Lab Services - Testing Services

Health Protection Agency Culture Collections
Address: Health Protection Agency, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK SP4 0JG
Tel: + 44 1980 612512 Fax: +44 1980 611315
Web: www.ecacc.org.uk Email: ecacc@hpa.org.uk
Contact: Dr Elizabeth Fashola-Stone

Company Profile
Formation of the Health Protection Agency in 2003 brought together four of the existing UK culture collections, NCTC, NCPV, NCPF and ECACC:

EUROPEAN COLLECTION OF CELL CULTURES (ECACC)
One of the world's premier collections of authenticated cell cultures, with over 40,000 cell lines representing 45 different species. Along with a new range of Early Passage Cells and associated media.

NATIONAL COLLECTION OF PATHOGENIC FUNGI (NCPF)
The UK's only culture collection specialising in fungi pathogenic to humans and animals. The NCPF holds about 2500 strains, most of which are available for sale and distribution.

NATIONAL COLLECTION OF PATHOGENIC VIRUSES (NCPV)
Preserves well-characterised, authenticated human pathogenic viruses in a secure facility, and supplies the agents or nucleic acids derived from them to the scientific community according to national and international guidelines.

NATIONAL COLLECTION OF TYPE CULTURES (NCTC)
Supplies reference bacterial cultures of medical, scientific and veterinary importance world-wide to support academic, health, food and veterinary institutions. The collection comprises over 5000 bacterial cultures, over 100 mycoplasmas and more than 500 plasmids, host strains, bacteriophages and transposons.

The collections also support a range of identification, characterisation and testing services. HPACC supplies its microorganisms, products and services to both academic and commercial customers worldwide.

Product and services: Cell culture, Cell Lines, Cell Line, Normal Early Passage Cells, Normal Early Passage Cell Media, Synoviocytes, dermal papilla cells, endothelia cells, HUVEC, Coronary artery, smooth muscle cells, skeletal muscle cells, chondrocytes, osteoblasts, preadipocytes, keratinocytes, melanocytes, primary cultures, human control DNA, genomic DNA, primate DNA, ethnic diversity DNA, ethnic DNA, Diabetes, Diabetes Type 1 DNA, Diabetes Type 2 DNA, microbial testing, sterility testing, DNA extraction, RNA extraction, cell pellets, virus testing, mycoplasma testing, mycoplasma eradication, cell culture scale-up, training courses, blood processing, EBV transformation, cGMP Safe Deposit, Safe Deposit, Patent Deposit, Cell Banking, quarantine cell banking, inventory management, cell analysis, quality assurance, cell verification, genomic modification of cells, serum-free adaptation and banking, tissue processing, cryo-preserved tissue digests, laboratory automation, pharmacogentics, HTS, high screening, DNA quantification, liquid handling, blood collection, cell collection, drug analysis, biomaufacturing, biotechnology, life science, genetic, pharmaceutical, drug discover, consultancy, cell culture troubleshooting, facility set-up, growth profiling, cell phenotype analysis, second site storage, bacterial, reference standards, plasmids, host strains, bacteriophages, transposons, LENTICULE, International Depository Authority, viruses, fungi, yeast, dermatophytes, mould, dimorphic fungal pathogens.

Mettler Toledo Ltd
Address: 64 Boston Road, Beaumont Leys, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom LE4 1AW
Tel: 0116 235 7070 Fax: 0116 236 5500
Web: www.mt.com Email: enquire.mtuk@mt.com
Contact: Alison Mason

Company Profile
Mettler-Toledo Limited is the world’s largest manufacturer of weighing equipment and one of the leading suppliers of analytical instruments.

Our extensive produce portfolio includes analytical and process instruments for the measurement of pH, thermal properties, dissolved oxygen, moisture content, density, refractive index, carbon dioxide and much more. In addition laboratory balances and titrators offer a wide range of solutions for all applications.

Our AutoChem business unit focuses on accelerating the R&D process and scale-up to production in pharmaceutical and chemical industries, specifically the discovery, development and manufacture of chemical compounds. We shorten time-to-market by accelerating the synthesis, purification and process development of chemical compounds through integration, automation and sophisticated software solutions.

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ALcontrol Laboratories
Address: Units 7-8, Hawarden Business Park, Manor Road, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales CH5 3US
Tel: 01244 528700 Fax: 01244 528701
Contact: Paul Board

Company Profile
ALcontrol Laboratories provides public and private sectors with chemical and microbiological analytical and monitoring services in the following areas: asbestos, air emissions, COSHH, drinking water, ecotoxicology, food, fuel, legionella, Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV), occupational hygiene, oil, noise monitoring, soil, vibration, wastewater, Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC).

Nationwide UK coverage and UKAS (ISO 17025 and 17020) and MCERTS accreditation where appropriate, with laboratories also in Europe (France, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden). Competitive, confidential. and rapid service provided through our network of state-of-the-art laboratories.

ALcontrol On-Site Services
Address: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK S60 1BZ
Tel: 0845 1 200 400 Fax: 01709 841148
Contact: Matthew Timms

Company Profile
ALcontrol On-Site Services is a trading division of ALcontrol Laboratories providing on-site monitoring and consultancy services in the following areas: asbestos, air (stack) emissions, COSHH, legionella, Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV), noise (environmental and workplace), occupational hygiene, and vibration.

Backed by a nationwide network of UKAS (ISO 17025) accredited laboratories, and also accredited to UKAS (ISO 17020) for asbestos inspection and MCERTS for stack emissions testing, clients can be assured of a trusted, confidential and competitive service.

AMS Biotechnology
Address: 63B Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, England OX14 4RX
Tel: 01235 828200 Fax: 01235 820482
Web: www.amsbio.com Email: info@amsbio.com
Contact: William Booth, Christopher Anderson

Company Profile
For over 20 years AMS Biotechnology has been supplying life science researchers with innovative products and services.
Covering Europe from the UK, Germany and Switzerland, AMS has built significant relations with most pharma, biotech and academic centres.
With offerings for both genomics and proteomics research, the range includes genes, proteins and tissue products. Strategic research areas include Apoptosis & Autophagy, DNA Damage, Oxidative Stress and Biomarker discovery.

Product Highlights:
- Antibody arrays
- Cell Invasion, Cell Migration and Angiogenesis Assays
- PAGEgel long life precast gels for SDS PAGE, fitting Xcell™ tanks.
- >30,000 human full length cDNA clones
- Gene silencing (siRNA/RNAi) and transfection reagents
- RNA/DNA isolation, manipulation and amplification kits

Products from our ImmunoKontact brand include:
- Recombinant kinases and HDACs
- >150 phospho-specific antibodies
- Antibodies to Toll Like Receptors, Dendritic cell markers and TAGs.
- Custom antibody production, Protein Expression and peptide synthesis

Anachem Ltd
Address: 20 Charles Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom LU2 0EB
Tel: 01582 747500 Fax: 01582 745105
Web: www.anachem.co.uk Email: bioscience@anachem.co.uk
Contact: Carole Staniford

Company Profile
Anachem is the UK & Ireland’s leading service and supply organization for laboratory liquid handling, chromatography and automation instrumentation and consumables.

Our extensive range of Gilson and Rainin pipettes is complemented by high quality, precision pipette tips and other plastic consumables. These include microtubes, tube racks, PCR plastics and deep well plates from TreffLab, and SSI Inc. New collaborations have further enhanced the range to include manual liquid handling products from VITLAB and an extensive line of filtration and membrane products for industrial and laboratory applications from GE and Munktell.

A comprehensive range of products from Gilson, Thar, Upchurch and YMC provide solutions for Chromatography, Robotic Liquid Handling, Solid Phase Extraction and Supercritical Fluid Chromatography.

Our ReactArray workstations provide greater control, efficiency and throughput for process chemistry applications.

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Anton Paar Ltd
Address: 13 Harforde Court, John Tate Road, Hertford, Hertford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom SG13 7NW
Tel: 01992 514730 Fax: 01992 514739
Contact:

Company Profile
Anton Paar Ltd represent the full range of Anton Paar products in both the UK and Ireland. Instruments are avialable for density and Specific Gravity measurements of virtually any liquid as well as a wide range of systems for rheology and viscosity work.
Anton Paar Ltd now also sell and support the Paar range of microwave digestion systems and the new Synthos microwave Synthesis station.

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Apex Finance Ltd
Address: 14 High Street, East Grinstead, West Sussex, United Kingdom RH19 3AW
Tel: 01342 301784 Fax: 01342 301865
Contact: .

Company Profile
Finance and leasing company specialising in financing laboratory equipment and general assets into a wide range of industry sectors. Our main focus is in the Health, lifescience/biotechnology, NHS, Chemical, and Food manufacturing sectors.

ATP Instrumentation Ltd
Address: Tournament Way, Ivanhoe Industrial Estate, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom LE65 2UU
Tel: 01530 566800 Fax: 01530 560373
Contact: Alan Twigg

Company Profile
Supply, hire, repair and calibration of test, measurement and monitoring instruments for temperature, humidity, moisture, airflow, light, noise and environmental monitoring, sound levels, chemical analysis, brix, pH and conductivity testing, electrical testing, gas, pressure, force and condition monitoring.
Instruments include thermometers, probes, chart recorders, data loggers, temperature labels, thermo-hygrometers, moisture meters, anemometers, thermo-anemometers, environment meters, timers, stopwatches, micrometers, callipers, thickness meters, multimeters, clamp meters, portable appliance testers, pH meters, conductivity meters, electro-chemical solutions, refractometers, brix meters, density meters, tachometers, stroboscopes, force gauges, gas leak detectors, gas monitors, pressure meters, light meters, environment meters, sound level meters, dosemeters, calibrators, scales, balances, weights, crane scales, parts counting scales.

Bachem (UK) Ltd
Address: Delph Court, Sullivans Way, St Helens, Merseyside, England WA9 5GL
Tel: 01744 612108 Fax: 01744 730064
Contact: Judith Roberts

Company Profile
Bachem UK distribute immunology products (sourced from our sister company Peninsula Laboratories) used in a wide variety of research fields such as apoptosis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience, obesity, osteoporosis and pituitary dysfunction. New products are continually introduced to our immunology range, which presently numbers around 1550 items, which are updated on our web site.
Product categories include diluted, undiluted and purified anti-sera (IgG) for Immunohistochemistry and Radioimmunoassay, Enzymeimmunoassay EIA/ELISA kits, RIA kits, Immunofluorescence kits and 125I-labelled peptides. We also offer custom kit formulation and custom iodination (125I).
Our UK office processes orders from the UK and Europe and can provide data sheets and protocols for our products, along with copies of our current catalogue. We also offer a technical assistance service, in conjunction with our sister company. A custom peptide synthesis service is also available, please enquire for details.
Please feel free to contact our sales support staff who will be pleased to assist you with your immunology/custom peptide requirements.

Benson Viscometers Ltd
Address: Croft Quarry, West Williamston, Pembrokeshire, UK SA68 0TN
Tel: +44(0)1646650065 Fax: +44(0)1646650066
Contact: Bernie Benson

Company Profile
Benson Viscometers specialises in producing laboratory instruments for the measurement of the viscosity of fluids.

The BV200, an automated multi-sample Blood Plasma Viscometer was successfully introduced in 2001 and is now the leading plasma viscometer available in the UK and Ireland. There are over 50 systems in hospitals using this instrument to screen and monitor patients with inflammatory conditions such as those caused by Myeloma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Macroglobulinaemia and Polymyalgia Rheumatica.

With the Benson BV200 there is no need to take an additional blood sample for plasma viscosity measurement as it can be performed in the same standard sealed blood collection tube used for a full blood count and it only uses 50 micro-litres of plasma.

Brookhaven Instruments Ltd
Address: Chapel House, Stock Wood Lane, Stock Wood, Worcestershire, United Kingdom B96 6ST
Tel: 01386 792727 Fax: 01386 792720
Web: www.brookhaven.co.uk Email: info@brookhaven.co.uk
Contact: Sales Department

Company Profile
Authorised distributor of Brookhaven Instruments' particle size, zeta potential & polymer molecular weight characterization instruments and light scattering systems and Duke Scientific certified particle size standards, fluorescent and flow cytometry microspheres.

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