The possibilities for wireless animal monitoring continue to grow with the latest releases from ADInstruments and Telemetry Research. New capabilities include recording blood pressure, recording three signals from one animal simultaneously, recording simultaneously and continuously from a number of animals, and recording while recharging in situ.
Successful company founder, Dr. Kengatharan began using PowerLab systems fifteen years ago while completing his doctorate studies at London University, UK with Nobel laureate Sir John Vane. Dr. Kengatharan has continued to use PowerLab to expedite his research as he has advanced his career within prestigious institutions in England and North America.
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Last month Dr Giovanni Casotti and Dr Maureen Knabb, Professors of Biology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, hosted life science educators from across North America to share curriculum ideas, teaching experiments and laboratory techniques. As teachers to at least 400 students every year, Dr Casotti and Dr Knabb are well-qualified to share what does and doesn’t work in the laboratory classroom.
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In 1988 several scientists at the University of Wollongong pioneered the use of a compact, inexpensive computer-based data acquisition and analysis system that had been developed by the newly-established company, ADInstruments. The scientists had the foresight to reject the bulky, high maintenance paper chart recorders that were more commonly-used at this time.
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During last year's summer season a group of researchers from New Zealand and Sweden took PowerLab to Antarctica, where it was used to assess the effects of climate change on notothenioid fish cardiovascular and respiratory physiology.
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The revolutionary LabTutor software for PowerLab systems has been one of ADInstruments' most innovative developments for life science teaching. These case studies focus on two different institutions that have made LabTutor a core tool in their first year physiology practical programs.
Over the past twenty years, our customers have used PowerLab data acquisition systems to research how countless variables affect human physiology – including factors present in our bodies, lifestyle choices and the environment. Now, a group of Canadian researchers has moved onto the final frontier, and are using PowerLab to study how life in microgravity on the International Space Station affects astronaut cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology.
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ADInstruments’ acclaimed software for life science laboratory teaching, LabTutor, has been enhanced by the release of LabAuthor. LabAuthor software gives educators easy-to-use tools for editing LabTutor physiology, pharmacology and biology experiments for PowerLab data acquisition systems. It also allows educators to create new LabTutor experiments to suit their classroom.
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ADInstruments has released LabChart 6, a new generation of software for their PowerLab data acquisition systems. The release is part of the company’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, and is enhanced by the simultaneous release of the LabChart Reader application. LabChart Reader enables viewing and limited analysis of LabChart data files, and is available as a free download from the ADInstruments website.
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ADInstruments has released five pharmacology teaching experiments for use with their innovative education software, LabTutor, and PowerLab data acquisition systems. The experiments enable students to complete isolated tissue practicals right from the start of their pharmacology education.
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