Latest Case Studies

Mercury measurement in crude oil
Able Instruments and Controls | Added: 5 Dec 2005
Simple, push-button operation allows users to measure mercury levels from 0.003-0.999mg/m3 in just …

Industrial robots at University of Plymouth
Barr and Paatz | Added: 5 Dec 2005
With five degrees of movement, a reach of around 480mm and a footprint no larger than an A5 sheet o…

Broad selects thermal cycler for genomic research
Thermo Fisher Scientific Laboratory Equipment | Added: 1 Dec 2005
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard buys 215 additional MBS Satellite thermal cyclers to be used for…

Automation of assays in diversified formats
RTS Life Science | Added: 29 Nov 2005
RTS designs and installs a dual arm, flexible robot screening platform at Merck Sharp And Dohme res…

New high-tech standards for fish tags
CIL Custom Interconnect | Added: 28 Nov 2005
Tagging fish provides unparalleled insights into how these creatures behave and respond to differen…

Monitoring granulate growth in real time
Malvern Instruments | Added: 25 Nov 2005
Using an in-line Parsum probe from Malvern Instruments, Merck has successfully tackled the notoriou…

Rented analyser protects archaeologists in dig
Ashtead Technology | Added: 25 Nov 2005
Portable analyser provides a valuable supplement to laboratory data because large numbers of result…

Screening racehorses for doping
Applied Biosystems | Added: 24 Nov 2005
LC/MS/MS system screens racehorse urine and blood specimens for prohibited substances used to influ…

Uncovering the mysteries of the brain
Applied Biosystems | Added: 24 Nov 2005
Dutch researchers use reagent kits to analyse proteins in brain synapses using tandem mass spectrom…

HuCAL-based mini-antibodies in HIV research
AbD Serotec *now part of Bio-Rad* | Added: 24 Nov 2005
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) scientists analyse HuCAL-b…

Automating cell and tissue production
TAP Biosystems | Added: 23 Nov 2005
Automated cell culture system selected for use in the first major European study on automating the …

Rapid polymer screening and analysis in the UK
Polymer Laboratories | Added: 23 Nov 2005
Rapid analysis GPC/SEC system allows Centre for Advanced Polymers (CAP) to become the first facilit…

Diversa embraces electronic laboratory notebook
Labtronics | Added: 23 Nov 2005
Technology will help improve laboratory productivity while making it easier to prove compliance wit…

Oiling the cogs of chromatography data acquisition
Justice Laboratory Software Europe | Added: 23 Nov 2005
Expro, an oilfield service provider to the upstream oil and gas industry, has chosen Chrom Perfect …

Speeding up high throughput scrapie genotyping
Tecan Trading AG | Added: 21 Nov 2005
Scrapie genotyping is based on a SNE assay that identifies four polymorphisms within the PRNP prion…

Altana Pharma invests in high throughput screening
Thermo Fisher Scientific Laboratory Equipment | Added: 18 Nov 2005
Leading biopharmaceutical company anticipates significant reductions in compound profiling times

Work begins on new innovation centre
Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian | Added: 17 Nov 2005
Work has begun on a new £3.5 million facility at the Alba Campus that will put some of Scotland's m…

Gel documentation in study of childhood asthma
Syngene | Added: 17 Nov 2005
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts are using the GeneFlash to visualise 298bp PCR fragm…

Building FDA-approved medical device test system
National Instruments | Added: 16 Nov 2005
System tests a medical device that measures blood glucose levels by performing measurements of the …

Logger validates hospital steriliser parameters
Grant Instruments | Added: 16 Nov 2005
Specialist manufacturer of high performance washing systems used in QC/QA laboratories, hospital th…