Microbiology News: Nov 2023

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Microbiology News: Nov 2023

Easy Non-PCR Molecular Screening for Contaminant Microorganisms

28 Nov 2023 | Food & BeverageWater

The HybriScan^® system uses sandwich hybridization to accurately detect microbe-specific rRNA. The signal is triggered optically by an enzyme-generated color change. Test results for contaminant microorganisms are available after only 2 hours, without the need for expensive PCR equipment. more...

Streamline Your Microbiology Testing with Neogen^®

28 Nov 2023 | Food & BeverageLaboratory EquipmentCosmetic/Personal Care

Neogen’s microbiology portfolio has been developed to provide a range of solutions that can offer confidence and accuracy, no matter the test type. Designed to help streamline processes, our solutions make efficiency in the laboratory easy by reducing laborious procedures and time to results. more...

Streamline Listeria Testing of Foods With New Bottled Medium Format for Pour Plate Method

28 Nov 2023 | Food & Beverage

Bottled Media for Listeria Pour Plate Method

Enumerate and presumptively identify Listeria species and L. monocytogenes from food and environmental samples with the Thermo Scientific™ Oxoid™ Brilliance™ Listeria Agar (ISO) prepared bottles as part of the Thermo Scientific™ Listeria Precis™ Enumeration method or ISO 11290-2 reference method. more...

EN ISO 7704:2023 Compliant Membranes, Culture Media and Accessories

23 Nov 2023 | Water

Laboratories that test water samples for microbial contaminants must ensure that they comply with the new EN ISO 7704:2023 standard when using membrane filtration for direct enumeration by culturing methods. Fully compliant membranes, culture media and accessories are now available. more...

Do You Think Same-day Sterility Results are Impossible?

21 Nov 2023 | Pharmaceutical

Bring your Sterility Testing to the Next Level with SCANRDI^® and benefit from ultra-rapid sterility testing across your organization to increase market competitiveness and control your manufacturing process while being confident about compliance. more...

Experience the Picus^® 2 Difference and Boost Your Lab’s Productivity

21 Nov 2023 | Food & BeverageClinicalLaboratory EquipmentPharmaceutical

Picus^® 2 electronic pipettes boost lab efficiency like never before. Discover the ultimate pipetting solution to enhance connectivity throughout the lab, speed up workflows, increase traceability and repeatability, prevent pipetting errors, and streamline documentation automation.Download Infographic here. more...

Trust Puritan^® to Upgrade Your Specimen Collection Game This Season.

21 Nov 2023 | Clinical

Santas sleigh and a selection of Puritan swabs

Puritan has all the specimen collection tools you’ll need in your sleigh this season: cotton, foam, spun polyester, and our patented flock-tipped swabs. And, we have dry transport tubes as well as liquid media to get your sample to the lab. more...

Simplify Your Workflow With The New MASTERCLAVE^® 60 EVO

20 Nov 2023 | Food & Beverage

MASTERCLAVE^® is an automated culture media preparation system that places automation at the heart of your laboratory and improves the entire workflow. Enter a world of automation, productivity, and reliability with the new MASTERCLAVE^® 60 EVO, which includes new exciting features. more...

Unlocking Dairy Safety Excellence: Your Comprehensive Guide

20 Nov 2023 | Food & Beverage

Invest in cutting-edge solutions, continually strive for higher safety and quality standards, and give your consumers the quality they expect and deserve. In this detailed guide, we'll delve into five crucial aspects of dairy safety. more...

Micro ID Tracking and Trending: Optimization with Automation

20 Nov 2023 | Pharmaceutical

Annex 1 urges the use of rapid, automated methods for contamination detection in Environmental Monitoring. Manual tracking and trending methods, like paper or Excel, pose risks. Automation streamlines the process, reduces errors, and speeds up trend identification, enhancing data reliability and efficiency. more...

Achieve Stress-free Pipetting with INTEGRA Biosciences’ New eBook

20 Nov 2023 | Laboratory Equipment

INTEGRA’s latest eBook contains all of the tips and tricks to help readers achieve efficient, accurate and stress-free pipetting. Get a free copy of the eBook here. more...

Biotium Introduces New Highly-Selective Stains For Both Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria

17 Nov 2023 | Laboratory EquipmentOtherAssay Development

BactoView™ Dead stains are also included in two new BactoView™ Viability Kits, enabling convenient two-color staining of both live and dead bacteria for clear viability assessment of all cells in a sample. more...

Remote Sample Management Unchains Scientists From Their Lab Bench

17 Nov 2023 | Laboratory Equipment

Using DP5 Network you can plug all your tube rack readers and scanners into your LAN directly and run them from a PC in your office or somewhere else in the building. more...

Cost Effective Customizable ELISA Assay Kits

17 Nov 2023 | Assay Development

With over 500 ELISA kits to choose from, AMSBIO's new range covers a wide variety of biological processes, targets, and sample types. Reagents such as matched antibody pairs and a micro-ELISA pre-plate have been carefully screened and validated to save you time and money. more...

Automation Optimised Maximum Sample Recovery Tube

17 Nov 2023 | Laboratory Equipment

Maximise sample recovery wtih Azenta tubes

Sample recovery from the 1.6ml Maximum Recovery tubes was found to be 16ml more than the 1.9ml tubes over a run of 100 tubes. With expensive reagents or valuable samples, this can quickly accumulate into substantial savings. more...

Rapid Microbiological Methods for Water Testing - a rapidmicrobiology Special Focus

14 Nov 2023 | Water

In this rapidmicrobiology special focus, we explore options to automate and improve sensitivity in water testing, covering applications from WFI, wastewater and bioburden, to E.coli, Legionella, Pseudomonas plus SARS in wastewater, and coliphage enumeration. more...

Chemically Defined Insect Cell Culture Medium Delivers Superior Protein Expression

14 Nov 2023 | Pharmaceutical

ESF AdvanCD™ is a 100% chemically defined, animal-origin-free, protein-free, serum-free insect cell culture medium for use in viral vector manufacturing, structural biology, and other applications. more...

Ensure your Water Quality with Bio-Rad Innovative Solutions

13 Nov 2023 | Water

NEW: Download Bio-Rad Laboratories comprehensive Water Safety and Quality Reference Guide here to learn more about innovative and alternative methods based on new technologies such as chromogenic media and real-time PCR. more...

The Crucial Role of a Rapid Sterility Test in Enhancing Water Analysis

13 Nov 2023 | Pharmaceutical

Using SCANRDI^® for testing Water for Injection (WFI) enables faster results and early contamination detection, enhanced sensitivity and reduced human error, ultimately improving the reliability and efficiency of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. more...

PREvalence ddPCR SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Quantification Kit Contributes to Public Health

13 Nov 2023 | Water

PREvalence ddPCR SARS CoV 2 Wastewater Kit

Bio-Rad's PREvalence ddPCR SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Quantification Kit provides reproducible, quantitative results in wastewater testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. more...

Bluephage Launches ENUMERA Rapid Quantitative Kit BPF-SE

13 Nov 2023 | Water

Cutting-edge technology for rapid waterborne pathogen detection and risk assessment. This quantitative rapid detection kit is designed for the specific detection and enumeration of somatic coliphages at 1 PFU/100mL, applicable to all kinds of water and shellfish extracts, sediments, and sludge. more...

Safeguarding of Water for Injection

13 Nov 2023 | Pharmaceutical

PYROSTAR Neo endotoxin detection reagent

The presence of endotoxin in sterile pharmaceutical products presents a significant risk to patients. In 1984, five USP water products were given specific bacterial endotoxin limits. 100% free of horseshoe crab blood, PYROSTAR™ Neo is a reagent capable of measuring endotoxin content with high accuracy. more...

Searching for New International Distributors

13 Nov 2023 | Laboratory Equipment

Alpha Labs Looking for New International Distributors

Based in the UK, Alpha Laboratories is now looking to further expand its family of distributors and is actively seeking partners in France, the Middle East and certain other markets, including but not limited to countries such as USA, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. more...

Revolutionizing Microbiological Water Testing: MICA’s Pioneering Solutions

12 Nov 2023 | Water

Ps aeruginosa Legionella Bioburden E coli

Get fast CFUs of culturable microorganisms with the easy-to-use automated MICA microcolony counters by Diamidex, unmatched optical resolution combined with revolutionary tagging technology can achieve a reduction in incubation time of between 40% and 80%. more...

Medix Biochemica Acquires ViroStat

12 Nov 2023 | Assay Development

Medix Biochemica has acquired the US-based ViroStat LLC, a global leader in infectious disease antibodies and antigens used by in-vitro diagnostics manufacturers, further expanding its presence in the US. more...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Antigens and Antibodies

09 Nov 2023 | Assay Development

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Antigens and Antibodies

Sino Biological has developed a comprehensive collection of RSV-related reagents for viral research that cover RSV A and B from over 5 strains, which can support therapeutic antibody, vaccine, and immunodiagnostic assay development. more...

How Does TEMPO^® Unlock the Power of People in the Lab?

07 Nov 2023 | Food & Beverage

TEMPO®, by bioMérieux, is an automated platform for the analysis of food quality indicators. By implementing our automated TEMPO® solution, your technicians can process existing sample volume in considerably less time, minimize the amount of weekend work, and streamline the testing process. more...

At the Borderline of Sensitivity and Noise - Detection of Nucleic Acid Traces

06 Nov 2023 | Pharmaceutical

Download Sartorius Poster Detect Traces Nucleic Acid

The bio-pharmaceutical industry's shift towards personalized CGT products has led to new QC requirements and rapid microbial detection methods. This poster discusses "false" positives and the use of dPCR for quantification of a DNA standard (positive control). Download here. more...

Latin America's First ISO 17025:2017 Accredited Lab Pioneers Cannabis Analysis for Food Pathogens

06 Nov 2023 | Food & Beverage

The lab achieved the accreditation in a process facilitated by the Colombian Certification Body, ONAC. The steps also included validating the analytical methods used for real-time PCR analysis. Several R-biopharm SureFast^® Microbiology qPCR kits were included in the certification process. more...

Revolutionize Colony Counting

06 Nov 2023 | Food & BeverageClinicalLaboratory EquipmentCosmetic/Personal Care

The manual counting of colonies on Petri dishes is a long and painstaking process and may vary in the beginning and the end of a single day, depending on the operator. The Scan counts with up to 98% accuracy in a constant and repeatable way. more...

High-quality Culture Media for Water Testing from SGL

06 Nov 2023 | Water

SGL is one of the largest providers of pre-poured microbiological culture media for all applications in water testing. This ranges from estimation of overall numbers of culturable micro-organisms to detection of waterborne contamination, including the specific isolation of Legionella pneumophilia. more...