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BioScreening - organic compounds for screening
News: EquipmentNanion nominated for The German Industry’s Innovation Award - Munich, Germany, Jan 20th, 2009; Nanion is again nominated for a prestigious
innovation award, due its impressive product portfolio of automated patch clamp
systems. More than 350 companies competed in this year’s Innovation Award and
Nanion is finalist in the category “Start-Up Companies”.
The German Industry’s Innovation Award, also the world’s first innovation award, has since 1980 annually nominated [...]
A new approach to functional screening of siRNA knockdown
Nanion increases throughput and cuts costs with a new industrial 96-channel patch clamp screening robot - Munich, Germany, November 18th, 2008; Today, Nanion announces the late-stage
development of a new automated patch clamp platform: the SyncroPatch 96.
Developed to meet the throughput demands of industrial ion channel drug screening
and safety profiling, and with a price-per-data-point compatible with screening
standards, the SyncroPatch 96 will offer the highest throughput in the market for high quality HTS-oriented [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Nanoliter Dispensing Tips for Automated Pipetting - MILFORD, Mass. (Oct. 24, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the
world leader in serving science, has introduced new Thermo Scientific
PocketTip(r) D.A.R.T.s(r) tips, enabling nanoliter volume dispensing on
Thermo Scientific Matrix automated systems. An internally molded
capillary pocket allows the transfer of 50-500 nL of concentrated sample
compounds suspended in Dimethyl Sulphoxide (DMSO) directly to assay
plates, saving time, reagents [...]
It shouldn’t be that difficult to stick a label to a frozen vial! - Brady Freezerbondz labels overcome the virtually impossible task of labelling already frozen samples. Gone are the days where a sample needs to be thawed before a tracking and identification label can be applied. Now with Freezerbondz labels, you can quickly and easily identify samples in their frozen state.
The specially formulated permanent adhesive on Freezerbondz labels [...]
Bibby Scientific’s latest personal thermal cycler takes more samples, but no more space - Bibby Scientific announces an addition to the Techne range of personal thermal cyclers – the expanded capacity TC-3000X. With a highly successful half-century track record in the design and manufacture of temperature control equipment, Bibby Scientific’s world-leading Techne brand is synonymous with robust, reliable, reproducible DNA amplification.
The new TC-3000X has two interchangeable block options. The [...]
New Benchtop LC-MS System - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it will launch the Thermo Scientific Exactive, a new benchtop LC-MS system designed for compound screening and identification applications, at ASMS 2008. Exactive leverages proven mass analyzer technology from the LTQ Orbitrap platform, the recognized standard for accurate mass and high resolution measurement, to provide precise and confident information. [...]
Seegene Multi-Pathogen Detection Tests Now Compatible with Lab901 ScreenTape and Caliper LC90 Automated Detection Systems - Rockville, MD, April 23, 2008: Seegene today announced that its Seeplex(R) multi-pathogen tests are now optimized for Lab 901’s ScreenTape(R) and Caliper LifeSciences’ LC90(R) automated detection systems. Compatibility with these two leading detection systems opens the way for Seeplex tests to be used throughout a wide spectrum of labs, from small to mid-sized labs to [...]
Biological Drugs Spurring an Evolution in Injectable Drug Delivery - (Amherst, NH) - The success of recombinant protein drugs such as Enbrel, Remicade, and Herceptin in treating refractory conditions is fueling the search for protein and peptide-based therapeutic agents in oncology, inflammation and a host of other disease classes. Led by the proliferation of antibody-based drug candidates, biological drugs as a class continue to outpace [...]
Bio-Synthesis Expands Dye Labeling Licensing - We are happy to announce that Biosearch Technologies of Novato, California, have extended Bio-Synthesis Inc, of Lewisville, Texas their line of Fluorescent dyes and quenchers for use in biomedical research applications. End users who source Biosearch dyes for any purpose other than non-commercial R&D applications will still be required to contact the Biosearch Technologies Licensing [...]
New Multi-channel Microplate Reader from Anthos - Complete with comprehensive on-board software for qualitative, quantitative and kinetic applications, integral shaking, and extensive memory for both results and methods storage the Anthos MultiRead 400 stand-alone reader offers the laboratory versatility, reliability and fast reading times.
Incorporating digital light control to optimise long term stability and an automatic self-test and calibration procedure, quality measurements are [...]
Burnham Institute Selects Labcyte Acoustic Liquid Handling Technology - Sunnyvale, CA November 15, 2007 - Labcyte Inc. will supply Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) with more than $2.3 million worth of Echo® liquid handlers for use in screening large biological libraries. The systems will be installed at both the Institute’s LaJolla, (CA) and Lake Nona, Orlando (FL) campuses. These instruments will be part [...]
Brady labelling technology - Brady’s proven labelling technology protects against the potential disaster of being unable to identify a sample due to the label falling off!
Laboratory labelling presents many challenges: labels may be subjected to hostile environments, solvents and other chemicals and extreme temperatures. They are also applied to widely varying surfaces and sample shapes and sizes. Sometimes, as [...]
Device Offers Pharmaceutical Makers A Fast, Cheap and Safe Way to Screen Potential Drug Compounds - A new device invented by researchers at the University of Virginia could save pharmaceutical companies significant time and money in screening potential new drug compounds.
“We want to help the pharmaceutical industry identify effective therapuetic compounds by allowing them to fail early, fail fast, and fail cheap before going to very expensive animal studies,” said Brett [...]
New Clinical Trial Code break System ‘Safecode’ - ‘Safecode’ is a new system for clinical trials represents a significant enhancement over traditional CODEBREAK product identification
methods.
Our system allows confidential information to be printed using industry standard inkjet technology.
The printed information is illegible unless a tamper evident strip is removed. This ensures that any effort to compromise the security of data is immediately apparent.
http://www.acs-labels.co.uk/Safecode.htm
New Forensic Toxicology Application from Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX Improves Accuracy of Screening for Drugs of Abuse - FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Applied Biosystems (NYSE: ABI), an Applera Corporation business, and its joint venture partner, Sciex, a division of MDS Inc.’s Analytical Technologies business, (NYSE: MDZ, TSX: MDS), today introduced a new, automated [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Introduces N-TER Nanoparticle siRNA Transfection System for Delivery of siRNA Into Difficult-to-Transfect Cell Types - ST. LOUIS, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sigma-Aldrich announced today the global release of the N-TER(TM) Nanoparticle siRNA Transfection System. N-TER allows researchers to reproducibly interrogate gene function, via siRNA transfection, in model cell types that have previously not been considered amenable to conventional lipid-based siRNA delivery reagents.
“Traditional lipid-based siRNA transfection reagents exhibit a number of [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Extends its GC/MS Product Portfolio with Introduction of Highly Sensitive and Versatile GC Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer - Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the launch of the ultra-sensitive TSQ Quantum(TM) GC gas chromatograph triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Developed for use in environmental, food, toxicology, pharmaceutical and clinical research laboratories, the system allows industry leading levels of sensitivity, selectivity and simultaneous quantification and structural confirmation [...]
The increased sensitivity, functionality and vehicle mounted mobile capability of the Voice200, as well as its competitive pricing model, are raising strong commercial interest in the market - Syft Technologies is launching the next generation of Sift-MS instrumentation, the Voice200, which it says delivers real-time identification and quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the push of a button. Geoff Peck CEO of Syft Technologies says: ‘The design criteria and market requirements for this next generation of instruments were exacting.
‘We set a goal [...]
Managing Worldwide Compound Delivery with Tecan REMP Automated Sample Storage and Retrieval Systems - At Boehringer Ingelheim’s principal research site in Biberach, Germany, the Screening Support group relies on REMP automated sample storage and retrieval systems to provide compound management services for the company’s high throughput screening laboratories worldwide.
Dr Gerhard Mihm, head of the Screening Support group, explained: “Over the years, the number of compounds to be managed has [...]
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