'Smart Petri Dish'
15 June, 2006
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a ‘Smart Petri Dish’ that could be used to rapidly screen new drugs for toxic interactions or identify cells in the early stages of cancer circulating through a patient’s blood.
Purification portfolio
07 June, 2006 | Supplied by: Phenomenex Australia
Phenomenex has introduced its product portfolio for purifying synthetic oligonucleotides, Clarity BioSolutions.
Sterilising-grade PESfilters
07 June, 2006 | Supplied by: Merck Pty Limited
Millipore Express SHR (sterile high-retention) filters provide sterilising-grade performance and mycoplasma removal across a range of applications including cell culture media and media additives, process intermediates and other biological fluids.
Electronic manual dispensers
07 June, 2006 | Supplied by: Eppendorf South Pacific Pty Ltd
The Multipette stream and Multipette Xstream electronic manual dispensers feature speed, precision, flexibility and the ability to dispense liquids/ materials with high vapour pressure and/or high viscosity without risk of contamination. The ergonomic design, coupled with easy operation, ensures nearly effortless work.
Microwave digestion system
07 June, 2006 | Supplied by: Metrohm Australia & New Zealand
Anton Paar has introduced the Rotor 48MF50 for the Multiwave 3000 microwave platform system.
Laboratory labelling system
05 May, 2006 | Supplied by: http://www.bradyaust.com.au/
The latest addition to Brady's line of laboratory portable printing solutions is the Labxpert Laboratory Labelling System. The Labxpert printer reduces the time required to create labels while producing legible, durable, professional labels for lab samples at an affordable price.
Turbidity measurement
05 May, 2006 | Supplied by: http://www.au.endress.com/
With the introduction of the Turbimax CUE21-CUE26 compact line, Endress+Hauser now offers an alternative for turbidity measurement in drinking water and service (grey) water applications, while conforming to ISO and EPA standards.
Benchtop centrifuges
05 May, 2006 | Supplied by: John Morris Scientific Pty Ltd
The Sigma 3-18 and 3-18K high-speed benchtop centrifuges have maximum speeds of 16,000 and 18,000 rpm.
Pressure calibrator
05 May, 2006 | Supplied by: http://www.wika.com.au
With the CPH 6000 process calibrator, routine tasks in the field such as testing or calibrating pressure measuring instruments and pressure switches, are said to be made far easier.
Food grade hand pump
07 April, 2006 | Supplied by: http://www.rossbrownsales.com.au/
The Carbuset AP 25F manual food pumps are suitable for decanting liquid foodstuffs and are approved for contact with all foodstuffs, in compliance with European standards.
Cell harvesting and blood separation
07 April, 2006 | Supplied by: 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.
DNA amplification system
08 March, 2006 | Supplied by: Pacific Laboratory Products
Pacific Laboratory Products (formerly Proscience/Tech-Pro divisions of Radiometer Pacific) has extended its range to incorporate Agilent's bioconsumables and the genomics/molecular biology products of Bioneer.
Flu chip can identify strains in hours
09 February, 2006
A novel Flu Chip, developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder, that can determine the genetic signatures of specific influenza strains from patient samples within hours may help world health officials combat coming epidemics and pandemics.
Hematocrit tubes
16 January, 2006 | Supplied by: http://www.lomb.com.au/
Drummond Scientific offers a choice of either plastic or plastic-coated hematocrit tubes to improve blood collection safety.
Programmable magnetic stirrer
08 December, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.lomb.com.au/
The Scientific Industries MultiMagStir Genie multi-position digital programmable magnetic stirrer has been upgraded. Identical in function to the original MagStir Genie, the lightweight and low profile four-position MultiMagStir Genie offers low- to high-speed stirring, including reverse and interval stirring. The stirrer is easily programmed for either manual or automatic use according to user preference. All parameters, including time, pause time, speed, stir direction and ramp rate, may be easily programmed in up to nine distinct steps and stored in memory for subsequent use. In addition, three power levels are available for precision stirring of various sample viscosities.
