Dr. John Gorman is a director on the VistaLab Board, but as director of the blood bank at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in the 1950s, Dr. Gorman worked intimately with the problems of Rh disease. He became obsessed with determining how it worked and set out on a mission to find a cure. Dr. Gorman’s incredible journey to find a treatment for Rh disease, which has resulted in saving countless numbers of newborn lives, is profiled in the new book “Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that…
MLA Pipettes Earn a Silver Seal of Quality
VistaLab’s MLA pipettes were awarded a SelectScience® Silver Seal of Quality in recognition of the consistently positive feedback received from scientists. Seals of Quality recognize the top 0.1% of products that consistently receive the highest customer review ratings on leading laboratory technology website SelectScience® and are designed to help scientists worldwide see at a glance the instruments and services their peers love the most. Arif Butt, CEO and Co-Founder of SelectScience, and Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Kerry Parker, announced the latest recipients of these awards at a special online ceremony during…
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…
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…
VistaLab Achieves Hat-Trick for Seals of Quality Awards
VistaLab is proud to announce that the Ovation Multichannel Pipette has been awarded a Bronze SelectScience® Seal of Quality (SOQ), making it a hat-trick for our popular pipettes. To date, only 3 other companies have achieved this level of SOQs. We thank everyone who took the time to write a review, which also helps fellow scientists in making purchasing decisions. Seals of Quality recognize the top 0.1% of products that consistently receive the highest customer review ratings on leading laboratory technology website SelectScience® and are designed to help scientists worldwide…
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