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We visited a long-time customer who leads a microscopy unit in a non-profit research organization. We discussed life in the facility and the challenges in managing a...

You may be familiar with the fluorescent plastic slides that are handed out during trade shows. As they are easy to use, they are often employed to measure the field uniformity...

Contributions to scientific output is key metric for core facility management, as it allows to get funding, grants, and to ensure continuous high standards of operations. That is...

Would it still be ‘quality control’ if a microscope was checked only once a year? We’ve discussed  the reasons to perform quality control on fluorescence microscopes. Time should...

Facility Managers are professionals of many skills, their work requires them to master scientific concepts and to manage a business-like unit. Let’s review some helpful tips to evaluate the cost of 1-hour of microscope use.

Some of the core facilities have started to resume work, gradually finding how to function in these specific circumstances of pandemic. Many institutions and research groups have published guidelines and information to help laboratories to adapt and find suited methods.

Quality control is a popular topic on the fluorescence microscopy field and is at the heart of the topic of quantitative microscopy and replication crisis (read the article...

Running a microscopy facility requires many skills. It is becoming similar to running a small business, but with a staff actually trying to advance science. Here is an overview of articles related to some of these daily matters.

When we spend an afternoon analyzing batch of data, or when we write a scientific article, there’s a precious asset to have: good music! Here is our "tested and approved"...

For years, a growing alarm has been building up about results that cannot be reproduced because of scientific method. The replication crisis, pinpointed around 2010, focus on the...

An ISO about Optical data of fluorescence confocal microscopes for biological imaging has been released in December 2019. 15 pages dedicated to image performance in confocal...

Over 860 people, coming from genomics, imaging or proteomics fields, have met to collaborate and to open a discussion between core leadership, technology and scientific research,...

Quality control is a popular topic on the fluorescence microscopy field, and often mistaken with calibration. In fluorescence imaging, and more importantly in life science...