AchemAsia is back: from 14 to 16 October 2025, the trade show in Shanghai will once again present itself as the leading platform for the Chinese process industry as well as the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. As the ‘International Expo and Innovation Forum for Sustainable Chemical Production’, the focus will be on innovative technologies for a climate-neutral future, including process technology, pharmaceutical technology and digitalisation...

Astoriom, a global leader in the life sciences R&D sample stability and biorepository storage industry, has developed a new state-of-the-art cryogenic storage suite at its Tramore facility, bringing unmatched capabilities for biological sample storage to Ireland. Local representative Gerald Hurley, CEO of Waterford Chamber of Commerce, joined the Astoriom’s team for the company’s expansion into a new purpose built cryo suite, marking the significant milestone for the local community and Ireland’s growing life science sector...

Tracamyl has announced the acquisition of the Hektros brand formerly owned by Tratter Engineering. Hektros is the laboratory products entity of the plastic injection molding manufacturer Tratter Engineering. Tratter Engineering has a long-standing history in the automotive sector, being an important supplier of complex molded plastic parts for various car brands. Hektros develops and manufactures numerous devices and disposables for laboratory use in a broad range of chemical, biotechnological and medical-pharmaceutical fields....

Queensgate and the United Kingdom's National Metrology Institute have revealed their latest breakthrough at Euspen’s Special Interest Conference: Precision Motion Systems and Control in November. The development is a novel control system for a two-axis flexure stage with a 100 µm x 100 µm scanning range that enables high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) over large areas. The result is an HS-AFM system capable of imaging large areas with molecular-level resolution...

Choosing a film for a movie night is always a battle. Now imagine if you could pick one that provided a window into some of the most fundamental biological processes that keep us alive. For the first time ever, researchers have captured a real-time molecular movie to show how two essential cellular processes – transcription and translation – interact with each other in bacteria...

Indica Labs, the global leader in AI-powered digital pathology, announces that the Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology at the University of Bern, a leading university based pathology institute in Switzerland, has selected HALO AP® for the Institute’s first-in-country digital pathology deployment in the cloud powered by Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). The Institute selected Indica Labs for its ability to provide dependable, pathologist-centered software and AI in a powerful and highly flexible platform.

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has announced the results of a global survey in conjunction with CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, on the impact of AI and copyright legislation on pharma R&D. While 83% of life science professionals are now using generative AI in their research, there is still widespread concern about the impact of differing AI...

Researchers have developed a new multiple organ-on-chip system to help study how neurotoxins move from the gut to the brain. The model system simulated how a neurotoxin in the gut can trigger the brain cell death seen in Parkinson’s disease, in a proof-of-concept study from the Quadram Institute, University of Hull, University of Essex and at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

UK-based Concept Life Sciences (Concept) and Accelero Biostructures (Accelero) in the US have formed an industry-leading partnership which will help pharma businesses worldwide speed up drug development by up to tenfold. The collaboration accelerates the timeline for progressing from drug discovery to clinical trials through the integration of Accelero’s specialised X-ray crystallography and structural biology platforms...

Eppendorf SE, a leading life science company, and DataHow AG, a pioneer in advanced data analytics and AI-driven prediction software, are excited to announce a strategic collaboration aimed at transforming bioprocess development. This partnership will integrate DataHow's innovative AI-enabled analytics solution, DataHowLab, with Eppendorf's cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform, BioNsight® cloud, providing scientists with unparalleled insight and analytics capabilities....

Every year, INTEGRA makes a donation to a worthy cause, and at the start of 2024, the company partnered with CleanHub to help fund its plastic collection projects in developing countries. Over 2 billion people in coastal regions worldwide don't have access to proper waste management, meaning that discarded plastic often makes its way into the oceans, with the equivalent of one garbage truck full entering the sea every minute...

Titian Software (“Titian”), a market leader in life sciences sample management software, has announced that Griffith University’s Compounds Australia, Australia’s only dedicated compound management facility, has selected Titian’s Mosaic Sample Management platform (“Mosaic”) to manage their extensive compound collection and support future growth. Mosaic will enable optimisation of workflow efficiencies at Compounds Australia, underpinning the facility’s strategic growth to meet the needs of a growing drug discovery sector. ..

Open science start-up and preprint network DeSci Labs has been listed as one of the 20 Most Innovative Companies to Watch, 2024, by Business Worldwide Magazine. This is DeSci Labs’ second accolade within a month following its Lab Awards success in the Best Automation & Data Innovation category at Lab Innovations 2024. DeSci Labs uses advanced automation and data technologies to enhance open-access science, streamline research and promote transparent, efficient sharing of discoveries...

Clinisys WinPath go-lives at Northern Health and Social Care Trust and the cervical cytology screening service complete phase three of the CoreLIMS programme to transform pathology services across the country. The transformation of pathology services across Northern Ireland has achieved another milestone, with the completion of phase three of the CoreLIMS programme to deploy Clinisys WinPath to all five health and social care trusts and the blood transfusion service...

Veolia Water Technologies has launched its mobile water services offering to the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and life science industries across Europe. This initiative provides a comprehensive range of technologies and services bundled as a rental service to deliver reliable, uninterrupted and sustainable solutions for manufacturing, cleaning, and complex liquid waste treatment for compliant offsite management...

Visitor registration for the 8th edition of analytica Vietnam is now open! Happening from 2-4 April 2025 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, analytica Vietnam is the largest international exhibition for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology, and diagnostics. Whether you’re looking to stay ahead of industry trends or discover solutions to transform your business, analytica Vietnam 2025 is the perfect platform to connect, learn, and grow...

On December 1st, 2024, a new general chapter will be available in the US Pharmacopeia (USP), which will provide biopharmaceutical developers with guidelines for mass spectrometry-based quantification of host cell protein (HCP) impurities in biologic drugs. With this, the medical industry stands on the threshold of a paradigm shift that could reduce unwanted side effects of biologics while clearing the way for more advanced products...

Europa Biosite is pleased to announce the acquisition of AMSBIO, a premier supplier of life science products and services, with expertise in the areas of biospecimens, stem cell research, 3D cell culture, glycobiology, and molecular biology. Headquartered in Oxford, UK, and with offices in both the USA and the Netherlands, AMSBIO serves life science researchers across Europe and throughout North America...

Tagomics Ltd., a pioneering biomarker discovery and diagnostics company, has announced it has entered into a strategic co-marketing agreement with Agilent Technologies, a leading tools provider in the genomics sector. The agreement offers select customers the opportunity to access Tagomics’ and Agilent Technologies’ combined innovative offerings through an exclusive technology access program hosted out of Tagomics’ service lab in Cambridge...