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This week's issue reviews new technology and laboratory items in the field of microbiology, including a new anaerobe identification system, new gel electrophoresis boxes and a clinical laboratory microscope.
Supporting a hypothesis requires reliable data and, of course, sound equipment to produce it — this issue features a system for trace analysis, a new NMR probe, instrument software and an electrospray mass spectrometer.
Solutions to the complexities of the life sciences are elusive, but what follows may offer a means of saving time as well as energy — several scalable purification systems, an instrument for absolute CD4 counts and more.
Improved liposome stability and drug retention significantly increase the anticancer activity of encapsulated doxorubicin (Doxil), enhancing the effectiveness of chemotherapy and potentially reducing its toxicity.
Capillary gel electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescent detection has been found to be a powerful separation and characterization tool for fluorescently labelled carbohydrates.
One-stop shopping for the genetics laboratory —Drosophila and mouse modelling systems, a new in situ hybridization sealing system, chromosome painting probes and a new family of cell markers for the study of tumour biology.
This is where cyber-buffs can do their digging for information, such as on-line access to chemical viewing software and biological review journals, as well as statistical and graphing software.
Manufacturers show their true colours with new separation products, such as an HPLC solvent recycler, new HIC columns, a capillary GC injector, a microflow-HPLC system and a selection of Chromatography data control systems.
For scaling-up bioprocess operations and ensuring quality control there are a number of new products described below including a chromatography control system, an on-line biochemical analyser and a non-invasive animal testing service.
The peptide platter serves up a variety of goodies including antimicrobial peptides, a deamidation detection kit, a molecular-sizing instrument and a new line of separation products for peptides, polypeptides and proteins.
Dipping the oars into some fresh waters, product review offers product information on astronomy and oceanography, as well as our standard complement, including electroporation cuvettes and a direct blotting electrophoresis system.
Ample product listings for improved DNA amplification tools — including an automated PCR system, primer pair analysis software, an automated PCR-DNA fragment analysis system and various comsumable amplification products.
New research tools for the cell biologist include a fermenter, serum-free medium for insect cell lines, inverted research microscopes, and intracellular ion measurement and digital video microscopy systems.
lonophores, used in non-invasive vibrating electrodes, can directly monitor steady-state ion flux from single cells, even when the source is non-electrogenic.
A sequence-analysis system, software packages, DNA purification supplies, Internet information and a custom oligonucleotide synthesis service are some of the items covered in this product review feature.
This supplement for neuroscience technology describes postmitotic human neurons, a new microscope for three-dimensional illumination, neurophysiology simulation software, antibodies for neurobiological research and a CCD camera.
