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

Anyone who works in a lab quickly learns the value of labware washers. Today washers are almost as common in laboratories as they are in kitchens.

Water is the lifeblood of all laboratories. Purified water, in particular, serves a variety of operations and applications, from wet chemistry to instrumental analysis.

Chillers are refrigerators that cool down samples or processes to preset temperatures by removing heat from one element and transferring it to another, typically air or water.

There are two main groups of centrifuge purchasers: those who perform routine work and those who value flexibility

Microplate readers are used extensively in the pharmaceutical industry for high-throughput drug screening and in biology labs for enzyme assays, immunoassays, binding assays, protein and cell assays, ELISAs, and biomolecule concentration measurements.

Choice of clean room casework, or furniture, is one of the most important decisions made when setting up classified space.

Invented in the late 16th century, the microscope is arguably the oldest laboratory instrument. Yet despite its maturity, microscopy continues to evolve toward greater capabilities.

Low-temperature laboratory freezers are cooling boxes that achieve temperatures of about -40° C or lower. Kitchen freezers, by contrast, operate to about -20° C.

The advent of inexpensive, powerful, personal computers has been a boon for chromatography data systems.

Gas chromatography (GC) has long been the backbone of organic chemical analysis.

HPLC has expanded its scope significantly into chemistry, pharmaceuticals, forensics, and organic chemical analysis.