micro-Matrix offers an integrated, easy-to-use, and cost-effective technology platform for the rapid handling and growth of large numbers of microbial strains, clone libraries, mutant banks, and cells.
The system offers 24 independent bioreactors in a cost effective microtiter plate footprint. pH and dissolved oxygen can be controlled in each individual bioreactor via gas and liquid addition. Temperature is controlled individually in each bioreactor by the integrated cooling and heating system. The micro-Matrix offers a true scale down of small-scale bioreactors. The bioreactor’s square well cassette design is based upon...
Dr Rico Tabor leads the Soft Materials and Colloids Group in the School of Chemistry at Monash University.
Research focuses on several areas. At a fundamental level, the group is interested in exploring the interactions that cause aggregation and assembly, in everything from nanoparticles, droplets and graphene to proteins and cells. This ranges from quite fundamental studies of things like the van der Waals force (of quantum origin) and electrical double-layer interactions, right through to unwinding protein molecules and the forces experienced by...
Fast, loss-free fine grinding dry, in suspension or in inert gas, for mixing and homogenising of emulsions and pastes, for mechanical alloying and activation
FRITSCH Planetary Mills classic line are most effective for rapid loss-free and reproducible ultra-fine grinding of hard, medium-hard, brittle and fibrous materials dry or in suspension, for mixing and homogenising as well as for mechanical alloying/activation in materials research. Samples can be processed from a few milligrams to several kilograms at a wide range of fineness levels down to less than 1 μm...
Microfluidic products expert Dolomite have released their Double Emulsion System for creating micron sized emulsion droplets that contain still smaller droplets inside.
It enables unrivalled reproducibility and selectivity of droplet size of both outer and inner phases with either oil-in-water-in-oil or water-in-oil-in-water droplets. The Double Emulsion System is highly beneficial to applications in the food industry, in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics that use double emulsions as delivery vehicles or encapsulation solutions for various active ingredients, or more generally in paints and coatings.
J.G. Finneran Associates is a highly recognized, respected and independent, family-owned and operated glass and plastic manufacturer.
A specialist in chromatography, biotechnology and environmental products which include glass and plastic vials, closures and accessories, the patented 96-Well Multi-Tier™ Micro Plate System and accessories, VOA/EPA vials, and sampling bottles and jars – pre-cleaned and pre-cleaned/certified. Their manufacturing operations located in Vineland, NJ, USA, combine the most modern and highly automated equipment with our own custom designed machinery to handle volume production while maintaining product integrity and the highest quality products in the industry.
New micro-volume probes from Jenway are designed for the accurate and reliable measurement of solutions in volumes as low as 150μl.
The micro-volume probes are available in two variants - the 4mm probe with a 120mm reach and the 6mm probe has a 180mm reach. The specific designs of each of the probes ensure their suitability for use in test tubes and small vessels, while the small shaft diameters allow for accurate readings in sample volumes as small as 150µl and 200µl respectively. Both probes are made from glass and can be used with any of the bench conductivity meters supplied by Jenway...
ACE SuperC18 and SuperPhenylHexyl UHPLC/HPLC columns offer excellent stability across an extended pH range, allowing chromatographers to routinely exploit beneficial selectivity changes at low, intermediate and high pH.
These columns are designed for use with LC/MS compatible buffers and offer ultra-low bleed for improved LC/MS compatibility. They can be used with MeOH and MeCN mobile phases and offer rapid column equilibration without memory effects. ACE SuperC18 columns offer excellent stability up to pH 11.0/11.5 and ACE SuperPhenylHexyl columns offer excellent stability up to pH 11.0.
Anasys Instruments reports on EPFL’s latest research on lysozyme droplets and α-synuclein macromolecular aggregates illustrating application of the nanoscale AFM-IR technique to demonstrate α to β secondary structure transition associated with amyloid formation.
Proteins aggregating into amyloid structures are involved in important neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. During aggregation, initially monomeric proteins undergo internal structural rearrangement forming amyloid fibrils with a universal cross β -sheet quaternary structure. During fibrillation, several coexisting amyloidogenic species are formed and the study of these species would allow...
PANalytical presented their Epsilon 3X automation option to the public at the Finnish Mining Seminar (4-6 June, Oulu, Finland).
With the launch of the innovative (patent-pending) Epsilon 3X automation, PANalytical combines the advantages of a benchtop X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer with an automation environment. The Epsilon 3X automation option is a simple and flexible solution interfacing your existing Epsilon 3 or new Epsilon 3X analyzer to any sample preparation equipment. The instrument is enclosed in a sealed cabinet for safe operation and...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is set to transform the use of flow cytometry in the routine clinical laboratory with its latest offering, the Aquios CL Clinical Flow Cytometer.
Fully automated, with a small footprint, the instrument is the first authentic ‘LOAD & GO’ cytometry system. The Aquios CL is designed specifically to streamline workflow and reduce backlogs when handling routine applications, such as immunophenotyping. The Aquios CL delivers first results within 20 minutes, with subsequent results at a rate of 25 samples per hour for up to a full 96-well plate...
EKF Molecular Diagnostics, and GILUPI, an innovator in medical devices for in vivo isolation of rare cells directly from a patient’s blood stream, announce results from collaborative work using the GILUPI CellCollectorTM and EKF Molecular’s PointManTM DNA Enrichment technology.
The first results of the collaboration have successfully demonstrated the detection of gene mutations from as few as three or less cells isolated in a model in vitro system and from the blood of lung cancer patients. PointMan DNA Enrichment was used to detect and analyse cells with known mutation status that had been collected on GILUPI CellCollectors under laboratory conditions. The known mutations were those typically seen in...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading global supplier of the biopharmaceutical industry, is introducing a brand-new, scalable range of single-use bags. Its completely new developed product family Flexsafe enables the implementation of single-use bioprocessing throughout all steps of drug manufacture, from process development to production, in upstream and downstream – all using just the one innovative polyethylene film...
Markes International, a world leader in instrumentation for trace organic analysis, has announced the launch of a Humidifier Accessory, which extends the capability of their Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor™ by supplying it with humidified air or gas.
Markes’ Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor has gained popularity over recent years as a versatile tool for rapidly sampling volatile organic vapours released from everyday products such as toys, car trim and construction materials, or odour profiles from foods and cosmetics. Now the capability of the Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor has been further extended by the release of the Humidifier Accessory, which...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a new ion chromatography (IC)-based method that overcomes typical challenges associated with quantification of low amounts of ammonia in the presence of a high concentration of sodium in sodium bicarbonate.
Application Note 1073: Determination of Ammonia in Sodium Bicarbonatedemonstrates that this assay meets the analytical performance characteristics recommended by United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter <1225>, including precisions (retention time relative standard deviation [RSD] less than 0.1% and peak area RSD less than 2%), accuracy (average recovery 88–117%), limits of detection, and robustness...
The Program Committee is pleased to announce the call for papers for the Pittcon 2015 Technical Program.
Abstracts are currently being accepted for contributed oral and poster presentations in areas such as, but not limited to, analytical chemistry, applied spectroscopy, life science, bioanalysis, food science, nanotechnology, environmental science and pharmaceutical. The 2015 committee is especially interested in topics relevant to energy and fuels. Program Chairman Hub MacDonald commented, “Since this year’s conference will be in New Orleans with Louisiana holding the...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) will host the fifth in our 2014 series of webcasts on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, to share information on leveraging LIMS as s Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
DATE: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
A hosted LIMS is a great choice for small to medium size organizations that do not have the capital needed for their own servers or the software purchase, or lack an internal IT department to manage a local solution. A hosted solution can allow these organizations to deploy and implement a robust LIMS often more quickly and with less upfront cost as compared to the traditional purchased model...
Read MoreLeica Microsystems Strengthens Market Presence in TurkeyJun 18, 2014
Distributors Mikro-Optik Tibbi Malzeme Ithalat Ihracat ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi and Gantenbein Ticaret Mürsel Gelincik ve Ortagi Adi Komandit Sirketi Have Been Acquired.
Leica Microsystems has strengthened the alliance with its Turkish distributors Mikro-Optik Tibbi Malzeme Ithalat Ihracat ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi and Gantenbein Ticaret Mürsel Gelincik ve Ortagi Adi Komandit Sirketi, thereby deepening its market presence in Turkey. All relevant assets of the two companies, both of Istanbul, with another office of Gantenbein's in Ankara, have been acquired as of June 4, 2014...
Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation has published the results of a new study outlining the simultaneous measurement of protein charge and diffusion interaction parameter (kD) to determine the colloidal stability of two formulations with different long-term stability behavior.
Traditionally, these two properties are measured independently in laborious experiments requiring manual sample preparation and loading. The Möbius® from Wyatt Technology uses massively-parallel phase-analysis light scattering (MP-PALS) in conjunction with an autosampler to automate this combined measurement. The Möbius is therefore an ideal tool for protein characterization and is unique in its ability to provide a complete picture of...
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Homerton) in east London has selected BridgeHead Software (BridgeHead), the specialist Healthcare Data Management company, to implement its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) for a comprehensive pan-organisational image management strategy, prior to its selection of a replacement PACS imaging system.
The BridgeHead VNA gives Homerton complete flexibility and neutrality on its ‘yet to be determined’ PACS as well as its underlying storage infrastructure. BridgeHead’s VNA also enables the Trust to take a more strategic approach to its data management, enabling it to more efficiently locate and share all patient data with multiple clinical teams across multiple healthcare departments...
Xylem’s Bellingham + Stanley brand RFM340+ refractometers help to meet the needs of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries with a combination of new technology and time-tested principles.
Despite the principles of measuring the refractive index (RI) of a solution dating back to the mid nineteenth Century, modern-day refractometers continue to play an important role in industry today, from chemical processing to pharmaceutical to automotive. As instruments get more sophisticated, they become more capable of measuring to higher accuracies, especially now that on-board temperature control is facilitated by intelligently controlled Peltier devices...
The Native Antigen Company (NAC), a company specialising in the provision of high purity bacterial and viral antigens, announces that, for the first time, all four Dengue Virus NS1 serotypes from human cell lines are commercially available.
All four DENV NS1 serotypes have been manufactured in response to the unmet need for highly purified, concentrated proteins for use in vaccine development and serological based diagnostic assays. To achieve this, the company has employed its novel platform which is based entirely on human cell lines using state-of-the-art expression techniques. NAC has focused on NS1’s hexameric presentation, which is the biologically active form of NS1 involved in key aspects of dengue pathogenesis. The resultant DENV NS1 proteins were then purified to a high degree, left in...
Cherwell Laboratories, manufacturer of Redipor® prepared microbiological media, has completed an expansion programme at its Bicester-based facility.
Initiated in response to a significant increase in demand, Cherwell has doubled the size of its cleanroom manufacturing suite and recruited additional staff to support the higher production capacity. Cherwell is renowned for offering a flexible supply of quality prepared media products, and the expanded facility ensures increasing demand in the UK and mainland Europe can be accommodated...
The system offers 24 independent bioreactors in a cost effective microtiter plate footprint. pH and dissolved oxygen can be controlled in each individual bioreactor via gas and liquid addition. Temperature is controlled individually in each bioreactor by the integrated cooling and heating system. The micro-Matrix offers a true scale down of small-scale bioreactors. The bioreactor’s square well cassette design is based upon...
Research focuses on several areas. At a fundamental level, the group is interested in exploring the interactions that cause aggregation and assembly, in everything from nanoparticles, droplets and graphene to proteins and cells. This ranges from quite fundamental studies of things like the van der Waals force (of quantum origin) and electrical double-layer interactions, right through to unwinding protein molecules and the forces experienced by...
FRITSCH Planetary Mills classic line are most effective for rapid loss-free and reproducible ultra-fine grinding of hard, medium-hard, brittle and fibrous materials dry or in suspension, for mixing and homogenising as well as for mechanical alloying/activation in materials research. Samples can be processed from a few milligrams to several kilograms at a wide range of fineness levels down to less than 1 μm...
It enables unrivalled reproducibility and selectivity of droplet size of both outer and inner phases with either oil-in-water-in-oil or water-in-oil-in-water droplets. The Double Emulsion System is highly beneficial to applications in the food industry, in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics that use double emulsions as delivery vehicles or encapsulation solutions for various active ingredients, or more generally in paints and coatings.
The micro-volume probes are available in two variants - the 4mm probe with a 120mm reach and the 6mm probe has a 180mm reach. The specific designs of each of the probes ensure their suitability for use in test tubes and small vessels, while the small shaft diameters allow for accurate readings in sample volumes as small as 150µl and 200µl respectively. Both probes are made from glass and can be used with any of the bench conductivity meters supplied by Jenway...
These columns are designed for use with LC/MS compatible buffers and offer ultra-low bleed for improved LC/MS compatibility. They can be used with MeOH and MeCN mobile phases and offer rapid column equilibration without memory effects. ACE SuperC18 columns offer excellent stability up to pH 11.0/11.5 and ACE SuperPhenylHexyl columns offer excellent stability up to pH 11.0.
Proteins aggregating into amyloid structures are involved in important neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. During aggregation, initially monomeric proteins undergo internal structural rearrangement forming amyloid fibrils with a universal cross β -sheet quaternary structure. During fibrillation, several coexisting amyloidogenic species are formed and the study of these species would allow...
With the launch of the innovative (patent-pending) Epsilon 3X automation, PANalytical combines the advantages of a benchtop X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer with an automation environment. The Epsilon 3X automation option is a simple and flexible solution interfacing your existing Epsilon 3 or new Epsilon 3X analyzer to any sample preparation equipment. The instrument is enclosed in a sealed cabinet for safe operation and...
Fully automated, with a small footprint, the instrument is the first authentic ‘LOAD & GO’ cytometry system. The Aquios CL is designed specifically to streamline workflow and reduce backlogs when handling routine applications, such as immunophenotyping. The Aquios CL delivers first results within 20 minutes, with subsequent results at a rate of 25 samples per hour for up to a full 96-well plate... 
The first results of the collaboration have successfully demonstrated the detection of gene mutations from as few as three or less cells isolated in a model in vitro system and from the blood of lung cancer patients. PointMan DNA Enrichment was used to detect and analyse cells with known mutation status that had been collected on GILUPI CellCollectors under laboratory conditions. The known mutations were those typically seen in...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading global supplier of the biopharmaceutical industry, is introducing a brand-new, scalable range of single-use bags. Its completely new developed product family Flexsafe enables the implementation of single-use bioprocessing throughout all steps of drug manufacture, from process development to production, in upstream and downstream – all using just the one innovative polyethylene film...
Markes’ Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor has gained popularity over recent years as a versatile tool for rapidly sampling volatile organic vapours released from everyday products such as toys, car trim and construction materials, or odour profiles from foods and cosmetics. Now the capability of the Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor has been further extended by the release of the Humidifier Accessory, which...
Application Note 1073: Determination of Ammonia in Sodium Bicarbonatedemonstrates that this assay meets the analytical performance characteristics recommended by United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter <1225>, including precisions (retention time relative standard deviation [RSD] less than 0.1% and peak area RSD less than 2%), accuracy (average recovery 88–117%), limits of detection, and robustness...
Abstracts are currently being accepted for contributed oral and poster presentations in areas such as, but not limited to, analytical chemistry, applied spectroscopy, life science, bioanalysis, food science, nanotechnology, environmental science and pharmaceutical. The 2015 committee is especially interested in topics relevant to energy and fuels. Program Chairman Hub MacDonald commented, “Since this year’s conference will be in New Orleans with Louisiana holding the...
Leica Microsystems has strengthened the alliance with its Turkish distributors Mikro-Optik Tibbi Malzeme Ithalat Ihracat ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi and Gantenbein Ticaret Mürsel Gelincik ve Ortagi Adi Komandit Sirketi, thereby deepening its market presence in Turkey. All relevant assets of the two companies, both of Istanbul, with another office of Gantenbein's in Ankara, have been acquired as of June 4, 2014...
these two properties are measured independently in laborious experiments requiring manual sample preparation and loading. The Möbius® from Wyatt Technology uses massively-parallel phase-analysis light scattering (MP-PALS) in conjunction with an autosampler to automate this combined measurement. The Möbius is therefore an ideal tool for protein characterization and is unique in its ability to provide a complete picture of...
The BridgeHead VNA gives Homerton complete flexibility and neutrality on its ‘yet to be determined’ PACS as well as its underlying storage infrastructure. BridgeHead’s VNA also enables the Trust to take a more strategic approach to its data management, enabling it to more efficiently locate and share all patient data with multiple clinical teams across multiple healthcare departments...
Despite the principles of measuring the refractive index (RI) of a solution dating back to the mid nineteenth Century, modern-day refractometers continue to play an important role in industry today, from chemical processing to pharmaceutical to automotive. As instruments get more sophisticated, they become more capable of measuring to higher accuracies, especially now that on-board temperature control is facilitated by intelligently controlled Peltier devices... 
All four DENV NS1 serotypes have been manufactured in response to the unmet need for highly purified, concentrated proteins for use in vaccine development and serological based diagnostic assays. To achieve this, the company has employed its novel platform which is based entirely on human cell lines using state-of-the-art expression techniques. NAC has focused on NS1’s hexameric presentation, which is the biologically active form of NS1 involved in key aspects of dengue pathogenesis. The resultant DENV NS1 proteins were then purified to a high degree, left in...
Initiated in response to a significant increase in demand, Cherwell has doubled the size of its cleanroom manufacturing suite and recruited additional staff to support the higher production capacity. Cherwell is renowned for offering a flexible supply of quality prepared media products, and the expanded facility ensures increasing demand in the UK and mainland Europe can be accommodated...