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Measurement Practices : NASA Curiosity Rover Update | Instrument Check-Out
Curiosity Rover Report
{Click to Watch Brief NASA Video}NASA -- Bobak Ferdowski, flight director with the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity and with a Curiosity Rover update, says, "This week, we did a color panorama surrounding the rover with both the Mastcam, in addition to the Navcams, and we also upgraded the software on board on both computers of the rover this week.
"This new software is like having new applications with new functionalities on the rover to allow us to do mobility, deploy the arm and get to the science we’re looking forward to on the mission."
Read full article: 'NASA Curiosity Rover Update | Instrument Check-Out'
Posted by NASA_PR on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 (1257 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Manifold Optimises Fume Cupboard Water Use
Isleham, UK -- The new Asynt water manifold converts the flow from a single tap into 3 streams enabling optimal use of your fume cupboard water supply. The water manifold is equally effective linked to Liebig or Vigreux condensers as it is to a recirculating chiller and avoids "daisy chaining" multiple condensers.
After passing through condensers / chillers the water manifold recombines the out flow into a single drainage stream. The water manifold is designed to be clamped to standard fume cupboard scaffolding and will keep your condenser tubing safe, secure and tidy.
It can be rotated through 90 degrees to allow vertical or horizontal alignment.
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Posted by wbprimetek on Friday, August 17, 2012 (646084 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Serum-free formulation for culturing stem cells
Abingdon, UK -- PluriQ™ Serum Replacement from AMSBIO is an optimized serum-free supplement formulated as a direct replacement for FBS (fetal bovine serum) for culturing healthy, undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). PluriQ™ SR has been shown to maintain healthy cell morphology and normal karyotype in hESCs for at least 20 passages in culture.
Every lot of PluriQ™ reagents is tested for quality, purity and the effective maintenance of pluripotent stem cells over multiple passages to ensure health, morphology and undifferentiation.
Read full article: 'Serum-free formulation for culturing stem cells'
Posted by wbprimetek on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 (1905 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Integrated Solutions for Biobank Sample Storage
Lelystad, The Netherlands & Aston PA, USA -- Drawing upon over 25 years experience of helping labs safeguard their samples, Micronic Europe has built a global reputation for implementing integrated sample storage solutions for Biobanking and Biorepository organisations. As a specialist supplier of top quality sample storage tubes, racks, tube cappers, rack barcode readers and data management software, Micronic is a one-stop supply partner for Biobanks and Biorepositories looking to securely and traceably store up to tens of thousands of samples per month.
Micronic sample storage tubes are manufactured from medical grade polypropylene in a fully automated Class 7 cleanroom environment ensuring they exhibit absolute product consistency, near zero contaminants and compliance with US and European Pharmacopoeia tests.
A unique 2D code on the bottom of each tube provides an easy and unambiguous means of storing and identifying samples. The optimised internal shape of each Micronic sample storage tube ensures the lowest possible dead volume and maximum sample recovery.
Read full article: 'Integrated Solutions for Biobank Sample Storage'
Posted by wbprimetek on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 (1891 Reads)
R & D : Prices are Down, Value is Up: The Newly Expanded ACerS-NIST Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 31 (version 3.4) "ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams Database"(formerly known as Phase Diagrams for Ceramists)
{Typical phase equilibria diagram developed at NIST, this one for a combination of titanium dioxide and barium oxide. Discovery of ceramics processed in the narrow region indicated by the cross-hatched section in yellow was essential for operation of the first cell phones. Credit: NIST - Click to View hi-resolution image}Gaithersburg MD, USA -- One of the most influential collections of materials data at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now not only bigger than ever but also—thanks to a 68% price drop—more affordable than ever.
Under a new agreement with its partner, the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), NIST is now offering single-user licenses to the ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams database for $950, down from $2,995.
Many of the high-tech materials that make modern technology possible are inorganic compounds—carefully formulated and processed combinations of two or more starting materials. Both the formulation and the processing conditions—temperature especially—are critical to the difference between an ordinary ceramic and one that is, say, a high-temperature superconductor.
Phase equilibria diagrams tell you which is which.
Read full article: 'Prices are Down, Value is Up: The Newly Expanded ACerS-NIST Database'
Posted by NIST PR on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 (1819 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Leap second added at the end of 30 June 2012
Frankfurt am Main, Germany -- The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) has announced that a leap second was to be added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on 30 June 2012 at 23 h 59 m 59 s UTC.
This was the 26th occasion since 1972 that a leap second adjustment has been made. The previous leap second was introduced on 31 December 2008.
The application of the leap second was made at the same time (UTC hour) on all clocks maintaining local representations of UTC in the world.
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is responsible for monitoring the Earth's rotation and announces the dates of application of any leap seconds required, usually timed for the end of 30 June or 31 December.
Read full article: 'Leap second added at the end of 30 June 2012'
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 01, 2012 (1992 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Rapid Automated Scanning of Rack Barcodes
Lelystad, THE NETHERLANDS -- Micronic Europe BV has announced the introduction of the new Tracxer BC210. The Tracxer BC210 is a linear barcode reader which allows users to scan 1D barcodes on racks. Operating as an accessory for the Micronic RS210 Tracxer Code Reader it is now possible to read both your rack barcode and storage tube codes within just 5 seconds.
Quick and easy to install on the Tracxer RS210 - the Tracxer BC210 linear barcode reader further minimizes the risk of incorrectly placed racks and increases sample and rack traceability.
The Tracxer RS210 provides a complete tube code reading solution for the laboratory whether one uses 2D Data Matrix, TraXis or competitive brand coded tubes to store samples.
Read full article: 'Rapid Automated Scanning of Rack Barcodes'
Posted by wbprimetek on Thursday, June 28, 2012 (2625 Reads)
R & D : Meet Dr. Daral J. Jackwood, Advocate of Open Access Science
DiagnosticSpeak.com founder urges collaboration amongst researchers
New York, NY, USA -- Research: one of the most important drivers of progress in the modern world. From scientific discoveries to medical breakthroughs and beyond, most advances in technology, science and medicine are the result of years and years of hard work and painstaking attention to detail. Traditionally, most researchers are a competitive lot, driven to find answers to theoretic questions and to solve nature’s biggest mysteries.
Daral J. Jackwood, Ph.D., a Professor in the Food Animal Health Research Program at The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio, is convinced there are opportunities for significant improvement in the way research is conducted.
Dr. Jackwood is a strong advocate of moving research from competition to collaboration, an approach that he believes could find answers and solve mysteries more effectively and, possibly, even more quickly.
Read full article: 'Meet Dr. Daral J. Jackwood, Advocate of Open Access Science'
Posted by Axiom Marketing on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 (1987 Reads)
R & D : Accelerated Development of Crystallisation Methods
Isleham, UK -- Asynt has supplied the Wilson Structural Chemistry Research Group at the University of Bath (Bath, UK) with a custom DrySyn heating block system. The adapted DrySyn system, designed by Asynt in conjunction with the University of Bath, is being used to help simplify and accelerate development of crystallisation methodology to selectively control polymorph formation, and to generate multi-component crystals with favourable target physical properties such as optical effects, solubility and porosity.
Control of the solid form of crystalline materials is desirable in many industrial sectors including the pharmaceutical and agrichemical industries where the production of different polymorphs, co-crystals or salts are known to affect significantly the physical properties of target active ingredients.
Read full article: 'Accelerated Development of Crystallisation Methods'
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 (2054 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Stable Cell Line Generation Using Lentivirus
Abingdon, UK -- AMSBIO has announced a fast service for custom generation of high quality, affordable over-expressing or knockdown stable cell lines. AMSBIO's custom generation of stable cell lines includes cloning the gene or shRNA of interest into a safe lentiviral vector, generating the lentivirus and transducing into the cell line of your choice. The service allows you to choose a constitutive or inducible promoter, a tag, an antibiotic selection marker and a fluorescent marker. The ease of providing your target templates or choosing one from AMSBIO's cDNA collection ensures rapid turnaround. With many years of experience the service can also provide mutagenesis and other special requests.
Read full article: 'Stable Cell Line Generation Using Lentivirus'
Posted by wbprimetek on Monday, June 11, 2012 (2701 Reads)
R & D : New Research Center to Focus on Mammalian Single Cell Genomics
The Broad Institute and Fluidigm Corporation have announced the launch of a new research center dedicated to accelerating the development of research methods and discoveries in mammalian single-cell genomics.The Single-Cell Genomics Center is also expected to act as a hub for collaboration among single-cell genomics researchers in many pioneering fields, including stem cells and cancer biology.
The Center will be housed at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will feature a complete suite of Fluidigm single-cell tools, protocols and technologies, most notably the BioMark™ HD System.
The Center grew out of ongoing collaborations between the Broad Institute and Fluidigm that bridge multiple genomic platforms.
"With the Single-Cell Genomics Center, we will enable researchers to access the exciting new world of single-cell genomics, catalyze discoveries and advance our understanding of this important area of biology," said Wendy Winckler, Ph.D., Director of the Genetic Analysis Platform at the Broad Institute.
Read full article: 'New Research Center to Focus on Mammalian Single Cell Genomics'
Posted by Wbprimetek on Sunday, June 03, 2012 (2014 Reads)
R & D : Science Award for Joint Laser Research Project under Participation of Jenoptik
(openPR) - The project team consisting of 16 members from different institutes and companies won the “Stifterverband science prize” for the development of a platform for ultra-short laser pulses. Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing division has been an important partner in this joint research project.Together with partners from economy and science, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT was awarded the “Stifterverband science prize” in Aachen on May 8, 2012. A new laser platform used to scale the power of ultra-short laser pulses received the prize during the Fraunhofer Annual Conference in Stuttgart.
The pump source JOLD-650-HSF-4L in the form of a horizontal line had been provided for that development by Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing division.
Read full article: 'Science Award for Joint Laser Research Project under Participation of Jenoptik'
Posted by openPR on Thursday, May 24, 2012 (2207 Reads)
R & D : Animal Health, Food Safety Fuel Collaboration On Open Access Science Forum
Daral J. Jackwood, PhD, The Center for Diagnostic Assays Lead Research Effort
New York NY, USA -- Animal health and food safety: two very important concerns in today’s world. Global commerce requires an increasingly vigilant approach to protect the food chain, especially regarding food products from animals.Imagine a world where the scientific community collaborates on the results from their research – an open access forum with researchers from around the world.
That world is destined to become reality, thanks to the work of Daral J. Jackwood, PhD. Dr. Jackwood is the Director of The Center for Diagnostic Assays at The Ohio State University and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, OH.
Dr. Jackwood is leading efforts to encourage researchers to adopt open access science in the fields of animal health and food safety through the Center’s www.DiagnosticSpeak.com forum.
This unique forum is dedicated to advancing open access science within the community of infectious disease investigators. Professionals utilize these forums to share discoveries, seek insight and advance the field of animal disease diagnostics in order to ensure the safety of the world's food supply.
Read full article: 'Animal Health, Food Safety Fuel Collaboration On Open Access Science Forum'
Posted by Axiom_Marketing on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 (591165 Reads)
Measurement Practices : Proliferation Assays Ease Downstream Applications of 3D Cell Culture
Abingdon, UK -- AMSBIO has announced a new range of 3D proliferation assays that make downstream applications of 3D cell culture easier. The past few years have seen a boom in the number of papers published covering 3D cell culture, as researchers working in areas from cancer research to stem cells are increasingly seeing the benefits of this technique. AMSBIO supplies the most advanced and extensive range of 3D tools to the life science community.
Cultrex® Cell Proliferation Assays from AMSBIO were created in an effort to provide more physiologically relevant assessments when using cell models in the screening process for compounds that influence toxicity, cell survival, tumorigenicity, and new tumor formation.
Read full article: 'Proliferation Assays Ease Downstream Applications of 3D Cell Culture'
Posted by wbprimetek on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (2787 Reads)
Measurement Practices : The PGS-100 SunPhotometer
Delft, The Netherlands -- In the photovoltaic (PV) sector of the solar energy industry researchers and engineers are continually striving to improve the efficiency of solar panels. However, materials and technologies perform differently under varying atmospheric conditions.The Kipp & Zonen PGS-100 sun photometer measures the spectrum of the direct solar radiation in the range of 350 nm to 1050 nm wavelength, from the UVA to the near infrared.
The instrument is connected to a PC that runs the operating software to acquire, store and display the spectral data.
Read full article: 'The PGS-100 SunPhotometer'
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 06, 2012 (2631 Reads)
