Plastic is important stuff in our research labs. It forms the pipette tips that accurately measure our samples and reagents, the serological pipettes that we use to feed our cells, the multi-well plates where we set up and run our PCR, the deep-well plates where we grow small volumes of bacterial culture for screening, the tubes and plates where we store our precious samples, and on and on. Plastic touches almost every experiment we run, so we we’d better make sure it’s the right plastic for the occasion. You want to make sure that the plastic is designed to withstand the temperatures it will be exposed to. You also don’t want a plastic that will non-specifically bind your sample (DNA, RNA or protein) or leech chemicals into your samples, thus potentially affecting your results. For laboratory plasticware that meets these essential requirements and offers additional benefits as well, check out the products listed below.