Deben reports on the use of the AFSEM™ correlative AFM & SEM system with their tensile stage for in situ mechanical test and measurement.
Manufactured by GETec, it will be sold by Nanosurf and other selected sales channels worldwide. The combination of complementary techniques is a key success factor for gaining new insights into the micro and nano worlds. AFSEM™ enables users to easily combine two of the most powerful analytical techniques available — AFM and SEM — to greatly extend their correlative microscopy and analysis possibilities...
Providing Consistent Viscosity Measurement of Paints & Coatings
AMETEK Brookfield introduces the new KU-3 Krebs Unit Viscometer. The KU-3 is widely used in the paints and coatings industry to measure viscosity in accordance with ASTM D562 and is ROHS compliant with the European requirement that goes into effect in July 2017. The KU-3 offers continuous sensing and display in Krebs units, grams (weight) or centipoise...
Syrris, a world leader in chemistry process innovation, is launching its revolutionary Titan system at InformEX in Philadelphia, USA, from the 16th to the 18th of October.
This modular continuous chemical processing system is designed to enable straightforward scale-up, from kilo lab through pilot plant to manufacturing. Titan is an easy to use, high performance turnkey system designed for long-term use in demanding manufacturing environments....
Quorum Technologies report on how Carl Zeiss Microscopy has incorporated their Q150T coater into their ruggedized analytical solutions supplied to the mining, geosciences and oil & gas sectors.
Shaun Graham is part of the applications development team at Carl Zeiss Microscopy based in Cambridge. With a Masters in applied and environmental geology, he works in the geosciences, mining and oil & gas sectors to provide analytical solutions using scanning electron microscopy performed on mineral samples....
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) announced today that the company has signed a patent licensing agreement that gives Thermo Fisher Scientific access to the company’s novel gene design platform. "Most people think visually, so seeing a graphic representation of a sequence is very helpful in the design process,” said Alan Villalobos...
New medium designed forhematopoietic cell culture for cell-based therapies
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of cell culture media has announced another addition to its expanding line of products to support stem and immunological cell therapies with the introduction of PRIME-XV® Hematopoietic Cell Basal Medium....
Porvair Sciences announces a new range of 384-well filtration plates with a unique drip geometry which provides unmatched sample recovery.
By cleverly re-shaping the drip director, and giving it a compound curve structure, the new filtration plates virtually eliminate the traditional “hanging filtrate” effect where excess filtrate clings by surface tension to the outside of the structure. In addition to improving total sample recovery, the new filtration plate design helps to minimise work surface and sample contamination as well as improving productivity...
Makes Calculating Accurate Antibiotic and Vaccine Potencies a Simple Task
Synbiosis, a long-established, expert manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, is delighted to announce that UNISTAT bioassay analysis software has been integrated for use with ProtoCOL 3 colony counting and inhibition zone measuring system. UNISTAT’s Analysis of Bioassays module, available from Synbiosis, will allow scientists....
Kit increases efficiency of residual protein A ligand detection
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, today announced it has launched a new version of its Gyrolab™ Protein A Kit. The new Protein A Kit offers increased efficiency and throughput for quantification of residual Protein A ligands...
Veolia Water Technologies’ innovative PURELAB® Chorus range of laboratory water purifiers provides a scaleable and versatile solution to all your laboratory water requirements.
Stylish, compact and, above all, high performing; the Chorus can be configured with state-of-the-art technologies to deliver the water quality that you need - where you need it. The latest addition to the Chorus range of product includes PURELAB® Chorus 1 Complete and PURELAB® Chorus 2. Tap-to-Type I....
Synbiosis is delighted to announce a new development coll-aboration with high quality laboratory automation firm, AAA Lab Equipment, to integrate a ProtoCOL 3 colony counting system within an Irina automated plate feeder.
The integrated system will allow microbiologists to load plates and count colonies on up to 500 plates in 90 minutes, improving throughput and accuracy in QC laboratories. Engineers at AAA Lab Equipment are working with Synbiosis to integrate the ProtoCOL 3 colony counter into their Irina automated plate feeding system....
New Single Serum (or Paediatric Blood Tube) Pack Extends SpeciSafe® Range
SpeciSafe® secondary packaging containers provide a safe, convenient and economical solution for UN3373 compliant mailing of biological and clinical specimens. The extensive range includes solutions for screw cap microtubes, vacuum blood collection tubes, cryovials, Universal and Bijou containers, plus swabs/transport tubes....
New Thermo Scientific blood cell washer enhances reliability, ease of use and sample safety
A new automated, high-performance cell washer has been specifically designed to enable precise, thorough, reproducible and rapid blood cell washing of up to 24 tubes in a three-minute run. Fully automated, the Thermo Scientific CW3 Cell Washer has been uniquely engineered to combine the benefits of efficient performance with user-friendly design and safe operation....
Kit enables flexibility in development and optimization of ELISA assays
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, today announced it has introduced the FlexLISA® kit, providing a flexible tool for development and optimization of sandwich ELISA assays. The FlexLISA kit allows researchers to covalently conjugate up to 3 capture and 3 detection antibodies...
Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract research services for small molecule discovery and design, announces full line-up for The Cresset User Group Meeting, 29th – 30th June 2017 in Cambridge, UK.
The scientific program on 29th June 2017 features speakers from 4 continents. Cresset scientists will present ‘New Insights for Structure-based Design with Flare’, ‘Peeking into the Heart of New Cresset Science’ and ‘What’s New in Ligand-based Design’....
Goldfinch Bio’s researchers select StarDrop to guide successful drug discovery
Optibrium, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Goldfinch Bio, a company focused on discovering and developing precision therapies to treat patients with kidney disease, today announced that the company has signed a multi-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop software....
The Phenomics Discovery Initiative (PDi), a unique collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and academia, has unveiled its first series of novel phenotypic assays.
The assays are under development within the labs of the National Phenotypic Screening Centre (NPSC) – a collaboration between the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Oxford - and are designed to identify new molecules with pharmacological activity in respiratory, oncology, immunology and cellular stress indications....
Deben reports on how the Marrow group in the Materials Department at the University of Oxford applies Deben’s mechanical stage for in situ µXCT studies of multiple engineering and natural materials.
Professor James Marrow leads a research group specialising in the structure-property relationship of a broad range of engineering and natural materials. Based in the Materials Department at the University of Oxford, Marrow's team use high resolution X-ray computed tomography to make in situ studies of three-dimensional deformation and damage....
Offer Fast, High Performance Multiplex and Stain-free Imaging
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis sol-utions, is delighted to announce its latest options for its highly successful G:BOX automated multi-purpose gel and blot imaging systems are now available....
Enables easy, fast labeling of primary antibodies or proteins with ALEXA Fluor 488
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, has announced it has added ALEXA Fluor® 488, one of the most popular fluorescent labels used by life science researchers, to its Lightning-Link® range of antibody and protein labeling kits....
Analytik are pleased to announce their appointment as exclusive distributors for Nanophoton, Japanese manufacturers of innovative, benchtop Raman imaging systems for both industrial and research laboratories.
Nanophoton is a manufacturer of high performance analytical and imaging instruments with major focus on innovative Raman systems by using most up-to-date photonics and nanotechnology. Nanophoton’s instruments include high performance Raman Imaging Systems, fast Raman Screening Systems...
Phasefocus provides a range of products and services based on its proprietary Ptychographic Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) technology to provide a wide range of analytical applications including label-free cell imaging and quantitative electron phase microscopy.
Here, they report on a poster presented at ASCB that shows the power of Livecyte for individual cell segmentation. Professor Norman Maitland's team from the Cancer Research Unit at the University of York presented a poster that showed the potential of Phasefocus’ Livecyte label-free cell analysis system as a rapid characterisation tool of cell cultures derived from patient tissue. “Characterisation of the subpopulations of heterogeneous primary...