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There is almost no heartbreak equal to losing months of painstaking work to laboratory contamination.  Dreaded mycoplasma, nefarious bacteria and other stubborn biological materials can … read more

Any savvy online shopper knows, there’s much more to a good deal than just a great price. Will I be notified if my item is not in stock? How easy is it for me to cancel my order or … read more

As consumers of electronic goods, we’ve all grown accustomed to “plug and play” without much thought to what might be going on inside the outlet powering our device.We like to imagine electrons all ne … read more

With more than two-thousand different laboratory freezer racks in our catalog, at least ninety percent of the time we’ve got an off-the-shelf solution ready to go for you.But not to worry you ten-pe … read more

“Laws” and “Sausages” as two things you should never watch being made.Can we add “Scientific Research” to the list? Between piles of rodent carcasses and towering bags of contaminated laboratory pla … read more

The best time to organize your lab freezer is the moment you buy it, before it becomes a jumbled menagerie of assorted boxes, tubes, racks and who knows what.But even if you find yourself playing ca … read more

Speak with enough scientists and you will hear the recurring theme of not enough money to fund all of their ambitious projects and experiments. Its a challenging reality that impacts both new lab … read more

In every laboratory, personnel spend a lot of time - often hour after hour - in a chair. With the wrong chair, those hours get grueling. Even with the right chair, it takes the correct adjustm … read more

Few areas of science get as nuanced as culturing cells. The methods and media vary with the cells being cultured and the downstream experiments and analysis. If one thing matters in most cell-cu … read more

When Cary Mullis came up with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1983, it might have been hard to imagine how ubiquitous this technique would become in research and clinical labs. PCR is … read more

Flow cytometry simultaneously analyzes a cell in many ways. The features analyzed can include cell size and number, plus molecular markers and other characteristics. Some instruments can analyze a … read more

Every lab needs a pump, but not just any pump will do. Now, we can bring you a great one—the Vapourtec SF-10 peristaltic laboratory pump. In fact, Vapourtec (Suffolk, UK) just made  … read more

Making microscope images is fundamental to biological and clinical sciences. It’s one thing to see something amazing under a microscope and another to capture that image for further analysis or … read more

A Penn State website notes that DNA ladders “are among the most commonly used reagents in molecular biology research.” Also known as DNA molecular weight markers, scientists use these reagents to m … read more

Microscope slides make up one of the most common items in many, many labs. In forensics, healthcare, life sciences and other areas, scientists and technicians often prepare microscope slides. In fa … read more

Pushing a pipette too often over too much time can turn lab work into rehab. Despite being a known risk in labs for decades, this problem continues. In 1997, for example, David Buckle of the&nbs … read more

Keep cannabis clean! That could be one cry heard nearly around the world, and it means keeping as many chemicals, such as pesticides, out of cannabis-based products as possible. As cannabis ga … read more

As we were loading up the newest member of our centrifuge tube family, a stubby 30mL conical tube appropriately named The Chub™ Tube, we were struck by the incredible range of centrifuge tub … read more

More and more labs are making the same discovery: Stellar Scientific's Teepa Tip series of micropipette tips are as nearly perfect a pipette tip as can be found.  From sensitive molecula … read more

The Incushaker family of laboratory shaking incubators from Benchmark Scientific are the essence of form and function in perfect harmony.   Sporting a trendy blue Plexiglas cover,&n … read more

High Performance, Energy Efficient Peltier Technology Memmert is dedicated to continuous refinement of their high-precision Peltier heating and cooling technology. This extremely sens … read more

Thanks to Amazon Prime, online consumers have come to expect free shipping as the norm whenever making a purchase.  While free shipping is within reach when purchasing smaller pieces of lab … read more

The top three reasons our team came up with. 1. Big-ticket items are scary, so people look for less expensive options to minimize their risk exposure. Nobody likes dropping five-figures of h … read more

It started pretty much as a joke.  While on vacation in Italy my wife pointed out this sign and commented: "Bet you didn't know centrifuges come in fruity flavors" We shared … read more