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As states continue to expand public testing for COVID-19 there is an increased demand for cold storage to hold sample tubes while they wait in line for Coronavirus testing.Viral transport media has … read more

The VistaLab Ovation family of ergonomic pipettes are well known for their comfort and ability to reduce or eliminate repetitive stress injuries from liquid handling. During the COVID-19 … read more

Laboratory centrifuges are typically segregated into clinical or molecular biology applications.Centrifuges for molecular biology generally work with small volume microtubes which are centrifuged at … read more

Stress has been suggested as one explanation for the 30% (or higher) false-negative rates with RT-PCR testing. To begin with, the process of collecting a nasal specimen is very unple … read more

Whether your lab needs a basic air-jacketed CO2 incubator for culturing and growing mammalian cells or requires a more complex incubator, the  ST45 and ST180 CO2 incubators from Bench … read more

Using a high-quality nasal or oral swab is key to performing a reliable RT-PCR test for COVID-19. Samples collected from patients first undergo a process called reverse transcription w … read more

Lateral Flow Antibody tests were all the rage this week as results were released from Santa Clara, Los Angeles and New York City using finger-prick tests with a random population sample to he … read more

Watch any news clip showcasing a laboratory working on COViD-19 Coronavirus and as the camera pans the lab you will spot laboratory technicians vortexing or sorting dozens of tubes with colored screw … read more

Sharing 60% of human DNA, Drosophila fruit flies have produced breakthrough discoveries in neuroscience that deepen our understanding of illnesses like Alzheimers, Downs Syndrome, Autism and more.In f … read more

With the rise of electronic notebooks, many laboratories are uploading their sensitive data to the cloud for the convenience of portability and ease of collaboration; knowing they are putting this inf … read more

For most clinical laboratory applications, like blood plasma and urine separations, a very basic centrifuge is all you need. Very popular models include the Labnet Spectrafuge 6C with a six- … read more

The simple answer is: None are.  Inserting any kind of plastic tube into liquid nitrogen, even those called "cryovial", carries the potential for explosion, as this report from UCLA  ma … read more

Every week at Stellar Scientific we receive questions like this from high-throughput laboratories asking for storage solutions to hold their unusual sized containers. Most of the time the answer … read more

Because nobody wants to perform experiments while sitting inside a refrigerator/freezer, it became necessary to come up with a solution for keeping samples and reagents cold for several hours at a tim … read more

What qualities make a laboratory chair exceptional and inviting? The lab chair cushions should be made from durable, yet soft material that is comfortable to the touch with padding that is contou … read more

The good old days of white-hot gas jets erupting into life to incinerate unwanted lab contaminants is drawing to a close.  Especially at the community college level, but surprisingly, ev … read more

Extended exposure to ambient air accelerates the death of your ultra low temperature freezers.  Each time the door of your laboratory ULT is opened, warmer air rushes in and begins to th … read more

As modern research laboratories continue to evolve, so are the tools necessary for keeping track of all the work that takes place in the lab.  Be it an electronic notebook, LIMS, invento … read more

Most lab equipment found in today's research laboratories have undergone major transformations, but the reliable hotplate-stirrer looks pretty much the same as it has for a century or more. Takin … read more

Your lab has just purchased a new freezer and now its time to get it organized with laboratory freezer racks. Outfitting a new freezer with a full set of racks can be costly. Depending on the num … read more

In many life science situations, scientists would like to identify specific cells and isolate them. Add fluorescence labeling to flow cytometry and scientists can separate cells with fluorescence-a … read more

The complexity of chemicals in cannabis creates a need for chemical-extraction methods. With such technology, some of the 80 or so cannabinoids—including the well-known cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahy … read more

In laboratories across the globe, you will find glass jars scattered across lab benches, typically sealed with a flimsy piece of aluminum foil. These jars hold a jumble of 1.5mL tubes, often call … read more

Shopping for a universal laboratory centrifuge just got easier thanks to Stellar Scientific's distinctly organized system of Hermle centrifuges and components.   Unsure what th … read more