Perhaps you’ve made your usual New Year’s resolutions: Get to the gym more often, be a better friend, eat more fruits and vegetables, for which I commend you. However, if you’re looking to make resolutions that will have a direct impact on your job performance and career development, you’ve come to the right place.

Step one, change your mindset.  There are five mental attitudes or mindsets that aspiring managers need to develop.  Uses this article as a walk-through.

Nurturing good relationships in business is a lot like doing the same in our personal lives. And just like in our personal lives, a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to any type of relationship usually won’t work. However, it can be wise to take at least a page or two from the book of successful relationship strategies when you’re considering how to best manage a business relationship.

An often overlooked practice critical to passing on key aspects of scientific knowledge

The solution to effectively offering criticism is to seek out the positive in the other person—or in the other person’s position—before making any comments or suggestions.

Understanding each other's needs and priorities is key to a good working relationship

 Jon Webb, senior technical specialist and inventory consultant at ChemSW, discusses best practices in chemical inventory.

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

How to design and implement a successful lockout/tag out program for your facililty.

This is the cornerstone of a good safety program. It’s a statement endorsed and supported by the administration that speaks to the fundamental responsibilities for health and safety in the academic institution or company.

Joel Dudley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Director of Biomedical Informatics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, Ph.D. about the current changes impacting bioinformatics.

There are many different signs that it’s time to upgrade your fume hood, but vendors say safety is the number one reason.

Bar-based and overhead platforms make new ways to mix

Connectivity, compliance leading features

Central component for lab automation

Technologies even enhance samples for specialized assays

Old solution to new analysis problems.

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), one component of a lab’s information infrastructure, help laboratories capture and manage knowledge, streamline data management, protect intellectual property and foster collaboration.

A rotary evaporator, found in every chemistry lab, allows users to perform chemical separation or purification using heat and agitation—or stirring—under vacuum. 

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A laboratory that got its start in food twenty years ago continues to expand

Problem: Forensic labs in the US are faced with backlogs of samples waiting to be processed.

Cross-contamination of human cell lines with other cell lines and/or misidentification of cell cultures is reported to be 18-36 percent. Find out one way to prevent contamination in your lab.

Pipetting is a fundamental activity for a laboratory scientist. Almost every experiment requires small and precise volumes of liquid to be transferred from one container to another.