A ReGen employee helps Greg stock the new lab

On January 15, Remedy Plan moved into our new lab space in Rockville, Maryland. What do you do when you open a new lab? Well, first you scrub the bejeezus out of it. As riveting as the pictures of us on our hands and knees cleaning the floor are, let’s skip right to the good stuff: stocking the lab!

Building a new lab from scratch requires purchasing a lot of supplies. Most of these supplies are the sort of everyday equipment you’d normally find in just about any scientific laboratory, but some of them are incredibly technical (and expensive) pieces of machinery. We are lucky to be close to ReGen Lab Equipment, an amazing business that provides us with access to gently-used, quality-tested lab equipment.

Visiting ReGen is like stepping into science nerd paradise.

How often do you get to shop for a lab from the ground up? We felt like kids in a candy store walking among the endless shelves of equipment.

Racks on racks on racks on…

We can’t say enough about the wonderful staff at ReGen. They helped us track down the equipment from our list, made sure it all worked (and that we knew how it worked!), and gave us advice on the best ways to maximize our budget. With their help, we were able to stretch our funds further than we planned and bring our lab space up to speed in one quick shopping stop!

Not your typical shopping cart

With ReGen’s help, we stocked up on big ticket machinery like microscopes, centrifuges, water baths, and an incubator, as well as crucial everyday supplies like pipettes, CO2 regulators, sample racks, ice buckets, and safety gear.

Our most exciting purchase was a fluorescence microscope. Scopes like these are generally not easy to come by, and we’d been planning to rent time on someone else’s equipment during our research. Finding one that we could afford to use in our own lab was like striking gold! We carefully drove this baby back to Remedy Plan HQ like proud parents, 20mph below the speed limit.

Stay tuned for our next blog post, where we’ll give you a tour of the newly stocked lab!