THE THIRD iteration of Synbiosis’s Acolyte colony counter offers ,more speed and better economy, says the company. Acolyte 3 is described as ideal for microbiologists that need to increase throughput and improve count accuracy. This new low-cost automated colony counter…
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Zebrafish image scores Nikon prize
THE WINNING image in the 2012 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition is an image of the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo, submitted by Dr Jennifer Peters and Dr Michael Taylor of St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This is…
Increasing vaccine test throughput at UCL
A SECOND automated colony counter from Synbiosis is being used at University College London’s Institute of Child Health (ICH), to assess the effectiveness of novel vaccine candidates. Scientists in the immunobiology unit at UCL are now using a Protocol 3…
Colony counter proves its worth at piemaker’s lab
THE ABSENCE of background glare proved a decisive factor when pie manufacturer Pukka Pies sought an improved colony counter for use at its microbiological laboratory in Leicester, UK. The Acolade colony counter from Synbiosis is used to count mixed colonies…
Colony counter speeds food pathogen research
MICROBIOLOGISTS at the Robert Mondavi Research Institute (RMI), an important food and wine research centre at the University of California, USA, are using a ProtoCol colony counter from Synbiosis in their research on the growth of bacterial pathogens including E Coli…
Automatic potency analysis from colony counter
SYNBIOSIS says its ProtoCol 3 colony counting and zone measurement system is the first to automatically generate antibiotic and vaccine potency analysis from count and zone data. ProtoCol 3 can read plates of 30-150mm, detecting colonies as small as 43…