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Feature Video

Eppendorf video features Dr Andrew Holt's work on bioactive leachates from plastic consumables

It is nearly impossible to imagine our daily life without synthetic materials. In molecular and biochemical laboratories, consumables made from plastic are used in practically every application.

In 2008 a report in Science by Dr. Andrew Holt and his group from the University of Alberta, Canada, described that chemicals used as manufacturing additives can substantially inhibit enzymatic assays and binding studies by leaching into the sample.

We visited Dr. Holts lab with a film team to ask him how assays can be affected and how he ensures unaffected and reproducible results. Watch the video "Bioactive leachates from Laboratory consumables" now!

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In the news

Microwave Vials from Worldwide Glass Resources (in: New Laboratory Products) Feb 22, 2012: Worldwide Glass Resources' Microwave Vials are engineered and manufactured from heavy wall Type I, Class A (1rst hydrolytic) borosilicate glass to allow for uniform heating while withstanding pressures up to 300 PSI (20 bars)...

opus® titration - Precision at the push of a button. (in: New Laboratory Products) Feb 22, 2012: Titration processes which are saved once can be repeatedly reactivated at the push of a button. This provides relief during routine laboratory tasks and increases the reliability of results...

NEW product brochure available for ACE^® Excel^TM Ultra Robust UHPLC Columns - with high efficiency 2µm particles and unique phases for rapid method development (in: New Literature) Feb 22, 2012: A new product brochure for ACE Excel UHPLC Columns is now available from Advanced Chromatography Technologies Limited. ACE Excel Ultra Robust UHPLC columns offer you all the benefits that chromatographers have come to expect from ACE columns (exceptional reproducibility and robustness, combined with excellent quality and efficiency) but have been especially engineered to withstand the demanding conditions of UHPLC...

Market-leading contamination control products and clinical diagnostic kits from Cambio (in: New Laboratory Products) Feb 22, 2012: Cambio is the exclusive UK distributor of Minerva Biolabs products for detecting, eliminating and preventing cell culture contamination and identifying Legionella in water samples. A range of clinical diagnostic kits focusing on detection of pathogenic bacteria (including MRSA, chlamydia, bordetella, and some responsible for causing pneumonia) is also available...

Sir James Black honoured in naming of BioCity Scotland building (in: Laboratory News) Feb 21, 2012: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal will perform the official naming ceremony of the Sir James Black building at BioCity Scotland on Monday 20^th February 2012. Her visit will coincide with a gathering of Scotland's leading life science practitioners, and the planting of a Jubilee Oak by the Provost of North Lanarkshire to commemorate the visit of Her Royal Highness to BioCity Scotland and the Queen's 60^th Jubilee...

Malvern Instruments and Postnova Analytics co-operate to deliver combined solution for characterizing challenging particulate systems (in: Laboratory News) Feb 21, 2012: Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) and Postnova Analytics (Landsberg/Lech, Germany) have announced that they are co-operating to deliver the combined FFF (Field-Flow Fractionation) and DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) solutions that today provide critical insight when characterizing a number of challenging particulate systems. Such systems include complex, aggregated, surface-coated and heterogeneous particles, as well as larger polymers, and aggregated, cross-linked, nano-particles and fibrillated proteins...

First Single Camera, Multi-Parametric Cardiac Imaging System Uses Photometrics® Evolve™ EMCCD Camera (in: Laboratory News) Feb 21, 2012: Photometrics’ high-performance Evolve 128 EMCCD camera was used in the first single camera, multi-parameter cardiac imaging system. Oxford University and University of Michigan researchers employed the system to measure the electrophysiological function of adult human stem cell-derived heart tissue...

Growing Freeman Technology establishes new US subsidiary (in: Laboratory News) Feb 21, 2012: Building on a decade of successful business in North America, powder characterisation specialist Freeman Technology is pleased to announce that in January 2012 the company formally established a US subsidiary, Freeman Technology Inc. This new organisation will take on responsibility for sales, service and applications support for the ever growing number of FT4 Powder Rheometer users in the US, and will work with prospective customers across all industrial markets...

Thermo Scientific Mass Spectrometers Drive Proteomics Breakthroughs Reported in Nature and Nature Methods (in: Laboratory News) Feb 21, 2012: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that Thermo Scientific mass spectrometers continue to power breakthroughs in proteomics research as evidenced by recent publications in the prestigious journals Nature and Nature Methods. The unique capabilities of Thermo Scientific mass spectrometer systems played pivotal roles in 13 high-impact articles published in just over a month, from October 2 through November 6, 2011...

Pittcon 2012 Announces Exposition Highlights (in: Laboratory Exhibitions and Conferences) Feb 21, 2012: The Pittcon 2012 Exposition, which takes place March 12-15, at the Orange County Convention Center, will include 943 exhibitors (count as of February 15) that provide products, services, and support for all facets of laboratory operations in the industrial, academic, and government sectors. The exposition will display the latest technologies and instrumentation used by scientists in areas such as analytical chemistry; pharmaceutical science and drug discovery; life sciences to include forensics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics; food analysis and safety; environmental; and biotechnology- to name a few...