PURPLE Moor Grass, Molinia caerulea, is a common plant in northern Europe and is of scientific interest for the ratios of carbon and nitrogen in contains. The analysis of the material is itself straightforward, but preparing samples for analysis has…
Month: February 2012
Greenhouse gas analyser fits in small case
PORTABLE gas analysers are nothing new, but Los Gatos Research reckons its latest instrument is the word’s first greenhouse gas analyser to qualify for the label ‘ultraportable’. Able to detect the three major greenhouse gases – CO2 (carbon dioxide), CH4…
Miniature NMR spectrometer is ‘world first’
A NUCLEAR magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer weighing just 5kg and requiring only 20 microlitres of sample for analysis has been unveiled by Cole-Parmer. The PicoSpin-45L is aimed at academic and chemistry labs, where it should provide a low-cost way of…
Hide your centrifuge under the lab bench
SPACE on the lab bench always seems to be at a premium, and equipment manufacturers regularly roll-out new products that are intended to occupy less of this precious commodity. In Eppendorf’s case, the roll-out is quite literal. Its latest product…
Better stilbene detection with these reference materials
THE OESTROGENIC hormones diethylstilbestrol (DES), hexestrol (HEX), and dienestrol (DE), are banned worldwide from livestock raised for food production. They are prohibited from use as growth promotion agents in veal and calf farming, and they form part of the UK’s…
Online audit trail makes pipette calibration verifiable
LABORATORIES working to any external quality standard – and these days, that is most of them – will routinely have to provide evidence of the regular calibration checks performed on their instruments and other lab equipment. Not only do the…
Bioreactor will grow stem cell lines at Georgia Tech
TAP Biosystems reports that Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, has selected its Ambr bioreactor system to conduct research aimed at determining the optimum process conditions for economical manufacturing of stem cells. Ambr will be used at the university’s new Stem…
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,…
Laboratories go live at Analytica 2012
A NEW development at Analytica 2012 will be the creation of ‘genuine’ laboratory spaces within the exhibition halls. Daily experiment presentations will be held in which exhibiting companies will be able to demonstrate their equipment and instruments. The Live Labs…
UHPLC columns enable reversed-phase biomolecule separations
THE BENEFITS of reversed-phase biomolecule separations can now be experienced in ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC), says Agilent, thanks to its new Zorbax 300SB-C3 and 300-Diphenyl chromatography columns. This range of columns has particles smaller than 2um and pores of 300 Angstrom,…