Microbiology News: Oct 2022

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Microbiology News: Oct 2022

Aalto Bio Reagents Launches New Monkeypox Virus B21R-BSA Conjugate Peptides for Diagnostic Testing

31 Oct 2022 | Clinical

Aalto Bio’s new MPV peptides contain the surface glycoprotein B21R the region that contains important antibody targets as well as several key immunodominant epitopes. When conjugated to a carrier protein like BSA, this has been shown to greatly improve the sensitivity and stability of assays. more...

Medical Device Components That Inhibit Bacterial Growth

27 Oct 2022 | Laboratory Equipment

Vyon^® porous plastics from Porvair Sciences are the perfect material for filtration applications in the healthcare and medical device market more...

Application Note on Viable Fungi in Hospital Environments

27 Oct 2022 | ClinicalLaboratory Equipment

Bertin Instruments has developed the Coriolis air samplers that can be used for the rapid detection and monitoring of airborne pathogens within healthcare facilities. In this application note, discover how to rapidly quantify viable fungi in hospital environments using solid-phase cytometry. more...

Nobel Prize Awarded Technology Used for Detection of Legionella pneumophila

26 Oct 2022 | WaterLaboratory Equipment

Congrats to the nobel prize of chemie and Legionella enumeration is using their technology

Using click-chemistry and bio-orthogonal Chemistry, Diamidex has created a specific solution for enumerating pathogens bacterium Legionella pneumophila in 48 hours instead of 10 days as with standard culture methods. more...

The First ISO 16140-2 Validated Commercial Sterility Test

24 Oct 2022 | Food & Beverage

Neogen^®’s Soleris^® NF-105 testing vial has received MicroVal certification for commercial sterility testing. The easy-to-use test can provide results in as little as 14 hours after pre-incubation, streamlining processes and freeing up technician time. more...

Ensuring a Safe Environment for Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators

24 Oct 2022 | Water

Laboratory Staff using TRIOBAS AIRBIO ONE RAPID VIRUS

Staff in wastewater treatment plants may be exposed to pathogenic viruses. Aerosol testing is necessary to ensure their safety. The AIRBIO ONE RAPID-VIRUS is an innovative instrument for airborne viable particle sampling, designed to use with PCR testing or with traditional culture media techniques. more...

New Omicron Sub-lineage Likely to Cause Further Increase in COVID-19 Cases - ECDC

24 Oct 2022 | Clinical

SARS-CoV-2 sub-lineage BQ.1 has been designated as Variant of Interest (VOI) by ECDC as of 20 October 2022. Based on modelling estimates, it is expected that by mid-November to beginning of December 2022, more than 50% of SARS-CoV-2 infections will be due to BQ.1/BQ.1.1. more...

Campden Learning - New On Demand E-learning Platform Tailored to the Food and Drink Industry.

24 Oct 2022 | Food & Beverage

Campden Learning - Food and Drink Industry Training

An Introduction to Thermal Processing is the first course to be offered. Campden BRI’s experienced subject matter experts have produced audio-led bitesize sessions using a combination of video, animation, graphics and interactive tools, ensuring an engaging experience for participants. more...

New dataLink pro: Labelling on the Edge of the Petri Dish

21 Oct 2022 | Laboratory Equipment

dataLink pro is a traceability system for microbiological analysis workflow, from plating to automated counting, with a label on the edge of your Petri dish. dataLink pro is connected to the easySpiral platers and the Scan and ScanStation automatic colony counters. more...

High Quality Pre-Poured Culture Media Solutions for All Microbiology Applications

20 Oct 2022 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Offering standard pre-poured media as well as bespoke pre-poured media solutions across a broad range of industries, SGL continues to grow its business by offering flexible service and cost effective, high quality products to its customers. more...

Study Shows Rhinoswab Junior is a Better Swab for Testing Children for COVID and Other Viruses

20 Oct 2022 | Clinical

The Rhinoswab Junior is a swab designed specifically for children, this study demonstrates it's the best method for collecting samples from children when considering comfort, consistency, accuracy and efficacy. more...

iPeak^®, Open-System Lateral Flow Reader to Detect Low Positives

19 Oct 2022 | Food & BeverageClinicalVeterinary

The product will be on show at Medica - the lateral flow reader for fluorescence-labelled assays has a built-in internal sensor to monitor temperature during the scan, combined with IUL's colorimetric reader range making detection of even low positive results possible. more...

How to Setup AMR Surveillance Programs With BIOMIC V3

19 Oct 2022 | Clinical

BIOMIC V3 systems are placed across multiple lab locations in a country, hospital network, or government MOH program. Labs collect Disk Diffusion, Broth Microdilution, or MIC Strip AST & QC results to monitor AMR trends using BIOMIC V3's advanced AMR Data Export feature. more...

1 Hour In-house Mycoplasma Testing is Possible!

18 Oct 2022 | Pharmaceutical

BIOFIRE^® Mycoplasma is the fastest and easiest test to protect your products from Mycoplasma contamination that can be done by anyone, anywhere at any time. The result: speedy delivery of safe cell and gene therapies to patients in need. more...

Tackling Severe Disease with INTEGRA Biosciences’ Electronic Pipettes

18 Oct 2022 | Laboratory Equipment

These INTEGRA Biosciences tools have enabled the research team to cut pipetting times by 75%, freeing up staff to perform other vital tasks and increasing the lab’s sample throughput. more...

ZymoSnap ALP Rapidly and Accurately Verifies Proper Pasteurization

17 Oct 2022 | Food & Beverage

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP), an enzyme naturally present in raw milk, is an excellent indicator of proper milk pasteurization. Inactivation of the enzyme and verification of proper pasteurization can be confirmed in 5 minutes with a simple test, ZymoSnap ALP. more...

Entry-level Laboratory Sample Inventory Management Software

17 Oct 2022 | Laboratory Equipment

For laboratories that need to keep smaller inventories of stored samples well organized.the Ziath Samples software offers easy data entry, custom descriptors and powerful searching ability. more...

Cherwell Appoints Business Development Manager to Support Customers in the North

12 Oct 2022 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Cherwell Laboratories, a specialist supplier of environmental monitoring (EM) and process validation solutions for the pharmaceutical and related industries, has expanded its cleanroom microbiology sales specialist team to create additional support for customers in the north of the UK. more...

GMP-compliant Products and Services to Streamline Your Clinical Translation

11 Oct 2022 | ClinicalOther

AMSBIO’ have an extensive range of GMP compliant cell culture media, recombinant proteins, dissociation enzymes, cryopreservation, and viral gene delivery products. more...

MBS-HACCP&WATER Easy Test - A Lab in a Vial

11 Oct 2022 | Food & BeverageWaterLaboratory EquipmentOtherVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal CareMicrobiome

MBS ( micro biological survey) method is a validated tool for enumeration of bacterial parameters like TVC, coliform, e coli, listeria ,salmonella, S. aureus sensitivity 1 cfu/ ml. more...

Single Rack Thawing Station Offers Uniform and Quick Sample Thawing

10 Oct 2022 | Laboratory Equipment

With this unique instrument, lab researchers can thaw a complete rack from -80°C to 5°C in only 6 minutes. For the thawing of the samples, only ambient air is used. more...

Antibodies For Development of Rapid, Non-culture Based Immunoassay Detection of Gram Negatives

10 Oct 2022 | Food & BeverageClinical

Antibodies for immunassay development Gram negative bacteria

Monoclonal antibodies to LPS in Gram Negative cell wall are useful tools for rapid, non-culture based immunoassays including ELISA and lateral flow to directly detect these bacteria. more...

RNAdvantage - Protection for RNA Samples at Room Temperature

10 Oct 2022 | Clinical

Designed to protect and preserve RNA from most tissues, cultured cells, bacteria, and yeast for up to 14-days, RNAdvantage eliminates the traditional costs of flash freezing samples dry-ice shipping and freezer storage. more...

NCIMB Offers cGMP Compliant Fungal Identification Service

07 Oct 2022 | Food & BeveragePharmaceutical

Fungi can cause serious issues in pharmaceutical or food & drink manufacturing environments, but identification of isolates can be challenging. NCIMB’s identification service for yeasts and moulds is GMP compliant and based on the use of the MicroSeq validated fungal database. more...

High Capacity Square Anaerobic Jar – Special Offer

06 Oct 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Making anaerobic incubation much simpler, SY-LAB has introduced nox.18 - the new square jar. With its small footprint and high sample capacity nox.18 is simple, cost-effective, and secure. more...

Monkeypox Assay for BD MAX™ System Now Available Worldwide for RUO

05 Oct 2022 | Clinical

Working together with CerTest Biotec, BD have made their newly developed PCR assay for monkeypox virus commercially available worldwide, including in the United States, for research use only (RUO) by laboratories. more...

The Most Advanced and Eco-Friendly Integrity Testing Solution for PHEs - Gappscan™ G2

05 Oct 2022 | Food & BeveragePharmaceutical

The Gappscan™ G2 has been developed specifically to detect cross-contaminating defects in plate heat exchangers across regulated industries, including dairy, food, brewery, and pharmaceutical. more...

Modern Microbial Testing Methods for QC at PDA Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology

04 Oct 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Here's why you should stop by the Charles River Laboratories booth at this year's PDA Pharmaceutical Microbiology meeting. Make sure to meet the microbial solutions team and find out how to elevate your microbial testing requirements. more...

Prepare for the QC Lab of the Futurewith Complete Testing Solutions

04 Oct 2022 | Pharmaceutical

Are you ready to transform your QC lab into a sustainable, automated and digitalized Lab of the Future? Stop by Lonza Booth #412 and pick up your special invitation to our VIP Reception on Tuesday, 11 October, 6:00-8:00pm during PDA Micro 2022. more...

Go Digital - Streamline the QC Microbiology Process with SherpaPharma EM

04 Oct 2022 | Pharmaceutical

SherpaPharma offers a cloud-based, easy-to-implement/use, EM solution that utilizes today’s technologies to optimize/simplify the whole EM collection process and provides real-time powerful data analysis and trending capabilities with a click of a button. more...

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