Waters Corporation has released the ACQUITY RDa™ Detector featuring SmartMS™, the company’s newest time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer (MS) for small molecule analysis for pharmaceutical, academic, food, and forensics applications. The accurate-mass ACQUITY™ RDa Detector can be quickly deployed and operated to enable faster and more informed decision-making across a broad set of applications....
Beckman Coulter has announced that it has expanded claims for its CE-marked Access Interleukin-6 (IL-6) assay. The Access IL-6 assay is an in-vitro diagnostic test for the quantitative determination of IL-6 levels in human serum and plasma (heparin). The fully-automated assay helps physicians identify a severe inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients, often referred to as cytokine storm, and determine the risk of intubation with mechanical ventilation, in conjunction with clinical findings and the results of other laboratory testing....
Navigo Proteins GmbH, a premier protein engineering company, developer of affinity ligands for custom chromatography solutions, and eleva GmbH (“Eleva”), a manufacturer of superior biologics derived from its proprietary moss expression system, announce the successful implementation of a customized affinity chromatography resin into the purification process of Eleva’s Complement- Factor H, CPV-101, for its coming clinical development.
Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced the Agilent 8697 Headspace Sampler, the first headspace sampler with integrated gas chromatography communication. It marks the expansion of intelligence capability that was first launched with the Agilent Intuvo 9000 GC System in 2016 and later in 2019 with the Agilent 8890 and 8860 GC Systems.
LifeArc and the Medical Research Council (MRC), with support from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), today announce three major investments totalling £18m to create a national network of cutting-edge “Gene Therapy Innovation Hubs”. The £18m funding will support the creation of three dedicated facilities to advance the clinical development of new genetic treatments...
EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer, Inc. company, announce the launch of the EUROPatternTM Microscope Live (EPML) compact immunofluorescence microscope, available with the fourth generation of the Company’s well-established EUROLabOfficeTM 4.0 (ELO 4.0) laboratory management software. The combined system of hardware and software allows for ultrafast automated immunofluorescence image acquisition, pattern recognition and titer estimation as well as modern diagnostics at the screen.
The ionRocket from BioChromato Inc. is a temperature-heating device for direct thermal desorption and pyrolysis of samples, prior to ionization and analysis by mass spectrometry. Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) is a proven technique that enables rapid analysis of both solid and liquid samples under standard laboratory conditions without sample preparation....
Nikon Corporation (Nikon) announce the release of the ECLIPSE Si biological microscope, which reduces the time spent on adjusting the light intensity when changing magnifications and which, by means of an ergonomic design, reduces physical strain during long hours of observations. The challenges in educational and clinical settings include complex operations during microscopic observations and accumulation of physical fatigue due to long hours of observations....
Particle analysis is essential: whether in production and quality control, research, development, laboratory or for controlling manufacturing processes. In all these cases fast, reliable and reproducible results are required. Find the perfect solution adapted to your application. Benefit from more than 35 years of experience in the field of particle technology! We help you to find the perfect measuring principle: static light scattering for analysis of particle size, or dynamic image analysis...
Olympus’ next virtual life science event, the Olympus Discovery Summit—Looking Forward: A New Era of Research will take place on April 27–29, 2021. The Olympus Life Science team has organized this opportunity for the microscopy community to virtually share its expertise and learn about important advances in technology. During this free three-day summit, attendees can enjoy a full schedule of customer presentations, tech talks, roundtable discussions and product demos....
PCR Biosystems, the UK-based specialists in DNA and RNA analysis, have launched a range of IsoFast™ Bst Polymerase reagents for rapid, robust and sensitive DNA and RNA amplification. Through its nucleic acid strand displacement capabilities, Bst polymerase eliminates the need for the high temperature denaturation step associated with traditional Taq enzymes. This enables faster time to result and facilitates DNA and RNA amplification in the field without specialised thermocycling equipment....
Atik Cameras, a specialist designer and manufacturer of advanced scientific imaging solutions, has further expanded its collaboration with leading global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of real time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) DNA amplifiers, securing multiple new contracts to supply high-performing cameras for reliable COVID-19 testing...
CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), otherwise known as organ-on-a-chip, has announced it has received a grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to develop human-relevant MPS to advance investigations into SARS-CoV-2 infection. The funding will be used to develop and test advanced cell culture models that represent different regions of the lung ...
PerkinElmer, Inc. has announced the launch of two Research Use Only (RUO) solutions, PKamp™ VariantDetect™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay and Next Generation Sequencing-based NEXTFLEX® Variant-Seq™ SARS-CoV-2 Kit. Using nucleic acid extracted from samples that previously tested positive, laboratories can use these assays to identify genomic mutations reported in relation to SARS-CoV-2 variants....
INTEGRA Biosciences’ VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is routinely used to combat the challenges associated with repetitive pipetting tasks in molecular biology. These workflows often consist of lengthy, multistep protocols. Ahuva Odenheimer, a senior research associate working on behalf of venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering, explained how the VOYAGER increases...
The Thermo Scientific Orion 8000 Series Analyzer Platform meets the high-quality water analysis needs of both municipal and industrial facilities. Municipal and industrial facilities where high quality water analysis is of critical importance can now benefit from a new flexible monitoring solution designed to deliver enhanced productivity...
With the release of ZEISS Correlative Cryo Workflow, ZEISS provides the life science research community with a new combined hardware and software solution for cryogenic microscopy. The workflow connects widefield, laser scanning, and FIB-SEM microscopes in a seamless and easy-to-use procedure....
Porvair Sciences new Krystal™ Glass Bottom microplate with high quality specialty glass from Schott provides unmatched performance for whole-plate CCD imaging and laser detection applications. Krystal™ Glass Bottom plates combine the advantageous optical properties of glass, low background and low birefringence, with the versatility of a microplate...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of MassHunter Workstation Plus 11.0, MassHunter Networked Workstation 11.0, and MassHunter BioConfirm. The latest revision of these software enables data integrity consistent with the regulatory requirements from the US FDA and EU EMEA guidance, providing user management, checksums, tamper detection, and audit trails...
Eppendorf has developed the brand new VisioNize® pipette manager and is on its way towards digitalization in manual pipetting. The system is ideal for scientists who manage a high workload and require many intricate pipetting steps. Technology solutions are here to help scientists improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency and collaboration....
Promega Corporation has released XpressAmp™ Direct Amplification Reagents that facilitate RNA extraction-free sample preparation that is automation-friendly. With this innovation, laboratories testing for COVID-19 have a new tool that enables them to skip the potentially bottlenecked RNA extraction step of the workflow and move directly to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification....
IDEXX, the global leader in rapid microbiological testing for water, has launched EasyDisc™, a new testing platform for the detection of heterotrophic plate counts (HPC) in water. EasyDisc offers an easy solution for HPC testing, with no agar preparation needed, and requiring less than one minute of hands-on time to process a sample. Blue colonies reduce ambiguity of results, and colony counting is made easier by the integrated gridlines in the EasyDisc plate....
Waters Corporation has released the ACQUITY RDa™ Detector featuring SmartMS™, the company’s newest time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer (MS) for small molecule analysis for pharmaceutical, academic, food, and forensics applications. The accurate-mass ACQUITY™ RDa Detector can be quickly deployed and operated to enable faster and more informed decision-making across a broad set of applications....
Beckman Coulter has announced that it has expanded claims for its CE-marked Access Interleukin-6 (IL-6) assay. The Access IL-6 assay is an in-vitro diagnostic test for the quantitative determination of IL-6 levels in human serum and plasma (heparin). The fully-automated assay helps physicians identify a severe inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients, often referred to as cytokine storm, and determine the risk of intubation with mechanical ventilation, in conjunction with clinical findings and the results of other laboratory testing....
Navigo Proteins GmbH, a premier protein engineering company, developer of affinity ligands for custom chromatography solutions, and eleva GmbH (“Eleva”), a manufacturer of superior biologics derived from its proprietary moss expression system, announce the successful implementation of a customized affinity chromatography resin into the purification process of Eleva’s Complement- Factor H, CPV-101, for its coming clinical development.
Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced the Agilent 8697 Headspace Sampler, the first headspace sampler with integrated gas chromatography communication. It marks the expansion of intelligence capability that was first launched with the Agilent Intuvo 9000 GC System in 2016 and later in 2019 with the Agilent 8890 and 8860 GC Systems.
LifeArc and the Medical Research Council (MRC), with support from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), today announce three major investments totalling £18m to create a national network of cutting-edge “Gene Therapy Innovation Hubs”. The £18m funding will support the creation of three dedicated facilities to advance the clinical development of new genetic treatments...
EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer, Inc. company, announce the launch of the EUROPatternTM Microscope Live (EPML) compact immunofluorescence microscope, available with the fourth generation of the Company’s well-established EUROLabOfficeTM 4.0 (ELO 4.0) laboratory management software. The combined system of hardware and software allows for ultrafast automated immunofluorescence image acquisition, pattern recognition and titer estimation as well as modern diagnostics at the screen.
The ionRocket from BioChromato Inc. is a temperature-heating device for direct thermal desorption and pyrolysis of samples, prior to ionization and analysis by mass spectrometry. Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) is a proven technique that enables rapid analysis of both solid and liquid samples under standard laboratory conditions without sample preparation....
Nikon Corporation (Nikon) announce the release of the ECLIPSE Si biological microscope, which reduces the time spent on adjusting the light intensity when changing magnifications and which, by means of an ergonomic design, reduces physical strain during long hours of observations. The challenges in educational and clinical settings include complex operations during microscopic observations and accumulation of physical fatigue due to long hours of observations....
Particle analysis is essential: whether in production and quality control, research, development, laboratory or for controlling manufacturing processes. In all these cases fast, reliable and reproducible results are required. Find the perfect solution adapted to your application. Benefit from more than 35 years of experience in the field of particle technology! We help you to find the perfect measuring principle: static light scattering for analysis of particle size, or dynamic image analysis...
Olympus’ next virtual life science event, the Olympus Discovery Summit—Looking Forward: A New Era of Research will take place on April 27–29, 2021. The Olympus Life Science team has organized this opportunity for the microscopy community to virtually share its expertise and learn about important advances in technology. During this free three-day summit, attendees can enjoy a full schedule of customer presentations, tech talks, roundtable discussions and product demos....
PCR Biosystems, the UK-based specialists in DNA and RNA analysis, have launched a range of IsoFast™ Bst Polymerase reagents for rapid, robust and sensitive DNA and RNA amplification. Through its nucleic acid strand displacement capabilities, Bst polymerase eliminates the need for the high temperature denaturation step associated with traditional Taq enzymes. This enables faster time to result and facilitates DNA and RNA amplification in the field without specialised thermocycling equipment....
Atik Cameras, a specialist designer and manufacturer of advanced scientific imaging solutions, has further expanded its collaboration with leading global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of real time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) DNA amplifiers, securing multiple new contracts to supply high-performing cameras for reliable COVID-19 testing...
CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), otherwise known as organ-on-a-chip, has announced it has received a grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to develop human-relevant MPS to advance investigations into SARS-CoV-2 infection. The funding will be used to develop and test advanced cell culture models that represent different regions of the lung ...
PerkinElmer, Inc. has announced the launch of two Research Use Only (RUO) solutions, PKamp™ VariantDetect™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay and Next Generation Sequencing-based NEXTFLEX® Variant-Seq™ SARS-CoV-2 Kit. Using nucleic acid extracted from samples that previously tested positive, laboratories can use these assays to identify genomic mutations reported in relation to SARS-CoV-2 variants....
INTEGRA Biosciences’ VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is routinely used to combat the challenges associated with repetitive pipetting tasks in molecular biology. These workflows often consist of lengthy, multistep protocols. Ahuva Odenheimer, a senior research associate working on behalf of venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering, explained how the VOYAGER increases...
The Thermo Scientific Orion 8000 Series Analyzer Platform meets the high-quality water analysis needs of both municipal and industrial facilities. Municipal and industrial facilities where high quality water analysis is of critical importance can now benefit from a new flexible monitoring solution designed to deliver enhanced productivity...
With the release of ZEISS Correlative Cryo Workflow, ZEISS provides the life science research community with a new combined hardware and software solution for cryogenic microscopy. The workflow connects widefield, laser scanning, and FIB-SEM microscopes in a seamless and easy-to-use procedure....
Porvair Sciences new Krystal™ Glass Bottom microplate with high quality specialty glass from Schott provides unmatched performance for whole-plate CCD imaging and laser detection applications. Krystal™ Glass Bottom plates combine the advantageous optical properties of glass, low background and low birefringence, with the versatility of a microplate...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of MassHunter Workstation Plus 11.0, MassHunter Networked Workstation 11.0, and MassHunter BioConfirm. The latest revision of these software enables data integrity consistent with the regulatory requirements from the US FDA and EU EMEA guidance, providing user management, checksums, tamper detection, and audit trails...
Eppendorf has developed the brand new VisioNize® pipette manager and is on its way towards digitalization in manual pipetting. The system is ideal for scientists who manage a high workload and require many intricate pipetting steps. Technology solutions are here to help scientists improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency and collaboration....
Promega Corporation has released XpressAmp™ Direct Amplification Reagents that facilitate RNA extraction-free sample preparation that is automation-friendly. With this innovation, laboratories testing for COVID-19 have a new tool that enables them to skip the potentially bottlenecked RNA extraction step of the workflow and move directly to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification....
IDEXX, the global leader in rapid microbiological testing for water, has launched EasyDisc™, a new testing platform for the detection of heterotrophic plate counts (HPC) in water. EasyDisc offers an easy solution for HPC testing, with no agar preparation needed, and requiring less than one minute of hands-on time to process a sample. Blue colonies reduce ambiguity of results, and colony counting is made easier by the integrated gridlines in the EasyDisc plate....