THE WORLD’S first precision tunable blue laser operating at 461nm, the Vortex Plus Blue TLB-6802, has been launched by the New Focus division of Newport. This is the critical wavelength for the next generation of atomic clocks currently being built…
Month: June 2012
World’s only nephelometer to measure light scattering in a microplate
THE NEWEST addition to BMG Labtech’s range of microplate readers, the Nephelostar Plus, is said to be the world’s only laser-based nephelometer that measures light scattering in a microplate. Light scattering is an alternative to absorbance studies, measuring the turbidity…
UHPLC delivers ‘exceptional’ productivity
CLAIMING the lowest gradient delay volume and unmatched flow precision, the Thermo Scientific UltiMate 3000 XRS ultra-high performance liquid chromatograph (UHPLC) is the newest member of Thermo’s UHPLC+ range. The company says the instrument offers new sampling and detection capabilities,…
Weekly news: is this the real life?
I WAS interested to see some research published this week on the ‘Truman Show delusion’, having recently had a conversation with a teenager about this very subject. In the 1998 movie The Truman Show, the eponymous hero is adopted from…
Nanoparticle tracking analysis to characterise microvesicles
THE YIN research lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, is working at the interface of chemistry, biology, and engineering to study structure-based drug design, and using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to characterise biological nanoparticles such as microvesicles.…
Eleven laser wavelengths in a single package
AVAILABLE in free-space or fibre-coupled configurations, the new line of Excelsior One lasers from Spectra-Physics deliver eleven different wavelengths and up to 500mW of average power. These plug-and-play lasers are intended for bioinstrumentation applications including flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, and…
Digging deeper into images for biomedical research
THE UPDATED version of Definiens Image Miner, just released, promises to give life sciences researchers deeper biological insights by integrating data analysis with images. The company says Image Miner 2 can reduce the time needed for image-based studies from weeks…
Centrifuge tubes can stand alone
COMBINING chemical resistance and high speed tolerance with practicality, Porvair Sciences 50ml centrifuge tubes incorporate a circular collar on the base to enable them to stand on the lab bench without external support. Made of clear polypropylene (PP), the tubes…
Autoprep boosts research into single cell genomics
THE EMERGING field of single-cell genomics is enabling scientists to study previously unavailable genomic signatures from a single cell. Fluidigm believes its C1 system will prove to be the next big advance in the field. The C1 single-cell autoprep system…
Measure viscosity at high shear with E chip
MEASURING viscosity at high shear rates is a challenge with conventional instruments, as the instigation of turbulent or unstable fluid flow makes measurements unreliable. The standard way of dealing with this problem is to make multiple measurements, but this requires…