Mycoplasma is a very common bacterial contaminator in cell culture labs. Studies have found that mycoplasmas contamination is in many cell lines tested. They’re even shown to contaminate liquid nitrogen storage tanks where cell stocks are stored. They are resistant to… Read More
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What Is Metrology? What Does It Involve?
Most people who work in science and medicine work in metrology every day but few know what metrology is. Metrology is the science of measurement and its primary application, and NIST is the agency that regulates the national Metrologic system. It… Read More
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Everything to Know About Laboratory Conferences Benefits
The Lab People has been active in attending laboratory and scientific conferences, like AAI, AACR, AALAS, Quality, FAM, NIH, Scientific Solutions, Virginia Tech, and much more. Conferences are essential to academic and professional life, for creative purposes or presentations. While online… Read More
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Moisture Testing for Cannabis
Moisture within a cannabis flower is an essential factor for determining the quality of consumer or intermediate products. Moisture not only impacts shelf life and taste sensation but could also affect the percentage of THC in cannabis products; as moisture… Read More
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Pipettes for Cannabis Testing
The expanding cannabis industry must comply with strict regulatory requirements to help ensure the quality and safety of cannabis and other cannabis-derived products. Testing for any impurities like heavy metals, fungicides, and pesticides requires highly sensitive methods such as HPLC,… Read More
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Moisture Analyzer for Medical Devices
Moisture content is an essential variable that has to be monitored for and controlled during the primary production of plastic medical device parts. Resin manufacturers provide some material specification sheets detailing the true maximum moisture specification or maximum allowable ratio… Read More
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PCR with Picus Pipette
The sensitivity of quantitative polymerase chain reaction, or qPCR-based assays, is one of the fundamental reasons for their success and abundant use in specific laboratories. However, other factors, including pipetting technique, can influence PCR assay results. PCR Master mix is… Read More
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Performing Serial Dilution with Picus Pipette
Serial dilutions play a significant role in drug discovery. In plenty of laboratories, serial dilutions are usually prepared with some handheld pipettes or with pipetting automates. The accuracy of serial dilution is typically assumed based on the reliability of the… Read More
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Ergonomic Pipetting
Ergonomics around pipetting could affect one’s pipetting technique and pipetting results. Applications and assays are more sensitive, miniaturized, and perform quicker. To get some reliable data out of the assays, smaller volume errors have to be avoided since they could… Read More
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Avoiding Contamination for Your Pipettes
Preventing contamination with your pipettes is vital for achieving reliable results. It will require the identification of the possible contamination mechanisms so that they can all be adequately addressed. Aerosols, suspensions of any liquid or solid particles in a gas, are formed… Read More