News releases on Laboratorytalk categorised by date
Sunday 9 September
to Saturday 15 September 2007
Test request management system streamlines GP work
Olympus has introduced a new pathology test request management system, RequestVision, to streamline the complete process of patient test ordering through to laboratory results
News from Olympus UK (14 September 2007)
Microscopy through laminar flow cabinet glass
Vision Biomed's revolutionary Lynx stereo microscope can be placed inside the laminar flow cabinets while clinicians can observe samples in stereo, through the patented eyepieceless viewer Brochure Available
News from Vision Engineering (14 September 2007)
Astell provides sterilisation for Eclipse
Astell Scientific has been selected as Eclipse Scientific's supplier of sterilising equipment, and has just supplied 12 new units to the group Brochure Available
News from Astell Scientific (14 September 2007)
Anaerobic atmosphere in less than three minutes
PetriSphere offers a flexible, automated and cost-effective generation of atmospheres suitable for culturing anaerobic, microaerophilic and capnophilic bacteria in commonly-used anaerobic jars
News from Biotool (14 September 2007)
Authenticated human pathogenic viruses from NCPV
National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses (NCPV) expects the collection to be of benefit to future development and testing of vaccines and antiviral compounds as well as diagnostic test systems
News from European Collection of Cell Cultures (14 September 2007)
ICR cedlebrates exceptional exam result
The Institute of Clinical Research (ICR) has congratulated one of its Indian members after they received the highest exam result in the organisation's history
News from ICR (Institute of Clinical Research) (14 September 2007)
Nanostream enters European market
As part of its growth strategy in Europe, Netherlands office will facilitate sales of Nanostream's micro parallel liquid chromatography products and assay development services to European scientists
News from Nanostream (14 September 2007)
'Perfect tool' for loading AmpliGrid slides
Using EPmotion in combination with AmpliGrid slides, the whole PCR set-up of up to 48 independent samples, starting from sample preparation and including downstream processing, can be simply automated Brochure Available
News from Eppendorf UK (14 September 2007)
New Lims promises reduced implementation time
New laboratory information management system from Applied Biosystems is said to bring efficiency and cost effectiveness to drug development and manufacturing processes
News from Applied Biosystems (14 September 2007)
Proteomics profiling of RNAi in human cells
Technical Background Article Cenix BioScience, Applied Biosystems and Dresden University are to create a new facility for proteomics profiling of RNAi and drug effects in human cells
News from Cenix Bioscience (13 September 2007)
Multi-detection microplate reader's Hannover debut
BioTek Instruments will include its latest microplate instrumentation technology on its stand at Biotechnica 2007, 9-11 October in Hannover, Germany
News from BioTek Instruments (13 September 2007)
Artificial perspiration for reproducible testing
Sweat testing, conducted in many manufacturing sectors such as jewellery and clothing, and in forensic examinations, is more reproducible with these bottles of standardised synthetic sweat
News from Pickering Laboratories (13 September 2007)
Cholesterol - the good, the bad and the ugly
HDL (the good), LDL (the bad) and sdLDL (the ugly) cholesterol tests are now available from Randox as direct clearance methods for fully automated clinical chemistry analysers Brochure Available
News from Randox Laboratories (13 September 2007)
GPC column has medium polarity
The PolarGel-M column is capable of operation in a wide range of solvents and solvent combinations, greatly enhancing the ability to analyse polar polymers that aren't necessarily water soluble Brochure Available
News from Polymer Laboratories (13 September 2007)
Distillation system saves space and time
Designed to allow replacement of costly macro distillation techniques, the compact Midi-Dist distillation system allows multiple samples to be prepared for analysis quickly and easily
News from Andrews Glass (13 September 2007)
Qualification of UV systems course at Pittcon
Qualification of UV systems to meet new pharmaceutical standards is once again one of the short courses on specialised aspects of analytical chemistry in 2008's Pittsburgh Conference programme
News from Starna Scientific (13 September 2007)
Accuracy and repeatability in melt-flow testing
Zwick's new Mflow plastometer with an advanced heating system has improved features for the measurement of melt flow rate (MFR) or melt volume rate (MVR) in quality control and research applications Brochure Available
News from Zwick Roell (12 September 2007)
Syringe pump delivers to ten stations
KD Scientific has released the new KDS 410, a high pressure syringe pump capable of pushing two, four, six, or ten syringes simultaneously with nutrient solutions for feeding studies
News from KD Scientific (12 September 2007)
First assay kit for ACE2 activity
AnaSpec has introduced the SensoLyte 390 ACE2 activity assay kit - said to be the industry's first assay kit for the continuous monitoring of ACE2 activity
News from AnaSpec (12 September 2007)
Weighing instrument calibration better by software
Manage the calibration of weighing instruments, improve the efficiency of the calibration process, while also guaranteeing a traceable, auditable set of weighing records Brochure Available
News from Beamex (12 September 2007)
ActivityBase XE grows in hybridoma discovery
User Application Article Genmab initially purchased ActivityBase XE in 2006 to handle the design, capture, storage and retrieval of its plate-based screening data
News from IDBS (12 September 2007)
Cell phone sample prep for RoHS/WEEE analysis
The comminution of the various plastics and metals found in a typical cellular telephone in samples for RoHS/WEEE analysis requires a considered approach Brochure Available
News from Fritsch (12 September 2007)
In-situ transfection of living tissues
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
News from Cleaver Scientific (12 September 2007)
Win a trip to the 2007 ASCB in Washington DC
Technical Background Article Roche Applied Science offers researchers working with Fugene the opportunity to be selected for this year's Transfection Research Award, to be presented at the ASCB annual meeting in Washington DC Brochure Available
News from Roche Applied Science (12 September 2007)
5-star products feature in catalogue
Continuing its expansion into new markets, Progen Scientific has launched a new industry-specific brochure aimed at the related disciplines food and environmental analysis
News from Progen Scientific (12 September 2007)
Smallest details ever seen by electron microscopy
Technical Background Article A microscopy breakthrough for the Team project as details as small as 0.5angstrom (0.05nanometre) are resolved in scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) mode Brochure Available
News from FEI (11 September 2007)
MicroBeam accessories boost live cell research
The enhanced system will be especially useful to life scientists working with Palm MicroBeam instruments in research institutes, universities and in the pharmaceutical industry.
News from Carl Zeiss (11 September 2007)
Novozymes, UCL, and CRT conclude collaboration
The collaboration will generate anti-CEA scFv molecules which will be genetically fused with albumin using Novozymes proprietary Albufuse technology for future therapeutic or preventive applications.
News from Cancer Research UK (11 September 2007)
Expanded services for mass spectrometry systems
Applied Biosystems Global Services provides a instrument maintenance plans and services to help customers develop customised, application-specific solutions across basic biomedical research
News from Applied Biosystems (11 September 2007)
Read 1D and 2D coded tubes, simultaneously
Developed for laboratories looking to sample security and traceability, the Traxis TRxD is said to be the only tube reader that can simultaneously read both 2D Traxis codes and 1D linear bar codes Brochure Available
News from Micronic (11 September 2007)
Labnet Enduro gel systems available through Progen
Progen Scientific says it has secured exclusive access to the brand new Labnet Enduro gel systems, including horizontal, vertical, Page, blotter, and 2D electrophoresis gel systems
News from Progen Scientific (11 September 2007)
Licensing for leukemia molecular diagnostic assay
Ipsogen grants LabCorp non-exclusive rights, for the US territory, to offer an assay for the molecular classification and the diagnosis of a group of leukemias caused by Jak2 gene variations
News from Ipsogen (11 September 2007)
Water baths switch from orbital to reciprocal
Boekel Scientific has introduced its newest line of high quality water baths featuring a shaking water bath which can be operated in both orbital and reciprocal (linear) modes
News from Boekel Scientific (11 September 2007)
Drug discovery centre established in Hamburg
Technical Background Article ScreeningPort fills a missing link in Europe between academic research and the pharmaceutical industry, to accelerate development of new therapeutics from the results of basic research
News from Evotec (11 September 2007)
Identification of medically important yeasts
Remel Rapid Yeast Plus from Oxoid provides rapid biochemical identification of medically-important yeasts and yeast-like organisms in just four hours. Brochure Available
News from Oxoid (10 September 2007)
Fastest commercially-available CCD detector
At the European Crystallographic Meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, Oxford Diffraction launched the Atlas CCD detector which it says provides ultimate X-ray data quality up to 3.5x faster than other CCDs
News from Oxford Diffraction (10 September 2007)
Lowest cost, highest data quality in genotyping
The HumanLinkage-12 genotyping BeadChip claims the lowest cost per sample for linkage analysis plus industry-leading call rates, uniform marker distribution, and superior SNP content
News from Illumina (10 September 2007)
Honeybee virus found through sequencing technology
Technical Background Article Researchers at Columbia University have identified a virus implicated in the deaths of 2.4million honeybee colonies - tens of billions of bees - using 454 Life Sciences's Genome Sequencer system Brochure Available
News from Roche Applied Science (10 September 2007)
Pittcon 2008: registrations open
Attendance in the conferee networking sessions, the technical programme, plenary lecture, and the exposition floor are included in the cost of registration
News from Pittcon (10 September 2007)
Pharmaceutical testing in West Lothian
A new £4 million pharmaceutical testing facility that will help to boost Scotland's capabilities in the life sciences sector was officially opened in Livingston this week
News from Tepnel Life Sciences (10 September 2007)
Gene expression arrays for epigenetic analysis
Roche NimbleGen, part of Roche Applied Science, has added four-plex eukaryotic gene expression analysis microarrays and services to its growing suite of genomic and epigenetic analysis tools Brochure Available
News from Roche Applied Science (10 September 2007)
Accelerating European systems biology research
Technical Background Article European Science Foundation publishes report, Systems biology: a grand challenge for Europe; an attempt to identify how research in systems biology could be accelerated and developed further in Europe
News from European Science Foundation (10 September 2007)
Labels must be durable or samples lost
Brady's guaranteed labelling technology protects against the potential disaster of being unable to identify a sample after protracted storage Brochure Available
News from Brady Lab (10 September 2007)
Total number of news releases published during the week: 43
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