"Trickle down" fodder just keeps rolling in.......
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Amazing magnitude.
Any reference to trickle down is reference to the traditional business at NBSC, and, on those lines.....
Ad in current (September, page 653) issue of BioTechniques..... features coffee set and mini fridge promo for stackable shakers, the C24 incubator shaker, and the AS-10 agar sterilizer together with the MP-100 dish filler. Nice ad, not going to set any records for glitz.
The newest (1 September) hard copy issue (given my postal route) of Genetic Engineering News is filled with NBS. There's the now-routine, full page ad (page 12) that has to be bringing in a ton of new business...... features the BioFlo 3000 fermentor. Other highlights are cGMP-compliant custom fermentors (remember that NBS has a terrible reputation for process-scale devices), BioFlo 4500 fermentor, Innova shakers, the coffee/fridge promo, contract services for cell culture and pilot-scale fermentation, and a Slit-to-Agar air sampler.
Then there's a very nice "Bioprocess Tutorial", written by Yinliang Chen (Director of R&D) and Dr. Julia Cino (Product Manager) on page 36. The title is Nutrient-Feed Control in Fed-Batch Fermenting, and it features a Pichia run in a 20-liter BioFlo 4500.
Nice job. Chen and Cino are apparently working hard, and shareholders should benefit. Wish the same could be said for Freedman and Eichenbaum.
There's more! Page 69..... An article by Vicki Glaser..... Improving Process Control Demands a Team Effort...... it leads off with Jerry Gerber, NBS Product Manager (yet another) and his emphasis on the need for flexibility in process control. Then there's this....
"Within the next few months, New Brunswick will release Biocommand 32, fully networkable supervisory software that can supervise a large number of laboratory or pilot-scale fermentors and bioreactors. Biocommand 32, an extension of the company's AFS Biocommand software, has a graphical user interface and synoptic display." |
