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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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.
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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Is it really necessary to worry about both liquid handling precision and accuracy during assay development?
Ask An ExpertDuring assay development it is vital to optimize the assay and determine the effects of liquid handling variability. Precision is easy to measure, and it highlights gross failures within a liquid delivery step.
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NFSTC Selects PCS for Pipetting Technique Training Tool
Case StudyLaboratory Challenge Data integrity in forensic laboratories is not to be taken lightly. Considered by juries making life-altering decisions (such as whether to convict an accused drunk driver or acquit a murder suspect), forensic test results must be validated and verified prior to presentation to the court. To ensure accurate and precise results, laboratories need […]
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Rigorous Liquid Handling Quality Assurance Helps CardioDx Improve Cardiovascular Care
Case StudyA Change of Heart Knowledge is power and nowhere is this truer than in the healthcare industry. The more relevant information that diagnostic tools can provide about a patient, the more individualized treatment plans can become, resulting in more effective care and improved quality of life. Due to the resulting improvements in patient care, more […]
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Private forensic testing laboratory ensures data integrity with advanced calibration systems
Case StudyStanding Up in a Court of Law Tune into any mainstream crime or court television show and it’s clear that DNA test results could mean the difference between freedom and indictment. This also holds true in reality, with genetic test results emerging as one of the top forms of evidence presented in a courtroom. Whether […]
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