Northern Ireland’s CoreLIMS programme has achieved another significant milestone by migrating the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) away from its 15-year-old laboratory information system and onto Clinisys WinPath. The CoreLIMS programme, delivered by Business Services Organisation (BSO), has been set up to support the transformation of pathology services in Northern Ireland by combining the seven information systems used by laboratories across the country onto a single platform...

Blood stem cells from healthy people carry major chromosomal alterations, suggesting we are all genetic mosaics, according to a new study from EMBL and the Max Delbrück Center. Researchers at EMBL and the MDC-BIMSB found that approximately one in 40 human bone marrow cells carry massive chromosomal alterations without causing any apparent disease or abnormality. Even so-called normal cells carry all sorts of genetic mutations, meaning there are more genetic differences between individual cells...

Nikon Instruments Inc. (Nikon) is pleased to announce the opening of its Nikon BioImaging Lab (NBIL) in Lexington, Massachusetts. The NBIL is a fully equipped research facility specifically designed to provide contract imaging services to the biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific research communities. This facility joins its sister location in Cambridge as part of a larger network of Nikon imaging centers and Nikon BioImaging Lab across the globe...

Labguru (BioData) announces an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to enable the distribution of its state-of-the-art Labguru Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) module alongside Thermo Fisher’s suite of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and lab operations software solutions. With these complementary products, Thermo Fisher customers will address research management needs through enhanced digital lab connectivity...

Laboratory equipment supplier Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) has opened the new SLS National Distribution Centre (NDC) at the Fairham Business Park, Nottingham, as it looks to kickstart its next phase of growth. The NDC enables the company to service 2,500 orders per day, three times more than previously possible. SLS previewed the new facility at the Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference 2024...

llumina sequencing is a next generation sequencing method used to sequence millions of DNA fragments in parallel. In this video, INTEGRA Biosciences explain how Illumina sequencing works. Standard Illumina sequencing can be split into the following steps, Fragmentation, Addition of primer binding sites and capture sequences, Denaturation, Immobilization, Amplification and Sequencing...

Maximise Learning, Connect with your Industry Colleagues at ISPE's annual Gathering! The ISPE Singapore Affiliate Conference & Exhibition, taking place from 28-30 August 2024 is one of the largest and most respected pharmaceutical manufacturing shows in Singapore for pharmaceutical and biomanufacturing professionals. The annual event highlights the best practices and services...

The life science group Sartorius is expanding its multidisciplinary collaboration with NVIDIA to help enable the development of new and better therapies, combining Sartorius’ in-depth knowledge of life sciences and bioprocessing with NVIDIA’s AI-powered computing platforms and software. "Biological interactions are exceptionally complex. Making better use of data by integrating life science expertise with AI solutions is a promising approach to simplify and accelerate biopharma drug discovery and manufacturing progress...

Veolia Water Technologies has designed and installed a bespoke ultrapure water purification system for an Oxford-based biotechnology research company. Based on its existing MEDICA™ Pro 120, the tailored solution ensures that a continuous supply of ultrapure water is distributed and meets all of the exacting requirements for cutting-edge molecular biology. The added advantage for the client is that the system has also increased their laboratory’s production capacity...

Promega UK is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024 Lumit^® Grant, whereby four researchers have received funding to convert their current immunoassays to Lumit^® Immunoassays. 22 high-quality applications were received from leading academic institutions across the UK, demonstrating strong interest in Promega’s innovative Lumit^® Technology...

In recent years, Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy has established itself as the technique of choice for the study of crystallized biomolecules such as starch, collagen and myosin. Unlike fluorescence-microscopy, SHG microscopy does not involve the creation of excited electronic states, so cell viability issues associated with heating and photo-bleaching are reduced. The report describes typical results from collagen in liver tissue samples generated by SHG microscopy...

To help accelerate the promise of precision medicine, Thermo Fisher Scientific has unveiled its new solutions accelerating research workflows at the annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, in Anaheim, California. The new mass spectrometry and chromatography instruments and software solutions enable customers to unlock deeper analytical insights with built-for-purpose flexibility, improving productivity, efficiency, and accelerating translational research workflows...

At the 72nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics – Waters Corporation announce that more than 40 products within its liquid chromatography (LC) chemistry portfolio have obtained Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency (ACT) Ecolabels from My Green Lab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a global culture of sustainability in science. For more than 50 years, Waters has built a world-class reputation as a single-source manufacturer of LC column chemistries...

INTEGRA Biosciences is excited to welcome Line Stigen Raquet as a non-executive board member. Line has over 20 years’ leadership experience in the life sciences sectors, and her extensive business knowledge will contribute to INTEGRA’s continued growth. Line is a biochemist by education and training, giving her a firm foundation for success as an entrepreneur in various life sciences markets...

ePrep is delighted to announce a new partnership with Agilent – a global leader in technology platforms for analytical laboratories – for the distribution of the ePrep® ONE workstation in selected regions. The ePrep ONE is a fully automated solution for end-to-end chromatography sample preparation, which Agilent will be supplying alongside its extensive portfolio of laboratory instruments. The collaboration will provide customers with new solutions for automated workflows, especially for mass spectrometry-focussed analyses...

Asymchem Laboratories (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. announce that it will operate the former Pfizer U.K. small molecule API pilot plant and part of the development laboratories through a new lease agreement between Asymchem and Discovery Park, establishing Asymchem’s first manufacturing footprint in Europe. Asymchem will continue to operate the site in Sandwich, Kent, as a clinical small molecule development and manufacturing facility to meet global client demands for pharma services and supply...

Telstar will join the Germany-based company following the transaction that has been announced by Azbil Corporation and Syntegon. Regarding the integration of Telstar into Syntegon after an acquisition agreement closed between Azbil Corporation and the German company which has been announced by both firms, Telstar expresses that the company takes a very positive view about the incorporation into a business leader whose strategy is fully aligned with Telstar’s development plan...

The Analytical Laboratory Robotics Topic group (working group) of euRobotics is proud to announce the release of the next iteration of the roadmap for Analytical Laboratory Robotics in Europe entitled the “Research roadmap for laboratory community-Automating discovery: high throughput experimentation, diagnostics and robotics/AI”. Robotics, and associated technologies such as computer vision, mechatronics and artificial intelligence are rapidly evolving....

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has opened a new clinical and commercial ultra-cold facility in the EU, expanding its clinical trial network in Europe to help accelerate the development of advanced therapies. The new current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) facility in Bleiswijk, Netherlands provides pharma and biopharma customers tailored, end-to-end support throughout the clinical supply chain for high-value therapies, including cell and gene therapies, biologics, antibodies and vaccines...