AN APPLICATION note now available from Oxford Gene Technology provides scientists with valuable guidance on the use of targeted probes to improve data quality in next-generation sequencing. The note, titled Fishing for variants in the deep end of the gene…
Month: May 2012
Assay plates have glass bottoms for better imaging
PORVAIR’s Krystal assay plates have an upper part made of polystyrene and a base plate made of a sheet of borosilicate glass, and says the company are proven to give higher performance for fluorescence assays, luminescence detection, scintillation counting, and…
Professional recognition for lab technicians
THE SOCIETY of Biology in the UK says that laboratory and science technicians will increase their employability and have a clearer route to career development through its new Technicians’ Register, launched this week. By joining the register, technicians can win…
LED microscope suits biomedical applications
A CONSTANT colour temperature without heat build-up is the main advantage of the LED illumination system used on the new Leica DM4000 B microscope, says the company. The cool and uniform light produced makes the instrument suitable for biomedical and…
Weekly news: In praise of the table-top show, plus free pipettes offer
IT’S all about pipettes this week. Well, not all about them, but these workhorses of the laboratory have been figuring strongly in my consciousness. One reason is that one of the early supporters of LabHomepage, Porvair Sciences, is making a…
Who needs the giant lab exhibitions? (video)
WE’RE just back from our visit to the Scientific Laboratory Show, and found that this smaller event on the laboratory exhibition circuit is every bit as appealing as the giant trade fairs found overseas. Held every two years at the…
Quantitative detection of carbonyl sulphide in the field
A NEW ultra-sensitive gas analyser which measures ambient air for carbonyl sulphide (OCS or COS), with simultaneous measurement of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and water vapour (H2O), has been launched by Los Gatos Research. The new OCS Analyser…
July 2012 workshop on portable molecular spectroscopy
ANALYTIK has announced a workshop at its new UK premises, in partnership with Agilent Technologies, on portable and handheld molecular spectroscopy. The free-to-attend event will be held on Tuesday 17 July 2012 at Analytik’s premises in Swavesey, Cambridge. Molecular spectroscopy…
Lab robots automate plant science at Danforth labs
A PRODUCTIVITY increase of 100 times, or 10,000 percent, is enough to make any laboratory manager sit up and pay attention. This is exactly what is being claimed for the installation of a customised Yeast 1 Hybrid automation system at…
XY stage for inverted microscopes gives better long-exposure stability
THE USE of integrated miniaturised ceramic linear drives makes the M-687 stage more compact and stable than traditional computer controllable microscope stages, says PI. The self-locking piezo linear motors and high resolution linear encoders deliver up to ten times the…