THE FIRST Elisa kit to exploit Stellar Biotechnologies’s Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH) protiens is now available. This research-use-only (RUO) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) is available in six different kits to kits to measure either immunoglobulin G (IgG) or immunoglobulin M…
Month: April 2012
Free download of data acquisition handbook
THE NEWLY-released third edition of the Signal Conditioning and PC-Based Data Acquisition Handbook is available as a free download from Adept Scientific. The handbook, published by Measurement Computing, runs to 133 pages and includes practical data aquisition (DAQ) applications as…
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…
Heating block is ‘student proof’
ASYNT says that the motivation behind the new, more robust, version of its DrySyn heating block system was ‘widespread demand’. We think that means that science students are clumsy, careless, and prone to break any item of laboratory equipment they…
Research projects target sepsis
SEPSIS is the target of the latest development in the UK’s Detection and Identification of Infectious Agents (DIIA) programme, which manages a number of government-backed projects to develop technologies to reduce the impact of infectious agent. Sepsis is the result…
Microplate seals are gas permeable for extended cell life
TRADITIONAL microplate seals create a hermetic seal over each microplate well, cutting it off from the outside world and preventing contamination. Such a complete seal, however, also prevents gas from passing through and can limit the usefulness of live cell…
Human mononuclear cells available off the shelf
SeraCare Life Sciences has expanded its range of mononuclear cells with the launch of off-the-shelf AccuCell human cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMNCs). Viability of these cells after thawing is validated at better than 90%, says SeraCare, making these cryopreserved CBMNCs…
Kit detects histamine in seafood, wine, and milk
A NEW laboratory-free test can detect dangerous levels of histamine in foodstuffs including seafood, fish meal, wine, and milk in just four minutes. The HistaStrip test kit from Bioo Scientific uses a dipstick approach, providing a visual indication of histamine…
Remote control for up to six Obis lasers
COHERENT’s Obis family of laser modules has just been expanded with the addition of Obis six-laser remote, which integrates the control of up to six separate lasers to make the range compliant with the latest CDRH (US Center for Devices and…
New particle exists in two places at once
THE WORLD of quantum physics is, for most people, difficult to grasp at the best of times. The latest research published today from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge is unlikely to change that, invoking a new class of subatomic particle…