Edinburgh Instruments is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of their Fluoracle software for the FS5 Spectrofluorometer.
The Fluoracle Software has been designed to provide support for TCSPC measurements and add further high performance capabilities to the FS5. Mark Vosloo, CEO of Edinburgh Instruments commented, “We believe in remaining at the forefront of leading edge technology development. Fluoracle enhance TCSPC measurements and delivers not only high performance results for us but also for our customers. To stay ahead, we continuously work hard to deliver faster, reliable and accurate analytical instrumentation.”
Kelsius is a new temperature monitoring system that has been unveiled by Lec Medical.
The system offers a completely wireless setup that automates the process of temperature monitoring in controlled storage and testing environments, and provides a fail-safe solution for busy hospitals, laboratories and larger pharmacies. In the event of the temperature deviating from pre-set parameters, the system automatically alarms designated staff...
Two new case studies highlighting the versatility of the Matrix Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at Castrol’s Lubricant Technology Centre and Cavendish Nuclear’s environmental laboratory are now available for download.
'Matrix Provides Paperless LIMS At Castrol’ describes how product and development scientists at the Lubricant Technology Centre at Castrol, Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK, can request analytical tests and receive results by accessing Matrix from their own computers. Castrol, part of BP, has been a Matrix LIMS customer for more than 20 years. The analytical laboratory at Pangbourne provides a comprehensive test facility for the...
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Australia’s leading pharmacy and pharmaceutical science educators and researchers, has licensed Cresset’s Forge and Spark software.
These applications provide extensive capabilities in SAR analysis, ligand-based molecular design and bioisosteric replacement. “Cresset’s software is used in the R&D departments of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. It is great to know that our students will be using the very same cutting edge tools for their molecular design and optimization work,” says Dr David Manallack, Senior Lecturer at Monash University. “Cresset’s software will...
Researchers at the National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, ISPRA) in Italy have been testing the TouchTools™ PCR Wizard with the Freedom EVO® PCR workstation to simplify complex genetics workflows.
Dr Nadia Mucci, a technologist in ISPRA’s Laboratory of Genetics, explained: “We purchased two Freedom EVO platforms in 2010 to automate our pre- and post-PCR sample processing, and chose Tecan instruments because we appreciated the technology, the support from Tecan’s application specialists, and the user-friendly software which offered us the opportunity to develop automated protocols for many more applications.”....Read MoreProximagen Licenses CressetDec 5, 2014
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that Proximagen, a company focused on the development and commercialisation of novel therapeutics for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), has licensed Cresset’s Forge and Spark software.
These applications provide extensive capabilities in SAR analysis, ligand-based molecular design and bioisosteric replacement. "Proximagen has successfully used Cresset’s computational chemistry tools in the past to generate pharmacophores from known ligands and to identify novel chemical series by scaffold hopping,” says Dr Ed Savory, Deputy Head of Chemistry at Proximagen. “We will be using Spark to identify new drug scaffolds and to...
Micronic has announced a new version 2.2.6 of its Tracxer storage tube code reading software.
Fully compatible with all Micronic tube scanners** the new user friendly software is easy to install, gives reliable code readings and can be smoothly integrated into any laboratory sample database. All new features in version 2.2.6 are included as standard in the software at no extra cost together with free upgrades and technical support. The useful new features including ActiveX tool kit, improved single tube reading functionality and...
Chiron’s website has recently enjoyed a dramatic make over, and now features a modern webshop, to meet the challenging demands of today’s 24/7 work culture.
Chiron’s new webshop already showcases over 7000 products, and is rapidly growing. The intuitive search engine allows users to quickly and easily explore a comprehensive range of reference materials for toxicological, pharmaceutical, environmental, food safety, petroleum and geochemical analysis. Inge Fenstad, the orchestrator of the online developments commented, “We are delighted to provide our customers around the world with the convenience and flexibility of browsing our offering, and placing orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week”....
ZEISS present new microscope hard- and software for imaging of cleared tissue at Neuroscience meeting
Clearing methods make tissue transparent, thus allowing scientists to image deep into large biological samples such as tissue sections, brains, embryos, organs, spheroids or biopsies. The enhanced optical penetration depth even allows detection of fluorescent signals from whole organs. This means clearing is a promising technique when, for example, investigating neuronal networks in mouse brains....
Read MoreBringing Images to Life with cellSens 1.12Nov 20, 2014
With the new Olympus cellSens imaging software offering new functions and support for the latest microscopy hardware, life science researchers can now observe and react to the most elusive events taking place within biological samples.
Assisting researchers in gaining a deeper understanding of dynamic biological processes, the new cellSens imaging software (version 1.12) ensures the most efficient use of valuable time-lapse experiments and the latest microscopy hardware. Building on the capabilities introduced by Olympus with its unique Graphical Experiment Manager (GEM) interface, cellSens 1.12 allows the user to truly get in touch with their sample. Enabling effortless...
High-level Control Added to Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Workflows
Beckman Coulter Genomics, providers of expert genomics solutions to research and healthcare institutions worldwide, has integrated a Genologics Clarity Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) into their Illumina HiSeq-based workflows to offer Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) with the highest level of data management and methods control. RNA sequencing, target capture, whole-genome sequencing and pre-made library samples are...
Building on the success and principles of SMART Automation, Sakura Finetek proudly introduces the next step in Total Laboratory Automation: Tissue-Tek® AutoSection® Automated Microtome, advancing histopathology laboratories and improving patient care.
Genedata Expressionist® for Genomic Profiling helps Takara Bio to manage, process, and analyze large NGS datasets.
The investment in the Genedata platform underlines Takara Bio’s commitment to stay at the forefront of genomic research and to offer highest quality services to its customers. Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Takara Bio Inc., a leading global biotechnology company, has chosen Genedata Expressionist for Genomic Profiling as its key software platform for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The platform will be integrated with in-house and third party data analysis tools and...
High Throughput Screening for Raman chemical analyzers
HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the release of its new MultiWell module for the acclaimed LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. The module transforms the HORIBA portfolio of Raman microscopes into efficient high throughput chemical analyzers, coupling the non-destructive chemically rich analysis with high sample turn around and fast return on...
The Matrix Gemini LIMS from Autoscribe meets the requirements of highly regulated laboratories by providing audit trails, time and date stamping of all actions and version control of all reference data, such as test definitions.
This helps with compliance to any guidelines that require change control, validation and audit trailing of changes to stored data. Examples include cGLPs and cGMPs and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 in pharmaceutical companies, NELAC and ISO 17025 in water and food testing laboratories or NAMAS / UKAS regulations. With Matrix Gemini in use in a wide range of industries and applications, experts from Autoscribe are available to discuss in...
Anasys Instruments reports on the new AFM-IR results from the Energy Research Group at NIST just published in the journal for Advanced Optical Materials. The paper is entitled “Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic modes with the PTIR technique.”
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and the University of Maryland have used photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) to characterize individual plasmonic nanomaterials in order to obtain absorption maps and the first examples of absorption spectra with nanometer-scale resolution. Nanostructuring of plasmonic materials enables engineering of their resonant optical response and creates new opportunities for applications that benefit from...
StarDrop 6.0 gives researchers the freedom to explore and organise complex project data in a flexible and intuitive way
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the release of version 6.0 of its StarDrop™ software platform. This major new release introduces Card View™, an intuitive and highly flexible environment to view and interact with compound data in the context of discovery projects. Card View provides a unique and highly visual way to interpret data on compounds and their relationships, clearly highlighting the best chemistries and...
Today, Dutch biomedical big data company GENALICE officially launched its all-in-one appliance for Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) data processing, the GENALICE VAULT, at the annual conference of the American Society of Human Genetics.
The VAULT is designed to optimally serve genomics teams to perform large-scale DNA studies, including population calling. GENALICE MAP offers processing speed increases over a hundred fold and superior outcome data in comparison to other pipelines with significant cost savings for its users. December last year, the company successfully launched the first version of its breakthrough NGS data processing software solution...
Proteome Discoverer™ users can generate spectral libraries with Spectronaut™ software
Biognosys AG, a Swiss Proteomics Company, announced today the new release of its Spectronaut™ software for analysis of Hyper Reaction Monitoring (HRM) data that will now support spectral library generation from the Thermo Scientific™ Proteome Discoverer™ platform. From August 2013 Spectronaut™ software supports the analysis of DIA data generated on the Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer....
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a user-friendly tool that provides technical assistance for gas chromatography (GC) methods and applications.
Designed with the expert advice of columnist John Hinshaw, the GC Troubleshooting Guide provides a step-by-step process to easily diagnosis common symptoms. The guide combats difficulties laboratory professionals can encounter when running GC methods: high levels of noise, spiking peaks, ghost peaks, decreasing retention times, and irreproducible results. This tool—offered both as an iPad mobile application and for desktop systems...
Leading research and advisory firm, BioInformatics LLC, today announced that 50 companies have met the criteria for nomination as a potential recipient of the prestigious Life Science Industry Awards®.
Over 1,000 scientific customers named more than 400 individual life science companies as “best-in-class” in 30 different award categories. Only 50, however, met the criteria for inclusion as a nominee on the ballot ballot now being completed by thousands of scientists around the world. Their votes will determine the Winners to be named at a gala ceremony to be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC on November 18, 2014...
The ASpect CS software package version 2.0 for High-Resolution Continuum Source (HR-CS) AAS with the contrAA® series provides innovative new features significantly increasing productivity, flexibility and operation comfort.
The main new features include simultaneous multi-element analysis of any number of analytical wavelengths within the spectrum window. Integration ranges for each line can be selected freely, for increased sensitivity. A new background correction method and an improved spectral correction of interferences allow simple and automatic correction of complex structured spectral background and overlapping matrix lines. ASpect CS is operated...