Most days, we are focused on projects, meetings, and deadlines. It doesn’t happen often that we are reminded that we spend our entire lives on a tilted, rotating planet orbiting a star 💫🌞🌍💫.

The summer solstice is one of those rare occasions when our perspective briefly shifts, and we are reminded of our place in the universe ✨🪐🌙.

In the Northern Hemisphere, daylight has reached its annual maximum 🌻. Tonight will be the shortest night […]

The fun part of being a researcher is to attend meetings, where so many disciplines come together. Solid-state physics, mitochondria, organic chemistry, immunology, fluid dynamics, nano-technology … [the list goes on, almost indefinitely]. 🧬🤝🧪

All of these fields converge in one remarkable area of research: tissue engineering 🚀. The depth and diversity of expertise required to bring together knowledge from so many disciplines is quite extraordinary! Just imagine the number of highly skilled researchers working behind the scenes to make progress in […]

“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 […]