New PrimeSurface culture ware, developed by the Sumitomo Bakelite Company, Japan, is now available in the UK from Alpha Laboratories Ltd. 

PrimeSurface plastic culture vessels include proprietary low-protein-adsorption technology that prevents cell adhesion, making these ideal for spheroid cell colony formation. PrimeSurface products provide stable culture surfaces with an ultra-hydrophilic polymer coating containing a high density hydroxyl group. This prevents elution of chemicals from the plate that could affect cell response and also promotes spontaneous spheroid formation within stem cell cultures....

Compared to traditional lyophilised plasma controls, the Precision BioLogic (Nova Scotia, Canada), range of cryocheck^TM Factor Deficient Plasmas provide significant quality and productivity improvements for the haemostasis laboratory.

Exclusively available in the UK from Alpha Laboratories (Hampshire, UK), these frozen, platelet-poor plasmas are immunodepleted and assayed at less than 1% for the specific factor, by functional and antigenic methods*. The plasma is buffered and frozen, resulting in an excellent quality product that is consistent vial to vial.? Being ready-to-use, quality is further ensured as no reconstitution is required. In contrast, lyophilised material needs to be dissolved in a specific quantity of deionised water...

Sartorius Stedim Biotech introduces advanced system for agar and membrane transfer 

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading global supplier for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, is introducing Microsart @media to complement Microsart @vance, a product line for microbiological quality control in these sectors. Microsart @media are agar media dishes for Microbial Limits Testing according to the USP (Chapter <61>) and EP (Chapter 2.6.12). They are pre-filled with various agar media types, such as Tryptic Soy Agar or R2A Agar, sterile packaged and ready-to-use in combination with Microsart @filter units....

High Performance Unit Supports Full Range of Common Tubes

Designed for applications that use common, disposable conical tubes, JA-14.50 rotors from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences extend the applications and flexibility of the company’s Avanti centrifuge series, and can be used inAvanti J-26S, J-30I and J-E centrifuges.  While greater capacity results in higher throughput, the rotors maintain the precision performance offered by products in the Avanti line and are the only high-performance rotors capable of spinning 50, 15, 5 and 1.5 mL conical tubes, and 50, 15 and 10 mL round bottom tubes and bottles at their maximum speeds...

Enteroviruses are a diverse group of RNA viruses including Poliovirus, Rhinoviruses, Coxsackie A & B viruses, and Echoviruses.

Most are acquired via the fecal-oral route and exhibit symptomologies from the common cold and conjunctivitis to myocarditis, sepsis and flaccid paralysis. The most recently discovered members of this genus are now just numbered such as EV68, EV70, EV71 etc. ViroStat has just released a broadly reactive monoclonal antibody that reacts with many of these viruses. This new pan-reactive monoclonal antibody is positive for all 27 Enteroviruses tested to-date....

Thermo Fisher Scientific has released a new 58-page compendium for its solid-core HPLC columns (Thermo Scientific^TM Accucore^TM HPLC columns) titled, Solid Core Technical Compendium.

These solid-core HPLC columns use our Core Enhanced Technology^TM to produce a 2.6 μm solid-core material with a very tight particle size distribution. The particles in the columns are not fully porous but instead have a solid silica core surrounded by a porous outer layer. The very tight particle size distribution results in columns with high permeability. Therefore, bar for bar, the columns produce improved separation efficiency when compared to fully porous materials....

Empirical Bioscience announced today that it has introduced FlashTaq Hot-Start Taq DNA Polymerase

Empirical Bioscience, (formerly known asSyzygy Biotech^™), a company that produces high-grade PCR reagents and enzymes, announced today that it has introduced FlashTaq Hot-Start Taq DNA Polymerase, a chemically-modified Taq polymerase designed to reduce non-specific amplification in PCR. The enzyme offers, fewer contamination issues and fast activation time. In fact, under standard hot start conditions it can be activated and the enzyme recovers both 5’-3’ polymerase and 5’-exonuclease activities within two minutes versus the ten minutes of activation time required by many competitors’ enzymes...

Eppendorf has introduced a new series of Eppendorf Serological Pipets for cell culture applications.

With clear material and sharp graduation for easy read-out, the new Eppendorf Serological Pipets work in complete harmony with our pipet controller the Eppendorf Easypet® 3. As both the pipets and the Easypet® 3 are designed to work together, there is no risk of dripping or compromise in performance, allowing researchers to carry out their liquid handling with complete confidence....

Vapourtec has developed the UV-150

Vapourtec (Suffolk, UK) has developed the UV-150, a pioneering photochemical reactor that will lead to more efficient, precise, consistent, safe and scalable photochemical synthesis offering potential routes for novel compounds and building blocks together with possible new manufacturing processes. Two years in development, the plug and play reactor offers a wide range of features that makes it an industry first. With no intensive set up required, it is unique within the field of flow chemistry and is designed to complement Vapourtec’s existing R-Series and E-Series flow chemistry systems used in hundreds of laboratories around the world...

ACQUITY QDa and ionkey/MS Drive LC/MS Convergence with Mass Detection for Chromatographers and Separations for Spectrometrists Respectively

Waters^® Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the ACQUITY^® UltraPerformance LC^® (UPLC^®) System, a technology that created a new industry standard for chromatographic performance.   Looking forward, Waterstoday also introduced the new ionKey/MS™ System, a new approach for getting exceptional sensitivity, robustness and ease-of-use out of mass spectrometry and featured the ACQUITY QDa™, the first mass detector to bring high-quality, mass spectral data to chromatographic separations, in its Pittcon debut...

Micronic has added a Modular Vertical Freezer Rack to its extensive range of sample storage accessories for biobanking.

The Modular Freezer Rack provides a flexible and low cost solution for organising sample storage in a chest freezer. The lightweight modular storage system fits into all chest freezers and is fully compatible with all ANSI / SLAS standard footprint storage racks. To set up the easy-to-use modular system simply click individual rack holders (height: 68mm) together to construct a tower of up to 15 holders. Each rack holder has the capacity to house a single Micronic storage rack (Roborack-96, Comorack-96, Comorack-24 and Arctic Rack-24)...

Exeter Analytical has introduced an entry-level manual version of their high performance Model 440 Elemental Analyser

Exeter Analytical has introduced an entry-level manual version of their high performance Model 440 Elemental Analyser for determining percentage levels of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen (CHN) quickly, easily and reliably across the widest range of sample types. Competitively priced, the manual Model 440 offers labs running smaller numbers of samples a no-compromise entry point into high performance CHN analysis. The manual Model 440 is based upon Exeter Analytical’s proven static combustion elemental analyser incorporating a unique horizontal furnace design...

Visitors to Analytica in Munich, April 1-4 2014, will be first in the queue to see KNF Lab’s ground-breaking new RC900 Rotary Evaporator, an efficient, robust instrument set to transform rotary evaporation and make the technique easier and safer than ever before.

The elegant, easy-to-clean design of the RC900 offers a range of novel features that focus on easy and reliable operation and increasing operator safety – including a unique remote control unit, simple one button functions for routine tasks such as changing flasks, easily adjustable rotation speeds and dynamic temperature control – resulting in a breakthrough in performance and reliability for a wide range of applications....

Data acquisition and logging of laboratory equipment cycle data is becoming increasingly important for many laboratories and institutions.

LTE Scientific’s Touchclave-Lab autoclave range addresses this issue in a number of ways. Unlike many autoclave manufacturers, Internal Data Archiving is a standard feature on all Touchclave-Lab models. Up to 5000 cycles are stored on an internal flashcard, which, when full is simply replaced. The data from the flashcard is easily downloaded to a PC using LTE’s Touchclave-NET software. All data is checksum protected, and thus tamper-proof....

High Precision and Speed

Tecan’s revolutionary NanoQuant Plate™ offers precise, straightforward absorbance and fluorescence-based measurements from sample volumes as low as 2 μl.

Sale until 31/07/14

Measuring Particle Shape and Size with Dynamic Image Analysis!

The new ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer is the ideal instrument for analysis of particle shape and size of dry, free-flowing powders and bulk solids in a measuring range from 20 µm to 20 mm. Via the optical analysis of particle shape and particle size, damaged particles, contaminations, agglomerates or oversized- or undersized-particles are recognized accurate and fast and can be viewed as single images. At the same time, the instrument offers a fast and efficient particle size measurement....

The new Grande Fleur, a Huber Kältemaschinenbau product, extends Huber's portfolio of dynamic temperature control systems.

J.G. Finneran's molded PTFE/Silicone and Silicone only Sealing Mats are designed to fit standard 96-well microplates with cylindrical or tapered wells, and square wells

Designed for formulation, research and development applications, the new version of pilot-scale freeze dryer incorporates improvements in control system architecture, management software, process control and interface features 

Telstar has launched a new version of the Pilot-scale Freeze Dryer, Lyobeta, specifically designed for small scale formulation, research and development work. The Telstar Lyobeta range of laboratory freeze-dryers is specially designed for the field of experimentation, research and formulation to develop recipes in pharmaceutical freeze-drying processes. The new version of the Lyobeta, which offers the flexibility, performance and small foot print required in a laboratory unit, incorporates developments related to process control, including a PLC-based control system and improvements to control and programming capabilities, management software and interface features, to make it the most complete, efficient and convenient pilot unit on the market. Lyobeta bridges the gap in the market that in the past was filled with large-size laboratory equipment...

The ABB MB-Rx In-Situ Reaction Monitor is a plug-and-play solution designed for research laboratories and pilot plants in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries.

This robust and maintenance free analyzer provides real-time insight into chemical reaction dynamics. Key parameters such as kinetics over different phases, reagent consumption and the synthesis of products and by-products can be assessed in real time. The MR-Rx features a rugged Hastelloy ATR probe and an intuitive software interface that allows for rapid set-up of experiment templates....