With many scientists working in siloes, Europe’s fragmented research landscape means countless discoveries are not capitalised on and duplicate data is created. But, a €30 million project to deliver the underlying infrastructures for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has concluded with nine key services to ensure its future smooth running – meaning researchers will now find it easier to collaborate across disciplinary and geographical boundaries with services that support their scientific discovery...

Ziath has posted a new video that provides an easy-to-follow guide to assist scientists and technicians scanning and decoding sample tube racks direct from low temperature storage, especially when withdrawn from vapour phase liquid nitrogen tanks. The remove ice, blotting and scanning protocol is demonstrated to take less than 30 seconds per rack...

With the release of ZEISS Axioscan 7, ZEISS presents its next-generation slide scanner for the automated digitization of microscopy samples. Following its successful predecessor ZEISS Axio Scan.Z1, ZEISS Axioscan 7 provides significant improvements in almost every aspect: a new acquisition engine for higher scan speeds, a broader range of imaging modes for more application flexibility...

Malvern Panalytical introduces Smart Manager, one of the new Smart Solutions in the Connected World, a cloud based ‘control room’ that connects and monitors all Zetium and Axios-^mAX XRF systems. It will give customers a clear picture of both the real-time utilization and health of their instruments, wherever they are in the world....

10x Genomics, Inc. has announced the launch of its Chromium Single Cell Gene Expression Low Throughput (LT) Kit, a new offering designed to put the power of single cell analysis within the reach of more scientists than ever before. The new LT Kit reduces the startup cost for a single experiment, enabling a broader base of scientists to conduct single cell analysis....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation software, have announced a strategic technology collaboration to develop an integrated and comprehensive software automation platform for Thermo Fisher’s standardized COVID-19 Testing Platform. The integration will result in increased testing throughput and support global healthcare initiatives...

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced its industry-leading documentation, workflow and decision making Signals™ informatics platform is being expanded to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with Insightful Science, a software company serving the global life sciences community....

Ziath has introduced an easy upgrade path for the many users of DataPaq 3 sample management software products to its powerful new DP5 suite of products. Principle advantages of upgrading to DP5 include the ability to work wirelessly using a graphical user interface that will run from your smart phone, tablet or laptop; access to increased data export options; adding additional information to output files....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Protein Metrics, a developer of world-class software tools for protein characterization, have entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing agreement to provide advanced mass spectrometry data processing and analysis capabilities to drive innovation across the full spectrum of biopharmaceutical and proteomics applications...

Insightful Science, a leading software provider serving the global life sciences community, announced today that it has entered into a transaction to acquire Dotmatics, an industry leading cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform. By integrating Insightful Science’s software applications into Dotmatics cloud-first enterprise data management solution, the company will provide an end-to-end scientific research platform....

INTEGRA Biosciences’ ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot and VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipettes are proving invaluable to scientists at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, helping the development of novel antibiotics against resistant strains of Gram-negative bacteria. Senior research scientist Adrianna Olejniczak explained: “Our laboratory performs minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) testing of potential antibiotics...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of MassHunter Workstation Plus 11.0, MassHunter Networked Workstation 11.0, and MassHunter BioConfirm. The latest revision of these software enables data integrity consistent with the regulatory requirements from the US FDA and EU EMEA guidance, providing user management, checksums, tamper detection, and audit trails...

With the ever-increasing demand for COVID-19 testing, laboratories are placed under immense pressure for rapid and reliable analysis. Gilson's portable Connected smart devices can create a fully traceable and reliable lab environment from wherever you are, bringing confidence to manual pipetting within your COVID workflow and preserving the integrity of your sample....

Digital R&D simulation software platform RheoCube has attracted an investment of over $2 million. This funding round, which will drive RheoCube’s global expansion, was co-led by renowned investors Holland Capital and Join Capital. Digitalization is a hot topic in R&D departments worldwide. Current R&D processes are time consuming largely due to trial-and-error in physical labs. Reducing that costly process empowers organizations to build smarter and faster R&D cycles, while speeding up time to market....

CloudLIMS, a leading laboratory informatics provider, and Folio, a leader in the digital identity world, offers an integrated solution that enables COVID-19 diagnostic testing laboratories to register patients, seamlessly manage tests, and digitally deliver COVID-19 results and certifications directly to patients efficiently and securely. The Folio mobile wallet, a biometrically secure wallet on patients’ smartphones, enables patients to receive, store and share their COVID-19 test results digitally with their employers or government authorities....

Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, has announced a partnership with HighRes Biosolutions (HighRes), a company that designs and builds innovative robotic systems and laboratory devices. The collaboration combines the high-throughput laboratory automation capability of Dotmatics’ electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) with HighRes’ Cellario instrument control software enabling R&D scientists to plan experiments...

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2021 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, February 17th with LIMS Can Help Your Laboratory Manage COVID Challenges. The webcast will offer guidance on how a LIMS can be utilized to help organizations manage their laboratory operations and support essential workers during the current COVID-19 pandemic....

To accelerate drug development, MedAI, an expert of AI-assisted R&D research company, announces that it has completed the construction of its Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD) Platform. With this platform, scientists at MedAI are now capable of providing innovative solutions for pharmaceutical companies to push forward their drug discovery projects...

Ziath reports how it has worked with the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands) which has developed a pioneering automated test robot, called STRIP-1, which can process up to 20,000 samples for SARS-CoV-2 testing in just 24 hours. This makes it much faster than all other automated SARS-CoV-2 testing systems used to date. In addition, all samples can be tracked precisely because they have a 2D-barcode on the bottom of each tube that is scanned multiple times throughout the process....