Automation

Integra LED Light Provides Comfortable Error-Free Pipetting

The new Integra Pipetboy pro pipetting aid unites all essential characteristics for productive work with serological pipettes: accuracy, speed and comfort.

Flexible Automation of Plate-Based Workflows

The Agilent Direct Drive Robot has been designed for applications like drug target discovery or drug screening, where reducing cycle times means drugs travelling to market faster.

Automated Decapper

The ScrewCap DeCapper available from Micronic Europe BV is a compact, automated instrument for the opening and closing of screw-capped tubes (0.5 - 1.4ml).

Biotechnology

Brain tumour growth switch discovered

A recent study shows that a molecule called miR-451 coordinates the grow-or-go behaviour of tumour cells, and that the change is accompanied by slower cell proliferation and an increase in cell migration.

Vitamin D and calcium interplay explored

A recent study underscores the importance of vitamin D and its ability to help the body utilise calcium and may explain why increasing calcium alone isn't always successful in dealing with this problem.

Turning molecules into super protein killers

Using a novel light activation technique, scientists have been able to turn molecules with only a modest ability to fight specific proteins into virtual protein destroyers.

Chromatography

Cyclograph Deluxe Centrifuge Chromotography Device

The CycloGraph system is a centrifugally accelerated device for performing preparative thin layer radial separations.

CycloGraph Centrifugal Chromatography System

The CycloGraph system is a centrifugally accelerated device for performing preparative chromatographic separations. The device spins a layer of adsorbent material coated as a flat ring on a glass backing.

Multi-dimensional gas chromatograph

The key hardware component of the MDGC system is a capillary-optimized pressure switching device that directs flow from the first column directly to a monitor detector or to the second column and detector.

Spectrometry, imaging

How electricity moves through cells

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a molecular image of a system that moves electrons between proteins in cells.

Real-time view of cellular phenomena

Scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.

Brain differences after a fight with a partner

Research suggests that brain activity-specifically in the region called the lateral prefrontal cortex is a far better indicator of how someone will feel in the days following a fight with his or her partner.