Lab Water Stories - Unfiltered.

Hey scientists! Have you carefully considered your water as a key reagent in your work? Join us to take a closer look at this often-overlooked lab essential. Get time-saving tips not found in textbooks, learn to avoid contaminants with best-practices from experts, and journey to surprising places you may not suspect do science. Level up your knowledge & accelerate your scientific work! Lab Water Stories ─ Unfiltered.

The Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada.

Lab Water Stories - Unfiltered.

Latest episodes

Lab Water, Digitalized

Lab Water, Digitalized

16m 40s

"How are labs digitizing to ensure their workflows (and water flows) are always on the move?

Kailyn, or Kai, Regidor is a Field Service Engineer working with the Milli-Q® Lab Water Solutions portfolio based in Atlanta, Georgia. In this episode, Kai illustrates the impact of digitizing lab water. She explains how connecting key systems and instruments to the cloud benefits both lab staff and engineers. Kai shares an example of a clinical lab that received a system alert due to low water resistivity and how she were able to remotely fix the problem immediately, saving time and money.

In our...

Greener Lab Water

Greener Lab Water

20m 5s

"How can labs operate more sustainably? Reducing the environmental impact of a lab is no small feat:

Single-use plastics, toxic chemicals, or the use of high heat, water and energy are daily occurrences. More sustainable options are limited, and advancements that can help labs go greener are much sought after. In this episode, our guests (Jorge Nicolas from Santander, Spain and Gourab Ghosh based in Bangalore, India) provide examples of institutions that have made changes to their lab water supply to become more sustainable. Jorge explains how a hospital significantly reduced plastic use by moving away from bottled water, and...

What a Waterful World! Surprising Places that Need Lab Water

What a Waterful World! Surprising Places that Need Lab Water

23m 58s

"Pure and ultrapure water are needed in some surprising locations all around the world. In this episode, your host Monica Joch takes you from the chilly Antarctic and to some sunny amusement parks. Karen McCardell, a Sales Specialist in Australia, describes how the Australian Antarctic Division uses ultrapure water to research climate change. Then JP Woodson, an Applications Specialist based in Florida, tells us how major theme parks use purified water to care for animals and plants.

In our Troubled Waters segment, Bruce Herzig, a Technical Service Scientist in the US, tells us how one customer was haunted by ghost...

Water is it Good For? Surprising Uses for Purified Water

Water is it Good For? Surprising Uses for Purified Water

22m 7s

Have you ever considered all the places where highly purified water is needed? Apart from academic institutes, biotech and pharma companies, pure and ultrapure water are also being used in quite unexpected locations: from crime labs to amusement parks, and labs that are culturing meat. 
In this episode, your host Monica Joch interviews Bob Ventura, an Applications Specialist based in Southern California, and Tracy Jolson, a Sales Specialist in New York City. Bob and Tracy tell us about the most interesting places they have placed water purification systems. Bob explains how endotoxin-free water is used to make lab-grown "fish". Tracy...