Maintaining your laboratory equipment is vital for ensuring you have accurate and reliable results, prolonging the lifespan of your equipment, and promoting safety in your laboratory environment. If you’d like to learn about best practices for maintaining your laboratory equipment,… Read More
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Mail-in Vs. On-Site Pipette Calibration
We provide mail-in and on-site pipette calibration services at the Lab People and the Scale People. Both of these services have advantages and disadvantages, and we’re here today to list a few of each to make the decision easier for… Read More
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Mail-in Pipette Service
The Lab People and the Scale People offer quick and easy pipette calibration and repair services with their mail-in service options. Pipettes are calibrated with our ISO 17025 Accredited and ISO 9001 registered calibration lab in Columbia, MD. Our crew of pipette calibration technicians… Read More
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Official Cleaning Guide for a Laboratory Balance
Cleaning your lab instruments can be a part of your daily routine or validation process. When it comes to laboratory balances, the higher the resolution of the balances, the greater the risk of compromised weighing accuracy because of contamination from… Read More
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Types of Liquid Handling Devices, More Than Pipettes
With liquid handling options spanning the range from a basic pipette to a full-scale, multifunction workstation, picking the ideal system for your application could be mind-boggling. Automated systems can be optimized for various techniques, including ELISA, time-resolved fluoresce, PCR setup,… Read More
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Class F Replacement
Since 1959, land surveyors and other geospatial professionals have had two primary standards to measure the length of a foot – the United States survey foot and the international foot. Both have been supported by the NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey… Read More
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Pipette 101: Positive Displacement
Positive displacement pipettes are crucial players in the laboratory liquid handling toolbox. Volatile liquids vaporize, losing volume when you’re in contact with air. Viscous liquids, because of their density, might expand or compress air while pressurized in a moving or closed chamber…. Read More
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ISO 17025 Cannabis Testing
ISO 17025 is the international basis for all accrediting calibration and testing laboratories. It applies to freestanding labs and labs in a more extensive facility. When a lab is part of a bigger facility, ISO 17025 accreditation could be achieved… Read More
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Choosing Pipette Tips
Pipette tip selection should always be prioritized alongside any technique and pipette calibration to help produce dependable experimental results. This article will provide some background and criteria for evaluating and picking pipette tips that will not adversely influence an experiment’s preliminary results…. Read More
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Lab Balance 101: Routine Lab Balance Checks
Balance routine testing will ensure that your weighing results remain accurate and precise. Although weighing is just one step of the usual process chain, it will strongly influence the quality and integrity of the final results in many laboratory processes…. Read More