Whether you celebrate Christmas 🎄 or not, whether you go on vacation 🏖️ or not, whether you put your experiments on hold 🔬🛑 or not, for many of us it is a time to reflect on what has happened in the past year and what we are planning for the coming year 📆.

In any case, we wish you to spend this time of the year the way you want: festive and full of laughter 🥳🥳🥳, or calm and quiet 🌄🧘🏻‍♂️.

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⭐ How do you put down the lid in the sterile workbench?

⭐ When should you change the medium of your cells?

⭐ When should you NOT change the medium of your cells?

⭐ What are typical mistakes when passaging cells?

⭐ Should you always use cell culture medium at 37 °C?

⭐ What contributes most to contaminations in the cell culture lab?

⭐ How can your pipetting technique contribute to sterility, reproducibility and accuracy in the cell culture lab?

If you work in […]

Lately, at a conference, a PhD student told us that as a kid she often went for walks with her dad and they sometimes passed a nearby research institute. She then climbed on her dad’s shoulders, trying to peek through the windows 🪟. There was not much to see. Men and women robed in white gowns appeared and disappeared 👩🏿‍🔬🧑‍🔬, wandering around, following an invisible plan.

“These are scientists” her dad […]

130 million people, walking this planet 🌎, speak German 🗣. Some of them work in the life sciences 🗣🔬.

If you happen to work in a cell culture laboratory and want to do things the right way, ➡️ check out our video tutorials for the cell culture lab, in accordance with Good Cell Culture Practice 👍.

What does this have to do with speaking German?

Well, we now have another new feature on our video tutorials:

🎇🎇 WE HAVE GERMAN SUBTITLES! 🎇🎇

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“Has anyone seen the formaldehyde?” 👀

“Yes, I have it. I’m almost done. Would you like me keep it in the fume hood for you?”

“Yes, please. Thanks!”

[few minutes later… ]

“Hey, that’s formalin, not formaldehyde!”

“Yeah, that’s the same thing, you can use it!”

Is it? Of course not. Formaldehyde is HCHO, and formalin is an aqueous solution of HCHO. But there are also people who think that paraformaldehyde and formaldehyde are the same. Even experienced people. 🤦‍♀️

Water your plants 🪴 with H2O2 and see if it is as wholesome as H2O. Some really smart people invented nomenclature to […]

The liquid nitrogen tank in which cell stocks are stored at bone-chilling –196 °C degrees 🧊, needs a deep clean every 2-3 years 🧹. Every time the tank is opened, atmospheric humidity condenses ☁️, and forms snowflakes ❄️❄️❄️.

Over time, these snowflakes gather in the tank and make handling of the cell towers more difficult. But, more importantly, the temperature sensor cannot operate correctly, if there is too much snow in the […]