Laboratory equipment

MOBILion Systems will showcase its first commercial High-Resolution Ion Mobility (HRIM) product, MOBIE, at the 69th Annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference. Taking place from October 31 to November 4, the conference is the first in-person ASMS since 2019 and is being held in MOBILion’s backyard – Philadelphia. MOBIE, launched in June 2021,…

Porex, a provider of custom-engineered porous polymer solutions, received a $16.2 million award from the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase production capacity of aerosol-barrier filters used in filtered pipettes for COVID-19 and other infectious disease testing. Porex is a subsidiary of Filtration Group. Across much of 2020, the…

ZEISS announces the opening of its new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Bay Area (ZMCC BA), housed within the ZEISS Innovation Center California, a high-tech building designed to promote customer and employee collaboration. Unique to the industry, the ZMCC BA houses electron, light and X-ray microscopes all in one location supported by resident application experts in…

Tescan Orsay Holding launches the new Large Volume Workflow for faster failure and defect root-cause analysis in semiconductor manufacturing and materials research. The new approach implements correlative microscopy techniques to provide parallel processing through stand-alone laser ablation and plasma focused ion beam (Plasma FIB) systems. Neither system is idled by the operation of the other.…

With the Turbolab Core, vacuum specialist Leybold is launching a small plug-and-play high vacuum pumping system for research, laboratory and industrial applications. Within the Turbolab series, the compact tabletop unit fills the gap for entry-level vacuum needs that require a clean, dry, stable high and ultra-high vacuum. The Turbolab series is now available in a…

PerkinElmer and Honeycomb Biotechnologies, announce the commercial launch of the first of its kind HIVE scRNAseq Solution for single-cell isolation and analysis. The HIVE solution leverages a portable, handheld device for the capture, storage and RNA-Seq library preparation of a diverse range of cell types, including fragile and labile cells such as granulocytes, nephrons, hepatocytes and…

Historically, one of the biggest hurdles facing pharmaceutical research and development has been the laboratory itself. While laboratory instruments have seen considerable advancement over the years, scientists spend more time on the logistics of setting up and running laboratory experiments than they do designing experiments and interpreting results. This is a significant complication for start-up…

The advanced design of Laird Thermal Systems’ new thermoelectric-based Nextreme NRC400 Performance Chiller provides a reliable cooling solution for digital light microscope applications. This next generation recirculating chiller achieves 400 W of cooling capacity and a temperature control stability to within ±0.05° C under steady-state conditions to ensure high resolution images and long-life operation with…

Magnetic field detection and cancellation systems manufacturer Spicer Consultng Limited introduces its new SC28 monitoring system. The SC28 enables long-term, uninterrupted monitoring of magnetic fields, vibrations and acoustics – as well as temperature and humidity – within the lab and semiconductor fab. This system is purpose-designed to survey the environment for electron beam instruments, including…

While chromatography is the backbone of downstream bioprocessing, commercially available single-use chromatography system options are limited in their ability to scale and provide advanced processing capabilities. Thermo Fisher Scientific has solved the problem with the Thermo Scientific HyPeak Chromatography System. It’s the first single-use chromatography system for bioprocessing and offers a wide operational flow range,…

By Aliyah Kovner, LBNL A technology developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows great promise for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms arise, potentially changing the course of research and treatment for this condition, which affects millions of people worldwide and is estimated to be the sixth leading cause of death in…

Thermo Fisher Scientific announces the launch of Gibco Cell Therapy Systems (CTS) NK-Xpander Medium, a GMP-manufactured cell culture medium that supports large-scale growth and culture of functional natural killer (NK) cells with or without the use of feeder cells. This is the first medium from Thermo Fisher specifically designed to support expansion of NK cells for…

The launch of the world’s first net zero mass spectrometer (MS) will make it easier than ever for scientists working across geoscience, food and beverage, environmental science and forensics to practice science sustainably. The Thermo Scientific Delta Q Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) is a next generation gas IRMS designed to enable detailed analysis with…

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces the HS-20 NX Series Headspace Sampler that provides improved performance including ultralow carryover and excellent reproducibility. The HS-20 NX Series replaces Shimadzu’s HS-20 headspace sampler to provide analysts with an advanced yet easy-to-use instrument. The HS-20 NX series uses the isolation gas flow to reduce carryover to one-tenth of conventional models.…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched the Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Absolute Q Digital PCR System, the first fully integrated digital PCR (dPCR) system designed to provide highly accurate and consistent results within 90 minutes. dPCR has quickly become the standard for nucleic acid quantification in oncology, cell and gene therapy development and other research applications because…

Laird Thermal Systems has developed a next-generation benchtop recirculating chiller that combines advanced thermoelectric cooling technology with high-performance heat exchangers to achieve 400 W of cooling capacity, while offering temperature stability to within ±0.05° C under steady state conditions. The Nextreme NRC400 Performance Chiller is an ideal cooling solution for research laboratories, analytical imaging, industrial…

Cell culture laboratories working with CO2 incubators and water baths can now benefit from a new product designed to help safeguard incubators from water-borne contaminants, saving scientists time and labor while reducing the need for hazardous chemical solutions. When placed into any CO2 incubator water pan or laboratory water bath, the Thermo Scientific Aqua-Tec Water…

On September 21, Lonza will host a free 30-minute webinar to discuss how quality control (QC) laboratories can maximize efficiency for reduced costs and time-to-results by combining Lonza’s MODA-EM Software and the Growth Direct System from Rapid Micro Biosystems. Webinar attendees will also have the chance to engage with the expert presenters in a live…

Lab managers, technology leaders and principal scientists in pharmaceutical, food and environmental laboratories can now benefit from accelerated throughput and improved sensitivity to meet rapidly changing regulatory requirements and provide the fast responses needed for tackling emerging human and environmental health risks. The Thermo Scientific TSQ Plus triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS) portfolio increases workflow…

CytoSMART Technologies has opened the application of CytoSMART Research Grant for Autumn 2021. The CytoSMART Research Grant is an initiative to help motivated students and researchers improve their project’s quality. The grant offers one of the CytoSMART live-cell imaging devices that can be used for research purposes for a specified period. The CytoSMART automated incubator-friendly…

ZEISS introduces SIM², a groundbreaking image reconstruction algorithm that increases the resolution and sectioning quality of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) data. With SIM² on the microscope system ZEISS Elyra 7, life science researchers can now double the conventional SIM resolution and discriminate the finest subcellular structures of living and fixed samples, even those no more…

The Thermo Scientific SpeedVac Refrigerated Vacuum Concentrator is the first in the company’s SpeedVac line to maintain the temperature of heat sensitive samples, such as proteins, without having to pause the vacuum concentration process to allow for sample cooling. This feature safeguards against sample degradation, which can incur additional costs when researchers need to reproduce samples and perform subsequent runs. The SpeedVac portfolio offers vacuum and heat technologies for removing solvents and concentrating samples…

Thermo Fisher Scientific and ChromSword, a provider of innovative software products, have collaborated to launch an automated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method development system that enables chromatographers to deliver robust and validated methods in less time and with higher confidence. The new Thermo Scientific Vanquish Method Development HPLC…

By Suzanne Graham, Thermo Scientific Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) ushered in a new era of biotechnology research and drug design by enabling atomic-level imaging of drug targets in their near-native states. For organizations across the public and private sectors, this presents the perfect opportunity to team up and broaden access to state-of-the-art tools, techniques and expertise.…