The new patented Findenser from Radleys (www.radleys.com) is an innovative and unique air condenser which replaces the need for water cooled condensers in over 95% of all common chemistry applications.

INTEGRA has announced an extension of its range of reagent reservoirs for 96-well and 384-well multichannel pipetting systems. Adopting a standard ANSI / SLAS footprint – the extended range of  reagent reservoirs (100ml and 300ml) are fully compatible with all liquid handling systems…

SciChem (Scientific & Chemical Supplies Limited) have added the Macron Fine Chemicals line to their range. These are analytical laboratory products which deliver reliable results and value to SciChem’s laboratory customers.

Having an effective and accurate tracking system in the laboratory is essential. Most histology laboratories have a tissue cassette printer that can produce a cassette labelled with a 2D code.

Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, today announced the first Lab Water Virtual Conference on June 4-5, 2013. The conference will start with a live keynote address entitled, “Drivers for Change and the Future of the Lab” featuring global industry leader and guest speaker, Tim…

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the work of the Nano-Mechanics Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Pune, India. The Nano-mechanics group develops and…

Platelet function testing using the Multiplate analyser, now available from Roche, can help to improve outcomes for patients who have had a heart attack or stroke, or who are at risk of bleeding during or after surgery.  Multiplate test results help to predict those who are at increased risk of…

Abbott has received CE marking for its new ARCHITECT Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) assay, a simple blood test designed to aid the diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes. The new ARCHITECT HbA1c test provides physicians with important information that may help patients take critical steps to manage the…

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the development of future diagnostic and theranostic solutions for early diagnosis, drug delivery and treatment of cancer at the School of Medicine and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Dr Adriele Prina-Mello…

Hosokawa Micron Ltd announces the development of the new design, low noise Whisper-Booth. This compact Downflow Booth achieves noise levels of approximately 60dba, which is less than a normal conversation, making it one of the quietest downflow booths on the market today.

The new InfraCal 2 Field Portable IR Analyzer can measure down to 0.1 ppm oil in water accurately, on-site and in less than 15 minutes.

Fluidigm (www.fluidigm.com) announced an agreement to develop and supply a customized version of its high- throughput library prep system to the DKMS (Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH) Life Science Lab.

Reagent Red Cell panels are now available from Alpha Laboratories in 0.8% cell suspensions. The vials are bar-coded making them ideal for use on column agglutination technology (CAT) systems such as Ortho AutoVue and Bio-Rad (Diamed) systems.

With laboratory regulations becoming increasingly tight, it has never been more important for scientists to be able to track and validate their systems. Pro-curo Software Ltd assists in meeting these stringent standards through its comprehensive tracking and reporting software package, which…

Well known for its iconic Alpine Air Jet Sieve for laboratory sieving and particle size measuring of fine powders, Hosokawa Micron has now introduced the Viblette VBL for fast, accurate wet sieving in the laboratory. The new unit has applications when wet sieving has to be used for analysis due…

Porvair Sciences announces new versions of its MiniVap and UltraVap blowdown evaporators that use warm air or nitrogen to speed up the evaporation of common HPLC solvents such as dichloromethane, methanol and acetonitrile from sample vials, significantly improving throughput and removing this…

The new SI600C cooled shaking incubator is the latest addition to the Stuart range of benchtop science equipment. The SI600C has all the features of the successful SI600 shaking incubator, with the addition of a separate recirculating chiller to extend the achievable temperature range.

Pharmaceutical developers at Synthon, a global specialist in the development and manufacture of generic medicines, have chosen an Optim 1000 high throughput, micro-volume protein analysis system from Avacta for preliminary formulation studies. Bas Kokke, Principal Scientist at Synthon, explained:…

Stable Micro Systems, the world-leading food texture analysis expert, has announced the launch of the Meullenet-Owens Razor Shear (MORS) blade. It is being hailed as the quickest, most accurate and simplest tool for measuring poultry tenderness – an attribute critical to consumer acceptance which…

DataApex newly offers users of Clarity Chromatography Software an application for Smartphones. Clarity2Go is a free application for both Android and iPhone mobile phones that allows monitoring a status of instruments.

Rheonix Inc, a molecular diagnostics device manufacturer based in Ithaca, New York, has integrated Tecan’s Cavro Air Displacement Pipettor (ADP) into its EncompassMDx molecular platform, providing complete automation of sample processing and analysis using Rheonix CARD technology. The CARD system…

New ACE SuperC18 Ultra-inert UHPLC/HPLC columns offer excellent stability across an extended pH range (pH 1.5 to 11.5), allowing chromatographers to routinely exploit beneficial selectivity changes at low, intermediate and high pH.

Scientists at the specialised biotech company PharmAbcine are completing formulation and stability studies in a fraction of the time thanks to an Optim 1000 microvolume protein analysis and characterisation instrument from Avacta Analytical. PharmAbcine was established in the Republic of Korea in…

Oxford Instruments, one of the world’s leading NMR specialists, has launched Pulsar – an affordable benchtop, cryogen-free NMR analyser that offers convenience without the special requirements associated with superconducting magnets. Pulsar’s small footprint is suitable for most labs and…

Avacta Analytical has recently undertaken preformulation studies for a new targeted secretion inhibitor (TSI) for Syntaxin Ltd1, using its expertise in protein analysis and the groundbreaking Optim 1000 instrument to provide a high quality, bespoke biophysical characterisation service. Dr Andy…

The MicroSeal from Porvair Sciences is a manual microplate heat sealer designed to be compact, easy-to-use and offer great performance all with an affordable list price. Of the various methods of sealing microplates, heating sealing has become the preferred option for many labs as it creates an…

Panasonic Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) freezers are making a real impact on sample security at the LifeLines project, a large-scale genetic study of healthy aging being run in the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe. The project was set up in 2006 and involves approximately 165,000…

German safety-storage cabinet manufacturer asecos now offers even more combined cabinet models, providing companies with further space-saving and professional storage options for hazardous materials. Combined safety storage cabinets are compact storage units comprising several compartments, each…

Microbiology services in East Lancashire have been benefitting from automated blood culture testing solutions from bioMérieux for many years, and are now enjoying the flexibility offered by the BacT/ALERT® 3D microbial detection system. Ian Byrom, Operational Manager at the Royal Blackburn…

Porvair Sciences has announced the addition of the novel Chromatrap chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay range to its portfolio of products for epigenetics. Developed in conjunction with Department of Life Sciences at University of Swansea, UK – Chromatrap uses a solid phase porous…