A researcher was scalded by near boiling water when she began to remove someone else's load from the top of a tower-style autoclave while standing on a step-stool. The load consisted of a nalgene tub containing bottles of media with water surrounding it. Here's how to avoid such accidents in your lab.

The main question in selecting a balance is whether it will meet the measurement uncertainty budget for the process under investigation.

The basic design principles and proper operation of your chemical fume hood.

Dr. Gregory Shipley, director of the Quantitative Genomics Core Laboratory at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, discusses how he goes about evaluating and investing in new technologies and reagents.

At home, there are few risks involved with using refrigerators and freezers. If the power goes out, probably the worst consequence is food going bad. But in the lab, loss of power could lead to flammable or toxic vapors escaping

Here is a statistic that jumped out at me recently: improper storage of chemicals accounts for nearly 25 percent of all chemical accidents. Why is that? This is a sad statistic, given that all these accidents are entirely preventable, yet they continue to happen despite the availability of numerous and excellent resources just a few keystrokes away.

Fume hoods are installed in laboratories to protect workers from hazardous vapors generated by laboratory experiments. However, simply conducting these experiments in the fume hood does not guarantee adequate protection.

Two different laboratory software projects illustrate the tasks and issues involved in "going paperless."

Reaping the integration benefits of enterprise-level laboratory information management systems.