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Case Study: Why Three Scientists Choose NuAire Incubators and Centrifuges

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Scientists share their thoughts on essential day-to-day lab equipment

20 Nov 2017
Sarah Thomas
Associate Editor

Editorial article

At SelectScience® we know that the opinions of your peers are important when choosing the right equipment for your lab. Over the past year we’ve spoken to scientists around the world to find out why they choose to use NuAire, Inc.’s biological safety cabinets, centrifuges and incubators – below are some of our highlights.

Marsha Roach, PhoenixSongs Biologicals

Marsha Roach, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of PhoenixSongs Biologicals, Branford, CT, USA

Marsha Roach reveals how NU-4950 Water-Jacketed CO2 Incubators proved to be a reliable component of her cell culture workflow when developing an innovative hepatic model. The new hepatic co-culture model will help scientists to produce more predictive data about the hepatotoxicity of drugs at the preclinical stage.

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Kassa Beimnet, SickKids

Kassa Beimnet, MLT, MSc, senior genetics technologist, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Canada

Kassa Beimnet explains how scientists in the Clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at SickKids use the NuWind centrifuge to streamline the isolation and purification of DNA and RNA from patient samples. The work of the department aims to identify genetic abnormalities that have implications for the clinical course of childhood leukemia.

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Researchers at University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine use the NuWind centrifuge

Kim Ahrens, scientific research manager, University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, USA

Kim Ahrens shares how the NuWind centrifuge has been a uniquely designed, quiet, user-friendly addition to the Comparative Dermatology Laboratory of Small Animal Clinical Sciences. Learn more about how the group uses this multi-application technology for in vitro studies to elucidate the mechanisms of atopic dermatitis.

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Do you use NuAire equipment in your research? Write a review today for the chance to win a $400 Amazon voucher (or equivalent currency), plus you’ll be helping other scientists choose the best equipment for their lab.

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