Not many nightmare scenarios grip Kristala Jones Prather’s imagination. But one that haunted her for a long time involved the –80 °C freezer in her Massachusetts Institute of Technology lab. Freezer ...

More than 1,500 ultra-low temperature lab freezers are maintained across Baltimore by Johns Hopkins University. Just a single one of these units can drain as much energy as a single-family home, ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed a million-dollar lawsuit against a cleaning company after a custodian, seeking to stop an "annoying" beep, allegedly turned off a lab freezer and killed decades ...

Like many laboratories at Johns Hopkins, the Elizabeth Jaffee Lab, which specializes in cancer immunotherapies, relies on ultra-low temperature freezers to store its samples. As part of the ...

What is the Freezer Challenge? Does your lab have refrigerators, freezers, or cold rooms for sample storage? If so, join the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge! Compete with labs to improve ...

Ultra-low temperature freezers (ULT, -80°C) are one of the most energy-intensive pieces of equipment found in labs. They could be operated more efficiently by implementing simple cold-storage ...

Each year, labs around the world compete to post the biggest energy savings as part of the International Laboratory Freezer Challenge, a joint production of the nonprofits My Green Lab and the ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR® Laboratory Grade Refrigerator and Freezer Specification Version 1.0 On December 21, 2016 the EPA released the Final Version 1.0 ENERGY STAR® ...

Laboratory Freezers are refrigerated cabinets useful for storing biological specimens and volatile reagents at temperatures ranging between -40 ºC and 10 ºC. Portable types are used to transport ...

For researchers in the life sciences, few tools are more indispensable than the humble freezer. Yet how many scientists devote time and effort to improving the efficacy and environmental impact of ...