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Laboratory news updated daily for scientists and laboratory professionals. Visit Lab Bulletin for the latest news on Laboratory Products, Research and Case Studies, Industry news and more.New Process Thermostats for demanding applications in Biotechnology and the Pharmaceutical industry
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/new-process-thermostats-demanding-applications
<p><img src="/custom/LAUDA_Ultratemp_Prozessthermostat_a_024_23-08-01.jpg" width="130" height="87" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="new-process-thermostats-demanding-applications" />LAUDA, the world market leader in constant temperature equipment, presents its latest product line – the Ultratemp process thermostats. They have been tailored to meet the high demands of biotechnological, biopharmaceutical and industrial applications. With heating and cooling outputs of 25 kW, 35 kW or 50 kW, the Ultratemp devices are designed to quickly heat up or cool down large volumes...</p>2024-03-18T08:00:00-00:00Asynt Expands Global Presence with New USA Office in San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/asynt-expands-global-presence-new-usa-office-san
<p><img src="/custom/Asynt%20Inc%20PR%20image%20Feb%202024.jpg" width="130" height="87" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="asynt-expands-global-presence-new-usa-office-san" />Asynt, a provider of innovative technologies and services for scientific research, is excited to announce the opening of its new office in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. This strategic move marks a significant step forward in Asynt's commitment to serving its North American clientele more effectively. The San Francisco Bay Area is an ideal location for Asynt's expansion due to its strategic geographical advantages...</p>2024-03-18T07:41:00-00:00Waters Corporation Launches Two New MassTrak Steroid Serum IVD Reagent Sets for Laboratory Developed Tests
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/waters-corporation-launches-two-new-masstrak-steroid
<p><img src="/custom/MassTrak%20Steroid%20Serum%20Cal%20Set%201%20and%20MassTrak%20Steroid%20Serum%20QC%20Set%201.jpg" width="130" height="54" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="waters-corporation-launches-two-new-masstrak-steroid" />Waters launched two new MassTrak™ Steroid Serum (IVD) Sets designed to provide clinical diagnostic laboratories with reagents and standards needed for laboratory developed tests (LDTs) for the measurement of steroid hormones in serum. These sets expand Waters comprehensive offering of reagents to help support clinical diagnostics. These sets contain all standards needed for developing the steroid LDTs, including calibrators, quality controls, internal standards, and optimization mix...</p>2024-03-15T07:01:00-00:00Extended live cell imaging at nanoscale resolution
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/extended-live-cell-imaging-nanoscale-resolution
<p><img src="/custom/Multicolor%20fixed%20sample.%20STED_775%2C_TauSTED%20Xtend.jpg" alt="extended-live-cell-imaging-nanoscale-resolution" width="130" height="103" style="margin: 5px 10px; float: right;" />Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has revealed TauSTED Xtend, a new STED microscopy approach that enables extended multicolor live cell imaging at nanoscopic resolution. By combining spatial and lifetime information, TauSTED Xtend resolves details of live or intact specimens at nanoscale. At the same time, the access to that extra level of information allows working at extremely low light dose...</p>2024-03-15T07:01:00-00:00Eppendorf Group opens site in South Africa
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/eppendorf-group-opens-site-south-africa
<p><img src="/custom/Ribbon%20Cutting_2.jpeg" alt="eppendorf-group-opens-site-south-africa" width="130" height="87" style="float: right;" />The globally active Eppendorf Group is expanding its presence by opening a new location in South Africa. The branch office is located in Johannesburg's economic center "Waterfall City" and offers attractive office workplaces for sales and service activities, a modern pipette calibration laboratory including a service workshop and a customer experience center showcasing Eppendorf instruments. High quality laboratory services are offered here, including customer training and instruments maintenance services...</p>2024-03-14T07:52:00-00:00Bruker Announces Agreement to Acquire Chemspeed
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/bruker-announces-agreement-acquire-chemspeed
<p><img src="/custom/FLEX_automation_workstations_2.jpg" width="130" height="72" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="bruker-announces-agreement-acquire-chemspeed" />Bruker Corporation has announced a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Chemspeed Technologies AG, a Swiss provider of vendor-agnostic automated laboratory R&D and QC workflow solutions. Chemspeed is focused on modular automation and robotics solutions for chemical research, pharma drug formulation, materials research for cleantech and consumer applications...</p>2024-03-14T07:42:00-00:00PEAK Scientific launch the most energy efficient laboratory nitrogen generator
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/peak-scientific-launch-the-most-energy-efficient
<p><img src="/custom/Horizen_2.jpg" width="130" height="94" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" alt="peak-scientific-launch-the-most-energy-efficient" />Following the launch of the newest addition to its laboratory gas generator portfolio, PEAK Scientific is pleased to announce it can now take orders for Horizen 24, the most energy efficient nitrogen generator for Single Quad LC-MS. PEAK Scientific is the industry-leader in laboratory gas generators and, with Horizen 24, have brought to market a solution that will save laboratories money, space and environmental impact whilst enhancing gas quality and reliability...</p>2024-03-13T08:16:00-00:00Next generation handheld Raman analyzer enables rapid raw material identification for pharmaceutical and biotech industries
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/next-generation-handheld-raman-analyzer-enables-rapid
<p><img src="/custom/Nicolet%20Apex%20FTIR%20Spectrometer.jpg" width="130" height="79" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="next-generation-handheld-raman-analyzer-enables-rapid" />Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces the Thermo Scientific™ Nicolet™ Apex FTIR Spectrometer, a powerful and versatile infrared spectrometer capable of providing high quality data for a wide range of applications, including materials analysis, pharmaceutical research and environmental monitoring. The innovative Nicolet Apex spectrometer offers advanced features, improved performance and enhanced analytical capabilities compared to similar commercially available solutions...</p>2024-03-13T07:33:00-00:00New Leeuwenhoek microscope authenticated by Professor Brian J. Ford HonFLS HonFRMS
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/new-leeuwenhoek-microscope-authenticated
<p><img src="/custom/FORD-Fig-1_2.jpg" alt="new-leeuwenhoek-microscope-authenticated" width="130" height="89" style="margin: 5px 10px; float: right;" />In August 2023 we were looking back at the great Dutch pioneer of microscopy, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who died 300 years ago. When news was released of my discovering Leeuwenhoek’s original specimens, it did not take long for someone to realise that they had one of his microscopes at home. Later, two more appeared, within the space of a few months. Then, in December 2023, a fourth emerged. This one was a silver microscope found during a house clearance in East Anglia...</p>2024-03-12T12:05:00-00:00INTEGRA supports the next generation of synthetic biologists
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/integra-supports-the-next-generation-synthetic
<p><img src="/custom/Daniel%20and%20his%20teammates%20at%20TU_BS%20used%20the%20PIPETBOY%20acu%202%20serological%20pipette%20controllers%20to%20achieve%20success%20at%20the%202023%20iGEM%20competition.jpg" width="130" height="88" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="integra-supports-the-next-generation-synthetic" />INTEGRA Biosciences awarded 3 PIPETBOY acu 2 serological pipette controllers to the 2023 iGEM Competition team at Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU_BS) to aid their pioneering research into lithium therapy toxicity testing. The pipette controllers enhanced the team’s pipetting precision and streamlined the multiple liquid handling tasks involved in this exciting project, helping them to achieve their project goals...</p>2024-03-12T07:51:00-00:00Starlab is mixing it up in the laboratory market with its new Vortex Mixer
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/starlab-mixing-it-up-the-laboratory-market-its-new
<p><img src="/custom/The%20new%20Starlab%20Vortex%20Mixer%20_%201.jpg" width="130" height="87" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="starlab-mixing-it-up-the-laboratory-market-its-new" />One and a half years after the successful launch of its redesigned laboratory device, the Starlab Minicentrifuge, the Hamburg-based laboratory products manufacturer is introducing its second product in March 2024. The innovative Starlab Vortex Mixer combines unparalleled design with top performance and user-friendliness. “We are extremely proud to present yet another important product for next-generation laboratory operations. It is designed to make day-to-day lab work even easier and more efficient...</p>2024-03-11T08:34:00-00:00Veolia Water Technologies Launches POLARIS 2.0 for Pharmaceutical WFI and Pure Steam
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/veolia-water-technologies-launches-polaris-20
<p><img src="/custom/Veolia_Water_Technologies_Polaris_2_0_IMAGE%203.jpg" width="130" height="92" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="veolia-water-technologies-launches-polaris-20" />Veolia Water Technologies has launched the latest generation of Polaris, its leading high-capacity water distillation and steam generation solutions, developed for the pharmaceutical industry. Using a range of standard options, the skid-mounted Polaris 2.0 Multiple Effect Distiller (MED) and Polaris 2.0 Pure Steam Generator (PSG) systems have been engineered to reliably deliver the required volumes of water for injection (WFI) and pure steam in line with European, Japanese and US Pharmacopoeia standards...</p>2024-03-11T08:00:00-00:00PEAK Scientific expands gas generation expertise with acquisition of Noblegen
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/peak-scientific-expands-gas-generation-expertise
<p><img src="/custom/RS494_134%20PEAK%20140415-scr.jpeg" width="130" height="87" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="peak-scientific-expands-gas-generation-expertise" />TLP Ltd., owner of PEAK Scientific, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Wirac Automation Ltd, trading as Noblegen, a company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of specialist gas and cryogenic solutions. This is the latest step in the Dusty TLP board’s vision to expand its portfolio and develop its range of products to better serve customers around the world...</p>2024-03-08T06:31:00-00:00SPT Labtech and RevoluGen Demonstrate Fully Automated Bead-Based High Molecular Weight DNA Extraction
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/spt-labtech-and-revolugen-demonstrate-fully-automated
<p><img src="/custom/RevoluGen.png" width="130" height="17" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" alt="spt-labtech-and-revolugen-demonstrate-fully-automated" />SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, and RevoluGen Ltd. (RevoluGen), a UK genomics company, announce the successful automation of RevoluGen’s Fire Monkey™ High Molecular Weight (HMW) DNA extraction chemistry in a bead-based format using SPT Labtech’s firefly® automated liquid handling platform...</p>2024-03-08T06:07:00-00:00Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands GMP Laboratory Service Offerings with Biosafety Testing Including Mycoplasma Testing
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/thermo-fisher-scientific-expands-gmp-laboratory-service
<p><img src="/custom/Thermo%20Fisher%20Scientific%20logo10.jpg" width="130" height="30" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" alt="thermo-fisher-scientific-expands-gmp-laboratory-service" />The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is adding mycoplasma and additional biosafety testing capabilities to its expanding portfolio of services at its good manufacturing practices (GMP) lab in Middleton, Wisconsin. This new service, offered by the analytical testing service of the clinical research business, ensures biopharmaceutical products are free of contaminants, helping customers deliver safe medicines for patients...</p>2024-03-07T08:21:00-00:00Optibrium enables collaborative design in its StarDrop platform
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/optibrium-enables-collaborative-design-its-stardrop
<p><img src="/custom/Introducing%20Idea%20Tracker%20Wide%20v2.jpg" width="130" height="73" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="optibrium-enables-collaborative-design-its-stardrop" />Optibrium, a leading developer of software and AI solutions for drug discovery, has announced the release of StarDrop 7.6, the latest version of its platform for small molecule design, optimisation and analysis. As part of the release, Optibrium introduces a new extension, Idea Tracker, with which medicinal chemists can now easily trace molecular design and optimisation decisions through every step of the complex discovery process, from idea conception to selecting candidates for synthesis...</p>2024-03-07T07:09:00-00:00Effortless Measurement of All Four NADs and Glutathione for Laboratories
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/effortless-measurement-all-four-nads-and-glutathione
<p><img src="/custom/NADMED%20technology.jpg" width="130" height="75" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="effortless-measurement-all-four-nads-and-glutathione" />In response to the escalating demand from clinicians and researchers for precise and fast NAD measurement, NADMED unveils an innovative technology designed for extracting and measuring all four NADs and two glutathiones. The method is founded on colorimetric quantification, applicable to blood, tissue, or cells. The distinguishing feature of the NADMED method lies in its ability to measure metabolites individually, setting it apart from other methods and delivering exceptional accuracy comparable to mass spectrometry...</p>2024-03-06T08:46:00-00:00PacBio Announces HiFi Prep Kit 96 and HiFi Plex Prep Kit 96 for Long-Read Sequencing Applications at Scale
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/pacbio-announces-hifi-prep-kit-96-and-hifi-plex-prep
<p><img src="/custom/PacBio.png" width="130" height="68" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="pacbio-announces-hifi-prep-kit-96-and-hifi-plex-prep" />PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced two new high throughput library preparation kits and workflows optimized for its Revio sequencing system. With these kits, PacBio takes another leap forward in the long-read market by offering customers automated, scalable, and high-performance library preparation solutions with a 40 percent reduction in costs and a 60 percent decrease in workflow time...</p>2024-03-06T07:30:00-00:00Forensics spray uses jellyfish protein to detect fingerprints in ten seconds
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/forensics-spray-uses-jellyfish-protein-detect
<p><img src="/custom/Comparision%20of%20spray%20on%20different%20surfaces.jpeg" width="130" height="89" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="forensics-spray-uses-jellyfish-protein-detect" />Scientists have developed a water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that makes fingerprints visible in just a few seconds, making forensic investigations safer, easier and quicker. Latent fingerprints (LFPs) are invisible prints formed by sweat or oil left on an object after it’s been touched. Traditional forensic methods for detecting fingerprints either use toxic powders that can harm DNA evidence, or environmentally damaging petrochemical solvents...</p>2024-03-05T08:00:00-00:00Biotium Expands Selection of Novel Nuclear Stains for Enhanced Multiplexing Flexibility for Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Applications
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/biotium-expands-selection-novel-nuclear-stains-enhanced
<p><img src="/custom/PFA-fixed%2C%20Triton%C2%AE%20X-100%20permeabilized%20HeLa%20cells%20stained%20with%20NucSpot%C2%AE%20Nuclear%20Stains%20in%20PBS%20without%20a%20wash%20step.%20All%20stains%20were%20used%20at%201X%20concentration%20except%20for%20NucSpot%C2%AE%20750_780%2C%20which%20was%20used%20at%205X%20concentratio.jpg" width="130" height="64" caption="false" style="margin: 5px 10px; float: right;" alt="biotium-expands-selection-novel-nuclear-stains-enhanced" />Greater selection of NucSpot® Nuclear Stains promotes further precision, efficiency, and reliability in cell imaging with selective nuclear targeting and exceptional photostability. Biotium, a leader in fluorescent dyes for life science research, announces the expansion of its NucSpot® Nuclear Stains lineup, offering unprecedented specificity and flexibility for nuclear counterstaining. NucSpot® Nuclear Stains are membrane-impermeant, targeting the nucleus selectively with minimal fluorescence until binding to DNA...</p>2024-03-05T07:00:00-00:00Waters Announces Seamless HPLC/UPLC Data Bridge for Light Scattering, Integrating Essential Instruments for Large Molecule Characterization
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/waters-announces-seamless-hplcuplc-data-bridge-light
<p><img src="/custom/WAT_Stack_DAWN_Optilab_1_COB_HR.jpg" alt="waters-announces-seamless-hplcuplc-data-bridge-light" width="130" height="108" style="margin: 5px 10px; float: right;" />New HPLC CONNECT software, an all-in-one software platform that enables full digital synchronization between Waters high- and ultra-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC/UPLC) systems and multi-angle light-scattering instruments (MALS) from its Wyatt Technology™ portfolio. The software delivers ease-of-use, greater efficiency, and higher confidence for scientists performing size exclusion chromatography and MALS (SEC-MALS) analyses for complex and critical biopharmaceutical innovations...</p>2024-03-04T08:02:00-00:00Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Next Generation Handheld Raman Analyzer
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/thermo-fisher-scientific-launches-next-generation
<p><img src="/custom/The%20Thermo%20Scientific%20TruScan%20RM%20Handheld%20Analyzer.jpg" width="130" height="48" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" alt="thermo-fisher-scientific-launches-next-generation" />Thermo Fisher is proud to introduce the new Thermo Scientific™ TruScan™ G3 Handheld Raman Analyzer, offering next generation raw material identification for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. This handheld, portable, user-friendly device allows operators with minimal training to quickly perform identity testing on incoming starting materials, verify in-process substances, and differentiate finished drug products to ensure process quality and audit readiness...</p>2024-03-04T08:00:00-00:00Revvity Signals Software Unveils Signals Clinical Solution to Accelerate Critical Clinical Trial Insights and Data-Driven Decisions
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/revvity-signals-software-unveils-signals-clinical
<p><img src="/custom/Signals%20Clinical.png" width="130" height="62" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="revvity-signals-software-unveils-signals-clinical" />Revvity Signals is unveiling the Signals Clinical<sup>TM</sup> solution, a software-as-a-service (SaaS), end-to-end clinical data science platform designed to centralize all clinical trial data, providing fast, actionable insights for quicker clinical decisions and accelerated market delivery of therapeutics. This state-of-the-art solution, when integrated with enterprise-class Spotfire visual analytics, has the potential to redefine how the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and contract research industries approach clinical trial data...<sup></sup></p>2024-03-01T08:02:00-00:00Increased efficiency in laboratories: Starlab expands its product range with new 1250 µl ErgoOne® E multi-channel pipettes
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/increased-efficiency-laboratories-starlab-expands-its
<p><img src="/custom/Starlab-logo.png" width="130" height="62" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;" alt="increased-efficiency-laboratories-starlab-expands-its" />Starlab International is introducing new models to its ErgoOne E multi-channel pipette series. The latest ErgoOne E multi-channel pipettes with a capacity of up to 1250 µl complement the existing Starlab product portfolio to enable precise and efficient pipetting in laboratories worldwide. The product family now includes five models to cover volumes 0.5 to 1250 µl in either 8 or 12 channels...</p>2024-03-01T07:51:00-00:00SCIEX expands high-throughput screening solutions with Echo® MS+ system
https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/sciex-expands-highthroughput-screening-solutions-echo
<p><img src="/custom/echo_ms_plus_2.jpg" width="130" height="59" caption="false" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" alt="sciex-expands-highthroughput-screening-solutions-echo" />SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, launches the Echo® MS+ system at SLAS 2024. The system couples proprietary Acoustic Ejection Mass Spectrometry technology and Open Port Interface (OPI) sampling with the capabilities of either the SCIEX ZenoTOF 7600 or Triple Quad 6500+ system to deliver precise qualitative and quantitative results, through an expanded panel of robust high-throughput screening workflows...</p>2024-02-29T08:15:00-00:00