News releases on Laboratorytalk categorised by date
Sunday 30 July
to Saturday 5 August 2006
UK Biobank implements Nautilus Lims
User Application Article Thermo Electron implements Nautilus Lims at the UK Biobank to track, store, manage and report on the biological data of 500,000 people as part of one of the largest medical research projects ever Brochure Available
News from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Informatics) ( 4 August 2006)
Secretase research substrates kits and inhibitors
As scientific research explores the role of b-Amyloid in Alzheimer's Disease, the secretases whose cleavage activity produces b-Amyloid fragments have become an important focus
News from AnaSpec ( 4 August 2006)
The power of collaboration
Geneious Pro lets scientists collaborate using P2P technology, allowing scientists to share sequences, publications and other bioinformatics data as easily as using a telephony package
News from Biomatters ( 4 August 2006)
New Sysmex website goes live
Marking its 15th year in the UK healthcare market, Sysmex UK has launched new website containing information across its range of haematology and haemostasis products for clinical diagnostic testing
News from Sysmex UK ( 4 August 2006)
Major new immunoassay analyser launched
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa has launched its new immunoassay system, the Olympus AU3000i high performance analyser for measurement of heterogeneous assays, to an enthusiastic audience Brochure Available
News from Olympus Life Science Europa ( 4 August 2006)
New precision thermometer promises accuracy
Isothermal Technology (Isotech) has introduced a new type of precision thermometer, which it claims will set new world standards for accuracy and stability
News from Isothermal Technology (Isotech) ( 4 August 2006)
Protect your data and procedures with Rheocalc 3.1
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories announces new Rheocalc 3.1 software for use with DV-II+Pro viscometers and DV-III Ultra rheometers Brochure Available
News from Brookfield Engineering Laboratories ( 4 August 2006)
Custom disposable bioprocess assemblies
Programme enables customers in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries to custom order sterilised or non-sterilised disposable bioprocess assemblies manufactured to their precise specifications
News from Cole-Parmer ( 4 August 2006)
Cool chemistry with the DrySyn Cool
As a complete integrated solution, the DrySyn Cool provides a flexible alternative to ice baths and bulky glass jacketed reaction vessels
News from Asynt ( 4 August 2006)
Better testing of medical devices
Moving coil actuator (MCA) incorporates a non-cogging, direct-drive voice coil linear motor, precision linear guiding mechanism and high resolution linear encoder in one compact, rugged unit
News from Orlin Technologies ( 4 August 2006)
Capstar now available with five litre container
Crane Electronics's range of CapStar digital torque testers has been long recognised as the most efficient and versatile means of achieving highly accurate, digital measurement of bottle top torque Brochure Available
News from Crane Electronics ( 4 August 2006)
Thousands of science equipment listings
EurekaSpot reports a milestone as active user listings online exceeded 13,000 quality technical products, valued at more than $42 million
News from Technical Communities ( 4 August 2006)
OGT grants microarray license to NGK Insulators
NGK will manufacture arrays using a proprietary technology Geneshot, a device which uses novel piezoelectric ceramic microactuators for printing DNA microarrays with high precision and reliability
News from Oxford Gene Technology ( 4 August 2006)
Automated dispenser and sample stage options
KSV Instruments announces the release of a suite of innovative new automatic options for the Cam 200 contact angle/surface energy analyser
News from KSV Instruments ( 4 August 2006)
Grant support for cancer immunotherapy programmes
Oxford BioMedica had been awarded a grant of more than £900,000 to support its immunotherapy programme
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 4 August 2006)
Collaborative programme on wound healing
Oxford BioMedica has used its Focused Target Identification platform to identify an enzyme that is central to the control of blood vessel growth, an essential feature of effective wound healing
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 4 August 2006)
Research and development deal with Intervet Pharma
Oxford BioMedica and Intervet Pharma R+D announced in January 2003 that they had signed a research agreement for the development of TroVax-Vet
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 4 August 2006)
Analysis of sugars in chocolate bars
Sugars are carbohydrate - macronutrients - that serve as the main source of energy for the body Brochure Available
News from Metrohm UK ( 4 August 2006)
Analytical balances feature one-piece force cell
Quick, accurate Shimadzu AUW semi-micro/analytical balances feature one-piece force cell technology and a range of user-friendly functions Brochure Available
News from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments ( 3 August 2006)
Higher yields for gene expression studies
Beckman Coulter introduces the Agencourt RNAdvance Tissue system for isolation of total RNA from mammalian samples Brochure Available
News from Beckman Coulter ( 3 August 2006)
Chimatica releases drug screening products
Chimatica uses logically driven, high-throughput and reproducible computational chemistry experiments to generate high quality targeted libraries with maximum structural diversity
News from Chimatica ( 3 August 2006)
Accredited as reference material producer by Ukas
Optiglass, manufacturer of Starna brand optical products, is one of only five UK organisations to be accredited as a Reference Material Producer by Ukas, the UK Accreditation Service
News from Starna Scientific ( 3 August 2006)
ThinGap RRDEs for fuel cell and kinetic studies
Pine Instruments has recently introduced the new ThinGap electrodes for its AFMSRXE range of rotators, featuring a submillimeter gap between the disk and the ring
News from Trogone Instruments ( 3 August 2006)
Newly designed, comprehensive company website
Aspectrics, the innovator of encoded photometric infrared spectroscopy (EP-IR) analyzers, announces the launch of its newly designed website
News from Aspectrics ( 3 August 2006)
NPG journals to open access to online archives
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announces that its academic and society journals will be opening access to all online content published before January 2003
News from Nature Publishing ( 3 August 2006)
Accelerating low-cost point-of-care diagnostics
Acrongenomics and Molecular Vision present an R+D update of their joint collaboration, following the meeting of the project's steering committee on 28 July 2006 at Molecular Vision's site in London
News from Acrongenomics ( 3 August 2006)
Design and manufacturing expansion at Aubrey
Aubrey, a southern California engineering firm and contract manufacturer specialising in complex electro-mechanical medical instruments, has announced the opening of its new facility
News from Aubrey Group ( 3 August 2006)
Lab management software with auto-scheduling
QATrax, unlike all other test lab management solutions, is specifically designed for the test lab environment and can track project plans from inception to production
News from TraxStar Technologies ( 3 August 2006)
'Significant advance' in biomarker discovery
New capability assists researchers and pharmaceutical firms in biomarker discovery and validation, discovering drug targets, and personalised medicine Brochure Available
News from Bruker Daltonics ( 3 August 2006)
Teranode to participate on semantic web panel
Semantic web innovator Dr Eric K Neumann and other industry experts to discuss potentials of semantic web in drug discovery and development
News from Teranode ( 3 August 2006)
Thermo upgrades its X-ray microanalysis system
Thermo Electron has improved its X-ray microanalysis system, Noran System Six, enabling superior productivity gains in high throughput microstructure characterization laboratories
News from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Microanalysis) ( 3 August 2006)
Printers meet product performance standards
Portable printers gained IP54 ratings for dust and water resistance, indicating that they are protected from dust limited ingress with no harmful deposit and water sprayed from all directions
News from Extech Instruments ( 3 August 2006)
Agreement covers Ibis T5000 biosensor system
Ibis T5000 is a universal biosensor that can simultaneously identify thousands of types of infectious organisms in a sample, without needing to know beforehand what might be present in the sample Brochure Available
News from Bruker Daltonics ( 2 August 2006)
FEI launches top-of-line research dualbeam at M+M
Helios NanoLab features ultra-high resolution field emission SEM column combined with Sidewinder FIB column and gas chemistries to provide new levels of imaging resolution and contrast
News from FEI ( 2 August 2006)
Titan S/TEM achieves low kV milestone
Technical Background Article 1.4 Angstrom resolution at the very low operating voltage of 80kV marks an important breakthrough for atomic-scale imaging of light element nanomaterials
News from FEI ( 2 August 2006)
Creating an employee hullabaloo
GenoLogics Life Sciences Software (GenoLogics), a developer of software for life science research, announces 'Genopalooza' a top-notch, full-day motivational conference for its 50+ employees
News from Genologics ( 2 August 2006)
Barrie Ward to strengthen CRT's board of directors
Cancer Research Technology (CRT) has announced the appointment of Dr J Barrie Ward as a non-executive director
News from Cancer Research UK ( 2 August 2006)
Anti-microbial keyboard has Microban protection
InduKey introduces the InduMedical keyboard, which features an antimicrobial design foil, for data entry with Microban technology
News from InduKey ( 2 August 2006)
Digitizer PCI cards stream gap-free at 200MS/s
UltraFast UF2-2030 series use PCI-X bus to continuously record one channel at 200MS/s or two channels at 100MS/s to PC, saves money on expensive instrument card memory
News from Strategic Test ( 2 August 2006)
Designed to be the best thermal cycler around
First in range is the ATC201 which utilises the combi block for flexibility with either 0.2ml or 0.5ml tubes and a PCR result just as good as its peers through the same level of control and uniformity
News from Progen Scientific ( 2 August 2006)
Recent developments in Saxs seminar
Seminar on the recent developments in small angle X-ray scattering (Saxs) analysis of proteins, nano-particles and nano-structures
News from Anton Paar ( 2 August 2006)
Radio-detector is up to speed with fast LC
LabLogic Systems contributed to a recent meeting organised jointly by Waters and GSK to discuss best practice in the application of the new 'fast LC' technique to quantitative bio-analysis Brochure Available
News from Lablogic Systems ( 2 August 2006)
Next generation genotoxicity screening assay
Gentronix is unveiling its novel high throughput genotoxicity screening assay at Drug Discovery Technology (7-10 August 2006, Boston, MA)
News from Gentronix ( 2 August 2006)
Camlab's own water testing range
Camlab has launched the Camlab Water range of hand-held, portable and laboratory meters for the routinely measured parameters in potable, process and waste waters Brochure Available
News from Camlab ( 2 August 2006)
Enzyme supply agreement with New England Biolabs
Solexa is commercialising a next-generation sequencing technology which has the potential to produce 100-fold more bases per run, at less than 1% the cost, than conventional technologies
News from Solexa ( 2 August 2006)
On-line acid analysis made easy
In many industries, from food to steel, from microprocessors to chemicals as well as car making, the concentration of acid during the various stages of the production process is of vital importance Brochure Available
News from Metrohm UK ( 2 August 2006)
Funding from the Foundation Fighting Blindness
Oxford BioMedica announced that the US non-profit organisation, the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), has agreed to fund preclinical proof-of-principle studies for vision-loss product RetinoStat
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 2 August 2006)
MoNuDin in the treatment of motor neuron disease
Oxford BioMedica presented 'promising' preclinical data from its motor neuron disease programme at two major international conferences in November 2003
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 2 August 2006)
Metxia enters clinical trials in pancreatic cancer
Oxford BioMedica received approval from the UK's Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (GTAC) for MetXia to enter a two-stage Phase I/II clinical trial in patients with pancreatic cancer
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 2 August 2006)
Sabouraud media protect pharma processes
Sabouraud Liquid Medium and Dextrose Agar from Oxoid are widely favoured by many microbiologists in the pharmaceutical industry for the reliable cultivation and differentiation of yeasts and moulds Brochure Available
News from Oxoid ( 1 August 2006)
Bank on some great biostorage deals from ABgene
ABgene, a provider of specialist products for nucleic acid amplification and biostorage, sats it has some amazing deals running between July and September 2006
News from Thermo Scientific (ABgene) ( 1 August 2006)
Easy solid phase extraction method development
Developing solid phase extraction (SPE) methods just got a lot easier with the new SPEnet method development kits from Anachem Brochure Available
News from Anachem ( 1 August 2006)
Quantachrome user training for 2nd half 2006
Quantachrome Instruments announces seven training classes for itscustomers to be held through December 2006 at its Florida headquarters
News from Quantachrome Instruments ( 1 August 2006)
Deliver and capture anaesthesic gas
The Fluovac anaesthetic gas scavenger, manufactured by Harvard Apparatus, is designed as a miniature benchtop instrument that both delivers and captures anaesthesic gas
News from Harvard Apparatus ( 1 August 2006)
Simultaneous sampling on many channels
Microstar Laboratories says there is an affordable building block for creating high-channel count systems that sample inputs simultaneously
News from Microstar Laboratories ( 1 August 2006)
Labmedics makes its mark in Finland
User Application Article Labmedics recently celebrated another milestone in the company's history when it supplied the first Aquakem 600 to a laboratory in Finland.
News from Labmedics ( 1 August 2006)
NI reports record quarterly revenue
National Instruments has reported record revenue in Q2 2006 of $160 million, a 14 percent USD increase over Q2 2005 and an equivalent 16 percent increase in local currency Brochure Available
News from National Instruments ( 1 August 2006)
Millipore in win-win situation
Millipore was awarded top honors for the most attractive, informative and "impossible to miss" booth at the R3 Nordic (R3N) congress Brochure Available
News from Millipore ( 1 August 2006)
Two free training seminars on laboratory analysis
Hach Lange has announced two further free seminars for September in the fields of water and wastewater testing and monitoring
News from Hach Lange ( 1 August 2006)
Farfield helps speed innovation to market in FMCG
User Application Article Farfield Scientific says it is taking the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector by storm with its AnaLight DPI instruments
News from Farfield Scientific ( 1 August 2006)
Water content in pasta by Karl Fischer titration
The 841 Titrando has the sophisticated control algorithm of the Titrando which has been adapted to the characteristics of the Karl Fischer reaction and guarantees highly precise results Brochure Available
News from Metrohm UK ( 1 August 2006)
Temperature equipment calibration is crucial
The sweltering temperatures experienced in much of the UK during summer 2006 led many people to spend a lot of time checking thermometers and other temperature-monitoring equipment
News from Hitek ( 1 August 2006)
Oxford Biomedica acquires Chiron patents
Oxford BioMedica has signed an agreement with Chiron to acquire certain patent families from Chiron's gene therapy patent portfolio
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 1 August 2006)
Scientists pioneer motor neuron disease treatment
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the most prevalent form of motor neuron disease, causes adult-onset, progressive motor neuron degeneration in the brain and spinal cord
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 1 August 2006)
FDA approval for trial of Trovax in renal cancer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to evaluate TroVax, a proprietary cancer vaccine, in patients with metastatic renal cancer
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 1 August 2006)
Grant from UK gene therapy research programme
The UK Department of Health has awarded Oxford BioMedica £0.5 million to develop its proprietary LentiVector technology for use in the treatment of single gene inherited disorders
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 1 August 2006)
Humidity in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) atmospheres
The use of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as a sterilising agent in healthcare and production processes is extremely important to health and safety and has been growing in recent years due to its success Brochure Available
News from Testo ( 1 August 2006)
Increases in its Wiley journal Impact Factors
Publisher John Wiley and Sons has announced significant increases in Impact Factors for its journals across the majority of subject areas, according to the Thomson ISI 2005 Journal Citation Reports
News from Wiley ( 1 August 2006)
LentiVector licensing agreement with Merck
Oxford BioMedica has signed a licence agreement for its LentiVector technology with Merck
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 1 August 2006)
Phase II trial with TroVax in colorectal cancer
Oxford BioMedica announces that Cancer Research UK has received approval to start a Phase II trial with TroVax in Colorectal Cancer
News from Oxford BioMedica ( 1 August 2006)
Online seminar series for laboratory personnel
Designed to educate lab personnel in the clinical, environmental, forensics, materials characterisation and petrochemical markets on how to achieve greater efficiency, accuracy and productivity
News from Perkin Elmer LAS (UK) (31 July 2006)
New website for Pittcon 2007
Totally re-designed website for Pittcon 2007 with improved navigation enabling direct access to key information about the conference and expo and an overall improved appearance and design
News from Pittcon (31 July 2006)
World's first data logger with USB Flash support
USB Flash drive support allows the use of low-cost USB memory sticks to unload, control or reprogram multiple loggers
News from Grant Instruments (Cambridge) (31 July 2006)
Cost effective support for RoHS compliance
To help US manufacturers' efforts to meet the new European Union RoHS Directives, Innov-X Systems has launched a low-cost rental programme for portable XRF analyzers
News from Innov-X Systems (31 July 2006)
Rapid imaging Deep Purple stained protein gels
Dyversity can image Deep Purple stained proteins rapidly because its high performance 16bit, 6.3megapixel camera captures a wide range of signal emission wavelengths from the whole gel simultaneously Brochure Available
News from Syngene (31 July 2006)
Universal sinkers for a positive sinking feeling
The new O-Ring capsule sinker complements SMI-LabHut's extensive range of dissolution accessories available from LabHut Brochure Available
News from SMI-LabHut (31 July 2006)
Miniature loadcell has high bandwidth
The Dems load cell, now available from Celsum Technologies, is a miniature stainless steel load cell designed for automotive and aerospace applications, but with many more uses Brochure Available
News from Celsum Technologies (31 July 2006)
Linux drivers for Digitizer, AWG, fast Digital PCI
Strategic Test has announced the release of new Linux drivers for kernel 2.6 versions of RedHat, SuSe and Fedora distributions; kernel 2.4 drivers have also been updated
News from Strategic Test (31 July 2006)
Scientists happy but fickle over brands
According to the findings of a recent survey of satisfaction and loyalty among over 1700 life scientists, most leading life science suppliers enjoy customer satisfaction ratings of 70% or higher
News from Bioinformatics (31 July 2006)
Further contract award at Cambridge research park
Jackson Construction has won a further £3.4 million project at Chesterford Research Park, near Cambridge - adding to a £2 million project the company also secured last month
News from ISG Jackson (31 July 2006)
Perfect tool for multiple batch sampling
With a high accuracy syringe pump flow control system, and latest in optical particle counting technology, Lighthouse LS-60 liquid sampler is a perfect tool for multiple batch sampling applications
News from Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions (31 July 2006)
Advancing contamination and cleanroom monitoring
Mini Multiplexer provides support for up to four 4-20mA input signals and can trigger four internal relays for control of light sticks or other digital output devices
News from Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions (31 July 2006)
Advancing portable particle counting technology
The Solair 3200+ and 5200+ is a portable particle counter that gets cleanroom testing and certification done faster and more accurately then any other particle counter on the market.
News from Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions (31 July 2006)
New Scottish labs to analyse tomorrow's medicines
Project will provide a valuable resource to the fast growing biological medicines sector through pharmacogenomics and analysis of new generations of vaccines and therapeutic proteins
News from Tepnel Life Sciences (31 July 2006)
Cytochrome P450 enzymes in cancer gene therapy
Oxford BioMedica has signed an agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute extending exclusive access to cytochrome P450 enzymes in cancer therapy
News from Oxford BioMedica (31 July 2006)
Positive results with Trovax in colorectal cancer
Oxford BioMedica announced that primary endpoints have been achieved at the interim stage of two Phase II trials in patients with Stage IV colorectal cancer receiving TroVax alongside chemotherapy
News from Oxford BioMedica (31 July 2006)
Lentivector for avian transgenics biomanufacturing
Oxford BioMedica and Viragen announced a license agreement for Oxford BioMedica's LentiVector gene delivery technology
News from Oxford BioMedica (31 July 2006)
Lentivector success in avian transgenics
Article reports data that demonstrate Oxford BioMedica's lentiviral vectors can be used to generate transgenic lines with an efficiency of the order of 10 to 100-fold higher than any previous method
News from Oxford BioMedica (31 July 2006)
Oxford Biomedica - Innurex programme
Oxford BioMedica is announcing that its Innurex programme for nerve regeneration in spinal cord injury has been awarded $150,000 from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
News from Oxford BioMedica (31 July 2006)
Invetech makes debut at Drug Discovery 2006
Invetech, a specialist in instrument development and custom automation, announces its corporate sponsorship of Drug Discovery Technology and Development 2006
News from Invetech (31 July 2006)
Open house for the Integrated Imaging Center
User Application Article Carl Zeiss MicroImaging will be sponsoring an open house for the newly renovated Integrated Imaging Center (IIC) located at the Johns Hopkins University on 11 August 2006
News from Carl Zeiss MicroImaging (31 July 2006)
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