The 2008 Laboratory Managers Conference will give laboratory managers and technical, scientific and facility managers the opportunity to keep abreast of the latest developments and issues and network with their peers.

NuSep to purchase NxGen for $25 million [ + ]

Graham Macdonald named as ASCC interim board chair [ + ]

A team from UTS is applying technology more traditionally used in forensic science to look at disease, imaging the trace metals in tissue samples in a new technique called elemental bioimaging. [ + ]

Sydney’s Centenary Institute purchased a new multiphoton microscope last year and used it to lure one of the world’s leading experts in intravital two-photon microscopy to Australia. [ + ]

CSIRO and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are working together on new image analysis techniques to reveal the secret lives of cells. [ + ]

Diagnostic modular heart catheters first of several planned for European market [ + ]

IPN-Sonic merger approved by shareholders [ + ]

LabTech granted MicroStreak design patent in China [ + ]

Introducing Nikon’s new series of confocal laser point scanning systems – the A1 series. [ + ]

To satisfy the demands of today’s high-end research, Nikon has developed the new Ti series of microscopes. [ + ]

The new Axio Examiner can achieve complex experimental setups through the extremely stable stand, front mounted controls and the slim design in the front area of the microscope, providing the user with optimum access to specimens. [ + ]

The Axio Scope.A1 from Carl Zeiss offers outstanding flexibility, with unlimited possibilities for clinical and entry level research. [ + ]

The new MembraneMax Protein Expression Kits allow researchers to rapidly produce milligrams of soluble membrane proteins that are exceptionally easy to purify. [ + ]

The MACSQuant Analyzer is a new instrumentation system with three lasers, combined with powerful software making for highly sensitive, multicolour, rapid and simple cell analysis. [ + ]