New Catalogues: Kinesis Solid Phase Extraction ProductsOct 25, 2011Kinesis is pleased to announce the extension of the TELOS® Sample Preparation Product Range to include Silica- and Polymer-based Solid Phase Extraction Products...
Read MoreBrukerOct 20, 2011At the recent 49th JAIMA EXPO in Chiba, Japan, organizers estimated that visitors numbers in the region of 30,000 attended. It was at this event that Bruker demonstrated its innovative ‘lens-free' elliptical ion path of the recently launched SCION single quadrupole (SQ) and SCION triple quadrupole (TQ) gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detectors. The SCION SQ and TQ have a compact footprint while providing ultra-high sensitivity and outstanding data quality...
Read MoreAndor deep-depletion CCD camera captures advance that could speed-up introduction of stem cell therapyOct 14, 2011Many medical researchers believe that stem cell therapy will revolutionise the treatment of human disease and may provide treatments for many currently incurable diseases. However, one problem still to be overcome is controlling the excessive proliferation of cells with unwanted phenotypes after transplantation to prevent tissue overgrowth and tumour formation...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Analytical Gas Chromatography ColumnOct 12, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific TraceGOLD GC Column with SafeGuard, which combines an analytical gas chromatography (GC) column with a built-in guard column. The SafeGuard feature extends the life of the analytical column without compromising its chromatographic performance. Available in a range of guard column lengths and analytical column specifications...
Read MoreChromatography Videos Bring Technology to the Desktop with the Chromatograph Resource CenterOct 11, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, highlights its wide range of technical chromatography videos, available to watch on the Thermo Scientific Chromatography Resource Center (CRC). Giving instant access to the chromatography experience and expertise of Thermo Fisher Scientific, these videos contain updates and technical explanations of topical issues in HPLC, GC and SPE. The full portfolio of presentations, hosted on the Chromatography videos channel, is accessible to view via the CRC homepage...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Leading Mass Spectrometry Systems Selected by CVUA-MEL to Ensure Food Safety with Rapid and Reliable Contaminant AnalysisOct 11, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL) has standardized on Thermo Scientific LC-MS and GC-MS systems for routine analyses of contaminants in food, feed and human samples. The CVUA-MEL requires extremely high resolution and highly sensitive instruments that can analyze small molecular weight contaminants in samples quickly and accurately and to the lowest limits of detection (LOD)...
Read MoreThe Nanoscopy Group of Dr Volker Deckert applies JPK platform of optical technologies in the development of TERSOct 4, 2011JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research and technique development activities of the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena under the direction of Dr Volker Deckert...
Read MoreSave Samples, Time and Money with BioTek's New Take3 Trio Micro-Volume PlateSep 29, 2011BioTek introduces the new Take3 Trio, the first micro-volume, high density plate for convenient and rapid nucleic acid and protein quantification without sample dilution. Take3 Trio is capable of measuring up to forty-eight 2 μL samples...
Read MoreGrace VisionHT HPLC Media Platform Different systems, Different Applications, One media PlatformSep 28, 2011The Grace® VisionHT™ Media Platform technology is the basis for a truly seamless column choice. It is available in 1.5, 3, 5 and 10µm particle sizes in six very different phase chemistries and a multitude of hardware formats, enabling use on any type of LC system...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Imaging ATR Accessory for Fast and Reliable FT-IR Chemical Imaging AnalysesSep 28, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of a new imaging attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory offering enhanced spatial resolution and high speed data acquisition capabilities for Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) chemical imaging applications. The Thermo Scientific imaging ATR accessory has been designed to seamlessly and effortlessly integrate with the Thermo Scientific range of FT-IR microscopes to enable efficient, fast and reliable chemical imaging of challenging samples...
Read MoreASIR Purification system from Dynamic Extractions Standard Impurity isolation Sep 27, 2011In medicinal chemistry a challenging aspect to preparing compounds for testing, as lead molecules, can be their isolation from the crude reaction mixture that may contain catalysts, salts, metals, and other components which interfere with traditional purification methods. One such problematic compound is triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO). TPPO is notoriously difficult and time consuming to remove using standard solid phase chromatography methods. In this example a standard HPCCC method has been developed that targets TPPO, regardless of the compound of interest's polarity... Read MoreNew Catalogue: Kinesis Premium Quality Chromatography Vials, Caps & ClosuresSep 26, 2011Kinesis Ltd has published its latest Chromatography Vials, Caps & Closures Catalogue. The increasing demands of today's HPLC, LC/MS and GC analyses make the choice of consumables increasingly important. Kinesis Vials, Caps & Closures are made to the most exacting standards, ensuring contamination free sample handling and complete autosampler compatibility...
Read MoreQuotient Bioresearch Announces First Use of Bruker Maldi Biotyper for Bacterial IdentificationSep 23, 2011Quotient Bioresearch has today announced its adoption of Bruker's MALDI Biotyper for bacterial identification, following a successful year-long trial. The announcement, made at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) where Quotient presented a series of posters, places the company in a unique position as the first GLP laboratory to adopt the technology for routine bacterial identification as part of its portfolio of services for antimicrobial development...
Read MoreThermo Scientific Servo and Servo+ SPE Enhance Analytical Workflow for Drugs of Abuse TestingSep 23, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Servo and Servo+ ranges of sample preparation solutions for drugs of abuse testing. These dedicated solid phase extraction (SPE) solutions enable analysts to isolate drug compounds from complex biological samples. The ServoTM portfolio covers total drug screening and specific testing for tetrahydrocanabinol (THC), opiates, amphetamines, phenylcyclohexylpiperidine (phencyclidine, PCP) and cocaine...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Launches iTEVA Precision Software for Rapid Analysis of Precious Metals and High Concentration ElementsSep 20, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new software module to enable high-precision and automated analysis of precious metals and high concentration elements. The Thermo Scientific iTEVA Precision software seamlessly integrates with the Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 Series of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers (ICP-OES) to deliver analytical results with high precision...
Read MoreImproving chiral separation and natural product sample preparationSep 19, 2011The Genevac Rocket Evaporator is a powerful tool proven to accelerate traditionally difficult and time consuming chiral separation and natural product sample preparation tasks. The Genevac Rocket Evaporator is widely used by researchers seeking to extract functional molecules from natural sources. Typically investigations involve a primary solvent extraction of natural products that result in a large volume of crude extract...
Read MorePANalytical expands with ultramodern X-ray tube factory in EindhovenSep 19, 2011PANalytical, the global leading supplier of analytical X-ray instrumentation, services and software, has relocated its X-ray tube manufacturing to a new factory in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. PANalytical is the only supplier of analytical X-ray systems that also develops and produces its own X-ray tubes, which are an essential part of the instrumentation. The ultramodern Eindhoven facility has been built to further strengthen and exploit this technological advantage...
Read MoreEppendorf BioSpectrometer leads the way to high precisionSep 15, 2011Combining accuracy, sensitivity and guided operation, the new Eppendorf BioSpectrometer® offers outstanding flexibility in a small, robust instrument. Designed for a wide range of routine and complex applications in genomics, proteomics, cell biology and biochemistry, two versions are available: BioSpectrometer basic and BioSpectrometer kinetic which features a temperature-controlled cuvette holder...
Read MoreSpectroscopy veteran joins Shimadzu UK to drive UK sales forwardSep 15, 2011To support Shimadzu UK Limited's continuing UK investment programme the Milton Keynes based instrumentation manufacturer has appointed Dr Robert Keighley as the company's new Spectroscopy and TOC Business Manager. Shimadzu UK has invested heavily in recruiting sales personnel and has expanded the company's sales team to 11 while adding business development managers for the company's GC, (+GC-MS) LC (+LC-MS) and Spectroscopy product groups...
Read MorePAC Introduces FAME in AVTUR Analyzer; Detects Biodiesel Traces in Aviation Turbine Fuel with Unique GC ApplicationSep 14, 2011PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, announces the introduction of the AC Analytical Controls FAME in AVTUR analyzer, designed to detect traces of Fatty-acid Methyl Esters or FAMEs, more widely known as biodiesel, in aviation turbine fuel. FAMEs are used as blending stock for diesel fuel in refinery applications, and there is concern that other products, using the same production, storage, and transport systems such as aviation turbine fuel can become cross-contaminated with FAME and create problems with jet engine performance...
Read MoreBiotage Introduces New Microwave Peptide Synthesizer Delivering Higher Reliability, Purity and YieldSep 13, 2011Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical, medicinal, and peptide chemistry, introduced an innovative, new instrument for peptide professionals at the 2011 American Peptide Symposium in San Diego, California USA. The Biotage Initiator+ SP Wave is a versatile synthesis solution as it can be used as a standalone peptide synthesizer or easily converted to a high specification MAOS system...
Read MoreKorean NAQS to Utilize High-Performance Bruker Triple-Quadrupole GC-MS Systems for Advanced Pesticide AnalysisSep 8, 2011At the recent combined 2nd Asian & Oceanic Mass Spectrometry Conference (AOMSC) and the 8th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry (KSMS) in Busan, Korea, Bruker announced that the Korean National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (NAQS) has ordered 6 Bruker triple-quadrupole GC-MS systems for pesticide residue analysis and general monitoring of agricultural products...
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Kinesis is pleased to announce the extension of the TELOS® Sample Preparation Product Range to include Silica- and Polymer-based Solid Phase Extraction Products...
At the recent 49th JAIMA EXPO in Chiba, Japan, organizers estimated that visitors numbers in the region of 30,000 attended. It was at this event that Bruker demonstrated its innovative ‘lens-free' elliptical ion path of the recently launched SCION single quadrupole (SQ) and SCION triple quadrupole (TQ) gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detectors. The SCION SQ and TQ have a compact footprint while providing ultra-high sensitivity and outstanding data quality...
Many medical researchers believe that stem cell therapy will revolutionise the treatment of human disease and may provide treatments for many currently incurable diseases. However, one problem still to be overcome is controlling the excessive proliferation of cells with unwanted phenotypes after transplantation to prevent tissue overgrowth and tumour formation...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific TraceGOLD GC Column with SafeGuard, which combines an analytical gas chromatography (GC) column with a built-in guard column. The SafeGuard feature extends the life of the analytical column without compromising its chromatographic performance. Available in a range of guard column lengths and analytical column specifications...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, highlights its wide range of technical chromatography videos, available to watch on the Thermo Scientific Chromatography Resource Center (CRC). Giving instant access to the chromatography experience and expertise of Thermo Fisher Scientific, these videos contain updates and technical explanations of topical issues in HPLC, GC and SPE. The full portfolio of presentations, hosted on the Chromatography videos channel, is accessible to view via the CRC homepage...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL) has standardized on Thermo Scientific LC-MS and GC-MS systems for routine analyses of contaminants in food, feed and human samples. The CVUA-MEL requires extremely high resolution and highly sensitive instruments that can analyze small molecular weight contaminants in samples quickly and accurately and to the lowest limits of detection (LOD)...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research and technique development activities of the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena under the direction of Dr Volker Deckert...
BioTek introduces the new Take3 Trio, the first micro-volume, high density plate for convenient and rapid nucleic acid and protein quantification without sample dilution. Take3 Trio is capable of measuring up to forty-eight 2 μL samples...
The Grace® VisionHT™ Media Platform technology is the basis for a truly seamless column choice. It is available in 1.5, 3, 5 and 10µm particle sizes in six very different phase chemistries and a multitude of hardware formats, enabling use on any type of LC system...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of a new imaging attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory offering enhanced spatial resolution and high speed data acquisition capabilities for Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) chemical imaging applications. The Thermo Scientific imaging ATR accessory has been designed to seamlessly and effortlessly integrate with the Thermo Scientific range of FT-IR microscopes to enable efficient, fast and reliable chemical imaging of challenging samples...
In medicinal chemistry a challenging aspect to preparing compounds for testing, as lead molecules, can be their isolation from the crude reaction mixture that may contain catalysts, salts, metals, and other components which interfere with traditional purification methods. One such problematic compound is triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO). TPPO is notoriously difficult and time consuming to remove using standard solid phase chromatography methods. In this example a standard HPCCC method has been developed that targets TPPO, regardless of the compound of interest's polarity...
Kinesis Ltd has published its latest Chromatography Vials, Caps & Closures Catalogue. The increasing demands of today's HPLC, LC/MS and GC analyses make the choice of consumables increasingly important. Kinesis Vials, Caps & Closures are made to the most exacting standards, ensuring contamination free sample handling and complete autosampler compatibility...
Quotient Bioresearch has today announced its adoption of Bruker's MALDI Biotyper for bacterial identification, following a successful year-long trial. The announcement, made at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) where Quotient presented a series of posters, places the company in a unique position as the first GLP laboratory to adopt the technology for routine bacterial identification as part of its portfolio of services for antimicrobial development...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Servo and Servo+ ranges of sample preparation solutions for drugs of abuse testing. These dedicated solid phase extraction (SPE) solutions enable analysts to isolate drug compounds from complex biological samples. The ServoTM portfolio covers total drug screening and specific testing for tetrahydrocanabinol (THC), opiates, amphetamines, phenylcyclohexylpiperidine (phencyclidine, PCP) and cocaine...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new software module to enable high-precision and automated analysis of precious metals and high concentration elements. The Thermo Scientific iTEVA Precision software seamlessly integrates with the Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 Series of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers (ICP-OES) to deliver analytical results with high precision...
The Genevac Rocket Evaporator is a powerful tool proven to accelerate traditionally difficult and time consuming chiral separation and natural product sample preparation tasks. The Genevac Rocket Evaporator is widely used by researchers seeking to extract functional molecules from natural sources. Typically investigations involve a primary solvent extraction of natural products that result in a large volume of crude extract...
PANalytical, the global leading supplier of analytical X-ray instrumentation, services and software, has relocated its X-ray tube manufacturing to a new factory in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. PANalytical is the only supplier of analytical X-ray systems that also develops and produces its own X-ray tubes, which are an essential part of the instrumentation. The ultramodern Eindhoven facility has been built to further strengthen and exploit this technological advantage...
Combining accuracy, sensitivity and guided operation, the new Eppendorf BioSpectrometer® offers outstanding flexibility in a small, robust instrument. Designed for a wide range of routine and complex applications in genomics, proteomics, cell biology and biochemistry, two versions are available: BioSpectrometer basic and BioSpectrometer kinetic which features a temperature-controlled cuvette holder...
To support Shimadzu UK Limited's continuing UK investment programme the Milton Keynes based instrumentation manufacturer has appointed Dr Robert Keighley as the company's new Spectroscopy and TOC Business Manager. Shimadzu UK has invested heavily in recruiting sales personnel and has expanded the company's sales team to 11 while adding business development managers for the company's GC, (+GC-MS) LC (+LC-MS) and Spectroscopy product groups...
PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, announces the introduction of the AC Analytical Controls FAME in AVTUR analyzer, designed to detect traces of Fatty-acid Methyl Esters or FAMEs, more widely known as biodiesel, in aviation turbine fuel. FAMEs are used as blending stock for diesel fuel in refinery applications, and there is concern that other products, using the same production, storage, and transport systems such as aviation turbine fuel can become cross-contaminated with FAME and create problems with jet engine performance...
Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical, medicinal, and peptide chemistry, introduced an innovative, new instrument for peptide professionals at the 2011 American Peptide Symposium in San Diego, California USA. The Biotage Initiator+ SP Wave is a versatile synthesis solution as it can be used as a standalone peptide synthesizer or easily converted to a high specification MAOS system...
At the recent combined 2nd Asian & Oceanic Mass Spectrometry Conference (AOMSC) and the 8th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry (KSMS) in Busan, Korea, Bruker announced that the Korean National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (NAQS) has ordered 6 Bruker triple-quadrupole GC-MS systems for pesticide residue analysis and general monitoring of agricultural products...