The right answer is no. ❌

How can you be so rude, you may ask? 🤨

Are we mean? No, we just follow correct procedures in the cell culture lab, where sharing is not necessarily caring. ‼️

If one colleague in the cell culture lab asks another if they can “borrow” some of their reagents, media, or even cells, the answer should be no. You don’t have to be rude. You can fetch your colleague a fresh aliquot 🧪, but […]

It’s been a year that we went online with our video tutorials for the cell culture laboratory. 🥳🎂🎉

What did we learn from being online for a year with lablife.video? 👀☝️

✔️ We met incredible people. 🤝

✔️ We got a LOT of encouragement. 👏

✔️ Especially from women. Women were particularly excited about lablife and about us, two girls who embarked on this adventure. 🤗

✔️ For some people, digital learning tools are commonplace, but for others, it is a journey that has not yet begun. 🛫

✔️ Resonance (meaning customers) came from entirely other parts of the world […]

🌸 More than ever, we believe that the quality of education will improve the quality of work in the life sciences. 📈

🌸 More than ever, we believe that we cannot afford to waste the resources of our planet 🌎💙. Time and time again, we find that valuable resources are wasted when laboratory education is “economized” 👎.

🌸 More than ever before, we have spoken to teachers and supervisors who wish they had more time ⌛. More time […]

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 🌄🧘🏻‍♂️.

Happy […]

⭐ 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 […]