Recent Articles in Laboratory Exhibitions and Conferences
Copley Scientific introduces new breath simulator at ISAM 2011Jun 9, 2011A new breath simulator from Copley Scientific will be on display for the first time at the 18th Congress of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM), 18 - 22 June 2011, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The new breath simulator allows application of all of the breathing profiles specified in new guidance for nebuliser testing issued in the pharmacopoeia.
Read MoreHuman DNA Experiment Uses 200k Digital Array ChipJun 7, 2011Fluidigm Europe has announced a new technical report that describes experimentation on a normal human genomic DNA sample using a prototype 200k Digital Array Chip on a modified BioMarkTM System.
Read MoreNew video and conference poster highlight versatility of Parsum In-line Particle ProbeJun 6, 2011A new 3-minute video highlighting the versatility of the Parsum IPP 70 In-line Particle Probe is now available on the Malvern Instruments website. Designed to measure continuously the size, size distribution, and velocity of granular particles, directly in the process, the Parsum In-line Particle Probe (IPP) is a valuable tool for process development and automated production. It has applications in many sectors including the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries...
Read MorePhotonex 2011 will open its doors on October 18 & 19 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry the web site now is live!Jun 2, 2011
For the twentieth year, Photonex 2011 will be run as a combined exhibition and technical conference for those working in optics, photonic and imaging technology. It is the UK's largest exhibition of these technologies and attracts an audience from all parts of the world with 15 countries represented in 2010. After last year's success, Vacuum Expo 2011 will be run in parallel with Photonex to provide an excellent mix of synergistic tools and techniques for the visitor...
Read MoreNew Application Note from BMG LABTECH - "Quantitative, High- Throughput, Fluorescent-Based Bioassay to Detect Schistosoma Viability"Jun 2, 2011A Schistosoma viability assay (96 and 384 well format) is introduced that utilizes two fluorophores. Fluorescein diacetate emission is related to living cells while propidium iodide emission indicates the number of dead cells. This assay abandons low throughput microscopy and was performed in bottom reading mode on the POLARstar Omega microplate reader from BMG LABTECH...
Read MoreDionex Releases New Application Update for Faster and Improved Resolution in Testing for Contamination in HeparinJun 2, 2011Dionex is pleased to announce the release of Application Update 178: Faster Solution with Increased Resolution for Determining Chromatographic Identity and Absence of OSCS in Heparin Sodium. The U.S. Pharmacopeia Monograph for Heparin Sodium was revised after oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS)-contaminated heparin led to the deaths of over 100 patients.
Read MoreMalvern Instruments host a series of complimentary training schools for users of the Viscotek triple detection gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) systems. May 31, 2011Malvern Instruments will host a series of complimentary training schools in North America this year for users of the company's Viscotek triple detection gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) systems...
Read MoreOfficial Launch of Peak ScientificsMay 25, 2011Peak Scientifics' latest range of gas generators the "Genius2" range now produce the highest output yet in their internal compressor based systems. After a rigorous testing period the Genius2 official launch will be held at ASMS (The American Society for Mass Spectrometry) in Denver, California on the 5th-9th of June...
Read MoreCopley Scientific demonstrates detergent tester at CESIO 2011May 23, 2011Copley Scientific will exhibit the Tergotometer detergent testing system at CESIO 2011, the 8th World Surfactant Congress and Business Convention, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from June 6 - 8, 2011. The Copley Scientific Tergotometer is a convenient and economical laboratory-scale system that is widely used to test the effectiveness of soaps and detergents or the washability and colourfastness of fabrics and other materials...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Demonstrates its FT-IR Instrumentation Gives Increased Confidence in Quality Assurance/Quality Control Testing in New Application NoteMay 18, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, highlights that its FT-IR instrumentation provides scientists with increased confidence in their results during Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) testing. This means scientists are able to focus on handling the ever growing number of samples produced and letting the responsibility for performance verification go to the instrument itself...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Develops New Method for High Purity Aluminum Analysis Using Glow Discharge Mass SpectrometryMay 16, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of a new application note that describes how to use the unique capabilities of the Thermo Scientific ELEMENT GD glow discharge mass spectrometer to accurately and efficiently characterize high purity aluminum...
Read MoreMalvern Instruments to lead workshop on May 12, 2011Drs Kevin Mattison*, Ulf Nobbmann and Jason Sanchez of Malvern Instruments will lead a workshop on ‘Characterization techniques for protein therapeutics' - at the 7th Annual PEGS - Protein & Antibody Engineering Summit being held in Boston MA, from 9-13 May 2011...
Read MoreDetermination of Lanthanides by Ion ChromatographyMay 12, 2011Lanthanides are of increasing technological importance. However, the techniques commonly used to determine them require equipment well beyond the means of small budgets. Ion chromatography applying non-suppressed conductivity or UV/VIS detection is a straightforward, much less expensive alternative...
Read MoreAgilent Announces Automation MeetingMay 11, 2011Agilent Automation Solutions has announced that its 4th Automation User Group meeting that will take place in San Francisco, USA from September 20th - 22nd 2011. Early registration for the popular 3-day meeting is now open...
Read MoreACHEMA 2012May 10, 2011The international congress running alongside the ACHEMA 2012 exhibition will feature 900 lectures focused on state-of-the-art developments and the event's organizers are inviting contributors to submit applications to qualify to make lecture presentations at the event. The leading international meeting point for decision-makers and experts, ACHEMA 2012 focuses on a broad spectrum of process and chemical engineering industries and related technologies...
Read MoreExploring the links between rheology, gel permeation chromatography and particle characterizationMay 9, 2011At the 7th Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2011), May 10 - 14, 2011, Suzdal, Russia, Malvern Instruments will focus on how to maximize analytical benefit and impact by combining rheology with complementary techniques such as gel permeation chromatography and particle characterization...
Read MoreNew Application Note from BMG Labtech "The ELISAONE assay performed on the POLARstar Omega"May 9, 2011Traditional ELISA assays are known for their several wash steps in order to remove unbound antigen from the well. Here we introduce a fluorescence based ELISA assay that only needs one wash step. This technology is called ELISAONE™ and was developed by TGR BioSciences. The ELISAONE™ assay is both robust and sensitive as evidenced by EGF, TNFa and IL-2 data obtained with the POLARstar Omega microplate reader from BMG LABTECH...
Read MoreStraightforward monitoring of uranium in drinking and mineral waterMay 5, 2011Determining trace levels of uranium in drinking and mineral water by inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) requires expensive analytical instrumentation. In contrast, adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry (AdCSV) using Metrohm’s 797 VA Computrace is a straightforward, much less expensive alternative allowing measurements with superior sensitivity...
Read MoreSelect Biosciences offer the chance to register free for an exhibition only pass to ELAMay 5, 2011Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, are providing the opportunity to register free to visit the exhibition at ELA, Europe's only event dedicated to laboratory automation. The European Lab Automation event will take place at the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH), 30 June - 1 July in Hamburg, Germany...
Read MoreSyrris offers free flow chemistry and automated process chemistry workshopsApr 28, 2011Leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris invites scientists to attend free workshop seminars in Flow Chemistry and Automated Process Chemistry; to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, at Syrris' Thai distributor, Sithiporn. The courses will be running on the 9 - 10th as well as the 12 - 13th of May 2011, allowing delegates to attend both...
Read MoreTools for Polymer Characterization Apr 27, 2011Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments is focusing on tools for polymer characterization as part of its exhibit at this year's Annual Technical Conference for the polymer industry (ANTEC 2011, May 1-5, Boston MA, USA). Highlights include Malvern's Viscotek gel permeation chromatography (GPC) systems for measuring polymer architecture and the company's range of capillary rheometers for determining polymer processability...
Read MoreNew Application Note from BMG Labtech "Thioflavin T aggregation assay to determine antibody stability"Apr 26, 2011The efficiency of antibody molecules is dependent on their stability. Stress can cause denaturation and aggregation resulting in inactive proteins. We introduce an assay setup where stability of antibodies is measured. Shaking stress is initiated by the FLUOstar Omega microplate reader and aggregation propensity of antibody candidates is measured with the help of a fluorescence based assay in 96-well format...
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A new breath simulator from Copley Scientific will be on display for the first time at the 18th Congress of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM), 18 - 22 June 2011, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The new breath simulator allows application of all of the breathing profiles specified in new guidance for nebuliser testing issued in the pharmacopoeia.
Fluidigm Europe has announced a new technical report that describes experimentation on a normal human genomic DNA sample using a prototype 200k Digital Array Chip on a modified BioMarkTM System.
A new 3-minute video highlighting the versatility of the Parsum IPP 70 In-line Particle Probe is now available on the Malvern Instruments website. Designed to measure continuously the size, size distribution, and velocity of granular particles, directly in the process, the Parsum In-line Particle Probe (IPP) is a valuable tool for process development and automated production. It has applications in many sectors including the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries...
For the twentieth year, Photonex 2011 will be run as a combined exhibition and technical conference for those working in optics, photonic and imaging technology. It is the UK's largest exhibition of these technologies and attracts an audience from all parts of the world with 15 countries represented in 2010. After last year's success, Vacuum Expo 2011 will be run in parallel with Photonex to provide an excellent mix of synergistic tools and techniques for the visitor...
A Schistosoma viability assay (96 and 384 well format) is introduced that utilizes two fluorophores. Fluorescein diacetate emission is related to living cells while propidium iodide emission indicates the number of dead cells. This assay abandons low throughput microscopy and was performed in bottom reading mode on the POLARstar Omega microplate reader from BMG LABTECH...
Dionex is pleased to announce the release of Application Update 178: Faster Solution with Increased Resolution for Determining Chromatographic Identity and Absence of OSCS in Heparin Sodium. The U.S. Pharmacopeia Monograph for Heparin Sodium was revised after oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS)-contaminated heparin led to the deaths of over 100 patients.
Malvern Instruments will host a series of complimentary training schools in North America this year for users of the company's Viscotek triple detection gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) systems...
Peak Scientifics' latest range of gas generators the "Genius2" range now produce the highest output yet in their internal compressor based systems. After a rigorous testing period the Genius2 official launch will be held at ASMS (The American Society for Mass Spectrometry) in Denver, California on the 5th-9th of June...
Copley Scientific will exhibit the Tergotometer detergent testing system at CESIO 2011, the 8th World Surfactant Congress and Business Convention, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from June 6 - 8, 2011. The Copley Scientific Tergotometer is a convenient and economical laboratory-scale system that is widely used to test the effectiveness of soaps and detergents or the washability and colourfastness of fabrics and other materials...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, highlights that its FT-IR instrumentation provides scientists with increased confidence in their results during Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) testing. This means scientists are able to focus on handling the ever growing number of samples produced and letting the responsibility for performance verification go to the instrument itself...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of a new application note that describes how to use the unique capabilities of the Thermo Scientific ELEMENT GD glow discharge mass spectrometer to accurately and efficiently characterize high purity aluminum...
Drs Kevin Mattison*, Ulf Nobbmann and Jason Sanchez of Malvern Instruments will lead a workshop on ‘Characterization techniques for protein therapeutics' - at the 7th Annual PEGS - Protein & Antibody Engineering Summit being held in Boston MA, from 9-13 May 2011...
Lanthanides are of increasing technological importance. However, the techniques commonly used to determine them require equipment well beyond the means of small budgets. Ion chromatography applying non-suppressed conductivity or UV/VIS detection is a straightforward, much less expensive alternative...
Agilent Automation Solutions has announced that its 4th Automation User Group meeting that will take place in San Francisco, USA from September 20th - 22nd 2011. Early registration for the popular 3-day meeting is now open...
The international congress running alongside the ACHEMA 2012 exhibition will feature 900 lectures focused on state-of-the-art developments and the event's organizers are inviting contributors to submit applications to qualify to make lecture presentations at the event. The leading international meeting point for decision-makers and experts, ACHEMA 2012 focuses on a broad spectrum of process and chemical engineering industries and related technologies...
At the 7th Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2011), May 10 - 14, 2011, Suzdal, Russia, Malvern Instruments will focus on how to maximize analytical benefit and impact by combining rheology with complementary techniques such as gel permeation chromatography and particle characterization...
Traditional ELISA assays are known for their several wash steps in order to remove unbound antigen from the well. Here we introduce a fluorescence based ELISA assay that only needs one wash step. This technology is called ELISAONE™ and was developed by TGR BioSciences. The ELISAONE™ assay is both robust and sensitive as evidenced by EGF, TNFa and IL-2 data obtained with the POLARstar Omega microplate reader from BMG LABTECH...
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, are providing the opportunity to register free to visit the exhibition at ELA, Europe's only event dedicated to laboratory automation. The European Lab Automation event will take place at the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH), 30 June - 1 July in Hamburg, Germany...
Leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris invites scientists to attend free workshop seminars in Flow Chemistry and Automated Process Chemistry; to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, at Syrris' Thai distributor, Sithiporn. The courses will be running on the 9 - 10th as well as the 12 - 13th of May 2011, allowing delegates to attend both...
Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments is focusing on tools for polymer characterization as part of its exhibit at this year's Annual Technical Conference for the polymer industry (ANTEC 2011, May 1-5, Boston MA, USA). Highlights include Malvern's Viscotek gel permeation chromatography (GPC) systems for measuring polymer architecture and the company's range of capillary rheometers for determining polymer processability...
The efficiency of antibody molecules is dependent on their stability. Stress can cause denaturation and aggregation resulting in inactive proteins. We introduce an assay setup where stability of antibodies is measured. Shaking stress is initiated by the FLUOstar Omega microplate reader and aggregation propensity of antibody candidates is measured with the help of a fluorescence based assay in 96-well format...