Bioscience Technology articles from December 2003

Bioscience Technology archives from December 2003

Mini gel electrophoresis system.
December 1, 2003... Gel XL Ultra[TM] mini gel electrophoresis system includes an intelligent power supply, migration tank and a gel casting set. A photo sensor detects the presence and orientation of the lid and cuts power to the electrodes if the lid is not in...

Engineering platform prints viable 3D tissue constructs.
December 1, 2003... BioAssembly Tool (BAT) digitally prints live cells and other biological, biocompatible, and bioactive materials layer by layer to build three-dimensional living tissues and other biostructures. In on-going pilot projects, BAT is being used to...

Undercounter glassware washer.
December 1, 2003... G 78 undercounter glassware washing system line is comprised of three washers. The G 7883 provides eight cleaning programs in a standard-size undercounter unit. The G 7883CD adds HEPA-filtered forced air drying and on-board liquid detergent...

Large animal transfer station.(Editor's Choice)
December 1, 2003... AniGARD[R] VF five-foot wide animal transfer station is a vertical-flow, single-sided clean bench that provides animal protection and particulate control during routine cage-changing operations while maximizing productivity and flexibility....

Conical centrifuge tubes with single-hand open/close.(Editor's Choice)
December 1, 2003... New NUNC[TM] EZFlip[TM] 15 and 50 ml conical centrifuge tubes can bs used in protein and DNA precipitation, subcellular frationation, sample storage, and cell pelleting of all types. Patented hinged-cap closure system allows for easy,...

Melter, dye, for genotyping.(Editor's Choice)
December 1, 2003... Platform for post-amplification genotyping, gene scanning, and SNP/mutation detection uses closed tube DNA amplification reaction with the Idaho Technologies LCGreen I[TM] Dye and HR-1[TM] High Resolution Melter. Bringing scanning efforts to...

Kinase cDNA Clone Set.(Editor's Choice)
December 1, 2003... Kinase CloneSet[TM], a designated subset of over 500 full-length kinase cDNA clones, has been added to the OriGene Technologies TrueClone[TM] Collection product line. The Kinase CloneSet approaches the predicted 518 putative genes in the...

Modular fermentor.(Editor's Choice)
December 1, 2003... Biostat[R] modular bioprocess system is comprised of the Biostat i twin controller; the Biostat i interface; and either stirred tank or spinner flask culture vessels. The twin controller allows two vessels to be controlled simultaneously. If...

Gene expression arrays.(Editor's Choice)
December 1, 2003... Currently available for moderate (eight samples per array) and high (96 samples per array) sample throughput needs, Illumina gene expression arrays allow the analysis of up to 1,500 genes per sample. Expression data show strong correlation with...

Bioscience Technology top products of the year.(Reader's Select Products 2003)
December 1, 2003... Each December the editor's of Bioscience Technology review reader response to products covered in the previous year. The following review presents those editorial items that generated the most interest from you, the readers, in the period of...

Mouse Housing.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Animals)
December 1, 2003... The Mouse House[TM] is an enrichment device used to create an environment that encourages a wide range of natural mouse behaviors such as jumping, climbing, squeezing through holes and sleeping during daylight hours. Abnormal stereotyped...

High/low temperature cautery system.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Animals)
December 1, 2003... Gemini Cautery System 1 can cauterize at both low and high temperature. The system requires 1 battery (1300 F/704 C) or 2 batteries (2200 F/1240 C) to operate. When using low temperature a spacer is provided to hold the place of the second...

Pressure Controlled Ventilator.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Animals)
December 1, 2003... RSP1002 Pressure Controlled Ventilator, an MRI compatible ventilator for animals ranging from mice to cats, is designed with the same features as human ventilators. It delivers correct tidal volume, never over-pressurizing the lungs, and...

Isoflurane/Halothane Scavenger.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Animals)
December 1, 2003... Fluovac Isoflurane/ Halothane Scavenger allows continuous flow gas anesthesia and protects the researcher from exposure during surgery. Easy to use, it recaptures escaping gases by vacuum and draws them through a disposable Fluosorber filter...

Alzheimer's Mouse Model.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Animals)
December 1, 2003... APP Microinjected Mouse Model, Tg2576, can be used to study human Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and various cellular mechanisms. The mice carry the transgene for the Swedish mutation ([APP.sub.695]), and Alzheimer's associated isoform of the human...

Multi-Detection Plate Reader.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Assay Instrumentation)
December 1, 2003... Updated Synergy HT Multi-Detection Plate Reader is now capable of measuring time resolved fluorescence, in addition to absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence. The instrument uses a scanning monochromator and flash and halogen light sources...

Multimodality Imaging System.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Assay Instrumentation)
December 1, 2003... LEADseeker[TM] Multimodality Imaging System from Amersham Biosciences has added fluorescence polarization, time resolved fluorescence (TRF), and TR-FRET capabilities to an instrument that offers radiometric, luminescene, and fluorescence...

Microarray reader.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Assay Instrumentation)
December 1, 2003... VersArray ChipReader[TM] laser confocal scanners for imaging microarrays, feature high light collection efficiency, and use low laser power to excite the bottom end of the range without saturating the top end. The instruments contain...

Multi-detection plate reader with cuvette port.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Assay Instrumentation)
December 1, 2003... SpectraMax[R] M2 dual-monochromator, multi-detection microplate reader offers a dual-mode cuvette port and single-read command capability for experiments requiring both absorbance and fluorescence microplate and cuvette detection in the same...

Spectrophotometer.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Assay Instrumentation)
December 1, 2003... NanoDrop[R] ND-1000 Spectrophotometer is based on proprietary technology that allows one microliter samples to be pipetted directly onto the measurement surface. Using surface tension, a column is drawn between the ends of two optical fibers to...

Compact refrigerated centrifuge.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Basic Lab Equipment)
December 1, 2003... Model 5702 R refrigerated centrifuge, for low-speed clinical and research applications, has a maximum speed of 3,000 xg and offers a choice of fixed-angle or swing bucket rotors. All types of popular round bottom and conical tubes from 1.1 to...

Personal-size freezer.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Basic Lab Equipment)
December 1, 2003... MDF-U51 VA Personal Series In-Lab[TM] ultra-low temperature freezer features patented V.I.P. (Vacuum Insulated Panel) Insulation Technology, which maximizes storage space in a given lab footprint. SANYO Silencing Technology results in a unit...

High speed microcentrifuge with digital control.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Basic Lab Equipment)
December 1, 2003... Spectrafuge 24D microcentrifuge is equipped with digital control for precise operation. Solid aluminum rotor accommodates 24 1.5-or 2.0-ml tubes, and provides easy access to sample tubes. Accessory adapters spin smaller tubes, and a StripSpin...

Vials with bar codes applied directly to glass.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Basic Lab Equipment)
December 1, 2003... The company has developed a technology for applying sequential bar codes directly onto plastic or glass vials without the use of labels. Either linear or 2D bar code symbols may be applied using this technique. Labs may order sequential codes...

Benchtop centrifuge offers five fixed-angle rotors.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Basic Lab Equipment)
December 1, 2003... The Hettich Mikro 20 centrifuge makes available five different fixed-angle rotors (12, 20, 24, 30 and 32 place) for spinning various combinations of cryo, PCR or standard microtubes at speeds up to 13,000 rpm and 16,249 ref. The instrument may...

Analyze signal transduction "In-Cell".(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Biology)
December 1, 2003... In-Cell Western assay from LI-COR Biosciences, for analyzing signal transduction pathways, were developed exclusively for LICOR's Odyssey[R] Infrared Imaging System and are used to quantify proteins directly in the cell. The assays are...

Apoptosis, cell signaling.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Biology)
December 1, 2003... BioVision offers assays for analyzing the early, middle, and late stages in the apoptotic cascade, and for studying apoptotic events that occur in the different areas of the cells, including the plasma membrane, cytoplasm, mitochondria, and...

Apoptosis assay.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Biology)
December 1, 2003... The APOPercentage assay kit detects and measures apoptosis in mammalian, anchorage-dependent cells. Analysis can be conducted with a conventional inverted microscope for cell counting, checking cell growth and confluence. The dye contained...

Serine protease inhibition kits.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Biology)
December 1, 2003... Three new kits are offered for the study of inhibition of serine proteases in whole cells. Red FLISP[TM] SR101-FCK; Red FLISP, SR101-LCK; and Green FLISP, FAM-FCK (FLISP is an acronym for fluorescently labeled inhibitors of serine proteases)...

Human granzyme B Elispot assay.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Biology)
December 1, 2003... Granzyme B is a serine protease found in the lymphocyte granules of activated cytotoxic T cells and NK cells. Lymphocyte granule-mediated cytotoxicity appears to protect the host from invasion by pathogens and tumor cells. Granzyme B is...

Thaw and culture neuronal cells.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Culture)
December 1, 2003... QBM Cell Science frozen neuronal cells can be simply thawed and cultured and provide reliable high quality, high yield cultures of disassociated primary neurons. The ready-to-use-neurons reduce animal use, express characteristic neuronal cell...

Mammalian cell counter uses fluorescent technology.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Culture)
December 1, 2003... Accurately counting mammalian cells in under a minute, the NucleoCounter[TM] uses patented fluorescence technology and disposable cartridges pre-filled with a nuclei-staining dye to sample and analyze cell counts. The compact system is easy to...

ATCC cell lines, reagents.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Culture)
December 1, 2003... ATCC cell line collection includes human, mouse, and other animal lines; normal cells; and cancer cell lines from both primary and metastatic sites. Comprehensive lines offered include hybridomas, hybridoma fusion partners, retroviral packaging...

Scalable cell culture bioreactor systems.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Culture)
December 1, 2003... Wheaton Science Products offers Cell Optimizer and Mini Pilot Plant bioreactor systems, which enable automated control of optimum operating parameters over culture volumes ranging from 250 ml to 45 liters. Ideal growth conditions can be quickly...

Automated in vitro wound healing assays.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Cell Culture)
December 1, 2003... The ECIS wound healing assay offers an automated method for monitoring cell migration. Instead of disrupting the cell layer mechanically and following the migration of cells to "heal" the wound with a microscope, an electrical signal is...

Infectious disease recombinant antigens.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chemicals/Biochemicals)
December 1, 2003... BIODESIGN International has added new recombinant infectious disease antigens to its line of raw materials for infectious disease assay development and research. All products are purified antigens, produced in E.coli. Tested applications for...

RNase Inhibitor works over broad temperature, pH range.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chemicals/Biochemicals)
December 1, 2003... The Protector RNase Inhibitor inhibits a wide spectrum of RNases, and offers greater flexibility, inhibiting over broad pH and temperature ranges. This provides application flexibility, and is advantageous when performing reverse transcription...

Protease Inhibitor Cocktails are water soluble.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chemicals/Biochemicals)
December 1, 2003... Pro-Pure[TM] Protease Inhibitor Cocktails are offered for scientists doing protein work. The easy-to-use cocktails are made of a lyophilized blend of general protease inhibitors for sample preparation use. Each cocktail makes 1 ml of 100x...

Primer Sets for Housekeeping Genes.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chemicals/Biochemicals)
December 1, 2003... Certified LUX[TM] Primer Sets for Housekeeping Genes provide reliable normalization for real-time PCR analysis. Each of 32 sets is functionally validated and optimized for accurate quantification or a corresponding housekeeping gene. These...

Homogeneous Cell Viability Assay.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chemicals/Biochemicals)
December 1, 2003... CellTiter-Blue[TM] Cell Viability Assay, a homogeneous method for estimating the number of viable cells present in multiwell plates, is easily automated assay, allows a choice of fluorometric or colorimetric detection, 96-or 384-well formats,...

Protein purification columns.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chromatography)
December 1, 2003... Ni-NTA Superflow Columns enable up to 24 large-scale 6xHis-tagged protein preparations to be performed in parallel on the BioRobot[R] 3000 workstation. The pre-packed columns are pre-charged with nickel and can also be used for manual,...

Antibody purification kit.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chromatography)
December 1, 2003... Antibody Purification Kit Chromatography based purification kit uses a proprietary "linked process" to purify pharmaceutical antibodies. The 3-column kit will allow researchers and manufacturers to examine the purification of polyclonal IgG...

C18 for SPE.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chromatography)
December 1, 2003... Prevail[TM] C18 is water-wettable and does not require organic solvent preconditioning; it accepts aqueous samples directly. Eliminating the organic preconditioning step reduces the use of solvents. The C18 for SPE is a silica-based C18...

Albumin Deplete Kits.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chromatography)
December 1, 2003... Montage[TM] Albumin Deplete Kit is a fast, reproducible method of improving the resolution of low abundance proteins by electrophoresis, chromatography or mass spectrometry. The kit's centrifugal columns are pre-packed with an affinity resin...

HPLC system for proteomics.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Chromatography)
December 1, 2003... NanoLC Proteomics System, an HPLC that facilitates nanoscale LC/MS without flow splitting, enhances detection sensitivity and reproducibility for LC/MS proteomics studies, while offering ease of set-up, operation, and maintenance. The system is...

Imaging-based cellular assays.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Drug Discovery)
December 1, 2003... FDSS imaging based plate reader for cell-based assays offers a modular design that allows running either fluorescence based assays, such as intracellular calcium, membrane potential, and ion channel FRET, or flash luminescence based assays,...

Cell-based Screening System.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Drug Discovery)
December 1, 2003... Discovery-1[TM] Cell Based Screening System is dedicated to rapid automated imaging and image analysis, leverages the power of fluorescent dyes and proteins to show subtle biochemical changes within living cells, and is optimized for use in...

Chemical Inkjet Printer for micro-scale proteomics.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Drug Discovery)
December 1, 2003... Chemical Inkjet Printer (ChIP) offers a new approach to Peptide Mass Fingerprinting (PMF) and Protein Macroarray Analysis. ChIP is a unique technology platform for micro-scale on-membrane protein identification and characterization with...

Multifuctional detection platform adds fluorescence lifetime measurement.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Drug Discovery)
December 1, 2003... Ultra Evolution multifunctional detection platform adds fluorescence lifetime microplate measurements to the detection modes of the Tecan US Ultra family (which include absorbance, fluorescence intensity, fluorescence polarization, and...

Low volume hybridization station for DNA and protein microarrays.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Drug Discovery)
December 1, 2003... ArrayBooster[TM] low volume hybridization station is compatible with all microarrays based on the microscope slide format. Protocols and buffers developed for cover slip hybridizations need not be changed. Proprietary technology utilizes...

2D Gel Processor.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Electrophoresis)
December 1, 2003... The 2D iD Gel Processor is a compact robotic system for 2D gel electrophoresis automation in proteomics. The process, from imaging the gel, picking and hydration, is accomplished "hands-off". Imaging system is based on a CCD camera and a...

Proteomic power supply.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Electrophoresis)
December 1, 2003... Thermo EC's new EC PRO6000 can run both 1st dimension and 2nd dimension gels. The stand-alone unit offers the combined features of 6000V output, microamp display, 1 mA current limiting ability, and linear voltage ramping that are designed for...

Gel analysis workstation.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Electrophoresis)
December 1, 2003... The FOTO/Analyst[R] Luminary enables users to obtain high quality digital photographs of chemiluminescent Southern, Western and Northern blots, Petri plates, TLC plates, and a variety of fluorescent samples. A cooled CCD camera combined with...

Electrophoresis imaging analysis, system.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Electrophoresis)
December 1, 2003... The new KODAK[TM] Gel Logic 100 Imaging System for electrophoresis gel imaging and analysis features a mega-pixel CCD digital camera and IEEE 1394 (FIREWIRE) interface. A scientific grade monochrome 1.4 MP sensor provides high resolution and...

DNA agarose purification kit.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Electrophoresis)
December 1, 2003... UltraClean[TM] GelSpin[TM] DNA Purification Kit utilizes a silica spin filter method to purify DNA fragments from TAE or TBE agarose gels. The procedure, which takes five minutes, removes ethidium bromide, linkers, and labels. Kit format allows...

Protein analysis membrane.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Filtration)
December 1, 2003... P-FILM[TM] (Protein Function Identification Layered Membrane) produces up to ten blots from a single gel. Available as stacks of 3, 5 or 10 layers, the membranes can be used to analyze samples from one gel with three to ten antibodies in...

Sealed cell growth environment.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Filtration)
December 1, 2003... OptiCell[R] sealed cell environment allows the researcher to culture, observe, monitor, analyze, and transport cells easily and efficiently. One OptiCell frame has the same footprint as a 96-well plate and is 6 mm thick. Each OptiCell has two...

DNA library card.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Filtration)
December 1, 2003... DNA Library Card The IsoCode[R] I.D.[TM] DNA library card, for ambient archiving of DNA libraries, is a chemically treated paper that is bactericidal, fungicidal and virucidal, keeping the DNA in biological samples that are dried on it safe...

96-well filtration plates.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Filtration)
December 1, 2003... BioDOT 96-well filter plates are available in 300 [micro]l, 400 [micro]l and 800 [micro]l formats with short or long drip directors. The design allows for flexibility in the choice of membrane and eliminates well-to-well migration. Made of...

Membrane bottomed filter plates.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Filtration)
December 1, 2003... AcroPrep[R] and AcroWell[R] multi-well, membrane bottom filter plates address various sample preparation and detection procedures. Idividually sealed membranes in separate wells eliminate cross-talk. Ofered in 96-and 384-well formats, the...

RNA expression analysis gene selection to validated assay.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Genomics/Proteomics)
December 1, 2003... Pentadot Plus[TM] enables rapid and accurate quantification of RNA expression levels in cells treated with potential new drags. It is based on HTG's ArrayPlate technology, which facilitates simultaneous measurement of RNA expression levels in...

Multi-aminosilane coated microarray slides.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Genomics/Proteomics)
December 1, 2003... Nexterion[TM] Slide A microarray slides combine laser-cut, optically clear borosilicate glass with a multi-aminosilane coating. Studies on DNA retention have shown the multi-aminosilane coating of "Nexterion" Slide A offer overall strong...

Protein desalting columns.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Genomics/Proteomics)
December 1, 2003... These columns provide fast, easy desalting of protein samples with volumes of 30 to 120 [micro]l. Proteins greater than 7,000 MW can be separated from salt and other small molecules up to approximately 800 MW. Excellent desalting...

Cancer siRNA Oligo Set.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Genomics/Proteomics)
December 1, 2003... Cancer siRNA Oligo Set includes two siRNAs to each of 139 clinically and scientifically relevant cancer genes. Each siRNA has been designed using criteria to maximize gone-silencing potential. It provides a method by which a large number of...

Automation-friendly gene-expression assays per day.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Genomics/Proteomics)
December 1, 2003... BioGridArray[TM] (BGA) uses an industry-standard microplate platform, accepted gene-expression chemistries and protocols, and automated sample preparation to deliver high throughput. BGAs are made to specification, with 96 individual arrays of...

BrdU kit.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Immunochemicals)
December 1, 2003... BrdU Kit BrdU Immunohisto-chemistry Kit includes reagents, reference and control slides, and a proven protocol for visualizing BrdU incorporation into paraffin-embedded or frozen tissue sections as well as cultured cells. The directly...

Tetramers quantitate T cells.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Immunochemicals)
December 1, 2003... Beckman Coulter, Incorporated has introduced a new class of MHC Tetramers that detect and quantitate the T cells that influence many autoimmune diseases. Class II iTAg[TM] MHC Tetramers measure the activity of antigen-specific CD4 T cells,...

Antibody to Green Fluorescent Protein.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Immunochemicals)
December 1, 2003... Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria is used as a fluorescent indicator for monitoring gene expression in a variety of cellular systems, including living organisms and fixed tissues. New monoclonal for the...

Apoptosis signaling ELISA kits.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Immunochemicals)
December 1, 2003... PhosphoELISA[TM] kits offered by BioSource include Akt [pT308], Akt [pS473], Bcl-2 [pS70], CREB [pS133], [pS32], JNK [pTpY183/3], p38 MAPK [pTpY180/182], STAT1 [pY70l] and others. These assays quantitate phosphorylated proteins only when...

Antibody purification columns.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Immunochemicals)
December 1, 2003... Vivapurer Protein A Mini spin columns are based on an innovative membrane technology. Protein A, a component of the cell wall of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus with high affinity to various immunoglobulins, is coupled to a proprietary...

Virtual slide viewing software.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Informatics)
December 1, 2003... New software packages are available for viewing multi-gigabyte digital images (virtual slides) directly on a monitor from anywhere in the world. When used in telepathology or education, this software eliminates the need to send glass slides or...

Microarray analysis software.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Informatics)
December 1, 2003... Array-Pro Analyzer microarray analysis software v4.5 features pixel-by-pixel cross-correlation method to segment signal, background, and artifact pixel populations; normalization using Loess best-fit; and an equation editor to build practically...

Statistical analysis and curve fitting software.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Informatics)
December 1, 2003... XLfit 3 software add-in for the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet environment enables automated curve fitting, statistical analysis and results presentation. The software offers more than 70 predefined linear and non-linear mathematical models and...

Sequence analysis software.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Informatics)
December 1, 2003... Vector NTI Advance [TM], built on InforMax Incorporated's Vector NTI Suite 7 platform, is an integrated desktop bioinformatics application suite for DNA and protein sequence analysis and molecular biology data management. Vector NTI Advance...

Molecular biology software.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Informatics)
December 1, 2003... Stratagene and Iobion Informatics offer desktop software packages GeneSolve[TM], ProteinSolve[TM], PathwayAssist[TM] and ArrayAssist[TM] as a suite called IobionLab[TM]. GeneSolve and ProteinSolve are packages that allow researchers to import,...

Research cameras.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Microscopy/Imaging)
December 1, 2003... Diagnostic Instruments offers three new camera models for 2003. The SPOT INSIGHT[TM] (pictured) 3-Shot Color Camera provides excellent imaging for both brightfield and bright fluorescence microscopy. With 6-megapixel sampling achieved by...

Objective for Nikon physiostation microscope.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Microscopy/Imaging)
December 1, 2003... The new Nikon Instruments Fluor 20 x Water Dipping objective is used exclusively on the Eclipse E600FN "PhysioStation" upright-focusing nosepiece research microscope. The CFI Fluor 20x Water Dipping Objective is part of a set of objectives...

Digital microscope camera.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Microscopy/Imaging)
December 1, 2003... DP70 12.5-megapixel, 12-bit cooled digital camera produces images with 36-bits of RGB color depth. There are four resolution options: 4080 x 3072, 2040 x 1536, 1360 x 1024, or 680 x 512. The camera uses a 1.45 minion pixel CCD with a Bayer...

Real-time 6D confocal microscope.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Microscopy/Imaging)
December 1, 2003... UltraVIEW[TM] RS real-time six dimensional confocal microscope facilitates multidimensional confocal imaging of living and fixed samples in a fraction of the time required by classical laser scanning confocal systems, while preserving cell...

3-D imaging system.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Microscopy/Imaging)
December 1, 2003... ApoTome 3D imaging system, for contrast enhancement in fluorescence microscopy, is based on innovative grid projection techniques using HBO light source, Classical challenges in capturing optical sections in 2D and 3D fluorescence imaging,...

Plate-based DNA analysis.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Molecular Biology)
December 1, 2003... The AMS 90 provides automated analysis of DNA fragments in 96-well plates. Sampling and electrophoretic analysis are integrated into a single process. The system's HT DNA 5000 chip features the proprietary "sipper" sample-access system, which...

Industrial scale gene transfer.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Molecular Biology)
December 1, 2003... The MaxCyte GT[TM] system rapidly introduces cloned cDNAs into cells for purposes including drag discovery and target validation. A high throughput cell loading system utilizes continuous flow electroporation of cells to achieve high viability...

Self-inactivating vectors.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Molecular Biology)
December 1, 2003... BD Retro-X[TM] Q Vectors provide high viral titers, reliable expression levels, and reduce the possibility of promoter interference. The vectors express a target gene along with an antibiotic selection marker and to inactivate the promoter in...

Thermal cycler/fluorescence detector.(Reader's Select Products 2003: Molecular Biology)
December 1, 2003... The MJ Research Opticon[R] 2 system combines the thermal and gradient capability of a 96-well DNA Engine[TM] thermal cycler with an innovative optical detector. Dual-channel detection of emitted fluorescence over a broad dynamic range makes the...