Hamilton Scientific, a leading manufacturer of laboratory furniture and fume hoods for the education, healthcare and industrial markets, has announced that they have purchased the assets of Gibson Associates of Sudbury, Massachusetts. With this acquisition, Hamilton Scientific assumes all contracts under warranty including existing and future contracts of the Gibson Associates business and has renamed […]

The innovative Fuego SCS Series from WLD-TEC GmbH provides maximum safety and highest convenience for all flame-related applications in the laboratory. The Fuego SCS offers more convenience through the new graphic display and comfort functions. The animated, self-explanatory and wordless symbol display facilitates a rapid and easy selection of all functions. To assist the user […]

Porvair Sciences has launched a new online service (www.microplateseals.co.uk) providing organisations with easy access to next day delivery on competitively priced, high performance microplate thermal seals. For laboratories in the UK choosing to use the new service all microplate seals are also delivered free-of-charge. Available in a wide choice of colour-coded designs – Porvair microplate […]

Swift Biosciences, Inc. today announced an Early Access Program for the Accel-NGS™ DNA Library Kit for Illumina Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) systems. This program follows the successful launch earlier this year of a similar product for use on Ion Torrent platforms. Swift’s new kit is designed to bring the same benefits – low input requirement, […]

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the launch of its new cOmplete His-Tag Purification Column for researchers performing histidine-tagged protein purification from lysates. The new column uses Roche’s proprietary nickel-chelate chemistry and is compatible with commonly used reducing agents (DTT), metalloproteinase inhibiting reagents such as EDTA, and different buffer and salt environments. This […]

RADNOR, PA, – VWR International, LLC, a global solutions provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services, announced today that Peter Schüle has joined VWR as the Company’s Senior Vice President and President, European Lab Business. Mr. Schüle joins VWR from Sigma Aldrich Corporation where he served as Vice President, Supply Chain Europe, Middle East and […]

Farmingdale, NY — The Spectral Bandwidth (SBW) of a spectrophotometer is the basis of establishing its ability to resolve absorption lines separated by small differences in wavelength. If a substance that requires measurement has an absorption line at 257.4nm and there is an interfering line at 260.0 nm, one needs to establish whether the spectrophotometer […]

STATESVILLE, N.C. — Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (NASDAQ: KEQU) today announced results for its fourth quarter and year ended April 30, 2013. Fiscal Year 2013 Results Sales for the year were a record $117,121,000, up 13.9% from sales of $102,847,000 in the prior year. Net earnings for the year were $3,044,000, or $1.17 per diluted share, […]

BEVERLY, Mass. AND SAO PAULO —— Sage Science, a developer of products for improving sample preparation processes in life science applications, and Uniscience do Brasil, the leading distributor of equipment and reagents to the Brazilian biotechnology and molecular biology markets, today announced a distribution agreement for Sage’s Pippin DNA size selection product portfolio. Uniscience is […]

Solon, Ohio — The sturdy yeast cell wall is a formidable barrier to the extraction of this model organism’s cellular contents, including its genomic DNA. Conventional methods for breaching the cell wall and isolating DNA are both time- and labor-intensive, may require hazardous reagents, and are rigorous enough to damage the extracted DNA. AMRESCO now […]