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Enumeration and identification of C perfringens

In the news recently as a contaminant in an Irish community's water supply, Clostridium perfringens is widely distributed in the environment and part of the normal flora in human and animal intestines

News from Lab M (21 April 2008)

Human epithelial cultures are cell-enriched

Developed by Cellntec Advanced Cell Systems, these epithelial cell cultures are made available by Millipore as part of a partnership agreement signed in 2006  Brochure available  

News from Millipore (21 April 2008)

Microbiology, now in living in colour

Lab M says its Harlequin chromogenic media can help eliminate or reduce the need for subculture and confirmatory biochemical tests

News from Lab M (26 March 2008)

Noon Products relies on Lab M culture media

 User application article   Well known for its ready-prepared chilled and frozen Indian, Thai and other regional dishes, Noon Products last year opened spacious new laboratories at its production plant in Southall, UK

News from Lab M ( 4 February 2008)

Animal-free cell cultures for bioprocessing

Millipore and Novozymes strike an alliance to accelerate the launch of new animal-free supplements and provide customers with a secure source of high performance cell culture products.  Brochure available  

News from Millipore (13 December 2007)

Modified Giolitti and Cantoni broth added to media

This versatile medium can be used with or without an agar/paraffin plug on the surface, depending upon the testing regime employed

News from Lab M (18 October 2007)

Human embryonic stem cell media 'breakthrough'

Stempro hESC SFM is the first serum- and feeder-free media for hESCs that has been shown to maintain these cells in a genetically normal state

News from Invitrogen (27 September 2007)

Culture campylobacter at lower temperature

Lab M's range of culture media includes Campylobacter Blood Free Selective Medium (modified CCDA) and Campylobacter Enrichment Broth (Bolton formulation)

News from Lab M ( 4 September 2007)

Technical downloads section extends website

Microbiology culture media specialist Lab M has added a new and expanding section to the its website

News from Lab M (27 July 2007)

Baird-Parker medium is ISO-compliant

Improved Baird-Parker medium for isolation of coagulase-positive staphylococci including Staphylococcus aureus feedstuffs is formulated to ISO 6888-1:1999 and complies with ISO 6888-2:2003

News from Lab M (19 June 2007)

Culture media message hits the road

Lab M will be exhibiting from its rapidly growing range of ISO-compliant microbiological culture media for food industry applications at two forthcoming conferences

News from Lab M ( 7 May 2007)

$300 million R+D investment at Corning

Corning has approved a US$300 million facility improvement plan for the its Sullivan Park Research and Development campus near Corning, NY, to broaden its portfolio of research and development

News from Corning Life Sciences (30 April 2007)

Better microbial growth from vitamin-rich peptone

In addition to complying with the specification for a pancreatic digest of casein in the US Pharmacopoeia, Tryptone X also provides an excellent source of vitamins  Brochure available  

News from Oxoid (23 April 2007)

Bacterial magnetism speeds total viable count time

These antibody-coated microscopic paramagnetic beads are used for the rapid immunomagnetic separation of the micro-organism under test, eliminating the need for traditional enrichment processes

News from Lab M (17 April 2007)

Cell culture products use nanofibre technology

Ultra-Web synthetic surfaces create a culturing substrate that resembles structural components within the basement membrane or extracellular matrix and offer cells in vivo-like fibrillar topographies

News from Corning Life Sciences (16 April 2007)

Culture media for elective single embryo transfer

New media suite will provide the optimum environment for the fertilisation of the oocyte, the subsequent division of the resulting embryo and ensure optimum blastocyst development for extended culture

News from Cook (13 April 2007)

Advanced preservation medium for healthy cultures

Aedesta tissue and cell preservation medium is a unique, proprietary solution specifically designed for longer-term preservation of tissues and cells over a broad range of temperatures

News from Harvard Apparatus ( 3 April 2007)

Corning honours 100th anniversary of cell culture

Corning will be marking the industry's 100th anniversary of cell culture with numerous initiatives and promotions throughout 2007

News from Corning Life Sciences ( 3 April 2007)

Adenopack20 completes adenovirus purification line

Sartorius has completed its adenovirus purification product line with the introduction of the downscale kit, the Vivapure Adenopack 20  Brochure available  

News from Sartorius Group ( 1 March 2007)

Lab M forges ahead with ISO-compliant media

The Lab M range now includes Listeria Isolation Medium, Oxford (ISO), Water Plate Count Agar (ISO) and Buffered Peptone Water (ISO)

News from Lab M ( 1 March 2007)

Extended viability of isolated organs and tissues

Aedesta organ and tissue perfusion medium is a unique, proprietary solution used for perfusion or static storage of animal organs and tissues.

News from Harvard Apparatus (27 February 2007)

Serum-free media for human epithelial cell culture

Invitrogen announces the availability of Gibco HuMEC serum-free medium optimised specifically for culture of human mammary epithelial cells

News from Invitrogen (22 February 2007)

Fraser BrothPlus - improving Listeria isolation

Fraser BrothPlus and Half Fraser BrothPlus are recently-introduced variants of Lab M's standard Fraser Broth medium for the isolation of Listeria species

News from Lab M ( 6 February 2007)

Tryptone soya broth for aseptic process simulation

Microbiology specialist Oxoid has introduced Oxoid cold filterable Tryptone Soya Broth (cfTSB) for use in aseptic process simulations in the pharmaceutical industry  Brochure available  

News from Oxoid ( 1 February 2007)

Announcing the Pioneers in Miniaturisation prize

 Technical background article   David Beebe has been named as the first winner of this prestigious new prize, established by two of the major players in the miniaturisation sector, the Lab on a Chip journal and Corning

News from Corning Life Sciences (10 January 2007)

Oxoid launches new chromogenic UTI medium

Oxoid has announced the launch of a new chromogenic culture medium for the enhanced differentiation and presumptive identification of micro-organisms associated with urinary tract infections (UTIs)  Brochure available  

News from Oxoid ( 8 January 2007)

Applications centre for label-free researchers

Corning has announced the opening of its Epic Applications Centres which will provide product demonstrations and support services to Corning Epic system customers

News from Corning Life Sciences (13 December 2006)

Lab M appoints new distributor in Germany

Lab M (Bury, UK) has appointed Gunter Keul to distribute its range of dehydrated culture media, supplements and related products throughout Germany

News from Lab M (24 November 2006)

Medium for improved detection of salmonella

Oxoid has introduced a new, highly selective culture medium to the Oxoid range of products for the detection of Salmonella species  Brochure available  

News from Oxoid (14 November 2006)

New-look Lab M at Medica 2006

Microbiology culture media specialist Lab M (Bury, UK) has a fresh new look and a brand new website

News from Lab M ( 2 November 2006)

Celprogen launches stem cell serum-free media

The serum free tissue culture media is widely utilised by life science researchers and pharmaceutical industries for their drug discovery and drug development programmes

News from Celprogen ( 1 November 2006)

Agreement over human embryonic stem cell media

Millipore and Stem Cell Sciences have announced an exclusive license for Millipore to develop and market SCS's serum free media for the growth of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)  Brochure available  

News from Millipore (UK) (27 October 2006)

Invitrogen launches protein expression medium

This serum-free, animal origin-free culture medium is specifically developed for the efficient production of recombinant proteins in PER.C6 cells

News from Invitrogen (20 October 2006)

Neural stem cell expansion medium is optimised

Sigma has introduced Stemline neural stem cell expansion medium, a new serum-free stem cell medium optimised specifically for expansion of human neural stem cells.

News from Sigma-Aldrich (19 October 2006)

Cell culture consumables promise high quality

Biosera supplies high quality, low endotoxin, foetal calf serum available off the shelf - as all its cell culture products are - to cell culturists around the world

News from BioSera (13 October 2006)

Company website offers gateway to microbiology

Microbiology culture media specialist Lab M has launched a new website that provides easy access to detailed information across its range of media, additives, supplements and biomolecular products

News from Lab M ( 6 October 2006)

Lab M culture media for clostridium difficile

Based on the market leading anaerobe medium Fastidious Anaerobe Agar, this incorporates additional ingredients to improve the isolation and differentiation of C difficile from clinical specimens

News from LabM (25 September 2006)

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