Phenotype MicroArray technology making breakthrough discoveries on tuberculosis bacterium
14 January, 2013In a paper recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, a research team reported breakthrough progress in understanding the metabolic and phenotypic properties of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its close relative Mycobacterium bovis. The publication shows that Biolog’s Phenotype MicroArray (PM) technology allows these bacteria to be studied much more quickly and easily, which will accelerate the pace of mycobacterial research.
BioTek 405 TS and 405 LS Microplate Washers
27 October, 2012The 405 Touch Microplate Washer from BioTek incorporates a high-resolution LED backlit touch-screen user interface for intuitive and flexible onboard instrument control of 96- and 384-well microplate washing.
Biotage Evolute Express 96-well plates for SPE
31 August, 2012Biotage has introduced Evolute Express, a family of 96-well plates that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined three-step protocol: load-wash-elute.
BioTek awarded patent for Hybrid Technology in multimode microplate readers
23 July, 2012BioTek has been awarded US patent 8,218,141 covering the combination of two alternate paths for light within the same analytical instrument.
Berthold TriStar² Microplate Reader
10 July, 2012Berthold Technologies has presented the second generation of its multi-label TriStar² microplate reader. TriStar² employs the optical concept ALL-4-ONE, enabling luminescence, fluorescence and absorbance measurements with, what is claimed to be, the highest respective sensitivity from dedicated instruments.
Wyatt Technology DynaPro Plate Reader II
22 June, 2012Wyatt Technology has announced the launch of an upgraded version of its DynaPro Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) Plate Reader. The DynaPro Plate Reader II includes the addition of an onboard camera capable of acquiring images of each well.
BioTek BioStack3 Microplate Stacker
04 June, 2012The BioStack 3 Microplate Stacker, from BioTek, has been designed to ensure efficient laboratory microplate processes. The product features a dual plate carrier and rotational wrist to quickly move plates from the source stack to the instrument and back to the destination stack, keeping two plates in process.
Phenomenex Phree Phospholipid Removal Plates
24 May, 2012Phenomenex has introduced Phree Phospholipid Removal Plates for fast clean-up of plasma samples in pharmaceutical and clinical research laboratories.
Improving IVF by implanting euploid embryos
15 May, 2012BlueGnome is pleased to announce the results of the first randomised prospective IVF study of pre-implantation chromosome analysis using its 24sure array platform. The study, published in The Journal of Molecular Cytogenetics by Yang et al (Pacific Reproductive Center, Torrance, USA), has demonstrated that selectively implanting euploid embryos, with a normal number of chromosomes, significantly increases pregnancy rates.
3DHistech TMA Grand Master tissue microarray
08 May, 2012The TMA Grand Master, from 3DHistech, can be used as a high-throughput diagnostic technique, by being able to place up to several hundred different samples into one paraffin block. This brings savings in time and costs of tissue preparation, staining and slide preparation.
JG Finneran Associates 96-Well PTFE Sealing Film
04 May, 2012Busy researchers will welcome the 96-Well PTFE Sealing Film from JG Finneran Associates. The adhesive film features a design which seals samples in microplates during high-throughput bioanalytical studies without exposing samples to the film’s sealing adhesive.
Quality tissue cutting for Human Protein Atlas Project
22 March, 2012The Human Protein Atlas Project is using the Thermo Scientific HM355S automated microtome and Section Transfer System to create high-quality tissue sections during tissue microarray (TMA) production.
R & D Systems Proteome Profiler Antibody Arrays
07 February, 2012R & D Systems’ Proteome Profiler Antibody Arrays allow you to measure up to 119 proteins in a single sample.
BioTek Instruments ELx405 Select Deep Well Washer
08 August, 2011 byBioTek Instruments has launched the ELx405 Select Deep Well Washer, a robot-compatible, full plate washer for automated aspirate and dispense steps in 96- and 384-well plates up to 50 mm high. It can also accommodate standard 15 mm microplates and delivers increased washing efficiency compared to manual and handheld methods.
Millennium Science cAMP Alphascreen application note
25 May, 2011Adenosine 3′, 5′ cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) plays a critical role in the transmission of signals by functioning as a ‘second messenger’. Binding of hormones or ligands to their respective receptors can either inhibit or enhance the production of cAMP by changing the activity of the enzyme adenylate cyclase. Adenylate cyclase is a membrane-associated enzyme that catalyses the formation of cAMP from ATP. Intracellular cAMP levels, in turn, regulate enzymatic activity of numerous protein kinases, which phosphorylate specific targets setting off a cascade of cellular events. Because of the importance of cAMP as a cellular messenger, several different reading methodologies have been developed to measure cellular levels, one of which is AlphaScreen. Here we describe and demonstrate the ability of the Synergy 2 to quantitate cAMP using this methodology.
