New LineGene 9600 Real Time Thermal Cycler with Fibre Optic Technology
The new Bioer LineGene 9600 series of instruments, now available from Alpha Laboratories, provides the latest in Real Time PCR systems, using advanced Ferrotec Peltier, fibre optic technology. With a larger sample capactity, more detection channels and wider temperature range it provides an excellent solution for scientific research and clinical applications. LineGene 9600 instruments offer precise quantification for performing high-throughput real time PCR reactions with volumes as low as 5µl...
Spectronics Corporation has introduced a high quality, inexpensive ultraviolet crosslinker that makes it possible to identify and analyze trace amounts of DNA/RNA with far greater sensitivity, accuracy and speed than with conventional analysis.
The Select™ XLE-Series UV crosslinker covalently binds nucleic acids to membranes in under 30 seconds — 240 times faster than vacuum-oven baking! It has a unique true-UV-monitoring circuitry that safeguards valuable test results from washouts, even when the tubes age. Researchers also rely on this versatile instrument for eliminating PCR contamination, nicking ethidium-bromide-stained DNA in agarose gels, gene mapping for creating cleavage-inhibiting thymine dimers, RecA mutation screening in E.coli, UV sterilization and miscellaneous UV-dosage 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,...
BioTek's new MultiFlo™FX Microplate Dispenser is a modular, upgradable, automated reagent dispenser for 6- to 1536-well plates. Our unique Parallel Dispense™ technologies offer both peristaltic and syringe pump operation down to 500 nL, while an available wash module adds multi-purpose functionality. MultiFlo FX is an ideal platform for efficient 2D and 3D cell-based workflows, especially when integrated to the new BioStack™4 to automate operations with lidded or non-lidded plates. MultiFlo FX replaces up to five liquid handlers, saving space, time, and multiple plate loading and unloading in automated systems...
A new ultra-miniature, high density interface (HDI) solenoid valve for OEM, laboratory, scientific and medical device applications is the latest example of excellence in miniature engineering from LEE PRODUCTS.
This new ‘plug-in’ style valve features a 2-port normally closed design and offers similar performance characteristics to Lee’s traditional 3-port HDI design, but in a smaller, lighter package. The constant demands placed upon designers and machine builders to produce reliable and innovative products which are smaller and lighter are being met, thanks in part, to the Lee Companies’ ability to continue to redefine miniature fluidics....
BioTek’s Cytation™3 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader was recently honored with the first annual New Product Innovation Award, given by MipTec organizers at the 2013 MipTec Conference & Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. Cytation3 was one of three winning products announced at the exhibition.
Cytation3 combines automated digital microscopy and conventional microplate multi-mode detection to provide both rich phenotypic and well-based quantitative analyses in a streamlined workflow. This unique, patent pending design is ideal for both cell-based and biochemical assays, and its modular architecture allows users to select the modes they need now, and easily upgrade as their needs evolve...
Agar Scientific, a leading supplier of microscopy accessories and consumables, has increased the production of their world-leading filaments for electron microscopy.
As a leading supplier of accessories for microscopy, Agar Scientific has a world-renowned reputation for the manufacture and supply of replacement filaments for many of the world's leading makes of electron microscopes. Now back in production are new and re-filamented, JEOL K Type filaments. Agar filaments are specifically designed for electron microscopes for the majority of the leading manufacturers including Cambridge/LEO/Zeiss, FEI, JEOL and Camscan. The filaments are made with specially designed jigs which ensure accuracy and reproducibility in production...
Panasonic launches innovative new line of -30?C freezers with inverter technology for biomedical sample storage
Panasonic has launched a brand new line of -30?C Biomedical freezers that provide cost-efficient and secure sample storage across a wide range of applications. A combination of technological advances in Panasonic’s new -30?C freezers reduces energy consumption and improves temperature stability, delivering the effective, reliable environmental control needed when storing valuable materials such as vaccines, diagnostic samples, enzymes, culture media and reagents...
Edinburgh instruments are delighted to announce that LiCONiC AG have selected the Edinburgh Sensors Gascheck IR CO2 sensor for integration into their range of CO2 Incubator products.
LiCONiC AG manufacture a wide range of automated incubators for use in life science research applications including cell screening. Selective high quality CO2 measurement is essential in automated incubator performance because the regular access challenges the chamber environment. Using Gascheck sensors enables LiCONiC to deliver the required controls without dependence on temperature or humidity...
Well known for its iconic Alpine Air Jet Sieve for laboratory sieving and particle size measuring of fine powders, Hosokawa Micron has now introduced the Viblette™ VBL for fast, accurate wet sieving in the laboratory.
The new unit has applications when wet sieving has to be used for analysis due to the dry material’s highly cohesive nature. Examples of such materials would be carbon black, some mineral fillers and some dielectric materials. This state of the art machine uses enhanced vibration to deliver short measuring times up to 1/3 that of conventional wet sieves....
A Freedom EVO® workstation with an integrated HydroSpeed™ plate washer and Infinite® F200 PRO multimode reader is helping researchers at Jikei University School of Medicine to perform high throughput compound screening in the battle to combat persistent bacterial infections.
Dr Ken-ichi Okuda, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bacteriology at Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, explained: “Bacteria within biofilms have a low susceptibility to the immune system and antibiotics, which means that infection is more difficult to eradicate in many cases. Our objective is to find compounds that prevent formation of the biofilms, and then to analyze the detailed composition of the molecular interactions of these compounds with the bacteria.”...
Carbolite will exhibit an example of its new 1200?C ‘E-Series’ compact tube furnaces, for the first time in the UK, at Lab Innovations 2013 (6 - 7 November 2013, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK).
Available from November 2013, the innovative E-Series is ideally suited to routine laboratory applications and includes 150, 300, 450 and 600 mm length furnaces, each of which can accommodate work tubes with outer diameters up to 60 mm. Carbolite is attending Lab Innovations for the first time and will exhibit alongside Retsch UK, its sister company within the Verder Scientific Division. As well as the E-Series, Carbolite will showcase the widely used Peak laboratory ovens, fully equipped with the new nanodac™ combined programmer and data logger which ensures precise temperature control and monitoring...
Porvair Sciences has developed the first 96-well round deep well plate that genuinely delivers 2.00 ml liquid capacity / well in an automation compatible SLAS / ANSI footprint.
The revolutionary "common wall" design provides a full 2ml round well, round bottom well within a 45mm height limit, thus ensuring full compatibility with most plate handling equipment. Unlike other '2ml' deep well plates that typically offer just 1.80-1.90ml / well, the new Porvair plate enables labs involved with fraction collecting, compound storage, plate replication and mixing applications the chance to use the full 2.00 ml well capacity without compromise. Manufactured under class 10,000 conditions from ultra-pure grade polypropylene, Porvair's new 2.00ml 96-well deep well plates are certified as RNase / DNase free and contain no measurable contaminants that could otherwise leach out and affect the sample...
Power Door Autoclaves Ideal for Small Laboratories with Big Requirements
For laboratories with a requirement to sterilise large bulky items or have a need for high throughput the perfect solution would be a high capacity rectangular chamber autoclave but where there is limited lab space conventional chamber door swing is a problem therefore Priorclave has introduced the RSV range of autoclaves. The big advantage of this rectangular chamber design known as RSV PowerDoors is that the chamber door lowers and rises within the body of the actual machine, eliminating the laboratory space normally required to allow for door swing which is a factor with so many other autoclave designs...
AMSBIO has announced addition of new biotinylated histones and nucleosomes to its expanding range of recombinant nucleosomes, purified nucleosomes and full length histone proteins.
A nucleosome is the basic unit of DNA packaging. It consists of a segment of DNA wound around a core (“octamer”) of 8 histone proteins (two each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The “tails” of these histone proteins stick out, where they can be modified by a number of different histone acetyltransferases, methyltransferases, PARPs, and other epigenetic enzymes. Many of these enzymes modify very specific sites e.g. EZH2, specifically tri-methylates the lysine at position 27 in the H3 histone...
RFID Tag-Enabled Calibration Delivers Pipetting Precision
To support the pipette management efforts of researchers working in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries worldwide, METTLER TOLEDO has embedded RFID tags in all of its premium Rainin air displacement pipettes - including its recently-released E4 XLS electronic model. This addition helps labs establish advanced calibration schedules through heightened pipette tracking capabilities for significant time savings and lowered lab management costs...
Flexicon announces the next-generation of Accusil™ high accuracy dispensing tubing developed for use with their peristaltic fillers. The platinum-cured silicone tubing is manufactured in Flexicon’s state-of-the-art extrusion facility to ensure the highest quality product for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and diagnostic applications. The right tubing inside the right pump is essential for accurate and reliable dispensing. Consistent wall thickness and bore size ensure the correct liquid flow rate, while the proper tube strength and restitution allow the pump to function successfully...
BioTek's new MultiFlo™ FX Microplate Dispenser offers up to four independent reagent dispensers and a washer in one compact and modular platform to simplify and automate microplate-based liquid handling processes, thus saving time and reducing reagent costs.
MultiFlo FX is an efficient solution for 6- to 1536-well plates and incorporates Parallel Dispense™ technologies, which allows a choice of peristaltic or syringe pump dispensing. This choice of dispensing technologies allows reagent conservation and unattended operation down to 500 nL. Additionally, a wash module adds multi-purpose functionality and uses BioTek's patented Dual-Action™ manifold for independent aspirate/dispense control...
BioTek introduces the BioStack™ 4 Microplate Stacker, providing walk-away automation for routine microplate-based processes including cell-based assays and any application requiring automated plate delidding and re-lidding.
BioStack 4's unique plate carrier provides fast plate exchange speeds of less than ten seconds to increase throughput and enhance productivity. BioStack 4 is compatible with 24- to 1536-well lidded and low-volume microplates up to 22 mm high, and interchangeable 10-, 30- or 50-plate stacks are available for individual throughput needs. The small footprint allows operation within a biosafety enclosure, and conserves valuable space on the benchtop. Additionally, an optional barcode scanner increases workflow efficiency while limiting potential user errors...
New Stain-Free Gel Visualisation Application of Syngene’s G:BOX System Helps Save Time and Make Protein Analysis Safer
Scientific Digital Imaging’s [SDI’s] Syngene Division, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions is delighted to announce that the lighting and filter conditions in the G:BOX image analysis system have been optimised to allow faster, safer visualisation of proteins on stain-free gels. Technical specialists at Syngene tested filter and lighting conditions in a G:BOX XR5 image analysis system to accurately image a range of proteins (2-300ng) run on a Criterion TGX Stain-Free gel. For optimum imaging performance, the gel was exposed to 5 minutes of mid wave UV (302nm) on a UV transilluminator and the gel was imaged using a UV filter and an exposure time of 2 seconds. The gel was then stained with ProtoBlue Safe and imaged again.
High-precision Oval Gear (OG) flowmeters from Titan Enterprises can monitor a viscous fluid flow at flow rates up to 500l/min, using stainless steel, PEEK or other body materials at up to 150C and up to 700 bar.
Beneficially, unlike other flowmeters, measurement accuracy of OG flowmeters improves as the liquid viscosity increases, from a nominal one per cent to around 0.1 per cent of flow rate at higher viscosities. In a Titan OG flowmeter - oval shaped gear-toothed rotors rotate within a chamber of specified geometry. As these rotors turn, they sweep out and trap a very precise volume of fluid between the outer oval shape of the gears and the inner chamber walls with none of the fluid actually passing through the gear teeth...
Porvair Filtration Group showcases its extensive range of microfiltration products at Drinktec 2013 in Munich
At the show Porvair officially launched Stabifil™, a novel polyphenol removal product for beer and wine stabilization. Stabifil uses Porvair’s proprietary and patented technology of co-sintering Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVPP) powder with Vyon® to effect product exposure to PVPP at high flow rates with low contact time in a sanitary and highly efficient manner. Manufactured into cartridges and disc assemblies, this new product can be regenerated many times in-situ with no loss in performance...
The Select™ XLE-Series UV crosslinker covalently binds nucleic acids to membranes in under 30 seconds — 240 times faster than vacuum-oven baking! It has a unique true-UV-monitoring circuitry that safeguards valuable test results from washouts, even when the tubes age. Researchers also rely on this versatile instrument for eliminating PCR contamination, nicking ethidium-bromide-stained DNA in agarose gels, gene mapping for creating cleavage-inhibiting thymine dimers, RecA mutation screening in E.coli, UV sterilization and miscellaneous UV-dosage 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,...
BioTek's new MultiFlo™FX Microplate Dispenser is a modular, upgradable, automated reagent dispenser for 6- to 1536-well plates. Our unique Parallel Dispense™ technologies offer both peristaltic and syringe pump operation down to 500 nL, while an available wash module adds multi-purpose functionality. MultiFlo FX is an ideal platform for efficient 2D and 3D cell-based workflows, especially when integrated to the new BioStack™4 to automate operations with lidded or non-lidded plates. MultiFlo FX replaces up to five liquid handlers, saving space, time, and multiple plate loading and unloading in automated systems...
The new unit has applications when wet sieving has to be used for analysis due to the dry material’s highly cohesive nature. Examples of such materials would be carbon black, some mineral fillers and some dielectric materials. This state of the art machine uses enhanced vibration to deliver short measuring times up to 1/3 that of conventional wet sieves....
Available from November 2013, the innovative E-Series is ideally suited to routine laboratory applications and includes 150, 300, 450 and 600 mm length furnaces, each of which can accommodate work tubes with outer diameters up to 60 mm. Carbolite is attending Lab Innovations for the first time and will exhibit alongside Retsch UK, its sister company within the Verder Scientific Division. As well as the E-Series, Carbolite will showcase the widely used Peak laboratory ovens, fully equipped with the new nanodac™ combined programmer and data logger which ensures precise temperature control and monitoring...
Scientific Digital Imaging’s [SDI’s] Syngene Division, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions is delighted to announce that the lighting and filter conditions in the G:BOX image analysis system have been optimised to allow faster, safer visualisation of proteins on stain-free gels. Technical specialists at Syngene tested filter and lighting conditions in a G:BOX XR5 image analysis system to accurately image a range of proteins (2-300ng) run on a Criterion TGX Stain-Free gel. For optimum imaging performance, the gel was exposed to 5 minutes of mid wave UV (302nm) on a UV transilluminator and the gel was imaged using a UV filter and an exposure time of 2 seconds. The gel was then stained with ProtoBlue Safe and imaged again.
