The laboratory vacuum pump Lab Vac by Piab uses compressed air provided by a standard compressed air system to generate a vacuum. The vacuum can be provided to 11 mmHg absolute, making it ideal for all common laboratory applications such as vacuum filtration, rotary evaporation, degassing, gel drying, etc.

Physicists from Itmo University have discovered an accessible method that makes it possible to use transparent materials for solar cells while preserving their efficiency. The new technology is based on the method of doping — the modification of properties of materials by way of adding impurities — but without the use of expensive special-purpose equipment.

Asynt has published a case study describing how the Frosyn Cooling Station has enabled John Bower’s Group at the University of Liverpool, UK, to reproducibly conduct low temperature enantioselective catalytic reactions, over an extended period of time.

A species of seed-feeding fly is critically damaging the seed production of multiple orchid species, a group of Japanese researchers revealed. If the damage caused by this fly is occurring long-term and across Japan, these already-endangered orchid species could become unable to reproduce using seeds, and their dwindling numbers will take a large hit.

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the availability of a new testing workflow kit that is the only validated, certified system on the market that can identify Salmonella species in poultry and other high-risk areas, such as pork and eggs, as well as differentiate between servovars Entertidis and Typhimurium — and return the results by the next day.

Chinese pharmaceutical company Triastek specializes in 3D printed drugs. Now, its Investigational New Drug (IND) 505(b)(2) application for its first 3D-printed drug, T19, has been granted for use by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and ETH Zurich have developed a process to produce commodity chemicals in a much less hazardous way than was previously possible. Such commodity chemicals represent the starting point for many mass-produced products in the chemical industry.

In order to increase the production of venum-based screening assays, Venomtech is using the adjustable tip spacing pipettes from Integra.

N-Biotek and their distributor for Europe, Dunn Labortechnik, launched the new large capacity CO2 incubator Max Cell.The 880 liter incubator provides the perfect environment for large-scale cell culture applications in one big platform.

The manufacturer of temperature control equipment and systems, Lauda, is expanding its portfolio with the new Versafreeze product line. It consists of high-quality ultra-freezers which have been optimized for the extreme requirements of deep-freeze storage.