Environmental Listeria test
07 February, 2006
Arrow Scientific has announced the 3M Petrifilm environmental Listeria plate method, designed to detect Listeria in food processing plants. The plates are claimed to cost less than traditional methods and use the Petrifilm design.
Plate planning
16 January, 2006 | Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Electron has achieved greater speed and efficiency in data archiving and plate planning with version 7.0 of Nautilus LIMS, the company's laboratory information management system for early stage discovery in biotechnology research and discovery.
Genome-wide RNAi library with cellular screening system
16 January, 2006 | QIAGEN Pty Ltd
Xantos Biomedicine AG and Qiagen have announced their partnership for co-marketing Qiagen's proprietary TOM-amidite chemistry-based genome-wide RNAi products with Xantos' automated cell-based screening platform, XantoScreen. By combining the capabilities of both companies' platforms users will be able to rapidly perform gene analysis and unravel the function and role of genes that are relevant to their area of interest.
LC/MS nitrogen generators
16 January, 2006 | domnick hunter Pty Limited
The domnick hunter range of nitrogen generators has been designed to reduce ongoing gas costs for analytical instruments.
Human live skin model
16 January, 2006 | Tissue Therapies Limited
Tissue Therapies has moved a step closer to avoiding animal testing for wound care and cosmetics companies with the development of a live skin model that emulates human skin. Under its R&D contract with QUT, Tissue Therapies has successfully created a human skin model useful for simulating burns and other wounds, and potentially for testing cosmetics and cosmeceuticals.
NMR magnets
16 January, 2006 | Varian Australia Pty Ltd
Varian has debuted its first shielded vertical high-resolution superconducting magnets designed to reduce stray magnetic fields by up to fivefold (in volume), allowing researchers to save space in pharmaceutical and academic laboratories and making nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) more accessible for routine applications. The 500 and 600 MHz premium shielded magnets are integrated with the company's Varian NMR System and are compatible with its suite of cold and room temperature NMR probes.
Disease-specific assays
16 January, 2006 | Bruker Pty Ltd
HealthLinx has entered into a collaboration with Bruker Daltonics, which will focus on technology transfer and cooperation between the two firms to develop disease-specific assays for use in in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) research and clinical trials using Bruker Daltonics' ClinProt platform technology for clinical proteomics.
Peristaltic pumps
16 January, 2006 | Ai Scientific Pty Ltd
Watson-Marlow Bredel's 620 series pump offers high levels of performance, accuracy and output. It features a choice of drives, PIN process protection and minimal down time. 620 pumps are capable of 18 L/min and pressures up to 4 bar and have a control ratio of 2650:1.
Hematocrit tubes
16 January, 2006 | Lomb Scientific (Aust) Pty Ltd
Drummond Scientific offers a choice of either plastic or plastic-coated hematocrit tubes to improve blood collection safety.
Microwave synthesis system
16 January, 2006 | BEST Lab Instrumentation Pty Ltd
The use of microwave energy for controlled heating of small volumes of volatile liquids under pressure has revolutionised organic synthesis reactions in traditional organic R&D as well as drug discovery. Reactions which previously took days to complete now run in minutes and give much higher recovery levels. This allows scientists to perform many more synthetic reactions in a short space of time and then optimise recovery conditions quickly and automatically.
DNA separation
16 January, 2006 | Cambrex
Cambrex's FlashGel System can be used to separate DNA in 2-7 mins while monitoring migration in real time on the bench under normal laboratory light conditions (no harmful UV illumination).
Automated HPLC liquid handler
08 December, 2005 | John Morris Scientific Pty Ltd
The Gilson GX-281 Liquid Handler brings flexibility and performance to front-end automation in the laboratory. The GX-281 is specifically designed for semipreparative-to-preparative HPLC applications.
Pneumatic repair kit
08 December, 2005 | Griffiths Components Pty Ltd
Camozzi Pneumatics has released an emergency breakdown kit for pneumatic applications. It is portable to allow running repairs on most air applications at short notice.
GeneFlash USB gel documentation system
08 December, 2005
Syngene has introduced the GeneFlash USB, claimed to be the first gel documentation system on the market to use USB memory device technology to accurately record gel images that are both PC and Mac compatible.
Stain and dye information
08 December, 2005 | Merck
The Stain Expert is a web-based application specifically developed to assist users with the retrieval of stain and dye information.
