Cherwell Laboratories, specialists in products for environmental monitoring and process validation, have announced the availability of their new Redipor^® prepared microbiological media range price list for 2014-2015.

Detailing Cherwell’s extensive range of ready-to-use culture media in bottles and plates, the new prices are available on request. Manufactured at Cherwell’s ISO9001 registered site in Bicester, Redipor prepared media offers a high-quality, flexible solution for environmental monitoring, sterility testing of products, operator validation and process validation....

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an ion chromatography (IC)-based method for the determination of ammonia in adenosine that can easily meet the sensitivity requirements in the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) adenosine monograph.

Application Note 1072: Ion Chromatography Assay for Ammonia in Adenosinedemonstrates that this proposed IC method for the determination of ammonia in adenosine enables an analysis time of 5 min, thereby yielding high sample throughput. This IC assay avoids the hazardous chemicals used in the color-based ammonia assay in the USP adenosine monograph...

Scientists from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo and the United States Geological Survey have reported new data that shows how a volcanic event might have wiped out mammoths including sabre-toothed cats, in the Basin of Mexico.

They have discovered that the extinction could have been caused by a series of volcanic events and therefore the primary cause was environmental disruption and not man-made factors. This is despite the fact that Paleo-Indian populations were also present in this region at this time and several have been found associated with the volcanic ash deposits....

Anasys Instruments reports on a new publication from their nanoIR users at NIST which assess the chemical composition of a metal-organic framework with nanoscale resolution. The publication may be accessed in the leading journal “Angewandte Chemie International Edition.”

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), in collaboration with researchers from University of Lyon, France, have applied a novel microscopy technique to characterize metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, potentially opening a pathway for engineering the chemical properties of these materials at the nanoscale.* MOFs are composed of metal ions connected by organic linker molecules to form 3D-crystalline networks of nanopores with....

Eppendorf has launched its latest Advantage Offer, enabling customers to purchase premium quality products at very favourable prices.

The new limited time offers, ‘More Than Just a Tube’, provide up to a 27% cost saving on specific bundles, all carefully designed to help users get the most from the new Eppendorf Tubes® 5.0 mL system. These great value bundles include the refrigerated multipurpose Centrifuge 5810 R, the new Eppendorf ThermoMixer® C, and the new Multipette® M4....

Over the years, the businesses of Xylem Analytics have made it a point to address customer needs. And a perfect example of that is the implementation of an OI Analytical photometric detector during the processing of spearmint oils to help address the volatility of sulfur compounds.

During the development of spearmint and other essential oils, analytical labs are challenged by volatile sulfur compounds, as they impart undesirable odors to essential oils and have extremely low olfactory thresholds. So the detecting, quantifying, and eliminating of sulfur compounds is an important aspect of flavor and fragrance quality control work. Two species of spearmint is cultivated in the United States every year, with 1.09 million kilograms of spearmint oil produced in the U.S. in 2008....

BGI, one of the world’s leading genomics services providers, has announced a range of RNA sequencing services offered at reduced prices, available until 30 June 2014.

The total RNA sequencing service, which covers the whole transcriptome (long non-coding RNA and mRNA) as well as miRNA, allows researchers to save up to $1800/sample. For RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis (mRNA) and RNA-Seq quantification (mRNA) services, the time-limited offers start at only $450/sample. All offers are available in Europe and the Americas....

Hematology testing company complements EKF’s POCT product portfolio. The UltraCrit is the first and only hematocrit/hemoglobin device to use ultrasound technology

EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics business, announces that it has acquired Separation Technology, Inc. (STI), the Florida based manufacturer of in vitro diagnostics devices for hematology testing.  This acquisition complements EKF’s existing offering in the hemoglobin testing market place, which includes Hemo Control (also sold as HemoPoint H2 in USA and Asia). Notably, STI’s primary instrument is the UltraCrit hematocrit measurement device which is FDA cleared for blood donor screening....

Sygnature Discovery (Nottingham, UK) has been using an Asynt DrySyn SnowStorm system to perform low temperature reactions which have traditionally been difficult  to undertake reproducibly on a small to medium scale.

The Asynt DrySyn SnowStorm offers an attractive solution to laboratories undertaking low temperature reaction chemistries. Available in a choice of configurations, the DrySyn SnowStorm system provides controlled cooling and heating for sub-ambient parallel chemistry without the need for jacketed reaction vessels, or ice baths. Operating with a suitable chiller / circulator, a DrySyn SnowStorm system provides accurate, stable temperature control down to -50 °C and up to +150 °C....

A leading epidemiology research institute based in Moscow has ordered three Flexicon FMB210 fully automatic filling and capping systems from Watson-Marlow Pumps Group.

The new machines will be at the forefront of providing anti-epidemic arrangements for communicable and parasite-born diseases. The move follows years of success using Flexicon semi-automatic equipment. Traditionally, the institute's laboratories performed simple manual filling and capping of bottles and micro-tubes. However, keen to advance, the organisation purchased its first Flexicon PF6 dispensing pump, a semi-automatic FF20 bottle handling system and FC10 crimp capper in 2006...

The versatile ‘OneTime configuration tools’ provided with the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from Autoscribe, not only allow the system to be configured without the use of custom programming, but also uniquely provide an audit trail each time a display screen for the system is updated or modified.

If a screen is being altered, no one else can modify it until it goes live again. Each version is saved with a version number so the audit trail allows the possibility of returning to an earlier version if required.A very intuitive modern visual workflow screen editor shows the screen in edit mode along with all the options and control properties associated with that screen. Screens can be linked together and information transferred between them without any programming.....

The fastest, most productive and reliable platform in the market is now enhanced with ready-to-use (RTU), optimized staining kits and integrated barcode reading.

Quality-controlled RTU H&E staining kits, lead to consistent high-quality staining up to 2000 slides per kit. The flexibility of the system also allows optimization of protocols meeting the specific diagnostic requirements.  Chris Koeman, CEO Sakura Finetek Europe, states, “This is a great advancement of the SMART Automation portfolio. Thestaining and coverslipping platform has an impressive track record with a market leading installed base of more than a thousand systems, and the best Mean Time Between Failures....

The annual amateur photography competition run by the Society of Biology recognises some of the most inspiring images of the natural world.

The theme for the 2014 competition is ‘Home, Habitat and Shelter’ and opened on the 10^th March to submissions showing the unique ways animals, plants and organisms exploit their environment to survive. Eppendorf, a leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment, has been named as the official sponsor of this year’s event....

150 life scientists from 23 countries met at the VIB in Ghent

In cooperation with the Flanders Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) and Core for Life, ZEISS invited the international community of correlative microscopists for 3 days to a joint workshop at the Bioimaging Core of the VIB Inflammatory Research Centre (IRC) in Ghent, Belgium. The workshop followed the first meeting of the community at the ZEISS Microscopy Labs Munich in 2012. From 9-11 March 2014, 150 scientists from 23 countries took the opportunity to discuss the current state of the art in correlative microscopy and 3D imaging techniques....

Malvern Instruments is proud to be a premier sponsor of the inaugural PEGS China meeting.

The PEGS China Protein & Antibody Engineering and Development summit is presented by Cambridge Healthtech Institute and takes place in Shanghai from 1 - 3 April 2014. Malvern is participating in both the conference and the associated exhibition, with Dr Wei Qi, Senior Scientist within Malvern’s Bioscience Development Initiative, presenting a paper on ‘Emerging techniques for therapeutic protein characterization – viscosity, stability and sub-visible particles’....

Across the 53 countries of the WHO European Region, an estimated 353 000 patients fell sick with tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, according to new data published by the European Centre for Disease

Prevention and Control and the WHO Regional Office for Europe ⁽¹⁾. The data show an average annual 5% decline in TB incidence across the Region over the last decade. The countries of the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) observed a 6% decrease in TB cases with 68 000 reported cases in 2012. Overall, the EU/EEA countries met their target of an average five-year decline. However, Europe has not yet met the set targets for successful treatment of multidrug-resistant TB....

Are tiny microbes outwitting us to steal our food?

It’s long been know that microbes are to blame for food going off and becoming rotten but in the late 1970’s, Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania, and a winner of ecology’s version of the Nobel Prize, suggested that making something rotten may be to the advantage of the microbes living in our food. Now, Liverpool John Moores University....

The Cubis Lab Balance from Sartorius Helps to Improve Quality Control at Contract Manufacturer hameln pharma 

The Customer. For more than 60 years hameln pharma has specialized on the contract manufacturing of parenteral solutions and suspensions. With more than 400 employees, hameln pharma produces liquid medicines that – aseptically produced or terminally sterilized – are filled into ampoules or vials for national and international pharmaceutical companies. hameln pharma has extensive expertise and a log track record, especially in the production of highly demanding pharmaceutical products such as anesthetics, flammable liquids, and cold chain products....

New Veeva CRM Engage enables customer interactions online anytime, anywhere, on any device

Veeva Systems introduces Veeva CRM Engage, a cloud-based application that enables life sciences organisations to interact with healthcare professionals (HCPs) over the web and through mobile devices. Engage adds the online channel to Veeva’s Commercial Suite, which also supports face-to-face, phone, and email customer interactions, for unified multichannel communications. With Engage, life sciences companies can extend the face-to-face visit by facilitating a two-way dialogue online with relevant, interactive content and personalised services like ‘click-to-chat’ and ‘schedule a visit.’...

Established influenza medicine misrepresented by inexperienced analysis, undermining global public health consensus

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a reproducible and accurate ion chromatography (IC) method for determining monochloroacetic acid (MCAA) in carbocisteine drug substance and two monochloroacetic acid drug products, thus enabling efficient quality control of the carbocmanufacturing processisteine.

Application Note 1076: Determination of Monochloroacetic Acid in Carbocisteine demonstrates that this IC method is easily executed using a reagent-free IC system controlled by data management software. The analyst simply adds water and samples to separate and accurately determine MCAA using a hydroxide-selective anion-exchange column (Thermo Scientific^™ Dionex^™ IonPac^™ AS11-HC column)...

AB SCIEX, Phenomenex, and Peak Scientific have assembled a complete, mobile LC/MS/MS laboratory, bringing our solutions and scientists right to your neighbourhood.

The MASS-tastic Voyage 2014 will bring a state of the art mobile LC/MS/MS laboratory to the doors of scientists across Europe. Attendees will encounter the latest innovations from Peak Scientific and AB SCIEX in action. This unique tour will feature...