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.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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Who wants the X Prize?
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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.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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My own private synchrotron
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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.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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