THE VASE-like neck of JG Finneran’s Versa Vial has a 9mm opening, which the company says is the largest for any autosampler vial. This design makes it easier to add samples to vials by pipette, and safer to empty. The…
Month: October 2012
When should you use radiation resistant lenses?
CONVENTIONAL optical elements like lenses and prisms can suffer from degradation when exposed to high energy radiation, with the glass they are made from gradually turning brown or grey in colour, reducing their optical transmittance. These ‘browning’ issues may be…
Low cost analysers for diabetes and ketosis
TWO new low-cost point-of-care (POC) analysers, for diabetes management and ketosis testing, will be introduced at November’s Medica exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, by EKF Diagnostics. The show will see the European launch of the Quo-Lab glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) analyser for…
Weekly news: For whom the Nobel tolls?
DOES anybody still place any importance on the Nobel Peace Prize, or has this once-prestigious award finally made a mockery of itself one time too many? In the world of science, in the public eye at least, no accolade has…
Haematology analyser wins FDA approval
A FULLY automated bench-top haematology analyser from Diatron, the Abacus 3CP, has gained approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It now joins the company’s flagship Abacus 5 with what is known technically as 510(k) pre-market approval. The…
Intelligent pipetting for every laboratory
EPPENDORF’s new Xplorer Plus electronic pipette incorporates a number of ‘intelligent’ functions to improve the simplicity, precision and reproducibility of liquid handling in the laboratory. Specifically designed for work involving complex or long pipetting series, and requiring the exact setting of…
Flow chemistry reactors ‘are better than batch’
FLOWSYN integrated flow reactor systems from Uniqsis are designed to exploit the many advantages of flow chemistry in micro-reactors over batch chemistry operations. Flow chemistry offers better reproducibility and scalability, improved yields and fewer problems with unstable intermediates or exothermic…
Raman spectrometers made more affordable
SMALLER than its predecessors, the new Advantage series of Raman spectrometers from DeltaNu, available from Analytik, promise high performance at lower cost for academic and industrial markets. Advantage series instruments are suited to the analysis of solutions, gels, powders and…
Fluorescence spectrometer has double the sensitivity
THE NEW FLS980 fluorescence spectrometer from Edinburgh Photonics is suitable for steady state, lifetime and phosphorescence measurements in photophysics, photochemistry, biophysics, biochemistry and semiconductor physics, says the company. A development of the FLS920, the FLS980 delivers higher performance with double…
Ultra high-speed video at high resolution
THE LATEST ultra high-speed video camera from Specialised Imaging will, the company says, deliver high resolution 924×768 pixel images at up to two million frames per second for the most demanding of high speed imaging assignments. The new Kirana camera…