New on the Market in 1997

This week's section focuses on cell biology tools — items viewed include imaging and microscopy systems, an intracellular injector, media and media additives, oligosaccharide selections and systems for plant cell biology.

With some 25,000 participants descending on New Orleans, attendees of the Society for Neuroscience meeting must be wondering how to cover such an event. Here are some ideas on new products that may be on exposition. compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.

Offering up a variety of devices and reagents for biomedical sciences, this edition includes a single-cell superfusion system, a bioluminescence assay for monitoring cell-cell interactions, and a cell sizer and counter. compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.c b B H f i p b t

This compilation covers a variety of chemistry packages for process monitoring, molecular visualization and kinetic simulation, as well as mapping and data processing software for geological and environment study.

This round-up of molecular tools includes a thermal printer module, a PCR-product amplification detection system, plasmid purification kits, and a system for in situ hybridization, RT-PCR, PRINS and immunohistochemistry.

Items on view at the meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Francisco may include a versatile hybridization oven, affinity purification reagents and a dual-laser-induced fluorescence detector.

Hardware and software make up this survey — items include software for genomics work, DNA and protein sequence analysis, protein viewing, and a number of products for drug discovery and drug screening applications.

This serving of laser equipment will have to sustain readers until next year, offering a variety of lasers, software for laser measurement, a compact optical isolator for diode lasers, as well as mirror, filter and optics accessories.

With the objective of reviewing recent releases in the field of microscopy, this feature looks at a variety of optical and confocal microscopes, instruments for SPM, SEM, AMF and TEM, as well as accessories and software.

This is a mixed bag of new products that includes bibliographic and reference software, chromatography media and columns, a diode array detector, a microplate luminometer and sample heating and cooling units.

Whether you are combing the shelves or digging in the back of the freezer, that missing reagent might just be here, such as cell-cycle antibodies, peptide controls, CO and haem oxygenases and those elusive FISH probes.

Ways of deciphering and analysing genetic code are the focus in this issue — including clone-design software, a personal server for database searching, a system for site-directed mutagenesis and microsatellite analysis gels.

A microcystin ELISA, two blood culture systems, a confocal instrumentation reference, an automated agar sterilization and plate pouring system, and anaerobic workstations are among the products covered in this feature.

Converging on Frankfurt, Germany, scientists at Achema may find an assortment of analytical and data handling tools, such as a second-generation excitation source, a Java toolkit for data handling and data acquisition software.

Coverage for this feature includes instrumentation that should prove useful in a variety of fields, including ecology, materials microanalysis, biomolecular interactions and chemistry.