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From routine blood testing to bowel cancer screening and specialist biomarker assays such as calprotectin, our extensive diagnostic portfolio helps clinical professionals detect, monitor and manage medical conditions.
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Essential laboratory supplies to help improve your efficiency and performance - liquid handling pipettes, tips, PCR and other consumables, plus lab equipment all with guaranteed quality and value.
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A wide range of specialist research antibodies and reagents covering disciplines such as biochemistry, metabolic studies, neurobiology, nucleic acid research, proteomics, tissue culture, microbiology and much more.

Latest Clinical Diagnostic Developments

     
  • Help Patients Provide Better Samples

    Help Patients Provide Better Samples

    Ensuring minimum fuss, easy specimen sampling and preventing contamination with toilet water and chemicals, the simple Fe-Col paper loop is an economical way to make faecal collection more convenient and testing more controlled.
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  • Fully Automate Your Calprotectin Testing

    Fully Automate Your Calprotectin Testing

    The BÜHLMANN fCAL® turbo calprotectin assay in combination with the new CALEX extraction device design enables fully automated calprotectin testing on laboratory track systems.
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  • A Cost Effective Alternative to Colonoscopy

    A Cost Effective Alternative to Colonoscopy

    NICE DG30 - How Does This Impact Your Clinical Practice?
    Find out the latest views on Faecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) for symptomatic testing for bowel disease.
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  • Supporting New Standards of Care for IBD

    Supporting New Standards of Care for IBD

    IBDoc® is the first CE marked Calprotectin Home Test. It provides a practical way for more frequent monitoring of patients in the privacy of their own home.
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  • Clinical Chemistry from A-Z

    Clinical Chemistry from A-Z

    From ACE to Zinc we have an extensive range of Clinical Chemistry assays, calibrators, standards and controls from the highest quality manufacturers. Check out the full range.
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  • <i>New</i> Issue of Leading Edge

    New Issue of Leading Edge

    Read about a new pathway for Faecal Calprotectin testing in primary care, introducing patient home tests for Calprotectin in a routine District General Hospital and logistics for FIT testing in this new issue of our diagnostics newsletter.
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  • Focus on FIT

    Focus on FIT

    Since the publication of NICE DG30, interest in Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) to triage patients with abdominal symptoms has escalated. Find out about current FIT studies and clinical thinking on the application of FIT, from experts in the field.
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  • Easy Allergy Testing without the Risk

    Easy Allergy Testing without the Risk

    Read all about the BÜHLMANN Flow CAST® assay in the new Basophil Activation Test Brochure. Offers a safe and simple in vitro alternative to traditional allergy testing.
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  • Celebrating 10 Years of UK Calprotectin Testing

    Celebrating 10 Years of UK Calprotectin Testing

    2017 marks the 10th anniversary of our partnership with BÜHLMANN, developing the use of calprotectin analyses in the UK to become the major biomarker for IBD. See how technology has evolved to advance calprotectin services to meet increasing demands.
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What's New for the Laboratory World?

  • Laboratree - Tips for Trees

    Laboratree - Tips for Trees

    Alpha's Laboratree scheme for users of Fastrak® environmentally friendly pipette tips has now planted 1500 trees. Join now for free to get a unique combination of green benefits and help sustainability in UK woodlands..
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  • Supplies for Schools

    Supplies for Schools

    Alpha Laboratories has been specified on the UK OCR Science projects curriculum for schools to supply a range of consumables for laboratory practical classes. See the detail here.
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  • Half Price Lab Consumables Whilst Stocks Last!

    Half Price Lab Consumables Whilst Stocks Last!

    We occasionally overstock products, have discontinued lines or need to make space for new products arriving. That’s all good news for you because we then offer our Clearance Stock at 50% discount. Don’t miss the opportunity to pick up a bargain.
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  • NEW Issue of LabVantage Laboratory Newsletter 3-2018

    NEW Issue of LabVantage Laboratory Newsletter 3-2018

    Read our latest issue of LabVantage for amazing savings including over 40% off Pipette Multipacks, 30% off EveryDay Containers and over 20% off NEW Laboratory Equipment.
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  • Fast Racking, Less Packing, Quality Tips

    Fast Racking, Less Packing, Quality Tips

    Compared to other tip refill systems, Fastrak® is smaller, lighter and has less packaging. It reduces waste, saves time and helps you lower your carbon footprint.
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  • CE IVD Labelling of Pipettes, Tips, Pastettes and Centrifuge Tubes

    CE IVD Labelling of Pipettes, Tips, Pastettes and Centrifuge Tubes

    For a number of years, there has been confusion on whether products such as pipettes and tips could carry the CE IVD mark. In 2012 the European Commission Directorate General for Health and Consumers issued guidelines on certain products to clarify the position on CE IVD marking.
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  • Great Pipetting at a Great Price

    Great Pipetting at a Great Price

    Do you need new pipettes but are restricted by available budget? We have just the solution for you. You'll be amazed at the quality and pipetting performance you can get at such an affordable price with the new alpha+ pipettes.
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  • Pipetting Academy™

    Pipetting Academy™

    Training for Better Pipetting Performance, Ergonomics and Safety. Now with Essentials and Advanced Programmes to best suit your needs. Seminars, videos and practical activities delivered by technical experts.
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  • Custom Designed Consumables

    Custom Designed Consumables

    Did you know that we can help you with various options and customised production for a variety of components for diagnostic and laboratory kit manufacturer?
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  • Pastette® Resin Source Change

    Pastette® Resin Source Change

    From the second quarter of 2018 we will be utilising a newly sourced Low Density Polyethylene resin for the manufacture of our Pastettes. Follow the link to find out more about this change.
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  • Golden Ticket Winners!

    Golden Ticket Winners!

    Congratulations to some of the Golden Ticket Winners in the Pastette® 40th Anniversary Giveaway. Check your Pastette boxes to find a winning ticket and you could join them.
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  • Inter-Regional Laboratory Agreement (IRLA)

    Inter-Regional Laboratory Agreement (IRLA)

    Alpha Laboratories Ltd. is an awarded supplier on the current IRLA agreement for the supply of laboratory consumables and pipettes.
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  • The Record Breaking Pastette® User

    The Record Breaking Pastette® User

    As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations for Pastette® we asked who has been using them the longest?
    We have a winner!
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Supporting Your UN3373 Compliance Obligations

Specialist Reagents to Support Your Research

     
  • Time Out for ³²P Kinase Assays

    Time Out for ³²P Kinase Assays

    Phos-tag™ is revolutionising the study of protein phosphorylation. Its binding is selective for phosphate groups enabling it to replace conventional radioisotopes and enzyme immunoassay in traditional detection protocols.
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  • Anti-iba1 Microglial Marker

    Anti-iba1 Microglial Marker

    Iba-1 (ionised calcium binding adaptor molecule 1) is a specific marker for macrophages and microglia cells. We have antibodies for immunohistochemistry and western blotting.
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  • Create Your Own Immunoassays

    Create Your Own Immunoassays

    Setting up your own high quality, customised immunoassay solutions quick, easy and more cost-effective with BioPorto distinctive, top-quality, pre-matched capture and detection antibody pairs.
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  • Research Reagents and Kits Literature

    Research Reagents and Kits Literature

    We have a wide range of brochures detailing the applications areas of our Research reagents and Kits. Click the link below to download literature for the various ranges.
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  • Perfecting Your Transfection

    Perfecting Your Transfection

    ScreenFectA, is a new multipurpose cationic lipid transfection reagent combining high transfection efficiency with low cell toxicity.
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  • Don't Let the Frost Bite

    Don't Let the Frost Bite

    Cell cultures are valuable research assets that need to be protected during cold storage and revival. BAMBANKER™ and StemSure cryoprotectant media maximise cell recovery.
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  • Variability Free IgE

    Variability Free IgE

    The unique IgE preparations from BioPorto are the only commercially available human monoclonal IgE antibody. They eliminate the problem of the batch to batch variability and ensure very high reproducibility.
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  • Nephrotoxicity: Rapid Identity During Drug Development

    Nephrotoxicity: Rapid Identity During Drug Development

    Establishing safety of new drug candidates remains a major challenge at every stage of the development process. NGAL is a biomarker that rapidly identifies Acute Kidney Injury.
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  • Take Stock!

    Take Stock!

    Set up a Forecast or Confirmed Supply Schedule for simple, flexible ordering and improved efficiency with added cost savings, quality benefits, ease of ordering and reduced administration.
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  • Support for Your ISO 15189 Accreditation

    Support for Your ISO 15189 Accreditation

    Equipment validation services, verified third party controls and calibrators, true cellular controls and frozen plasma products can all help with your quality control procedures.
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  • ISO 9001:2015 Accredited

    ISO 9001:2015 Accredited

    Alpha Laboratories has been ISO certified since 1993 and is audited annually by National Quality Assurance. This has recently been upgraded to the new ISO 9001:2015 standard.
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  • The Dedication of a <br>Family Run Business </br>

    The Dedication of a
    Family Run Business

    In 2015 Alpha Laboratories celebrated 40 years of providing support to UK and international scientists. The company remains today, as always, a family-run business with the same vision and ethos, whilst continuing to focus on customer needs and ever-changing technologies.
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  • Diagnostics Kits - Information for the Public

    Diagnostics Kits - Information for the Public

    Alpha Laboratories is a supplier of diagnostic kits for use by professional medical personnel within a clinical laboratory or doctors surgery. They are not available to the general public for home testing.
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  • <i>New</i> Issue of Leading Edge

    New Issue of Leading Edge

    Download the 2018-3 diagnostics newsletter for case studies, clinical articles and new technologies.
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  • Alpha Labs Website

    Alpha Labs Website

    Register on the Alpha Labs website to access any special discount agreements set up for your institute.
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  • Custom Designed Consumables

    Custom Designed Consumables

    Did you know that we can help you with various options and customised production for a variety of components for diagnostic and laboratory kit manufacturer?
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  • Latest News

    Latest News

    See our latest news including current offers, articles, press releases and much more...

    Recently added: New Supplier Partnerships for Both Diagnostic and Laboratory Products!

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  • Preparing for 'No Deal' BREXIT

    Preparing for 'No Deal' BREXIT

    We understand how important reliable supply of essential healthcare and laboratory products is for our customers. Find out how we are doing everything we can to ensure this is maintained in the event of a 'No Deal' BREXIT.
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SMA Autumn Meeting

9th-10th November 2018

University of Stirling

Find out all about our range of microbiology products, contact us to arrange a meeting.

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