Recent Articles in Laboratory Exhibitions and Conferences
EXPAND Technical Training Program by SartoriusAug 17, 2010
We provide you with hands-on training courses in our laboratories or inhouse at your own facilities. Our training courses focus on methodology. They are open to all interested parties and give you objective and unbiased perspectives.
Read MoreEasy, Cost Effective Capture & Sequencing of Whole Virus GenomeAug 17, 2010
Fluidigm Europe has announced a new technical poster** describing how its unique Access ArrayTM chip technology has been used by the Core Genotyping facility at the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD) to successfully capture and sequence the entire Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) genome from 4 individual patient DNA samples in a single sequence capture run.
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Enables Rapid and Accurate Analysis of Selenium in ShampooAug 17, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today released a new method guide for the analysis of selenium in shampoo. The method, which aligns with the European Union commission directive 97/73/EEC stipulating the methods of analysis necessary for checking composition of cosmetic products, features the Thermo Scientific iCE 3000 Series atomic absorption spectrometers.
Read MoreICIS extends presence in Russian market through MRC joint venture Aug 17, 2010
Global chemicals information giant ICIS is extending its presence in the Russian plastics market through a joint venture with specialist Former Soviet Union (FSU) based benchmark price provider Market Report Company Group (MRC), the two companies announced on Thursday.
Read MoreNew Malvern presentation tackles the Aug 6, 2010
Dr Jean-Luc Brousseau from the separations systems team at Malvern Instruments has recorded a downloadable presentation that helps illustrate the importance of specific analytical details when characterizing protein or polymer solutions. In "On the overlooked second virial coefficient" he explains the reasons why and how protein and polymer scientists can improve characterization results by measuring the 2nd virial coefficient, using either static light scattering or gel permeation chromatography/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC).
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Develops New Method to Eliminate High Boiling Matrix Contamination in GC and GC/MS Analyses of Pesticides in FoodAug 4, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new method to effectively eliminate invisible high boiling matrices in the analysis of pesticides in food. Incorporating a programmable temperature vaporizing (PTV) injector, the Thermo Scientific TRACE GC Ultra GC/MS analyzer achieves sensitive, fast and reliable analysis of pesticides in low fat food products, significantly enhancing the productivity and efficiency of gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) systems for analyzing pesticides in food, while eradicating high boiling matrix.
Read MoreHayfever: time we moved exams to the winter?Aug 2, 2010
Crucial exams take place during adolescence in most societies, which can have a major impact on an individual's career trajectory. In a Guest Editorial appearing in the August issue of Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, a team of UK experts review the evidence of the disease burden associated with hayfever and summarize recent evidence suggesting that poorly controlled hayfever can adversely impact on exam performance
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Facilitates Fast, Reproducible and Automatic Nitrogen Determination in Soils and PlantsAug 2, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new application note for providing rapid, automatic and reproducible quantitative determination of nitrogen in soils and plants with the Thermo Scientific FLASH 4000 nitrogen/protein analyzer.
Read MoreSecond Healthcare Innovation Expo to take place at LondonJul 28, 2010
The second Healthcare Innovation EXPO will now take place on the 9th and 10th March next year. Originally planned for October 2010, the EXPO has been re-scheduled at the request of Department of Health Ministers so that the new plans for the NHS, laid out in the white paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS' earlier this week, will have been through consultation, and healthcare professionals will be working towards the agreed reforms.
Read MoreHaiti: might the earthquake worsen TB rates? Jul 28, 2010
Prior to the earthquake of January 12th 2010, Haiti had experienced the highest TB notification rate in the Latin America and Caribbean region. In a forthcoming editorial in Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, Kevin Schwartzman and colleagues from the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal, Canada) discuss whether the devastation of Haiti six months ago will lead to an unavoidable increase in the incidence of TB.
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Demonstrates Superiority of Data-Dependent Decision Tree LogicJul 23, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new application note entitled "Enhancing Phosphotyrosine Proteome Coverage using a Combined ETD and CID Approach on a LTQ Orbitrap XL ETD".
Read MoreJPK announces the annual two day International Meeting on the application of SPM & Optical Tweezers for Life SciencesJul 22, 2010
JPK Instruments is happy to announce that registration is now open for the ninth annual international symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and optical tweezers. The symposia will be held on the 6-7th October 2010 in Berlin focusing on applications developments in life sciences
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Delivers New Triple Quadrupole GC/MS/MS Method to Facilitate Highly Selective Trace-level Screening of PCDD/Fs and PCBsJul 21, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new method for the trace-level screening of polychlorinated dioxins/furans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in food products, following the analytical strategy of the well established U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Method 1613A.
Read MoreAccelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. WEBCAST: The Needs Assessment - First Step to a Successful LIMS DeploymentJul 19, 2010
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) will host an informational webcast on July 28, 2010 on the topic of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). This webcast is entitled The Needs Assessment - First Step to a Successful LIMS Deployment. This event is ideal for laboratory or QA/QC managers in the environmental, water / wastewater, food & beverage, energy, manufacturing (product/material testing), agriculture, life science, biotechnology and public health sectors.
Read MoreMICROSCIENCE 2010 Jul 19, 2010
MICROSCIENCE 2010, the Royal Microscopical Society's flagship meeting held at ExCeL London at the end of June, attracted 519 conference delegates - the first time that the 500-barrier has been broken. And, the overall visitor-target of 2,000 was also reached.
Read MoreLearn how to improve your sample management efficiencyJul 15, 2010
TTP LabTech invites sample management professionals and analytical chemists to attend a Sample Management Open Day at its headquarters near Cambridge, UK on Tuesday 3rd August 2010. Visitors will be able to find out how to improve efficiency by hearing from those currently working in the field
Read MoreConsistent, Accurate and Precise ICP DataJul 13, 2010
With growing numbers of laboratories requiring top quality data - Warwick Analytical Service has produced an analytical service note that demonstrates the accurate and precise ICP data the company routinely achieves for determination of trace metals in organic and inorganic materials.
Read MoreReverse engineering tablets for counterfeit investigationsJul 13, 2010
Chemical imaging specialists at Malvern Instruments are demonstrating how data derived from reverse engineering of pharmaceutical tablets can aid the fight against counterfeit drugs. Using the SyNIRgi near infrared chemical imaging (NIRCI) system they have been able to collect data detailed enough to characterize the formulation and processes used to create individual dosages
Read MoreRegistration opens for inaugural Particle SummitJul 8, 2010
Information-rich, practical program focusing on particle and molecular characterization
Read MoreParticle shape analysis throws new light on battery performanceJul 2, 2010
Work undertaken in Japan and described in a new application note on the Malvern Instruments website, examines the influence of particle shape on the characteristics of coating film for battery electrodes. Using the Sysmex Flow Particle Image Analyzer FPIA-3000, available from Malvern Instruments, researchers at Hokkaido University looked at both the size and shape of graphite particles in coating films produced by different methods
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Application Note Demonstrating Capabilities of NanoDrop 3300 for Cancer ResearchJul 1, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced a new application note demonstrating how the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 3300 enables cancer researchers to study DNA methylation events and polyamine induced DNA G-quadruplex formations by microvolume fluorometry.
Read MoreNew Dates for Free Autoscribe LIMS Configuration WorkshopsJun 29, 2010
New dates have just been released for September and October 2010 for th enext series of free Autoacribe LIMS Workshops.
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