TOTALLY re-engineered range of customisable inverted microscopes will be launched by Olympus in September 2012, the company has announced. Taking advantage of the attention generated by the European Microscopy Congress (EMC) 2012 in Manchester, UK (16-21 September), the new instruments…
Month: July 2012
Agilent offers single source for HPLC supplies and services
IN A bid to win lucrative new business supplying consumables and servicing for other manufacturers’ HPLC instruments, Agilent has launched its new CrossLab HPLC offering. The move expands the CrossLab operation into high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in addition to the…
Better quantitative ketosis detection
THE DETECTION of clinically-significant ketosis – the condition of elevated levels of ketones occur in the body in response to a low supply of energy (glucose) – can be improved through the use of LiquiColor reagents, says Stanbio Laboratory. Using…
Improved grinding of hard and fibrous material
FRITSCH says that its new, completely modified Pulverisette 9 vibrating cup mill offers practical advantages when hard, brittle, or fibrous material must be ground quickly to analytical fineness. It is suited to fast sample preparation for spectroscopy, ore analysis in…
Imaging RNA in living cells in real time
THE IMAGING of RNA inside individual living cells seems like the stuff of science fiction, but is becoming a laboratory reality says Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT). The latest issue of Decoded, the company’s quarterly newsletter, highlights the use of IDT…
Sample integrity is enhanced by multi-well plates
PORVAIR’s range of proprietary multi-well filtration microplates has been developed in response to the need for reliable methods to purify samples and improve assays. These microplates are optimised for applications including cell harvesting, DNA separations, binding studies, plasmid isolation, general…
Bioreactor flask range bought by Wheaton
THE CELLINE range of bioreactor flasks for antibody and protein production has been acquired by Wheaton Industries from Wilson Wolf Manufacturing. Wheaton has also entered into an agreement with Wilson Wolf for further product development in high density cell culture…
Nanoparticle tracking analysis now defined by ASTM
THE PUBLICATION by the American Society of Testing Materials of its new guide new nanomaterial measurement – ASTM E2834 – has been welcomed by Nanosight. The ‘standard guide for measurement of particle size distribution of nanomaterials in suspension by nanoparticle…
DNA sequencing kits for use with Ion Torrent
BIOO Scientific has expanded its line of kits for NGS library preparation to include the Nextflex DNA Sequencing Kit for Ion Torrent, which has been validated for use with the Ion PGM system from Life Technologies. The Nextflex DNA Sequencing…
Microfluidic chips mimic human organs
A UNIVERSITY spin-off has attracted substantial funding to launch its organs-on-a-chip microfluidic devices. Mimetas, a spin-off of the University of Leiden, Netherlands, has attracted funding of 200,000 euros to puts its synthetic organs into production. The company expects the devices…