The Life Scientist Scoop: November 2024

Welcome to our November round-up of useful articles, professional advice & high quality product offers, all tailored especially for life scientists!

This month we launched our 8th annual Lab Heroes Awards competition! Each year we celebrate the unsung heroes of life science labs around the world by inviting nominations from colleagues who want to say thank you to the researchers who support and inspire them! We were also delighted to pick up an award of our own as Hello Bio was named winner of the Business Impact and Transformation Award at the Innovate UK KTP Awards 2024!

We added some great free antibiotics products to our Free Trial Program, and introduced a high quality neuronal tracer with the launch of TracerBiotin?.

We shared an inspiring article celebrating award-winning women in science, and looked at ways to maintain peace and harmony in a busy and competitive lab environment. And finally, we celebrated Thanksgiving with our customers and colleagues in the USA with an article on the science behind some of our favourite holiday dishes!

So let's take a look at our November round-up to get the scoop on all things life science!

A chance to celebrate the lab colleagues who support and inspire you!

Our annual Lab Heroes Awards? competition launched this month and we've been overwhelmed by some of the amazing nominations that have been coming in for scientists around the world!

Each year we ask life science researchers to show their appreciation for the colleagues who motivate, support and inspire them by nominating them for our award. The winner will receive an amazing $4000 worth of prizes, including a $1000 career development grant. We're always humbled by the stories you tell us about your incredible colleagues and the great work they do, and you can view the full nominee gallery here.

Entries close on 6th December 2024, and the winner will be announced the following week. Nominate your hero: https://hellobio.com/lab-heroes-awards-2024

Introducing TracerBiotin? - a high quality neural tracer from Hello Bio

This month we were proud to launch TracerBiotin?, a new high quality neuronal tracer and a low-cost alternative to the widely used Neurobiotin?.

TracerBiotin? is commonly used to label neurons and acts as a gap junction tracer. With low cytotoxicity and high stability, it is suitable for use in vivo, slice preparations, whole mounts and cultured cells, and can be delivered by routes such as microinjection, intracellular electrodes, cut and scrape loading. It can be detected using avidin or streptavidin systems, by both chromogenic or fluorescence visualization methods and can be fixed with formalin or glutaraldehyde.

Now available to order in 50mg packs, find out more about this great new product here: https://hellobio.com/tracer-biotin.html

We shine a spotlight on 10 award-winning female scientists of 2024

All scientists deserve to be celebrated and recognised for their hard work, and here at Hello Bio we believe in cheering even louder for those from underrepresented or minority groups. That’s why we were disappointed to see that not a single female researcher was awarded a Nobel Prize in the Sciences in 2024!

So we decided to shine a spotlight on a few of the many inspiring women in STEM who did win awards in 2024, including a molecular biologist, a stem cell expert, a breast cancer specialist and a tropical disease researcher!

Take a look at our inspiring list of 10 award-winning female scientists, and read all about their incredible achievements this year: https://hellobio.com/blog/10-award-winning-female-scientists-of-2024.html

Free antibiotics for researchers - three new products added to our Free Trial program!

This month we've added even more products to our popular Free Trial Program which allows new customers to try us for free, and existing customers to sample something new!

We've added Actinomycin D, G418 disulfate salt and Streptozocin to our list of more than 50 popular biochemicals, antibodies, dyes, labels, stains, peptides, with free delivery also available - terms & conditions apply. Take a look at the full range and give our high quality products a try for free: https://hellobio.com/free-trial-program-products

How to promote lab harmony & build a collaborative life science team

Every busy researcher knows that working in a science lab can be stressful at times. Tight deadlines, competition for funding, and failed experiments can all create tension among lab mates, making effective collaboration difficult to achieve sometimes. So what can lab leaders and their team members do to promote harmony within a science lab? How can you ensure that everyone gets along and that disputes are resolved swiftly and respectfully?

We shared this handy article packed with great advice from life scientists who know what it takes to keep things running smoothly in the lab and to ensure everyone gets along. Check out the Life Scientists’ Guide to Lab Harmony: https://hellobio.com/blog/the-life-scientists-guide-to-lab-harmony.html

More great resources from Hello Bio

If you enjoyed this newsletter, why not check out some of the other resources available on our blog. We are passionate about supporting life scientists including early career life scientists and PhD students - with really low-priced reagents, antibodies?and biochemicals, early career scientist grants, and resources to help with both personal and professional development. We know how tough it is - so we hope you find these helpful!

Take a look at our website: hellobio.com