DEFINIENS Tissue Studio 3.5 now supports automatic analysis of in situ hybridisation assays, including SISH, CISH, FISH and dual-ISH, the company reports. The software facilitates the detection of spot-like signals from gene probes, or other stain with spot-like appearance, on…
Month: May 2012
Spectrophotometers now equipped with USB
DIRECT PC control of Cecil Instruments spectrophotometers is now possible, thanks to the incorporation of USB ports. The company’s single- and double-beam spectrophotometers now include these as standard, allowing data to be viewed, manipulated, processed, and saved via DataStream software.…
Biomimetic 3D models of the human central nervous system
TAP Biosystems is collaborating with scientists at the Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in drug discovery and pre-clinical testing. The collaboration will run for three…
Mittermaier scores Agilent early career award
AGILENT Technologies has named Anthony Mittermaier, associate professor of chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, as the winner of its fourth annual Early Career Professor Award. This year’s award focused on the field of structural biology using nuclear magnetic…
Laboratory chillers provide temperature control with flexibility
DELIVERING quick ramp-up and cool-down, Cole-Parmer’s Polystat lab chillers are available in two power ratings (250 or 500 Watts) and in a choice of force or force/suction pump models. The 500 watt model can cool a 2.8 litre reservoir from…
The ultimate scientist’s business card?
SCIENTISTS and others in the laboratory sector might be interested in these unusual business cards, created by an Italian advertising agency. Although a microscope slide might be a little impractical compared to the more usual 350gsm stock most conventional business…
Micro bioreactor ‘is valid’ scale-down model
RESEARCHERS at a leading US biopharma company have concluded that the Ambr micro bioreactor is a realistic scale-down model for conventional two-litre bioreactors, reports Tap Biosystems. Writing in the journal Cytotechnology, the scientists recounted their trials to replicate the characteristics…
Sample tubes are big inside, small outside
CLAIMING a trick worthy of the Tardis, Octygen sample storage tubes offer a useful 475 micolitre storage volume but occupy just 60 percent of the space needed for typical 0.5ml tubes. The secret to this cleverness is the use of…
Workhorse mass spectrometer makes TripleTof technology routine
AB SCIEX describes its new TripleTof 4600, unveiled today at the AOHUPO conference in Beijing, as a workhorse instrument which brings groundbreaking TripleTof technology to routine analysis. TripleTof (Tof meaning time-of-flight) is the company’s platform for simultaneous qualitative and quantitative…
Weekly news: The academic spring – removing the paywall to knowledge
WE ALL love open access, don’t we? The very fact that you are reading this newsletter is testament to the power of the internet in providing free and easy access to huge volumes of information. But what about those who…