by Glen Ninglish | Sep 16, 2026 | Lab Equipment
Walk into any modern biomedical, pharmaceutical, or clinical laboratory, and you will almost certainly find a microplate reader for laboratories either running an assay or waiting for one. These instruments measure optical signals from hundreds of wells...
by Glen Ninglish | Sep 16, 2026 | Lab Equipment
If you work in a laboratory, you have almost certainly used a laboratory vortex mixer without thinking too hard about the mechanism behind it. Press tube, mixer runs, contents blend. Simple enough. But what is actually happening inside that tube during vortexing, what...
by Glen Ninglish | Sep 16, 2026 | Lab Equipment
The laboratory water bath is one of the most enduring instruments in scientific research, precisely because water is one of the most effective natural heat transfer media available. Its high thermal capacity, excellent contact with submerged vessels, and consistent...
by Glen Ninglish | Sep 16, 2026 | Lab Equipment
An incubator is one of the most foundational pieces of equipment in any laboratory, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood when it comes to selecting the right type. Labs that deal with microbiology, cell biology, pharmaceutical research, and clinical...
by Glen Ninglish | Aug 10, 2026 | Lab Equipment
Orbital shakers are among the most frequently used instruments in modern laboratories, and also among the most frequently misused. The misuse is rarely dramatic. It does not typically result in visible sample failures or obvious protocol breakdowns. It shows up more...
by Glen Ninglish | Aug 10, 2026 | Lab Equipment
Mixing is such a fundamental part of laboratory work that it is easy to treat it as a solved problem. You have some kind of mixer on your bench, and it mixes things. The trouble is that not all mixing is the same, not all samples respond the same way to the same...
