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Uniscan publishes new technical sales supplements
Uniscan Instruments | Added: 14 Nov 2007
Four new Technical Sales Supplements have been published to coincide with the introduction of speci…
Extreme pipetting: dry heat causes 35% error
Artel | Added: 12 Nov 2007
At Death Valley for mission number 3 of the Extreme Pipetting Expedition, Artel found that pipettes…
Automated protein desalting without dialysis
Bio-Rad Laboratories | Added: 7 Nov 2007
Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced availability of technical bulletin 5339A, which compares the des…
Mandatory folic acid fortification challenged
Institute of Food Research | Added: 30 Oct 2007
The liver is an easily saturated system, and fortification could lead to significant unmetabolised …
Flavonoid in food reduces risk of heart disease
BBSRC | Added: 30 Oct 2007
Scientists at the Institute of Food Research have found that compounds present in the blood after e…
Spray analysis seminar was cooperative effort
Malvern Instruments | Added: 30 Oct 2007
One-day seminar by Malvern Instruments, Copley Scientific, and Melbourn Scientific presented delega…
Measurement of glucose in bioethanol production
YSI Life Sciences (UK) | Added: 26 Oct 2007
In typical bioethanol production, the consumption of glucose over the course of 24 to 48 hour yeast…
New lower reporting limit for lactose
ESA - A Dionex Company | Added: 22 Oct 2007
ESA Laboratories says that the reporting limit for the most widely used pharmaceutical surrogate, l…
Automated online second virial coefficient method
Wyatt Technology | Added: 22 Oct 2007
Wyatt Technology has developed a static light scattering (SLS) method for measuring the second viri…
New molecular markers for testicular cancer
Applied Biosystems | Added: 17 Oct 2007
Researchers in the Netherlands use new technology from Applied Biosystems to identify different exp…
10,000 human exons in a single reaction
Agilent Technologies Europe | Added: 16 Oct 2007
The full potential of the new DNA sequencers is severely constrained by the lack of massively paral…
Large-scale targeted genomic resequencing speeded
Roche Applied Science | Added: 16 Oct 2007
'Sequence capture' technology enables fast and accurate enrichment of thousands of selected genomic…
Unmasking animal food allergens
Institute of Food Research | Added: 12 Oct 2007
In theory all proteins have the potential to become allergens, but in practice the ability of anima…
Commentary on genetic variation in human genome
Applied Biosystems | Added: 12 Oct 2007
This month in PLoS Biology (vol 5, issue 10), researchers published results from the sequencing of …
Terahertz imaging to replace dissolution testing?
Teraview | Added: 9 Oct 2007
FDA study focussed upon a delayed release dosage form which employs coatings that are engineered to…
Tips on USB-serial converters for data acquisition
Windmill Software | Added: 9 Oct 2007
As USB ports have largely replaced RS232 ports on new computers, people are increasingly using a US…
Win a trip to New York in image competition
GE Healthcare | Added: 8 Oct 2007
The competition is supported by BioTechniques and invites all users of the In Cell Analyzer system …
Importance of oxygen in plant-based bioprocesses
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland | Added: 8 Oct 2007
Annika Wilhelmson used gene technology to study the role of oxygen in the growth and hyoscyamine pr…
Beagle 2 and Rosetta technology is back on Earth
Wellcome Trust | Added: 4 Oct 2007
"If you can build instruments rugged enough to look for life elsewhere in the Solar System, you sho…
Atomic coilgun slows and stops atoms
Institute of Physics | Added: 3 Oct 2007
Paper in IoP's New Journal of Physics demonstrates how physicists from University of Texas at Austi…
