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December 12, 2007 | Volume 1, Issue 39

2008 TURNKEY AWARDS – DEADLINE DECEMBER 14, 2007.
The 2008 TurnKey Awards, sponsored by ALN® Magazine and Tecniplast, are comprised of the Facility of the Year Award and the Facility Leader of the Year Award. Complete details and nomination forms can be found by clicking here.

TurnKey Awards sponsored by Tecniplast.

FEATURE ARTICLE

Conference to Address Aquatic Systems Upturn
The upcoming 2008 TurnKey Conference, an annual event that targets professionals who are building or renovating laboratory animal facilities, will take place April 17-18, 2008, in Baltimore, MD. Among the many technical sessions is a session titled "Terra vs. Aqua - Challenges in Aquatic Systems Integration," which will focus primarily on facility projects and research programs that are making the upgrade.

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PRODUCT FOCUS

PALM MicroBeam IV - Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.
The PALM MicroBeam IV is a system designed to cleanly extract even the smallest biomaterials from heterogeneous tissue and cell colonies. With the patented Laser Microdissection and Pressure Catapulting (LMPC) process researchers can refine raw materials right on the microscope slide or inside the culture dish by visual and automatic identification, outlining the relevant area for non-contact extraction via fully-automated laser ablation. (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.)

LAB SAFETY TIP #13

Heard about our Lab Safety Tips? Read about some great ideas on how to protect your employees and your lab from unexpected accidents and the unwanted aftermath.

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IN THE MAGAZINE

Directional Airflow - by Jon Crane, AIA
I thought it would be worthwhile to share some thoughts on some technical issues related to containment facilities that are not always clearly understood by either the design or science communities. A comment in a recent article that loss of airflow in a containment laboratory poses a danger to the researcher in the lab made me remember one of the first encounters I had with the issue of how much protection comes from directional airflow within a containment room.

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