A customer application note from FLIR Systems describes how BP Chemicals is using its Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) cameras for the visualisation and documentation of gas leaks.

Effective leak detection is a priority at BP Chemicals manufacturing sites and is one of a number of procedures used for ensuring safe operation. This application note describes the experiences of technologists at BP Chemicals flagship manufacturing and process research site at Saltend, UK. Three FLIR Systems OGI cameras were employed to check plant integrity at the Saltend site.  Designed for outdoor use - the FLIR OGI camera was used to detect a range of gases including methane and methanol that are both predominant at the UK plant...

Anasys Instruments is pleased to announce that the inventor of the AFM-IR technique, Professor Alexandre Dazzi from the Université Paris-Sud, is to receive the Ernst Abbe Memorial Award.

The award is given by the New York Microscopy Society and will be presented at the 2014 Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exhibition being held November 17-19, Somerset, New Jersey, USA. Professor Alexandre Dazzi, from the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique at the Université Paris-Sud has been selected to receive the New York Microscopy Society’s Ernst Abbe Award. Since its inception in 1973, 24 scientists have been recognized including innovators such as Albert V. Crewe (inventor of Scanning Electron Transmission Microscopy), Edwin H. Land (inventor of Polaroid photography), Gerd Binning & Heinrich Rohrer (inventors of AFM)...

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has released an updated edition of Nucleic Acid Sequencing Methods in Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine.

Approved Guideline—Second Edition (MM09-A2) and published a new document entitled Microarrays for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Infectious Diseases; Approved Guideline (MM22-A). MM09-A2 addresses diagnostic sequencing using both automated capillary-based sequencers and massively parallel sequencing instruments. Topics in this guideline include specimen collection and handling; isolation and extraction of nucleic acid; template preparation; sequence generation, alignment, and assembly; validation and verification; ongoing quality assurance; and reporting results...

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...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a rapid and robust high-performance anion-exchange chromatography

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a rapid and robust high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection method for the accurate determination of common sugars in acid-hydrolyzed biomass samples with high carbohydrate concentrations. Application Update (AU) 192: Carbohydrate Determination of Biofuel Samples demonstrates that this approach has a linear range suitable for handling high-concentration biomass samples with minimal sample treatment....

Pittcon 2014, the 65th Conference and Exposition for Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, ended today. This global event brought together 16,255 conferees and exhibitor personnel.

Those who attended Pittcon for the first-time account for 36% of the conferee number. For the second year, the co-location of Food Labs Conference, organized by Innovative Publishing and Food Safety Tech, was held in conjunction with Pittcon. The organizers of both events were pleased with this year’s success and are looking forward to expanding the relationship in 2015....

Technological advances in minimally invasive and remote controlled devices drive the market

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has been selected by a leading spectrophotometer manufacturer to supply ultra high precision matched beamsplitter / compensator optics for the interferometer that lies at the heart of its High Resolution FT-IR system.

To achieve this outstanding performance Optical Surfaces is manufacturing the 100mm diameter OA grade fused silica beamsplitter and compensator optics with a surface accuracy of lambda / 20 (p-v) and wavefront error in transmission of lambda / 20 (p-v) at 633nm.  Further each beamsplitter / compensator pair is tightly matched in thickness and wedge angle. Dr. Aris Kouris, sales and marketing manager at Optical Surfaces Ltd. commented "High resolution spectroscopy places great demands on being able to achieve leading edge specifications with the interferometer optics...

Although the 4 March 2014 deadline for the prize has now expired, PETA US' in vitro chicken contest was a success.

Since PETA US announced the prize, laboratory work on in vitro meat has come a long way, and a commercially viable in vitro beef hamburger or pork sausage is certain to be created. Also encouraging, the science used in the development of in vitro pork and beef will eventually be used to create in vitro chicken, sparing chickens – the most abused animals used for food by virtue of their sheer number, more than 50 billion killed around the world every year – mass suffering and death...

TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of Expert System Solutions, ESS (Modena, Italy).

ESS is a privately held company that designs and manufactures innovative non-contact optical thermal analysis instrumentation. Key products from ESS include optical dilatometers in horizontal and vertical orientation with simultaneous DTA measurements, heating microscopes, and an optical fleximeter. ESS systems operate over a wide temperature range, and are a powerful new tool for characterizing metals, ceramics, glasses and other organic and inorganic materials...

Kromek announces that it has secured $845,000 of new orders to supply radiation detectors and integrated electronic components to a globally leading Original Equipment Manufacturer

Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, announces that it has secured $845,000 of new orders to supply radiation detectors and integrated electronic components to a globally leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (‘OEM’) operating in the Dual Energy X-ray Bone Mineral Densitometry (‘DEXA BMD’) market. The total booking this fiscal year from this customer now exceeds $1.25 million...

New partnership between Malvern Instruments and RheoSense brings m-VROCi to industrial markets

“We are delighted to be working with RheoSense, Inc to bring the benefits of the m-VROCi to industrial customers across the globe,” said Steve Carrington, Product Manager for Malvern Instruments. “The m-VROCi is highly complementary to the existing Malvern rheological portfolio, extending robust, fully enclosed (no solvent loss) flow curve measurement into areas that simply aren’t accessible with alternative rheological instrumentation...

ACQUITY QDa and ionkey/MS Drive LC/MS Convergence with Mass Detection for Chromatographers and Separations for Spectrometrists Respectively

Waters^® Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the ACQUITY^® UltraPerformance LC^® (UPLC^®) System, a technology that created a new industry standard for chromatographic performance.   Looking forward, Waterstoday also introduced the new ionKey/MS™ System, a new approach for getting exceptional sensitivity, robustness and ease-of-use out of mass spectrometry and featured the ACQUITY QDa™, the first mass detector to bring high-quality, mass spectral data to chromatographic separations, in its Pittcon debut...

Malvern Instruments will demonstrate NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) at BioNanoMed 2014

The 5^th International Congress on Nanotechnology, Medicine and Biology, which takes place in Krems, Austria from 26 – 28 March. A specialist from the company will also make a 10-minute presentation as part of the business sessions held alongside the conference. The acquisition of NanoSight in September 2013 has extended Malvern’s range of analytical solutions for characterization at the nanoscale, with NTA ideally complementing the company’s Zetasizer Nano, Archimedes and Viscotek SEC systems...

Adocia’s BioChaperone Combo is the first product combining insulin Glargine with a fast-acting insulin analog.

Phase I/II clinical trial demonstrates proof of concept in patients with type 1 diabetes, showing that BioChaperone Combo acts faster and longer than Humalog Mix. Adocia (Euronext Paris : FR0011184241 - ADOC) announces today positive preliminary results for the first clinical trial on an innovative formulation combining insulin analog Glargine (Lantus(R), Sanofi), the gold standard basal insulin, with a rapid-acting insulin analog, Lispro (Humalog(R), Eli Lilly) using Adocia's BioChaperone(R) technology...

In Print, PDF and Interactive Mobile Versions

Chromatographers can now use the latest interactive mobile technology, in addition to standard print and on-line catalogs, to access the comprehensive portfolio of chromatography columns, consumables and accessories from Thermo Fisher Scientific. 656 pages of product listings are organized into four sections: Sample Preparation, Sample Handling, GC Columns & Consumables, and LC Columns & Accessories....

The RISE Microscope enables for the first time the acquisition of SEM and Raman images from the same sample area and the correlation of ultra-structural and chemical information with one microscope system

INTEGRA Biosciences has received a Red Dot Design Award for its innovative VIAFLO ASSIST - a new laboratory device that, in combination with a VIAFLO II electronic handheld pipette, enables the pipette’s protocols to be performed automatically.

Visitors to Analytica in Munich, April 1-4 2014, will be first in the queue to see KNF Lab’s ground-breaking new RC900 Rotary Evaporator, an efficient, robust instrument set to transform rotary evaporation and make the technique easier and safer than ever before.

The elegant, easy-to-clean design of the RC900 offers a range of novel features that focus on easy and reliable operation and increasing operator safety – including a unique remote control unit, simple one button functions for routine tasks such as changing flasks, easily adjustable rotation speeds and dynamic temperature control – resulting in a breakthrough in performance and reliability for a wide range of applications....

Photonex Roadshows will be visiting two regions in June this year: the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland (4th June) and Robinson College at the University of Cambridge (18th June). These Roadshows are a unique joint event, combining industry tutorials and a professional academic conference with a supplier’s exhibition.  

Greiner Bio-One is showcasing a total of six innovative new products at Analytica 2014 in Munich.

This Austro-German medium-sized company, a technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries, is thus once again underlining the great importance it attaches to research and development. With the new Cryo.s biobank tubes, Greiner Bio-One ­ which has been developing products for cryogenic storage for 30 years ­ is expanding its product portfolio to include a solution for high-throughput sample storage in automated storage systems.....

Their clinical and translational research program has developed Dbait molecules now in Phase I clinical trial in patients with advanced melanoma

Curie-Cancer, the body responsible for developing Institut Curie’s industry partnership activities, and DNA Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company that is developing a new class of cancer drugs, are renewing their partnership. The ongoing collaboration will aim to provide a new class of therapeutic cancer products to patients, including those who are resistant to conventional therapies. Initial clinical results are encouraging .The first molecule based on Dbait technology, DT01, is currently being assessed in combination with radiation therapy, in a Phase I clinical trial for approximately 20 patients with cutaneous metastatic chemotherapy-resistant melanoma...