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By Dr Matt Wilkinson, 21-Jun-2007

Related topics: Products, Lab Automation, Lab Informatics, Microscopy / Image Analysis, Reagents (protein, genomic, PCR, cell-culture), Separation Sciences (chromatography), Spectroscopy

LabTechnologist.com brings you its weekly round of new product releases with new offerings from Asynt, Genevac, Huber, Jasco, Micronic, Olympus, Velocity11 and Viscotek.

Asynt has released a controlled laboratory reactor - the ReactoMate that can be fully customised to meet customers specific requirements.

The ReactoMate allows precise control over reaction variables combined with a powerful overhead stirrer, the ability to work under vacuum or an inert atmosphere and quick release fittings for convenient reaction set up.

The system is available with an optional vacuum jacket that prevents ice formation and heat ingress while conducting low temperature reactions.

Genevac has been appointed as the European Support Centre for laboratory equipment and speciality glassware manufacturer SP Industries following its acquisition by SP earlier this year.

"We will now be able to offer and support European scientists with a comprehensive range of top quality products that will enable improvements in productivity and sample preparation as well as enhancing laboratory safety," said Rob Darrington, business development manager at Genevac.

Huber UK, the water bath, chiller and circulator specialist, has released a new catalogue that will help laboratories find more environmentally friendly approaches to control the temperature of various laboratory processes.

The catalogue features over 500 products that offer precise temperature control from -120ºC to +400ºC.

Jasco has released a new portable FT-IR (fourier transform infra red) spectrometer series, the VIR-9000 series.

There are several different configurations of the instrument available, the economical and general purpose VIR-9400, the VIR-9500 that provides high resolution for both solids and gases and the VIR-9600 that features a NIR (near infra red) configuration with CaF2 beam splitter and a halogen NIR source.

Micronic has launched a new automation compatible tube rack - the RoboRack-96 for use in automated sample handling and storage applications. The system provides positive tube lead-in that ensures tubes are guided to the correct well location.

The open rack air flow architecture reduces freeze-thaw cycle times while the CovLoc lid ensures sample integrity during sample transit and storage even at low temperatures.

Olympus has launched an updated version of its cost effective microdissection system, the Olympus SmartCutPlus. The SmartCut system has been upgraded to include the CapLift system that recovers the dissection target without directly touching it allowing them to be lifted away and isolated in a quick and clean process.

The system features upgraded software options in the PenDisplay and SmartCut Plus offerings and combines a solid state UV laser with the inverted Olympus CKX41 microscope.

Velocity11 has announced the successful use of its BioCel automation system in high-throughput in vitro ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) and toxicology assays.

The system provides an approach for assessing multiple compound properties quickly and reliably.

Viscotek has launched a new entry-level biomolecule analysis instrument, the Model 270 Dual Detector, that converts any GPC/SEC system equipped with a concentration detector into a powerful triple detector system.

The new system that features a four-capillary differential viscometer and low angle light scattering (LALS) set up will allow the detailed characterisation of polysaccharides, DNA, antibodies and proteins.