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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

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