Category: Labwear & Consumables

Labwear & Consumables

COVID Can be Detected in Tears Sampled by Ocular Swab

Research led by scientists in Brazil found that the coronavirus that causes COVID can be detected in tears collected by swabbing.

Labwear & Consumables

BRB-seq Service Provides Crucial Gene Expression Data

Integra Bioscience's in-house BRB-seq service provides crucial gene expression data at a fraction of the cost and time.

Labwear & Consumables

FDA Expands Medical Device Shortage List

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently expanded its medical device shortage list to include all blood sample collection tubes.

Pipette Tips

Pipette Tips Demonstrate High Bacterial Filtration Efficiency

A new independent study demonstrates proprietary pipette filter tips from Porvair Sciences have greater than 99% bacterial filtration efficiency even at an increased challenge level.

Tubes

Thermo Fisher Opens Manufacturing Plant for Covid-19 VTM Tubes

Production of tubes for viral transport media has ramped up from 50,000 units to more than 8 million per week.

Slides

Study Demonstrates Microfluidic Technology for Multiplexed Sample Staining

Staining and visualizing several targets simultaneously is possible with a new technique known as ‘multiplexed immunofluorescence’—the fluorescent staining of multiple biomarkers on the same tissue sample.

Plates

Borosilicate Glass Microplates Improve Imaging Sensitivity

Porvair Sciences’ new Krystal Glass Bottom microplates with Schott D 263 M technology provide enhanced performance for whole-plate CCD imaging and laser detection applications.

Containers

Sarstedt Launches Microvette Automated Processing Tube

The Microvette APT is a specially designed primary container that meets all the important processing requirements for automated blood analysis systems.

Swabs

Researchers Develop Ultra-Absorptive Nanofiber Swabs

In lab tests, the porous nanofiber cylinders absorbed and released more proteins, cells, bacteria, DNA, and viruses from liquids and surfaces than the cotton or flocked swabs commonly used for covid-19 testing.

Filters

Dolomite Microfluidics Offers New Microfluidic Chips

All Telos chips have seven parallel junctions and are available with hydrophilic, hydrophobic, or fluorophilic coatings to allow the generation of oil-in-water, water-in-oil, and water-in-fluorinated-oil emulsions.

Towels, Liners, & Wipes

November/December 2017 Product News

This month's issue features a sample management system from Hamilton Storage, ready-made glassware from Glass Solutions, and recombinant antibodies from Miltenyi Biotec.

Cleaners & Disinfectants

Proper Usage of Critical Cleaners Makes All the Difference

Critical cleaning tasks tend to require individualized procedures that are developed empirically. The best way to determine your optimum cleaning cycle is to experiment with controllable variables, including: the temperature of...