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  • Fatty acid estimation

    Arijeet Gattu
    Tuesday, February 18, 2014
    NEFA kit is used to estimate fatty acid levels in rodents and human serum samples, ex-vivo lipolysis experiments. Its easy to use, and fairly accurate. read more

  • Mycobacteria Identification

    Sara G.
    Thursday, March 20, 2014
    This system provides for the rapid detection and recovery of Mycobacteria in clinical specimens. read more

  • Quick and Efficient Stomacher

    C Cooper
    Tuesday, November 25, 2014
    As a high throughput food microbiology lab, we handle hundreds of samples daily that need to be processed and stomached. We require durable equipment that is easy to use in ... read more

  • Reliable Incubator for Your Cell Culture Needs

    Shawn Clouthier
    Friday, December 12, 2014
    Our lab has owned eight of these incubators, many for almost a decade now and they have performed wonderfully for our mammalian cell culture needs. Anyone doing routine cell ... read more

  • Large Capacity Reliable Water Bath

    Shawn Clouthier
    Tuesday, December 16, 2014
    We have many Isotemp products in our lab. One model in particular has performed admirably over the past decade, that is the Isotemp 120 Water Bath. It has temperature control... read more

  • Thermal Cycler for Small Applications

    Colin Cooper (1)
    Friday, December 19, 2014
    This thermal cycler is a small unit, described as being best suited for education. It is a very inexpensive cycler best suited for small scale research projects. As it only ... read more

  • New age incubators with a few kinks to be worked out

    Colin Cooper (1)
    Monday, December 29, 2014
    We have a number of Memmert incubators, and they perform well during temperature and humidity calibrations. One problem is the quality of the door handles. The doors do not ... read more

  • Quality bench-top centrifuge

    Colin Cooper (1)
    Monday, January 12, 2015
    Our lab uses this as an everyday centrifuge for pelleting particulates. We chose this product as Eppendorf is the gold standard for microfuges and bench-top models. It is a ... read more

  • Great microwave digester for cheap - Unattributed Review*

    Unattributed Review
    Friday, January 23, 2015
    Multiwave Go Microwave Digestion System
    This microwave has worked very well for me in the last few weeks. It's great for my organic matrices, and was super cheap. read more

  • Low Cost Atomic Force Microscope

    Srinivas Godavarthi
    Tuesday, January 27, 2015
    We've found this to be a low cost and very useful piece of equipment. In our particular case this AFM perfect. However, if high resolution for minimal feature size is required... read more

  • Average Everyday Shaker

    Colin Cooper (1)
    Tuesday, February 03, 2015
    MaxQ 4000 Benchtop Orbital Shakers
    We required a shaker for bacterial cell culture, and went with something we know will last. Thermo has a good reputation for durable equipment, and that is not something you ... read more

  • Standard Power Supply for Electrophoresis

    Colin Cooper (1)
    Friday, February 27, 2015
    This power pack is pretty standard, and easy to use. Most of our PAGE electrophoresis equipment is from Bio Rad, so we decided to stick with them for power supply. The price ... read more

  • Handy Thermomixer with small footprint

    Colin Cooper (1)
    Friday, March 06, 2015
    This Thermomixer appealed to us as it has a small footprint, is user-friendly and from a reputable company. We use this for microfuge tube and 96-well plate incubation and ... read more

  • Omnilog not that acurate

    Colin Cooper (2)
    Thursday, April 23, 2015
    As a food microbiology laboratory, we often require identification of bacterial species during our routine food testing. We have several methods that we use for this ... read more

  • Easy to use Real-time PCR machine with automation capabilities makes PCR a breeze

    Rahul Keswani
    Friday, May 15, 2015
    Obtaining retroviral titers was critical for our applications in gene therapy and intracellular trafficking mechanisms. This machine was specifically used due to the presence ... read more
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