Bournemouth, UK (Scicasts) – Solentim, a provider of high resolution imaging for fast clone selection, has announced the new Cell Metric CLD bench top system, optimised to provide fast, reliable and automated cell line development (CLD).

Cambridge, MA (Scicasts) – A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has created a microfluidic device that can harvest rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood to enable their expansion in culture for analysis.

Santa Clara, CA (Scicasts) - Agilent Technologies has introduced Infiniium 90000 Q-Series oscilloscopes with real-time bandwidth of 63 GHz on two channels and 33 GHz on four channels. The new lineup includes 10 four-channel models ranging from 20 GHz to 63 GHz, all of which are bandwidth upgradeable. These new scopes deliver the lowest noise and have the lowest jitter measurement floor in the oscilloscope industry, ensuring superior measurement accuracy.

Männedorf, Switzerland (Scicasts) – According to a report from Tecan, it's Infinite M1000 plate reader has enabled researchers at the Institute of Entomology (ENTU), Czech Republic, to automate hourly luminescence measurement of transgenic Drosophila for the study of insect circadian clocks.

Menlo Park, CA (Scicasts) - Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery, according to a report from the Institute.

Ann Arbor, MI (Scicasts) - As tissue slides are more routinely digitized to aid interpretation, a software program whose design was led by the University of Michigan Health System is proving its utility.

Atlanta, GA (Scicasts) -  Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific TraceGOLD GC Column with SafeGuard, which combines an analytical gas chromatography (GC) column with a built-in guard column. According to the Company, the SafeGuard feature extends the life of the analytical column without compromising its chromatographic performance.

Basel, Switzerland (Scicasts) -  SAW Instruments GmbH, developer of innovative biosensor technology for life sciences research in biotech and academia, has launched the samX acoustic biosensor in Europe at MipTec, Basel, Switzerland (20-22 September). samX is the latest high-end addition to the sam range of acoustic biosensors, featuring eight analysis channels and adaptable routing that expands the workflow options available for increased power and flexibility. The new system uses SAW’s proven proprietary Surface Acoustic Wave technology to detect mass binding and protein conformational changes on whole cells.

Heidelberg, Germany (Scicasts) – According to a report from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers at the Institute can now watch molecules move in living cells, literally millisecond by millisecond, thanks to the development of a new microscope. The new technique provides insights into processes that were so far invisible.

Berkeley, CA (Scicasts) – According to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), researchers at the Institute have opened the door to a portable system for highly sensitive multi-dimensional chemical analysis by pairing an award-winning remote-detection version of NMR/MRI technology with a unique version of chromatography specifically designed for microfluidic chips. This, they believe, would be impractical if not impossible with conventional technologies.

Vantaa, Finland (Scicasts) – Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the availability of a downloadable software protocol library for the Thermo Scientific Multiskan GO microplate spectrophotometer. There are currently 20 ready-made protocols available to cover a wide variety of photometric applications, including a broad range of ELISAs and protein and cell viability assay kits.

Munich, Germany (Scicasts) – In the future, doctors will be able to take a closer look at suspicious blemishes using a new microscope and determine within a few fractions they are malignant, according to a report from Fraunhofer.

Cambridge, UK, and Boston, MA (Scicasts) - Linguamatics, a provider of NLP-based enterprise text mining for life sciences and other markets, has announced the latest release of its software platform, I2E. 

Eugene, OR (Scicasts) - Take millions of puzzle pieces containing partial words and put them back together into full words, sentences, paragraphs and chapters until the book these random parts came from is rebuilt.

Coralville, IA (Scicasts) – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), has announced the availability of a number of free oligo design and analysis tools via its online SciTools suite (www.idtdna.com/scitools). According to the announcement, these software applications determine the properties of any oligo sequence entered, as well as mediating the intelligent design of assay conditions, all at the click of a button. The suite is easy to use and makes it simple to add each optimized oligo to an ongoing order list ready for purchase. The SciTools suite includes IDT’s customized ‘OligoAnalyzer’, ‘PrimerQuest’ and ‘RealTime PCR’ design tools, as well as a dilution calculator, a resuspension calculator and an application for analyzing oligonucleotide secondary structures.

Berkely, CA (Scicasts) – Superlenses earned their superlative by being able to capture the "evanescent" light waves that blossom close to an illuminated surface and never travel far enough to be "seen" by a conventional lens. Superlenses hold enormous potential in a range of applications, depending upon the form of light they capture, but their use has been limited because most have been made from elaborate artificial constructs known as metamaterials.

Dortmund, Germany (Scicasts) – Protagen, a specialist in in-vitro diagnostics and GMP-compliant protein analysis has announced that they will be using the UNIarray Platform to help discover biomarkers in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis for Biogen Idec.

Tintagel, UK (Scicasts) – Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the release of the new Maybridge Ro3 Diversity Fragment Library which is available in a new prepared format, with each compound pre-dissolved as a DMSO solution.