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Take a Look at KLM Bio Scientific/Lab Supplies USA Remodeled Store

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We are proud to announce the completed remodeling of our storefront. This change shows our commitment to remain as the only brick and mortar storefront for lab supplies here in San Diego. It is our intention to provide customers with an expanded showroom, a larger selection of products and a more enjoyable and enhanced shopping experience.

We invite all science teachers, students, researchers and start-up companies to visit our showroom and browse through our quality products.

Our staff will also be on hand to answer any questions or inquiries.

You will surely enjoy browsing through our products with more spacious walking room.Products are placed by categories for easier viewing.

This is how our showroom looks now:

KLM BIo Scientific/Lab Supplies USA is located at 8888 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Suited D, San Diego, USA. We are open from 9:00AM to 5:00PM Mondays to Fridays.

LabSuppliesUSA Closeouts

The website includes a section on CLOSEOUTS. This is where lab specimens, lab equipment and lab supplies that are superfluous and are sold at very low prices. With the closeout items, customers can save up to 50% from the original price.

What are the products included in closeouts?

There are a variety of lab specimens commonly used in science and laboratory classes. These are already on prepared slides. Agrobacterium Tumefaciens, Oscillatoria, Commercial Sponge, Epithelium, Fern prothallium, are among the products on sale. Prices ranges for $0.50 to $2.99.

12 x 100mm test tubes are available with a price of $4.50 each. The test tube is made of borosilicate glass with a rounded bottom, smooth or flared top lip, and appropriate wall thickness. These are in packs of 50 pieces.

More costly items like Original Berol China Marker. Writes on almost anything, anywhere. Non-toxic. China marker: All-purpose marker for all surfaces. The price of this item has been reduced from $22.00 for a pack 12 to $5.99.

The CLOSEOUT section is regularly updated. For customers who have inquiries on this, please contact us.

Tardigrades: Part of International Space Station (ISS) Experiments

For organisms to survive space exposure, there are certain physiognomies that are needed like high tolerances for radiation and extreme cold or freezing conditions. Only organisms generally known as extremophiles can survive in such conditions. Examples of these organisms are Archea, Rotifera, some species of Bacteria and Nematoda, some Arhtropods and Tardigrada. The Tardigrades or water bears are known to be the most robust in the planet and are unique in the extremophile list.

What are tardigrades?

Tardigrades, commonly called water bears, are minute animals. They are only 50-2,100 um in length. They live in several earth environments. When these minute creatures were identified with very high resistance to the various stress factors that come along with space travel, tardigrades have become the perfect prototype for space research. Another factor is their complex structure that is very easy to observe.

This creature has been a focus of astrobiologists earning them a ride to space and the International Space Station (ISS).

Water Bears and Space Experiments

Under the sponsorship of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had a study named BIOKIS – TARDIKISS included in its BIOKon In Space (BIOKIS) program. The study aimed to provide countermeasures that are needed to safeguard sensitive organisms, and this includes humans that cannot handle the extreme conditions of space.

It is foreseen that the study can provide information of aging and human life through engineering tissues and cells as use for countermeasures of aging and radiation.

The experiments in space will be made through dosimeters placed in a BIOKIS BIOCON container.

Some more info on the study are:

Tardigrades showed high post-flight survival rate. They were not affected by gravity or radiation.
Females laid eggs that had no change from those on earth. They were of normal shape and able to hatch without difficulty.
Newborns were also normal and laid normal eggs when they matured.

Other results of the study will be released by NASA soon.

Have an experiment with the water bears? Order online tardigrades now.