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University of Birmingham ABCA2 Installation
University of Birmingham Installation Systems Engineer Tom Iordanidis recently completed an ABCA2 with versa installation for Professor Gareth Wallis from the School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences at Birmingham University. Tom spent five days on...
The Polish Conference on Analytical Chemistry 2025 (PoKoCha)
The Polish Conference on Analytical Chemistry 2025 (PoKoCha) The PoKoChA 2025 conference will take place in the unique surroundings of Gdańsk, with the sea, sun and beach in the background, at a number of locations around the city including the University of Gdańsk,...
Installation visit to Greece
Installation visit to Greece Henry Cooke and Tom Iordanidis conducted a joint installation visit for Christina Papageorgopoulo at the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, part of the Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini, Greece in May. The installation of the...
Chilesaurus LA-IRMS Sampling
Chilesaurus LA-IRMS Sampling In the development phases of LA-IRMS (a collaboration with Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines), a number of installations around the world were exploring how this technique can help them with their research. In 2023 one of our...
ANU in Canberra revisited
ANU in Canberra revisited. As our focus on our Laser Ablation IRMS collaboration with Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines continues, we thought we would revisit an LA-IRMS installation from early 2024. Professor Stewart Fallon from world-leading Australian...
LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis
LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis We’re pleased to publish a new application note using the Laser Ablation IRMS techniques pioneered by a collaboration between Sercon, Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines. Great Basin bristlecone...
Amherst Installation
Amherst Installation Service engineer Rob Kameny recently spent time at Amherst College, University of Massachusetts, to install a replacement Elemental Analyser and relocate a number of other instruments into the new Beneski Earth Sciences lab for Prof. David S....
Laser Ablation in Action
Laser Ablation in Action The high profile Laser Ablation IRMS technique uses a finely focused laser beam to remove microscopic amounts of material from the sample surface, which can be seen in this clever little video. One of the technique's key benefits is that it is...
Multi-Lingual Support for LA-IRMS site
Multi-Lingual Support for LA-IRMS site As the three way Laser Ablation IRMS technique collaboration between Sercon, Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines continues to draw international interest (thanks for the heads up Google Analytics!), we have added...
The Value of Collaboration
The Value of Collaboration Few real breakthroughs are achieved without collaboration, and the Laser Ablation IRMS is a case in point according to Sercon Director Garry Armstrong and Damon Green, Business Unit Manager at Teledyne Photon Machines. Damon is a geologist...
LA-IRMS – a Primer
Laser Ablation-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (LA-IRMS) – A Primer by Cipiran Stremtan Introduction Laser Ablation-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (LA-IRMS) is an advanced analytical technique used to measure the isotopic composition (light stable isotopes) of solid...
Garry Armstrong and Damon Green In LA_IRMS Conversation
Garry Armstrong and Damon Green In LA-IRMS Conversation Watch Sercon’s Garry Armstrong in conversation with Damon Green from Teledyne Photon Machines about the development of Laser Ablation Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (LA-IRMS) technique which is now starting to...
Analysis of 18O/16O Isotope Ratios in Organic Matter by Laser Ablation IRMS
Analysis of 18O/16O Isotope Ratios in Organic Matter by Laser Ablation IRMS The first successful measurement of d13C and d18O in one go using UV lasers (e.g., 213 nm wavelength lasers) is documented in this paper by Elina K. Sahlstedt, Neil J. Loader and Katja T....
Launching www.la-irms.com
Launching www.la-irms.com Sercon Instruments, Teledyne Photon Machines and Terra Analitic are delighted to announce the launch of www.la-irms.com. This is the culmination of a collaboration between the three companies dating back as far as 1996. The intervening years...
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton General Hospital Part of Southampton University, the labs at Southampton General Hospital, are home to an old ABCA-G service being used by Dr Paul Afolabi, which he thinks was installed in 2003. The instrument is currently being used to investigate the...
If you go down to the woods today…
If you go down to the woods today… … you may not be in for a big surprise, but on International Day of Forests, it’s worth thinking about what forests can tell us about our past and future. Whether you’re walking your dog or simply communing with nature, we can never...
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast Senior Engineer Dave Harris visited the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast last week to reinstall their old 2022 & CryoPrep so that they can run CO2 samples from the headspaces of plant/soil...
Arizona Installation
Arizona Installation Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer David Harris travelled to the Bryan Bannister Tree Ring Building at the University of Arizona for a major two-week installation of an HS2022, a Pyro EArth, and a Cryo-LA with Teledyne LSX-213 GC+....
Henry’s ABCA Voyage
Henry’s ABCA Voyage Service engineer Henry Cooke recently undertook a bit of an ‘ABCA voyage’ tour, taking in three locations, all in the medical testing field: Installation of a new rotary pump at CERBA in Frepillon (Paris), for Thomas Le-Picard of the Physical...
Installation visit Helsinki
Installation visit Helsinki Service Engineer Rob Kameny has just completed the installation of a new HS2022 at LUKE (Finland’s Natural Resources Institute) in Helsinki. This is their second HS2022; the expansion is due to the success of their lab, and the second...
New HS2022 Installation at Sercon Analytical
New HS2022 Installation at Sercon Analytical Our engineering team are in the process of installing a new HS2022 in the lab at Sercon Analytical, a division of Sercon Instruments (they didn’t have far to go, as the two companies share office space!). “This is a new...
IAEA PUI Scheme
The IAEA PUI Scheme Under the PUI scheme (see below) run by the IAEA ( the International Atomic Energy Agency), Sercon has recently supplied an HS2022 with a PyroEarth elemental analyser. The HS2022 is, we believe, the most sensitive small-radius Isotope Ratio Mass...
Service Visit to New Caledonia
Service Visit to New Caledonia Our Systems Engineers travel far and wide for installations as well as regular service visits to our customer base around the world. The southwest Pacific Ocean island of New Caledonia was a recent service and maintenance stop for Rob...
Nanjing Normal University Installation
Nanjing Normal University Late last year, Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris travelled to China to for a CryoPrep installation and to train our agent for future installations. Chao He from agent Lab Tech, is supporting researchers Meiqi Chen,...
Secrets Unveiled by Notre Dame Fire
Secrets Unveiled by Notre Dame Fire Sometimes opportunities to learn arise from even the biggest of disasters. The 2019 Notre-Dame de Paris fire is a classic example, opening a unique window on the past. Researchers from France, Finland and Canada have been unlocking...
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 We’ve just received our renewal of FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser. MD Mark O’Connor is proud of the achievement: “The ABCA2 is the only FDA approved, high performance IRMS instrument with large sample...
Honey Adulteration New EU Rules
Honey Adulteration New EU Rules Since the end of November, third party countries exporting honey and other apiculture products to the EU for human consumption must be registered, and consignments may only enter the bloc if they are despatched from, obtained and/or...
Argentina Installation
Argentina Installation Visit Systems Engineer James Hanson recently worked with Jenck S.A. Instrumental, Sercon’s agent in Argentina, to complete an installation at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in Argentina. Once the installations – an HTEA, a CryoPrep, an...
𝛅13C in Hair (dog and human) and Fingernail Keratin by LA IRMS
𝛅13C in Hair (dog and human) and Fingernail Keratin by LA IRMS You’ll find plenty of application notes on our new website, including this brand new one: 𝛅13C in Hair (dog and human) and Fingernail Keratin by LA IRMS Measuring 𝛅13C in hair and fingernail keratin helps...
Installation and Service Peru
The School of Chemistry at Universidad Nacional De San Agustin (UNSA) in Arequipa, Peru hosted a five day installation, service and maintenance visit from Sercon Service Engineer Dave Harris in July. The UNSA team, led by Prof. Juan Lopa and Gina Daza, undertake...
Monaco Service Visit
Systems Engineer Rob Kameny undertook a routine service visit to the Marine Biology department at the Centre Scientifique de Monaco last month. The lab, led by Dr Renaud Grover, runs a Sercon Integra2, and their work aims to understand the effects of climatic...
Unlocking Medical Insights with IRMS
Garry Armstrong will be presenting a talk entitled “Unlocking Medical Insights with IRMS: An Introduction to Sercon Systems” at 10am today (26th September) in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 1st International Conference on the Use of...
BFR Berlin
The Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, BfR, (the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) in Berlin recently welcomed Sercon’s systems engineer Rob Kameny, who visited to conduct an annual service on their mass spectrometers. Stephanie Panitz runs several...
Synlab Belgium
This photo was taken on a recent annual service and maintenance visit undertaken by one of our Service and Installation Engineers Henry Cooke, to SYNLAB Belgium. The ABCA2 and VerSA instruments run by Valery Daubie are operated in the Molecular Biology department,...
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana Service engineer Dave Harris recently found himself at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. This time, his work was at the Center for Environmental Science and Technology, where he worked with Stable...
Diagnostic Centre Bled
Diagnostic Centre, BledIn a recent two day visit to the medical testing operation run by Diagnostic Centre, Bled, based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Service and Installation Engineer Henry Cooke worked on ABCA2 and VerSA instruments, which are under the management of...
Canadian Customer Training Visit
Canadian Customer Training Visit Lecturer and Head of the Marine Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Quebec at Rimouski, Mathieu Babin, has been spending last week and this with the engineering team at...
Queen Mary University
Queen Mary University Service Engineer Dave Harris visited the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences at Queen Mary University, London recently to service an Integra2 (N&C) and an HS2022 & ANCA/GSL for Ian Sanders, Organismal Analytical Laboratories...
Oslo Service Visit
Oslo Service Visit For his first service visit in Scandinavia, Service and Installation Engineer Henry Cooke visited the Unger-Vetlesens Research Institute at Lovisenberg Diakonale Sykenhus in Olso. Our customer, Gunn Helen Malmstrøm, is engaged with biomedical...
Collaboration with BGS presented at SIMSUG
Collaboration with British Geological Society Collaborate. Innovate. Create. Sercon’s core values. Here’s an exciting example of how that translates into the real world – collaborations that make a real scientific impact: Dr Andi Smith, Stable Isotope Geochemist at...
ANU Canberra Installation
ANU Canberra Installation Professor Stewart Fallon from world-leading Australian National University’s Research School of Earth Sciences has been involved with Sercon equipment for quite a few years, working on N & C samples on an HS2022 and GSL (a combustion EA...
CERBA Instrument Relocation
Cerba Instrument Relocation Systems Engineer James Hanson recently supported a customer with the relocation and reinstallation of their entire suite of ABCA systems to a new lab space to carry out their very high demand for 13C breath analysis. Cerba’s move to its new...
Servicing a 34 year old IRMS in Helsinki
Servicing a 34 year old IRMS in Helsinki Tvarminne Zoological Station (University of Helsinki) is a remote research station near Hanko, Finland, running various marine and costal N&C analysis using a very old (upgraded) IRMS called a Tracer Mass and GSL system....
Instrument Relocation in Peru
Systems Engineer James Hanson has been back to South America to take care of Stage One of a major instrument move in Arequipa, Peru. The Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa (UNSA) is relocating its Stable Isotopes Laboratory, and James spent a week testing...
Ohio State University Installation
Ohio State University Installation The Lal Carbon Center at Ohio State University plan to use their new Sercon INTEGRA2, recently installed by Senior Engineer Dave Harris, for agricultural testing purposes. Mainly looking at 15N and 13C data via combustion but also,...
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 We’ve just received our renewal of FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser. MD Mark O’Connor is proud of the achievement: “The ABCA2 is the only FDA approved, high performance IRMS instrument with large sample...
IRMS Installation Ankara University
IRMS Installation Ankara University Earth Science Applications and Research Centre (YEBIM) in Ankara University in Turkey has a brand new HS2022 IRMS and PyroEarth system, installed by Sercon Europe’s Systems Engineer Rob Kameny, alongside the Lita Analitik team – our...
Chilesaurus Laser Sampling!
The second Leg of Systems Engineer James Hanson’s Chilean roadtrip took him to the Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), a private University in Viña del Mar. The visit was for the installation of a multi-prep suite of Sercon instruments in the Isotope Analysis Lab to...
Honey Adulteration Lab Service
Service engineer Dave Harris visited the Interfind laboratory to service a Sercon Integra2 combined benchtop integrated EA-IRMS in Thessaloniki last week. Melinda Ltd combines has combined traditional beekeeping techniques with the most state-of-the-art facilities in...
ABCA Used for Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Research
Service Engineer James Hanson has just been to Southampton General Hospital and performed a successful dual turbo upgrade and full service on a Sercon ABCA system being used by Dr Paul Afolabi in the Mass Spectrometry Lab. Dr Paul Afolabi will use the Sercon ABCA...
Servicing in Potsdam
Service PM Dave Harris is at the AWI institute Alfred Wenger Institute in Potsdam this week, where he has been servicing a Sercon HS2022 IRMS for Andreas Marent. The HS2022 is the most sensitive small radius IRMS in the world. Combining superior analytical performance...
Data bulletin: Sercon ABCA Maintenance and Decontamination
Any breath sample has the potential to include contaminants such as bacteria and viruses Simple precautions can be taken to prevent the build up and spread of these contaminants. Read more in our bulletin > Data Bulletin - Sercon ABCA Maintenance and...
High sensitivity source now available in the Integra2
High sensitivity source now available in the Integra2 The Sercon high sensitivity source is now available as an optional upgrade in the Integra2. Giving improved sensitivity and a larger dynamic range, the high sensitivity source allows researchers to measure small...
The ABCA2’s role in early detection of liver damage
One of the scientists using Sercon's ABCA2 at Southampton General Hospital is hopeful the technique he has developed will help in the prevention of liver damage and type 2 diabetes in a world where obesity is causing ever more health problems. Dr Paul Afolabi, who...