3D Scaffold for Cell Culturing - scanning electron microscopy
I have always quite enjoyed ‘doing’ tissue culture. Sitting at the laminar-flow cabinet, piles of culture dishes, changing media – passaging, what a fabulous word that is! There is something very pleasant about the manual, repetitive side of tissue culture that I have always found quite … well reassuring. The cultures are still alive; all is right with the world! Continue Reading »3D Cell Culture
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An eminent professor once asked me, ‘Dr Tel, why do you publish in such rubbish journals?’ Actually he didn’t say ‘rubbish’, but because he is an eminent professor I will moderate his language, lest we all blush.
No, stupid! I said PEER Review!
I was rather stumped. Up until that time it hadn’t occurred to me Continue Reading »Science Journals – Money for Old Rope
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The ants at least had listened to the Health and Safety talk.
I would like to say, straight off, that I am very, very careful about Health and Safety in the laboratory. There is probably no greater evangelist for proper laboratory practise than yours truly, an attitude I had adopted long before what we now call the ‘Ruthenium Tetroxide Incident’. Continue Reading »Health and Safety in the Laboratory
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I didn’t balance the rotor on the new centrifuge correctly last week. A cardinal sin. Possibly the cardinal sin!
Centrifuge Practice: 101
I don’t know if you have ever been in the situation where you have taken your valuable prep up (or down, or across) to the centrifuge room, usually after a very early start. Continue Reading »Centrifugation – just going for a spin!
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Pittcon 2012 video report from Andy Long
The Synthesis Media team are back from Orlando and what a wonderful experience we had. No attractions or distractions except for a little bit of shopping on the last day – family pressures you know! Continue Reading »Video Of Pittcon 2012 – Product Reviews And Views
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It was probably James Bond, but it just might have been ‘The Man from UNCLE’. There is an outside chance it was ‘Joe 90’, but I don’t think so. Much more likely to have been Thunderbirds – Thunderbird 2 of course, with all the different pods!
However, it was probably the Johnny 7 One-Man Army gun I never got for Christmas mostly responsible. Continue Reading »Microplate Readers and Hidden Cameras!
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HOW IT DOES NOT HAPPEN!
Cryopreservation is a tricky business. Not just the process, which can be quite involved, but the amount of baggage that comes with it. Continue Reading »Cryopreservation
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