64 Latest Colour Touchscreen Controllers for New Autoclave Range Introduced
Following more than 12 years of success with colour touchscreen controllers, Astell Scientific, the UK’s leading manufacturer of autoclaves, steam generators and effluent decontamination systems is introducing its latest version controller as standard fitment to all models in the range.
Incorporating new innovations in control system technology, the Astell controller consists of a wipe clean touchscreen measuring 5.7 inches which is based on an industrial PLC system, combined with a number of analogue and digital input/output modules. The controller software has been developed by Astell for the precision control of all its autoclaves and sterilisers and contains features designed to improve both the speed and management of load cycles. Features include an icon driven menu system, simple cycle selection, multiple language options, customisable access levels and password protection, and a delayed start facility.
The Astell controller offers laboratories benefits in both safety and efficiency by allowing sterilisation cycles to be monitored as they take place, providing live progress updates, and clear warning messages as required. Additionally users have the flexibility to create and modify their own cycle parameters for optimum suitability. Historic data covering up to 5000 cycles can be stored and viewed, or downloaded via the integrated USB port – another value add feature included with the Astell controller as standard.
Astell Sales & Marketing Director Dave Thomas commented: “The launch of our latest colour touchscreen controller maintains our lead in sterilisation control technology. Bringing together years of unrivalled experience we have produced one of the best user friendly, fully automatic control systems that meets and exceeds the expectations of the most demanding laboratories and centres of sterilisation.”
The Astell touchscreen controller is fitted to all products in the new-look autoclave range, now available to order. For more information or to receive a product quote please contact your distributor or the Astell Scientific sales team.
41061pr@reply-direct.com New Software For Precise Imaging of Stain-Free Protein Gels Now Available to Download
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce its GeneSys software has been upgraded to include an icon of pre-set optimised ‘stain-free’ protein gel imaging conditions. This simple to use software, available to download free of charge to existing users of specified Syngene imaging systems, will save set-up time and ensure accurate stain-free protein gel images every time.
For use in Syngene’s G:BOX Chemi and PXi imaging systems, the new GeneSys software now includes a “stain-free” imaging icon. The icon has been set up using optimum filter and lighting conditions that Syngene’s technical specialists have determined can accurately detect nanogram levels of protein on a Stain-Free gel. Using this new software, TGX Stain-Free™ and Criterion™ TGX Stain-Free™ precast gels can be rapidly imaged, saving researchers the time and effort of looking up recommended detection conditions, as well as gel staining preparation time.
The new software version maintains its excellent user-friendly features including guiding scientists through protocol set-up using its database of imaging conditions for hundreds of commercially available dyes and stain-free options. This allows users of Syngene’s high specification imaging systems to visualise dyes such as Coomassie Blue, GelGreen™, SYBR® Gold, SYBR® Safe and SYPRO® Ruby. The software calibrates to each gel or blot’s size to generate high-quality images. For faster image capture, GeneSys also has a unique researcher ‘protocol save’ capability enabling one-click recall of frequently used settings.
Researchers wanting to find out how to download the new GeneSys image capture software, should click this link:
http://www.syngene.com/GeneSys.
“In these budget conscious times, researchers need software which is versatile enough to capture ‘stain-free’ gel images, as well as a range of different dyes on gels and blots,” stated Matthew Dunne, Senior Divisional Manager at Syngene. “Scientists using many of our Syngene imaging systems can now download our incredible new GeneSys image capture software to add fast, accurate stain-free protein detection to their system at no extra cost.”
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Pipette Tip Racks Ideal for Clean Working Practices
The Sysmex Inostics training centre in Barcelona, Spain, is discovering the benefits of Mettler Toledo’s Rainin pipettes and TerraRack™ pipette tip racks at first hand, as Dr Laia Freixa, training centre manager, explained: “Sysmex opened the Spanish training centre in June this year, so it is a very recent initiative. Current and potential clients from around the world come to the laboratory to learn about OncoBEAM® treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.”
RAS CRC test, a liquid biopsy technique that helps cancer specialists determine the most effective
“We use a range of laboratory equipment during training, as well as in our R&D department, including a variety of Rainin pipettes – single and multichannel, manual and electronic – ranging from two to 1,000 microlitres, as well as TerraRack pipette tip racks. We are routinely performing PCR so clean working processes are essential, and the use of sterile consumables, such as TerraRacks, is a key part of this. TerraRacks offer several advantages; they are good quality, light weight, easy to store, and can be recycled. Our Rainin pipettes are excellent too, combining robustness with accuracy. Customer service is equally important to us, and we receive good support from Mettler Toledo; our contact person is very responsive.”
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Rapid, Low Cost Liquid Cooling
A line of low temperature coolers that provide rapid, low cost cooling of liquids to temperatures as low as -100°C is available from PolyScience. Available in both immersion probe and flow through styles, these compact systems are ideal cooling exothermic reactions, freeze point determinations, freeze drying, impact testing, lyophilisation, and vapour and solvent trapping.
Excellent for trapping, Dewar-type applications, and the rapid cool down of small volumes of liquids, PolyScience Immersion Probe Style Coolers reduce the expense of using dry ice or liquid nitrogen and are capable of reaching temperatures as low as -100°C. A flexible hose allows convenient placement of the cooling probe. Seven different models as well as a variety of probe types are available.
Capable of reaching temperatures as low as -25°C, PolyScience Flow-Through Style Coolers are ideal for extending the temperature range of non- refrigerated circulators to below ambient as well as boosting the cooling capacity of refrigerated circulators. These coolers also offer an extremely economic alternative to tap water cooling of heated circulating baths when rapid cool-downs or operation at or near ambient is needed.
For more information, visit
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