Laboratory products are increasingly being purchased online, but expert advice is often lacking. The Eppendorf online shop addresses this issue by offering a digital product advisor to help potential customers easily find the optimal solution for their specific applications. This innovative web application provides personalized product recommendations from Eppendorf's liquid handling portfolio by guiding users through a series of simple questions about vessel formats, daily throughput, purity requirements, and more...

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...

Biotechnology startup MicroQuin leveraged the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to grow 3D breast and prostate cancer cell cultures to learn more about how these cancers develop and grow. However, the research team found something incredible that could lead to a way to treat not just breast and prostate cancers but all cancers. Through MicroQuin’s ISS National Lab-sponsored research, the team identified microgravity-induced changes in cancer cell signaling that revealed something critical to cancer cell survival...

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...

Whether discovering new materials or working to overcome challenges with existing products, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a valuable instrument for industry. Here, Britta Siefer, Senior Sales Account Manager at industrial SEM specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains the considerations when investing in an SEM microscope for an industrial application...

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...

Thermo Fisher Scientific is exhibiting at filtration trade show FILTECH 2024 held from 12-14 November, at the Koelnmesse Halls in Cologne, Germany. Leaders and technical experts from Thermo Fisher will be present to offer expertise in electron microscopy and discuss how this technique  provides an advanced solution, optimising material analysis for filtration...

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...

A new imaging technique could mean patients with aggressive brain tumours benefit from cutting edge immunotherapy treatments, according to researchers. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy, and track the response over time...

INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes are being used by bioanalytical consultancy BioApp Solutions to semi-automate and streamline its repetitive liquid handling protocols. The devices have enabled the company to improve pipetting consistency within its sample analysis and method development workflows, ensuring more reproducible results. BioApp was established in Leeds, UK, in 2015 as a specialist provider of bioanalytical training and consultancy services...