12 TIPS
to a Safer Lab
A safe lab is good for employees and good for business
Walk around the downtown area of any major city, and you will likely find construction in progress such as new condos, road work, or a hole that needs to be dug at the corner of a one-way street. While passing, you may have noticed posted on the wire gate surrounding these sites a big white sign: Safety helmets, boots and vests to be worn at all times. Seems logical, right? Guys working with heavy machinery should wear the proper protection gear. Well, the same applies to lab workers. People handling hazardous chemicals and gasses should keep themselves protected.
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Times change, so do labs
Labs and laboratory scientists evolve with changing science and technology
The clinical service labs of today have evolved over centuries in the same way other technologies have changed: we use our tools to discover something new, and then use what we learn to improve our tools. The humid anatomy room of the 17 Century, reeking of decomposition, has given way to the sterile plainness of the climate controlled pathology lab. The alchemist’s den has been swept to the realm of curiosities, replaced by the calculated sophistication of today’s chemistry labs. And the chief diagnostic tools of the doctors of old—namely, superstition and a best guess—have as much in common with the technology of today’s clinical services lab as a leech has to a syringe.
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Fighting for Consciousness
Neuroscientist battles ideological science in new book about the brain and consciousness
In Brain Wars: The scientific battle over the existence of the mind and the proof that will change the way we will live our lives, Mario Beauregard, an associate researcher at the University of Montreal, sets out to show how a less ideological approach to science can improve the outcomes of working scientists.
The mind isn’t, Beauregard argues, a product of electrical impulses inside the brain. Mind and consciousness is far more complicated—so complicated it can’t be described by the limited vocabulary of materialist-based views of science. LAB Business spoke to Beauregard about his theories on science and the mind.
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Get Portability in a Syringe Pump
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The EZflow 2010 from KD Scientific is a durable basic syringe pump designed to enhance quick, efficient operation while maintaining simplicity.
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Nanolitre Pipettor Allows for Faster Screening and Transfer
 The collaboration between TTP Labtech’s mosquito X1 automated nanolitre pipettor and a microplate mover resulted in an innovative system used for the automating and processing of compound hits from screens.
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