We’d like to thank all of our Cinco de Bio 2012 attendees – we had a great time and we hope you did too.

As a thank you to our San Diego-area customers, we threw a big Cinco de Mayo party at our headquarters and flagship showroom this past May 4th.  And since we like to do things the BioSurplus way (as well as honor the local life sciences community) we made a slight change and decided to call it Cinco de Bio!

There were free drinks and food for all, tours of our new facility, and special Cinco de Bio deals on select lab instruments in our inventory.

Next year we’ll be rolling out the event at all of our locations, including our soon-to-open showroom in the Boston/Cambridge biotech hub.  Take a moment and check out the photos below.

Cinco de Bio is back and you’re invited!

Friday May 4th, 2012. 

The BioSurplus team cordially invites you to attend this fun-filled event at our San Diego headquarters and showroom.  In order to show our appreciation to our valued customers, we’re offering free food and drinks, giveaways, and one-day-only specials on lab equipment.

The festivities will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 10805 Vista Sorrento Pkwy, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121.

For event information please contact Grant Goad at 858-550-0800 x217 or ggoad@biosurplus.com

RSVP Today – click here!

From Lab Manager Magazine

Eppendorf 5702 Benchtop Centrifuge

The modern research lab is filled with equipment helping researchers to harvest, chop, boil, homogenize, and crystallize materials of all types. Keeping track of the maintenance and safety of lab equipment used in performing these tasks can be a challenge for laboratory managers. One piece of equipment deserving special attention when it comes to ensuring the safety of laboratory employees is the centrifuge.

The laboratory centrifuge, an instrument designed to spin and separate liquids at high speeds, has come a long way from the days of the older models, which required the units to be spun by hand. New and updated models now allow researchers many options for spinning and separating materials. Nevertheless, without proper preventive maintenance and good laboratory procedures, the centrifuge can become a safety hazard to laboratory workers. Improper use can potentially expose lab workers to hazardous materials as well as severely damage a costly piece of equipment. The risk of your centrifuge becoming a safety hazard can be mitigated through proper preventive maintenance and strict adherence to manufacturer procedures and your internal laboratory safety procedures.

The heart and soul of any centrifuge is its rotor (the component of the centrifuge that contains and spins the material). This part will eventually wear down after continuous use. A routine visual check of your rotor is necessary to detect any type of rotor fatigue (cracks, bulges, or corrosion) that can lead to the eventual failure of the rotor and significant damage to your centrifuge. One way to ensure that all the moving parts in your unit remain at optimal performance is preventive maintenance (pm). Recommended by nearly all centrifuge manufacturers, pm may include a detailed cleaning, lubrication, and calibration of your unit. Read the full post …

The winner of our $500 cash giveaway, Brandon Steelman.

BioSurplus is proud to have been a Gold Sponsor of this year’s CALBIO conference.  The two-day event, held in San Francisco on March 8th and 9th, brought together members of the biotech industry and disease foundations to talk about pressing issues such as patient access, risk and reform at the FDA, and new business models.

We’re also excited to announce the winner of our $500 cash giveaway, Brandon Steelman.  Brandon is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford, where he is working on a genetic diagnosis for breast cancer as well as making early detection more affordable.  Congratulations Brandon!  We wish you much luck in your efforts in support of a very worthy cause.

We’d also like to thank Michael Alvarez, chairman of the BayBio Institute and a director at the Stanford School of Medicine.  He kindly delivered the prize to Brandon, who had left the conference and was already back in the lab, hard at work.

Join us March 22, 2012 in celebrating the launch of the new San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women In Bio! The event will be highlighted by our keynote speaker, Kim Popovits, the CEO of Genomic Health, a leading pioneer of personalized medicine, and one of the San Francisco Business Times’ most influential women in the Bay Area since 2006.

There will be delicious food, good company and easy-going networking. Come and learn more about our organization and our chapter’s plans for 2012 and beyond.

We look forward to meeting you at CALBIO 2012 in San Francisco. Drop by booth 309 and enter to win our $500 cash giveaway!

We want to show you the cash savings you can expect by shopping with BioSurplus, your # 1 source for high-quality used lab equipment. We’d also like to remind you that we buy used equipment as well as auction equipment from working labs.

Just to prove we are all about putting extra money into your lab, we are offering an easy opportunity to win this spinner flask filled with $500 cash.

(Yes, cash. The green kind you can spend.)

For a chance to win, just drop by Booth 309 at CALBIO 2012 with your business card or contact info to enter! It is that simple. The drawing will be held on Friday, March 9th at the end of the conference. We look forward to meeting you and showing you our online catalog of over 5,000 quality used lab instruments that will save you money.

For more information, please contact Grant Goad at 858-550-0800 x217.

Dr. Hu Chen of the National University of Singapore - $500 Cash Giveaway Winner!

BioSurplus was pleased to participate in the BioPhysical Society’s 56th Annual Meeting this year, held in San Diego, CA from February 25^th through the 29th.   It was exciting to meet and network with a wide variety of scientists, students and executives from the multi-disciplinary world of biophysics.

We’d like to congratulate Dr. Hu Chen of the National University of Singapore on winning the BioSurplus $500 cash giveaway.  The international presence at the conference was amazing – we met attendees from Armenia, Brazil, Argentina, China, Italy, France, Germany and many other countries.  A true melting pot of scientists from around the world.

Next year’s meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Feb. 2nd – 6th, 2013.

Please take a moment to view the photos we took at our booth. We hope you enjoy them!