BioTek BioStack3 microplate stacker
05 February, 2013BioStack3 is claimed to be the fastest microplate stacker of its kind, with a dual plate carrier and rotational gripper to quickly move plates from the source stack to the instrument and back to the destination stack in less than 10 s.
BioTek 405 Touch and 405 LS Microplate Washers with Verify Technology
04 February, 2013BioTek’s 405 Touch and 405 LS Microplate Washers are now available with Verify Technology - a fast and easy way to identify clogged washer manifold tubes.
GeneCopoeia miProfile miRNA qPCR arrays
29 January, 2013The miProfile human miRNome miRNA qPCR arrays from GeneCopoeia are a set of nineteen 96-well plates covering 1565 of best characterised and annotated miRNAs based on miRBase V17.
Thermo Scientific VALet benchtop robot
22 January, 2013The Thermo Scientific VALet is a benchtop robot enabling simple, configurable laboratory automation. Adaptable to user demands, the product has been designed to allow multiple hotel positioning for customisable, high-density microplate movement and storage.
Phenotype MicroArray technology making breakthrough discoveries on tuberculosis bacterium
14 January, 2013In a paper recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, a research team reported breakthrough progress in understanding the metabolic and phenotypic properties of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its close relative Mycobacterium bovis. The publication shows that Biolog’s Phenotype MicroArray (PM) technology allows these bacteria to be studied much more quickly and easily, which will accelerate the pace of mycobacterial research.
BioTek 405 TS and 405 LS Microplate Washers
27 October, 2012The 405 Touch Microplate Washer from BioTek incorporates a high-resolution LED backlit touch-screen user interface for intuitive and flexible onboard instrument control of 96- and 384-well microplate washing.
Biotage Evolute Express 96-well plates for SPE
31 August, 2012Biotage has introduced Evolute Express, a family of 96-well plates that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined three-step protocol: load-wash-elute.
BioTek awarded patent for Hybrid Technology in multimode microplate readers
23 July, 2012BioTek has been awarded US patent 8,218,141 covering the combination of two alternate paths for light within the same analytical instrument.
Berthold TriStar² Microplate Reader
10 July, 2012Berthold Technologies has presented the second generation of its multi-label TriStar² microplate reader. TriStar² employs the optical concept ALL-4-ONE, enabling luminescence, fluorescence and absorbance measurements with, what is claimed to be, the highest respective sensitivity from dedicated instruments.
Wyatt Technology DynaPro Plate Reader II
22 June, 2012Wyatt Technology has announced the launch of an upgraded version of its DynaPro Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) Plate Reader. The DynaPro Plate Reader II includes the addition of an onboard camera capable of acquiring images of each well.
BioTek BioStack3 Microplate Stacker
04 June, 2012The BioStack 3 Microplate Stacker, from BioTek, has been designed to ensure efficient laboratory microplate processes. The product features a dual plate carrier and rotational wrist to quickly move plates from the source stack to the instrument and back to the destination stack, keeping two plates in process.
Phenomenex Phree Phospholipid Removal Plates
24 May, 2012Phenomenex has introduced Phree Phospholipid Removal Plates for fast clean-up of plasma samples in pharmaceutical and clinical research laboratories.
Improving IVF by implanting euploid embryos
15 May, 2012BlueGnome is pleased to announce the results of the first randomised prospective IVF study of pre-implantation chromosome analysis using its 24sure array platform. The study, published in The Journal of Molecular Cytogenetics by Yang et al (Pacific Reproductive Center, Torrance, USA), has demonstrated that selectively implanting euploid embryos, with a normal number of chromosomes, significantly increases pregnancy rates.
3DHistech TMA Grand Master tissue microarray
08 May, 2012The TMA Grand Master, from 3DHistech, can be used as a high-throughput diagnostic technique, by being able to place up to several hundred different samples into one paraffin block. This brings savings in time and costs of tissue preparation, staining and slide preparation.
JG Finneran Associates 96-Well PTFE Sealing Film
04 May, 2012Busy researchers will welcome the 96-Well PTFE Sealing Film from JG Finneran Associates. The adhesive film features a design which seals samples in microplates during high-throughput bioanalytical studies without exposing samples to the film’s sealing adhesive.
