With the capability to purify compounds by preparative HPLC and FLASH on the same instrument, Gilson's Personal Liquid Chromatography (PLC) systems will simplify and streamline compound purification for your lab - accelerating your research.

These customizable instruments are available in a simple configuration for basic applications, but with a wide range of upgrade options in order to meet the demands of more advanced organic/medicinal chemists and experienced chromatographers. Systems are controlled via an intuitive touch screen interface, making it easy to write and edit methods, or adjust parameters on the fly....

J. G. Finneran Associates is pleased to announce the addition of 11mm Aluminum Seals and Snap Top Caps with Metal O-Rings.

The new 11mm aluminum seals and snap caps are available assembled with a septa and a round metal (magnetic) o-ring for use in any application where magnets are used to transport a vial. Choose 11mm aluminum seals lined with PTFE/Butyl, PTFE/Silicone or PTFE/Silicone/PTFE septum. Choose our Snap Top Caps;  available with PTFE, PTFE/Butyl Rubber, PTFE/Silicone, PTFE/Silicone/PTFE or PTFE/Silicone lined with slit septa....

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments have launched their first educational videos to help introduce users to some of the new thermal microscopy techniques and associated testing methods.

Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the innovation and manufacture of cell culture media, announced today the addition of PRIME-XV® FreezIS DMSO-Free, a chemically-defined cryopreservation solution for human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) that is free of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and animal-derived components.

Amid growing concerns that DMSO may compromise the potency of MSCs, offering an effective DMSO-free cryoprotectant is an important addition to PRIME-XV product line.  Researchers can now characterize cells in DMSO-free environments during basic and translational research, which may add valuable insight downstream and facilitate scale-up. PRIME-XV FreezIS DMSO-Free maintains the potency of MSCs throughout cryopreservation while...

The new E-capper from Porvair Sciences produces top quality seals and minimises the risk of repetitive strain injuries (RSI) in operators tasked with sealing deep well microplates or storage tube racks with re-useable cap mats.

The fully electronic E-capper applies firm even pressure simultaneously across the whole cap mat, ensuring a tight even fit across the plate or rack. In extensive field testing the E-Capper has been proven to deliver perfect sealing time after time thereby ensuring sample integrity. The versatile E-capper uses a powerful actuator enabling it to reproducibly press silicone, polypropylene, PTFE , TPE or Santoprene cap mats firmly into...

Organic chemists at the University of Oxford are benefitting from the recent acquisition of an RC900 Rotary Evaporator from KNF Lab.

Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that Proximagen, a company focused on the development and commercialisation of novel therapeutics for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), has licensed Cresset’s Forge and Spark software.

These applications provide extensive capabilities in SAR analysis, ligand-based molecular design and bioisosteric replacement. "Proximagen has successfully used Cresset’s computational chemistry tools in the past to generate pharmacophores from known ligands and to identify novel chemical series by scaffold hopping,” says Dr Ed Savory, Deputy Head of Chemistry at Proximagen. “We will be using Spark to identify new drug scaffolds and to...

“Should we try and make our own gold nanoparticles or buy them from a supplier?”

If you work with gold nanoparticles, you have probably considered this question.

NanoHybrids Inc has released a new white paper titled “Gold Nanoparticles: To Make or To Buy? A quick look at the economics behind the decision.” The paper is available for free download at the company’s website. The paper takes an in-depth look at various costs involved in making gold nanoparticles by dividing the process into two main phases - the research phase that involves fine-tuning protocols and characterization and the actual production phase....

Chiron is delighted to announce that they have signed an arrangement with Kura Biotec™ to distribute their impressive range of enzymes for analytical toxicology.

Kura Biotec™, whose motto is ‘Inspired by nature, moved by science’, manufactures the highest quality beta-glucuronidase and other ocean-fresh enzymes. The red abalone derived enzymes enable consistent, fast, and accurate deconjugation of both glucuronides and sulfate esters, aiding the detection of conjugated drugs and xenobiotics....

Spark Holland B.V. is pleased to announce that the company has been presented with the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2014 award for Best Practices in Product Line Strategy Leadership in the LC-MS industry.

Frost & Sullivan is renowned as the the world leader in growth consulting and the integrated areas of technology research, market research, mega trends, economic research, best practices, training, customer research, competitive intelligence and corporate strategy....

Micronic has announced a new version 2.2.6 of its Tracxer storage tube code reading software.

Fully compatible with all Micronic tube scanners** the new user friendly software is easy to install, gives reliable code readings and can be smoothly integrated into any laboratory sample database. All new features in version 2.2.6 are included as standard in the software at no extra cost together with free upgrades and technical support. The useful new features including ActiveX tool kit, improved single tube reading functionality and...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an efficient and simple high-performance liquid chromatography method for the determination of dicyandiamide in milk powder using an ion-exclusion chromatography column that is capable of rapidly analyzing polar compounds such as aliphatic organic acids and alcohols in complex and high-ionic-strength samples.

Chiron’s website has recently enjoyed a dramatic make over, and now features a modern webshop, to meet the challenging demands of today’s 24/7 work culture.

Chiron’s new webshop already showcases over 7000 products, and is rapidly growing. The intuitive search engine allows users to quickly and easily explore a comprehensive range of reference materials for toxicological, pharmaceutical, environmental, food safety, petroleum and geochemical analysis. Inge Fenstad, the orchestrator of the online developments commented, “We are delighted to provide our customers around the world with the convenience and flexibility of browsing our offering, and placing orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week”....

The modular Asia flow chemistry system from Syrris proved key to the success of a recently described process for accelerated total synthesis of spirodienal A and spirangien A methyl ester.

Developed by the Ley Group at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK – and recently published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition¹ – the groundbreaking workdescribes the use of powerful flow chemistry techniques for complex multi-stage synthesis of spirocyclic polyketides. The flexible Asia system was crucial to the success of the study, offering a variety of flow techniques – including gas-liquid and...

A new facility in North Wales will provide a welcome boost in manufacturing output for Glen Dimplex Professional Appliances (GDPA) and foremost brand, Lec Medical - one of the UK’s leading names in medical refrigeration.

Comprising a 45,000 square foot industrial unit at Buckley, this latest investment is supported by business finance from the Welsh Government, and will create 50 new manufacturing jobs over the next year. As well as providing additional capacity for the manufacture of Lec Medical’s extensive portfolio of medical fridges, freezers and bloodbanks, the new site will enable the company to significantly expand its market share across...

Molecular Profiles Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Laboratories, Inc. and Maryland-based Xceleron have announced a collaboration to assist drug developers with improved efficiency during clinical development.

This partnership extends Molecular Profiles’ new ROADMAP to Clinical Trials enabling technologies platform, which it launched earlier this month. The company also has complementary collaborations in place with Onyx Scientific and XenoGesis that broaden its expertise to give clients an end-to-end solution using a connected network of industry experts allowing it to compete with larger CROs...

Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have created the world’s first enzymes made from artificial genetic material. Their synthetic enzymes, which are made from molecules that do not occur anywhere in nature, are capable of triggering chemical reactions in the lab.

The research, published today in Nature, gives new insights into the origins of life and could provide a starting point for an entirely new generation of drugs and diagnostics. The findings build on previous work by the team at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which saw them create synthetic molecules called ‘XNAs’ that can store and pass on genetic information, in a similar way to DNA....

Anthias are proud to be amongst the first companies to be given formal approval by the Royal Society of Chemistry for their courses under their new training course accreditation scheme.

Mystaire® is pleased to announce the release of the new 2014-2015 catalog. 

Mystaire® has manufactured ductless laboratory safety products for more than 50 years. The new 2014-2015 catalog includes ductless hoods, workstations and enclosure as well as photos, specs and overviews on a full range of products to protect the operator or process. Featured is the new Aura® Elite ductless fume hood with the state-of-the-art EverSafe™ III touch screen controller. New to Mystaire® is a full line of PCR workstations, including the MY-PCR Prep Station and...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a pH-gradient-based method that provides excellent resolution for monoclonal antibody (MAb) charge variants.

Application Note 1092: Separation of Intact Monoclonal Antibody Sialylation Isoforms by pH Gradient Ion-Exchange Chromatography demonstrates that this approach is more convenient and straightforward than the isoelectric focusing method routinely used for protein sialylation profiling. This new method uses a cation-exchange protein column on a biocompatible analytical liquid chromatography system; a separate project is...

West Park Hospital in Cody, Wyoming, has adopted the Bioquell robotic technology used to decontaminate rooms and ambulances that have had contact with Ebola patients.

Featured by KULR News on Thursday 23d October, the hospital purchased the equipment long before the Ebola outbreak in Dallas. The system is used in hospitals around the world to kill more common pathogens such as CPE, C.difficile or norovirus Gerri Ackley Infection Preventionist at Cody’s West Park Hospital, who’s concerned about multi-drug resistant bugs and other infectious agents, says, "We're going into flu season. And, frankly that's one of...

Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, has introduced the SNAP i.d.® 2.0 Protein Detection System for Immunohistochemistry (IHC), which streamlines immunohistochemistry workflows and significantly decreases slide handling time.

The system enables parallel processing of up to 24 tissue slides at a time, making it easier to apply consistent conditions and reduce potential process variability inherent in manual IHC methods. The system's intuitive format reduces slide handling and speeds wash steps during blocking, washing, antibody incubation and labeling. A controlled vacuum force removes solutions evenly from all slides at once, in seconds. This approach systemizes the...