Category Archives: Articles of Interest

What is the BioHealth Capital Region?

The BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR) consisting of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC is the prominent BioHealth cluster in the Mid-Atlantic. The BHCR encompasses more than 800 life sciences companies, over 70 federal labs and world class academic and research institutions. According to Genetic Engineering News (May 2016), the BHCR is ranked 4th in Top Biopharma Clusters…

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Are your plant backup systems causing lab equipment failures?

    Most people have come into the lab to an experiment that is ruined because a piece of equipment or instrumentation has failed due to a power problem.  In some plants, whether there is damage from a power surge or just a failure to operate from a brown-out or a transient loss, failures can…