Life Science News and Press Releases

Easier, More Efficient DNA and siRNA Transfection with ScreenFect™A

Alpha Diagnostic International

17/09/2013

Transfection of cells with plasmid DNA or siRNA has become a powerful tool in biological research. The technique, however, may prove frustrating as optimisation can be time consuming and transfection efficiency may remain stubbornly low. New ScreenFectA, now available from Alpha Laboratories, aims to make life easier. This transfection reagent is composed of new cationic lipids discovered by screening a library synthesised by Click...

Developing new molecular tools for the fight against hospital-associated infections with Tecan’s Freedom EVO®

Tecan Trading AG

17/09/2013

A Freedom EVO® workstation with an integrated HydroSpeed™ plate washer and Infinite® F200 PRO multimode reader is helping researchers at Jikei University School of Medicine to perform high throughput compound screening in the battle to combat persistent bacterial infections. Dr Ken-¬ichi Okuda, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bacteriology at Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, explained: “Bacteria within biofilms have a low...

Keep Up to Speed with Lonza’s Free Resource Notes™ Journal

Lonza Cologne GmbH

16/09/2013

Walkersville, US / Cologne, Germany, 16 September 2013 – With the slogan “Science Doesn't Slow Down, and Neither Should You”, Lonza invites its customers to subscribe to the company’s free scientific journal. Resource Notes™ provides updates on the latest scientific developments and research tools from Lonza. New subscriptions received until 31 December 2013* will take part in the drawing of an original JURA®, a Swiss high-quality,...

Robot-Compatible Automatic Dry Down Station

Porvair Sciences Ltd

10/09/2013

Porvair Sciences will officially launch the UltraVap Mistral robot-compatible automatic dry down station at Biotechnica 2013 (Hannover, Germany).Drawing upon Porvair’s market leading position in nitrogen blow down evaporation – the UltraVap Mistral offers a simple, turnkey solution for integrating an automatic dry down step into your automated liquid handling protocol. The UltraVap Mistral is fully optimised to work with robotic liquid handling systems...

Faster Drying of Deep Well Microplates

Genevac Ltd.

10/09/2013

Genevac’s new generation heat transfer plates for centrifugal evaporators enable almost any deep well plate to be dried up to 50% faster than previously possible. Evaporation from microplates, especially deep well plates, can be extremely slow. The design of deep well plates makes it particularly difficult for an evaporator system to transfer enough heat for rapid drying, especially with higher boiling point solvents such as water or DMSO. In addition, often the...

Abcam Launches SimpleStep ELISA Kits

Abcam

09/09/2013

Kits offer enhanced performance and ease of use to accelerate immunoassay researchCambridge, UK, September 09 2013: Abcam plc., a producer and distributor of high quality protein research tools, announced today that it has launched a range of SimpleStep™ ELISA kits. The new kits have a greatly simplified protocol when compared to standard multi-step ELISAs, providing significant time savings and ease of use. Offering enhanced performance, SimpleStep ELISA kits are...

Discover open source microscopy for live cell imaging

Olympus Europa Holding GmbH

05/09/2013

As part of the annual EMBO and EMBL events, Olympus will be showcasing the open source microscopy concept, led by the IX3 inverted microscope frames, optimised for life science research.Hamburg, 05.09.2013 – Demonstrating the very latest in live cell imaging technologies, Olympus will exhibit its range of IX3 inverted microscope frames with associated software and accessories at the upcoming European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Meeting 2013, taking place in...

The One-stop Guide to Oligo Modification

Link Technologies Ltd

03/09/2013

Gain the most from your modified oligo with Link Technologies’ new Product Guide BELLSHILL, SCOTLAND, 3 September 2013: Link Technologies Ltd, a specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, has dedicated a section of its new, freely available 2013/14 Product Guide to ‘Modification Strategies in Oligonucleotide Synthesis’. Increasingly, modified oligos are playing an important role across a broad range of life science and clinical-based research groups...

Toolkit for Nucleosome & Histone Research

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

30/08/2013

AMSBIO has announced addition of new biotinylated histones and nucleosomes to its expanding range of recombinant nucleosomes, purified nucleosomes and full length histone proteins.A nucleosome is the basic unit of DNA packaging. It consists of a segment of DNA wound around a core (“octamer”) of 8 histone proteins (two each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The “tails” of these histone proteins stick out, where they can be modified by a number of...

Porvair Launches Genuine 2ml Deep Well Plate

Porvair Sciences Ltd

27/08/2013

Porvair Sciences has developed the first 96-well round deep well plate that genuinely delivers 2.00 ml liquid capacity / well in an automation compatible SLAS / ANSI footprint. The revolutionary "common wall" design provides a full 2ml round well, round bottom well within a 45mm height limit, thus ensuring full compatibility with most plate handling equipment.Unlike other '2ml' deep well plates that typically offer just 1.80-1.90ml / well, the new Porvair plate...