Month: April 2012

Glove bag provides portable protection

AIR SCIENCE says its new Purair Flex provides more working volume in a portable glove bag than its competitors, thanks to its innovative curved design. The device also features a double O-ring design on the standard polyurethane cuffs, which enables…

Tasmanian Devil researcher wins 2012 Eppendorf award

THE 2012 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators has been announced: Dr Elizabeth Murchison of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, takes the prize for her work with Tasmanian Devils. Murchison’s work in Tasmania has focused on…

Maple maths software now ‘easier than ever’

A MAJOR update of Maple, the technical computing software for mathematicians, engineers and scientists, has made the program easier to use and more powerful, says distributor Adept Scientific. Maple 16 introduces new tools and techniques in its Clickable Math collection,…

Vitamin D diluent contains no equine or synthetic plasma

THE LATEST offering in SeraCare Life Sciences’s range, SeraCon Vitamin D Depleted Diluent is a human plasma-based matrix for the development of vitamin D assays. The product is derived entirely from human plasma, with no equine or synthetic plasma, which…

Promotion focuses on bundle savings

THE LATEST in Eppendorf’s regular Advantage promotions focuses its high-speed MixMate benchtop mixer and Research Plus multichannel pipettes, and offers savings of up to 30% until the end of June 2012. MixMate promises efficient mixing of even the smallest samples,…

Hotplate stirrer has independent circuits

TWIN temperature control circuits offer the security of redundancy on the newly designed Asynt hotplate stirrer. In the event of one circuit malfunctioning, the second takes over and the temperature of the sample remains uncompromised, the company says. To launch…