“We had to trash everything and start from scratch!” 😩

A sentence, we hear far too often in cell culture labs. 😑

It’s neither bad luck nor bad fate, oftentimes it is simply 👉bad practice. Most contaminations – even if they are not recurrent – are the result of bad practice or a lack of knowledge. 🤷🏻‍♀️

❌ inappropriate pipetting techniques

❌ shared equipment and reagents

❌ cross-facility equipment use

❌ insufficient laboratory training

all contribute to the occurrence of contaminations.

At some […]

👉 Why is this year’s meeting so special? ✨

For 20 years, the Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration has brought together experts and enthusiasts in cell biology, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine, united by a shared vision: combining knowledge, experience, and innovation to improve patient’s quality of life, while continuing to advance fundamental research 🧬🧪🔬.

What began with Heinz Redl’s visionary idea 🛸 to join forces has grown into:

✨ 20 years of Austrian #collaboration

✨ 20 years of expanding […]

One day, Adelheid Weidinger and I told ian banerjee about our concerns about current lab practices, and the alarming lack of knowledge. 😳

Ian was thrilled when we presented our idea of producing video tutorials for the cell culture lab 📽️🔬🧬🧪.

His feedback on our storyboards and videos definitely shaped the development of lablife.video. But even more important was his enthusiasm and unwavering belief in our idea

🫲😊🫱.

☝️ Ian has spent the past few […]

“I will just put the tube down for a moment!” ☝️

“Luckily, it can stand by its own!” 👍

How about a rack? 👀

Racks are often reduced to colourful fillers on dusty shelves in laboratory cabinets (as if they needed it). 🙄

Sometimes they are at least used to store tubes with solutions at the back of our workspaces (also collecting dust over time). 🙄

However, if we use tubes that are designed to stand on their […]

The 33rd Biomed Austria Conference has once again shown us just how forward-thinking an association can be 🚀🚀🚀. Biomed Austria – Österreichische Fachgesellschaft für Biomedizinische Analytik stands for #quality, reliability and the highest standards. No wonder, their emphasis is on forward-thinking #education, #support and #collaboration.

People who work in laboratories are not simply people who work in laboratories 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 . They may be first-year students, but they can also be highly specialized experts such as biomedical scientists. It is […]

Do a little bit of radicchio 🥬, and a few slices of radish and a carrot 🥕 qualify for a salad 🥗👀?

In research, too, we tend to think in superlatives 📈🚀🛸, trying to achieve as many impact points as possible, trying to generate huge amounts of data, trying to obtain the most prestigious research grants, because if we don’t, we are considered failures 🕳️.

But is our performance really only about visibility and speed 😐?

What about failed experiments, and poor reproducibility? These are reasons, why we […]