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Learn how to calibrate your lab balance.
Basic Lab Skills and Know-how

How to Clean and Calibrate Your Lab Balance

ByOlwen Reina

Here’s an easy guide on how to maintain your lab balance. Following these tips will ensure your balance remains clean and perhaps most importantly, accurate.

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Basic Lab Skills and Know-how

Take Care of Your Tools: Cleaning Pipettes

ByCatriona Paul

Contamination in your pipette can mean contamination in your experiments, making cleaning pipettes regularly critical. Here’s an easy guide on how to do it.

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Microscopy and Imaging

Microscope Disinfection: A Quick Guide

ByGauravi Deshpande

Shared microscopes have the potential to get dirty and spread nasties between samples and users. Check out our quick guide on how to clean and disinfect your microscope.

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Fuzzy Wuzzy Problems: Achieving and Maintaining a Contamination-free Incubator
Cells and Model Organisms

Fuzzy Wuzzy Problems: Achieving and Maintaining a Contamination-free Incubator

ByOlwen Reina

When you share an incubator with a number of people it can be very hard to keep a clean shop and months, or more, of work can be lost due to contamination. The two biggest sources of bugs in an incubator are: the water pan the containers being put in and out. Both of these…

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Equipment Mastery and Hacks

How to Clean a Water Bath (When You Can’t Avoid it Any Longer)

ByCristy Gelling

Here’s a quick guide to cleaning and maintenance, to help you overcome your fears of the monsters lurking in your water bath.

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