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.

Samples could also be getting contaminated from the plastic test tubes and dishes used in laboratories. “Modern laboratories are hot spots of microplastic pollution,” the scientists said.

Worries over a chemical that may seep out of some plastics has caused many consumers to abandon reusable water bottles. Now scientists might want to do the same thing with their test tubes. It ...

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 ...

Holt said replacing plastic equipment with glass might work for test tubes, but other disposable equipment such as the tips of pipettes — used to transfer liquids — have no glass equivalent.

Typically, test tubes are individually packaged to guard against contamination. Washington state, an epicenter of the first outbreak of the virus, got more than 76,000 Fillakit vials from FEMA.

Typically, test tubes are individually packaged to guard against contamination. Washington state, an epicenter of the first outbreak of the virus, got more than 76,000 Fillakit vials from FEMA.