Lab Bulletin

Provides VWR access to more Merck Millipore products and reagents for chemical and microbiological analysis

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has produced a new whitepaper titled ‘Comprehensive genomic analysis – complementing sequencing with high-resolution CNV detection’.

The free, downloadable whitepaper provides researchers with an opportunity to explore the latest strategies in the genomic characterisation of complex disorders, and to discover how, when used alongside sequencing, microarrays play a vital role in delivering accurate detection of point mutations and single exon copy number aberrations. The new whitepaper explains how utilising a range of available tools builds a more complete picture of inherently complex genetic disorders...

Porvair Sciences has announced a new video that provides an informative introduction to the Ultravap Mistral - a next generation robot-compatible dry down station designed to remove the 'bottleneck' of solvent evaporation from microplates.

Link Technologies Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, has expanded its range of lipophilic modifiers for the effective delivery of oligonucleotides into cells.

As oligos continue to be of interest in drug discovery, offering exciting potential as therapeutic agents, there is an increasing demand for improved oligo delivery techniques. Link’s proven collection of lipophilic oligo modification reagents, which include cholesterol and tocopherol modifiers, now also includes 5’-Palmitate-C6-CE Phosphoramidite....

Hichrom has announced an expansion to its range of training courses and seminars to include a range of practical ‘Hands-On’ courses covering all aspects of LC, LC/MS, GC and GC/MS including Advanced GC Injection Techniques.

TAP Biosystems, (now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced its Fill-It™, automated cryovial filling system is being routinely used in clinical trials of novel cell-based cancer immunotherapies at children’s oncology units in three major US hospitals.

The system is being utilised in research labs to help determine the correct dosage of cells to treat children with life-threatening cancers, as well as to create stocks of consistent, high-quality product in cryovials for clinical trials. Scientists at the hospitals are using Fill-It to produce batches of around 400 cryovials per run, with each 1ml vial containing between 40 and 100 million cell/ml of cell immunotherapy, depending on their requirements...

Latest Application Note from Wyatt Technology Demonstrates How Absolute Molar Mass can be Measured Using UHPLC SEC-MALS

HORIBA Scientific is pleased to announce the launch of EzPlex, the new flagship instrument of the label-free molecular interaction platform based on Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging (SPRi).

EzPlex gives quantitative and qualitative information on multiplex molecular interaction assays involving oligonucleotides, oligosaccharides, proteins, antibodies, aptamers or even cells and bacteria. The imaging capability dramatically enhances the throughput of conventional SPR and allows from few up to several hundred molecular interactions to be screened and characterized simultaneously. Interaction kinetic profiles can be obtained within minutes and give precious data about binding strength, kinetics and affinity....

Analytical laboratories standardized on the Waters^® Empower^® Chromatography Data System (CDS) now have a wider choice of Thermo Scientific chromatography systems and modules which can be integrated into this environment.

Users of Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 series UHPLC and HPLC systems can now drive Thermo Scientific Dionex Corona Veo charged aerosol detectors and Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 ECD-3000RS electrochemical detectors with Waters Empower. The new version 1.12 of Thermo Scientific Dionex Instrument Integration (DII) for Empower enables control of these additional instruments on any LC system controlled by Empower for additional freedom in experimental design....

Ranjith Gopinathan, Life Sciences Programme Manager at Frost & Sullivan, comments on the Novartis – GSK deal