Coconut water has seen a recent boom in popularity. It is a very lucrative market, with London, England, being the biggest consumer of coconut water in the world (per head). There are at least 40 brands of coconut water in the United Kingdom alone and it can cost up to £4 per litre. With only five countries in the world supplying the majority of coconut water to the West, this surge...
Detachin™ Cell Detachment Solution from AMSBIO is a high-performance alternative to Trypsin/EDTA for detaching adherent cells from in vitro growth vessels. Detachin™ provides rapid, gentle, and effective detachment of a wide variety of adherent cells, including primary cells, from all commercially available tissue culture plasticware. Proven to provide a consistent, safe, and efficient method for cell detachment and dissociation....
INTEGRA Biosciences is expanding the EVOLVE manual pipette range with the launch of the new 16-channel EVOLVE. Ergonomically designed to increase productivity and improve user handling, the new model is available in 10, 50 and 100 µl formats. The 16-channel option features 4.5 mm tip spacing, ideal for working with 384-well plates, reducing the number of pipetting movements, improving accuracy and increasing reproducibility....
LabTwin GmbH, an independent company backed by Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures (BCG Digital Ventures) and leading biopharma supplier, Sartorius, have announced the launch of the world’s first voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant.Scientists can take notes, capture data, create supply lists and set timers or reminders from anywhere in the lab just by talking to LabTwin....
Increasing accuracy and reducing cost barriers, IDT’s innovative system delivers simple and cost-effective amplicon sequencing. As a dedicated innovator of tools and solutions for genomics applications,Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)introduces its unique,rhAmpSeq™targeted sequencing system - providing researchers with highly accurate, cost-effective and easy-to-use amplicon sequencing on Illumina®next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms...
ZEISS ZEN Connect for the materials research lab. ZEISS ZEN Connect software module is now available for materials researchers at universities, multi-user facilities or industrial labs. It enables users to bring all imaging technologies together – ZEISS or otherwise – to answer their questions. Gaining unique insights and saving time. ZEISS ZEN Connect allows users to align and overlay images from any source. Researchers can use the workflow of...
Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, are running workshops on Re-scan Confocal Microscopy with demonstrations to illustrate the use of use of the technique. Confocal.nl are running a series of workshops on their ground-breaking technology, Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM). With a camera-based detection scheme, RCM offers an easy-to-use confocal system with high resolution and sensitivity in a cost-effective package...
Linum Labs, a software development studio that builds blockchain-based solutions, has announcedMolecule, a market platform to accelerate innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Molecule connects scientists, patients, and industry in order to advance drug development in a collaborative open market. By creating an open market for participants to crowdfund and discover promising therapeutics, it aims to solve core issues...
The DrySyn SnowStorm range from Asynt offers an attractive solution for scientists looking to undertake low temperature chemical reactions and studies. Unlike traditional reaction cooling methods, including ice, dry-ice and liquid nitrogen; accurate and prolonged temperature control on a DrySyn SnowStorm is regulated by an external thermostatic circulator. The use of such a temperature control system not only eliminates the risk of temperature fluctuations due to perishable coolants, but can also improve...
The Purair® Basic ductless fume hoods are designed to provide high level performance features at an affordable price. Purair Basic ductless hoods are found in research laboratories, educational facilities, and forensic laboratories throughout the world and are designed to protect the user and the environment from hazardous vapors generated on the work surface. At the heart of the Purair fume hoods product line is the innovative Air Science...
Micronicis pleased to introduce a novel tool to help researchers perfectly seal their screw cap tubes. Micronic developed the new Micronic Screw Cap Recapper CS100 to guarantee that screw caps are tightened securely and uniformly on sample storage tubes. The tool is only available at Micronic but can be used to cap, decap or recap screw caps from various tube suppliers. When a cap is not properly secured, sample evaporation occurs.....
Holotomography (HT) technology enables rapid, high-resolution, label-free, quantitative 3D imaging of healthy and dying cells. Although Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a relatively common neurodegenerative disease, therapeutic treatments are still limited due to its complex pathophysiology. Now, a Korean research team led by Su-A Yang and Jonghee Yoon of the KAIST Institute of Health Science and Technology in Daejeon, has demonstrated...
Microsaic Systems has announced the official launch of its latest point-of-need mass spectrometer at Pittcon 2019. Microsaic’s MiD® ProteinID allows users to verify target proteins, metabolites, by-products and feed-stocks throughout the whole bioprocessing value chain.By providing deterministic characterisation for proteins and small molecules at the point-of-need, MiD® ProteinID helps to ensure critical process parameters and critical quality attributes are attained timely, and simultaneously, which is vital for biologics compliance....
Creative Diagnostics has announced the launch of a series of innovative food analysis products and services for global customers, which can be applied for industries including dairy, honey, cereals, meat, seafood, beverages, fruits, spices & nuts, and water quality. Creative Diagnostics now offers a series of featured products for food analysis such as Vitamin B9 antibodies, conjugates and ELISA kits, and heavy metal antibodies for heavy metal immunoassay...
INTEGRA has responded to customers’ requests and developed two new 24-channel pipetting heads, extending the capabilities of its popular VIAFLO 96/384. Designed to make cell biology workflows more efficient and reliable, these handheld electronic pipettes allow plate filling, reagent addition or sample transfers to be performed in a single step, enabling quicker and more accurate pipetting....
Huber Kältemaschinenbau presents the new KISS® model series with economical cooling and heating circulators. KISS stands for “Keeping Innovation Safe & Simple“ and describes what the customer may expect from the devices: innovative technology with safe and easy operation! The new KISS circulators are ideally suited for routine laboratory applications such as sample temperature control, analyses and material testing as well as the external temperature control of measuring devices and test setups.....
Waters Corporation has announced the availability of a range of new TA Instruments™ innovations headlined by the Discovery™ Thermomechanical Analyzer (TMA) 450, a Rheo-Raman™ capability for the Discovery Hybrid Rheometer, and a High Sensitivity Pressure Cell for the ARES-G2 Rheometer at the 2019 Pittcon Conference and Expo. “High performance materials require high performance measurements. Our new products reflect our unwavering commitment to innovate...
Eppendorf has introduced the high-capacity fixed-angle Rotor FA-6x250 for up to 6 x 250 mL bottles. The Rotor FA-6x250 extends the application range of the large benchtop Centrifuges 5910 R and 5920 R, which encompasses harvesting of bacteria, algae and yeast, as well as mammalian cells, in vessels up to 250 mL. An additional area of application now includes plasmid DNA extractions and lysate clearance following cell lysis....
Postnova Analytics reports on a recent independent review which details how Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) is a valuable technique to improve the quality of nanoformulated medicines. Currently, only a few standardized methods exist to characterize some of the crucial physicochemical properties and their impact on biological systems of medical nanoparticles. Unfortunately, they are often not applicable...
With years of experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sector, Creative Diagnostics recently released gold nanochains with a large specific surface area and high load capacity. These nanochains can be easily surface-modified, and are suitable for biological immunoassay, protein labeling, dark-field imaging optics, fluorescence enhancement, surface-enhanced Raman substrates and drug carriers, etc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, is introducing innovative products, software and services for customers working in biopharma, food safety, environmental quality and industrial applications during the 2019 Pittcon Conference and Exhibition. The company will showcase analytical workflows that enable fast, precise analyses within Booth #2632 at the Pennsylvania Conference Center, Philadelphia....
The Leica Biosystems " Innoivators Circle" offers cutting edge articles committed to the latest advances in digital pathology. Read the fist issue now - Real-Time Focusing: Breakthrough Innovation in Optics. Leica Biosystems is always innovating across our 12 global Research and Development sites. Over the last several years, our digital pathology engineers in Pathology Imaging have approached many different ways to achieve extremely high-speed line scanning at 40x magnification....