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Automated Strain Typing System Offers Potential Benefits for Outbreak Management
The Microbiology Department at Birmingham City Hospital has been investigating the use of automated strain typing with bioMérieux’s DiversiLab™ in the early identification of microbial outbreaks to help improve infection control strategies for neonatal care. Seema Desai, Specialist Registrar in the department, explained: “Confirmation of outbreaks is often delayed by the need to send samples to an external laboratory for strain typing. To overcome this lag between sampling and results, we have b...
New Bar Code Reader Offers Sample Traceability and Enhanced Security
Wheaton is pleased to introduce the new SingleScan Bar Code Reader. This is the latest introduction for Wheaton, advancing their charter to design and deliver today’s most innovative solutions for the laboratory research, diagnostic packaging and specialty pharmaceuticals industries. The Wheaton SingleScan Bar Code Reader was created as a tool to aid researchers in making sample traceability more efficient and accurate. A sophisticated 2D Data Matrix and 1D Linear Bar Code Reader capable of rea...
Pressure Monitored Pipetting Supports Dedication to Excellence
Tecan’s Pressure Monitored Pipetting (PMP™) option for Freedom EVO® workstations is providing Swiss BioQuant with real-time quality control to help to ensure reliable sample preparation. Christoph Siethoff, President and CEO of Swiss BioQuant, said: “We deal with difficult matrices every day, and pipetting of both plasma and urine samples can be challenging as clogging of pipette tips is a common problem. “From experience, we knew Tecan’s liquid handling workstations were robust and reliable a...
Fully Supported Edman Sequencer Offers Cost Effective N-Terminal Protein Sequencing Benefits
Providing a simple and robust solution for many laboratories, protein sequencing utilising automated Edman degradation chemistry remains a vital method of producing unambiguous data on biopharmaceutical or biochemical materials. An Edman sequencer, such as Shimadzu’s innovative PPSQ series instrument, is ideal for producing N-Terminal Sequencing information for proteins and peptides and is less complex to use than many alternative mass spectrometry-based techniques. Shimadzu’s PPSQ series achie...
Nano Chemistry Group at DTU Copenhagen Utilises Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis in its Research
The NanoChemistry group at the Department of Chemistry at DTU in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen, is led by Professor Jens Ulstrup. Chemistry at the nanoscale deals with the observation and manipulation of Nature's tiniest chemical building blocks, and with the design and exploitation of new properties that arise from nanoscale objects. The NanoChemistrty group at DTU Chemistry uses new and untraditional technologies, which has helped us to open a whole new world of ‘ultra-small’ chemical and phy...
Now you can Automate (F)ISH Testing
The new ThermoBrite Elite from Iris Sample Processing automates the pre and post hybridisation steps in (F)ISH testing and provides onboard denaturation and hybridisation. The system offers the same accurate temperature control of +/- 1oC as the original ThermoBrite system. Twelve slides can be processed per run. Just load the slides and walk away. An easy-to-use graphic user interface offers standard protocols for blood, urine or solid tumour (F)ISH procedures or the user can customise protoc...
Highly Efficient Tool for Organic Synthesis
The versatility, reproducibility and productivity needed by Contract Research or Synthesis Laboratories is provided by the Carousel 12 Plus™ Reaction Station - the proven industry standard for productive organic synthesis. The Radleys Carousel 12 Plus Reaction Station has been designed to provide busy contract research and synthesis laboratories with an easy to use tool that simultaneously heat or cools, stirs and refluxes up to 12 samples (1-20ml) under an inert atmosphere. In addition the Car...
Secure Closure of Sample Storage Tubes
Designed to seal sample storage tubes in the 96-well format - the Micronic capping system offers biobanks and biorepositories the ability to securely cap a single tube, a row of tubes or to apply 96 caps in a single action. With the launch of the new orange Capcluster - caps are now available in 13 different colours, providing a simple, yet effective means of visually differentiating stored samples by person, project or even by the type of sample submitted. Available for use with a wide range o...
Evaporation without Solvent Bumping
Available for use with Genevac evaporators - Dri-Pure® technology enables scientists to rapidly dry their samples without cross-contamination or loss of sample due to solvent bumping. Dri-Pure® offers significant benefits to scientists, especially those working in synthesis and purification. Other methods of solvent removal tend to be very laborious or lead to unacceptable crosscontamination, Dri-Pure® running on a Genevac evaporator gives smooth, controlled solvent removal in optimum time. The...
New Kits Take Ribosomal RNA to Virtually Zero
Available exclusively in the UK from Cambio, Epicentre’s species-specific Ribo-Zero kits remove virtually all small RNA subunits from total RNA preparations in a single extraction. The latest product developments - Ribo-Zero rRNA Removal Kit (Meta-Bacteria) and Ribo-Zero Gold Kit (Human/Mouse/Rat) - remove cytoplasmic and mitochondrial RNA, setting even higher standards, and delivering enhanced profiles of RNA-seq libraries. Addressing the increasing use of RNA sequencing techniques, Ribo-Zero...
New HPV Test for Primary Screening and Cervical Cancer Screening Programme
As the new cobas HPV test from Roche is accepted for the national cervical cancer screening programme in England for use at triage, further research also supports the use of Roche’s cobas HPV test in ‘primary’ screening as part of a more sensitive and more efficient strategy in the fight against cervical cancer. Data from a sub-analysis of the ATHENA (Addressing THE Need for Advanced HPV Diagnostics) landmark study, recently published online in The Lancet Oncology, demonstrated that the Roche co...
Dublin Hospital Reaps Time and Workload Benefits from a Fully Connected Point of Care Solution
Point of care (POC) blood glucose and blood gas testing at St James Hospital, Dublin is managed centrally through the Roche cobas® IT 1000 point of care data management software. This has allowed significant time savings and more efficient workload management, and has helped the hospital to meet accreditation requirements for POC testing. Based in the Biochemistry Department, POC Coordinator at St James, Felicity Dempsey, manages 110 fully connected Accu-Chek® Inform II glucose meters and 5 cob...
New understanding of how insulin secretion is regulated in the body
A recent development in our understanding of how insulin secretion is regulated in the body could lead to important implications for drugs currently used to treat Type 2 diabetes. A team led by Dr Vincent Poitout of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) studied the G protein-coupled free fatty acid receptor (FFA1/GPR40), which is a molecule that plays an important role in stimulating and regulating the production of insulin. The team found that glucose in the blood stimula...
Energy Efficient Sample Storage
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc has introduced the Thermo Scientific Revco UxF Series of ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers. These innovative new freezers have been designed to provide laboratories with an energy efficient approach to cold storage. The Revco® UxF portfolio incorporates your choice of a highperformance or energy saving modes, which are easily selected by the user via the intuitive touch-screen interface. Providing outstanding sample protection while using significantly less ene...
Temperature Controlled Stage used to Crystallisation Processes in Opto-Electronic Thin Films
The Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry at the Université Libre de Bruxelles is focused on research into ‘small molecules’, namely, liquid crystalline semiconductors for organic electronics application. Professor Yves Henri Geerts and his colleagues in Bruxelles have undertaken a study of single crystal thin films of terthiophene, the building block for the organic semi-conductor polythiophene, by directional crystallization by means of a thermal gradient using the Linkam GS350 stage. The backgrou...
University Teaching Labs Buy into Better Performance Autoclaves
York University is shortly taking delivery of a number of priorclaves for use in the Biology Department’s Teaching Laboratories and associated central Wash-Up and sterilising facilities, the third contract to be awarded to Priorclave by the University in the past 12 months. Although the laboratory equipment supplies market is extremely competitive, the Operations Manager at York University specified the Priorclave brand of autoclaves because of their inherent and proven energy efficiency, enabli...
Complete Solution for Toxigenic C. Difficile Testing
Pro-Lab Diagnostics and Microgen Bioproducts have announced a unique collaboration to provide clinical microbiology laboratories with a C. difficile cytotoxin testing package designed to eliminate the high false positive rates associated with toxin A/B immunoassay screening strategies. Combining Pro- Lab’s quick and convenient Prolisa™ C. difficile GDH (glutamate dehydrogenase) EIA with Microgen’s highly sensitive Hs27 ReadyCells™, the joint offering provides customers with a complete, rapid and...
New Multipurpose Cap Tubes
Nerbe Plus is very pleased to introduce its new 1.5ml np Safelock-Cap tube. It is made of extremely clear polypropylene for the perfect optical inspection of sample material. The new optimal lid-mechanism avoids accidental opening of the lid during centrifugation and thermal stress. It is ideal for centrifugation up to 30.000 x g centrifugal impact and for thermal exposure in incubation or in a water bath up to 100°C. np Safelock-Cap tube provides a frosted labelling space on lid and side for...
New virtual tool for testing DNA
A new web-based application has been introduced to help researchers more accurately define complex genetic mutations that are hard to identify with Sanger sequencing and pyrosequencing. Pyromaker produces simulated programs based on user input, and could aid in the diagnosis and selection of treatment for cancer. It can interpret complex results based on the data inputted, including the percentage of tumour and normal cells, the wild-type sequence, the dispensation order, and any number of mutan...
Self-referral concerns for MSK ultrasound
Musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound volumes have increased among non-radiologists, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, that found podiatrists had increased their MSK volume most significantly. The data was collected between 2000 and 2009 from the CMS Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary Master Files, which showed that the accessibility and availability of ultrasound technology is increasing the rates of self referrals. Low cost is also a contributing factor...
New Petri Dish Imaging System
Don Whitley Scientific Ltd (DWS) has launched a new Petri dish imaging system, which fits inside a workstation so that plates can be photographed during incubation without having to remove them from the workstation environment. The Whitley Petrifoto System features a Canon compact digital camera with auto focus, a wide angle zoom lens and a 12.1 megapixel high resolution sensor, all designed to elicit good quality images from even the most amateur of photographers. The robust unit is small enou...
RADWAG calibration workstation for pipettes – New Level of liquid handling comfort
Liquid handling has always been one of more difficult and demanding processes related to weighing. RADWAG vast experience in analytical and laboratory weighing has given rise to designing a professional stand for pipettes calibration. Complete workstation for pipettes calibration is a measuring device designed for complete realization of piston pipettes calibration and/or checking procedure, and supervision over a pipette. Calibration process of a pipette is fully supervised by a computer soft...
Phenom-World is launching the Motorized Tilt & Rotation Sample Holder for the Phenom™ desktop scanning electron microscope
Revealing the hidden treasures of all features on your sample is now possible with the Motorized Tilt & Rotation Sample Holder. Samples can have lines and holes, or have multi-layer structures. The new Motorized Tilt & Rotation Sample Holder allows analysis of the sample from all visible sides and enables a unique 3D image of your sample. With the launch of the Motorized Tilt & Rotation Sample Holder, details of features within the sample that have remained hidden so far, are easy to reveal. The...
Touch the Future of Gel and Blot Imaging with the ChemiDoc-ItTS2 Imager
UVP, LLC announces availability of the new ChemiDoc-It®TS2 810 Imager for capturing chemiluminescent, fluorescent, colorimetric and multiplex gels and blots. The new imager simplifies user workflow with the integrated touch screen and user-friendly capture software. Users can simply touch the Live Preview button to immediately see an image sample on the large 15.6" screen. The exposure, aperture, zoom and focus settings can be adjusted with a touch of the convenient control panel. All settings a...
JULABO Temperature Control Solutions High Precision and Speed
JULABO presents an extensive program of temperature control solutions ranging from -95 to 400 °C. Since JULABO’s foundation in 1967 the company has pioneered the development of technology for liquid temperature control. JULABO equipment is used successfully around the world providing application solutions for science, laboratories, technology centers and process industries. The current program features heating and refrigerated circulators, highly dynamic temperature control systems, recirculati...
More than just a “better AAS”! Simultaneous multi-element determination with High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS (HR-CS AAS) in graphite tube and flame
The commercial launch of the High-Resolution Continuum Source AAS (HR-CS AAS) has revolutionized atomic absorption spectroscopy. It was the German high-end manufacturer Analytik Jena that introduced the first HR-CS atomic absorption spectrometer in 2004. Today, the company offers a complete series of HR-CS AAS instruments: • contrAA® 300 – a flame spectrometer • contrAA® 600 – a pure graphite tube system for liquid and solid analysis. • contrAA® 700 – a combined flame and graphite tube system...
Huber revise their low cost heating and cooling thermostats
Huber has replaced the low cost MPC thermostats with new, improved models. The controllers have a new design and now offer an RS232 interface as standard. Additionally temperature control has been improved, now providing a continuous resolution of 0.1 °C, over the entire temperature range. MPC's are characterized by a favorable price-performance ratio, ease of operation and their commitment to environmentally friendly refrigeration with natural refrigerants. MPC thermostats are ideal for many la...
BIOSTAT® B-DCU II – the power and flexibility to meet your process development needs BIOSTAT® B-DCU II – the power and flexibility to meet your process development needs
The BIOSTAT® B-DCU II is a new generation of Fermentor| Bioreactor system, designed for meeting demanding requirements in both research and process development. A newly engineered control system launches many of its well-proven design features into a new era, offering unprecedented advantages for process development laboratories around the world. Unrivaled for scale-down and scale-up modeling of various culture processes, the BIOSTAT® B-DCU II provides a new level of power and flexibility. The...
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See us at: Pittcon: Stand 3106-3108 Arablab: Stand 150 We offer a complete range of lab gas generators, fulfilling the requirements of all laboratory analyzers such as:LCMS, GC, ICP, DEDL, IRTF, TOC, NMR, AA, electronic Noise, Rheology, Particle sizing by laser diffraction, DSC, Sample prep Autosamplers... Whatever your needs, our generators enable you to produce Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Pure Air with purities higher than 99,9999%. Following extensive market research and technical development,...
Eppendorf Mastercycler nexus – the new PCR instrument which sends status emails
The Eppendorf Mastercycler nexus family of PCR instruments offer excellent reproducibility, low noise emission and the versatility to use all types of consumables. Up to three units may be combined for higher throughput, while software capability enables users to access a booking schedule for the instrument and receive email notification when the PCR cycle is finished. Low energy consumption and a small footprint add to the advantages of the Mastercycler nexus for both academic and industrial re...
Automate tedious sample preparation steps with one standalone instrument
Manual sample prep is time-consuming and inherently variable. Such inconsistency can lead to time-consuming rework, wasted supplies, and the lingering uncertainty that your samples are not prepared the way your protocols – or regulatory requirements – dictate. In addition, direct exposure to hazardous chemicals can jeopardize the health of you and your team. The new Agilent 7696A Sample Prep WorkBench reduces the time, cost, and tedium of manual sample preparation for GC or LC applications—dilut...
Extraction of Antioxidants from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) By Pressurized Liquid Extraction (PLE)
Introduction Plastics and other polymers are used in a wide spectrum of applications from industrial usage to packaging, including the packaging of food and pharmaceutical products. To enhance functionality, chemical additives are often added to polymers. These additives enable polymers to be more durable, pliable and make them less subject to degradation. To ensure that the specified amounts of an additive or combination of additives are incorporated into a polymer. After the extrusion proces...
96-Channel Handheld Electronic Pipette
The INTEGRA VIAFLO 96 is a new 96-channel electronic pipette that enables fast, precise and easy simultaneous transfer of 96 samples. Uses will immediately benefit from the increased productivity delivered by their VIAFLO 96. Fast replication or reformatting of 96 and 384 well plates and high precision transferring of reagents, compounds and solutions to or from microplates is now as easy as pipetting with a standard electronic pipette into a single tube. Four pipetting heads with pipetting...
GB Rowing Unveils its Secret Weapon
The GB Rowing Team has hailed the Siemens RAPIDPoint® Blood Gas Analyser as its ‘secret weapon’ in its athletic arsenal following a win of 14 medals at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia. As the High Performance Partner, Siemens works with the GB Rowing Team on innovative ways to assist the team’s training and the performance of its male, female and adaptive crews. It provided the GB Rowing Team with the blood gas analyser so that the team could gain valuable performance data...
Issue four of Application Notes Handbook Releases
2011 has seen Gilson launch its quarterly application note handbook with issue 4 being the last release of the year. Focusing on applications for pipettes, purification, solid phase extraction and liquidhandling, these notes provide a variety of detailed applications in fields such as environmental, food and beverage, clinical/forensic and pharmaceutical. There is a single article in the environmental section titledthe Determination of Chlorinated Pesticides in Poultry Fat via AOAC 970.52, 984...
University of Loughborough Apply Nanoparticle Size Characterisation System
Analytik are pleased to announce the Chemical Engineering Department at Loughborough University is using a CPS DC characterisation system to study particles in relation to filter and separations technology. Richard Holdich is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University. Applying the CPS disc centrifugation technology, filter efficiency is studied by using particles of less than 2 microns and down to a few 10's of nanometres. Comparison is made between the fi...
Gold nanodroplets created for medical applications
Researchers at Kansas University have developed a new method for optical manipulation of matter at the nanoscale, creating perfectly spherical gold nanodroplets. The nanodroplets, which could improve medical applications for cancer treatments, are the smallest-ever nanojets. They could be used in cancer treatment by attaching the nanoparticles to molecules and injecting them into the blood. The molecules then attach to the cancer cells, with the light heating up the gold nanodroplets destroying...
New Version of GC/MS Method Package for Residual Pesticides in Foods
To address the increasing demand to reliably check for critical amounts of residual pesticides in foods, feed additives and veterinary drugs Shimadzu is releasing the company’s GC/MS Method Package Ver. 2 for Residual Pesticides in Foods. The new analysis package has been developed to improve the speed and efficiency of using GC/MS technology to analyse as many as 800 different residual pesticides by providing simpler inspection methods and batch analysis of multiple component samples. The meth...
About Ellutia
Ellutia design and produce a range of innovative gas chromatography instruments. Ellutia systems are designed to be smaller, faster, give greater sensitivity and be more energy efficient. The main focus is to supply complete solutions to analytical problems. By collaborating closely with customers Ellutia are able to produce, install and support customised systems to fit their exact requirements. This flexibility and customer focus sets Ellutia apart from the competition. For further informat...
200 Series GC - Sniffer port
In the flavours and fragrance industries it is often useful for an operator to be able to smell individual components of a sample as they elute. The nose of a trained analyst can be far more discriminating than any GC detector to the nuances in flavours and fragrances allowing for better compound identification. Ellutia has produced a customised 200 series GC for an essential oil producer to help with their analysis. The system splits the effluent from the analysis column between a special heate...
ECD Services
Electron Capture Detectors contain a radioactive source and so are controlled by legislation. Ellutia Ltd is licensed to provide a range of services designed to help users of these devices remain within the law. Wipe Testing It is a legal requirement that the detectors are "wipe tested" to detect radioactive contamination of the surface at intervals of between one and three years depending upon local regulations. Ellutia supply a convenient wipe test kit containing full instructions and materi...
Cut It, Spread It, Taste It, Chew It
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories has announced the availability of an extensive library of texture analysis application notes relating to the food industry. In simple terms, texture analysis is the measurement of food mechanical properties as they relate to sensory properties detected by humans, such as the way food feels in the mouth or the experience of chewing. The application notes discuss easy test methods to capture the sensory properties of food materials with the use of Brookfield’s...
High Throughput and Rapid Response Chromatography Solutions
Laboratories that face large numbers of samples or require results fast, can find the analysis cycle times of conventional air blown oven gas chromatographs (GC) to be a limiting factor. Other manufacturers have attempted to address this problem by simply implementing larger powered heaters and forced cooling systems. Ellutia considers this approach to be inefficient as it increases the amount of energy required per sample. Many Users also complain about the waste heat emitted, noise produced a...
Nitrogen Analyser for Food and Feed Analysis
Next Instruments, a manufacturer and marketer of instruments for the food and agriculture markets, now offers the Velp Scientifica range of protein, fat and fibre analysers. The Velp Scientifica NDA 701 Dumas Nitrogen Analyser is a simple to use, rapid and cost effective instrument designed to measure protein in food, grains, animal feeds and soil. The NDA701 measures Nitrogen by combustion and detection using a thermal conductivity detector. A built-in 30 cup autosampler that can stack 4 carous...
Chromogenic Media Detects S. typhi and S. paratyphi
bioMérieux’s chromID Salmonella takes advantage of three chromogenic substrates to selectively isolate and differentiate all Salmonella serotypes, including S. typhi and S. paratyphi. Salmonella spp. are observed 18 – 24 hours after incubation as pale pink to mauve colonies on a colourless background and are easily distinguished from non-Salmonella spp. which appear as blue, turquoise or colourless colonies. This optimum differentiation of cultures virtually eliminates the risk of missing a Sa...
Sample Preparation Range used for Reindeer Meat Quality Research
Seward, the manufacturer and developer of the patented Stomacher® Paddle Blender range, highlighted an application for this world leading sample preparation range concerning the assessment of reindeer meat quality. This is in addition to a broad array of familiar applications in preparing the best festive food samples for analysis and protecting the reputation of food processors, as well as consumer health. During the festive season, the company unsurprisingly sees a ramping up of activity in gl...
Cost-effective Determination of Inorganic Anions and Cations in Municipal Drinking Water
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc is pleased to announce a new application demonstrating the separation of common inorganic anions and cations in municipal drinking water samples on the capillary Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac AS19 hydroxide- selective anionexchange column and the Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac CS12A columns using electrolytically generated eluent. The analytes were detected by suppressed conductivity using the Thermo Scientific Dionex Capillary Electrolytic Suppressors (CESTM) a...
Lansoprazole 'ineffective in asthma treatment for children'
Lansoprazole, which is commonly used to suppress the production of stomach acid, has been found to be ineffective when used to control asthma in children who show no signs of acid reflux. A new study, conducted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health in America, added to previous NHLBI/ALA-funded trial in 2009 that found Lansoprazole did not improve asthma control in adults. The test studied 306 children and teenagers of various ethnici...
The Ultimate Antibiotic Milk Testing Platform
Randox Food Diagnostics has developed and manufactured a unique multi-analyte milk testing platform. Unlike many other commercially available milk testing products, the Randox multiplex platform offers limits of detection that are sub maximum residue/tolerance levels globally. Up to 675 test results can be achieved in less than 2 hours using the Antimicrobial I Plus Array that can detect up to 14 sulphonamide compounds and Trimethoprim from a single milk sample. The Antimicrobial II Array allow...
Evolving Markets in Raw Milk Consumption Emphasise Need for Routine Testing for E. coli
Following a periodical review of consumer health risks from unpasteurised milk and cream, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have maintained their recommendation that pasteurisation is an important control measure in reducing the risks from consumption of raw milk. Microbiological data reviewed showed the presence of pathogenic microorganisms in some raw milk samples and indicators of faecal contamination present at varying levels in most samples analysed. Whilst full results of the review are yet...