Bibby Scientific Ltd announced today that Stuart®, a leading UK manufacturer of laboratory benchtop equipment, has enhanced its Tube Roller range to include valuable new features for sample mixing, incorporating detachable roller tubes and removable side panels.
These technology developments are now available on all of Stuart’s digital and analogue Tube Rollers, bringing greater application versatility as well as peace of mind to lab scientists in education, life science and healthcare. Stuart’s detachable roller tubes are designed so that users can customise the roller bed in order to fit larger vessels as and when required. The motor driven rollers can be easily removed or inserted to accommodate different sized sample tubes and media bottles...
Biomolecule Purifications and Analytics Using CIM Monoliths
Hichrom Limited are pleased to announce that they have been appointed as UK distributor for BIA Separations, the leading developer and manufacturer of CIM® (Convective Interaction Media) monolithic chromatographic columns for production, purification and analytics of large biomolecules. BIA Separations is headquartered in Austria, with sales offices in the US and China. Their mission is to develop and produce CIM monolithic columns of highest quality and provide superior research and method development services for the purification and analytics of biomolecules....
The ground-breaking sensitivity of Malvern Instruments’ new OMNISEC gel permeation chromatography/size exclusion chromatography system generated significant excitement from scientists meeting at the Seventh International Symposium on the Separation and Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Macromolecules (SCM-7), when the system made a well-received debut late in January.
“Delegates were particularly enthusiastic about OMNISEC’s sensitivity,” said Paul Clarke, Industrial Portfolio Manager at Malvern Instruments. “Announcing ‘the most sensitive light scattering detector on the market’ is one thing but seeing what that actually means in practice is another. Demonstrations of the system measuring the molecular weight (MW) of a 100,000 Da Polystyrene standard with just a 100 ng of sample made a big impression and...
Melbourne-based Genera Biosystems has been testing a HydroSpeed™ plate washer with its Sirocco™ multiplexed diagnostics automation platform, allowing rapid, efficient washing of its proprietary AmpaSand™ beads.
Karl Poetter, Chief Scientific Officer, explained: "Following PCR, AmpaSand plates are spun down to remove the supernatant, then washed to remove unbound reagents or PCR products prior to flow cytometry analysis. Manual bead washing is tedious and error-prone, and so we wanted to automate the post-PCR washing steps to provide the accuracy and reliability necessary for diagnostic applications. We needed an automated 96-channel plate washer that offered effective removal of unincorporated primers and reagents without disturbing the pellet, and the HydroSpeed washer from Tecan was the only system that met our specifications....
Read MoreHuber Unistats - energy-efficient and environmentally friendlyMar 25, 2015
Huber temperature control units are powerful and standardly equipped with natural refrigerants.
Huber Kältemaschinenbau uses natural refrigerants for more than 20 years already and is one of the pioneers in the field of environmentally friendly thermoregulation. The innovative design of the devices makes it possible to equip large Unistats with environmentally friendly refrigerants and ensure their safe use. The devices achieve an excellent ecological balance not only in the field of refrigerants but also when it comes to low cooling water consumption of water-cooled Unistats and Unichillers, making Huber products especially environmentally friendly....
Read MoreGenalice Releases its Breakthrough DNA Data Analysis Solution Map on AmazonMar 25, 2015
Biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE announced that they have added a cloud solution via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its on-premise solution, the GENALICE VAULT.
Both are deployment options of GENALICE MAP, the company’s breakthrough Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processing software. GENALICE MAP processes genomics data up to 100-fold faster than conventional tools and produces improved quality outcome data, while radically reducing the storage requirements. It is the only product in the market today that makes secondary analysis of large-scale genomics data...
Asynt hotplate stirrers are designed to offer synthetic chemistry laboratories a combination of affordability, top build quality and high performance without compromising on safety.
Manufactured in an ISO9001-2008 production facility, each Asynt hotplate stirrer incorporates two independent control circuits. The additional and independent safety circuit is for limiting the maximum heating plate temperature; this can be adjusted between 50 and 360 ºC but cannot be changed accidentally. This ensures that the flashpoint of your reaction solvent is not exceeded making it ideal for teaching laboratories...
Electrothermal pioneered the UK’s market for heating mantles, producing the first British-made heating mantle way back in 1943.
Prior to this era, heating in chemical laboratories was potentially very dangerous, since open flame gas burners and electric glow coils were commonly used to heat oil, sand, molten metal, and water baths. Despite widespread safety concerns, heating baths are still in common usage today. They remain inherently dangerous as the hot fluid they contain is liable to be spilled or spattered should water be accidentally introduced, and a hot bath is very difficult to deal with in an emergency situation....
Read MoreSave 25% on all Stuart Agitation products!Mar 24, 2015
Save 25% on all Stuart Agitation products!
Stuart has been designing and manufacturing reliable benchtop laboratory equipment for over 40 years. Stuart’s current range of products features agitation products to suit almost any mixing or shaking application, including:
EcoPure brand caps for chromatography vials offer an economical, very clean, contaminate-free closure designed to fit most 12 x 32mm (2ml) HPLC and GC vials.
Their proprietary one piece polymer blend and unique sealing cone assures the lightest puncture force and best sealing system for a low cost, single piece cap. Since there is no split septa, the caps can be used for either analysis or for long term storage with no evaporative loss. No septa means no failed samples due to septa dislodging into vial. And no silicone means no worries about potential unidentifiable peaks from silicone layer contaminants, especially using LC/MS.
Read MoreSeward Stomacher Used for Large Scale Campylobacter StudyMar 24, 2015
UK Food Standards Agency report demonstrates risk of Campylobacter contamination in all chilled chickens at retail sale
Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the world leading range of original Stomacher® paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, announces the use of its Stomacher® technology for the preparation of samples for a UK-wide Campylobacter study. Foodborne Campylobacter makes over 280,000 people ill each year in the UK alone and is one of the main bacterial causes of food poisoning globally...
With the advent of NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) came the ability to learn more about genomes than ever before and also the ability to do so faster. This trend has done nothing but continue with speed and data quality improving though chemistry and platform advances.
However, NGS is by no means a cheap commodity in any lab. With systems ranging from around $150,000 to easily in excess of $1,000,000 the cost of purchasing and running such systems is still very high, driving a need to get the most from every run. Library quantification is an area where improvements have been made and technologies incorporated to help, namely the use of qPCR, which has in recent years become the gold standard for NGS library quantification....
Tecan has created a range of Cavro Disposable Tips for use with the Company’s popular Cavro brand OEM components.
Offering customers a selection of premium consumables to complement their Cavro Omni Robot and Cavro Air Displacement Pipettor (ADP) options, these high quality tips have been developed and validated to ensure optimal performance and reliable operation. All Cavro Disposable Tips are manufactured to the same high quality standards as Tecan’s broad portfolio of consumables for life sciences customers, using state-of-the-art production processes and integrated quality control procedures to ensure consistent pipetting performance and provide complete peace of mind.
Read MoreRenishaw and Bruker Team up for a Workshop on TERS and Co-Localised AFM RamanMar 23, 2015
Renishaw, a world leader in metrology and spectroscopy technologies, has teamed up with Bruker's Nano Surfaces Division to host a series of workshops on TERS and co-localised AFM Raman.
The latest workshop took place at the end of January at Renishaw's headquarters at New Mills, Wotton-under-Edge, UK. Other workshops are planned to take place throughout the world. An audience of spectroscopists and microscopists recently attended the joint workshop designed to illustrate how to make tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy more accessible to users. Four talks on the techniques, backed by various applications examples...
Close competition encourages established manufacturers to broaden the drug pipeline for targeted therapies, finds Frost & Sullivan
Although lung cancer is the third most prevalent cancer type in the world, there are only 18 drugs in the market for its treatment. Further, popular drugs such as Almita and Avastin are nearing their patent expiry in 2015 and 2017 respectively. As such, the lung cancer therapeutics market offers vast potential that drug manufacturers are vying to tap into. Approximately 130 drugs for the treatment of small cell lung cancer...
Scientists have developed a new test which can predict the survival chances of women with breast cancer by analysing images of ‘hotspots’ where there has been a fierce immune reaction to a tumour.
Researchers used statistical software previously used in criminology studies of crime hotspots to track the extent to which the immune system was homing in and attacking breast cancer cells. The test, described today (Friday) in the journal Modern Pathology, could assess whether a woman’s immune system is holding a cancer at bay – and pick out those who will need intensive treatment to combat their more aggressive disease...
Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments – even driving the body’s own inflammatory response against a tumour – a new study shows.
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, showed that the shape of a tumour cell is an important factor in determining its response to inflammatory molecules, which can either promote or inhibit cancer progression. The research used robotic microscopy and automated algorithms, similar to those used by Facebook for facial recognition, to measure the shape of hundreds of thousands of different breast cancer cells...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoTracker™ optical tweezers system to study collagen fibrils at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
The Schieber Research Group is led by Jay Schieber, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he is also Director of the Center for Molecular Study of Condensed Soft Matter. Current research focuses on the kinetic theory of macromolecules to model the rheological, thermodynamic and thermal behaviour of polymeric fluids. These models are then used to predict the properties of advanced materials during and after processing...
Read MoreMar 20, 2015
The advanced Spectroline® Bi-O-Vision™ Series transilluminators feature two workstations, producing both 312nm ultraviolet and white light.
The TD-1000R model offers fixed-intensity while the TVD-1000R model offers variable-intensity control of either UV or white light. These units are continuously adjustable from 100% down to 50%. This enables life science researchers to select medium wavelength ultraviolet or white light illumination to view fluorescent gels or visible blots. The UV-B (312nm) intensity of the TVD-1000R can be varied. This flexibility in irradiance control helps ensure the...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, supply the Schmidt + Haensch's market leading polarimeters and refractometers in the UK & Ireland.
Schmidt + Haensch's automatic digital refractometers, supplied by Analytik, are high performance critical angle refractometers, which feature unique technology and integrated Peltier thermostats for qualitative and quantitative materials analysis for industrial and manufacturing use. Two models are available: ATR-B and ATR-F depending on the users’ requirements. This series can use S+H's innovative L-Display as well as operating...
All new data analysis software in Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC systems delivers greatest accessibility to life science users at every level
Malvern Instruments has launched two new-generation isothermal titration calorimeters (ITC), advancing its recently acquired MicroCal range to further support life science researchers studying biomolecular interactions. The new manual Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC and fully automated Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC Automated systems are designed to deliver the enhanced functionality and robust performance now demanded of...
Testing breast cancer cells for how closely they resemble stem cells could identify women with the most aggressive disease, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that breast cancers with a similar pattern of gene activity to that of adult stem cells had a high chance of spreading to other parts of the body. Assessing a breast cancer’s pattern of activity in these stem cell genes has the potential to identify women who might need intensive treatment to prevent their disease recurring or spreading, the researchers said. Adult stem cells are healthy cells within the body which have not...
These technology developments are now available on all of Stuart’s digital and analogue Tube Rollers, bringing greater application versatility as well as peace of mind to lab scientists in education, life science and healthcare. Stuart’s detachable roller tubes are designed so that users can customise the roller bed in order to fit larger vessels as and when required. The motor driven rollers can be easily removed or inserted to accommodate different sized sample tubes and media bottles...
“Delegates were particularly enthusiastic about OMNISEC’s sensitivity,” said Paul Clarke, Industrial Portfolio Manager at Malvern Instruments. “Announcing ‘the most sensitive light scattering detector on the market’ is one thing but seeing what that actually means in practice is another. Demonstrations of the system measuring the molecular weight (MW) of a 100,000 Da Polystyrene standard with just a 100 ng of sample made a big impression and...
Huber Kältemaschinenbau uses natural refrigerants for more than 20 years already and is one of the pioneers in the field of environmentally friendly thermoregulation. The innovative design of the devices makes it possible to equip large Unistats with environmentally friendly refrigerants and ensure their safe use. The devices achieve an excellent ecological balance not only in the field of refrigerants but also when it comes to low cooling water consumption of water-cooled Unistats and Unichillers, making Huber products especially environmentally friendly....
Both are deployment options of GENALICE MAP, the company’s breakthrough Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processing software. GENALICE MAP processes genomics data up to 100-fold faster than conventional tools and produces improved quality outcome data, while radically reducing the storage requirements. It is the only product in the market today that makes secondary analysis of large-scale genomics data... 
Manufactured in an ISO9001-2008 production facility, each Asynt hotplate stirrer incorporates two independent control circuits. The additional and independent safety circuit is for limiting the maximum heating plate temperature; this can be adjusted between 50 and 360 ºC but cannot be changed accidentally. This ensures that the flashpoint of your reaction solvent is not exceeded making it ideal for teaching laboratories...
Prior to this era, heating in chemical laboratories was potentially very dangerous, since open flame gas burners and electric glow coils were commonly used to heat oil, sand, molten metal, and water baths. Despite widespread safety concerns, heating baths are still in common usage today. They remain inherently dangerous as the hot fluid they contain is liable to be spilled or spattered should water be accidentally introduced, and a hot bath is very difficult to deal with in an emergency situation....
Stuart has been designing and manufacturing reliable benchtop laboratory equipment for over 40 years. Stuart’s current range of products features agitation products to suit almost any mixing or shaking application, including:
Their proprietary one piece polymer blend and unique sealing cone assures the lightest puncture force and best sealing system for a low cost, single piece cap. Since there is no split septa, the caps can be used for either analysis or for long term storage with no evaporative loss. No septa means no failed samples due to septa dislodging into vial. And no silicone means no worries about potential unidentifiable peaks from silicone layer contaminants, especially using LC/MS.
Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the world leading range of original Stomacher® paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, announces the use of its Stomacher® technology for the preparation of samples for a UK-wide Campylobacter study. Foodborne Campylobacter makes over 280,000 people ill each year in the UK alone and is one of the main bacterial causes of food poisoning globally...
The latest workshop took place at the end of January at Renishaw's headquarters at New Mills, Wotton-under-Edge, UK. Other workshops are planned to take place throughout the world. An audience of spectroscopists and microscopists recently attended the joint workshop designed to illustrate how to make tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy more accessible to users. Four talks on the techniques, backed by various applications examples...
Although lung cancer is the third most prevalent cancer type in the world, there are only 18 drugs in the market for its treatment. Further, popular drugs such as Almita and Avastin are nearing their patent expiry in 2015 and 2017 respectively. As such, the lung cancer therapeutics market offers vast potential that drug manufacturers are vying to tap into. Approximately 130 drugs for the treatment of small cell lung cancer...
Researchers used statistical software previously used in criminology studies of crime hotspots to track the extent to which the immune system was homing in and attacking breast cancer cells. The test, described today (Friday) in the journal Modern Pathology, could assess whether a woman’s immune system is holding a cancer at bay – and pick out those who will need intensive treatment to combat their more aggressive disease...
The TD-1000R model offers fixed-intensity while the TVD-1000R model offers variable-intensity control of either UV or white light. These units are continuously adjustable from 100% down to 50%. This enables life science researchers to select medium wavelength ultraviolet or white light illumination to view fluorescent gels or visible blots. The UV-B (312nm) intensity of the TVD-1000R can be varied. This flexibility in irradiance control helps ensure the...
Schmidt + Haensch's automatic digital refractometers, supplied by Analytik, are high performance critical angle refractometers, which feature unique technology and integrated Peltier thermostats for qualitative and quantitative materials analysis for industrial and manufacturing use. Two models are available: ATR-B and ATR-F depending on the users’ requirements. This series can use S+H's innovative L-Display as well as operating...
Malvern Instruments has launched two new-generation isothermal titration calorimeters (ITC), advancing its recently acquired MicroCal range to further support life science researchers studying biomolecular interactions. The new manual Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC and fully automated Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC Automated systems are designed to deliver the enhanced functionality and robust performance now demanded of...