To Rapidly Produce Consistent Cancer Immunotherapy Batches and Cell Banks

TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is pleased to announce its Fill-It™, automated benchtop vial filling system is being routinely used at an innovative cell therapy company developing novel cancer immunotherapies, to improve processing speed and throughput of large batches of cells in cryovials for use as master cell banks or as cell-based immunotherapies...

Harvard Apparatus-Hugo Sachs Electronik has just released the NEW Pressure Monitor & Limiter; an ideal tool for any small animal volume controlled ventilator.

The Pressure Monitor & Limiter is the perfect peripheral to protect rodent lungs, including mice, from typical barotrauma caused by mechanical ventilation. Pressure monitoring features an analog output of the ventilation pressure signal allowing researchers to collect system pressure and make corrections to optimize the ventilation of their animals.,,,

Titan Enterprises offers a range of insertion turbine liquid flow measurement systems, for permanent or portable installation in larger diameter pipelines, from 40 - 900mm.

Insertion flowmeters measure the point velocity of the liquid in a pipe. Due to the relatively small disturbance the insertion turbine metering head introduces to a pipe, pressure losses for this type of flowmeter are very low thereby producing energy savings by reducing pumping costs. Typical applications for insertion turbine flowmeters include water distribution mains, fire hydrant monitoring, boiler feed measurement, irrigation systems, district heating and HVAC systems...

The Nanodrop nanolitre dispensing instrument line is a robust laboratory automation and liquid handling solution to life science researchers worldwide. 

Produced by Bionex Inc and distributed in the UK through Gilson these low-volume automated pipetting systems offer the highest level of performance in the industry. The Nanodrop allows miniaturization of samples and is the ideal tool for those using 384 and 1536 well plates. Typical applications include MALDI plate spotting, cell/bead dispensing, protein crystallography and high throughput screening....

Titan Enterprises reports that applicants from around the world recently entered its textbook prize draw competition marking the launch of its expanded range of Atrato ultrasonic flow metering systems.

Managing Director of Titan - Mr Trevor Forster commented "Applicants came from 29 different countries showing the global requirement for flow metering systems.  The prize draw winner, who would like to remain anonymous, works for an international medical company. I am sure the reference book 'Flow Measurement' by Béla G. Lipták will be a valuable addition to his background resources".  He added "The Atrato flowmeter is finding a lot of success measuring the low flows often found in medical applications and we are working on several OEM applications tailoring our patented ultrasonic technology for specific customer requirements"...

High performance in minimum space

FRITSCH Planetary Mills of the classic line are ideally suited for wet and dry comminution of hard, medium-hard, brittle and fibrous materials. Samples can be processed from a few milligrams to several kilograms at a wide range of fineness levels down to less than 1 μm. They are absolutely reliable, especially easy to operate and clean. Matching grinding parts of various materials are also available to provide maximum protection against undesired contamination of the samples....

Titan Enterprises has produced an informative illustrated guide to help simplify the process of identifying and selecting the best type of small bore flowmeter (< 0.5-inch / 12.5mm bore) for a particular application.

Achieving optimal performance from small bore flowmeters has very different challenges to those faced when using larger diameter meters. As the flows are lower, less energy is available in the liquid to convert to mechanical movement. The liquid is often running in the laminar flow region and viscosity and boundary layer effects become very important....

Automate your multichannel pipettes!

Multichannel pipettes are invaluable when working with multiwell plates. However, prolonged and repetitive pipetting sessions bear the risk of strain and fatigue, often resulting in repetitive strain injuries (RSI) and less reproducible results. VIAFLO ASSIST together with INTEGRA’s VIAFLO II electronic pipettes form the perfect symbiosis to prevent users from RSI and to increase the reproducibility of prolonged pipetting protocols such as serial dilutions, plate filling and reagent addition significantly....

Isotope Ratio Measurement Can Now Go to the Sample Site

Retsch offers a suitable sieve shaker for any sample material from finest powders to rocks

Retsch offers a suitable sieve shaker for any sample material. Retsch’s line of sieve shakers is the most comprehensive offering with regards to sieving motions, measuring ranges and sieve diameters, thus covering virtually any bulk material – from agglomerating powders to solid rocks. Lately, two new models have been added to the range: The new Air Jet Sieve AS 200 jet is particularly suitable for sieve cuts of powdered materials which require efficient dispersion and desagglomeration...

The ease of integration of Tecan’s Cavro^® Air Displacement Pipettor

The ease of integration of Tecan’s Cavro^® Air Displacement Pipettor (ADP) has helped French microbiological instrument manufacturer i2a to develop PRELUD^®, anautomated pre-analytical instrument for the inoculation of culture plates and preparation of agar susceptibility tests. Project manager Michel Roch explained: “When we were developing PRELUD, the integration of a liquid handling system for streaking Petri dishes was essential....

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces the release of the next generation of NanoWizard® AFM systems delivering fast-scanning and super-resolution on an inverted microscope.

The boundaries for performance of analytical instrumentation are continually being pushed to the limits. In the world of atomic force microscopy, AFM, JPK Instruments have launched a new AFM system capable of delivering fast-scanning and super-resolution on a single instrument platform, the NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed AFM....

MCD-Series dual-valve mass flow controllers increase experimental possibilities

Alicat Scientific, Inc.’s new MCD-Series Bidirectional Mass Flow and Pressure Controllers precisely and rapidly control mass flow rate, volumetric flow rate and absolute pressure of gases in two flow directions. This flexible dual-valve design is the first of its kind, allowing researchers to replace multiple dedicated instruments and make rapid changes to experimental setups...

Metrohm is pleased to introduce the scTRACE Gold, a new sensor for the straightforward voltammetric determination of arsenic in water.

The scTRACE Gold is simply plugged in the electrode shaft; as there is no preconditioning required, users can start measuring immediately after. Analysis time per sample is approximately 10 minutes only and detection limit is well below the 10 µg/L stipulated by latest legislation in the US and the EU....

The well respected GE Osmonics transfer membrane and general lab filtration range is now supplied by Maine Manufacturing Inc and distributed in the UK by Gilson UK.

Routinely used in DNA/RNA and protein blotting applications these membranes combine high material purity and strong binding affinity with excellent dimensional stability. Nitrocellulose, nylon and PVDF membrane types are all high binding/low background engineered. Pure nitrocellulose is ideal for single transfers while nylon has a higher binding capacity (approx 350µg-cm²) and binds a greater range of fragment sizes....

The MiniSeal II semi-automatic microplate sealer from Porvair Sciences comes complete with adapters enabling it to process deep well, shallow well, low profile deep well, filter and assay plates that conform to the ANSI / SLAS standard format.

MiniSeal II plate adaptors not currently in use are ingeniously designed to stack on top of the unit to keep them readily available. The MiniSeal II heat sealer operates with a very high force, this together with a powerful 450W heater ensures high integrity sealing of almost any type of microplate. With so much available power, sealing times for most polypropylene plates with Porvair seals are less than 3 seconds each....

VICI Metronics’ Dynacalibrator® Model 150  is a constant temperature system designed to generate precise ppm or ppb concentrations of chemical compounds in a gas stream, using permeation devices as the trace gas source.

It is used as a reference for the calibration of gas chromatography instruments and in other instruments that measure gas concentrations. This light-weight unit is a compact calibrator capable of delivering the precise concentrations required. A passivated Inertium® coated stainless steel permeation chamber houses the permeation device(s), with measured inert carrier gas sweeping the calibration gas/vapor from the chamber.....

Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce new membrane options in its family of Thermo Scientific Titan3 syringe filters.

They complement existing solvent and sample compatibility choices by accommodating a wider range of application requirements. The new options include 0.22µm and 0.45µm hydrophilic PTFE membranes in 17mm and 30mm syringe filter formats. They allow use of both organic and aqueous solvents without pre-wetting the membrane. This removes the need for multiple membranes and can reduce processing steps, helping users to simplify workflows. Titan3 syringe filters are designed for clean, fast, robust and cost-effective sample extractions, resulting from low extractible membranes combined with an easy-to-use format and high burst pressures....

Porvair Filtration Group has introduced four and five layer composite mesh filters, produced at its US facility in Ashland Virginia, that provide extremely high efficiency filtration in both gas and liquid applications.

The new four and five layer composite meshes are produced as self-supporting cylinders that, when incorporated into dedicated filtration systems, enable routine filtration down to sub-micron levels. Suitable for use in a wide range of applications such as critical chemical filtration duties and for high challenge backwash refinery slurry oil filters, the multi-layer composite mesh filters are designed to be cleaned in situ....

The pipette of choice for problem liquids

The Gilson MACROMAN is a large volume motorised pipette controller designed for dilutions, sampling, media preparation and more. It can be used with graduated pipettes up to 100ml in volume providing a safer, more efficient and consistent method of dosing than manual systems allow....

Featuring NEW 4 liter capacity in a traditional 3 liter footprint

New enhanced general purpose centrifuge product line offers clinical and life science researchers the ability to spin more samples in a single run while maximizing critical lab space. The Thermo Scientific general purpose centrifuges feature increased capacity and flexibility with rotor innovations including the new Thermo Scientific TX-1000 rotor, which is the only rotor on the market that employs a 4-liter capacity in a traditional 3-liter footprint....

Enhancing the performance of target capture experiments

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has launched the latest addition to its portfolio of next generation sequencing (NGS) products, xGen® Universal Blocking Oligos. By incorporating these oligos into target capture experiments, users can decrease the complexity and increase throughput of their target capture experiment without degradation of performance. Blocking oligos are commonly used to enhance the performance of capture experiments, through the prevention of cross-hybridization between adapter sequences...