Cronobacter species media
22 September, 2009 | Oxoid Australia Pty Ltd
Oxoid has introduced two culture media for the fast and reliable identification of Cronobacter species (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii) from food and environmental samples.
Blood dry storage products
22 September, 2009 | QIAGEN Pty Ltd
Biobanks are the intermediary between donors and research labs to ensure the safe, effective transfer of the biological information held in samples. The number of biobanks is increasing, as is the cost for power to store the samples at the appropriate refrigerated temperature. The current standard for storage is either at -20 or -70 °C. It is costly for biobanks not only to keep these samples cold, but also to house the refrigerators within their laboratories. New methods are being sought to allow storage at room temperature, thus reducing costs as well as being environmentally friendly. Qiagen has launched the QIAsafe DNA Blood Kit to provide easy transport and storage of whole blood at room temperature.
Cell-based calcium assay
22 September, 2009 | United Bioresearch Products Pty Ltd
Enzo Life Sciences’ FluoForte Calcium Assay kit provides a homogeneous fluorescence-based assay for detecting intracellular calcium mobilisation across a broad spectrum of biological targets. The dye yields a bright signal and a large assay window. The kit provides a homogeneous mix-and-read, no-wash calcium mobilisation assay.
Infectious disease serology panels
22 September, 2009 | Bio-Rad Laboratories Pty Ltd
Bio-Rad Laboratories has received FDA clearance of two multiplex infectious disease serology panels for use on the BioPlex 2200 system: the BioPlex ToRC IgG panel and the BioPlex HSV-1 and HSV-2 IgG panel. The BioPlex 2200 system is a fully automated, random access platform that employs multiplexing technology to analyse multiple disease markers from a single patient sample.
Cell density meter
22 September, 2009 | Pacific Laboratory Products
The Biochrom CO 8000 Cell Density Meter is a simple, reliable instrument that measures the density of cells grown in suspension by measuring OD at 600 nm. This makes this instrument suitable for cells grown in suspension such as yeast and bacterial cultures.
Synaptogenesis Kit for cell-based image analysis
17 September, 2009 | Thermo Fisher Scientific
The Thermo Scientific Cellomics Synaptogenesis High Content Screening (HCS) Reagent Kit has been added to the range of Cellomics HCS reagent kits. The kit enables simultaneous detection of neuronal population, neurite, pre-synaptic vesicle, post-synaptic puncta and synapse using a fixed end-point assay that is based on immunofluorescence detection in cells grown on standard high-density microplates.
Merck SeQuant anion determination by IC
17 September, 2009 | Merck Pty Ltd
The continuous background conductivity suppression system SeQuant CARS Continuous Anion Regeneration System equipped with the SeQuant SAMS Membrane Suppressor for Anion Chromatography can be used to simplify the determination of anions by ion chromatography.
Gel permeation chromatography/size exclusion chromatography
17 September, 2009 | ATA Scientific Pty Ltd
Viscotek has published application notes illustrating the extended capabilities of gel permeation chromatography/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) using the photodiode array (PDA) detector for the TDAMax system. Now available on the Viscotek website, these application notes illustrate how the detection technology brings greater flexibility to multi-component characterisation and analysis in fields from polymer science to biopharmaceuticals. The application notes describe ‘Conjugated polymer analysis by GPC-PDA’ and ‘Polymer blend analysis by GPC-PDA’ respectively. Both are freely downloadable at http://www.viscotek.com/gpcpda.htm.
ICP operating cost reduction
17 September, 2009 | Glass Expansion Pty Ltd
Glass Expansion has released the Niagara Plus accessory for ICP-OES and ICP-MS equipment. The Niagara Plus utilises flow injection technology to reduce the laboratory’s environmental footprint, halve the operating costs and double the sample throughput.
Counting and measuring seeds and grains
17 September, 2009 | Next Instruments Pty Ltd
SeedCount Australasia and Weiss Enterprises have licensed their SeedCount and CornCount Image Analysis systems to Stadvis. The license transfers the worldwide rights for manufacturing, sales and marketing for SeedCount and CornCount to Stadvis Pty Ltd, a manufacturer of NIR analysers for the grains and food industries.
Trace element analyser
17 September, 2009 | Agilent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
The Agilent Technologies 7700 Series Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) trace element analyser provides high data integrity, is simple to operate and occupies a small amount of bench space.
Cartesian geometry EDXRF
17 September, 2009 | AXT Pty Ltd
Rigaku has introduced a benchtop energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer, the Rigaku NEX CG, that delivers rapid qualitative and quantitative determination of major and minor atomic elements in a wide variety of sample types with minimal standards.
Water turbidity measurement
17 September, 2009 | Endress+Hauser Australia Pty Ltd
Endress+Hauser has introduced three versions of self-contained, compact turbidity monitoring systems including online, laboratory and a portable compact line. The units deliver accurate measurements that are suitable for use in the water industry.
Aseptic sampling system
17 September, 2009 | Arrow Scientific
The sterility control of food product can be monitored using the QMI Tru-Test aseptic sampling system.
AutoTrace 280 system for solid phase extraction
17 September, 2009 | Dionex Pty Ltd
The AutoTrace 280 system is an automated solid phase extraction (SPE) instrument designed to be used with large volume (20 mL - 4 L) samples for the isolation of trace organics in water or aqueous matrices.
