for itself in cost savings and lab productivity gains.

Innovation in electronic pipettors may overcome shortcomings of the past.

These eight steps will help you solve the issue and ensure it doesn't happen again.

Flow cytometry is a powerful technology that allows researchers and clinicians to perform complex cellular analysis quickly and efficiently by analyzing several parameters simultaneously. Learn about one key problem in this area of technology and one way to resolve it.

Slow production of laboratory-grade ultra pure water necessitates storage in large carboys. Many lab technicians will fill carboys up to 30 liters to locally store and dispense ultra pure water. High purity water stored in such large volumes will quickly degrade in quality. Learn about one solution to this problem.

Extracting compounds from various samples using traditional methods involves some give and take. You can choose to use Soxhlet, which is relatively inexpensive for equipment but uses a tremendous amount of solvent and takes hours to run. 

Effective emergency management requires preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery to protect personnel, samples, records and operations.

Trying to replace a specialty gas with an industrial gas in order to save a few dollars at the onset will cost the buyer more money downstream.

Long considered a back-office function, procurement has emerged as an important asset in effective lab management.

Careful planning and smart partnering protect assets and minimize downtime and disruption

A unique management workshop allows lab managers to resolve issues in a simulated and safe environment.

“Invention and innovation are quite different things,” declares John Dr. Lienhard. To promote invention, a lab manager has to devise methods of instilling a sense of freedom in the research staff.

Most people dislike uncertainty. Therefore, the first priority of a manager should be to reduce uncertainty in the workplace by replacing fear, anger, and rumors with facts, sensitivity to employee concerns, and clarity of group goals and objectives.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Research Center does everything from chemical and biochemical analyses to bioengineering to process scale-up to microbial strain development.