A freezer malfunction at the University of Alberta has melted some of the world’s largest collection of Canadian Arctic ice core samples. The university says about 12 percent of the collection was damaged when temperature in the storage freezer soared to 40 C over the weekend.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a part of our daily lives right before our eyes, and as that happens, more of the security issues the IoT brings with it will be exploited. That’s a scary thought at first, but this is part of the growing pains of any new technology. It’s even something...
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As we kick off 2017, we're constantly looking ahead at how the world is going to shift and what changes may be coming. STAT is doing the same, and they looked at five medical practices that will soon be outdated. Numbers four and five on their list are ones that we've already covered. Both relate...
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At the start of 2016, we touched on how bacteria was quickly becoming resistant to key medications that doctors often used to defeat it. This is a major concern, because in some cases, bacteria is immune to most major medicines. When all have failed, doctors often have few places left to turn. One...
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Temperature mapping your facility, warehouse, or refrigerator is a daunting task. We know, we’ve done it a lot. With each new project, comes a laundry list of new challenges, from where to hang data loggers, to how magnetic strips may affect the accuracy of your data loggers, to how to operate a...
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The CDC, in its Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit for Vaccine and VFC Providers, uses the following language when describing temperature buffers as a necessary edition to a data logger probe: ”Probe in thermal buffer such as glycol . . .”
Read MoreWhen pharmaceuticals make it into our content, we have a tendency to write and discuss the manufacturing, engineering, and distributing side of the supply chain. What we rarely (if ever) discuss, is the link in the supply chain that most people interact with on a daily basis: the consumer and...
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Fish Products
Read MoreFresh Frozen Plasma, or FFP, is an acronym well known in the blood and plasma donation world. Marked by controversy, empirical therapy, wastefulness, and multiple scientific studies (type ”Fresh Frozen Plasma” into Google and you will find a front page of results littered with studies and papers),...
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In Season 2 of HBO’s hit TV Series, ”Silicon Valley,” Gilfoyle, a software designer and hardware guru, (played by Martin Starr) builds his company, Pied Piper, a host server in their ”Hacker Hostel’s” garage.
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