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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Stabilising tissue samples for proteomic analysis</title>
      <description>Department of parasitology/biomolecular mass spectrometry unit at the center for infectious diseases in the Leiden University Medical School has invested in Denator's tissue stabilisation technology</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Accurate single cell placement via flow cytometry</title>
      <description>Advalytix is launching a certification programme for flow cytometry facilities which have demonstrated &gt;90% success rate of placing single cells into the reaction sites on 1ul AmpliGrid PCR slides</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Olympus America</category>
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      <title>Progen launches handheld clone picking tool</title>
      <description>Schuett PickMaxX clone picking tool from Progen Scientific is a handheld device for manually transferring cell colonies to multiwell plates as well as a manually operated inoculating device</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Progen Scientific</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/pge/pge160.html</link>
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      <title>Hepatocytes enhance in vitro genotoxicity testing</title>
      <description>Gentronix has successfully co-cultured its GreenScreen HC genotoxicity reporter cells with fresh hepatocytes preserved in Abcellute's matrix in the presence of test material</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Abcellute</category>
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      <title>Programme promises excellence in cell culture</title>
      <description>Thermo's Cell Culture Excellence programme provides essential equipment, instruments, consumables, reagents, and software to address the daily challenges associated with culturing mammalian cells</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Thermo Fisher Scientific</category>
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      <title>Fully wireless data logging is fully supported</title>
      <description>The SL400 is said to be ideal for retro fitting a monitoring system into an existing installation with minimum downtime and cost, causing less disruption to daily business</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Surface acoustic waves improve cell sorting</title>
      <description>The Advalytix products team of Olympus introduces the CellEvator mixer, which uses proprietary surface acoustic wave mixing technology to enhance sample mixing during cell sorting</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Olympus Life Science Europa</category>
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      <title>Cell analysis for flow cytometrists and clinicians</title>
      <description>Guava Technologies's corporate website has been redesigned to focus on the three main end user groups, that it strives to serve: life scientists, flow cytometrists, and clinicians</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Guava Technologies</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/gua/gua189.html</link>
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      <title>Automated cell counter has fluorescence detection</title>
      <description>Nexcelom's Cellometer Vision is the latest addition to the line of Cellometer automated cell counters, which improves throughput by automating tedious manual counting procedures</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Nexcelom Biosciences</category>
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      <title>Air sampler works from slit-to-agar </title>
      <description>The Mattson Garvin slit-to-agar air sampler is a high quality unit from the United States, available in the UK from QM Solutions</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>QM Solutions</category>
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      <title>Cytocentrics wins GLP certification</title>
      <description>The Ministry for Health and Social Affairs of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern awarded Cytocentrics the GLP certificate (good laboratory practice) category 9 on 3 April 2008</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cytocentrics</category>
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      <title>ProtoCol for rapid assessment of the Opka assay</title>
      <description>To evaluate novel pneumococcal vaccines, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) is commonly used alongside a modified in vitro opsonophagocytic-killing assay (Opka)</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synbiosis</category>
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      <title>Bench top media preparator is fully automated</title>
      <description>The new Proficlave PC20 is a fully automated bench top media preparator, available from QM Solutions, designed for the rapid processing of up to 16 litres of sterile culture media</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>QM Solutions</category>
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      <title>Fresh cells to have major impact on drug discovery</title>
      <description>LGC Standards and Abcellute in agreement to bring a revolutionary new approach to the preservation of hepatocyte cells for use in preclinical drug discovery to the European research community</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Abcellute</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/abc/abc103.html</link>
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      <title>Millipore and Guava Technologies to work together</title>
      <description>Millipore and Guava Technologies announce a long-term partnership to deliver integrated flow cytometry to scientists conducting research in cell biology, including stem cell research</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Guava Technologies</category>
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      <title>Plate handler automates colony counting</title>
      <description>The plate handler from IUL instruments, supported and distributed by QM Solutions, is designed to automate colony counting by being used in conjunction with the Flash and Go</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Quality Measurement Solutions</category>
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      <title>Cytopaq instant cell kit replaces cell cultivation</title>
      <description>This bench-top storage device offers the utmost convenience for the user: it preserves the suspended cells in a non-clustered state at high vitality for at least four hours</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cytocentrics</category>
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      <title>A decade of Guava</title>
      <description>2008 marks the tenth anniversary of Guava Technologies bringing cellular analysis technologies directly to the lab benches of thousands of scientists and clinicians worldwide</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cytometer for high-throughput cellular analysis</title>
      <description>Beckman Coulter announces the successful integration of its Cell Lab Quanta SC MPL into a fully automated 'seed and feed' cell culture system</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Beckman Coulter</category>
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      <title>Automatic colony counter offers innovations</title>
      <description>The Flash and Go is the new automatic colony counter from IUL instruments, supported and supplied by authorised distributor Quality Measurement Solutions</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Quality Measurement Solutions</category>
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      <title>Accurate analysis of colony numbers and zone sizes</title>
      <description>Synbiosis introduces its Protocol V1.4 colony counting and inhibition zone sizing software, designed to save microbiologists valuable time, by automating many routine plate based image analysis tasks</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synbiosis</category>
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      <title>Speeding up testing of veterinary antibiotics</title>
      <description>Synbiosis reports that the UK Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) has chosen to install 16 specially customised Protocol automated colony counting and zone sizing systems</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synbiosis</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/syb/syb141.html</link>
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      <title>Stem cell programme focuses on research needs</title>
      <description>Initiative brings together essential laboratory products and services - instruments, consumables, reagents, informatics, service and automation - to address the needs of stem cell researchers</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Thermo Fisher Scientific</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/thb/thb189.html</link>
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      <title>Blood vessel viability can be stretched </title>
      <description>In what is described as a major breakthrough Abcellute's non-cryogenic cell preservation technology has been successfully trialled by Biopta, a CRO specialising in human tissue in vitro pharmacology</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Abcellute</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/abc/abc102.html</link>
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      <title>Automated cell counter is not just a pretty face</title>
      <description>Adam is a novel instrument containing fluorescence microscope optics and image analysis software designed to quickly and easily quantify cell number and viability of a given sample</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Labtech International</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/lbt/lbt119.html</link>
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      <title>Colony counter generates accurate OPKA results</title>
      <description>Scientists in the immunobiology unit at the Institute of Child Health (ICH) are running clinical trials in which children are vaccinated with new types of pneumococcal vaccines</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synbiosis</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/syb/syb140.html</link>
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      <title>Easier determination of cell cycle phases</title>
      <description>Enhanced version of Guava Cell Cycle Assay allows quick, easy determinations of G0/G1, S and G2/M cell cycle phases and distinguishes without interference commonly occuring aggregates</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Guava Technologies</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/gua/gua185.html</link>
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      <title>In-situ transfection of living tissues</title>
      <description>The Multitranf is the first transfection system to enable not only in-vivo and in-vitro transfection but also in-situ particle bombardment for genetic transformation of living tissues</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cleaver Scientific</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/clv/clv113.html</link>
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      <title>Skin Research Centre counts on ProtoCOL system</title>
      <description>The ProtoCOL automated colony counter from Synbiosis is being successfully used by the Skin Research Centre (SRC) at the University of Leeds</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synbiosis</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/syb/syb139.html</link>
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      <title>Colony counter speeds novel vaccine technology</title>
      <description>Protocol automated colony counter is being used at start-up Austrian biotech firm Bird-C, to help save time with research on novel vaccines against lethal bacteria such as Escherichia coli O157</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synbiosis</category>
      <link>http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/syb/syb138.html</link>
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      <title>3D cell culture is more like human body</title>
      <description>Invitrogen has announced the launch of the Gibco AlgiMatrix 3D culture system, an animal-origin free bioscaffold that more closely mimics the conditions of a cell in the human body</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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