19 New Coverslips for Microscopy Imaging
Warner Instruments is pleased to introduce its new line of German borosilicate glass coverslips in #1.0 and #1.5 thickness.
Warner Instruments has expanded its line of coverslips to include the #1.5 thickness in round, rectangular, and square sizes. The new 3mm round coverslip in #1 thickness is widely used for the cranial window technique.
High quality coverslips are essential for microscopy imaging at high resolutions (40X, 60X or 100X), and choosing the correct coverslip is critical for good performance.
MICROSCOPY Circle no. 569
Flow Chemistry Systems Green, Fast and Clean
Accendo Corporation's automated chemical flow reaction systems utilise a segmented flow technology that enables automated reaction preparation, synthesis and online analysis. Drug discovery and process research scientists have adopted Accendo's technology to expand their chemistry capabilities and dramatically increase laboratory productivity. These systems have enabled the pursuit of faster, greener and cleaner reactions. The Accendo systems accelerate users chemistry and even reactions under extreme conditions like highly aggressive reagents, forbidden chemistry or extremely exothermic reactions can be performed. The selectable reactor conditions are -20°C – 300°C and up to 150 bar and these conditions allow the use of greener solvents such as methanol, ethanol or propanol. The systems automate reaction preparation and injections, and scale up from milligrams to hundreds of grams with integrated automated online LC/MS analysis.
LAB PRODUCTS Circle no. 570
Sizzling GCMS system savings
This summer Shimadzu UK is offering up to 25% savings on a complete GCMS system that is ready to produce high quality analytical results for a diverse range of laboratory applications, which cover R&D, academia, hospitals and general chemical manufacturing.
Shimadzu UK’s ‘Summer GCMS Package Deal’ features the Shimadzu QP2010SE GCMS plus a capillary column supported with a NIST library for a special price tag of only £30,000. Another ‘Summer Deal’ sees Shimadzu’s QP2010 Ultra EI GCMS being offered for as little as £40,000 even though the system is fully equipped with a capillary column and benefits from NIST library support.
Both the QP2010SE and QP2010 Ultra EI are rugged GCMS systems offering reliable performance and featuring a dual filament with auto changeover, which ensures minimal data is lost during sample sequencing. Extremely versatile, robust and easy to maintain, both systems enable front opening access to the source area.
Simplifying maintenance still further, the systems are designed to ensure that the quadrupole analyser is not disturbed during source cleaning. The high performance QP2010 Ultra EI, which is capable of rapidly pumping down to enable qualitative analysis within 10 to 15 minutes, also achieves industry leading fast scan rate of 20,000 amu/sec and offers the highest signal to noise performance of >500:1 for 1pg OFN.
The performance of both the QP2010SE and QP2010 Ultra EI systems can be easily enhanced with the addition of a direct sample inlet probe accessory that can heat up to 500°C and offers total software control. Some examples of the diverse range of analytical applications that can be achieved with the QP2010SE and QP2010 Ultra EI systems include analysing semi volatiles in drinking water, identifying PBDEs in plastics and creating fatty acid profiles in neo-natal screening for inborn errors of metabolism. To qualify for the ‘Summer GCMS Package Deal’ organisations need to place an order with Shimadzu UK for the Shimadzu QP2010SE system or Shimadzu’s QP2010 Ultra EI system before 30th September 2011.
SPECTROSCOPY Circle no. 572
Circle no. 571
New Test for Faster Screening of CRE, Including NDM-1
Thermo Fisher Scientific recently launched Oxoid Brilliance™ CRE Agar, a medium for faster and easier detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). It is recognised that the only way to stop the spread of infections by resistant bacteria, such as CRE, is to rapidly identify and isolate any hospital patients who are infected with the resistant strain. Laboratories can use Brilliance CRE Agar to screen patient samples for CRE and provide clinicians with results in just 18-24 hours. This faster time to result accelerates the start of infection control measures, including accurate antibiotic prescription, for better patient outcomes.
Brilliance CRE Agar is easier to use and read than the Hodge test traditionally used to detect resistance to carbapenems. Brilliance CRE Agar contains a modified carbapenem, at levels recommended by both the CLSI and EUCAST, ensuring reliable detection of numerous CRE strains, including those with the NDM-1 mechanism of resistance. Chromogenic compounds in the medium differentiate between resistant E. coli (pink colonies) and Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Serratia or Citrobacter (KESC) organisms (blue colonies). The colonies of other resistant organisms appear white and are easy to spot against the novel pigmented agar.
LAB PRODUCTS Circle no. 573
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