The use of mercury in glass thermometers has been a safety concern for some while and with effect from October 2017 new regulations mean that thermometers containing mercury may no longer be supplied within the European Union.
To meet the new regulations Stanhope-Seta has launched a range of low hazard liquid in glass thermometers which do not contain mercury and provide equivalent operating parameters to traditional ASTM-IP mercury thermometers...
Unlike traditional reagent reservoirs, INTEGRA offers a range of high quality multichannel reservoirs that feature reusable bases.
This environmentally-friendly design allows users to reuse the sturdy base and save money as you only replace the disposable inserts. Reagent reservoirs are used by many laboratories for the temporary storage of reagent during pipetting applications....
Cole-Parmer Ltd announced today that as of May, its key brands, including Stuart, Electrothermal, Jenway, Techne, and PCRmax, will be using Kite Packaging’s Wrap and Hold system to pack the majority of their products.
The Wrap and Hold system offers an environmentally friendly, high-performance and cost-efficient alternative to standard packaging. It is becoming increasingly important for companies to minimise their impact on the environment as factors such as climate change and...
Chemistry is becoming more productive than ever before, as UK manufacturer Radleys launch their new Mya 4 Reaction Station.
Mya 4 is a 4-zone reaction station that offers precise heating, active cooling, software control and data logging for 24/7 unattended chemistry. The new Reaction Station allows for multiple experiments with individual control in a single compact benchtop system....
Read MoreEntry-Level Flow Chemistry SystemsMay 18, 2017
Available in a choice of configurations the Uniqsis FlowLab™ range are affordable and easy-to-use flow chemistry systems ideal for use in research, education and for those wishing to try flow chemistry without the associated costs of a fully automatic system.
Built around the same high quality components as used in the widely acclaimed Uniqsis FlowSyn™ system, both the FlowLab™ and FlowLab Cold™ offer uncompromised performance at an entry-level price. The FlowLab™ system comprises two high pressure pumps, a HotCoil™ coil reactor station and FlowLab™ system control computer...
Customized solutions ensure temperature, reliability and redundancy, critical to success
Century Refrigeration announces that it designs custom, advanced cooling systems for blood product storage applications, including blood banks and laboratories. The customized nature of Century Refrigeration’s solutions ensures that they are capable of the low temperatures and safe and reliable operation required by blood product storage applications....
The new BINDER LED strip lights are available now as optional accessories for all incubators, including cooling incubators, and climate chambers.
They can be used for biological applications requiring reduced luminous intensities. All BINDER incubators, including cooling incubators, and climate chambers are now available with LED strip lights as optional accessories that can be used with flexibility....
Telstar has taken a major step forward in the performance and efficiency of cold storage technology/equipment.
The company has recently integrated water-cooled condensers in the range of -86°C Igloo compact ultra-low temperature freezers reducing up to 75% of heat emission into the work place and the dissipated energy in the Laboratory environment, making a sustainably cooler work environment....
Available in a choice of configurations the Uniqsis FlowLab™ range are affordable and easy-to-use flow chemistry systems ideal for use in research, education and for those wishing to try flow chemistry without the associated costs of a fully automatic system.
Built around the same high quality components as used in the widely acclaimed Uniqsis FlowSyn™ system, both the FlowLab™ and FlowLab Cold™ offer uncompromised performance at an entry-level price....
New kit for early-stage biotherapeutic development, optimized for use in Gyrolab systems
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced today it has introduced a new kit for early-stage biotherapeutic pharmacokinetic (PK) studies....
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, announce the launch of the Biotin Check&Go! Kit, which sits alongside its recently launched Conjugate Check&Go! Kit and is the Company’s second lateral flow product specific to antibody labeling.
The new kit allows researchers to confirm with a quick and easy test whether an antibody has been successfully conjugated to biotin, ensuring that no materials or time are wasted using unsuccessful antibody-biotin conjugates in their downstream application....
Media Software - for quick, accurate identification of microbes on world’s ?most popular agars
Synbiosis, a long-established, expert manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, is delighted to announce its Chromogenic ID software for use with Synbiosis colony counters now has a validated module for automatic identification of bacteria and yeasts on ThermoFisher Scientific’s Oxoid Chromo- genic media....
Tecan is helping to reduce waiting times for bulk sample identification with an innovative high speed barcode scanner for its Fluent® Laboratory Automation Solution.
The new Fluent ID* module eliminates the need to watch and wait while your liquid handling platform scans and identifies each individual sample tube, allowing 32 barcoded samples to be loaded and identified in just three seconds. The Fluent ID scanner is fitted with a status indicator light offering a clear pass/fail notification as soon as the tube rack is loaded onto the worktable....
Careful maintenance of precision pipettes is essential in the highly regulated pharmaceutical and clinical diagnostics industries.
Kevin Orf, Senior Manager of Validation and Metrology at a specialty pharmaceutical and diagnostic company based in San Diego, California, explained: “In our line of work, accurate pipetting is vital to avoid any errors in test results. As an ISO 13485 and CAP accredited laboratory, we must be able to demonstrate the accuracy and precision of our pipettes, as well as adherence to a regular maintenance schedule.....
In July 2016, Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd (SLS) merged with Dominique Dutscher to create Europe’s largest independent laboratory distributor. Since that time, Dutscher Scientific UK (DSUK) have continued to operate independently in the UK market.
With effect from the 1st of May 2017, DSUK will become wholly owned by the SLS Group and their activities will be merged into SLS. DSUK will be closed to new business from this date. This change will allow us to better serve both our DSUK and SLS customers as we move forward with a broader combined product portfolio and UK based inventory....
ImpactAir® high performance air sampler range joins Cherwell’s portfolio of cleanroom microbiology products
Cherwell Laboratories, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions, have signed a distribution agreement with Pinpoint Scientific for the ImpactAir® range of microbial air samplers. The new ImpactAir range of high performance microbial air samplers has been designed to meet the demanding environmental monitoring requirements of aseptic processing in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries....
Unmatched Accuracy & Precision: The Microlab 600is a semi-automated highly precise syringe pump with a graphical user interface that allows for quick & easy dilution and dispensing of liquids. It increases throughput and consistency while reducing cost and wasted buffer.
An intuitive Touch Screen combined with Universal Valves and Bubble Free Prime Syringes combined with a Precision Syringe Pump allow precise Dispensing and Diluting applications with reliability and ease. Why is it different?....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, announces the launch of the Spinsolve ULTRA Benchtop NMR system.
The Spinsolve ULTRA has the field homogeneity of a superconducting NMR magnet (50% 0.2 Hz) in a compact and robust benchtop unit. When combined with solvent suppression it allows users to resolve compounds dissolved at sub-millimolar concentrations in protonated solvents, such as water. Magritek, leading suppliers of high resolution, easy-to-use benchtop NMR spectrometers, is excited to announce the release of the Spinsolve ULTRA. Using Magritek’s patented...
The larger sterilising chamber of Priorclave’s Q63, 320 litre front-loading autoclave and relatively small overall machine footprint has become a much sought-after specification for many universities.
It gives them to opportunity acquire an economically priced autoclave with a taller chamber profile than that found in most ‘cylindrical’ machines, making it ideally suited to sterilising larger bulky items as well as enabling small and taller items to be sterilised in a single process....
Read MoreDiscover the Rainin SmartStand, the World's First Intelligent Pipette StandApr 25, 2017
Mettler Toledo's recently launched Rainin SmartStand™ is set to transform pipette management.
This intelligent, customizable and highly scalable pipette asset management system is easily adapted to any laboratory’s standard operating procedures, helping to drive compliance in regulated environments, such as pharma, GLP and QC laboratories. Non-regulated laboratories can also take advantage of SmartStand to conveniently and efficiently monitor large numbers...
AMSBIO has announced the launch of its new cfPure™ Cell Free DNA Purification Kit for scalable and automation-friendly isolation of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from patient serum or plasma samples.
Circulating cfDNA is normally comprised of DNA fragments from healthy cells. However, apoptotic cells, necrotic cells, cancer cells, and intact cells all release cfDNA into the bloodstream. In addition, fetal cfDNA can be isolated from peripheral maternal blood. The utility and value of using cfDNA from serum and plasma for non-invasive molecular diagnostics...
Grinding has never been safer: instead of manually, the grinding bowls are automatically clamped by the mill – extremely easy and safe operation!
With two grinding stations, the NEW FRITSCH Planetary Mill PULVERISETTE 6 premium line is the ideal mill for fast wet and dry grinding of hard, medium-hard, soft, brittle and moist samples as well as for mechanical alloying, mixing and homogenising for sample quantities up to 450 ml with reliable results down into the nano range – and an absolutely secure automatic clamping of the bowls by the mill...
To meet the new regulations Stanhope-Seta has launched a range of low hazard liquid in glass thermometers which do not contain mercury and provide equivalent operating parameters to traditional ASTM-IP mercury thermometers...
This environmentally-friendly design allows users to reuse the sturdy base and save money as you only replace the disposable inserts. Reagent reservoirs are used by many laboratories for the temporary storage of reagent during pipetting applications....
The Wrap and Hold system offers an environmentally friendly, high-performance and cost-efficient alternative to standard packaging. It is becoming increasingly important for companies to minimise their impact on the environment as factors such as climate change and...
Mya 4 is a 4-zone reaction station that offers precise heating, active cooling, software control and data logging for 24/7 unattended chemistry. The new Reaction Station allows for multiple experiments with individual control in a single compact benchtop system....
Built around the same high quality components as used in the widely acclaimed Uniqsis FlowSyn™ system, both the FlowLab™ and FlowLab Cold™ offer uncompromised performance at an entry-level price. The FlowLab™ system comprises two high pressure pumps, a HotCoil™ coil reactor station and FlowLab™ system control computer...
Century Refrigeration announces that it designs custom, advanced cooling systems for blood product storage applications, including blood banks and laboratories. The customized nature of Century Refrigeration’s solutions ensures that they are capable of the low temperatures and safe and reliable operation required by blood product storage applications....
They can be used for biological applications requiring reduced luminous intensities. All BINDER incubators, including cooling incubators, and climate chambers are now available with LED strip lights as optional accessories that can be used with flexibility....
The company has recently integrated water-cooled condensers in the range of -86°C Igloo compact ultra-low temperature freezers reducing up to 75% of heat emission into the work place and the dissipated energy in the Laboratory environment, making a sustainably cooler work environment....
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced today it has introduced a new kit for early-stage biotherapeutic pharmacokinetic (PK) studies....
The new kit allows researchers to confirm with a quick and easy test whether an antibody has been successfully conjugated to biotin, ensuring that no materials or time are wasted using unsuccessful antibody-biotin conjugates in their downstream application....
Synbiosis, a long-established, expert manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, is delighted to announce its Chromogenic ID software for use with Synbiosis colony counters now has a validated module for automatic identification of bacteria and yeasts on ThermoFisher Scientific’s Oxoid Chromo- genic media....
The new Fluent ID* module eliminates the need to watch and wait while your liquid handling platform scans and identifies each individual sample tube, allowing 32 barcoded samples to be loaded and identified in just three seconds. The Fluent ID scanner is fitted with a status indicator light offering a clear pass/fail notification as soon as the tube rack is loaded onto the worktable....
Kevin Orf, Senior Manager of Validation and Metrology at a specialty pharmaceutical and diagnostic company based in San Diego, California, explained: “In our line of work, accurate pipetting is vital to avoid any errors in test results. As an ISO 13485 and CAP accredited laboratory, we must be able to demonstrate the accuracy and precision of our pipettes, as well as adherence to a regular maintenance schedule.....
With effect from the 1st of May 2017, DSUK will become wholly owned by the SLS Group and their activities will be merged into SLS. DSUK will be closed to new business from this date. This change will allow us to better serve both our DSUK and SLS customers as we move forward with a broader combined product portfolio and UK based inventory....
Cherwell Laboratories, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions, have signed a distribution agreement with Pinpoint Scientific for the ImpactAir® range of microbial air samplers. The new ImpactAir range of high performance microbial air samplers has been designed to meet the demanding environmental monitoring requirements of aseptic processing in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries....
The Spinsolve ULTRA has the field homogeneity of a superconducting NMR magnet (50% 0.2 Hz) in a compact and robust benchtop unit. When combined with solvent suppression it allows users to resolve compounds dissolved at sub-millimolar concentrations in protonated solvents, such as water. Magritek, leading suppliers of high resolution, easy-to-use benchtop NMR spectrometers, is excited to announce the release of the Spinsolve ULTRA. Using Magritek’s patented...
It gives them to opportunity acquire an economically priced autoclave with a taller chamber profile than that found in most ‘cylindrical’ machines, making it ideally suited to sterilising larger bulky items as well as enabling small and taller items to be sterilised in a single process....
This intelligent, customizable and highly scalable pipette asset management system is easily adapted to any laboratory’s standard operating procedures, helping to drive compliance in regulated environments, such as pharma, GLP and QC laboratories. Non-regulated laboratories can also take advantage of SmartStand to conveniently and efficiently monitor large numbers...
Circulating cfDNA is normally comprised of DNA fragments from healthy cells. However, apoptotic cells, necrotic cells, cancer cells, and intact cells all release cfDNA into the bloodstream. In addition, fetal cfDNA can be isolated from peripheral maternal blood. The utility and value of using cfDNA from serum and plasma for non-invasive molecular diagnostics...
With two grinding stations, the NEW FRITSCH Planetary Mill PULVERISETTE 6 premium line is the ideal mill for fast wet and dry grinding of hard, medium-hard, soft, brittle and moist samples as well as for mechanical alloying, mixing and homogenising for sample quantities up to 450 ml with reliable results down into the nano range – and an absolutely secure automatic clamping of the bowls by the mill...