Laboratory equipment

PHC Corporation of North America (PHCNA) launched a new ultra-low temperature storage product: the TwinGuard ECO 703VXH. The new freezer is designed to deliver enhanced energy efficiency and expanded operational monitoring.  The TwinGuard ultra-low temperature freezers are designed for long-term storage and preservation of biologicals and critical materials. They are in use across pharmaceutical and…

Lab equipment heavyweight Thermo Fisher Scientific is the latest to pair up with NVIDIA during this week’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, as large suppliers and AI platform companies jockey to define what “AI-ready labs” actually look like in practice. Announced the same day was Lilly-NVIDIA joint investment potentially worth $1 billion over…

The global engineering, manufacturing and supply chain services company Jabil has spent more than two decades serving healthcare customers, with manufacturing and engineering work that includes medical devices and related capital equipment. One thing that it did not have until recently was a rapid, in-house way to prototype catheter components at the same pace. Its…

The Transferpette pro micropipette is available in single-channel as well as eight- and 12-channel configurations across a range of volumes. BRANDTECH Scientific has launched the Transferpette pro micropipette, adding new volume ranges and ergonomic features to its liquid handling portfolio. The Transferpette pro introduces a rotating finger rest that accommodates both left- and right-handed users,…

Economists use “K-shaped recovery” to describe divergence, where one part of an economy improves while another crumbles. The term gained traction during the pandemic to describe unequal post-COVID outcomes across income groups, sectors and firms. Now the concept fits the fortunes of lab equipment companies, among other things. Major vendors have posted strong numbers in…

Laboratory Operations (LabOps) now drives scientific value directly. Labs no longer limit the role to basic support tasks, such as stocking reagents and repairing equipment. Heading into 2026, many lab leaders manage high-throughput data pipelines, integrate multi-modal research workflows and comply with stricter regulatory requirements. Many labs face sharp increases in complexity from handling massive…

If you have ever tried to keep a workshop clean while you are still building something, you know the trick is not the big cleanup at the end. It is the steady habit of putting tools back as you go, so the mess never gets a chance to take over. That is roughly the shift…

2025 put life sciences labs through the wringer. Venture funding tightened. Layoff emails piled up from Boston to South San Francisco. Clinical timelines slipped, capital projects were paused and plenty of once white-hot markets started to feel a little oversupplied. For lab managers and R&D leaders, the year perhaps felt less like a “soft landing”…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific X and S Series general-purpose centrifuges, featuring a natural refrigerant cooling system designed to comply with E.U. and U.S. EPA F-gas regulations. The 4-liter centrifuges use the company’s GreenCool Technology, based on hydrocarbon refrigerant R290, which Thermo Fisher says delivers a global warming potential (GWP) of 3,…

Labs stand out as energy hogs in the built world. An average research setup burns through several times more power per square foot than a corner office. There are many factors to blame. Examples include everything from nonstop ventilation to gear crammed everywhere, sometimes running 24/7. Harvard Med School’s 2023 sustainability report and ENERGY STAR…

Picture this: the alarm on a ULT freezer storing valuable samples at low temperatures goes off at 2 a.m. on a Saturday, or maybe the alarm battery is dead entirely. No one is notified of the freezer failure, and the entire inventory is compromised. Alternatively, a digitalized lab avoids this crisis. In this scenario, a…

Over the past few decades, the idea of what counts as a lab has expanded from isolated benches and test rigs to globally distributed R&D environments that span cloud data centers, autonomous factories and national research campuses. The Top 100 Labs 2025 report profiles the commercial, institutional and national labs that are rebuilding their R&D…

On average, laboratories emit 425 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced, more than half the emissions of a coal plant.  Fume hoods account for a significant part of a lab’s energy consumption. Hoods run continuously, exhausting the air in the fume cupboard and forcing the HVAC system to work harder to replace…

When a cryogenic storage failure hit Karolinska Institutet’s Neo building over the 2023 Christmas holidays, it destroyed decades of samples in just five days. An interruption in the automatic liquid nitrogen refill for 16 of 19 cryogenic tanks allowed temperatures to rise beyond safe limits. Karolinska Institutet’s (KI) internal report later quantified the damage: approximately…

Brandtech Scientific has announced a strategic partnership with Copia Scientific to strengthen sales and service for the BRAND Liquid Handling Station (LHS) product line across the United States and Canada. The LHS is a compact benchtop pipetting robot designed for low-to-medium throughput labs, handling volumes from 1–1000 µL with interchangeable single-channel and 8-channel liquid ends.…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched the TSQ Certis triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, a new LC-MS/MS platform aimed at routine and high-throughput labs in biopharma, clinical and translational research, and environmental and food safety testing. The company says the system is designed to improve consistency and reduce downtime in targeted quantitation workflows. A central claim is…

Making industrial and military magnets from rare earth metals is a dirty job, often relegated to countries with limited environmental oversight. Now, Gadolyn Inc., headquartered in Austin, Texas, has developed a way to do it cleanly, paving the way to bringing production back to the U.S. The traditional molten salt electrolysis method, used around the…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened its East Coast Advanced Therapies Collaboration Center, or ATxCC, in Philadelphia, a move that places the life sciences supplier directly inside the operations of early-stage cell and gene therapy developers. The center sits inside BioLabs for Advanced Therapeutics, a newly expanded 53,000-square-foot incubator in the city’s fast-growing “Cellicon Valley” cluster.…

The 3 mm Multi-Nuclear Inverse (MNI) CryoProbe is a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) detector “combining the highest sensitivity and versatility,” according to the R&D 100 2025 team at Bruker who developed it.  The Ultra-Sensitive 3 mm MNI CryoProbe Scientists working in discovery and development were having difficulties characterizing lead compounds and their related substances considering…

Atlanta’s west side is getting a new kind of lab district. Science Square, an 18-acre mixed-use development next to Georgia Tech’s Midtown campus, is being marketed as a regional life sciences hub, with a purpose-built lab tower, residential high-rises and street-level retail clustered around new pedestrian links and a shared “home for discovery.” Within Science…

Automation was supposed to help R&D labs run more smoothly, freeing scientists from repetitive work so they could focus on discovery. And sometimes it does do that. But the reality now is messier. In a recent survey of 856 biopharma R&D professionals, 31% cited lack of flexibility and 30% pointed to poor integration as top…

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has introduced the i-Series LC-2070 and LC-2080 integrated high-performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC), the latest models in its i-Series line. The LC-2070/LC-2080 systems are benchtop HPLCs with automation features spanning start-up to shut-down, including automated bubble detection and resolution, self-diagnostics, predictive maintenance tools and recovery functions. An integrated column management platform (iCMP) tracks…

As 10x Genomics plugs Anthropic’s Claude into its cloud analysis stack, Michael Schnall-Levin, the company’s chief technology officer, is less interested in the novelty of “natural-language pipelines” than in solving a stubborn problem he calls the last mile of single-cell analysis. For years, 10x has invested heavily in software and visualization tools to automate early-stage…

As Anthropic rolls out Claude for Life Sciences, 10x Genomics is positioning its cloud as the analysis engine behind natural-language queries on giant single-cell datasets. “What we just launched is a meaningful first step toward that: an integration with Claude where we expose an MCP interface to the tools we have in our cloud,” said…

TESTA Analytical has introduced instrument-optimized differential refractive index (DRI) detector kits aimed at HPLC system manufacturers that want to integrate DRI into their platforms. According to the company, the detector kits are designed to meet the specific mechanical and electronic requirements of different HPLC systems, drawing on TESTA Analytical’s experience in opto-electronics, fluidics, temperature control,…