‘Tis the season to be jolly and at MO BIO Labs, we are a merry crew.  A lighthearted and cheerful atmosphere permeates our halls all year round but it is especially strong during the holiday season.  As we look back on our accomplishments in 2009, with products such as PowerWater, PowerFood, and LifeGuard, we are thankful to all the scientists who played a part in helping us develop these innovations, either by their feedback or with their own hands. And in R&D at MO BIO right now, we are working hard on many exciting new products and helpful tools planned for 2010.

For the final blog for 2009, we wanted to give our readers an idea what a typical day in R&D at MO BIO was like this past year.  To do that we thought it would be fun to share with you 10 phrases you might have heard if you were walking past the R&D labs anytime during the day.  All of these comments relate to products we launched throughout the year or samples we worked on to help our customers. Enjoy!

10 things you might hear in R&D at MO BIO:

10. I need MRSA tomorrow. Carl, can you start a culture?

9. I brought in those moldy strawberries to test with PowerFood. Have fun squishing that up in the BagMixer^®.

8. I am going to the beach to collect water samples. See you in a few hours.

7. That biofilm from your shower worked great! Can you let it grow a little more next week?

6. MO BIO’s lawn gives the best yields of soil DNA. When in doubt, use the lawn.

5. Pete, can I take some of your blood today for some PAXgene tube stabilized blood RNA preps? You always give me the highest yields.

4. Paraffin Removal Reagent smells great! It’s like aromatherapy for the lab.

3. There’s no smell. I only opened the BME for one second.  Mark, it can’t be coming through the vent in your office unless it’s connected to the fume hood.

2. Craig Cary and Charlie Lee sent some new pictures from Antarctica. Check it out!

1.  R&D meeting is cancelled today. Surf’s up!

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We have a lot of different projects going simultaneously in R&D,  with products that are getting ready to go to market, some in the research phase of development, and others  just getting started with feasibility studies. And we also collaborate with other researchers who have expertise in areas we don’t and want to be a part of the commercialization of something new.

What makes working for MO BIO so exciting and so much fun is talking to people like you and having the chance to create something that makes life easier for everyone we meet and hearing your feedback in emails and at conferences.

This holiday season, MO BIO is grateful to all of the scientists who inspire us to invent new products and develop new methods. We keep learning, pushing ourselves and having fun because of you.

So we’d like to thank you for a great 2009 and warn you to get ready for an incredible 2010. Some of the new products we have in development are going to be the best we’ve ever produced.

Happy Holidays to All!