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A fusion protein combining the best of β-galactosidase with Protein G, a host of human cytokines and lymphokines, and a thermally regulated microplate reader are among this week's offerings for the immunologist.
Faster, more straightforward methods are needed for testing the new high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors. A non-contact eddy-current characterization instrument particularly suitable for screening large numbers of samples will soon be on the market.
A top-loading microbalance, a micro-respirometer, a gaussmeter, and a range of pre-calibrated electrodes are a few of the latest measuring devices for the laboratory.
The linear amplification of chemically sequenced DNA with DNA polymerase from Thermus aquatlcus permits the direct detection of DNA methylation and protein–DNA interaction sites in vivo.
The best of what biology has to offer will be on display at next week's FASEB meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana—from a sponge for destaining electrophoresis gels to transgenic mice for cancer research.
Interfacing countercurrent chromatography with thermospray mass spectrometry provides a new analytical tool for detecting nonvolatile, hydrophilic or thermally unstable bioactive natural products.
The Pittsburgh Conference will live up to its reputation as one of the largest scientific exhibitions when the doors open in Atlanta, Georgia next week on new products from over 800 companies.
A service is now available for analysing 2-dimensional gels and comparing them to existing databases, broadening the number of laboratories which can study protein expression using the technique.
Programs for analysing chaos, keeping track of species density, word-processing mathematical expressions and teaching protein purification techniques are among this week's offerings.
Several of the products to be displayed by the roughly 50 exhibitors at next week's American Biophysical Society meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, are highlighted below.
The development ofphotolabile caged neurotransmitters has made possible the study of the split-second kinetics of receptor–ligand interactions. An instrument has now been developed for activating the neurotransmitter and measuring the neuron's response.
Neurobiology and neurochemistry will be the talk of the town in Miami next week during the Miami Bio/Technology Winter Symposium. Besides an array of patch-clamps and recorders, the exhibits will feature products for studying peptides, and the nucleotides which code for them.
New developments in the first dimension step of two-dimensional electrophoresis have expanded the utility of the technique in cell and molecular biology.
A lipid named DOTMA has been created that forms unilamellar liposomes which complex with DNA and RNA for the transfection of mammalian cells, including suspension cells and hybridomas.
Products for examining the intricacies of cell function will be on hand next week when the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology hold their joint meeting in San Francisco, California. Below are several examples.
