Over the years lab workers have come to expect more from instrumentation, and pH meters are no exception.

Biological safety cabinets (BSCs) are enclosures that protect users from biohazards by cleansing the work space air through HEPA filters.

Since size dictates so many properties of materials, particle size measurement is critical for many industries.

LIMS may be processor workflow-oriented, industry-oriented, or incorporate aspects of both.

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is the fastest-growing GC method.

Vacuum pumps are essential, but little understood by users.

Incubators are enabling cell and microbiological culture for industry as well as basic research.

Delivering interfering RNA into whole organisms (vs. cells) presents even greater challenges, but the potential rewards are also high.

Chromatographers who learned their craft twenty years ago may not have been familiar with autosamplers then, but today nearly every high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrument includes an autosampler as standard equipment.

It would be difficult to imagine a chemistry laboratory without at least one fume hood. Despite their ubiquity and the notion that they are not “sexy” lab products, a great deal of innovation has occurred in fume hoods during the last decade.

It is not much of a stretch to say that the 1961 introduction of the plunger-operated pipette revolutionized laboratory work.

“Nobody gets excited about lab ovens,” comments one vendor, “but ovens are definitely essential lab components.”