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If your laboratory has its own dedicated power plant or is part of an industrial facility, you may be able to drastically reduce the amount of energy you purchase while reducing your labs carbon footprint.
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While the green movement is receiving less attention now than it has in recent years, it was able to take root with regulators who have become less tolerant of practices found to harm the environment. Many lab managers believe that adjusting their processes now may be more economically efficient and less disruptive to their work than racing to meet regulatory deadlines in the future.
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Your policy regarding sick days can be a powerful recruiting and retention tool, especially when it involves Paid Time Off (PTO). PTO establishes a total number of days an employee can miss in a year. The problem with PTO is that employees will be reluctant to stay home when theyre sick, opting to cash them in as vacation days instead.
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A reliable method for producing plants that carry genetic material from only one of their parents has been discovered by plant biologists at UC Davis. The technique, to be published March 25 in the journal Nature, could dramatically speed up the breeding of crop plants for desirable traits.
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