TAP Biosystems reports that I-Stem, the Institute for Stem cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic diseases, has selected two of its lab automation systems for installation at its headquarters at Evry, on the southern edge of Paris. The Tap CompacT…
Category: lab automation
Workstation is configurable to automate routine tasks
MANY laboratory protocols are time consuming and laborious, but may not lend themselves to lab automation because they combine functions on several channels. Aurora Instruments says its new Versa 10 automated liquid handling workstation goes some way to solving this…
Autosampler accessory streamlines IC workflows
BY AUTOMATING inline pre-injection measurements of conductivity and pH, the Dionex AS-AP Sample Conductivity and pH Accessory from Thermo Fisher Scientific will save users substantial time and effort, as well as providing more consistent results than manual methods, the company…
Keynote speakers announced for second SLAS conference
NOBEL winner Harry Kroto joins biomedical engineer Mehmet Toner and TV journalist Charles Sabine as a keynote speaker for the second annual conference and exhibition of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), to be held 12-16 January 2013…
Towards a future of personalised medicine
SPECIAL REPORT: LabHomepage attended the 9th Planet xMap conference and symposium, held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. With nearly 500 delegates and almost 40 papers presented in 12 sessions over two days, Planet xMap is a significant scientific…
Clearing the lysis bottleneck in forensic labs
HAMILTON Robotics reckons that a major bottleneck in today’s forensic laboratories is the manual lysis step, which is time consuming and creates a gap in workflows and traceability which opens the door to potential contamination and errors. The company also…
Innovation prize for lung-on-a-chip
A PODIUM presentation describing a ‘Human breathing Lung-on-a-chip for drug screening and nanotoxicity’ has been named as the winner of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)’s 2012 innovation award. The presentation, by Dan Dongeun Huh of Harvard University,…
Chromatography vial made for lab automation
MADE of borosilicate glass in either clear or amber, the Ram Vial from JG Finneran is designed around the needs of laboratory automation systems. Its 12 x 32mm external dimensions are said to be optimum for robotic arm autosamplers to…
Faster filling of petri dishes
A TIME saving of around 40% is claimed by Integra Biosciences for the new Turbo operational mode of its Mediajet automatic petri dish filler. Able to cope with up to 1100 petri dishes per hour, the Mediajet is also able…
Young researchers win 2012 SLAS awards
THE SOCIETY for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has named the four recipients of its 2012 Young Scientist Awards. They are Brian Cox (not the TV science celebrity, but a namesake at the University of Toronto); Lauren Drowley of AstraZeneca;…