The biophysics research team at the University of Bayreuth has been taking advantage of the most popular and unrivaled pipette controller, INTEGRA’s PIPETBOY acu 2, for the preparation of buffers, media and samples in its cell culture workflows, simplifying culture set-up, splitting and media exchange. Technical assistant Andrea Hanold explained: “Our main area of research focuses on what influences intracellular transport, internalization processes, and how the cell organizes itself...
The Ultravap® family of blowdown evaporators from Porvair Sciences is proven to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from 12-, 24-, 48-, 96- and 384- well microplates and glass tubes. Designed with a flat front profile and platform shuttle enables easy interfacing with liquid-handling robots for high automation efficiency. Able to operate up to 80°C - Ultravap® evaporators can remove all chromatography solvents cleanly and efficiently without risk of cross-contamination....
BioChromato reports how its RAPID Slit Seal microplate seals are helping labs to maintain the integrity of reconstituted samples over several days thereby enabling high precision repeat analysis. Used in pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare labs worldwide, RAPID Slit Seal is a unique self-closing 96-well microplate seal that returns to its original state even when punched with a HPLC or LC/MS autosampler...
Biotool Switzerland has introduced the ProfiClave PCX – a new space-saving system equipped with everything needed to simplify culture media preparation and speed up the process. Designed for ease-of-use, operation of the PCX is via a large integral screen using a suite of powerful icon-based software that guides you intuitively, with onscreen support, through the culture media preparation process...
Porvair Sciences has added a new 1.2 ml Deep Well microplate, with round well bottoms for maximum sample recovery, to its family of 96-well square storage plates. Manufactured from ultra-pure medical grade polypropylene, in a class 10,000 DNase/RNase-free cleanroom environment, the new plate offers high integrity storage of your samples at -80?C even over extended periods of time...
New Innovation Significantly Reduces Turnaround Time While Decreasing Manual and Error-Prone Steps. Creating the industry’s first stem cell analysis update in nearly 25 years, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences – a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation – launches an evolution of the gold standard in hematopoietic stem cell enumeration, the AQUIOS STEM System...
Evident, a new wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus comprised of its former Life Science and Industrial divisions, unveiled the winners of its third Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award, an annual competition that recognizes the best in life science imaging. The winners were selected from nearly 800 images submitted from 49 countries around the world...
Autoscribe Informatics has announced that Covid-19 Test Laboratory, BioGrad Diagnostics, has adopted Matrix Gemini as its Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). BioGrad manages client and sample data within the LIMS, driving automation and efficiency. BioGrad Diagnostics is a rapidly expanding diagnostics laboratory in the UK focused on fast turn-around COVID-19 samples....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today presented Dr. Valérie Gabelica (44), Inserm, and Director of IECB, Pessac, France, with the 2022 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference EuroFAST2022, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where the prize winner held a lecture entitled “Advancing mass spectrometry to study nucleic acid structures and interactions”.
Bruker announce the launch of a differentiated benchtop FT-NMR solution for forensic narcotics testing, called the Fourier 80 CrimeLab, with a nuclear magnetic resonance NMR Narcotics Profiling module. This unique forensics solution offers the flexibility of information-rich FT-NMR in an easy-to-use, automated method with detailed reports on the types and quantities of substances in seized drug samples...
CytoSMART Technologies, an Axion Bio company, has announced the launch of the CytoSMART Omni FL, a next-generation live-cell imaging analysis system incorporating red and green fluorescence channels into its signature CytoSMART Omni product line for the first time. The advance reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to provide high-quality, accessible live-cell imaging to every cell biology lab and offers an innovative platform for researchers in stem cell biology, immuno-oncology, virology, toxicology, neurology, and other fields.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is providing laboratories performing food safety analysis with a new ion chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (IC-MS/MS) workflow solution for regulatory compliant, cost-effective and reliable analysis of quaternary ammonium pesticides (Quats). The new Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac CS21-Fast-4µm ion exchange column enables scientists to easily and accurately determine and quantify the four cationic pesticide...
INTEGRA Biosciences is giving away 10 VOYAGER pipette kits in an exciting prize draw. The VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is the only electronic pipette offering automated adjustment of tip spacing currently on the market. It is easy to use, can be operated one-handed, and allows the parallel transfer of samples between formats, for example from tubes to plates, or from 96 well to 384 well plates. This significantly speeds up workflow, reducing transfer times and making sample reformatting much more efficient...
The Sero Krystal™ PDL range of coated microplates from Porvair Sciences set a new benchmark for reproducible cell culture even with challenging cell types. Many scientists would prefer to grow cells in a serum-free environment to more accurately mimic physiological conditions. However, this often presents challenges as cell lines often struggle to attach to traditional tissue culture plastics in the absence of serum....
Nothing matches the performance of the original! Retsch’s Ultra Centrifugal Mills set standards in sample homogenization since almost 50 years and are used by food & feed laboratories worldwide. The latest model ZM 300 comprises the essence of German engineering expertise combined with high-quality materials, smart accessories, and latest software technology. The powerful mill provides maximum grinding performance at high speed while, at the same time, ensuring operator convenience and safety.
ZEISS are thrilled to announce the ZEISS Microscopy Image Contest 2022. Do you take stunning microscopy images? Submit your best image now! The contest is open to all microscopy enthusiasts and professionals in nine application categories. Images can be taken with any ZEISS microscope (light, X-ray or electron microscope). Deadline for entry is May 15, 2022...
Leica Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of microscopes and scientific instruments, has announced the appointment of Dr. Annette Rinck as its President, with effect from 1 April 2022. Annette succeeds Markus Lusser, who was promoted to a new Life Sciences position within Danaher Corporation, Leica’s parent company. Annette joins Leica from Honeywell where she has spent the past seven years, most recently as General Manager of global brands and companies within the Building Management Systems division...
LGC Maine Standards announces the release of VALIDATE® Thyroid 2 (THY2) to meet the linearity and calibration verification needs of clinical laboratories running the Beckman Coulter Unicel® DxI/Access platform. This exciting product, with the analyte Thyroglobulin (Tg), is formulated in human serum, using the CLSI EP06-A “equal delta” sample preparation method, and provides five distinct concentrations across the claimed and extended range of the Beckman Coulter Unicel® DxI/Access instrument...
Scientists have created a prototype test that can predict which drug combinations are likely to work for cancer patients in as little as 24 to 48 hours. Their cutting-edge technique uses artificial intelligence to analyse large-scale protein data from tumour samples, and is able to predict patients’ response to drugs more accurately than is currently possible...
Jackson ImmunoResearch, manufacturer of secondary antibodies and immunoreagents for the life science market, announces a new range of detection reagents that offer superior imaging quality. Jackson ImmunoResearch Nano Secondaries are polyclonal VHH Fragment antibodies (Nanobodies*) produced in Alpacas. They are available with specificity to Human, Rabbit, or Mouse. 10x smaller than conventional whole IgG antibodies...
Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2022 Young Chemist Award, Colby Ott. Colby is a Ph.D. candidate at West Virginia University's Forensic and Investigative Science Department in Morgantown, West Virginia, where his research centers around developing novel methods for screening seized drugs. His work aims to provide reliable and rapid detection in the laboratory and the field, with future applications in forensics, clinical healthcare, and toxicology...
UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd welcomes data presented by scientists from its collaborator the Quadram Institute at this years’ Microbiology Society Annual Conference being held in Belfast. The Quadram’s team results demonstrate the advantages of Fire Monkey high molecular weight (HMW) DNA extraction with multiplexed Oxford Nanopore sequencing for cost effective complete hybrid assemblies of pathogen genomes in resolving genomic rearrangements important in acute and chronic Salmonella infections...
The biophysics research team at the University of Bayreuth has been taking advantage of the most popular and unrivaled pipette controller, INTEGRA’s PIPETBOY acu 2, for the preparation of buffers, media and samples in its cell culture workflows, simplifying culture set-up, splitting and media exchange. Technical assistant Andrea Hanold explained: “Our main area of research focuses on what influences intracellular transport, internalization processes, and how the cell organizes itself...
The Ultravap® family of blowdown evaporators from Porvair Sciences is proven to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from 12-, 24-, 48-, 96- and 384- well microplates and glass tubes. Designed with a flat front profile and platform shuttle enables easy interfacing with liquid-handling robots for high automation efficiency. Able to operate up to 80°C - Ultravap® evaporators can remove all chromatography solvents cleanly and efficiently without risk of cross-contamination....
BioChromato reports how its RAPID Slit Seal microplate seals are helping labs to maintain the integrity of reconstituted samples over several days thereby enabling high precision repeat analysis. Used in pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare labs worldwide, RAPID Slit Seal is a unique self-closing 96-well microplate seal that returns to its original state even when punched with a HPLC or LC/MS autosampler...
saving system equipped with everything needed to simplify culture media preparation and speed up the process. Designed for ease-of-use, operation of the PCX is via a large integral screen using a suite of powerful icon-based software that guides you intuitively, with onscreen support, through the culture media preparation process...
Porvair Sciences has added a new 1.2 ml Deep Well microplate, with round well bottoms for maximum sample recovery, to its family of 96-well square storage plates. Manufactured from ultra-pure medical grade polypropylene, in a class 10,000 DNase/RNase-free cleanroom environment, the new plate offers high integrity storage of your samples at -80?C even over extended periods of time...
New Innovation Significantly Reduces Turnaround Time While Decreasing Manual and Error-Prone Steps. Creating the industry’s first stem cell analysis update in nearly 25 years, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences – a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation – launches an evolution of the gold standard in hematopoietic stem cell enumeration, the AQUIOS STEM System...
Evident, a new wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus comprised of its former Life Science and Industrial divisions, unveiled the winners of its third Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award, an annual competition that recognizes the best in life science imaging. The winners were selected from nearly 800 images submitted from 49 countries around the world...
Autoscribe Informatics has announced that Covid-19 Test Laboratory, BioGrad Diagnostics, has adopted Matrix Gemini as its Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). BioGrad manages client and sample data within the LIMS, driving automation and efficiency. BioGrad Diagnostics is a rapidly expanding diagnostics laboratory in the UK focused on fast turn-around COVID-19 samples....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today presented Dr. Valérie Gabelica (44), Inserm, and Director of IECB, Pessac, France, with the 2022 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference EuroFAST2022, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where the prize winner held a lecture entitled “Advancing mass spectrometry to study nucleic acid structures and interactions”.
Bruker announce the launch of a differentiated benchtop FT-NMR solution for forensic narcotics testing, called the Fourier 80 CrimeLab, with a nuclear magnetic resonance NMR Narcotics Profiling module. This unique forensics solution offers the flexibility of information-rich FT-NMR in an easy-to-use, automated method with detailed reports on the types and quantities of substances in seized drug samples...
CytoSMART Technologies, an Axion Bio company, has announced the launch of the CytoSMART Omni FL, a next-generation live-cell imaging analysis system incorporating red and green fluorescence channels into its signature CytoSMART Omni product line for the first time. The advance reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to provide high-quality, accessible live-cell imaging to every cell biology lab and offers an innovative platform for researchers in stem cell biology, immuno-oncology, virology, toxicology, neurology, and other fields.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is providing laboratories performing food safety analysis with a new ion chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (IC-MS/MS) workflow solution for regulatory compliant, cost-effective and reliable analysis of quaternary ammonium pesticides (Quats). The new Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac CS21-Fast-4µm ion exchange column enables scientists to easily and accurately determine and quantify the four cationic pesticide...
INTEGRA Biosciences is giving away 10 VOYAGER pipette kits in an exciting prize draw. The VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is the only electronic pipette offering automated adjustment of tip spacing currently on the market. It is easy to use, can be operated one-handed, and allows the parallel transfer of samples between formats, for example from tubes to plates, or from 96 well to 384 well plates. This significantly speeds up workflow, reducing transfer times and making sample reformatting much more efficient...
The Sero Krystal™ PDL range of coated microplates from Porvair Sciences set a new benchmark for reproducible cell culture even with challenging cell types. Many scientists would prefer to grow cells in a serum-free environment to more accurately mimic physiological conditions. However, this often presents challenges as cell lines often struggle to attach to traditional tissue culture plastics in the absence of serum....
Nothing matches the performance of the original! Retsch’s Ultra Centrifugal Mills set standards in sample homogenization since almost 50 years and are used by food & feed laboratories worldwide. The latest model ZM 300 comprises the essence of German engineering expertise combined with high-quality materials, smart accessories, and latest software technology. The powerful mill provides maximum grinding performance at high speed while, at the same time, ensuring operator convenience and safety.
ZEISS are thrilled to announce the ZEISS Microscopy Image Contest 2022. Do you take stunning microscopy images? Submit your best image now! The contest is open to all microscopy enthusiasts and professionals in nine application categories. Images can be taken with any ZEISS microscope (light, X-ray or electron microscope). Deadline for entry is May 15, 2022...
Leica Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of microscopes and scientific instruments, has announced the appointment of Dr. Annette Rinck as its President, with effect from 1 April 2022. Annette succeeds Markus Lusser, who was promoted to a new Life Sciences position within Danaher Corporation, Leica’s parent company. Annette joins Leica from Honeywell where she has spent the past seven years, most recently as General Manager of global brands and companies within the Building Management Systems division...
LGC Maine Standards announces the release of VALIDATE® Thyroid 2 (THY2) to meet the linearity and calibration verification needs of clinical laboratories running the Beckman Coulter Unicel® DxI/Access platform. This exciting product, with the analyte Thyroglobulin (Tg), is formulated in human serum, using the CLSI EP06-A “equal delta” sample preparation method, and provides five distinct concentrations across the claimed and extended range of the Beckman Coulter Unicel® DxI/Access instrument...
Scientists have created a prototype test that can predict which drug combinations are likely to work for cancer patients in as little as 24 to 48 hours. Their cutting-edge technique uses artificial intelligence to analyse large-scale protein data from tumour samples, and is able to predict patients’ response to drugs more accurately than is currently possible...
Jackson ImmunoResearch, manufacturer of secondary antibodies and immunoreagents for the life science market, announces a new range of detection reagents that offer superior imaging quality. Jackson ImmunoResearch Nano Secondaries are polyclonal VHH Fragment antibodies (Nanobodies*) produced in Alpacas. They are available with specificity to Human, Rabbit, or Mouse. 10x smaller than conventional whole IgG antibodies...
Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2022 Young Chemist Award, Colby Ott. Colby is a Ph.D. candidate at West Virginia University's Forensic and Investigative Science Department in Morgantown, West Virginia, where his research centers around developing novel methods for screening seized drugs. His work aims to provide reliable and rapid detection in the laboratory and the field, with future applications in forensics, clinical healthcare, and toxicology...
UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd welcomes data presented by scientists from its collaborator the Quadram Institute at this years’ Microbiology Society Annual Conference being held in Belfast. The Quadram’s team results demonstrate the advantages of Fire Monkey high molecular weight (HMW) DNA extraction with multiplexed Oxford Nanopore sequencing for cost effective complete hybrid assemblies of pathogen genomes in resolving genomic rearrangements important in acute and chronic Salmonella infections...