LABTips bring users practical tips and tricks across a variety of applications, including environmental testing, food and beverage, materials science, and more. These articles are designed to help lab professionals troubleshoot and improve a specific technique or process.
Vivaria have stricter heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) considerations as well as higher air quality standards than other spaces in a research facility, and may have entirely separate HVAC and mechanical systems altogether.
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Flow cytometry is quantitative and qualitative and capable of measuring intracellular and extracellular antigens within multiple cell types per sample. However, mistakes in experimental and panel design can result in false positive or false negative ...
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Extracting DNA in the laboratory isn’t always as straightforward as lyse, precipitate, wash, suspend, especially given today’s increasingly advanced DNA analysis methods like multiplex, real-time PCR and next-generation sequencing.
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The ability to visualize protein dynamics in vesicles, organelles, cells, and tissues has provided new insights into how cells function in healthy and disease states.
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There are many influences that can impact the performance of a laboratory balance when best practices are not followed
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Did you know?: As many as one-third of cell lines may be misidentified or contaminated. Follow these steps to help prevent this costly problem at your lab
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Friday, February 10, 2023
Avoid common mistakes and follow best practices to ensure accuracy and precision, prevent contamination and protect yourself against repetitive strain injury
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Dirty, damaged and dehydrated electrodes are common causes of pH measurement error; avoid these problems and more by following our LABTips
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While the process of method transfer may seem daunting, laboratories can take advantage of faster analysis times and lower costs when switching to hydrogen carrier gas
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Organic solvent, aqueous and hydrogel embedding-based methods each have their own advantages and disadvantages to consider
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