New on the Market in 1999

Two kits making it easier to see staining with mouse antibodies against a background of mouse tissue, and ELISA assays for insulin and FK506 in an immunologically inclined selection.

A selection of new products for the microbiology lab includes some 45's, not made of black vinyl and not by the Beatles, a manual approach to cryopreservation and ready-to-use media. Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Amplification, blood DNA, cloning kits, detectors and other aids to handling or preparing DNA make up this week's selection of recently introduced products. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Smaller (volumes for fluorescence spectroscopy), faster (mRNA assays) and bigger (inventories of antibodies) — more new and refurbished products for molecular and other biologists vie for your attention. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

This issue focuses on equipment and software — including freeware, so read on — for the rapidly expanding genomics and bioinformatics markets. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

A selection of new products for the lab with the emphasis — in an issue distributed at this year's FASEB gathering in Washington DC — on experimentation and the controlling the hazards it can bring.

This week's selection of lab equipment and services, recently introduced, repackaged or improved, includes Platinum that's blue and bulbous, and a product called RNase AWAY, no prizes for guessing what it does. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

This week's selection of recent introductions has been slanted towards genetics, genomics and genes in general. Beads that bind DNA, membranes that capture RNA and several gene-expression systems feature. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Apoptosis is a hot topic. A recent AltaVista search for ‘apoptosis’ yielded 78,924 hits — and Lara Croft rated only 55,251. In this trawl through recent new products in cell biology, apoptosis beats Lara again, this time by 30 to 1.5. Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

New offerings from 15 manufacturers claim to make combinatorial chemistry easier, quicker, cleaner, cheaper — or perhaps unnecessary. Theese notes are compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers. For more details, fill in the reader service card bound inside the joural

Software is the peg for this week's selection of recent introductions. Packages for application development, and updates to software packaged with lab instruments are included. And turn to nature.com for a new web-only Software Review. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Made-to-order proteins, a system to seek out RNA-protein interactions, new kit for enzyme kinetics and PCR-grade proteinase-K are among this selection of recent products. Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Under the heading ‘Biotechnology’, twenty-four items that just might be what you are looking for to make life that little bit easier. Web links — hyperlinked on nature.com — are given where available. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Recent additions to the market for lab automation equipment include barcode-based processors and further refinements of LIMS — lab information systems.

A selection of new products aimed at the DNA amplification market features PCR kits, and the paraphernalia needed to make use of them. compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers. c b B H f i p b t m

The year's first crop of new products is eclectic as ever, including a clutch of HPLC columns, a trio of high-speed cameras and a pair of gloves. compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers. c b B H f i p b t