The all new Series 3 HT evaporator range from Genevac represents the ultimate in solvent removal technology.
Incorporating new high performance vacuum pump, the latest touchscreen technology and a sleek ergonomic design makes optimising your evaporation processes effortless. New intuitive touchscreen controls enhances monitoring and review of the whole evaporation process. For popular solvent removal protocols pre-set 'Press & Go' methods makes operation easy and productive even for occasional users. Simplified manual and automatic programming means even the most complex...
A genetically engineered herpes virus can halt the progression of skin cancer by killing cancer cells and sparking the immune system into action against tumours, a landmark clinical trial has shown.
It is the first time that a phase III trial of viral immunotherapy has definitively shown benefit for patients with cancer. The trial was led in the UK by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and involved 64 research centres worldwide including the University of Oxford. Researchers randomised 436 patients with aggressive, inoperable malignant melanoma to receive either an...
This problem is familiar to every AAS user: For each element, an individual hollow-cathode lamp is needed. Multi-element analyses take an enormous amount of time and work. Flexibility, too, is significantly restricted — new elements require new lamps. With the High-Resolution Continuum Source (HR-CS) AAS technology used in the contrAA ® range from Analytik Jena, these disadvantages of conventional AAS have become a thing of the past:
Microarray and sequencing specialists Arraystar, based in Rockville, Maryland, are taking RNA analysis to new heights.
Their cutting-edge technologies focus on regulatory non-coding RNAs – Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) and LncRNA pathways, microRNAs and their target mRNAs, circular RNAs, piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and more. These non-coding RNAs have shown tissue and development-specific expression patterns along with diverse cellular functions. They are attracting intense research interest with the possibility that they could offer...
DiATOME have partnered with EM Resolutions, a Saffron Walden-based consumables and accessories supplier for electron microscopy, to supply their range of high quality diamond knives in the UK.
Whilst diamond knives are best known for producing high quality sections on an ultramicrotome, their use for surface preparation is less accepted. DiATOME diamond knives are used for the preparation of high quality surfaces for AFM and other imaging techniques requiring smooth surfaces. DiATOME ultra AFM knives are made from higher quality diamonds to produce extremely smooth sample surfaces and ensure the best possible...
Landmark study hails new era of personalised treatment for cancers that have spread round the body
Almost 90 per cent of men with advanced prostate cancer carry genetic mutations in their tumours that could be targeted by either existing or new cancer drugs, a landmark new study reveals. Scientists in the UK and the US have created a comprehensive map of the genetic mutations within lethal prostate cancers that have spread around the body, in a paper being hailed as the disease’s ‘Rosetta Stone’. Researchers say that...
LaVison BioTec, developers of advanced microscopy solutions for the life sciences, are presenting workshops on their 2-photon and light sheet microscope systems at the 15th Annual meeting of the European Light Microscopy Initiative in Sitges near Barcelona in Spain.
The 15th annual meeting of the European Light Microscopy Initiative continues the goals of the first meeting in 2001, namely to promote the quickly developing field of light microscopy as a fundamental research tool for the life sciences and to strengthen the channels of communication between researchers and industry. The combination of top level scientific presentations with practical hands-on workshops brings participants from all over...
Ion Mobility Spectrometry and REIMS Direct-from-sample Ionization Deliver Greater Clarity, Confidence and Speed to Routine LC-MS and MS Analyses
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) at the 63rd conference of the Society of Mass Spectrometry announced the introduction of new technologies and innovations for mass spectrometry, intended to give laboratories greater levels of detail for every analysis. The introductions include the new Waters® Vion IMS QTof Mass Spectrometer, a new bench-top tandem mass spectrometer featuring ion mobility and REIMS Research System with iKnife Sampling...
Selah and GHS partner to pave the way for accessible, low-cost personalized medicine
EKF Diagnostics subsidiary, Selah Genomics, has announced the launch of its next generation sequencing (NGS) technology PrecisionPath™ in partnership with Greenville Health Systems (GHS), one of the leading community-based cancer institutes in the US. For the first time patients will have wider access to affordable advanced NGS testing that can help doctors determine the most effective cancer treatments based on an individual’s genetic...
Porvair Sciences offers a range of products that enable optimised Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) of polar compounds.
This includes a new C18 silica packed Microlute™ plate, vacuum manifolds, collection plates and solvent evaporators all designed to streamline your sample preparation. The new C18 Microlute plate offers good separation of a wide range of polar compounds which are not attracted to the C18 tail. MicroLute™ is the original 96-well format SPE plate proven in labs worldwide. The plate provides all the advantages of automated and...
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest multilateral bank, today reaffirmed its firm commitment to respond to the Ebola pandemic.
The Bank has provided a EUR 50 million loan to Bavarian Nordic, an international biopharmaceutical company, for accelerated development of an Ebola vaccine with long-term efficacy. The financing is also backing research into vaccines for treating other infectious diseases and multiple cancer indications. EIB Vice-President Jonathan Taylor stated: “We are pleased to be partnering with Bavarian Nordic in this breakthrough operation, as it enables...
Kleindiek Nanotechnik have partnered with EM Resolutions, a Saffron Walden-based consumables and accessories supplier for electron microscopy, to supply and install their range of MM3A nanomanipulators and force measurement systems to the UK research community.
For example, FMS-EM force measurement systems are enabling researchers at Imperial College London to investigate the root cause of failures in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries. Imperial College is also using them for testing during the development of nano robots and other nanostructures. The FMS-EM is a compact force readout tool that allows tensile measurements to be made inside an SEM/FIB. Whilst existing...
The time needed to genetically sequence the bacteria causing tuberculosis (Mtb) from patient samples has been reduced from weeks to days using a new technique developed by a UCL-led team.
This could help health service providers to better treat disease, control transmission of this infection, and monitor outbreaks. Tuberculosis (TB) disease rates in some parts of London are as high as in Sub-Saharan Africa, and drug-resistant strains are becoming increasingly common. These require specific treatments, and if doctors know that a bug is resistant they can start therapy earlier, often leading to better outcomes. Whole genome sequencing reveals the complete...
The imaging systems on display will suit all budgets and make producing amazing gel and blot imaging results incredibly simple.
For researchers wanting a dedicated chemiluminescence Western blot imager, Syngene’s experts demonstrated the new GeneGnomeXRQ. On the booth, they explained how this complete system with its sensitive, cooled camera and GeneSys software, allows scientists rapid walk-away imaging of even the faintest bands on Western blots....
The all new Series 3 HT evaporator range from Genevac represents the ultimate in solvent removal technology.
Incorporating new high performance vacuum pump, the latest touchscreen technology and a sleek ergonomic design makes optimising your evaporation processes effortless. New intuitive touchscreen controls enhances monitoring and review of the whole evaporation process. For popular solvent removal protocols pre-set 'Press & Go' methods makes operation easy and productive even for occasional users. Simplified manual and automatic programming means even the most complex...
The encouraging recent results of a 14-year study by the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening could herald a radical departure from the approach established by other screening tests for cancer, providing the final data is sufficiently conclusive, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.
The study, which involved 46,237 post-menopausal women aged 50 and over, tracked increases in levels of a protein, CA-125, in their blood. Using statistical analysis, 86% of women developing invasive epithelial ovarian cancer were correctly identified through this method. Final data analysis is expected in late 2015, when researchers hope to demonstrate that finding a rising level of CA-125 in the blood can be used to detect cancer at an...
Pie Medical Imaging announces its new release of CAAS MRV, for analysis of the heart to support diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions.
This new version contains intuitive and guided analysis workflows, optimized to clinical practice. The workflows will guide you through the required steps for Functional left and right ventricle, Viability and First Pass Perfusion analysis. The new viability workflow includes, besides analysis of Delayed Enhanced MR images, also analysis of edema on T2-weighted MR images. The combination of segmented infarcts and edema areas can identify...
Following the recent addition of a number of products to the Lab M Listeria testing portfolio, the whole range can now be viewed in a single flyer, available on the Lab M website.
The document, ‘Listeria solutions… whatever your method’, clearly shows that whichever testing method users subscribe to, whatever the lab size, and whether they prefer dehydrated culture media (DCM) or a pre-prepared approach, Lab M has products to suit. Over the last year, Lab M has translated its expertise in developing and manufacturing DCM into a number of convenience products to suit the varying needs of customers, including...
New Triple Universal Pack Extends SpeciSafe® Range
SpeciSafe® secondary packaging containers provide a safe, convenient and economical solution for compliant mailing of biohazardous and clinical specimens. The extensive SpeciSafe range includes solutions for screw cap microtubes, serum vials, vacuum blood collection tubes, cryovials, Bijou containers, swabs/transport tubes and is now extended to include a pack to seal 3 Universal containers in addition to the original single Universal pack...
QCMD (Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics) results have confirmed that Fast-track diagnostics infectious disease detection kits have successfully identified 97% of tested samples since 2012.
The kits consistently score high levels of detection accuracy in assessments across a range of syndromic groups, reflecting Fast-track’s ongoing commitment to quality control in the development and manufacture of its products. “We are dedicated to manufacturing high quality, reliable assays that are sensitive, specific and consistent,” said Dr Bill Carman, CEO of Fast-track diagnostics. “Participation in external quality assessments, like the programmes offered by QCMD...
AMSBIO has launched a complete new range of commonly used human cytokines and growth factors.
Unlike most of other commercially available cytokine products, ActiveMax® cytokines are expressed exclusively in human cells under strict animal-free and xeno-free conditions. Therefore, they are uniquely suitable for human cell culture and assay development. Endotoxin and other non–human components can provoke immune response in human systems. These contaminations are significant complicating factors for human cell culture experiments, in particular...
For precise, reproducible and error-free sieving processes
The new EFL 300 combines the best features of the EFL2 whilst incorporating modern sieve shaker technology. It is still extremely robust but lightweight and more powerful than its predecessor. Heavier and larger samples can be sieved with the new EFL 300. It is extremely versatile. The heavy electric motor is replaced by the electromagnetic system found in all modern sieve shakers. Its lighter form means that it can be either floor standing or even bench mounted making it...
Incorporating new high performance vacuum pump, the latest touchscreen technology and a sleek ergonomic design makes optimising your evaporation processes effortless. 
It is the first time that a phase III trial of viral immunotherapy has definitively shown benefit for patients with cancer. The trial was led in the UK by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and involved 64 research centres worldwide including the University of Oxford. Researchers randomised 436 patients with aggressive, inoperable malignant melanoma to receive either an...
This problem is familiar to every AAS user: For each element, an individual hollow-cathode lamp is needed. Multi-element analyses take an enormous amount of time and work. Flexibility, too, is significantly restricted — new elements require new lamps. With the High-Resolution Continuum Source (HR-CS) AAS technology used in the contrAA ® range from Analytik Jena, these disadvantages of conventional AAS have become a thing of the past:
Their cutting-edge technologies focus on regulatory non-coding RNAs – Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) and LncRNA pathways, microRNAs and their target mRNAs, circular RNAs, piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and more. These non-coding RNAs have shown tissue and development-specific expression patterns along with diverse cellular functions. They are attracting intense research interest with the possibility that they could offer...
Whilst diamond knives are best known for producing high quality sections on an ultramicrotome, their use for surface preparation is less accepted. DiATOME diamond knives are used for the preparation of high quality surfaces for AFM and other imaging techniques requiring smooth surfaces. DiATOME ultra AFM knives are made from higher quality diamonds to produce extremely smooth sample surfaces and ensure the best possible...
The 15th annual meeting of the European Light Microscopy Initiative continues the goals of the first meeting in 2001, namely to promote the quickly developing field of light microscopy as a fundamental research tool for the life sciences and to strengthen the channels of communication between researchers and industry. The combination of top level scientific presentations with practical hands-on workshops brings participants from all over...
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) at the 63rd conference of the Society of Mass Spectrometry announced the introduction of new technologies and innovations for mass spectrometry, intended to give laboratories greater levels of detail for every analysis. The introductions include the new Waters® Vion IMS QTof Mass Spectrometer, a new bench-top tandem mass spectrometer featuring ion mobility and REIMS Research System with iKnife Sampling...
EKF Diagnostics
This includes a new C18 silica packed Microlute™ plate, vacuum manifolds, collection plates and solvent evaporators all designed to streamline your sample preparation. The new C18 Microlute plate offers good separation of a wide range of polar compounds which are not attracted to the C18 tail. MicroLute™ is the original 96-well format SPE plate proven in labs worldwide. The plate provides all the advantages of automated and...
The Bank has provided a EUR 50 million loan to Bavarian Nordic, an international biopharmaceutical company, for accelerated development of an Ebola vaccine with long-term efficacy. The financing is also backing research into vaccines for treating other infectious diseases and multiple cancer indications. EIB Vice-President Jonathan Taylor stated: “We are pleased to be partnering with Bavarian Nordic in this breakthrough operation, as it enables...
For example, FMS-EM force measurement systems are enabling researchers at Imperial College London to investigate the root cause of failures in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries. Imperial College is also using them for testing during the development of nano robots and other nanostructures. The FMS-EM is a compact force readout tool that allows tensile measurements to be made inside an SEM/FIB. Whilst existing...
This could help health service providers to better treat disease, control transmission of this infection, and monitor outbreaks. Tuberculosis (TB) disease rates in some parts of London are as high as in Sub-Saharan Africa, and drug-resistant strains are becoming increasingly common. These require specific treatments, and if doctors know that a bug is resistant they can start therapy earlier, often leading to better outcomes. Whole genome sequencing reveals the complete...
Incorporating new high performance vacuum pump, the latest touchscreen technology and a sleek ergonomic design makes optimising your evaporation processes effortless. New intuitive touchscreen controls enhances monitoring and review of the whole evaporation process. For popular solvent removal protocols pre-set 'Press & Go' methods makes operation easy and productive even for occasional users. Simplified manual and automatic programming means even the most complex...
The study, which involved 46,237 post-menopausal women aged 50 and over, tracked increases in levels of a protein, CA-125, in their blood. Using statistical analysis, 86% of women developing invasive epithelial ovarian cancer were correctly identified through this method. Final data analysis is expected in late 2015, when researchers hope to demonstrate that finding a rising level of CA-125 in the blood can be used to detect cancer at an...
This new version contains intuitive and guided analysis workflows, optimized to clinical practice. The workflows will guide you through the required steps for Functional left and right ventricle, Viability and First Pass Perfusion analysis. The new viability workflow includes, besides analysis of Delayed Enhanced MR images, also analysis of edema on T2-weighted MR images. The combination of segmented infarcts and edema areas can identify...
The document, ‘Listeria solutions… whatever your method’, clearly shows that whichever testing method users subscribe to, whatever the lab size, and whether they prefer dehydrated culture media (DCM) or a pre-prepared approach, Lab M has products to suit. Over the last year, Lab M has translated its expertise in developing and manufacturing DCM into a number of convenience products to suit the varying needs of customers, including...
SpeciSafe® secondary packaging containers provide a safe, convenient and economical solution for compliant mailing of biohazardous and clinical specimens. The extensive SpeciSafe range includes solutions for screw cap microtubes, serum vials, vacuum blood collection tubes, cryovials, Bijou containers, swabs/transport tubes and is now extended to include a pack to seal 3 Universal containers in addition to the original single Universal pack...
The kits consistently score high levels of detection accuracy in assessments across a range of syndromic groups, reflecting Fast-track’s ongoing commitment to quality control in the development and manufacture of its products. “We are dedicated to manufacturing high quality, reliable assays that are sensitive, specific and consistent,” said Dr Bill Carman, CEO of Fast-track diagnostics. “Participation in external quality assessments, like the programmes offered by QCMD...
Unlike most of other commercially available cytokine products, ActiveMax® cytokines are expressed exclusively in human cells under strict animal-free and xeno-free conditions. Therefore, they are uniquely suitable for human cell culture and assay development. Endotoxin and other non–human components can provoke immune response in human systems. These contaminations are significant complicating factors for human cell culture experiments, in particular...
The new EFL 300 combines the best features of the EFL2 whilst incorporating modern sieve shaker technology. It is still extremely robust but lightweight and more powerful than its predecessor. Heavier and larger samples can be sieved with the new EFL 300. It is extremely versatile. The heavy electric motor is replaced by the electromagnetic system found in all modern sieve shakers. Its lighter form means that it can be either floor standing or even bench mounted making it...