02-Apr-2008 - With manufacturing productivity in the pharmaceutical sector widely acknowledged as being in need of modernisation, a US firm believes it has developed a technology that could carve days off the time spent on microbial testing, a cumbersome but ubiquitous part of the quality control process.
01-Apr-2008 - Life sciences equipment company Millipore says its new protein detection system, SNAP i.d, can improve the time it takes to carry out Western blots by as much as 80 per cent compared to conventional immunodetection methods.
01-Apr-2008 - Syft Technologies of New Zealand released the latest generation of Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry (SIFT) instrumentation at Pittcon 2008 for the analysis of very low levels of organic compounds in air (detection limits as low as 50 parts per trillion).
30-Mar-2008 - Thermo Fisher has launched a new spectrometer that incorporates FT-IR technology for improved clarity and detail, aimed at pharmaceutical process scientists and other chemical disciplines.
27-Mar-2008 - A new, freely available database has been launched that provides comprehensive information about the 600 known bacteria living in the human mouth. Many of these bacteria also cause infections in the lungs, blood and skin, so the Human Oral Microbiome Database will be an important reference both for researchers working in the field of oral microbiology and researchers investigating the sources of infections throughout the human body.
27-Mar-2008 - Biotage has used the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2008 meeting to introduce its new batch microwave synthesiser that allows the full automation of batch sequencing resulting in time savings for users.
26-Mar-2008 - German based Genomics specialists Febit aim to fully automate genomics research with the introduction of its analyser at Analytica 2008, which enables fully automated processing of microarrays on Geniom biochips.
25-Mar-2008 - Varian, Invitrogen, BMG Labtech and Hosokawa Micron have all recently announced new product launches, detailing a selection of tools and equipment to aid the scientist working in the laboratory environment.
25-Mar-2008 - MassWorks sCLIPS (self Calibrated Line-Shape Isotope Profile Search), a new software tool for the mass spectrometrist to allow molecular formula determination from accurate mass determinations, was launched at Pittcon by Cerno Biosciences.
19-Mar-2008 - A new modular approach to automating laboratory techniques could ease the process of scaling small-scale manual methods to high-volume commercial production.
18-Mar-2008 - LabTechnologist.com presents a round-up of new products that have been introduced to the laboratory equipment market of late, including items from Applied Biosystems, Olympus, Gentronix and Radleys.
18-Mar-2008 - Applied Biosystems has sequenced a human genome for just $60,000 in a project that significantly undercuts the $100,000 milestone achieved by the industry and setting the scene for a price war between DNA sequencing tool specialists.
18-Mar-2008 - Peptide Technologies showcased their latest rapid automated peptide synthesis equipment at Pittcon 2008, including a new product, the benchtop Tribute instrument.
13-Mar-2008 - NanoDrop, now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, made a big impact at Pittcon 2008 with its range of micro-volume UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy instruments.
13-Mar-2008 - Thermo Fisher released a comprehensive range of new laboratory spectrometers at Pittcon 2008, with the firm's emphasis on FT-IR very much in evidence.
13-Mar-2008 - Aspectrics introduced a new biodiesel analyser at Pittcon 2008 based upon their Encoded Photometric Near Infra Red (EP-NIR) technology, which uses a specially designed 128 channel encoder disc.
12-Mar-2008 - Research into the use of RNA interference (RNAi) to "silence" gene activity has taken another step forwards, saysThermo Fisher Scientific which has launched an agent that accelerates the processes in which RNAi is used to shut off specific genes.
11-Mar-2008 - Roche has entered into an agreement to provide drug compounds for cardiotoxicity testing using a cell-based platform that could play a major role in the preclinical safety evaluation of drugs and newly developed compounds.
11-Mar-2008 - A new biosensor made from mouse white blood cells could provide a quick and easy test for microbes and toxins in food. The sensor can return results in just a few hours, and it can be easily scaled to test up to 96 samples at one time.
06-Mar-2008 - LabTechnologist.com brings you a round up of the latest product news and releases. This week Agilent, Biotage and Ruskinn Technology head the queue with products designed for laboratory research and automation.
06-Mar-2008 - Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has hit the headlines at Pittcon 2008 with the release of ground breaking instruments from a number of companies.
06-Mar-2008 - A new user and environmentally-friendly fume hood claimed to cut emissions as well as operating and energy costs has been launched at Pittcon 2008.
04-Mar-2008 - Applied Biosystems has developed a new chemistry reagent kit for DNA analysis by forensic laboratories of material recovered in sexual assault cases. In these cases speed and accuracy are the watchwords and the new kit will help the analyst to rapidly generate information from any complicated DNA evidence that is presented.
03-Mar-2008 - Pittcon 2008 has kicked off and as usual exhibitors have kept their newest and most innovative technology for release at the show. LabTechnologist.com's Huw Kidwell is on the ground in New Orleans to see what's new.
27-Feb-2008 - Sigma-Aldrich has struck a deal with Atlas Antibodies that grants it distribution rights to Atlas' library of 1,800 antibodies that is expected to grow by several thousand per year.