PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that its Hand Sanitizer Analyzer instrument can be used to test for the presence of methanol in alcohol-based hand sanitizer products with pass/fail results delivered in 30 seconds or less. Recent warnings and recalls from the FDA indicate that methanol can be toxic to consumers if absorbed through the skin and life threatening if ingested...
Honeywell’s story began more than 200 years ago when German chemist Johann Daniel Riedel successfully manufactured pharmaceutical products. While the world has changed greatly since then, Honeywell have remained committed to providing the highest quality chemicals through innovative and cutting-edge manufacturing processes. Honeywell offer a wide range of Research Chemicals under their own brands...
More than 305,000 high-resolution, multi-channel COVID-19 cellular images captured in less than four weeks with Molecular Devices ImageXpress® Micro Confocal High-Content Imaging System are now available to the scientific community. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting millions around the globe, researchers are racing to develop a vaccine or drug treatment. In an effort to better understand the cellular responses to COVID-19, the digital biology company Recursion has publicly released the world’s largest imaging dataset....
If you are looking for a column to separate your antibodies from their fragments as well as from their aggregates, YMC-SEC MAB is your first choice! The column is designed to separate high and low molecular weight ranges, due to its 250 Å pore size. High column stability as well as excellent reproducibility is guaranteed! The 2019 SCIENTISTS’ CHOICE AWARD NOMINEE is designed for...
Autoscribe Informatics has just released a new case study in conjunction with Swiss Precision Diagnostics (SPD) who have replaced their legacy Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with Matrix Gemini. The new LIMS integrates data from volunteer sample collection, laboratory testing and a clinical biobank to provide integrated data management across their organization....
In the paper, ‘Monitoring chemistry in situ with the Smart Stirrer —a magnetic stirrer bar with an integrated process monitoring system’ published in the journal ACS Sensors, researchers from the School of Engineering, the Mathematics Institute and WMG at the University of Warwick present their innovative stirrer sensor. The small device, called “Smart Stirrer”, performed a function of a conventional laboratory stir bar, has...
This year, in addition to the academic year course ‘Honors Computational Medicinal Chemistry’, 80 rising juniors and seniors will embark upon a special summer short-course entitled ‘Computing COVID-19’, utilizing StarDrop in conjunction with other bioinformatics tools. Optibrium’s lead product, StarDrop, is a comprehensive suite of integrated software...
The Symposium Chairmen and Organizers of the 50th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2021-Duesseldorf) are delighted to announce the conference dates and details for the upcoming 2021 edition of the HPLC symposium series...
ZEISS introduces the Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox for its industry-leading ZEISS Xradia 3D X-ray microscope and computed tomography systems. With the Toolbox, two modules are announced: an upgraded ZEISS OptiRecon for iterative reconstruction, and ZEISS DeepRecon, microscopy’s first commercially available deep learning reconstruction technology....
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (“LSTM”) to clinically validate the rapid, saliva-based coronavirus antigen test that Avacta is developing with Cytiva. LSTM has been at the forefront of research into infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases since 1898....
With Move It®, Eppendorf AG announces the market entry for Adjustable Spacing Pipettes, which they have redefined from scratch according to their own premium standards. Eppendorf thus responds to customer requests for an efficient and safe solution for synchronous pipetting of a series of samples between different vessel formats, such as between tubes and plates....
Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation for laboratories, has introduced its latest nitrogen gas generator innovations with the launch of a new suite of products engineered to support SCIEX’s newly released Mass Spectrometry platforms. Developed in collaboration with and exclusively for SCIEX, the new suite of products comes in three variants, each tested and validated by SCIEX, for use with the new SCIEX Triple Quad™ 7500 LC-MS/MS System...
Researchers are turning to INTEGRA Biosciences VIAFLO 96/384 handheld electronic pipette for rapid and precise filling of specialized 3D cell culture plates, to increase throughput and meet the demands of high volume drug discovery programs. Specialized 3D cell culture plates, such as Corning® Elplasia® microplates, enable highly reproducible growth of uniform 3D cultures for downstream applications...
CytoSMART Technologies has announced the launch of an automated organoid counter. The software application detects organoids using bright-field image analysis and runs on the Corning® Cell Counter, a CytoSMART product. Said Joffry Maltha, CEO at CytoSMART Technologies "The 3D cellular structures that are formed in organoids have great potential in drug discovery and developmental biology. This has fueled the ever-growing interest in culturing new sub-types of organoids and optimization of current protocols...
Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) announced the CE-IVD marking of its DeepChek®-HIV assays, is now available for in-vitro diagnostics. Intended to be used on HIV-1 Group M viruses from patients diagnosed with HIV infection, the assays deliver standardized, open and flexible solution suited to clinical settings performing sequencing through Capillary Electrophoresis and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) systems...
BioChromato Inc. reports on installation of over 1200 units of its Smart Evaporator C1 - a compact system that delivers rapid concentration or complete drying of samples in even high boiling solvents such as DMSO, DMF or water. Designed to be easy to use - the Smart Evaporator C1 is an affordably priced system optimised to concentrate or dry single samples directly from any tube or vial (up to 32mm neck diameter)....
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced solutions for the fast-growing cannabis and hemp testing market. The new Agilent eMethods product, as well as the Cannabis and Hemp Potency Kit and the Cannabis Pesticide and Mycotoxin Kit, offer testing labs simple and effective solutions to help them get up and running quickly....
Made up of industry-leading modular laboratory water systems, the PURELAB® Chorus Lab Water System is suitable for customers in the biotech, pharmaceutical and testing laboratory sectors. Now, Veolia Water Technologies (VWT UK) has made specifying systems from the range even easier with the launch of its PURELAB® Scientific Product Selector Tool. In launching its new service, VWT UK has helped to simplify the specification process associated with procuring pure water production systems...
LGC SeraCare is pleased to announce that the AccuPlex™ SARS-CoV-2 Reference Material Kit v2 is now CE-marked for in vitro diagnostic use (CE-IVD). With this change in regulatory status, the new product name is AccuPlex SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Controls Kit. Bearing the CE mark and IVD symbol signifies that the AccuPlex SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Controls Kit meets extensive design control requirements....
Thermo Fisher’s cloud services enable easy, cost-effective, compliant and secure cloud deployment of Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS software. Thermo Fisher Scientific has expanded deployment model options for SampleManager LIMS software, offering laboratories end-to-end support of the software deployment in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud...
The COVID-19 rapid antibody test, developed by Abingdon Health, the medical device manufacturer leading the UK-Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC), has received its CE mark. This means it is approved for professional use in the UK and EU. This milestone means the rapid test, for detection of IgG antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) is now available for distribution for professional use....
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) are pleased to announce the launch of their new Sustainable Laboratory Solutions brochure, web subsite and their pledge to the ‘One Tree Planted’ charity. After months of research into what their customers are really looking for, from a supplier, regarding sustainability within the laboratory environment SLS have brought together some really useful information to help laboratory...