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7 Habits of a Highly Successful Core Facility
I know, I know, another spin on the "7 Habits..." meme, but hey, reserve your judgement until you've read through them. This post is definitely geared towards core facilities, but I think you'll find this transcends to multiple service oriented businesses. Let me know if your facility is currently implementi (click on title for more...)Submitted: 27 March 2012, 3:55 pm
The Cytometrist's Mobile Toolbox
It's no secret technology continues to poke its nosy body into every part of our lives. But it's also surprising that we who work in the labs don't utilize it to its fullest potential. For example, up until recently, I would time my incubations by writing down on a scrap piece of paper what time (of day) the (click on title for more...)Submitted: 4 March 2012, 3:36 pm
Pinterest, the new place for social/scientific collaboration and discovery.
A bunch of years ago a colleague of mine (some might know him as Marvin) and I had an idea that we wanted to create a repository of figures, images, and charts on our web site that we could point people to in order to show them what good cell cycle data looks like (for example) or to share a figure demonstrating (click on title for more...)
Submitted: 14 February 2012, 9:41 pm
Introducing the Cytometry and Antibody Technology Facility (CAT)
I can never tell if and when things like this become "official." It's not like administrators are going to put out a letter to the University announcing such things, so I thought I'd mark the occasion with a post about it. What is "it" you say? For years the Flow Cytometry Facility and Fitch Mon (click on title for more...)Submitted: 31 January 2012, 1:08 pm
What to do with aging equipment: Upgrade or Replace? And a Mini MoFlo XDP Review.
I started writing this post specifically to follow through on a comment I made when talking about our upgrade of our aging MoFlo to the XDP platform (thanks for the reminder Carol). But then, I started thinking about all th (click on title for more...)Submitted: 10 January 2012, 3:23 pm
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