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Weekly news: In praise of the table-top show, plus free pipettes offer

18 May 2012
Weekly news: In praise of the table-top show, plus free pipettes offer

IT’S all about pipettes this week. Well, not all about them, but these workhorses of the laboratory have been figuring strongly in my consciousness. One reason is that one of the early supporters of LabHomepage, Porvair Sciences, is making a generous offer to our readers – full details below. The other reason is that...

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Who needs the giant lab exhibitions? (video)

18 May 2012

WE’RE just back from our visit to the Scientific Laboratory Show, and found that this smaller event on the laboratory exhibition circuit is every bit as appealing as the giant trade fairs found overseas. Held every two years at the East Midlands Conference Centre,...

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Quantitative detection of carbonyl sulphide in the field

18 May 2012

A NEW ultra-sensitive gas analyser which measures ambient air for carbonyl sulphide (OCS or COS), with simultaneous measurement of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and water vapour (H2O), has been launched by Los Gatos Research. The new OCS Analyser requires no sample drying...

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July 2012 workshop on portable molecular spectroscopy

18 May 2012
July 2012 workshop on portable molecular spectroscopy

ANALYTIK has announced a workshop at its new UK premises, in partnership with Agilent Technologies, on portable and handheld molecular spectroscopy. The free-to-attend event will be held on Tuesday...

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Lab robots automate plant science at Danforth labs

17 May 2012
Lab robots automate plant science at Danforth labs

A PRODUCTIVITY increase of 100 times, or 10,000 percent, is enough to make any laboratory manager sit up and pay attention. This is exactly what is being claimed for...

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XY stage for inverted microscopes gives better long-exposure stability

17 May 2012
XY stage for inverted microscopes gives better long-exposure stability

THE USE of integrated miniaturised ceramic linear drives makes the M-687 stage more compact and stable than traditional computer controllable microscope stages, says PI. The self-locking piezo linear motors...

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Save on reagents with these low dead-volume reservoirs

17 May 2012
Save on reagents with these low dead-volume reservoirs

A NEW 10ml disposable multichannel reagent reservoir from Integra has a dead volume of just 650ul, which the company says translates into a significant saving in reagent costs. One...

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Dengue virus NS1 monoclonal antibodies now available

17 May 2012
Dengue virus NS1 monoclonal antibodies now available

VIROSTAT has released several new monoclonal antibodies to the NS1 of Dengue virus. These antibodies recognise the NS1 protein of all four Dengue serotypes and are, says the company,...

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Keeping cool in crystallisation studies

17 May 2012
Keeping cool in crystallisation studies

CRYSTALLISATION studies and screening of polymorphs needs stable sub-ambient temperatures, traditionally provided by ice baths and jacketed reaction vessels. This approach can be messy in the laboratory, requires a...

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Exploring particle physics through the medium of interpretive dance

15 May 2012
Exploring particle physics through the medium of interpretive dance

THIS is one of those stories that makes you check the date on the press release, just in case it’s a spoof. As unlikely as it seems, though, this...

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Reagents promise more detection stability in LC/MS

14 May 2012
Reagents promise more detection stability in LC/MS

THREE new liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) grade reagents from Thermo Fisher are said to exhibit the lowest ionic metal content, in order to minimise background noise and enhance MS...

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Biobanking is now realistic even in smaller laboratories

14 May 2012
Biobanking is now realistic even in smaller laboratories

AUTOMATED sample management has often been thought of as the preserve of the larger better-equipped laboratory, but TTP Labtech says this is no longer the case. Its new Arktic...

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Weekly news: Most scientific research is wrong

11 May 2012

SCIENCE is an iterative process, a steady march away from ignorance and towards enlightenment, a gradual unveiling of the hidden truth of why things are the way they are....

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Custom heating block boosts lab productivity

11 May 2012
Custom heating block boosts lab productivity

THE ADOPTION of a custom UPLC heating block has improved productivity as well as producing more accurate and repeatable thermal stability measurements at a leading European contract research organisation...

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Encyclopedia of Life passes half-way point: one million species down, one million to go

10 May 2012
Encyclopedia of Life passes half-way point: one million species down, one million to go

A RECENT surge in content from the Smithsonian Institution has seen the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) break through the one million page milestone and sets it firmly on course...

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For microplate reader intelligence, don’t get in a bind – get a binder

10 May 2012
For microplate reader intelligence, don’t get in a bind – get a binder

BMG LABTECH is making a binder stuffed full of application notes on its microplate readers available to LabHomepage readers. The company says that having a “perfectly engineered microplate reader”...

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Tissue Studio now detects spot-like signals from in situ hybridisation

10 May 2012
Tissue Studio now detects spot-like signals from in situ hybridisation

DEFINIENS Tissue Studio 3.5 now supports automatic analysis of in situ hybridisation assays, including SISH, CISH, FISH and dual-ISH, the company reports. The software facilitates the detection of spot-like...

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Spectrophotometers now equipped with USB

10 May 2012
Spectrophotometers now equipped with USB

DIRECT PC control of Cecil Instruments spectrophotometers is now possible, thanks to the incorporation of USB ports. The company’s single- and double-beam spectrophotometers now include these as standard, allowing...

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Biomimetic 3D models of the human central nervous system

10 May 2012
Biomimetic 3D models of the human central nervous system

TAP Biosystems is collaborating with scientists at the Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in...

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Mittermaier scores Agilent early career award

10 May 2012
Mittermaier scores Agilent early career award

AGILENT Technologies has named Anthony Mittermaier, associate professor of chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, as the winner of its fourth annual Early Career Professor Award. This year’s...

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Laboratory chillers provide temperature control with flexibility

10 May 2012
Laboratory chillers provide temperature control with flexibility

DELIVERING quick ramp-up and cool-down, Cole-Parmer’s Polystat lab chillers are available in two power ratings (250 or 500 Watts) and in a choice of force or force/suction pump models....

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The ultimate scientist’s business card?

9 May 2012
The ultimate scientist’s business card?

SCIENTISTS and others in the laboratory sector might be interested in these unusual business cards, created by an Italian advertising agency. Although a microscope slide might be a little...

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Micro bioreactor ‘is valid’ scale-down model

8 May 2012
Micro bioreactor ‘is valid’ scale-down model

RESEARCHERS at a leading US biopharma company have concluded that the Ambr micro bioreactor is a realistic scale-down model for conventional two-litre bioreactors, reports Tap Biosystems. Writing in the...

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Sample tubes are big inside, small outside

8 May 2012
Sample tubes are big inside, small outside

CLAIMING a trick worthy of the Tardis, Octygen sample storage tubes offer a useful 475 micolitre storage volume but occupy just 60 percent of the space needed for typical...

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