VistaLab’s mission to design products for the health of laboratory workers takes on a deeper meaning as COVID-19 research and testing continue to accelerate. With public health at stake, researchers and technicians are doing everything they can to respond to the pandemic at a rapid pace, putting their own health at risk in the process. As workers strive for efficiency and productivity, equipment that can provide speed and accuracy without additional risk will aid in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. While scientists are furiously preparing tubes of Virus…
Where There Is Wobble, There Is Drip
How many times do you find yourself struggling to force your serological pipet into the pipet controller to avoid dripping? How much do you have to push and push in your pipets in an attempt to gain maximum stability and control so you’re not wobbling around, dripping, wasting media and reagents, with potential for contamination and affecting your experiment? Wouldn’t you like to struggle less and increase your productivity? We have the solution. Wobble-not. With standard serological pipets, there has never been a difference in the plug end design…
ali-Q 2 Proves to be a Valuable Aid for Those Involved in SARS-CoV-2 Research
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the ali-Q 2 is proving to be a vital asset for those performing crucial repetitive procedures in the laboratory to develop vaccines. Dr. Julie McAuley, Senior Research Officer at the Doherty Institute, reached out to VistaLab because she needed a repeat pipet controller that could deliver consistent aliquots with minimal manual labor. “I am currently doing SARS-CoV-2 research (the virus that causes COVID-19) and am having to do a lot of repetitive overlaying for my anti-viral neutralization testing and for our vaccine studies.“* Different applications…
Relieve Pipetting Pain With Ovation Pipettes
Unlike any other, Ovation pipettes were designed with user comfort and health in mind. Ergonomics is a Science, not a slogan. “I did my whole Ph.D. with “normal” pipets, resulting in greater and greater levels of wrist pain over the course of 5 years. By my second year of postdoc, it was bad enough that I would procrastinate experiments that involved pipetting…” – Daniel Dickinson, Ph D, University of Texas at Austin Read more about the Ovation pipettes that Dr. Dickinson switched to that helped him avoid giving up experimental…
ali-Q 2 Helps Scientists Prepare VTM Tubes for COVID-19 Response
For labs involved in COVID-19 research and testing, supplies, staff, and time can be extremely scarce and yet speed and efficiency are paramount in this battle. This includes the very time consuming and labor-intensive process of preparing Viral Transport Media (VTM) tubes; aliquoting/repeat pipetting 3 mL of VTM into hundreds of thousands of 15 mL tubes. Isabel Ott, a COVID response Lab Tech at Yale New Haven Hospital performs this tedious task and sought out a pipet controller that would help her reduce the manual strain and accelerate the process…
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