Sterile scalpels
07 April, 2009 | Arthur Bailey Surgico Pty Ltd
The safety cover on the Feather Safety Razor Sterile Safeshield Scalpel protects the blade in procedure and handling. The clear protective shield can be advanced (to cover the blade) and retracted as required.
Xeno-free culture substrate
07 April, 2009 | Life Technologies
Cellstart is a fully defined, completely animal-origin-free substrate for the attachment and expansion of embryonic, mesenchymal and neural stem cells.
Standardised epigenetic kits
07 April, 2009 | QIAGEN Pty Ltd
Qiagen has launched five additions to its EpiTect product line to help address the growing demand for standardised products for complete workflows in epigenetics.
MALDI mass spectrometer
07 April, 2009 | Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Oceania) Pty Ltd
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has updated its line of Axima MALDI TOF mass spectrometers with three systems to meet the needs of researchers with varying applications and budgets.
Chromatography management
07 April, 2009 | Dionex Pty Ltd
Service Pack 3 for Release 6.8 of the Chromeleon Chromatography Management System from Dionex supports the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. Windows Vista, which is being pre-loaded by many computer manufacturers, provides a superior security infrastructure, and supports new user interface and multimedia capabilities. The Chromeleon software continues Windows XP support, and adds support for RFIC-ER, the Dionex eluent regeneration technology that simplifies ion chromatography. New drivers for Agilent 1200 HPLCs, Agilent G1888 Headspace autosamplers, Thermo Accela HPLC systems and Thermo TriPlus autosamplers are also provided.
Wash stations for xMAP assays
07 April, 2009 | Bio-Rad Laboratories Pty Ltd
Bio-Rad Laboratories has released two Bio-Plex Pro Wash Stations for washing bead-based assays. The Bio-Plex Pro Wash station is used exclusively for magnetic beads. The Bio-Plex Pro II Wash Station automates magnetic and vacuum wash steps for researchers who use a combination of magnetic and polystyrene assays.
Urine chemistry analyser
07 April, 2009 | Siemens Ltd
The Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Clinitek Advantus Urine chemistry analyser enables automated reading of Siemens’ Multistix family of urinalysis testing strips in medium to high throughput settings.
Microbiology imaging software
07 April, 2009 | In Vitro Technologies Pty Ltd
The Synbiosis ProtoCol V1.4 colony counting and inhibition zone sizing software is designed to save microbiologists time by automating many routine plate-based image analysis tasks.
Gel scalpels
07 April, 2009 | Lomb Scientific (Aust) Pty Ltd
Excise target bands without scratching the screen of UV transilluminators with the DNase and Rnase-free gel scalpels.
PCR plates
07 April, 2009 | Eppendorf South Pacific Pty Ltd
The twin.tec real-time PCR plates offer all the features of regular twin.tec plates with the addition of white wells for real-time PCR.
Isolated heart chamber
07 April, 2009 | SDR Scientific
The IH-SR Isolated Heart for Small Rodents from Hugo Sachs Elektronik–Harvard Apparatus is suitable for experiments on mice, hamsters, rats and guinea pigs.
Add safety to pipetting
07 April, 2009 | Alere Australia
Safe-Cone filters prevent contamination of the pipettor and the sample.
Hyperspectral imaging
07 April, 2009 | SciTech Pty Ltd
The Cytoviva Hyperspectral Imaging System (HSI) from Scitech provides spectral analysis of materials and biologicals imaged with the CytoViva Nano-scale Optical Microscope.
Mesenchymal stem cells media
07 April, 2009 | Life Technologies
Invitrogen has launched a serum-free media (SFM) designed specifically to culture mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), or stem cells derived from bone marrow. Stempro MSC SFM is claimed to overcome many challenges in MSC culture. In concert, Invitrogen also launched two kits designed to allow the differentiation of MSCs to either adipocytes (fat cells) or osteocytes (bone cells).
Neurodegenerative disease reagents
07 April, 2009 | United Bioresearch Products Pty Ltd
Biomol International supplies a comprehensive range of reagents that can be used in various aspects of neurodegenerative research. Areas of application include: Alzheimer’s (tau proteins and antibodies, BACE reagents, DSK3 and CDK5 reagents and neprilysin); Parkinson’s (synuclein antibodies and proteins, Parkin antibody, tyrosine hydroxylase antibodies and dopamine antagonists); Huntington’s (glutamate and NMDA reagents, HDAC inhibitors, HATs, IGF1 reagents and Akt reagents); and Multiple Sclerosis (myelin basic proteins, serotonin reuptake inhibitors, monoamine transport inhibitors and cannabinoids).
