What does the future of research look like?

In many areas of life, there are high hopes and expectations for far-reaching developments and innovation in the future. But what does this ...

Scientific research and lab products: How important is the past for the future?

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton, 1675

Castles Made of Sand: Coral Reefs and their Symbionts

Towering coral, vibrant with color, and teeming with life is a common image when thinking of coral reefs. Scores of fish, sharks, sea turtle ...

Bacteria Versus Body Cells

Do our bodies contain far more bacteria than human cells? Researchers have found that this is not the case. The ratio is approximately equal ...

Nucleic Acid Purification – How to tackle routines and gain time?

Aged more than one century, nucleic acid purification is anything but ordinary. Imagine routine DNA/RNA purification becomes simple and easy ...

From Research to Commerce - The story behind novel therapeutic development

The line between academia and commerce has blurred tremendously over the past few years. Not only do big companies actively invest in unive ...

Pipetting Comics

Lab Life

A laboratory can be a lot of fun. Read our exciting comics and find out how you recognize yourself. Lean back and smile.

Influences on Aerosol-Tightness

A broad range of activities – including filling centrifuge tubes, removing caps or lids from tubes after centrifugation, and removing supern ...

Summertime, and the Livin’ Is Easy…

It’s summertime - the clocks have moved forward by an hour and any lingering feelings of lethargy have been replaced by an upbeat mood, ener ...

Staying up-to-date

We all do it – and quite frequently. Press the button, watch the hourglass, circle or shaded bar until it’s completed. We’ve now updated the ...

Do You Worry About Your Samples?

Despite all trends for energy saving, the goal of an ULT freezer should always be providing you a safe storage for your high-value samples. ...

Everyday Centrifugation

In the laboratory, centrifuges are ubiquitous, and they are used with a goal in mind. The principle of centrifugation, however, is not limit ...

Malaria – the Battle is Not Lost

Learning From Nature

Centrifugation Tube Adapters – When to Use One, and How to Identify the Correct One

Multiple different adapters for all types of vessels and tubes exist. Often it is difficult to decide which one is the correct adapter for t ...

Behind the Crime Scene: How Biological Traces Can Help to Convict Offenders

Although cutting-edge forensic laboratories feature frequently in films and television, how many of us know what actually goes on there in r ...

The First Mother of Cell Culture

In February 1951, George and Margaret Gey, a married couple working as scientists at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, received a penny-s ...

Spotlight on Women in Science

Female scientists are unequally rare. To raise awareness of this issue, women all over the world are celebrating the “International Day of W ...

How Many Cells Are in Your Body? Probably More Than You Think!

Very different figures circulate about the quantity of cells found in the human body. An international team of scientists has done systemati ...