Coeliac disease research tool
08 February, 2006 | PerkinElmer (Australia) Pty Ltd
Delfia probes, specific for HLA alleles, provide a research tool for investigating genes involved in predisposition to coeliac disease.
Cell harvesting and blood separation
08 February, 2006 | Beckman Coulter Australia
Beckman Coulter has introduced an adapter that spins 50 mL conical tubes in the Allegra X-15R and X-12 Series benchtop centrifuges. The adapter accommodates 28 tubes per run in a BioCertified, self-balancing rotor and is suitable for cell harvesting and blood separation applications. The adapter runs at up to 5250 x g in the Aries 4 x 750 mL self-balancing rotor, which detects and automatically corrects for imbalance, continuing the run without shutdown.
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.
Sterilisable electromotors
07 February, 2006 | M Rutty & Co Pty Ltd
Maxon Motor has extended its range of drive units with three sterilisable motors that can reach speeds of up to 100,000 rpm. The motors, now available for medical applications, are much quieter than compressed air turbines and the electric cables make them more flexible.
X-ray analysis solution
07 February, 2006 | PANalytical
The PANalytical Axios-Poly is a dedicated x-ray analysis system that meets the needs of XRF (x-ray fluorescence spectrometry) analysis in the plastics and polymers industry. Offering high levels of precision and versatility, the Axios-Poly is suitable for all XRF applications. It is simple to operate, and the compact design can easily be integrated into laboratories.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
