Tecan is simplifying handling of biological fluids with the introduction of a wide bore version of its popular 1,000 μl Liquid Handling Arm™ (LiHa) disposable tip.
Initially available for use with the Air LiHa™ air displacement pipetting option on Freedom EVO® workstations, this new filtered tip has been developed to help alleviate some of the issues associated with handling complex liquids for applications such as biobanking and clinical diagnostics.
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The Coates Lab at the University of California Berkeley focuses on environmental and fossil fuel microbiology, and relies on Rainin to maintain its large pool of pipettes.
Laboratory manager Anna Engelbrekston explained: “Our group’s research concentrates on oil reservoir microbes, specifically looking at inhibiting the production of hydrogen sulfide by sulfate reducing microorganisms, which causes oil reservoir souring....
With a 40% larger opening, the new Finneran polypropylene R.A.M.™ vial has a capacity of 1.7mL.
The 12x32mm polypropylene vial can be used for applications in Ion Chromatography, Capillary Electrophoresis (CE+CE/MS), Atomic Absorption, and is ideal for pH-sensitive samples, sodium and heavy metals analyses, and aqueous samples. This vial is specifically designed to work in robotic arm autosamplers such as Agilent, Waters, Gerstel and Shimadzu instruments...
Read MoreNEW Scilogex Life Science product range; designed for efficient laboratoriesJan 19, 2017
GPE are delighted to announce that Scilogex has expanded their range of Life Science products.
The successful range of Scilogex benchtop lab equipment continues to grow, with two ranges launched; thermal mixers and electronic bottletop dispensers. The iTrite electronic bottletop burette and the iFlow electronic bottletop dispenser is the latest in modern innovation for Liquid Handling products....
METTLER TOLEDO’S Rainin TerraRacks™ have enabled the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy, to adopt a more environmentally-friendly approach to manual pipetting.
Dr Bronislava Matoskova, Molecular Medicine Program Manager, explained: “As well as regular biochemistry and molecular biology studies, we analyze human tissue, blood and serum as part of a molecular medicine research program. We use large numbers of pipette tips and are keen to reduce the environmental impact of our work as much as possible. When I saw the TerraRack, I was immediately captivated by its green concept, which minimizes the waste produced...
Benefiting from a state-of-the-art -75°C condenser - the Series 3 HT Evaporator from Genevac sets a new benchmark for enhanced evaporation and lyophilisation results.
Drying HPLC purification fractions, such as water and acetonitrile, is a routine yet essential task in many pharmaceutical laboratories. Typically labs require HPLC fractions to be dried to a powder form, such that samples can be accurately weighed, easily sub-sampled and re-dissolved....
Chromatrap® offers an optimised unique buffer chemistry that provides the leading solution for the isolation of high quality and high yield chromatin.
The success of any ChIP assay is dependent upon the quality of your chromatin. The unique buffer system for chromatin extraction developed by Chromatrap® has been cited in a growing number of recent publications investigations into G-quadruplex structures in human regulatory chromatin and receptor signals in natural killer cells....
AMSBIO has introduced the MitoXpress® Xtra Fatty Acid Oxidation (FAO) kit to facilitate the convenient measurement of FAO-driven respiration.
Fatty acid oxidation is the primary metabolic pathway in a variety of tissues, which is particularly important during periods of glucose deprivation. In organs such as liver and skeletal muscle, FAO can provide over 75% of cellular ATP while in cardiac tissue it can be responsible for up to 90% of cellular energy requirements....
SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom FH Panels enable streamlined investigation of FH and customisation of content
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its customisable SureSeq™ NGS panel range with the launch of the SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom FH Panel – allowing fast and cost-effective study of variants in familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The new panel delivers both single nucleotide variation (SNV) and copy number variation (CNV) detection on a single small NGS panel assay...
Asynt announces an updated version of its best practice guide developed to enable laboratory personnel to more safely use heating block systems.
Written in conjunction with the Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews (UK) and Advanced Chemical Safety Inc. (USA) the illustrated guide leads you through best practices for glassware inspection, setting up your reaction, heating your reaction and the post-reaction cool down phase.....
Glass Solutions, a world leader in the manufacture of high quality, precision glassware, is the supplier of choice for a wide variety of laboratories, providing specialist scientific glassware backed by unrivalled service and support.
With extensive in-house expertise, combined with the UK’s largest advanced glass-blowing facility, the company is ideally placed to produce exceptional quality, precision manufactured glassware to suit a wide variety of laboratory applications. Based in a modern, purpose-built facility....
Compact in design - MEDIAJET from INTEGRA offers the unique flexibility to fill Petri dishes of various sizes, Petri dishes with two compartments or test tubes of various diameters and length.
The MEDIAJET sets the gold standard for automated preparation of consistent high quality, contamination-free media in Petri dishes and test tubes. The surface of the MEDIAJET filling chamber is manufactured from a single piece of chemically resistant polyethylene, which allows efficient cleaning....
Product offers smaller sample volumes and four times higher throughput than traditional assays
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today launched the MILLIPLEX® MAP Human High Sensitivity cytokine panelfor faster and more cost-effective human cytokine assays. The new panel allows researchers to achieve four times higher throughput than traditional assays while using smaller sample sizes....
The Ocean Optics Diffuse Reflectance Probe (DR-Probe) measures 45° diffuse reflectance, enhancing UV-Vis and NIR spectroscopy results. This sampling tool removes localized variance in reflectance measurements. It is ideal for applications such as color analysis, material identification and quality monitoring of foods....
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are using a METTLER TOLEDO Rainin Pos-D™ positive-displacement pipette to investigate the role of chemical dispersants in the biodegradation of oil in Arctic marine environments.
Taylor Gofstein, a PhD student, explained: “Little is known about the fate of oil or oil spill response chemicals – like dispersants – in Arctic waters, since most studies regarding dispersants are performed in temperate regions. There is currently a pretty hot debate in the environmental microbiology community about the role dispersants play in the biodegradation of oil....
DURAN®TILT is designed for making work in biosafety cabinets and clean hoods safer and easier.
The handling of traditional cell culture media bottles in biosafety cabinets and hoods is inconvenient and time-consuming. The innovative features of the DURAN®TILT bottle change everything. The TILT bottle has two positions: upright for filter sterilisation or storage, and tilted at 45° for pipetting....
The range of Solenoid Pumps available from LEE PRODUCTS continues to be developed in response to the ever-increasing demands of the medical and scientific industries for components which require less space, weigh less and contribute toward energy savings.
Lee’s range of inert solenoid pumps comprises the LPL, LPM and LPG Series and represents a comprehensive range of fixed volume dispense pumps which meet designers’ objectives whilst providing optimum flexibility. They are designed to provide precise and repeatable, fixed volume dispensing in a small, lightweight package. Features include, a revolutionary port head design that allows tubing connections and manifold mounting which enable designers to test the...
Porvair Sciences announces a new range of 96-well (square and round) capmats made from 100% pure silicone that has been conditioned for low bleed and ease of needle penetration when used with autosamplers.
Advantageously these silicone capmats reseal after each piercing and may be re-pierced many times without loss of function. Specially treated with a PTFE coating, Porvair silicone capmats offer increased chemical resistance thereby maintaining high sample integrity even over extended periods of time. Resistant to organic solvents including ethanol, methanol, DMSO and DMF, these flexible silicone capmats individually seal the top of each microplate well reducing the chance of...
Empirical Bioscience announced today that they have optimized their line of Master Mix products including, their MeanGreen, Multiplex, FlashTaq HotStart and rEVAlution qPCR 2X Master Mixes for enhanced activity, stability and reduced foaming.
Typically used in applications such as screening, cloning, or quantitative PCR, the low foam aspect of this product line allows for easier and more efficient use without the loss of material that can occur from bubble formation during the mixing/dispensing process. It also reduces the amount of material that can be lost from the adherence to plastic surfaces....
Particle Works – the nano- and microstructured material specialist – has developed a range of alginate and agarose hydrogel beads designed to enable three dimensional cell culture growth.
This bead-based environment more closely mimics in vivo conditions, providing greater access to nutrients and allowing better cell-cell interactions. Three dimensional cell cultures have been widely recognized as offering substantial improvements over conventional two dimensional (Petri dish) cultures for many years, allowing considerably more accurate in vitro investigations of cellular behaviour. Particle Works alginate and agarose beads are precision...
Sample preservation and storage solutions designer Micronic released the innovative new 0.75ml and 1.40ml tubes with an external screw thread.
The two tube sizes are the first in a range of new designs featuring an external thread. Using externally threaded tubes for sample storage eliminates the possibility of the sample coming into contact with the screw thread, greatly reducing the chance of cross-contamination while improving sample integrity....
Empirical Bioscience announced today that they have optimized their line of Master Mix products including, their MeanGreen, Multiplex, FlashTaq HotStart and rEVAlution qPCR 2X Master Mixes for enhanced activity, stability and reduced foaming.
Typically used in applications such as screening, cloning, or quantitative PCR, the low foam aspect of this product line allows for easier and more efficient use without the loss of material that can occur from bubble formation during the mixing/dispensing process....
Laboratory manager Anna Engelbrekston explained: “Our group’s research concentrates on oil reservoir microbes, specifically looking at inhibiting the production of hydrogen sulfide by sulfate reducing microorganisms, which causes oil reservoir souring....
The 12x32mm polypropylene vial can be used for applications in Ion Chromatography, Capillary Electrophoresis (CE+CE/MS), Atomic Absorption, and is ideal for pH-sensitive samples, sodium and heavy metals analyses, and aqueous samples. This vial is specifically designed to work in robotic arm autosamplers such as Agilent, Waters, Gerstel and Shimadzu instruments...
The successful range of Scilogex benchtop lab equipment continues to grow, with two ranges launched; thermal mixers and electronic bottletop dispensers. The iTrite electronic bottletop burette and the iFlow electronic bottletop dispenser is the latest in modern innovation for Liquid Handling products....
Dr Bronislava Matoskova, Molecular Medicine Program Manager, explained: “As well as regular biochemistry and molecular biology studies, we analyze human tissue, blood and serum as part of a molecular medicine research program. We use large numbers of pipette tips and are keen to reduce the environmental impact of our work as much as possible. When I saw the TerraRack, I was immediately captivated by its green concept, which minimizes the waste produced...
Drying HPLC purification fractions, such as water and acetonitrile, is a routine yet essential task in many pharmaceutical laboratories. Typically labs require HPLC fractions to be dried to a powder form, such that samples can be accurately weighed, easily sub-sampled and re-dissolved....
The success of any ChIP assay is dependent upon the quality of your chromatin. The unique buffer system for chromatin extraction developed by Chromatrap® has been cited in a growing number of recent publications investigations into G-quadruplex structures in human regulatory chromatin and receptor signals in natural killer cells....
Fatty acid oxidation is the primary metabolic pathway in a variety of tissues, which is particularly important during periods of glucose deprivation. In organs such as liver and skeletal muscle, FAO can provide over 75% of cellular ATP while in cardiac tissue it can be responsible for up to 90% of cellular energy requirements....
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its customisable SureSeq™ NGS panel range with the launch of the SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom FH Panel – allowing fast and cost-effective study of variants in familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The new panel delivers both single nucleotide variation (SNV) and copy number variation (CNV) detection on a single small NGS panel assay...
Written in conjunction with the Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews (UK) and Advanced Chemical Safety Inc. (USA) the illustrated guide leads you through best practices for glassware inspection, setting up your reaction, heating your reaction and the post-reaction cool down phase.....
With extensive in-house expertise, combined with the UK’s largest advanced glass-blowing facility, the company is ideally placed to produce exceptional quality, precision manufactured glassware to suit a wide variety of laboratory applications. Based in a modern, purpose-built facility....
The MEDIAJET sets the gold standard for automated preparation of consistent high quality, contamination-free media in Petri dishes and test tubes. The surface of the MEDIAJET filling chamber is manufactured from a single piece of chemically resistant polyethylene, which allows efficient cleaning....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today launched the MILLIPLEX® MAP Human High Sensitivity cytokine panelfor faster and more cost-effective human cytokine assays. The new panel allows researchers to achieve four times higher throughput than traditional assays while using smaller sample sizes....
The Ocean Optics Diffuse Reflectance Probe (DR-Probe) measures 45° diffuse reflectance, enhancing UV-Vis and NIR spectroscopy results. This sampling tool removes localized variance in reflectance measurements. It is ideal for applications such as color analysis, material identification and quality monitoring of foods....
Taylor Gofstein, a PhD student, explained: “Little is known about the fate of oil or oil spill response chemicals – like dispersants – in Arctic waters, since most studies regarding dispersants are performed in temperate regions. There is currently a pretty hot debate in the environmental microbiology community about the role dispersants play in the biodegradation of oil....
The handling of traditional cell culture media bottles in biosafety cabinets and hoods is inconvenient and time-consuming. The innovative features of the DURAN®TILT bottle change everything. The TILT bottle has two positions: upright for filter sterilisation or storage, and tilted at 45° for pipetting....
Lee’s range of inert solenoid pumps comprises the LPL, LPM and LPG Series and represents a comprehensive range of fixed volume dispense pumps which meet designers’ objectives whilst providing optimum flexibility. They are designed to provide precise and repeatable, fixed volume dispensing in a small, lightweight package. Features include, a revolutionary port head design that allows tubing connections and manifold mounting which enable designers to test the...
Advantageously these silicone capmats reseal after each piercing and may be re-pierced many times without loss of function. Specially treated with a PTFE coating, Porvair silicone capmats offer increased chemical resistance thereby maintaining high sample integrity even over extended periods of time. Resistant to organic solvents including ethanol, methanol, DMSO and DMF, these flexible silicone capmats individually seal the top of each microplate well reducing the chance of...
Typically used in applications such as screening, cloning, or quantitative PCR, the low foam aspect of this product line allows for easier and more efficient use without the loss of material that can occur from bubble formation during the mixing/dispensing process. It also reduces the amount of material that can be lost from the adherence to plastic surfaces....
This bead-based environment more closely mimics in vivo conditions, providing greater access to nutrients and allowing better cell-cell interactions. Three dimensional cell cultures have been widely recognized as offering substantial improvements over conventional two dimensional (Petri dish) cultures for many years, allowing considerably more accurate in vitro investigations of cellular behaviour. Particle Works alginate and agarose beads are precision...
The two tube sizes are the first in a range of new designs featuring an external thread. Using externally threaded tubes for sample storage eliminates the possibility of the sample coming into contact with the screw thread, greatly reducing the chance of cross-contamination while improving sample integrity....
Typically used in applications such as screening, cloning, or quantitative PCR, the low foam aspect of this product line allows for easier and more efficient use without the loss of material that can occur from bubble formation during the mixing/dispensing process....