Editorial
Every April for the past five years, Lab Manager’s cover story has highlighted developments in green laboratory practices.
Proposed regulations for laboratory cold storage manufacturers could be an issue if deadline extension is not granted.
This month’s cover story takes an in depth look at the impact of the first-inventor-to-file system that kicked in on March 16, 2013 under the America Invents Act.
It’s late January here in northern New Jersey. From Boston to Cape May, everyone is bracing for “the monster storm of 2015.” I’m having flashbacks to the winter of 2010 and 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, weather events similarly filled with drama, uncertainty, and hype—some real, some overblown. But we survived that and we will, I’m fairly certain, survive this. Which brings me to this month’s note.
Scientific equipment being used in the kitchen is not a new trend, but such equipment designed from the ground up for culinary use is a fairly recent development.
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson
This morning Queen Elizabeth made her first foray into the world of social media when she sent the first royal tweet under her own name to declare the opening of a new Science Museum gallery.
The issue of overregulation is not new for universities, but what is new is that academic scientists seem to finally be making progress with government officials, a ScienceInsider article says.
Image of gape-mouthed microscopic critter claims first prize in Nikon Competition.
You went through college, studied hard, perhaps got an advanced degree, and later landed the perfect research job. Years passed. One day you found yourself wondering if there wasn’t something else you could be doing, something more challenging, more rewarding—emotionally and financially.
Any researcher in the United States who is dependent on government funding knows first-hand the devastation that the sequestration wrought. Some have found ways, temporarily, to do more with less money, while others have had to pack up their research tents for good.
