WHEATON® Introduces CryoELITE® for Secure Storage of Biological Tissues
October 10, 2013
Millville, NJ -- WHEATON® CryoELITE® Tissue Vials were designed for the safe, secure and effective cryopreservation of biological tissue specimens. Different from cells and biofluids, tissue biospecimens have particular requirements for cryogenic storage (see the WHEATON blog at https://www.CryoFeed.com for more information). Offering researchers a uniform vial able to maintain sample integrity while maximizing storage [...]
October 10, 2013
Hamilton Robotics has launched a next-generation, liquid handling platform that offers contact free pipetting over a wide volume range of 100 nL to 1 mL. The Hamilton VANTAGETM is space-efficient, affordable and can be remotely monitored by mobile devices. Its expandable design makes it a powerful instrument for labs with simple or complex application needs. [...]
Nobuto Blood Filter Strips Simplify Disease Monitoring
October 10, 2013
Nobuto Blood Filter Strips are the latest addition to Sterlitech’s growing line of microbiology and life science products. Made from high-purity cellulose fibers, which gives them a structure ideal for uniform sampling, each strip holds approximately 0.1 mL of blood or 0.04 mL of serum. Once the blood strip has dried, researchers can analyze, store, [...]
Beijing Higher Court Rules in Favor of EMD Millipore in Patent Infringement Case
October 10, 2013
BILLERICA, Mass. -- EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that the Beijing Higher Court, Beijing, China has affirmed a lower court’s decision against RephiLe Bioscience for copying and selling purification cartridges for lab water systems, infringing on patents owned by EMD Millipore. The Court determined that RephiLe’s [...]
PTR-TOF technology contributes to CLOUD experiment at CERN
October 10, 2013
The CLOUD experiment at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols – tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air – form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is a key question in understanding the climate, since [...]
Illumina Launches Infinium® HTS-24 Arrays for Unparalleled Content and Sample Throughput Capacity
October 9, 2013
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today launched an advanced high-throughput screening (HTS) array format that significantly increases the number of samples that can be processed on the Infinium® BeadChip family of genotyping arrays. Illumina’s Infinium assay leverages proven chemistries on a new 24-sample HTS BeadChip that supports up to 750,000 markers per sample and [...]
New Spectrophotometer Cuvette Discounts Going On at NSG Precision Cells
October 9, 2013
Farmingdale, NY -- Increasing prices on laboratory goods is no surprise to anyone. Every year customers can count on seeing the items that are vital to their experiments, increase in price. This causes labs to have to cut back on their spending and limits the scientists’ cuvette resources. Now every business has increases in costs [...]
Lake Shore Enhances Software Capabilities of Prototype Turnkey THz Characterization System
October 9, 2013
Columbus, Ohio -- In response to positive feedback heard at the recent IRMMW-THz conference, Lake Shore Cryotronics announced today that it is moving forward with implementing software features that will further enhance the usability of its prototype terahertz (THz) materials characterization platform. The features, demonstrated during the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves [...]
BIOTECHNICA 2013: Analytik Jena Introduces New Product Lines in Life Science Business Unit
October 9, 2013
Jena/Hanover – At this year’s Biotechnica, the leading trade fair for biotechnology, which is taking place from October 8 to 10 in Hanover, Analytik Jena AG is introducing two new product lines in the areas of Biolmaging and PCR UV Workstations. At booth E40 in hall 9 and together with its subsidiaries UVP and CyBio, [...]
October 9, 2013
Montréal – Hundreds of researchers from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia have joined together in a consortium to identify the genetic basis of the five most common forms of cancer – breast, prostate, lung, ovarian and colorectal. The group, called the OncoArray Consortium, developed a new customized genotyping tool – the OncoArray – manufactured [...]
