They say that a poor workman blames his tools but according to a new study, laboratory scientists may well have cause to. Reid Macdonald from the University of Alberta has found that some botched ...

Using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments, a new study finds. Researchers identified two classes of chemical compounds in commonly-used plastic lab ware that ...

Neste Oyj, a Finland-based oil refining and marketing company, has partnered with Hamburg, Germany-based, Eppendorf, a manufacturer and supplier of laboratory equipment, to create a new line of ...

Worries over a chemical that may seep out of some plastics has caused many consumers to abandon reusable water bottles. Now scientists might want to do the same thing with their test tubes. It seems ...

Scientists have opened the UK's first facility that can recycle plastic waste from research labs. Every year researchers use millions of pieces of plastic equipment. To avoid contaminating experiments ...

Every year researchers use millions of pieces of plastic equipment. To avoid contaminating experiments, they are used once and then discarded. A new start-up company, founded by a graduate from the ...