Author name: Bud Duong

Vial Labeling – Choosing the Right Machine for Your Application

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Vial Labeling Vial labeling is an essential process in the pharmaceutical industry, laboratory settings, and biorepositories. Proper labeling ensures that samples and products are easily identified, tracked, and stored. Incorrectly labeled vials can cause errors, leading to misinterpretation of data, incorrect testing, and ultimately, misplacement of samples, delays in drug research, and possibly the misdiagnosis …

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Labeling Frozen Tubes and Cryovials

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Labeling frozen cryogenic tubes is a common challenge in many laboratory settings. Traditional labeling methods, such as adhesive labels or hand-writing on the tube with a marker, are often insufficient when labeling tubes that are already frozen. However, cap labeling has emerged as a reliable solution to this issue. By labeling the caps of frozen …

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Lab Labeling Essentials: Best Practices for Labeling Specimens

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Clear and detailed labels are essential for maintaining data integrity and traceability in scientific research. This is especially true in fields such as genetics and genomics, where a single specimen can be analyzed multiple times using different techniques, and over an extended period. With the proper labeling and tracking of specimens, researchers can ensure that …

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Best Practices for purchasing lab automation equipment? A step by step guide.

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“Good, cheap and fast.  Pick two.” – Manufacturing idiom. The above quote is included to remind us all that there are no perfect solutions and in purchasing lab automation equipment we are balancing price, throughput, flexibility, scalability, durability, and a host of other factors. That being said here are some simple steps we recommend you …

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I hate labeling tubes! – The 5 Biggest Issues With Sample Identification

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As you might imagine, we deal with a lot of lab technicians, research associates, scientists, post docs, lab managers, supervisor and yes, even directors who have to deal either directly or indirectly with sample identification. Over the years, we’ve collected a laundry list of issues they mention with labeling the collections tubes.  So we thought, …

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Linear (1D) vs. 2D Barcodes for Laboratory Sample Identification

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The vast majority of modern barcodes fall into 2 basic categories – linear (1D) and 2-dimensional (2D).  Some people mistakenly refer to 2D barcodes as 3D barcodes and while 3D barcodes do exist, they are generally never seen and used in life sciences. Linear (also known as 1D or 1-dimensional) barcodes encode data using vertical bars and …

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Top 5 Considerations in Choosing a Unique Identifier (UID)

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As a lab operation grows, so does the need to have unique identifiers (UID) for each sample to track its processing and associate particular biological / chemical properties and analytical results.  Often, the first step in implementing a new process or adopting a laboratory information management system (LIMS) is choosing a unique identifier, specifically the length and format. Choosing a UID 1. Number of Samples  While …

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Lab Automation and Sample Identification Blog Launches

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Welcome to our first post on the TubeWriter.com news blog. The intention for this space is to share information related to lab automation and sample identification and provide information on hardware, software and labware that can streamline processes and reduce errors. In fact, we developed the TubeWriter for just this reason.  We believe there is a real need for better systems to automate …

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