ADDRESSING the growing global market in bioproduction, Thermo Fisher Scientific has expanded its portfolio of Nunc roller bottles with a wider choice of materials and surface treatments.These bottles are designed for adherent cell culture in the production of vaccines and…
Month: November 2011
Free library of texture analysis notes
THE PREDICTION of food behaviour and texture is of great interest to the food industry, and can play a vital role in the success of a product. Those involved in this tricky type of analysis might be well advised to…
Better value in Flash purification
PROMISING the widest range of features and cost-savings of any entry-level flash purification system on the market, the new Isolera Prime from Biotage is aimed at chemists needing an automated purification platform to increase productivity. This upgradeable new system can…
Laboratory power supply at lower cost
A LOWER-cost version of Aim-TTi’s QPX1200 series laboratory power supply, the QPX1200S, has a maximum power of 1200W and features PowerFlex regulation, enabling it to offer voltage and current combinations between 60V/20A and 20V/50A. The new model is cheaper by…
Diagnostic controls for gonorrhea and chlamydia assays
A NEW range of controls designed for the highly sensitive nucleic acid assays used in the detection of chlamydia and gonorrhea is now available from SeraCare. Accurun 341 controls are designed to monitor and validate the performance of molecular diagnostic…
Mosaic now talks to Matrical
TITIAN Software has upgraded its Mosaic sample management software so that this can integrate with Matrical Biosciences automated stores, meaning that Mosaic is now capable of interfacing with industry-standard compound stores. Mosaic comprises five modules – inventory tracking, ordering, workflow…
Leica provides IHC and ISH at Imperial
THE LABORATORIES at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK, perform up to 120,000 immunohistochemistry (IHC) tests each year, giving it one of the largest workloads in IHC and in situ hybridisation (ISH) in the country. In order to modernise IHC…
Accurate pH in variable temperatures
UNLIKE standard pH electrodes, Sensorex says its research grade pHase pH electrodes are specially designed for fast, accurate and stable pH measurements even with large temperature changes. This makes them suitable for quality control and R+D use in applications including…
Measuring breath acetone for diabetes diagnosis
DETECTING small quantities of acetone and other ketones in human breath is an important diagnostic tool for diabetes, but the standard technique for doing this involves the complication and expense of a mass spectrometer. Now Oxford Medical Diagnostocs (OMD) says…
‘Mouse-ear’ rotifer wins Olympus imaging prize
THE 2011 Olympus BioScapes digital imaging competition has been won by an image of a rotifer, a microscopic aquatic creature, bearing a comic resemblance to a cartoon mouse. Taken by Charles Krebs using high-speed flash to freeze the motion of…