Cepheid Highlights Role of Diagnostics as Valuable Tool in Growing Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) have announced the launch of its 'Diagnostics First' campaign to raise awareness for the use of accurate and fast diagnostic tests to inform optimal treatment decisions and avoid over-prescription of the world's limited arsenal of antibiotics. "Since the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, doctors have had to rely on their expertise, intuition, and experience to diagnose patients and initiate antibiotic therapy well before diagnostic test results were available...
New from Finneran, Polypropylene Plastic Pastuer pipets provides chemical resistivity needed for many applications.
Two sizes available – 5.75” and 9” for easier handling and longer reach for working with larger vessels. Available in sterile (gamma irradiated) and non-sterile pack options.
As with any scientific technique, it is crucial to ensure that qPCR is undertaken with complete accuracy and reliability. Should this ever fail to be the case, the results can be disastrous. One such situation occurred when two papers, published in 1998 and 2002, highlighted supposed links between the MMR vaccine and bowel inflammation and developmental disorders. Many parents refused to vaccinate their children, and several court cases were undertaken as a result.
Jenway offer four ranges of visible and UV/visible spectrophotometers which have been designed to suit a wide range of budgets, industries and applications.
The 73 series range of spectrophotometers includes two basic models for simple photometrics and concentration; two advanced models with the addition of spectrum scanning, quantitation curves and kinetics; and two models which are dedicated to life science analysis, including the Genova Nano, which is ideal for micro-volume samples.
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the launch of a new family of thermal desorption instruments for GC–MS at the Analytica 2016 trade show in Munich, Germany.
The new products, which form the ‘xr’ series, incorporate new powerful advances that offer major benefits to analytical laboratories running analyses of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) in air and materials.
Read MoreIONICON Launches Autosampler for High-Throughput PTR-MS MeasurementsMay 24, 2016
Automated real-time VOC trace gas analysis of large sample quantities with IONICON PTR-MS
The real-time measuring capability of a PTR-MS trace gas analyzer is ideally suited for continuous VOC monitoring but also for rapid analysis of discrete samples within seconds. The new IONICON autosampler for PTR-MS enables automated screening of hundreds of sample vials. This fully integrated, high throughput system for VOC head-space analysis, drastically reduces processing cost for larger...
Quorum Technologies, market and technology leaders in electron microscopy coating and cryogenic preparation products, announce the release of the GloQube, a new, compact, easy to use glow discharge system primarily for users of TEM.
The GloQube® is a new, compact, easy to use glow discharge system, used for the hydrophilisation (wetting) of TEM support films and grids and for surface modifications, for example polymer bonding. The GloQube is available in two formats. The GloQube-D has two independent vacuum chambers: a clean chamber for applications requiring hydrophobic/hydrophilic conversion, typically using air as the process gas, and a vapour chamber...
Following extensive customer research, Chromatrap® has re-designed its website to better serve the needs of end users.
With an expanding product range, new families of ChIP validated antibodies and a suite of useful new support information including articles, application notes, video tutorials and guides a new site was required. The bright, fresh new website layout makes it easier and quicker to find the ideal Chromatrap ChIP kit for your immunoassay. “We wanted a fresh approach” said Chromatrap Marketing Director...
Experimental “Internet of Things” System Uses Connected Devices to Enable Remote Measurement of Health and Quality of Life in Real-Time - Multi-Year Project Could Potentially Change How Clinical Trials are Conducted
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to develop innovative remote monitoring solutions aimed at transforming how clinicians deliver care to patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The experimental approach will rely on a system of sensors, mobile devices, and machine learning to provide real-time, around-the-clock disease symptom information to clinicians and researchers....
Read MoreZEISS Atlas 5 May 23, 2016
ZEISS introduces an integrated solution to acquire and analyze multi-scale and multi-modal images in light, electron and X-ray microscopy
ZEISS Atlas 5 is a powerful hardware and software package that extends the capacity of ZEISS scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and focused ion beam SEMs (FIB-SEM). ZEISS Atlas 5 streamlines automatic image acquisition and lets users benefit from its efficient navigation and correlation of images from any source including light and X-ray microscopes.
New system allows label free, long time-course, live cell imaging
Phase Focus Ltd, the company pioneering a novel method for high fidelity label-free quantitative imaging, has announced the commercial launch of Livecyte, a new complete live cell imaging system for kinetic cytometry. Livecyte will enable cell biology researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the phenotypic and kinetic behaviours of both individual and populations of cells in a label free environment...
The European Region is the first in the world to have achieved interruption of indigenous malaria transmission.
The number of indigenous malaria cases dropped from 90 712 in 1995 to zero cases in 2015. Ahead of World Malaria Day 2016, WHO announces that the European Region hit its 2015 target to wipe out malaria, thus contributing to the global goal to “End malaria for good”. Key partners funded malaria elimination efforts in European countries substantially. “This is a major milestone in Europe’s public health...
Findings from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Beckman Coulter today announced that the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Virology Department is the first site to introduce the company’s DxN VERIS HBV assay* routinely. Operating on the DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System, that consolidates DNA extraction, amplification and detection within a single automated instrument, the HBV assay will allow the laboratory to offer service users greater precision at...
The EZ-2 Elite centrifugal evaporator from Genevac,an evaporator of choice for large Pharma R&D, uniquely combines high performance, versatility, ease-of-use and affordability making it the perfect workhorse system for Contract Research Organisations (CRO's).
The EZ-2 Elite is designed to efficiently concentrate or completely dry samples. It is compatible with a wide selection of sample holders, enabling evaporation from common sample container formats including round-bottom flasks, tubes vials and microplates. SampleGenie™ technology combined with a FastLyo programme on the EZ-2 Elite allows HPLC fractions to be concentrated and freeze dried directly into a submission vial. This innovation...
Agena Bioscience to provide Horizon’s human genomic reference standards to assess quality and performance of oncology-based assays on the MassARRAY System
Agena Bioscience (“Agena”) and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") today announced a Supply and Distribution agreement to launch iPLEX® reference standards for performance verification of oncology assays used on the MassARRAY® System. Under the partnership, Agena Bioscience will offer multiplexed sets of iPLEX-branded reference standards containing somatic variants in...
Cytocell Chromoprobe Multiprobe® non-human FISH probes set to benefit animal husbandry and research
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has developed a new range of non-human fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probes, for pig, chicken and mouse. The probes were developed as part of an Innovate UK knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) funded project in collaboration with the University of Kent, and was given an ‘outstanding’ award reserved for the top 10% of KTP projects...
Introducing ZEISS MultiSEM 506 acquiring more than 2 Tera pixel per hour
ZEISS has announced a new variant of the world’s fastest scanning electron microscope: ZEISS MultiSEM 506 features 91 beams working in parallel and increases the throughput of the ZEISS MultiSEM 505 by a factor of three. The unrivaled net acquisition speed of more than 2 Tera pixel per hour enables large-scaled experiments such as imaging of cubic millimeters of brain tissue at nanometer resolution for the analysis of neural circuits.
Read MoreBD Receives CE Mark for Next Generation Blood Separation TechnologyMay 19, 2016
BD Vacutainer® Barricor™ Tube Designed to Enhance Sample Quality, Improve Laboratory Efficiency and Speed Laboratory Turnaround Time
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it obtained the CE mark in the UK and Europe for a next-generation blood separation technology that is designed to enhance sample quality, improve laboratory efficiency and reduce laboratory turnaround time. BD Vacutainer® Barricor™ tube is a single-use, plastic evacuated tube used to collect...
Thermo Scientific Delta Ray IRIS and Delta Ray Connect IRIS among highlights at EGU 2016
Scientists can now benefit from a portable infrared spectrometer, designed to provide continuous measurement of isotope ratios and CO2 concentrations in air and in containers. Live demonstrations of the Thermo Scientific Delta Ray Isotope Ratio Infrared Spectrometer (IRIS) with URI Connect were conducted at The European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU), at Austria Center Vienna...
PAREXEL enhances its Regulatory Cloud; leverages EMC® Documentum® for Life Sciences software solution suite to offer an end-to-end regulatory solution
PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), a leading global biopharmaceutical services organisation, and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced they have entered into an alliance to offer an end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) and Regulatory Content Management solution. By combining PAREXEL® LIQUENT InSight® Regulatory Information Management platform...
With the launch of the Priorclave Q63 front-loading cylindrical chamber autoclave range it provided the laboratory manager with a truly viable alternative to large, more costly rectangular chamber autoclaves, yet capable of delivering the same sterilising throughput.
Chamber size has a major influence on autoclave selection therefore Priorclave designed the Q63 with a taller profile than that found in most ‘cylindrical’ machines, giving these autoclaves an impressive load capacity ideally suited to sterilising larger bulky items as well as enabling small and taller items could be sterilised in a single process. Users of Q63 autoclaves may also benefit from lower overall running costs...
The VC DNA Ladder range is a good example of the extensive choice customers have when selecting a Vivantis product
Vivantis Technologies take pride in being the one stop solution to the scientific community in molecular biology research, providing an extensive selection of products to ensure customer needs are met. The VC DNA Ladder range is a good example of the extensive choice customers have when selecting a Vivantis product. A DNA ladder of course is a marker which consists of DNA fragments of specific base pair lengths....
Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) have announced the launch of its 'Diagnostics First' campaign to raise awareness for the use of accurate and fast diagnostic tests to inform optimal treatment decisions and avoid over-prescription of the world's limited arsenal of antibiotics. "Since the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, doctors have had to rely on their expertise, intuition, and experience to diagnose patients and initiate antibiotic therapy well before diagnostic test results were available...
Two sizes available – 5.75” and 9” for easier handling and longer reach for working with larger vessels. Available in sterile (gamma irradiated) and non-sterile pack options.
As with any scientific technique, it is crucial to ensure that qPCR is undertaken with complete accuracy and reliability. Should this ever fail to be the case, the results can be disastrous. One such situation occurred when two papers, published in 1998 and 2002, highlighted supposed links between the MMR vaccine and bowel inflammation and developmental disorders. Many parents refused to vaccinate their children, and several court cases were undertaken as a result.
The 73 series range of spectrophotometers includes two basic models for simple photometrics and concentration; two advanced models with the addition of spectrum scanning, quantitation curves and kinetics; and two models which are dedicated to life science analysis, including the Genova Nano, which is ideal for micro-volume samples.
The new products, which form the ‘xr’ series, incorporate new powerful advances that offer major benefits to analytical laboratories running analyses of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) in air and materials.
The real-time measuring capability of a PTR-MS trace gas analyzer is ideally suited for continuous VOC monitoring but also for rapid analysis of discrete samples within seconds. The new IONICON autosampler for PTR-MS enables automated screening of hundreds of sample vials. This fully integrated, high throughput system for VOC head-space analysis, drastically reduces processing cost for larger...
The GloQube® is a new, compact, easy to use glow discharge system, used for the hydrophilisation (wetting) of TEM support films and grids and for surface modifications, for example polymer bonding. The GloQube is available in two formats. The GloQube-D has two independent vacuum chambers: a clean chamber for applications requiring hydrophobic/hydrophilic conversion, typically using air as the process gas, and a vapour chamber...
With an expanding product range, new families of ChIP validated antibodies and a suite of useful new support information including articles, application notes, video tutorials and guides a new site was required. The bright, fresh new website layout makes it easier and quicker to find the ideal Chromatrap ChIP kit for your immunoassay. “We wanted a fresh approach” said Chromatrap Marketing Director...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to develop innovative remote monitoring solutions aimed at transforming how clinicians deliver care to patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The experimental approach will rely on a system of sensors, mobile devices, and machine learning to provide real-time, around-the-clock disease symptom information to clinicians and researchers....
Phase Focus Ltd, the company pioneering a novel method for high fidelity label-free quantitative imaging, has announced the commercial launch of Livecyte, a new complete live cell imaging system for kinetic cytometry. Livecyte will enable cell biology researchers to achieve a deeper understanding of the phenotypic and kinetic behaviours of both individual and populations of cells in a label free environment...
The number of indigenous malaria cases dropped from 90 712 in 1995 to zero cases in 2015. Ahead of World Malaria Day 2016, WHO announces that the European Region hit its 2015 target to wipe out malaria, thus contributing to the global goal to “End malaria for good”. Key partners funded malaria elimination efforts in European countries substantially. “This is a major milestone in Europe’s public health...
Beckman Coulter today announced that the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Virology Department is the first site to introduce the company’s DxN VERIS HBV assay* routinely. Operating on the DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System, that consolidates DNA extraction, amplification and detection within a single automated instrument, the HBV assay will allow the laboratory to offer service users greater precision at...
The EZ-2 Elite is designed to efficiently concentrate or completely dry samples. It is compatible with a wide selection of sample holders, enabling evaporation from common sample container formats including round-bottom flasks, tubes vials and microplates. SampleGenie™ technology combined with a FastLyo programme on the EZ-2 Elite allows HPLC fractions to be concentrated and freeze dried directly into a submission vial. This innovation...
Agena Bioscience (“Agena”) and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") today announced a Supply and Distribution agreement to launch iPLEX® reference standards for performance verification of oncology assays used on the MassARRAY® System. Under the partnership, Agena Bioscience will offer multiplexed sets of iPLEX-branded reference standards containing somatic variants in...
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has developed a new range of non-human fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probes, for pig, chicken and mouse. The probes were developed as part of an Innovate UK knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) funded project in collaboration with the University of Kent, and was given an ‘outstanding’ award reserved for the top 10% of KTP projects...
ZEISS has announced a new variant of the world’s fastest scanning electron microscope: ZEISS MultiSEM 506 features 91 beams working in parallel and increases the throughput of the ZEISS MultiSEM 505 by a factor of three. The unrivaled net acquisition speed of more than 2 Tera pixel per hour enables large-scaled experiments such as imaging of cubic millimeters of brain tissue at nanometer resolution for the analysis of neural circuits.
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it obtained the CE mark in the UK and Europe for a next-generation blood separation technology that is designed to enhance sample quality, improve laboratory efficiency and reduce laboratory turnaround time. BD Vacutainer® Barricor™ tube is a single-use, plastic evacuated tube used to collect...
Scientists can now benefit from a portable infrared spectrometer, designed to provide continuous measurement of isotope ratios and CO2 concentrations in air and in containers. Live demonstrations of the Thermo Scientific Delta Ray Isotope Ratio Infrared Spectrometer (IRIS) with URI Connect were conducted at The European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU), at Austria Center Vienna...
PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), a leading global biopharmaceutical services organisation, and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced they have entered into an alliance to offer an end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) and Regulatory Content Management solution. By combining PAREXEL® LIQUENT InSight® Regulatory Information Management platform...
Chamber size has a major influence on autoclave selection therefore Priorclave designed the Q63 with a taller profile than that found in most ‘cylindrical’ machines, giving these autoclaves an impressive load capacity ideally suited to sterilising larger bulky items as well as enabling small and taller items could be sterilised in a single process. Users of Q63 autoclaves may also benefit from lower overall running costs...
Vivantis Technologies take pride in being the one stop solution to the scientific community in molecular biology research, providing an extensive selection of products to ensure customer needs are met. The VC DNA Ladder range is a good example of the extensive choice customers have when selecting a Vivantis product. A DNA ladder of course is a marker which consists of DNA fragments of specific base pair lengths....