AN EASY, flexible, and non-biased method to generate directional single, paired-end, and multiplexed libraries from mRNA- or rRNA-depleted total RNA is promised by Bioo Scientific for its NextFlex kits. Bi-directional sequencing, in both the 5′-3′ and the 3’5′ directions, means…
Month: April 2012
Measuring total sulphur quickly and reliably
INDUCTIVELY Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) is a powerful and sensitive technique employed by Warwick Analytical Service to determine total sulphur in both organic and inorganic samples. The method can be used across a broad range of sample…
Piezo micromanipulator is ‘world’s smallest’
A NEW 3D piezo-operated micromanipulator from Warner has a fully-featured controller to facilitate high precision positioning. The company says the Sensapex manipulator is the world’s smallest, and can help to maximise results in electrophysiological research. Offering a full 20mm of…
Heated stage plays vital role in flycatcher reproductive study
A STUDY into bird hybridisation at Uppsala University, Sweden, has been able to make progress only because of its use of TH60-6 warm stage from Linkam Scientific Instruments, which maintains the temperature of the gametes under observation. PhD student Murielle…
PCR plates promise faster more accurate reactions
RAININ says the thin-walled polypropylene used in the construction of its FrameStar PCR plates gives better heat transfer and makes for faster and more efficient thermal cycling when using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A rigid, thermally-stable polycarbonate plate frame supports…
Evaporators optimised for environmental research
MONITORING substances that are potentially harmful to health is a core activity for many organisations, including government agencies and private firms checking they are not harming their staff or the environment. Atmospheric, water, soil, and vegetable samples are routinely monitored…
Weekly news: Is synthetic biology the new bogeyman?
THE SCIENTIFIC community is well used to being the bogeyman, whenever a new development in human knowledge creates the possibility in somebody’s imagination that something could go terribly wrong. Now there is a new area of scientific research to defend,…
Image analysis system delivers ‘perfect’ chemi blots
SYNGENE says its new PXi multi-application image analysis system is currently the best in its class for scientists imaging chemiluminescent and fluorescent blots, as well as 1D fluorescent stained gels. The high resolution 6.3 megapixel camera and large fixed aperture…
RDML format recommended for quantitative PCR data
CONDUCTING a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) experiment is a routine operation these days, but like many aspects of modern laboratory science the bottleneck comes in the analysis of the large quantities of data generated. Now a researcher at the Academic…
Beetle video wins prize
PROFESSOR Javier Alba Tercedor, of the department of zoology at the University of Granada, Spain, has been awarded the Best Film of the Year at the SkyScan Micro CT Meeting in Brussels, Belgium. His one-minute film, ‘Micro-CT anatomical study of…