PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced the first customer shipments of Revio long-read sequencing systems commenced on March 8, 2023. As previously announced, the Revio system features significant advances in SMRT Cell design, compute, and system architecture. Together, this enables a dramatic increase in throughput and lower sequencing costs with the trusted power of HiFi chemistry, which offers exceptional accuracy and direct methylation detection...
Analytik Jena GmbH has received two "Product of the Year 2023" awards from the industry journal LABO for its innovative and user-friendly products. The award goes to a product of the laboratory technology manufacturer from Jena in both the "Laboratory 4.0" and "Analytics" categories. With the products APU 28 connect for automated AOX sample preparation and the laboratory robot CyBio Carry for automating laboratory workflows in the life science sector, Analytik Jena was able to prevail over numerous competitors.
Imagine having a lab inside a living single cell with the capacity to make any analysis in an instant and over long periods of time. A4Cell’s SPAchip® nanodevice is based on the use of inert Silicon microchips on which multiple highly concentrated fluorescent probes can be deposited to provide intracellular readouts over long culture periods following endocytosis. Currently available as a kit for detection of intracellular & extracellular calcium or pH...
Asynt are proud to confirm that age 16+ learners attending Thomas Rotherham College (South Yorkshire, UK) Sixth Form College are using the CondenSyn waterless air condenser and Distillation Adapter in their lessons after recent updates in the science department. Luke Hanson, Lead Science Technician at the college, shared the college’s excitement at this change: ”We are proud to be one of the first pioneering sixth form colleges in the country to adopt the use of the CondenSyn in our teaching...
Automata, a leading automation company powering life science labs to fully automate their workflows, has launched LINQ, a new open, integrated laboratory automation platform. The LINQ platform features a unique laboratory bench, with integrated automation capabilities and accompanying powerful, proprietary lab orchestration software. As a result, labs can easily reduce human touchpoints and increase efficiency and accuracy without needing to dedicate additional lab space to bulky equipment...
Optimize your lab space, accuracy and flexibility with Microtrac's BELSORP MAX X, the latest model in the BELSORP MAX series. This high-precision gas / vapor adsorption analyzer can measure up to four samples over a wide range of pressures and temperatures. BELSORP MAX X covers a broad array of analysis capabilities from specific surface area, pore size distribution, gas and vapor adsorption to chemisorption. Thanks to its compact design, it fits on any lab bench...
Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, announce the launch of its High Throughput Screening (HTS) capability, as well as the expansion of its state-of-the-art lab and office facilities. Scott Maidment has been appointed as Head of HTS to lead the new service...
World-leading cancer researchers announce plans to create a new generation of treatments that target the ecosystems supporting cancer. Cancer is supported by complex ecosystems within the body which can be disrupted by cutting-edge new treatments and cures, world-leading cancer researchers conclude. Scientists and clinicians have come together to identify cancer’s reliance on the ecosystems of our body’s cells and signals as a major opportunity in the next five years of research and treatment...
INTEGRA Biosciences has launched a new video showcasing GRIPTIP pipette tips, highlighting the key features that guarantee tips never loosen, leak or fall off. Watch GRIPTIPS in action to learn how their reliable seal ensures precise pipetting results for handheld and benchtop pipetting systems. The GRIPTIPS range of high quality pipette tips – available in 0.5 microliter up to 5 milliliter volumes – are meticulously produced by expert manufacturers, in tandem with INTEGRA pipettes, using the finest raw materials...
Dolomite Bio launches the RNAdia 2.0 reagent kit for single cell research, as part of their complete workflow, encompassing everything from sample preparation to bioinformatic analysis. Most researchers will be familiar with the frustrations of sourcing reagents, which wastes precious time when performing a standardized single cell workflow. At a significantly lower cost compared to competitor reagents the new and improved RNAdia 2.0 kit alleviates that stress, allowing researchers to focus on what is important...
One of the many benefits of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is that all laboratory data is captured in one place. This allows laboratories to easily extract Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and detailed management statistics from the data, providing a rich source of information to optimize operations and eliminate wastage. Yet few laboratories take maximum advantage of this capability...
Microtrac MRB’s BELSORP MINI X allows measuring specific surface area, pore size distribution and total pore volume. It shows outstanding features resulting into the world’s highest repeatability with significantly reduced measurement time. The instrument features up to 4 sample measurement ports and new high-throughput functions including multi-device control...
Shimadzu and Germany's UMG – University Medical Center Göttingen – are teaming up to develop new clinical LC-MS methods for a more rapid and flexible TDM analysis. As part of Shimadzu’s ambitious European Innovation Center (EUIC) program, this new collaboration seeks to speed up the LC-MS analysis of TDM tests. LC-MS analysis already offers accuracy and flexibility that is superior to conventional methods of TDM test analysis...
Carrying the Everyday Load from Classroom to Lab. OHAUS Corporation, a leading worldwide manufacturer of scales, balances and laboratory equipment announced the launch of their new Guardian 2000 Series Hotplate Stirrers designed to safeguard your lab with rugged construction, reliability, and affordable operation. The OHAUS Guardian 2000TM Analog Hotplate Stirrers are ideal for classrooms and other lab environments that require affordable, durable, fast heating, and reliable stirring...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduce the Thermo Scientific Glacios 2 Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM), a powerful microscope with new automation and high-resolution imaging capabilities designed to help cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) researchers of varying experience levels accelerate structure-based drug discovery...
EnviroMate™ is a benchtop environmental control chamber from Copley, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of inhaler testing equipment, designed specifically to improve the repeatability and integrity of inhaler test data. The performance of orally inhaled and nasal drug products (OINDPs) can be directly influenced by ambient temperature, humidity and electrostatics found in the laboratory, as highlighted by the US and European Pharmacopoeias...
Prior Scientific is pleased to introduce its newest automated slide loader, the SL160. The SL160 is compatible with most upright microscopes and is easily integrated with today’s best image analysis software. Both efficient and reliable, Prior Scientific’s robotic handling solution can load up to 160 slides at one time. The loader is ideal for OEMs and system integrators, and allows for precise and safe loading of slides for the life science research, pathology, cytology, and high throughput screening applications...
The set-up of many critical research and development laboratories may require a sterile path in an out of the working area. There may be air locks for staff to pass through, extracting, cleanings and renewing the air, a system in operation where high-risk conditions are the norm, such as a containment suite. In a similar manner, some laboratories need to have a secure, clean exit path for its waste so that it can be safely discarded...
Shimadzu, a global thought leader in analytical instrumentation, is introducing the LCMS-9050 Q-TOF mass spectrometer. It features the fastest and most sensitive quadrupole technology with TOF architecture to date. Its main characteristics can be summed up in three words: Accuracy, Acceleration and Accommodation of customers’ needs. Users will experience trusted mass accuracy stability and increased availability and throughput on the system...
INTEGRA Biosciences has developed the WELLJET family of dispensers to reduce running costs, increase productivity and provide longer walk-away times for bulk microplate filling and reagent dispensing. Available with or without an automated plate stacker, the WELLJET uses the innovative EasySnap™ dispensing cassette to provide accurate and precise hands-free filling of plates ranging from six to 1536 wells – as well as deep well plates and tube racks in plate format – for a wide range of applications.
Cherwell Laboratories, specialist supplier of environmental monitoring (EM) and process validation solutions for the pharmaceutical and related industries, has launched a new online video training library sharing educational content for individuals in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Cherwell’s Delivering Knowledge platform offers best practice information delivered by experts in monitoring of controlled environments, aseptic processes and sterility...
Tough? Fatty? Fibrous? No problem for Retsch’s GRINDOMIX GM 200 knife mill which is perfectly suited to homogenize dry, oily, fatty, soft and tough sample materials - for analysis results with minimum standard deviation. A range of new accessories makes the GM 200 suitable for cryogenic grinding of very sticky or moist samples by using dry ice. The so-called cryo kit offered by Retsch for this purpose consists of a full-metal knife and a special stainless-steel grinding container with lid....
PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced the first customer shipments of Revio long-read sequencing systems commenced on March 8, 2023. As previously announced, the Revio system features significant advances in SMRT Cell design, compute, and system architecture. Together, this enables a dramatic increase in throughput and lower sequencing costs with the trusted power of HiFi chemistry, which offers exceptional accuracy and direct methylation detection...
Analytik Jena GmbH has received two "Product of the Year 2023" awards from the industry journal LABO for its innovative and user-friendly products. The award goes to a product of the laboratory technology manufacturer from Jena in both the "Laboratory 4.0" and "Analytics" categories. With the products APU 28 connect for automated AOX sample preparation and the laboratory robot CyBio Carry for automating laboratory workflows in the life science sector, Analytik Jena was able to prevail over numerous competitors.
Imagine having a lab inside a living single cell with the capacity to make any analysis in an instant and over long periods of time. A4Cell’s SPAchip® nanodevice is based on the use of inert Silicon microchips on which multiple highly concentrated fluorescent probes can be deposited to provide intracellular readouts over long culture periods following endocytosis. Currently available as a kit for detection of intracellular & extracellular calcium or pH...
Asynt are proud to confirm that age 16+ learners attending Thomas Rotherham College (South Yorkshire, UK) Sixth Form College are using the CondenSyn waterless air condenser and Distillation Adapter in their lessons after recent updates in the science department. Luke Hanson, Lead Science Technician at the college, shared the college’s excitement at this change: ”We are proud to be one of the first pioneering sixth form colleges in the country to adopt the use of the CondenSyn in our teaching...
Automata, a leading automation company powering life science labs to fully automate their workflows, has launched LINQ, a new open, integrated laboratory automation platform. The LINQ platform features a unique laboratory bench, with integrated automation capabilities and accompanying powerful, proprietary lab orchestration software. As a result, labs can easily reduce human touchpoints and increase efficiency and accuracy without needing to dedicate additional lab space to bulky equipment...
Optimize your lab space, accuracy and flexibility with Microtrac's BELSORP MAX X, the latest model in the BELSORP MAX series. This high-precision gas / vapor adsorption analyzer can measure up to four samples over a wide range of pressures and temperatures. BELSORP MAX X covers a broad array of analysis capabilities from specific surface area, pore size distribution, gas and vapor adsorption to chemisorption. Thanks to its compact design, it fits on any lab bench...
Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, announce the launch of its High Throughput Screening (HTS) capability, as well as the expansion of its state-of-the-art lab and office facilities. Scott Maidment has been appointed as Head of HTS to lead the new service...
World-leading cancer researchers announce plans to create a new generation of treatments that target the ecosystems supporting cancer. Cancer is supported by complex ecosystems within the body which can be disrupted by cutting-edge new treatments and cures, world-leading cancer researchers conclude. Scientists and clinicians have come together to identify cancer’s reliance on the ecosystems of our body’s cells and signals as a major opportunity in the next five years of research and treatment...
INTEGRA Biosciences has launched a new video showcasing GRIPTIP pipette tips, highlighting the key features that guarantee tips never loosen, leak or fall off. Watch GRIPTIPS in action to learn how their reliable seal ensures precise pipetting results for handheld and benchtop pipetting systems. The GRIPTIPS range of high quality pipette tips – available in 0.5 microliter up to 5 milliliter volumes – are meticulously produced by expert manufacturers, in tandem with INTEGRA pipettes, using the finest raw materials...
Dolomite Bio launches the RNAdia 2.0 reagent kit for single cell research, as part of their complete workflow, encompassing everything from sample preparation to bioinformatic analysis. Most researchers will be familiar with the frustrations of sourcing reagents, which wastes precious time when performing a standardized single cell workflow. At a significantly lower cost compared to competitor reagents the new and improved RNAdia 2.0 kit alleviates that stress, allowing researchers to focus on what is important...
One of the many benefits of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is that all laboratory data is captured in one place. This allows laboratories to easily extract Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and detailed management statistics from the data, providing a rich source of information to optimize operations and eliminate wastage. Yet few laboratories take maximum advantage of this capability...
Shimadzu and Germany's UMG – University Medical Center Göttingen – are teaming up to develop new clinical LC-MS methods for a more rapid and flexible TDM analysis. As part of Shimadzu’s ambitious European Innovation Center (EUIC) program, this new collaboration seeks to speed up the LC-MS analysis of TDM tests. LC-MS analysis already offers accuracy and flexibility that is superior to conventional methods of TDM test analysis...
Carrying the Everyday Load from Classroom to Lab. OHAUS Corporation, a leading worldwide manufacturer of scales, balances and laboratory equipment announced the launch of their new Guardian 2000 Series Hotplate Stirrers designed to safeguard your lab with rugged construction, reliability, and affordable operation. The OHAUS Guardian 2000TM Analog Hotplate Stirrers are ideal for classrooms and other lab environments that require affordable, durable, fast heating, and reliable stirring...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduce the Thermo Scientific Glacios 2 Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM), a powerful microscope with new automation and high-resolution imaging capabilities designed to help cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) researchers of varying experience levels accelerate structure-based drug discovery...
EnviroMate™ is a benchtop environmental control chamber from Copley, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of inhaler testing equipment, designed specifically to improve the repeatability and integrity of inhaler test data. The performance of orally inhaled and nasal drug products (OINDPs) can be directly influenced by ambient temperature, humidity and electrostatics found in the laboratory, as highlighted by the US and European Pharmacopoeias...
Prior Scientific is pleased to introduce its newest automated slide loader, the SL160. The SL160 is compatible with most upright microscopes and is easily integrated with today’s best image analysis software. Both efficient and reliable, Prior Scientific’s robotic handling solution can load up to 160 slides at one time. The loader is ideal for OEMs and system integrators, and allows for precise and safe loading of slides for the life science research, pathology, cytology, and high throughput screening applications...
The set-up of many critical research and development laboratories may require a sterile path in an out of the working area. There may be air locks for staff to pass through, extracting, cleanings and renewing the air, a system in operation where high-risk conditions are the norm, such as a containment suite. In a similar manner, some laboratories need to have a secure, clean exit path for its waste so that it can be safely discarded...
Shimadzu, a global thought leader in analytical instrumentation, is introducing the LCMS-9050 Q-TOF mass spectrometer. It features the fastest and most sensitive quadrupole technology with TOF architecture to date. Its main characteristics can be summed up in three words: Accuracy, Acceleration and Accommodation of customers’ needs. Users will experience trusted mass accuracy stability and increased availability and throughput on the system...
INTEGRA Biosciences has developed the WELLJET family of dispensers to reduce running costs, increase productivity and provide longer walk-away times for bulk microplate filling and reagent dispensing. Available with or without an automated plate stacker, the WELLJET uses the innovative EasySnap™ dispensing cassette to provide accurate and precise hands-free filling of plates ranging from six to 1536 wells – as well as deep well plates and tube racks in plate format – for a wide range of applications.
Cherwell Laboratories, specialist supplier of environmental monitoring (EM) and process validation solutions for the pharmaceutical and related industries, has launched a new online video training library sharing educational content for individuals in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Cherwell’s Delivering Knowledge platform offers best practice information delivered by experts in monitoring of controlled environments, aseptic processes and sterility...
Tough? Fatty? Fibrous? No problem for Retsch’s GRINDOMIX GM 200 knife mill which is perfectly suited to homogenize dry, oily, fatty, soft and tough sample materials - for analysis results with minimum standard deviation. A range of new accessories makes the GM 200 suitable for cryogenic grinding of very sticky or moist samples by using dry ice. The so-called cryo kit offered by Retsch for this purpose consists of a full-metal knife and a special stainless-steel grinding container with lid....