A-LabInsider has created an application that lists all academic life science labs in Europe with an intelligence to filter through them to make it easier for small and medium biotech companies to discover labs and do business with them. The concept was to create a central place for biotech SMEs to find academic labs through the content of available websites and scientific literature the labs have produced, as well as to keep an eye on the new labs, gain lead generation....
INTEGRA Biosciences has put together a series of ‘How to’ videos, demonstrating how the company’s lightweight VIAFLO electronic pipette and VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette can make your daily pipetting tasks easier and faster, and help you to ensure your lab is following good pipetting practices. The significance of user experience on pipetting precision is often overlooked, and can have a serious impact on the reproducibility and validity of results....
H.E.L Group (H.E.L), a global developer and manufacturer of innovative laboratory tools for process optimization, safety and scale-up, has announced the release of its new laboratory automation software labCONSOL, designed to support customers in the automation and coordination of laboratory equipment. The software, which builds on the company’s proven ‘WinISO’ technology, introduces a new and intuitive user interface, and provides a scalable platform for future development...
Reduce your time to experiment from minutes to seconds. Microscopes are becoming increasingly automated. However, sample placement, focus adjustment, and identification of the relevant sample areas still require manual adjustments. The new ZEISS AI Sample Finder automates this sequence entirely, Placement of sample, Acquisition of an overview image, Identification of the sample carrier, Detection of relevant sample areas, Focus adjustment for each region of interest...
Veolia Water Technologies UK (VWT UK) has launched PURELAB® Quest, a lab water purification unit that delivers Type I, II and III water. The cost effective and simple to use system reliably delivers high quality purified water to ensure the integrity of testing, analysis and research processes. The new PURELAB® Quest has been engineered to offer an ideal solution for small, public sector or university facilities that need a simple, reliable way of producing lab quality water without the risk, waste and complexity of managing packaged pure water...
The Universal Cutting Mills PULVERISETTE 19 from FRITSCH are ideal for comminution of dry, soft to hard, tough to brittle, fibrous as well as temperature-sensitive materials. Due to the variable speed adjustment between 300-3000 rpm, a fast and effective fine comminution is possible. With the slow-speed Universal Cutting Mill with 50-700 rpm, on the other hand, extremely powerful comminution is achieved even for smaller sample quantities...
Sakura Finetek Europe launches its latest innovation Tissue-Tek SmartConnect. An automated transfer system that creates a continuous flow between the SMART solutions Tissue-Tek Xpress® x120 Rapid Tissue Processor and Tissue-Tek AutoTEC® a120 Automated Embedding System. This new innovative SMART solution enables a laboratory to optimise their workflow and work more efficient, eliminating repetitive and unnecessary manual work....
FRITSCH’s premium line Planetary Ball Mills PULVERISETTE 5 and 7 can grind, alloy, mix and homogenize reliably at bowl speeds of up to 2200 rpm. They let you effortlessly grind hard, medium, soft, brittle and moist samples down to a final fineness of < 100 nm in a very short time. Sample quantities of 1 to 60 ml (PULVERISETTE 7) or 15 to 450 ml (PULVERISETTE 5) can be processed simultaneously at the two grinding stations....
Metrohm is proud to announce the launch of the Misa – its first handheld solution to detect and identify trace level food contamination in the field. Misa overcomes the complexity of food samples to deliver results in just a few seconds, helping quickly identify threats to food safety. Misa is Metrohm’s newest Raman spectrometer that detects trace contaminants in even the most complex food samples....
New Thermo Scientific Tox Explorer Collection provides instruments, columns and consumables with reliable and validated methods for reproducible result. Clinical research, forensic and anti-doping toxicology laboratories facing the challenges of analyzing increasing numbers of analytes in biological matrices, can now easily and rapidly optimize their liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) methods for targeted screening and quantification....
Learn about microscopy, its applications, technologies, tips and tricks, imaging methods, and new developments - from the basics to more advanced topics. On the new content platform Microscopy Insights Hub from ZEISS Microscopy, access on-demand webinar recordings, how-to videos and further information pieces about your field of interest....
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced new collaborations of the Thermo Fisher Precision Medicine Science Center (PMSC) with AstraZeneca and the University of Nebraska Medical Center as part of its ongoing development of innovative solutions for unmet needs in clinical biomarker discovery. The new alliances strengthen the PMSC’s mission of creating standardized workflows...
Ziath has released a module to enable their Mirage, Cube or Express tube readers to decode Brooks Acoustix tubes. Acoustix is a small sample tube with a screw cap which is increasingly favored for storage of novel compounds in solution in large compound stores. It is also compatible with the latest generation of Labcyte Echo acoustic dispensers. However, many traditional tube readers find Acoustix tubes difficult to read because the code is split into 4 sections....
Researchers in the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel are using INTEGRA’s VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing electronic pipette to increase the efficiency of their workflows and reduce pipetting errors. Korcan Ayata is a member of the gastroenterology group – led by Prof. Dr Jan Niess – which focuses on researching mucosal immunology and gastroenterology....
Simplify your measurements of particle size distributions in production, quality control, research and development with the NEW Laser Particle Sizers ANALYSETTE 22 NeXT: automatic measurement and evaluation in less than 1 minute, flexible, residue-free cleaning, almost maintenance-free. With the NEW Laser Particle Sizers ANALYSETTE 22 NeXT you choose according to your requirements...
The FRITSCH ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer for dry and wet measurement is the ideal Particle Sizer for all applications that require accurate and reproducible measuring results for both particle shape and size. The optical process of Dynamic Image Analysis delivers accurate measuring results, which are available immediately in less than 5 minutes. Your advantage: Great flexibility for different measurement tasks for particle sizes of 20 µm – 20 mm in quality control, research and laboratory....
Asynt has introduced a second-generation version of its popular DrySyn OCTO reaction station that delivers the same outstanding performance, at the same price, with improved features and a new, more aesthetically pleasing, design. Like its popular predecessor, the DrySyn OCTO Mk II is an 8-position reaction station that provides chemists with powerful magnetic stirring, heating, inert atmosphere....
Ziath reports strong uptake of its Mohawk semi-automated tube picker in smaller biobanks and biorepositories. Small biobanks and biorepositories need to select tubes from cold racks straight from the freezer, but cannot afford the huge investment in robotics to fully automatically pick and place tubes from racks. The Mohawk, being small and compact, can simplify picking tubes, up to 16 in one go, from a 96-position tube rack....
More than 305,000 high-resolution, multi-channel COVID-19 cellular images captured in less than four weeks with Molecular Devices ImageXpress® Micro Confocal High-Content Imaging System are now available to the scientific community. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting millions around the globe, researchers are racing to develop a vaccine or drug treatment. In an effort to better understand the cellular responses to COVID-19, the digital biology company Recursion has publicly released the world’s largest imaging dataset....
With Move It®, Eppendorf AG announces the market entry for Adjustable Spacing Pipettes, which they have redefined from scratch according to their own premium standards. Eppendorf thus responds to customer requests for an efficient and safe solution for synchronous pipetting of a series of samples between different vessel formats, such as between tubes and plates....
The COVID-19 rapid antibody test, developed by Abingdon Health, the medical device manufacturer leading the UK-Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC), has received its CE mark. This means it is approved for professional use in the UK and EU. This milestone means the rapid test, for detection of IgG antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) is now available for distribution for professional use....
GA International announces the launch of a new laser printable CryoSTUCK® labels for frozen surfaces. These labels adhere to frozen surfaces, removing the need to thaw cryogenically stored samples that require re-labeling. Previously, these labels were only available for thermal-transfer printers, and GA has now adapted them to laser printers as well....