News releases on Laboratorytalk categorised by date
Sunday 20 January
to Saturday 26 January 2008
Joined-up thinking for protein identification
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the integration of Matrix Science's Mascot search engine for protein identification with its BioWorks software
News from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Mass Spectrometry) (25 January 2008)
Titrimetric analysis of wound care products
Metrohm UK has developed a system to analyse some of antiseptic active compounds when they are actually bonded into other wound care products such as bandages or gels Brochure Available
News from Metrohm UK (25 January 2008)
Improved sensitivity in screening assays
Millipore has announced the latest addition to the MultiScreen family of filter plates, the MultiScreenHTS+ for radiometric kinase and GPCR assays Brochure Available
News from Millipore (25 January 2008)
BeadChips used in 10,000 sample Generation R study
User Application Article Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam has purchased Illumina's Infinium HD (high-density) Human610-Quad BeadChips for the analysis of 10,000 samples and a third scanner to support the Generation R Study
News from Illumina (25 January 2008)
Record sales of Ames test colony counters
Following a record year in 2007, Perceptive Instruments now have colony counting systems for Ames assays in the vast majority of leading pharmaceutical and contract research organisations worldwide
News from Perceptive Instruments (25 January 2008)
Total package oxygen measurement is quick and easy
Hach Ultra introduces the Total Package Oxygen (TPO) calculation function to all Orbisphere 510 portable instruments
News from Hach Ultra (25 January 2008)
Outsourcing or consulting for rheological testing
ATS RheoSystems's technical support department has over 350 cumulative years of rheological experience, allowing it to provide outsourcing of rheological testing or consultancy on a project basis
News from ATS Rheosystems (25 January 2008)
Optics and optical design for the nuclear industry
Resolve Optics's range of non-browning lenses have been designed for use with 1/2inch, 2/3inch and 1inch CCTV cameras as well as Newvicon and Chalnicon tubes in nuclear monitoring applications Brochure Available
News from Resolve Optics (25 January 2008)
Pipetting training and certification seminars
Employing the standardised Artel method, these training seminars develop operator pipetting proficiency and consistency to minimise laboratory liquid handling error and improve data quality
News from Artel (25 January 2008)
Screening pressure reactor is now widely available
The Symyx Screening Pressure Reactor enables up to a 100x increase in experimental throughput over conventional techniques, enabling scientists to test more catalysts under more conditions
News from Symyx Technologies (25 January 2008)
Collaborating over immune agonists and antagonists
Dante Marciani and BioSynthesis focus on proprietary novel glycosides that stimulate innate immunity while taking advantage of the synergistic effects between innate and adaptive immunity
News from Bio-Synthesis (25 January 2008)
High-throughput applied to knowledge management
Software brings high-throughput capabilities to knowledge management for various analytical techniques, automating and accelerating data reduction, standardizing results and more
News from Advanced Chemistry Development (25 January 2008)
Cancer gene testing service launched by Lab21
Lab21, a provider of health and environmental diagnostics, is providing a test for analysis of the K-ras gene from its Cambridge laboratories
News from Lab21 (25 January 2008)
EQA programme for HbA1c now available from Riqas
Riqas, the Randox International Quality Assessment Scheme, is an international EQA scheme used by 7000 laboratories worldwide, participating in up to nine programmes Brochure Available
News from Randox Laboratories (25 January 2008)
Accurate measurement of cell suspension turbidity
Compact and easy-to-use benchtop densitometer, designed for a wide range of life science, microbiology and industrial applications, measures turbidity in the range 0.3 to 15.0 McFarland units
News from Grant Instruments (Cambridge) (25 January 2008)
AnaSpec introduces Haba-biotin quantitation kits
Haba Biotin quantitation kits provide a convenient method for estimating the molar ratio of biotin to protein on biotinylated conjugates
News from AnaSpec (24 January 2008)
Laserline selects VHB bar for direct diodes
Bookham reports that Laserline has selected its Very High Brightness (VHB) bar to support its high brightness direct diode laser systems
News from Bookham (24 January 2008)
Salt analyser guarantees fast, accurate results
The content of chloride (salt) in food stuffs is determined by titration using the electrode Ag Titrode with an Ag2S coating by a so-called precipitation titration with potentiometric detection Brochure Available
News from Metrohm UK (24 January 2008)
Leica Microsystems acquires Cell Analysis
The company has developed imaging software which Leica Microsystems's biosystems division will adapt to its product portfolio to support the work of its pathology customers.
News from Leica Microsytems (24 January 2008)
Chemical imaging analysis for cross-platform work
Malvern Instruments announces the release of ISys 5.0, the latest version of the company's chemical imaging analysis software. Brochure Available
News from Malvern Instruments (24 January 2008)
Balances are less susceptible to temperature
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces the TX/TXB series of top-loading electronic balances that meet the recent demand for intermediate-range balances with competitive performance and price Brochure Available
News from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (24 January 2008)
Anavex outlines corporate plans for 2008
Anavex Life Sciences says it achieved significant development of its lead drug candidates its scientific teams during 200,7 and disclosed key corporate objectives for 2008
News from Anavex Life Sciences (24 January 2008)
Minerals analysis company expands to Wales
Hi-tech minerals analysis company Intellection has merged with Welsh geoscience firm X-Ray Mineral Services (XMS), significantly increasing its presence in the oil and gas sectors
News from Intellection (24 January 2008)
Infrared imaging camera is multispectral
Cedip Infrared Systems has launched Orion - an infrared multispectral imaging system capable of producing IR sub-band images at video rate within the SW-MWIR or LWIR regions Brochure Available
News from Cedip Infrared Systems (24 January 2008)
Chlamydia diagnosis and treatment in single visit
Giving results in as little as 30 minutes, Clearview Chlamydia MF is suitable for men and women by detecting chlamydia trachomatis antigen using either female endocervical swabs or male urine samples
News from Inverness Medical Innovations (24 January 2008)
Drug delivery platform is sure to Please
At the drug delivery conference, Pantec will publicly unveil its laser microporation technology, Please, a hand held drug delivery device for the painless delivery of large molecular weight drugs
News from Pantec Biosolutions (24 January 2008)
NanoQuant is tailored for absorbance applications
Tecan is launching the Infinite 200 NanoQuant, a highly sensitive absorbance instrument, at LabAutomation 2008 in Palm Springs, USA
News from Tecan Group (24 January 2008)
Deep-UV coating for demanding optical applications
Agilent's vertically integrated design-to-production facility includes in-house fabrication (shaping, grinding and polishing) and coating (deep-UV to near-IR) capabilities
News from Agilent Technologies Europe (24 January 2008)
Plastic lasers give increased power at lower cost
The lasers employ PerkinElmer's novel multi-active area laser chips to deliver high output power in a small emitting area, allowing easy fibre coupling Brochure Available
News from Pacer International (24 January 2008)
Mettler Toledo and Applied Biosystems join forces
Collaboration allows seamless integration of Mettler Toledo's LabX data management software with the Applied Biosystems SQL Lims laboratory information system Brochure Available
News from Mettler Toledo (24 January 2008)
Microbial contamination detection in real time
Millipore and Gen-Probe launch the first product from their collaboration to create faster, sensitive, more robust tests for detecting contaminants in pharmaceutical and biotechnology Brochure Available
News from Millipore (24 January 2008)
Nanoscale predictive analytical screening for APIs
Molecular Profiles announces the latest addition to its nanoscale analytical services offering, Nanopass (nanoscale predictive analytical screening solution)
News from Molecular Profiles (23 January 2008)
PCR instrumentation taken to the next level
Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the introduction of the Bio-Rad 1000-series thermal cycling platform, its next generation PCR instrumentation Brochure Available
News from Bio-Rad Laboratories (23 January 2008)
Expanding the boundaries of mass spectrometry
Waters has launched its Synapt MS system, describing it as a next-generation quadrupole orthogonal acceleration, time-of-flight (oa-Tof) mass spectrometry (MS) platform
News from Waters (23 January 2008)
Wako is sales and marketing partner for Japan
Fluorotechnics announces the immediate appointment of Wako Pure Chemical Industries, as a sales, marketing and distribution partner for Japan
News from Fluorotechnics (23 January 2008)
Weight Measurement subsystem installed at Kaneka
User Application Article H+T recently completed the installation of the company's weight measurement subsystem at the life science research laboratories of Kaneka in Hyogo, Japan
News from H+T (23 January 2008)
High resolution and sensitivity on-line analysis
The PTR-TOF-MS enables users to obtain a broad mass spectrum (>10.000amu) in a fraction of a second, with a mass resolution of up to 5000 and a single-digit pptv-range detection limit for most VOCs
News from Ionicon Analytik (23 January 2008)
Maximum flexibility from these thermal cyclers
A range of cost-effective and easy-to-use thermal and gradient thermal cyclers have recently been added to the expanding range of laboratory products offered by Cleaver Scientific
News from Cleaver Scientific (23 January 2008)
Assaying the anion profile of cement with IC
The 850 professional ion chromatography (IC) range from Metrohm can be used to determine any conductive anion and cation in a variety of different everyday products Brochure Available
News from Metrohm UK (23 January 2008)
Optical reference flats are high precision
Optics up to 450mm diameter are provided with a Fizeau interferometric test report, while larger flats are quality assured using the Ritchey-Common test procedure
News from Optical Surfaces (23 January 2008)
Auto/manual mixer prepares mortar samples fast
ELE International has developed a mortar mixer with automatic and manual function to prepare cement mortar mixes to the latest international testing standards, including the recent changes to EN 196
News from ELE International (23 January 2008)
The integration of concrete testing and reporting
Admet's MegaForce II automatic concrete testing system and Concrete-Traker database are sold as OEM equipment by concrete compressive test frame manufacturers and as retrofits to existing units
News from Admet (23 January 2008)
FEI has opened a Nanoport in Shanghai, China
FEI NanoPorts are located in key centres of technology excellence where there is a critical number of customers and partners to encourage the advancement of nanoscale development
News from FEI (22 January 2008)
Novel family of high power ultrafast lasers
Processes where ultrafast pulses and ultra high peak power combined with high power, stability and reliability are of advantage will benefit from the Femtosource scientific XL says Femtolasers
News from Femtolasers Produktions (22 January 2008)
Accurate formula ID on ion trap mass spectrometer
User Application Article Cerno Bioscience, in cooperation with Sabic Innovative Plastics, has succeeded in demonstrating the ability to perform formula ID on a Thermo Scientific LCQ Deca Max ion trap mass spectrometer
News from Cerno Bioscience (22 January 2008)
Sanyo laboratory refrigerators are high capacity
Sanyo high-quality Laboratory Refrigerators offer high capacity storage and excellent temperature control, at an affordable price Brochure Available
News from Sanyo E and E Europe (22 January 2008)
Lambda 1050 performs across UV/vis/NIR range
With its unique three-detector design, the Lambda 1050 has a full scanning range from 175-3300 nanometres, and an InGaAs detector expands this in the 800-2600 range for measurement in the NIR
News from Perkin Elmer LAS (UK) (22 January 2008)
Spectral measurement and goniometrics for LEDs
Gamma Scientific introduces the Radoma-LED goniometric system for fast, highly accurate and repeatable, LED angular and LED spectral measurements
News from Gamma Scientific (22 January 2008)
JAK2V617F mutation screening in WHO 2008 criteria
Technical Background Article Ipsogen reports recommendation of JAK2V617F mutation screening in World Health Organization 2008 criteria and point-of-care diagnostic algorithms
News from Ipsogen (22 January 2008)
Fastest spectrometer yet from Ocean Optics
The USB2000+ spectrometer can be equipped with a custom selected fixed grating which disperses the light to the 2048-element CCD array detector, producing results at a resolution to 0.35nm (FWHM)
News from Ocean Optics (22 January 2008)
Video zoom system suits microscope inspection
The Motic Z-14 is said to combine the best of an optical stereomicroscope, 1:14 optical zoom, with the best of a video based system, auto focus, in one system
News from Motic Microscopes (22 January 2008)
Apply for Young European Investigators award
Online applications are invited for the 2008 Eppendorf Award for young European investigators, presented by Eppendorf in partnership with the scientific journal Nature Brochure Available
News from Eppendorf UK (22 January 2008)
CCD Microscope aids inspection of gemstones
Moritex reports that its MSX-500Di digital CCD microscope has enabled luxury jewellery specialists Wharton to inspect, measure and electronically document precious gemstones handled by the company
News from Moritex Europe (22 January 2008)
Beaded pipe adapter fits Delp Mixer
The new 216-A2BP adapter is the latest addition to the family of beaded pipe mounting adapters that now covers the full range of commonly used sizes
News from Delp and Associates (22 January 2008)
Unlimited DNA from fixed tissue samples
The Repli-G FFPE kit, the latest development in Qiagen's whole genome amplification portfolio, eliminates problems associated with DNA fragmentation and damage caused by formalin fixation
News from Qiagen (22 January 2008)
Antibodies against citrullinated vimentin
Technical Background Article The Anti-MCV Elisa by Orgentec Diagnostika uses mutated citrullinated vimentin (MCV), a naturally occurring protein, highly specific for rheumatoid arthritis
News from Orgentec Diagnostika (22 January 2008)
A look ahead to Lab Automation 2008
Nest week sees the Lab Automation exhibition and conference at Palm Springs, California, at which many leading suppliers will launch new and updated equipment. Russ Swan provides this preview
News from SPECIAL REPORT by the Editor (22 January 2008)
US Patent for BioOdyssey Calligrapher miniarrayer
The patent, issued in October 2007 enables the miniarrayer to maintain precise and accurate movements that are required for microarrying (in the micron range) in an affordable benchtop instrument Brochure Available
News from Bio-Rad Laboratories (21 January 2008)
Next generation sequencing network established
Technical Background Article CLC bio and several prominent Danish research institutions have established Seqnet - a national network for developing software for the analysis of data from next generation sequencing technologies
News from CLC bio (21 January 2008)
Growing interest in adaptive trials
A recent poll conducted by ClinPhone showed that over 60% of responders are either currently implementing or considering implementing adaptive trials
News from ClinPhone (21 January 2008)
Autism has relationship to extra or missing genes
User Application Article Study establishing a relationship between autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and extra or missing genes on chromosome 16 used Agilent microarrays to detect these microdeletions and microduplications
News from Agilent Technologies Europe (21 January 2008)
Norovirus detection in under two hours
Oxoid's Ideia range of rapid enzyme immunoassays can be used to detect the four leading causes of viral gastroenteritis: norovirus, rotavirus, astrovirus and adenovirus, in human stool samples. Brochure Available
News from Oxoid (21 January 2008)
Breitlander joins forces with LGC Standards
Two of Europe's best respected reference material suppliers join forces to offer the most comprehensive range of analytical and industrial materials for laboratories, within a global network
News from LGC (21 January 2008)
Diagnostic assays for healthcare and environment
Following the appointment of CEO Graham Mullis, Lab 21 is focusing its products and services under two key areas: healthcare diagnostics including personalised medicine; and environmental diagnostics
News from Lab21 (21 January 2008)
Brochure promises answers to fast LC problems
New literature from LabLogic Systems identifies problems often encountered by radio-chromatographers using Fast LC in order to achieve better resolution, and describes how they can be overcome Brochure Available
News from Lablogic Systems (21 January 2008)
First commercial application of Medipix2
Medipix Collaboration involves Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Panalytical as well as Nikhef, the National institute for subatomic physics in the Netherlands
News from Panalytical (21 January 2008)
2.1um particle for HPLC is now available
Manufactured from a pure silica template, 2.1um Fortis C18 will offer the analyst all of the resolution gains of small particles without the need to move below 2um in size
News from Fortis Technologies (21 January 2008)
Guides to Gene Pulser MXcell now available
The Gene Pulser MXcell electroporation system is fully programmable and can deliver up to 24 different electroporation protocols in a single 96-well plate in two minutes or less Brochure Available
News from Bio-Rad Laboratories (21 January 2008)
Rapid detection of diethylene glycol in medicines
The overall protocol using the Zic-Hilic stationary phase is very rapid, the only sample pretreatment that was required is a simple dilution step and DEG eluted in less than three minutes Brochure Available
News from SeQuant (21 January 2008)
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