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CE440 CHN analyser minimises sample preparation

Exeter Analytical | Added: 16 Jun 2009

Exeter Analytical has published an application note describing direct determination of total carbon…

ALA collaboration to focus on student research

Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) | Added: 15 Jun 2009

The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced an education-based collaboration with…

454 Genome Sequencer reaches milestone

Roche Applied Science | Added: 12 Jun 2009

454 Life Sciences has announced that the list of peer-reviewed publications in which the Genome seq…

Zetasizer characterises surface modifications

Malvern Instruments | Added: 11 Jun 2009

Researchers using a Malvern system have discovered that the stability of functionalised nanoparticl…

Testxpert software tests to ISO 6892-1:2009

Zwick Roell | Added: 10 Jun 2009

The imminent release of ISO 6892-1:2009 signifies a new level of testing-machine control and is int…

SeqWright joins genetic heart disease study

Roche Applied Science | Added: 10 Jun 2009

SeqWright, a custom genomic and molecular biology service provider, has announced a research collab…

Melamine in milk detected using NIR spectroscopy

IM Publications | Added: 9 Jun 2009

Researchers developed a rapid method for detecting pure melamine in milk powder, after several t…

DNA binding compound kills bacteria in two minutes

University of Warwick | Added: 8 Jun 2009

Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered a synthetic DNA binding compound that kill…

Owlstone to help develop FAIMS/TOF-MS applications

Agilent Technologies Europe | Added: 8 Jun 2009

Owlstone Nanotech and Agilent are to develop Owlstone's field-asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry …

Samplematrix used in lab sustainability initiative

Biomatrica | Added: 8 Jun 2009

Transfer of biological samples from frozen to room-temperature storage could reduce electricity usa…

Award recognises mass spectrometry paper

Waters | Wyatt Technology | Added: 8 Jun 2009

Waters has announced that the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) has presented Prof Alis…

Patent issued for Olympus virtual microscopy

Olympus America | Added: 5 Jun 2009

Olympus America has announced the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 7,542,596…

Protein Forest addresses proteomics 'shortcomings'

Protein Forest | Added: 5 Jun 2009

An expert panel at this year's Hupo meeting discussed proteomics' lack of success at clinical bioma…

UK Young Life Scientist Award winner announced

Promega UK | Added: 5 Jun 2009

Promega UK has announced Dr Kim van der Heiden from Imperial College London as the winner of 2009's…

Determination of TAN/TBN in industrial samples

Metrohm (UK) | Added: 1 Jun 2009

Metrohm UK has announced that its 864 robotic balance sample processor can be used in the fully aut…

Determining uranium according to ASTM C1267 - 06

Metrohm (UK) | Added: 28 May 2009

ASTM C1267 - 06 is a standard test method for uranium by iron (II) reduction in phosphoric acid fol…

Scientists probe pancreatic cancer drug failure

Cancer Research UK | Added: 28 May 2009

Cancer Research UK has led an investigation, resulting in the discovery of a mechanism that may exp…

Janet undergoes network trial

Janet(UK) | Added: 27 May 2009

Janet has completed a 100Gbits/s network trial, conducted over a 103km section of fibre between cor…

Metrohm IC products analyse TPN solutions

Metrohm (UK) | Added: 21 May 2009

Parenteral nutrition (PN) and total parenteral nutrition (TPN) describe the intravenous provision o…

New Roche lab will reduce need for animal testing

Roche Applied Science | Added: 19 May 2009

Roche has opened the Joint Science and Technology Laboratory in Basel, where its scientists are usi…