When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn't know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky. She was even more surprised to see what actually landed in ...

We read with much interest the article discussing options of what to do with old laboratory equipment and instruments (C&EN, June 17, 2024, page 16). The article describes an ad hoc approach to ...

Rising demands in healthcare research, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, along with increased spending on research and development, has fueled greater reliance on life science and medical ...

A start-up should always have a “plan B” to provide a critical safety net. A considerable and expensive amount of redundant lab equipment can sit idle if that pivot arises and prompts a significant ...

Ian Lightcap had a problem. The core facility director at the University of Notre Dame had a lot of aging equipment on his hands and a plan to upgrade it—but no plan for what to do with the old ...

Bio: Mary Kay Bates is a Senior Global Cell Culture Scientist with Thermo Fisher Scientific, where she provides cell culture expertise to colleagues and customers. Her knowledge is based on twenty ...

A massive NASA research object landed unexpectedly on a Texas farm. Ann Walter of Edmonson, Texas, witnessed the large parachute guiding the equipment. The object, comparable to an SUV, was part of a ...

When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky.