New on the Market in 1999

The last New on the Market before Christmas… but no last-minute gift ideas.

Lasers for tissue processing, imaging, measurement, ablation and so on.

This software update includes releases of old favourites like SigmaPlot.

New ways of extracting, sequencing, measuring and binding with DNA.

Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, immunoassays, immunoetcetera.

ATP, DNA, SPC and other TLAs (three-letter acronyms) feature this week.

Antibodies feature strongly in a selection aimed at neuroscientists.

Clean PCR, automatic karyotyping, and other gene-linked matters.

Safety first, second and twelfth in the gleanings from recent new products.

Mini, not by Issigonis, a Mark 7, not by Jaguar, and Tube-Tickler star this week.

Meet Noggin, and get some wheels for your glassware.

Items with a biomedical slant include a melatonin assay using saliva.

Proteins and peptides link the following offerings. A cocktail of inhibitors aids protein isolation, and a specific inhibitor of proteasome activity makes the organelle more conducive to functional studies. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Detecting, warming, cooling, packing, monitoring, pressurizing and scaling-up are among the things that can be done to, with or from chromatography columns in this selection — and, the manufacturers will hope, buying.

Cell and tissue culture are the focus in this week's New on the Market, including serum-free media and see-through culture plates. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

A culling of molecular modelling and other chemistry programs from commercial and.edu sources. Packages vary from the educational to the ‘professional’, with some with a foot in both camps. Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

Warming to the theme of biotechnolgy, a new heatsealing device handles PCR plates, and DNA is separated, amplified, purified and sequenced. This 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 journal.

Infrared analysers are flavour of the month in the food and pharmaceuticals industries, and a recent patent seeks to replace the familiar test tube. All this and alcohol too. Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

New biochemicals, the latest catalogues and (where would reagents be without it?) laboratory quality water constitute this ‘biochemicals and reagents’ collection. These notes are compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers. For more details, fill in the reader service card.

Nature' s annual New on the Market section devoted to matters microscopic and to image analysis includes knives and microtomes, and ‘prescription’ eyepieces to allow wearers of spectacles to use optical microscopes in comfort. Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.