The Berlin-based manufacturer of high-tech laboratory instruments has now been awarded the “Zukunftsort Berlin Südwest” seal. Juri Effenberg, project manager of the “Regional Incubator Berlin Southwest”, presented Managing Director Alexandra Knauer with the glass sign at the company's headquarters in Zehlendorf. The “Zukunftsorte” concept, which was launched by the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, aims to strengthen Berlin as a location for business, science and research...

Spin-out ChromaTwist has won a prestigious Innovate UK Smart grant to co-fund a £0.5m project. The funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, covers 70% of the cost of a project that will take ChromaTwist’s novel dyes to the next level in terms of enhanced brightness and staining indices, to make cells and cellular structures stand out more clearly during bio-imaging...

After successful sandpit events in Liverpool and London earlier this year, iiCON (Infection Innovation Consortium) is excited to announce 11 new projects during World AMR Awareness Week. These projects are focused on combating infectious diseases and have received a share of £1.5 million in funding from UKRI as part of its ongoing work to support innovative ways of tackling infections...

10x Genomics, Inc., a leader in single cell and spatial biology, and Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, have announced the commercial availability of a new solution to automate single cell gene expression workflows. The new offering, which includes an automation-friendly library preparation kit from 10x Genomics and an optimized method from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences...

Sapio Sciences, the science-aware™ lab informatics platform, has announced it has entered a co-marketing agreement with Waters Corporation to enhance data integrity, workflow efficiency, and laboratory productivity. As laboratory-based organizations expand and handle increasing numbers of samples, integrating liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) software with a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can enable laboratory operations to be more efficient...

Takara Bio Europe is pleased to announce the expansion of its Gothenburg facility with the addition of a custom manufacturing lab, which came into operation on October 1st. This new facility will serve the molecular biology needs of academic researchers, diagnostic labs, and biotech companies across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), producing up to 600,000 reactions per week...

Alpha Laboratories (Eastleigh, UK) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded as a supplier on the re-tendered Inter-Regional Laboratory Agreement (IRLA). The agreement provides a compliant and responsible route for universities to purchase a wide range of products for use within their teaching and research laboratories. This includes HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC, NWUPC and SUPC members...

Beauty of cosmic proportions found in microscopic imaging. Evident unveiled the winners of its 5th annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s best in scientific microscopic imaging. The winners were selected from submissions from 29 countries around the world. For the first time, the competition included a video category to showcase the art of capturing small changes in motion under the microscope...

Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science have announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the nation’s premier middle school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition. Tina Jin, 13, from San Jose, Calif., won the $25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND (Aspiring Scientists Cultivating Exciting New Discoveries) Award, the top prize in the competition...

UK-based drug discovery, development and manufacturing organisation, Concept Life Sciences (CLS), backed by mid-market private equity investment firm Limerston Capital, has completed the acquisition of Charnwood Discovery. The deal underlines CLS’ ambitious growth strategy and strengthens its position as a market leader in pharmaceutical and life science sectors...

PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced SPRQ, an improved sequencing chemistry for its Revio™ long-read sequencing system. The new chemistry will reduce Revio DNA input requirements by 4x to 500ng per sample, which enables more sample types such as saliva extracted with PacBio’s new Nanobind protocol and tumor samples to be sequenced with HiFi sequencing technology...

analytica Vietnam, the largest international exhibition for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology, and diagnostics in Vietnam, will hold its 8th edition from April 2 to 4, 2025. The show is set to expand significantly with the addition of Hall A2 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), bringing the total exhibition area to 8,000 square meters—nearly doubling the space of the 2023 edition...

Open access publishing start-up DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation - Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. The award recognises the innovation behind DeSci Publish, the world’s first open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology. The Lab Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the key achievements by individuals and businesses that are driving the future of scientific industries globally...

EIBF, the UK registered charity that promotes business education for engineers and scientists, and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Metrology Institute, are partnering on an MBA scholarship scheme that will provide business education for scientists. The collaboration will provide MBA scholarships worth £50,000 to eight UK science graduates each year...

The American scientist Laura Seeholzer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, has won the 2024 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work on elucidating a role for airway neuroendocrine cells in responding to external threats. “Laura Seeholzer’s essay brilliantly describes how she identified a group of laryngeal and tracheal neuroendocrine cells that protect our airways” explained Dr. Peter Stern, Senior Editor at the journal Science and Chairman of the Prize Jury...

Veolia Water Technologies announces the opening of its state-of-the-art Life Science Centre of Excellence near Dublin, Ireland. At over 8,000 square feet (743 square meters), the facility houses a dedicated customer showroom experience, featuring numerous flagship water treatment and purification technologies, including Orion^TM, Sirion^TM, Polaris^TM 2.0, the PureLab^TM Quest, Flex and Chorus ranges, Ozonia and Sievers Instruments...

Arctoris, a leading contract research organisation (CRO) advancing drug discovery experimentation through its unique automated laboratory and data science platform, UlyssesⓇ, has announced it has entered into a joint partnership with SpiroChem AG. The partnership combines Arctoris' cutting-edge automated biology capabilities with SpiroChem's world-class medicinal and synthetic chemistry platforms including photochemistry, electrochemistry, flow chemistry, and parallel solid-phase synthesis...

ZEISS announces its full schedule of activities at the 50th annual ISTFA Conference, taking place at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2024. ZEISS will deliver four tutorials and six paper presentations showcasing its expertise in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fault isolation, failure analysis (FA) and yield enhancement. ZEISS will also participate in two panel discussions about the industry roadmap and AI and will be part of the Tools of the Trade tour...