Microwave digestion vessel
09 June, 2009 | DKSH Australia Pty Ltd
CEM has introduced the EasyPrep Vessel for use in the Mars Microwave Reaction System. EasyPrep has no fittings or membranes and is simpler to assemble and use than many other high-pressure/high-temperature vessels.
USP-NF compliant recombinant human albumins
09 June, 2009 | Novozymes Australia Pty Ltd
Novozymes Biopharma has announced that its Recombumin and albucult products comply with the new excipient monograph standard for recombinant human albumin, published in the United States Pharmacopoeia — National Formulary (USP-NF). The monograph was first published in November 2008 and became official on 1 May 2009. As these products comply with the monograph, their use eases the regulatory process for users and sets the industry benchmark for recombinant human albumin.
High-throughput magnetic DNA and RNA purification
09 June, 2009 | Pathtech Pty Ltd
The Thermo Scientific KingFisher Flex is a compact magnetic bead processing system for rapid purification of DNA, RNA, proteins or cells. It can process 24 or 96 samples simultaneously and has a processing volume of 20-5000 µL. Additionally, the KingFisher Flex can be used with any brand of magnetic bead kit available as well as in-house developed kits.
Ion analysis by capillary electrophoresis kits
09 June, 2009 | Beckman Coulter Australia
Beckman Coulter has introduced two kits for anion and cation analysis on the company’s P/ACE MDQ System. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) analysis of ions performed using these kits delivers efficient, rapid separations with small sample requirements and short preparation times. The kits incorporate a dynamic coating technology that claims to produce more consistent migration times than other approaches.
Concrete testing machines
09 June, 2009 | Power Parameters Pty Ltd
Tinius Olson concrete testing machines can be used to determine compression, stress, strain, Young’s Modulus and flexural strength. The range of testing machines carrying out tests in accordance with ASTM, AASH, BS and EN standards includes portable, semi-automatic and automatic machines actuated by hydraulic pumps which provide a compressive force range from 50 to 3000 kN.
Oxidative reaction analysis
09 June, 2009 | Scientex Pty Ltd
ACL Instruments’ range of chemiluminescence analysis systems has been designed for the study of oxidative effects in aging, stability and high-precision calculation of shelf life.
Glycan characterisation
09 June, 2009 | Waters Australia Pty Ltd
Waters has released the UltraPerformance LC (UPLCÂ) analytical solution for the characterisation of 2-AB labelled glycans from glycoproteins. The UPLC solution combines the Acquity UPLC BEH Glycan Columns with the Acquity UPLC System equipped with fluorescence detection. Current FDA regulations require that firms developing and manufacturing therapeutic proteins are able to accurately characterise the glycans attached to those proteins to ensure the efficacy and safety of a biopharmaceutical product.
Food protein analyser
09 June, 2009 | DKSH Australia Pty Ltd
All proteins in food contain the amino acids Arginine, Histidine and Lysine and CEM’s iTAG technology can bind to the three amino acids.
Size exclusion chromatography solution
09 June, 2009 | Varian Australia Pty Ltd
The Prosec 300S is a size exclusion chromatography column designed for the accurate and precise analysis of globular proteins in the pharmaceutical and bioscience industries.
Urogenital mycoplasma diagnosis
09 June, 2009 | Dutec Diagnostics Pty Ltd
MycoView test enables the identification of the two species of urogenital mycoplasmas, Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis from different urogenital specimens. The easy-to-interpret results feature visualisation of the growth by colour change.
High-density functional protein microarray
09 June, 2009 | Life Technologies
The ProtoArray Human Protein Microarray Version 5.0 is claimed to be the first high-density functional protein microarray to enable screening of a protein sample or other probe of interest against more than 9000 unique human proteins in a single, rapid experiment.
Liquid chromatography system
09 June, 2009 | Agilent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
The Agilent 1290 Infinity liquid chromatography system has been designed to deliver greater power, speed and sensitivity for enhanced performance in the high-end ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) market.
Single-run human genome sequencing
09 June, 2009 | Applied Biosystems Pty Ltd
Applied Biosystems recently announced that its research and development scientists used human disease samples from the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center to sequence an entire human genome in a single run at 17-fold coverage using the SOLiD 3 System.
Protein analysis tool
09 June, 2009 | Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Oceania) Pty Ltd
Wyatt Technology has published a brochure to support its dynamic light scattering (DLS) instrument, the DynaPro NanoStar. The brochure, which is entitled ‘DynaPro NanoStar: The Most Widely Used Dynamic Light Scattering Instrument Just Got Better’, is available free of charge via www.wyatt.com or info@wyatt.com.
Water purification system
09 June, 2009 | Merck Pty Limited
The Milli-Q Reference water purification system is the latest addition to Millipore’s redesigned line of water purification tools that meets the laboratory water needs for analytical and life science research.
