New Cole-Parmer Symmetry Touch-Screen Balances Offer Advanced Features, Accuracy and Affordability

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The new Cole-Parmer® Symmetry® touch-screen balances, with industry-leading warranties, boast many useful features at an affordable price. Vernon Hills, IL Laboratory workers can now have a state-of-the-art touch-screen balance at their fingertips while remaining budget savvy. The new Cole-Parmer® Symmetry® touch-screen balances, with industry-leading warranties, boast many useful features at an affordable price. Each balance […]

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CARL R. WOESE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS has named the Core Facilities at IGB as an official ZEISS labs@location Partner. The model facility will allow researchers from around the U.S. to test-drive new instruments in the IGB’s Core Facilities Microscopy Suite. This partnership represents the first North American location of the ZEISS labs@location partner program, already in use across Europe. “With this special partnership with IGB Core Facilities, we transfer a successful labs@location program from Europe to the U.S.,” said Jim Sharp, President Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC. “labs@location is a community of our ZEISS customers and partners providing in depth knowledge and dedicated services. We are very excited that the IGB becomes our first American ZEISS labs@location.” The agreement will allow IGB and Illinois researchers access to select cutting edge technologies immediately following–or in some cases before–their broad release. New instruments, on loan from ZEISS, will cycle through the Core and be available to all users during that time. In addition, the agreement provides for training and classes taught by ZEISS personnel at the IGB that will better position Core staff and researchers to best utilize new equipment. ZEISS instrument specialists will provide instruction and instrument demos to Illinois and visiting scientists, as well as assist in training the IGB Core staff to provide similar instruction themselves. “ZEISS training is really valuable,” said Core Facilities Director Glenn Fried, “but until now, you’ve had to send your people to the ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center in New York twice a year to see that benefit. Now all of my staff, as well as graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, can come to those classes at the IGB.” Fried anticipates that one of the first new instruments under the agreement will be a ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7, a new automated microscopy platform for high throughput live cell imaging. Though the IGB has equipment for that purpose, Fried says that the ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 offers improved clarity and visibility, allowing for sharper and more accurate images. “This is a really exciting thing for the Core, and for everyone who uses our instruments,” said Fried. “Researchers will have access to the newest technology–like ZEISS Celldiscoverer–long before they would if we had to write a grant or even just went out and bought it.” In all, the ZEISS partnership promises to establish itself as a regional center of excellence in biological imaging by attracting researchers from around the country to demo new instruments and attend trainings. “We are thrilled to partner with ZEISS in this way, because it will enhance the research capabilities of scientists studying many different types of questions, thus enabling the IGB to provide an important new benefit to the campus. Being selected by ZEISS to be the first labs@location in North America is a great honor, and a recognition of the excellence of our Core Facilities and especially the entire Core Facilities staff,” said IGB Director Gene Robinson.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Cellecta, Inc. today announced the launch of the Driver-Map™ Human Genome-Wide Gene Expression Profiling kit, a targeted RNA expression profiling assay designed to easily provide a molecular snapshot of all known 19,000 human protein-coding genes from complex samples starting from as little as 10 pg of total RNA. The multiplex RT-PCR-based, followed […]

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METTLER TOLEDO Launches On-line Chloride/Sulfate Analyzer

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The 3000CS Analyzer is an on-line instrument offering automated ppb-level chloride and sulfate measurement for corrosion control in power plant chemistry. Billerica, MA METTLER TOLEDO Process Analytics is launching an on-line instrument for direct measurement of corrosive ions found in power plant water and steam. Chlorides and sulfates cause pitting and stress corrosion in expensive […]

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ibidi Product News: µ-Slide VI 0.5 Glass Bottom – Combining the Excellent Optical Properties of Glass with ibidi’s Refined Channel Geometry

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Munich, Germany – Lower costs and flawless imaging make the new ibidi µ-Slide VI 0.5 Glass Bottom an interesting option for researchers who are working with glass bottom slides or dishes for immunofluorescence assays, flow experiments, TIRF, or Super-Resolution applications. This original µ-Slide is ideally suited for applications using 6 channels in parallel. Experiments are cost-effective, […]

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Arrayjet inks a ‘major’ boost from $250,000 contract win with New York Bioscience Cluster

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Arrayjet, the Midlothian-based microarray instrumentation company, has secured a contract with/within The New York Bioscience Cluster, one of America’s premier medical education and biomedical research facilities. The Bronx-based bioscience cluster continues to ‘future proof’ its microarray printing development, improve its research services and grow its cliental base.  It continues a quest to target important problems […]

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VWR Receives Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award for Second Year in a Row

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Radnor, PA – VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production facilities, has been recognized as one of 26 companies receiving Intel Corporation’s Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2016. VWR was recognized for its significant contributions in supporting Intel globally, by supplying microcontamination […]

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Airgas Launches Airgas Healthcare, Its New Healthcare Brand

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RADNOR, Pa.—-Airgas, an Air Liquide company, announced today that it has reinforced its position in the healthcare and life sciences markets by creating a dedicated brand: “Airgas Healthcare.” This new brand is the result of the integration of the healthcare and life sciences activity of Airgas and Air Liquide Healthcare in the U.S. It combines […]

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Adam Equipment Introduces Additions to Dune Series of Portable Precision Balances

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New models available in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, offering greater selection of capacities and precision. Milton Keynes, U.K. Adam Equipment, a leading manufacturer of weighing equipment for professionals worldwide, has added three new models to its line of Dune portable precision balances available in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. The addition doubles […]

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