Lab equipment you need--Sort of: Musings on a product catalog

Article Abstract:

Some of the newly developed lab equipment tools and gadgetry for a graduate student that have drastically changed since the mid-1990s are reviewed. They include The Barnstead RT Elite Stirring Hot Plate which could heat up to 350 degree Celsius, Mettler Toledo's XP Precision top-loading balances which could download software via the Internet featuring infrared sensors for hands-free operation and also be outfitted with Bluetooth capability to wirelessly send data to a remote printer.

Product information, All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing, Construction Machinery Manufacturing, Industrial Machinery and Equipment, Industrial Mixing Equip, Mixers & Pavers, Mixing machinery, Mettler-Toledo Inc., Laboratory scales

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Who wants the X Prize?

Article Abstract:

The X Prize Foundation has announced the Archon X Prize for Genomics on October 4, 2006, where it will be giving $10 million to the first team to build a device that can sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days with at least 98% coverage and less than one error per 100,000 bases. 454 Life Sciences, Solexa, Helicos BioSciences, VisiGen Biotechnologies, Applied Biosystems and Church are some of the strong contenders for the X Prize.

United Kingdom, Drugs, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Achievements and awards, DNA sequencers

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My own private synchrotron

Article Abstract:

Palo Alto-based Lyncean Technologies are developing a tunable minisynchrotron called Compact Light Source (CLS), which is based on Compton scattering in which the collision of a laser beam with an electron beam generates X-rays. CLS could be a reasonable investment for universities and companies with large crystallography groups, if installations of high field NMRs and electron microscope are any guide.

California, Palo Alto, California, Light sources

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