Cover Story | Volume 3 - Issue 3 | September/October 2008
What Are You Worth?
Second annual Salary Survey: Workplace, Money, and Job Satisfaction
Sections
Leadership and Staffing
The Four Stages of Management, Part 2
Each stage of development has its challenges, but the rewards are success and ease in the role of manager.
The 2nd Annual Salary & Job Satisfaction Survey
This year's survey paints a generally happy picture, with the majority of lab managers saying that they are satisfied with their salaries and the work they do.
Contingent Staffing
Staffing firms match scientific talent with global industry needs while satisfying workers' desire for freedom, flexibility, and mobility.
Laboratory Technology
Taking Cell Counting to the Next Level
A method using propidium iodide staining of the nuclei improves cell counting accuracy and safety.
Caring for Cell Cultures
The lab manager's role in preventing and detecting of misidentification and cross-contamination of cell lines.
Lab Design and Furnishings
Rethinking Vacuum Supply
Local vacuum networks can bring modularity, energy savings, and cost savings to this important utility for your renovated labs.
Business Management
Smart Partnering
Strategic outsourcing of noncore activities can maximize resources while increasing the quality of products and services.
It's More Than Ordering Pipettes & Running Samples
An innovative master's degree marries science and business.
What to Do When Your Lab's Budget is Almost Spent, and the Year Isn't Over Yet
You're nine months into the year and your lab's budget is almost spent, now what?
Lab Health and Safety
Here's Crud in Your Eye!
The case for an effective emergency shower and eyewash program
Research-Specific Labs
Risky Research
An interview with Rachel Wilson, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
How it Works
Solving Common Water Bath Problems
The challenge of incubation has always been to provide an ideal environment for heating and thawing while minimizing the occurrence of contamination. The use of a dry, metallic thermal media in lieu of water in a traditional water bath is a simple way of eliminating a common source of contamination in the lab.
How to Increase LC-MS Sample Throughput with Multiplexing HPLC Systems
Multiplexing technology enables parallel HPLC systems to synchronize to a single mass spectrometer.