The ABCs of ISOs: What ISO Standards in the Life Science Industry Are All About
Regulatory UpdateIt’s not just what you measure but how you measure. Which ISO standards matter for the life science industry?
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The Artel Digest
Stay informed about best practices for your liquid handling quality assurance.
The Digest brings you technical resources, expert tips, guidance on regulations and standards, as well as discussions with key industry leaders – that focus on pipetting and automated liquid handling processes.
Understanding Data Security: 5 Best Practices
Ask An ExpertWhether information is housed locally behind a company firewall or remotely within Amazon’s data centers, principles and best practices can help minimize the risks we face.
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Embracing Ergonomic Pipetting Technique
Ask An ExpertThere are a number of things you can do to improve your positioning and pipetting ergonomics to help avoid repetitive stress injuries.
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Standards and Sausages: The political side of standards development
Regulatory UpdateA finished standard carries a certain “weight” due to the esteem of the issuing organization. However, standards are written by human beings, and can contain all our noble aspirations and petty behaviors.
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Tips on How to Pipette
Technical ResourceTen Tips to Improve Your Pipetting Technique: download the free wall poster and/or watch the video to get better at accurate, reproducible pipetting.
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Drug safety testing – a brief look at history
Ask An ExpertWith much of the world’s focus on the Ebola outbreak and the deployment of experimental medicines and vaccines, it’s worthwhile to stop for a minute and think not just about drug and vaccine efficacy, but also about their safety.
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Assay Transfer Troubleshooting
Feature ArticleAutomating an assay—or transferring an assay from the benchtop to a liquid handling robot—is not always as straightforward as one would hope.
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Best Practices for the Use of Micropipettes
Feature ArticleDon’t let variation in pipetting technique steer important test results off course. Achieve accurate, precise results by understanding and managing variations in operating technique, and ways to control and minimize those risks.
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An Introduction to Cloud Data Security
Ask An ExpertCollaborative efforts require shared information. With advances in cloud technology, laboratories are reconsidering methods for data collection, storage and access. Inevitably, the dialog turns to a fundamental question: security.
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How does the pipetting technique that technologists use affect assay development?
Ask An ExpertWe talked to Shilo Caulfield, Viracor Laboratories, to get her thoughts about the impact of pipetting technique, and how it can affect results.
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