Plate in Biological Technology

FDA Clears Caspofungin (Cancidas(R)) Susceptibility Testing for TREK Sensititre(R) YeastOne(R) in Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Product Line

... formats, allowing clinicians to create the plate that best meets their requirements. The custom ... drug choices. A wide array of cost-effective plate formats that deliver timely and reliable results ... for accuracy. TREK's standard IVD YeastOne plate (Part No. YO-2V) is the only IVD-labeled ...

ForteBio Launches Two Revolutionary High-Throughput, Label-Free Instruments: The Octet(R) RED384 and the Octet QK384

... screening and characterization on a 384-well plate in about two hours. These analyses have ... The new systems support two 384- or 96-well plate positions and enable a full complement of samples to be run in one plate, while the second plate holds buffers, diluents and controls. The system ...

Accuri Cytometers Adds Automation to Its Revolutionary C6 Flow Cytometer(R) System With Commercial Launch of CSampler(TM)

... of laboratories requiring automated multi-well plate analyses, furthering our goal of bringing the ... Users can run multiple experiments in a single plate and apply settings to specific wells or the ... to be dealt with immediately, then replace the plate and resume the original run where it left off. ...

NanoLogix Begins Construction of Production Facility for Medical Test Kits

... -- 100 to 600% faster than conventional Petri plate testing. They will have broad applications in ... up to four times faster than current Petri plate methods. Using the BNP(TM) they were able to ... of the annual multi-billion dollar Petri plate market in both the United States and ...

Peakdale Molecular Launches AssayReady4U(TM) in Collaboration With ChemPrintCo LLC

... hydro-acoustic technologies. Each AssayReady4U plate is sealed in an argon environment and ... don't want to build assets to store, handle and plate compounds, but just want to receive ... select compounds, assay test concentration, plate ...

Pioneer(R) Surgical Technology, Inc. Announces the Market Launch of the SlimFuse(TM) Anterior Cervical Plate System

... of the SlimFuse(TM) Anterior Cervical plate System. This innovative system was designed to ... screw per level. "Pioneer's unique low profile plate design reduces the amount of retraction required for plate implantation," according to Dr. Randy Davis with ...

Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips

... the second obstacle, Chou's team placed a plate on top of the melting structures to guide the flow of liquid. The plate prevents a molten structure from widening, and ... from this work is observed when the guiding plate is placed not in direct contact with the molten ...

Small Bone Innovations Introduces New Distal Radius Plating System to Repair Complex Fractures

... its PRECISE SD(TM) Volar Distal Radius Locking plate system to augment its Wrist Management portfolio. The PRECISE SD plate geometry is based on computer analysis of CT ... History. The result is an anatomic locking plate that provides optimized fit and improved ...

Globus Medical's INDEPENDENCE(TM) Spacer System: The MILDER(TM) ALIF Solution

... Interbody Fusion (ALIF). INDEPENDENCE(TM) integrates a stabilization plate and a PEEK interbody spacer into a preassembled, easy-to-use system that ... through a smaller incision. The elimination of a traditional plate preserves the natural anatomic profile of a patient's lumbar spine. ...

Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures

... of the PDMS membrane is induced by solvent swelling, the diamond plate pattern in PDMS is stable in the wet state and snaps back to the original square lattice once the solvent evaporates. To capture the diamond plate before evaporation and, more important, to utilize this deformation for ...

Biotage Launches New 24 Well Pyrosequencing(R) System

... throughput needs, optimizes the management of fewer samples. The 24 well plate format and the ability to run and analyze both mutation and methylation assays on the same plate provides an ideal solution for managing low sample numbers or mixed ...

CTDC Holds a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to Showcase First SnO2 Production Line

... and ultimately deliver greater shareholder value." About SnO2 base plate technology: SnO2 solar base plate is a type of transparent conductive oxide (TCO) substrate of amorphous ...

Amedica Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Valeo(TM) Cervical Plate

... to Amedica's Valeo(TM) Cervical Plate system. The Valeo(TM) Cervical plate system combines features aimed at making cervical fixation procedures efficient, simple and consistent. The Valeo(TM) Cervical plate system is intended for anterior screw fixation at the C2 through C7 ...

METTLER TOLEDO Introduces an Affordable Reaction Block for Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis (SPPS)

... ion exchange resin. After agitation, the reaction mixtures were free of salt by-products and pure dipeptides were released into a deep well plate and evaporated. Eliminate bottlenecks and improve peptide synthesis and purification with METTLER TOLEDO MiniBlock® peptide synthesis sets ...

CellGard ES NU-480 Class II Biological Safety Cabinet Now Available

... The CellGard ES also accommodates BSC certifiers. An optional exclusive decontamination kit (DECON-101) provides window clamps, and an exhaust plate or decontamination chamber. The kit installs in just minutes! NuAire backs the CellGard ES BSC with world-wide customer service, extensive ...

New Weapon in BioDefense Research: NanoLogix Kit Speeds Rapid Diagnostics of Anthrax and Bubonic Plague

... BNP(TM) technology allowed viewing of cultures of bubonic plague, known historically as the "Black Death", twice as fast as traditional Petri plate methods. The study, by an independent lab under strict protocols, confirms the value of NanoLogix's breakthrough technology when time is a ...

New Gas Clean Filter Technology From Varian, Inc. Reduces Contamination in GC, ICP and GC/MS

... detector in Total Organic Carbon analyzers, helping chemists get better results from their instruments. Also new is the universal high-flow base plate that handles flow rates up to 20 L/min, compatible with all Varian filters. The range of applications is expanded and includes the use with ...

Jubilant Biosys Launches Legend NGSS(TM) Advanced Software Solution for High-Throughput Drug Molecule Screening

... including dose-response curves and scatter plot heat maps. The novel tool allows flexible and interactive mother to daughter plate mapping from any plate reader. This generates best-fit kinetic and time course assays, without internal IT intervention, complete management of compound and targeted ...

Researchers measure elusive repulsive force from quantum fluctuations

... coated microsphere attached to a mechanical cantilever in a liquid (bromobenzene) and measured its deflection as the distance from a nearby silica plate was varied. "Repulsive Casimir forces are of great interest since they can be used in new ultra-sensitive force and torque sensors to levitate an ...

FDA Approves Additional Indication for Norditropin(R) for Small for Gestational Age (SGA) in Children

... cases children treated with somatropin have experienced pain in the hip or knee or a limp. These symptoms may be caused by a slippage of the growth plate in the hip (slipped capital femoral epiphysis). Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) can occur in children who experience rapid growth. Because ...

Protein-printing technique gives snapshots of immune system defense

... with microarraysglass microscope slides coated with capture antibodies. The secreted proteins stuck to the glass, seeding it like a printer's plate being imbued with ink. Next, the scientists stamped out multiple copies of these microarrays. Studying these, the scientists can examine the ...

Use it or lose it? Researchers investigate the dispensability of our DNA

... similar deletion events that have happened naturally, and more importantly, were retained in the wild." "An analogy I like to entertain is that of plate tectonics: a fraction of the phenomena may be strong enough to be directly measured by our instruments, but to appreciate its full magnitude we must ...

Biotechnology & Drug Discovery Markets Push Up Demand for Lab Automation Products, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts

... well as space management. Miniaturization is the focus of development for several instrument manufacturers, owing to the rising use of denser micro plate formats. The industry has also embraced high level of standardization with implementation of information systems-driven automation technology, a ...

It takes nerves for flies to keep a level head

... The new research shows that the way in which two populations of nerve cells, or neurons, communicate with each other is the key. The lobula plate tangential cells receive input from the eyes. This generates small electrical signals that inform the fly about how it is turning and moving during ...

Norgen Biotek Corp. Launches Four New Kits for the Purification of RNA and DNA from Plants and Fungi

... to customer demands and emerging needs Norgen developed this new line of kits which are all available in spin-column formats as well as in 96-well plate formats for high throughput applications. The new kits include: 1- The Plant/Fungi RNA Purification Kit: 2- The Plant/Fungi DNA Isolation ...

Physicists tweak quantum force, reducing barrier to tiny devices

... by only 30 to 40 percent. Chan said the experiment shows that it is not possible to simply add the force on the constituent solid parts of the plate in this case, the tines to arrive at the total force. Rather, he said, "the force actually depends on the geometry of the object." "Until now, ...

Sigma-Aldrich Announces Collaboration With Metahelix Life Sciences

... screening. Sigma-Aldrich's SpyLine(TM) plant mRNA capture kits allow for the isolation of mRNA and performance of RT-PCR in a single 96-well PCR plate incorporating Oligo (dT) primers, eliminating transfer steps and increasing throughput. Unique to the market, the Company's Spectrum(TM) Plant Total ...

Cell Biosciences Strengthens Management Team

... firmware, and systems engineers. Mr. Gavin has a strong record of creating highly-successful laboratory systems, including industry-leading optical plate readers and high throughput screening platforms. Also announced was the appointment of Wilhelm Lachnit, Ph.D. as Vice President, Research and ...

FreshFx(R) in Scalder Reduces Pathogens in Evisceration

... water rinse, and noted pathogen reduction for the samples across the scalder and NYR cabinet. "When FreshFx was added to the scald water, aerobic plate counts were reduced an additional two logs post-NYR, and an additional one log of kill for coliforms," added Dankert. "So, the enhanced reduction of ...

Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

... another. They are composed of a semiconductor channel sandwiched between two metal electrodes. In the presence of an electric field, a charged metal plate can draw positive and negative charges in and out of the semiconductor. This allows the electric current to either pass through or be blocked, which ...

TIBCO Spotfire Puts the Spotlight on Screening at InfoTech for Pharma and Biotech

... said Marcazzo. "With the curve-fitting and curve-drawing capabilities, we've developed what I believe will be game changing for analysis of plate based screening data; in particular when looking at dose response screens." The TIBCO Spotfire(R) enterprise analytics platform allows users ...

Cellix Ltd. Launches VenaEC Biochip for Flow-based Cell-adhesion Assays

... a competitive edge on how their lead candidates will perform in clinical trials." About the VenaEC Biochip Each VenaEC Biochip comprises one top plate and four substrates easily assembled in a custom-made frame for inverted microscopes. The top plate contains two microcapillaries which each tissue ...

Olympus FluoroPoint(TM) System Provides High-Sensitivity Single Molecule and Protein Interaction Analysis for Screening and Research

... for sample volumes as small as 30 microliters, thus allowing the conservation of precious samples. Compatible with 384-well plates and using a plate reader format, FluoroPoint is easily adopted by pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery activities, and provides complementary technology to ...

CTDC Attends the Inauguration Ceremony of Thin Film A-Si Manufacturing Line in Changzhou, China

... from the Company and China Steam Solar discussed and exchanged the details of the specific technical parameters in preparation of the SnO2 base plate production and delivery. "We are very delighted to see the significant progress from our potential customer and are truly confident that we will be ...

Arpida Announces Full Year 2007 Financial Results

... therapy - avoids systemic exposure, bypassing potential side effects - innovative laser pre-treatment - much better permeation through the nail plate than the traditional lacquers - novel formulation exploiting a widely used antifungal active substance European regulatory authorities have ...

Codexis Launches Codex(TM) MicroCyp Platform to Produce Drug Metabolites and Novel Lead Compounds

... be used by pharmaceutical companies to more rapidly identify and synthesize drug metabolites and novel drug lead candidates. The Codex(TM) MicroCyp plate is being introduced this week at Informex 2008 ( http://www.informex.com ) in New Orleans. It is based on a platform technology for preparing and ...

Biomatrica's RNAstable(TM) Stabilizes RNA at Room Temperature

... reproduced." Scientists can now store their RNA samples with minimal effort on the bench top in a 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tube or 96-well plate containing RNAstable, greatly reducing reliance on costly freezer units. Biomatrica estimates that storing samples with RNAstable costs 15 times less ...

RSB Spine, LLC Announces First Implantation of the InterPlate(TM) L for the Lumbar Spine

... In 2004, RSB Spine sold its surgical instrument line to Jarit, an Integra LifeSciences Holding Corp. company and, in 2005, sold its cervical plate system to NuVasive, Inc. ...

Caliper Life Sciences Introduces Zephyr SPE Workstation to Improve Efficiency of Solid Phase Extraction

... availability of the Zephyr SPE Workstation, a benchtop solution designed to automate Solid Phase Extraction (SPE). With features including a 96-well plate format and easy-to-use, SPE-specific software interface, the Zephyr SPE Workstation is designed to increase efficiency and streamline the sample ...

Amedica Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Valeo(TM) Pedicle Screw System

... for Amedica," said Ashok Khandkar, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Amedica Corporation. "Our pedicle screw system and recently cleared cervical plate will complement our line of innovative, silicon nitride ceramic spinal spacers, providing surgeons and patients with an important new option for ...