The premium model of the FRITSCH Disk Mill for efficient fine grinding of hard-brittle to medium-hard solids: Even easier to operate due to the convenient motor-driven grinding gap adjustment with digital gap display, even safer due to the automatic locking of the grinding chamber and collecting vessel.

Now with independent O₂ and CO₂ control for live cell assays

The new Atmospheric Control Unit (ACU) allows independent, simultaneous control of both O₂ and CO₂ within the microplate reader chamber. Assays which can now be performed on the CLARIOstar range from standard cell growth assays to cytotoxicity assays. The ACU provides the optimal environment for any live cell-based assay.

ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light sheet microscopy.

Kibble-Zurek mechanism demonstrated in laboratory system with laser-cooled ion Coulomb crystals

The Andor iXon Ultra 897 EMCCD camera has been used by an international team of scientists to probe the nature of the symmetry-breaking phase transitions that began the process of creating our universe – the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Most cosmological scientists agree that within less than a billionth of a second of the Big Bang, the young universe had to ‘decide’ which new state to adopt and, everywhere that individual areas could not...

Olympus launches its dedicated multiphoton excitation (MPE) objectives for deep imaging.

Designed to vastly accelerate data collection from live-cell and clarified samples with high-resolution imaging, the new lenses are the clear choice for MPE and light sheet applications. Dedicated to multiphoton excitation microscopy, Olympus introduces its XLPLN10XSVMP and XLSLPLN25XGMP objective lenses with an 8 mm working distance and support for a large range of refractive indices (RI). The objectives enable super-deep imaging of...

FLIR Systems proprietary 'superframing' technique has been developed to extend the effective scene brightness of a thermal image while maintaining its thermal contrast.

Although most thermal cameras can produce high-contrast images showing small temperature differences, they can only do so within a defined temperature range. However when extreme temperatures appear within a scene, the hottest parts of the image will be saturated and the coldest parts will appear black or noisy, resulting in a loss of image detail and invalid temperature measurements. This is a particular problem in...

Porvair Sciences has announced a complete storage solution for HPLC fractions comprising its 2ml round deep well microplate and high integrity cap mat seals.

The revolutionary design of the 2ml deep well plate, which for the first time provides scientists with a genuine 2ml working volume in a 45mm height plate, is now coupled with a choice of specially designed cap mats. These flexible, re-usable cap mats prevent evaporation and allow transport and storage of samples in the 2ml plate without the need for expensive heat seals or leaky adhesive-based seals. To ensure complete confidence in the integrity of your sealed HPLC autosampler or...

New ultra-high quality gold nanoparticles simplify assay development and improve the sensitivity of immunoassays.

Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, announced today the commercial launch of InnovaGOLD, a new range of ultra-high quality gold nanoparticles that have demonstrated improved sensitivity, stability and reproducibility in immunoassays compared to other commercially available gold colloids. Gold nanoparticles are used in many applications such as lateral flow point-of-care assays, microscopy...

INTEGRA has announced a software update for its VIAFLO II electronic pipette range that now features a full-text, multilingual user interface in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.

Combining ultra lightweight ergonomic design with a highly intuitive user interface – VIAFLO II electronic pipettes are as easy to use as a single channel manual pipette but offer many advantages. The VIAFLO II’s integral colour screen together with easy to navigate touch wheel user interface ensures set up and operation are both simple and fast. With the VIAFLO II touch wheel user interface, it’s a lot quicker and easier to change volumes than with a manual pipette. Forget about twisting/rotating a knob on the manual pipette to go from...

First European bank for induced pluripotent stem cells

EFPIA pharmaceutical companies, SMEs, and academia join together in an IMI supported public-private partnership project to establish the leading facility for the storage and distribution of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in Europe. DefiniGEN Ltd, a leading provider of stem cell life science products and services, today announced it has joined the European Bank for induced pluripotent stem cells (EBiSC) consortium. The consortium comprises 26 partners, and...

Drawing upon over 20 years’ experience - AMSBIO has developed a custom phospho-specific antibody production service that is both reliable and produces high quality product. 

This service includes synthesis of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated peptides, conjugation to a carrier protein, immunization, serum production and a 2-step affinity purification of the antibodies. To ensure absolute specificity for each phosphorylated amino acid a stringent dot blot testing regime is carried out guaranteeing that for all projects the phospho peptide is preferentially recognized. A complete package of non-phosphorylated and phosphorylated peptides, pre-immune sera and...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an efficient ion chromatography (IC) method with on-line sample cleanup for the rapid and sensitive determination of p-toluenesulfonic acid in water-insoluble drugs.

The on-line cleanup step provides the benefits of efficient matrix elimination, time savings, and convenience. Application Brief 165:Determination of p-Toluenesulfonic Acid in Water-Insoluble Drugs shows that this approach—performed on an integrated IC system that includes sample preparation capability and uses an ion chromatography column designed for separation with sodium carbonate/sodium biocarbonate eluents—demonstrates good linearity with a...

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces their expansion into the US market with new distributors and the availability of the NanoWizard® AFM. 

JPK have been developing and supplying nanotechnology instrumentation for the materials & life sciences for more than twelve years. Having introduced their optical tweezers and force robotic measurement systems to the USA, JPK is now responding to requests to bring their AFM instrumentation to the USA. A new web site dedicated to the US market has been launched: www.usa.jpk.com.  The NanoWizard® is the core of...

The MultiSUB™ range of horizontal gel electrophoresis units from Cleaver Scientific includes a comprehensive choice of optimised units for low- and high-throughput DNA and RNA applications.

MultiSUB™ horizontal gel electrophoresis units have been designed by scientists for scientists. With its advanced features, each unit provides an easy to use, versatile and flexible system that can evolve and adapt with the changing needs of today’s laboratory researcher. All five units in the Cleaver MultiSUB™ gel electrophoresis range deliver an unsurpassed combination of economy of gel and buffer volume, with gel size and...

Tooth decay is often revealed by an X-ray taken in the dentist’s chair.  

The image taken is relatively coarse and only reveals the presence of the problem, what it doesn’t show is detail about the mechanism that has led to the decay.  Understanding the processes that occur during tooth decay and indeed repair involves researchers looking at concentrations of minerals such as Calcium present in the structure.  X ray microtomography is now helping researchers at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) gain a deeper...

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) will host the seventh in a series of webcasts on Wednesday, September 17, 2014, to share information on the Top Ten Reasons for Deploying a LIMS Needs Assessment.

A LIMS and Automation Assessment provides tools utilized to identify not only requirements, but what types of laboratory automation technologies, methods and training should be provided to a laboratory in order to improve productivity, efficiency, and data quality, while meeting regulatory compliance requirements. A LIMS Needs Assessment can be vital in assisting organizations in determining what the best options are for...

KNF Lab’s revolutionary new RC900 Rotary Evaporator has achieved outstanding recognition in the renowned Red Dot Design Awards.

The Red Dot Awards, an international competition for design concepts and prototypes, acknowledges the system’s advanced design and user-oriented features. Launched at Analytica in April this year, the RC900 Rotary Evaporator is an efficient, robust instrument set to transform rotary evaporation, making the technique easier and safer than ever before. Its elegant, easy-to-clean design offers a range of novel features focused on simple, reliable operation and...

European laboratories testing feed and food for dioxins and dioxin-like substances now have lower-cost, smaller-footprint alternatives to high-resolution mass spectrometers (HRMS) for confirming levels of the toxic contaminants, thanks to a new  European Union regulation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific worked closely with national reference labs (NRLs) in the European Union to support the development of the new regulation, known as Commission Regulation (EU) No. 709/2014, which permits use of gas chromatograph-triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometers (GC-MS/MS) for confirmation. EU regulations previously permitted the use of GC-MS/MS only to screen samples for dioxins, a group of persistent organic chemicals that can cause...

Offering reliable and specific research tools for multi-colour experiments.

Abcam plc, a leading provider of protein research tools and services, announced today it has launched an exclusive range of highly validated conjugated antibodies for use in key imaging applications including immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, and fluorescent western blotting. Abcam’s conjugated antibodies enable scientists to easily perform multi-protein analysis. It is essential for scientists to study and image proteins in their...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a high-resolution hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) method that can separate a fusion protein from a truncated version and a structural isomer.

Application Brief 171: High-Resolution Separation of a Fusion Protein demonstrates that two different HIC columns—the Thermo Scientific^™ ProPac^™ HIC-10 column and the new MAbPac^™ HIC-10 column—can each perform this challenging separation. While the ProPac HIC-10 column is an established column for the analysis of monoclonal antibody post-translational modifications, the MAbPac^™ HIC-10 column exhibits the best performance....

Metrohm presents the 912 Conductometer, the 913 pH Meter and the 914 pH/Conductometer, a new generation of meters for pH and conductivity measurement.The new meters are every inch 'Metrohm' – robust, reliable, and remarkably simple to use.

'Two-in-one' applies to the performance of the new meters, too: parallel measurement of pH and conductivity with the 914 pH/Conductometer; parallel recording of two pH values with the 913 pH Meter. Both versions indicate the temperature(s) of the sample(s). The 912 Conductometer measures the conductivity, salinity and temperature of the sample....

Leica Biosystems and Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. (ACD) have announced the co-marketing of ACD's RNAscope^® LS ISH assays with Leica Biosystems' BOND RX research staining platform*.

This agreement provides researchers with an integrated and fully automated ISH solution. The market-leading RNAscope LS reagent kits and ISH probes are available from ACD while the BOND RX instrument and associated reagents are supplied by Leica Biosystems. ACD's RNAscope assays represent a major technological advance for in situ RNA detection. For the first time, robust single RNA molecule detection is available for...