Lab budgets are shrinking as grant funding tightens, forcing researchers to justify automation purchases with hard ROI. To help with the calculus, R&D World is hosting a BRANDTECH Scientific–sponsored webinar on September 30 at 2:00 PM ET that will offer a reproducible framework for evaluating automation to maximize the return on investment. Tom Friedlander, business…
HORIBA debuts fifth-gen Aqualog spectrometer for water research
HORIBA launched the Aqualog-Next A-TEEM spectrometer, the fifth generation of its Aqualog line, designed for water research and environmental analysis. Using A-TEEM, the system simultaneously acquires absorbance and fluorescence excitation-emission matrices (EEMs) and, with an ultra-fast CCD detector, captures fingerprints in seconds, according to HORIBA. This fits a broader push in water-analysis tools, with recent…
Thermo Fisher opens North Carolina plant to boost U.S. pipette-tip supply
Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a 375,000-square-foot, carbon-neutral plant in Mebane, North Carolina, designed to produce at least 40 million pipette tips per week to shore up U.S. supplies of a lab consumable critical to research and diagnostics. The company held a ribbon-cutting Thursday. The Mebane site uses advanced automation for manufacturing, packaging and shipping…
Thermo Fisher unveils Talos 12 TEM to boost life sciences research
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched the Talos 12 TEM, a 120 kV transmission electron microscope aimed at life sciences research, pathology and drug development. The microscope targets fields like cell biology, structural biology and nanoparticle characterization. It offers configurations for routine imaging of cells and tissues, advanced scanning transmission electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy,…
What are beakers?
Beakers are a common type of laboratory glassware used for preparing and holding solutions and other samples. A beaker is generally a cylindrical container with a flat bottom and an open top. This shape is similar to a drinking beaker. The straight cylindrical sides of a beaker distinguish it from a flask, which has sloping…