FOLLOWING its acquisition by US-based laboratory supplies company Wheaton in 2009, UK company Laboratory Sales Limited (LSL) is changing its name to Wheaton. The newly-rebranded company will continue to provide a full line of liquid handling and packaging products, and…
Category: labware
Are you taking the pee?
IF SO, Medline Scientific offers a range of scientific urine collection kits which it says includes all the components necessary for safe and hygienic specimen collection and handling. These CE and IVD approved kits are available with or without boric…
Alphanumeric storage tubes are laser-etched
NEW range of sample storage tubes from Micronic have their alphanumeric codes permanently etched by laser for long-term legibility. Available in 0.5ml, 0.75ml, 1.1ml, and 1.4ml volumes, the tubes are manufactured from a single component and have a flat polypropylene…
How to engineer surfaces for specific cell adhesion properties
A NEW mimetic library of extracellular matrices has been launched by Amsbio. Including almost 300 biomimetics of fibronectin, vitronectin, laminin, and collagen, the new extracellular matrix (ECM) library should prove useful for engineering the surfaces of plates or scaffolds to achieve…
Widest mouth of any autosampler vial
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…
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…
Lab labels made faster and easier
A NEW printing system for laboratory labels uses drop-in supplies that make it possible to change materials in just 20 seconds. The Brady BBP33 label printer needs no adjustment or calibration when switching label type. Brady says the new label…
Cap a complete rack of tubes in seconds
A COMPLETE rack of 96 sample tubes can be capped in just 4-9 seconds, which is less than half the time of competitive systems, using the Univo CP480 electric capper says Micronic. This versatile laboratory benchtop unit can cap all…
Longer pipette tips for better labware access
INTEGRA has introduced a new extended length GripTip pipette tip available in non-sterile, sterile, filter and Green Choice configurations. The Long GripTip is designed to work with single, eight, 12, and 16 channel Viaflo electronic pipettes and Voyager eight and…
Vials have large openings for lab automation
RESEARCHERS working with limited sample volumes in automated laboratories may find benefits from using the large opening RAM vial, says JG Finneran. Measuring 12x32mm, the StepVial design is a combination of vial and insert with a 40% larger target area…