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New on the market this week — a DNA sequencer that delivers typical read lengths of 800 bases per sample, software for HPLC users and a solvent recycling system designed to reduce costs.
Technical calculators, an automated colony picking robot, a new thermostable DNA polymerase, a cell culture system for smooth muscle cells and a software program for drawing family trees are included in this week's line-up.
New for 1993 — a scientific spell-checking program, a database of protection chemistry, a gene mapping kit for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a fluorescence polarization analyser and a portable hand-held microscope.