Laboratory Equipment and Lab Product News

Tissue Culture Plastics & Epigenetic Supplies

Porvair Sciences Ltd

06/01/2015

Porvair Sciences has released a new 2015 catalogue that describes its popular range of high quality tissue culture treated plastics and consumable products for Epigenetics.Porvair Tissue Culture plastics are made to the highest international standards for material quality, surface optical polish, tissue culture treatment, sterility and pack integrity. All products are certified to be free from DNA/RNA, DNase/RNase and Pyrogen contamination. Investment in UK based...

Electronic Mat Capper Produces Top Quality Seals

Porvair Sciences Ltd

05/12/2014

Porvair Sciences has announced the E-capper - a new devbice that produces top quality seals and minimises the risk of repetitive strain injuries (RSI) in operators tasked with sealing deep well microplates or storage tube racks with re-useable cap mats.The fully electronic E-capper applies firm even pressure simultaneously across the whole cap mat, ensuring a tight even fit across the plate or rack. In extensive field testing the E-Capper has been proven to deliver perfect...

Large Volume Plates for Storage / Transport Applications

Porvair Sciences Ltd

22/08/2013

Porvair Sciences offers a range of high quality, large volume microplates (5ml, 7ml and 10ml) to meet the special requirements of storage / transport applications in combinatorial chemistry, environmental and food technology markets.Produced under class 10,000 clean room conditions from virgin polypropylene, each 24-well (10ml) and 48-well (5ml and 7ml) plate contains no contaminants that may leach out and affect the samples being stored or transported. All these large...

Reference Guide to Microplate Chemical Compatibility

Porvair Sciences Ltd

15/08/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced a new version of its Chemical Compatibility Chart that provides an easy-to-use reference guide detailing the chemical resistance of membranes and matrices used in microplates to a wide range of common laboratory chemicals.Employing tests performed at room temperature (25°C) - Porvair has compiled data as to the compatibility of different microplate matrices and membranes to a wide range of acids, alcohols, bases, esters,...

Porvair Launches HPLC Sample Evaporators

Porvair Sciences Ltd

25/02/2013

Porvair Sciences announces new versions of its MiniVap and UltraVap blowdown evaporators that use warm air or nitrogen to speed up the evaporation of common HPLC solvents such as dichloromethane, methanol and acetonitrile from sample vials, significantly improving throughput and removing this common laboratory bottleneck.Combining a new 48-well needle head with a dedicated HPLC vial holder that accepts 48 standard 1.5ml vials* transforms any MiniVap or UltraVap system into...

Untreated Microplates for Growing Cells in Suspension

Porvair Sciences Ltd

19/02/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced a new range of 12-, 24-, 48- and 96 well format untreated polystyrene culture microplates for growing cells in stationary suspension or other applications where reduced cell attachment is desired.Untreated polystyrene plates are the lab tool of choice for growing embryoid bodies and other cells where cell attachment needs to be reduced or avoided. Natural, unmodified polystyrene surfaces are hydrophobic and only bind cells and biomolecules...

Parallel Sample Preparation System for HPLC Vials

Porvair Sciences Ltd

24/01/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced a new version of its MiniVap™ Blowdown Evaporator able to quickly and safely remove solvent from up to 48 vials in parallel.Made from solvent resistant black polypropylene the new MiniVap Vial Holder has been designed to accommodate up to 48 vials* in a standard SLAS / ANSI format.Incorporating advanced evaporator head technology which directly injects heated nitrogen into 48 HPLC vials simultaneously, the MiniVap removes the...

Protecting Light Sensitive Samples From Degradation

Porvair Sciences Ltd

06/11/2012

To protect light sensitive samples - Porvair Sciences offers a selection of high quality, black microplates and seals that eliminate sample degradation, even over long storage periods. Manufactured from ultra-pure grade polypropylene, Porvair black microplates are resistant to a wide range of solvents and have near zero leachates ensuring long-term sample integrity. The black plates are supplied RNase / DNase free meaning they can be used with even the most sensitive...