Optimise your techniques, maintain your equipment, unleash your potential
In today's lab, increasingly complex workflows call for solutions that deliver improved performance and usability, provide enhanced safety for all operators, yet meet the most stringent regulatory compliance. Following correct techniques, using lab equipment correctly, and maintaining them in the best condition are crucial to meet these requirements and for your success.
How can Thermo Fisher Scientific partner with you?
To help you browse and locate information for some of the most critical equipment in your lab, here is a compilation of videos, best practice tips, application notes, webinars and more. Validated, created, and continually updated by our experienced technical support scientists, these resources have been compiled to answer frequently asked questions submitted by customers like you in the form of getting started tips, best practices and troubleshooting help.
Equipment – The basic four
- Where is the highest risk of contamination in your biological safety cabinet (BSC): the HEPA filters or the airflow balance at the front opening?
- How do I extend the filter life of my biological safety cabinet (BSC)?
- How can I ensure my UV germicidal bulb is giving optimal performance?
- What’s the best way to clean the Thermo Scientific™ Herasafe™ 2025 biological safety cabinet?
- Why should you select a Class II Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC) with a DC motor over one with an AC motor?
- Ergonomics and safety in biological research cabinets
- Why are airflow alarms an important consideration for Biological Safety Cabinets (BSCs)?
- Why is a dual blower system better than a single blower system?
- Which incubation parameters are most important for proper cell growth and expression?
- How can using the wrong type of water to provide in-chamber humidity cause corrosion in my CO₂ incubator?
- How should I clean, disinfect, and maintain the 100% pure copper inner chamber in my CO₂ incubator?
- Why does the location of sensors in my CO₂ incubator affect responses from my cultured cells?
- Proper Care and Maintenance for a Cell Culture Incubator
- Why is automated heat decontamination a better solution for sterilizing my CO₂ incubator than an automated chemical disinfection, such as in situ hydrogen peroxide vapor?
- How can using the wrong type of water to provide in-chamber humidity cause corrosion in my CO₂ incubator?
- Cell Locker System segregates stem cells, protecting from contamination and enhancing environmental stability
- Cell Locker System Prevents Entry of Microorganisms for Protection of Sensitive Cell Cultures
- How does a Thermo Scientific Cell Locker System isolate cell cultures and projects in a CO2 incubator, protecting them from cross-contamination?
- How does Auto-Lock rotor exchange facilitate rotor placement and improve safety, compared with traditional rotor tie-down systems?
- How can I help improve safety in my laboratory when spinning pathogens or patient samples in swing-out rotors?
- How can maximum versatility be achieved with the Thermo Scientific General Purpose Pro Centrifuge series?
- How can the new design of Thermo Scientific General Purpose Pro Centrifuges improve its ergonomics and ease-of-use?
- Effortlessly transfer centrifugation protocols: simplifying your workflow
- Rotor Care and Maintenance
- What technologies make it possible to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact with high performance floor model centrifuges?
- Is the use of hydrocarbon refrigerants in laboratory refrigerators and freezers safe?
- Does the initial pull down time of a freezer indicate how well the unit can protect my samples after a door opening?
- Temperature performance measurement in life science refrigerators
- I’ve heard that switching to −70°C for ultra-low freezers can reduce energy, but is that safe for my sample?
- I need to prepare my samples for long-term storage. Is my -80ºC ultra-low freezer designed to accomplish this task?
- Temperature performance measurement in life science refrigerators
- Top considerations for selecting a ULT Freezer – space constraints and environment
Liquid handling equipment
- Is there an easier and more efficient way to transfer liquids between various labware formats, than using traditional handheld pipettes?
- Improve pipetting performance with pipette systems: Finnpipette F2 pipettes and Finntip Flex pipette tips
- ClipTip technology – part 1: Transform your daily pipetting
- ClipTip technology – part 2: Transform your daily pipetting
- Dispense liquids containing proteins more reliably with reverse pipetting
- Effect of liquid properties in pipetting liquid handling note – No. 1
- Improved ergonomics based on pipette tip selection
- Choosing the best pipette tip for your application
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Explore our equipment in 3D
It’s never been easier to experience Thermo Scientific lab equipment without visiting an exhibition or requesting a personal demonstration at your laboratory. 360-degree, spin, zoom, rotate, discover and interact with virtual laboratory equipment, including BSC, CO2 incubators, ULT freezers, electronic pipettes, centrifuges, and more.
Visit the Laboratory Products Virtual Tools hub
- Click on the Product Tours tile
- Select Lab Equipment at the top of the screen to narrow your product list
- Click on the product you wish to view
- Use your finger or mouse to rotate the model and access the Explore Product Animation dropdown menu. Review the key product elements from the dropdown menu
- Click on the yellow, tear drop shaped icons to reveal differentiating features of the product
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, want more information on specific products or wish to discuss your needs. We are always there to partner with you and your lab.