New Compact Refrigerators Designed for Secure and Sustainable Clinical Storage

The Thermo Scientific TSG Series of refrigerators maintain optimal cold storage conditions with minimal energy consumption and noise output CHICAGO, July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — AACC — A new series of compact refrigerators has been specifically developed to address the need of clinical laboratories and patient care facilities for cold storage equipment that enable secure and... Read more

Shimadzu has released the EU Regulation Compliant GC-MS/MS Method Package for Dioxins in Foods.

EU Regulation Compliant GC-MS/MS Method Package for Dioxins in Foods Supports the Analysis of Dioxins in Foods Using GC-MS/MS Until recently, the analysis of dioxins in foods was mainly performed using magnetic sector (double-focusing) GC-MS instruments. However, GC-MS/MS (TQ) instruments are low cost and easy to handle, and offer a significant improvement in quantitative accuracy.... Read more

New Consumables Improve Analytical Instrument Performance

Thermo Scientific ChromaCare flush solutions and Thermo Scientific UHPLC-MS solvents reduce background noise and prevent protein precipitation for high-quality chromatograms CHICAGO – AACC – (July 31, 2018) – Laboratories can minimize interference and maximize instrument uptime with a novel range of flush solutions for liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems and a new line of... Read more

New Phadia 200 Advances In-vitro Diagnostics in Europe for Allergy and Autoimmune Conditions

CHICAGO – AACC – (July 31, 2018) – A new benchtop instrument from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the Phadia 200, enables new levels of flexibility and automation for laboratory testing facilities to aid in the diagnosis of allergy and autoimmunity conditions. The Phadia 200 is CE-marked, and the first installations are underway at select European sites.... Read more

New Compounds Now Available for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Delafloxacin and Meropenem/Vaborbactam

FDA-cleared microbroth dilution plates provide true minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) results, facilitating more targeted patient therapy CHICAGO – AACC – (July 31, 2018) – The antimicrobial delafloxacin, and the combination of meropenem and vaborbactam are now available on FDA-cleared microbroth dilution susceptibility plates. Delafloxacin is available for testing select fastidious and non-fastidious Gram positive and... Read more

SnapGene Releases New Integration with LabArchives

Scientists can now use SnapGene software together with the LabArchives ELN.Chicago, IL and Carlsbad, CA – July 31, 2018 GSL Biotech has released a new integration to enable SnapGene software to connect seamlessly with LabArchives, the leading cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) platform. SnapGene specializes in the visualization and simulation of molecular biology procedures and LabArchives enables researchers to... Read more

Hitachi High-Technologies Launches the SU7000: A Transformative Schottky Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

(PDF format, 268kBytes) — High Throughput, Large Chamber, Enhanced Versatility — Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2018—Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced today that it will launch the SU7000, a Schottky field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) that incorporates a large specimen chamber, enhanced versatility, and high throughput with simultaneous acquisition as well as... Read more

QIAGEN and Hamilton launch new collaboration to improve pre-analytical sample processing for QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus

Germantown, Maryland, Hilden, Germany, and Reno, Nevada, July 30, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and Hamilton Robotics, a privately held leader in automation and liquid handling technology, today announced a new collaboration to improve processing of QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) diagnostic test through the integration of Hamilton’s Microlab® STAR™... Read more

OMNIS Sample Robot – maximizing throughput on the titration bench

7/30/2018 Breaking the limits of all existing automation solutions: The OMNIS Sample Robot addresses the need of large QC laboratories in the manufacturing industries as well as contract laboratories for an efficient solution to cope with high sample loads at the lowest possible cost per sample. Entirely modular by design, the OMNIS Sample Robot benefits users with unique... Read more

Waters’ Empower software integrates Metrohm ion chromatography systems

7/30/2018 Waters™ leading chromatography data software (CDS), Empower™, increases versatility with the introduction of control for Metrohm ion chromatographs. Laboratories can now perform all their chromatographic applications (including ion chromatography) on one universal software platform. This provides the opportunity to increase efficiency, lower costs, and benefit from faster sample turnaround. The integration of the Metrohm IC... Read more