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October 17, 2012Sterlitech got a bit of local recognition last week when the Puget Sound Business Journal named it one of the 100 fastest-growing private companies in the Puget Sound area. This is the second year in a row that Sterlitech has made the PSBJ list of fastest-growing companies, and is an incredible honor to receive along with last month’s Inc. 5000 recognition. But while we love having an excuse to pat ourselves on the back, a great deal of credit goes out to our customers. Without you, we could only dream of these past two years of incredible growth. Thank you all for your support! The Puget Sound Business Journal's full list of fastest-growing companies can be found here.
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October 16, 2012Today, we have a video that shows, in dramatic fashion, just how simple and efficient Sterlitech's Autofil Laboratory Filtration System is to use in comparison to traditional filter funnel assemblies. In this video, we have Jason on the Autofil System and Kristina on the traditonal filter funnel racing to filter 1000 mL of red water. Jason has to fill four 250 mL Autofil funnel assemblies, while Kristina has to fill two 500 mL filter funnel assemblies. Lets see how this plays out:
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October 10, 2012
---->As you sit in front of your computer reading this, a myriad of thoughts are probably running through your mind. "Where is this story going?" "What am I going to have for lunch today?" "This blog is awesome!" But what you probably aren't thinking about is how you are actually able to read this. How often have you spared a thought about how the light from the screen is passing through the cornea and lens of your eye to trigger the light-sensitive photo-receptors in your retina and send the visual information to your brain? While you consider that, also consider sending a message of congratulations to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today. Their work over the past few decades has revealed the inner workings of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), a family of cell receptors which includes the photo-receptors in your eyes, and receptors for adrenaline, taste and smell. GPCRs are a crucial signal pathway for cells, allowing them to detect
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October 09, 2012
In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up with one of the most famous thought experiments in history, Schrödinger's cat. The premise of the experiment has a cat in a box, with a capsule of poison gas connected to a Geiger counter. If a radioactive atom decays and triggers the counter the capsule opens and the cat will die. Quantum mechanics, which govern radioactive decay, state that the atom is in a superposition state of both not yet decayed and having decayed. The cat, by extension, is both dead and alive in the box, a seemingly paradoxical outcome. Quantum superposition is so sensitive to interaction with the environment that any attempt at observation ends the superposition and the cat becomes either dead or alive. Today, we are happy to offer our congratulations to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for independently devising ways to directly observe individual quantum particles in a superposition state without destroying
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October 08, 2012
Congratulations to Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John B. Gurdon for winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! They kick-off this year's Nobel Prize season with their amazing discovery that mature, specialized cells can be reprogrammed to become immature stem cells. In 1962, John B. Gurdon replaced the nucleus of an egg cell of a frog with the nucleus of an intestinal cell. The modified egg cell developed into a normal tadpole, clearly demonstrating that the DNA of specialized cells still contain the information necessary to develop into tissue cell in the frog. More than 40 years later, Shinya Yamanaka introduced a few genes into the cells of mice and reprogrammed them to become pluripotent stem cells, which can develop into any type of cell in the body. The medical potential of their discoveries cannot be overstated. The ability to take tissue cells from an organism and then culture them into a different type of cell opens new avenues to treat diseases and injury that may be untreatable
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September 14, 2012
For the second year in a row, Sterlitech has made Inc. Magazine’s list of America’s fastest-growing companies! We would like to thank all of our customers, old and new, for supporting us and making our incredible growth possible. We’re proud to provide the highest quality products to R&D groups, universities, pharmaceutical labs, and environmental scientists. Keep your eyes on us because we plan to keep this hot streak going by adding new product lines, such as the Autofil™ Filtration System and the EZgrip™ Carboy. Of course, we’d also love to hear what you think we can do to make the list again next year, so leave a comment below. The complete list of Inc. Magazine’s 5000 fastest-growing companies can be found here.
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August 27, 2012
Bacteria is something of a dirty word. They’re everywhere, invisible and insidious, waiting for their chance to climb into your body and wreak havoc. But before you reach for your hand sanitizer and start counting your sick days, take a moment to consider the many uses that people have found for bacteria. Bacteria are essential in making yogurt and cheese, fixing nitrogen for our crops, and they help us digest our food. In the near future, Damian Palin would like to add mining the ocean to the list of things bacteria do for us. Damian Palin, a geomicrobiologist working in Singapore, has been developing bacteria strains that can be used to precipitate useful minerals out of the briny effluent produced by desalination plants. If he is successful, he would be killing two birds with one stone: useful minerals that would otherwise go to waste could be extracted, and the highly concentrated brine could be treated before it is pumped back into the ocean. Biomining is already used to extract gold,
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August 16, 2012
In space, no one can hear you pee… But you’ll be able to safely drink it down again after it’s gone through the International Space Station’s Water Recovery System. According to NASA, the Water Recovery System, carried to the ISS by the space shuttle Endeavour, can recycle up to 93% of the water fed into it and reduce overall water consumption aboard the space station by 65%. However, the Water Recovery System has been experiencing problems with calcium fouling, which led NASA to contact Saltworks Technologies of Vancouver, CA. Saltworks was contracted by NASA to build and deliver a pilot device that would test water recovery systems and may potentially be used aboard the ISS itself. If successful, the system will be the latest of Saltworks’ unique water treatment solutions. One such solution is the proprietary Thermo-Ionic process for desalination. This process can reduce energy costs by up to 80% in comparison to more traditional methods such as reverse osmosis. The Thermo-Ionic process
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July 31, 2012
Aquaporin A/S of Denmark, one of Sterlitech Corporation’s customers, has recently tested their Aquaporin Inside™ technology at the NASA Ames facility at Palo Alto, CA. Aquaporin and their new technology take their names from a type of protein found in the cell membranes of every living thing on the planet: aquaporins. Aquaporin (the company) hopes to use the selectivity of aquaporins (the protein) to create cost-effective and ecologically sustainable new membrane filters to revolutionize water purification and desalination.
The secret to the promise of Aquaporin Inside™ technology is the selectivity of the aquaporins themselves. Embedded throughout any cell membrane, aquaporins are a gateway through which water can pass into and out of a cell but ions and solutes cannot. Aquaporins will even exclude naturally occurring hydronium and hydroxide ions in water. If successful, Aquaporin’s new technology could set new standards in water purity. As our planet’s population booms, the demand
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July 23, 2012
The EZgrip™ Carboy is a pioneering fluid storage and transfer system now being offered Sterlitech Corporation as part our expanding line of Microbiology and Life Sciences equipment. The EZgrip™ Carboy features an ergonomic, space-efficient rectangular shape and a line of interchangeable caps and spigots that come together to make it ideally suited to handle any task in life science, bioprocess, and pharmaceutical manufacturing laboratories. The EZgrip™ and its dizzying array of accessories comprise the most versatile and usable fluid storage and transfer system available on the market today. To learn more about this product please, visit the EZgrip™ Carboy page.
