THE Microlute 96 well SPE microplate from Porvair Sciences is designed to automate solid phase extraction (SPE) cleanup and analyte enrichment in busy laboratories. Porvair offers a number of sorbents, from C18 to Mixed Mode, in either silica or polymer…
Month: August 2012
Scalable bioreactor reduces experiment turnaround times
A NEW automated bioreactor system for parallel cell culture or fermentation has been launched by TAP Biosystems. Ambr 250 consists of a workstation which can automate independent parallel control of 12 or 24 single-use 250ml bioreactors for cell culture or…
Software streamlines research and reference management
A SUBSTANTIAL upgrade to EndNote, the reference management software from Thomson Reuters used by researchers and students worldwide, has been announced. Available in the UK and Ireland, Germany, Austria and Denmark from Adept Scientific, EndNote X6 keeps its users up…
Evaporator protects samples and increases productivity
GENEVAC’s HT Series II evaporators are equipped with the company’s proprietary SampleGuard temperature control technology to automatically detect when samples are dry, initiating the shutdown of evaporation and thereby protecting valuable samples from potential thermal degradation. Combined with the company’s…
Dry bath operates at two temperatures at once
THE NEW EchoTherm IC22XT digital chilling/heating dry bath from Torrey Pines Scientific can run two separate temperatures and two different sample blocks at the same time, effectively making it two heating/cooling blocks in one. The IC22XT can be used in…
Ballistic imaging at ultra-high resolution
THE SUCCESSOR to Specialised Imaging’s popular Sir2 high-speed camera, the Sir3, can acquire two separate full resolution images to provide displacement and velocity data on tracked objects. Mainly aimed at harsh environments associated with military proving grounds and industrial installations,…
Supporting high throughput screening in academic labs
THE NEW Centre for Biomolecular Science at the University of Nottingham, UK, has been given a recent boost with the installation of sample storage and tube-to-plate processing systems from TTP Labtech. The fully automated facility for the Managed Chemical Compound…
Weekly news: Curiosity is a lost opportunity
IT’S all eyes on the skies next week as the most promising laboratory of recent years finally gets commissioned. This particular installation has it all: state-of-the-art instruments, a clearly defined task in a field that is still substantially unstudied, and…
Protocol shows way to improved sulphur determination
A PROPRIETARY inductive coupled plasma – optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) sample preparation protocol allowing regular, reproducible detection of sulphur at trace levels of only tens of parts-per-million (ppm) has been developed by Warwick Analytical Service. The company says the new…
Better labelling for personalised medicine firm
PERSONALISED medicine specialist Lab21 has begun using a new labelling system from Episys to create labels for its diagnostic test kits. The Episys Ultimate Platinum package includes the Headers & Footers and Approvals modules, which Episys says will give Lab21…