The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid Fillakit — a small company formed in May that operates out of a Houston suburb — $7.3 million since May to supply it with test tubes for COVID ...

Ingredients in plastic test tubes can block some biological reactions while testing the efficacy of drugs, and thereby lead researchers to bogus conclusions, according to a new study. University ...

It seems ingredients in commercial plastic test tubes used by labs around the world can block some biological reactions, potentially leading researchers … Close. Advertisement.

One glass test tube can cost between $1 and $5. Bubble wrap, by contrast, is dirt cheap. One square foot of it, with about 100 to 500 bubbles depending on bubble dimensions, costs only 6 cents ...

Product Material and Size: These test tubes are made of PET plastic, hard to break, Clear plastic test tube is 5.5¡± inch length, 1¡± inch diameter, the cube capacity is 45ml.

Researchers in Alberta have discovered that two chemicals used in the making of plastic test tubes and other lab storage units can leach into experiments, interfering with some results. University ...

Maxell Corp. of America is preparing a new RFID application for the life sciences industry. The company says it is finishing up work on a way to affix its Coil-on-Chip tags to the base of plastic test ...

The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples.

Some substances in saliva or the plastic vials can damage virus RNA and alter test results, Konjufca said. “You cannot just makeshift use soda bottles to make tubes,” she said.