Life Science News and Press Releases

Hyglos Introduces EndoGrade® Endotoxin-free Water

Hyglos GmbH

17/10/2013

Ultra-pure and endotoxin-free water [<0.001 EU/ml] ideal for reconstitution and dilution of samples and standards: Water contaminated with even small amounts of endotoxin may affect experimental outcomes. Ultra-pure water should therefore be used for all experiments and quality control steps which could be subjected to environmental contamination causing unwanted artifacts, such as endotoxins. EndoGrade® Water is recommended for endotoxin-free reconstitution...

Porvair Launches High Throughput ChIP Assay Plate

Porvair Sciences Ltd

17/10/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced that it will officially launch Chromatrap®96 HT – an innovative 96-well chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay plate at Epigenomics of Common Diseases (Wellcome Trust, Cambridge, UK) from 7th-10th November 2013.The Chromatrap®96 HT is a new high throughput ChIP microplate based on the novel spin-column ChIP technology. It is essentially 96 separate Chromatrap spin-columns in one device designed to enable researchers to...

Merck Millipore to be Global Distributor for SmartRNAplex™ MicroRNA Profiling Assay

Merck Millipore

16/10/2013

• Enables high throughput, multiplexed microRNA analysis for up to 68 targets and 96 samples in one assay• Works with a wide range of sample types including serum, plasma, crude cell digests and formalin-fixed tissues • Based on Firefly™ technology from Firefly BioWorks October 16, 2013, Darmstadt, Germany - Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, today announced they have entered...

Genovis to launch FabULOUS™ for analysis and characterization of antibody molecules

Genovis AB

16/10/2013

Genovis is launching FabULOUS at the Well Characterized Biologicals conference in Washington DC on October 21. The product, which complements FabRICATOR, has already been tested by key customers in Europe and the US with positive results and is now being launched in a first phase through in-house sales and later through the company's global distributor network.“This new product is a completely new enzyme that offers our customers several alternative strategies for...

Porvair Launches 'Made In America' Range of Purification Filters

Porvair Filtration Group

16/10/2013

Porvair Filtration Group, a world leader in filtration and separation technology, has announced that its Ashland, Virginia production facility is launching a range of 'Made in America' Sinterflo® stainless steel purification filters to cope with increased North American demand for top quality products on short delivery times.In continuing its initiative to provide a reliable alternate source of high quality products for exacting filtration needs Porvair has invested...

NEW Application of TAP’s ambr Microscale Bioreactor as Perfusion Mimic Offers Rapid Method Development of Large Scale Perfusion Culture Processes

TAP Biosystems

15/10/2013

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and consumables for life science, today announced a new application of its ambr™ micro bioreactor system as a perfusion mimic, enabling scientists to rapidly and easily develop large scale perfusion culture processes of unstable, low producing or minimally expressing proteins or antibodies.The ambr system has been utilised as a semi-continuous chemostat model for perfusion culture in 10-15mL...

Novel FreezeFrame Application with Optogenetics

Coulbourn Instruments

14/10/2013

FreezeFrame software for Fear Conditioning, Tail Suspension and Porsolt Swim Testing from Coulbourn Instruments was highlighted recently in the New York Times and the prestigious British publication, The Guardian. A study by the Tonegawa lab at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics details how false memories were created by optogenetic manipulation in the hippocampus of mice and tested under different contexts with FreezeFrame. FreezeFrame offers these...

A Hot New Range of Heat Sealed Films for Microplates

Alpha Laboratories

14/10/2013

New Heat2Seal™ from Alpha LaboratoriesProtect your precious samples with the new range of Heat2Seal™ thermal plate seals now available from Alpha Laboratories. These high performance heat-sealing films and foils are designed to meet the needs of the modern life sciences laboratory. With a variety of materials available, the range includes products suitable for peeling, piercing, low or high temperature storage and temporary or long-term protection. Nuclease and...

Detecting Single and Double Strand DNA Breaks in Individual Cells

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

11/10/2013

AMSBIO has announced a new on-demand webinar entitled 'CometAssay: Detecting single and double strand DNA breaks in individual cells'. Presented by Dr Sandra Woodgate, a Subject Matter Expert for this technique., this informative webinar explores how the Comet Assay quantitates DNA damage and repair from in vivo and in vitro samples of eukaryotic cells.The comet assay or single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE) is a technique to easily and rapidly detect and quantitate DNA...

Ultra-Flat Glass Bottom Plates Optimise Imaging of Growing Cells

Porvair Sciences Ltd

08/10/2013

Porvair Sciences new generation Krystal™ glass bottom plates are precision manufactured using a proprietary process resulting in excellent light transmission and an ultra-flat optical plane (+/- 15µm) making them perfect for imaging growing cells.The complete range of 24-, 96- and 384-well Krystal glass bottom microplates is available sterilised for tissue culture to optimise cell growth or non-sterile for assay development. Deep black plates for fluorescent...