The eleventh ZEISS Women Award was awarded in Dresden. This prize honors outstanding female informatics students who are about to graduate. The award was offered throughout Germany and serves as a platform to publicly recognize successful young women in the digital sector and to encourage more women to consider a career in the field....

A UK-based aquaculture business aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean. Seafields is developing and testing new technologies focused on growing and capturing Sargassum, a seaweed that has escaped its normal environment in the Sargasso Sea and has exploded in growth in the last two decades...

PerkinElmer, Inc. and Honeycomb Biotechnologies, Inc., announce the commercial launch of the first of its kind HIVE™ scRNAseq Solution for single-cell isolation and analysis. The HIVE solution leverages a portable, handheld device for the capture, storage and RNA-Seq library preparation of a diverse range of cell types, including fragile and labile cells such as granulocytes, nephrons, hepatocytes and neurons....

Nerbe plus Premium Surface low retention pipette tips are now available in the UK exclusively from Alpha Laboratories Ltd. These top-quality tips are optimised for the highest precision and reproducibility in a pipetting cycle. The ultra-smooth hydrophobic surfaces prevent loss of material through adsorption and reduces DNA denaturation. These qualities improve efficiencies of test sequences by cutting down on costs associated with expensive reagents....

Research labs performing Sanger sequencing can now use Promega chemistry on any capillary electrophoresis (CE) platform. The ProDye™ Terminator Sequencing System, launched by Promega Corporation, can be implemented on any CE instrument, including the benchtop Spectrum Compact CE System. More than 40 years after its invention, Sanger sequencing remains the gold standard for DNA sequencing....

Blood alcohol analysis is one of a variety of headspace methods performed in forensic toxicology laboratories. The Versa was evaluated to determine its suitability to perform an occasional blood alcohol test. Methanol, acetone, ethanol, isopropanol and acetaldehyde along with n-propanol, a typical internal standard, were tested with the Versa headspace instrument....

Part of InSilicoONCO, PCa GnRH Agonists Simulator and CTx NeutroSim promise to significantly reduce the cost and time of drug development while optimizing clinical trials. InSilicoTrials has been innovating the healthcare sector for some years now, helping pharmaceutical companies reduce the time and cost of drug development using modeling & simulation. The release of two new products for oncology that have no equals on the market...

Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) or Counter Current Chromatography (CCC), as it is sometimes known, is a cost-effective solution for natural product purification using liquid-liquid phases rather than a solid stationary phase. With no column to replace or silica to recycle, CPC offers low solvent consumption compared with traditional chromatography techniques and requires no extensive pre-treatment of samples....

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leading solutions provider in the life sciences, diagnostics, food and environmental testing markets, has announced the launch of Signals Image Artist™ software – a next-generation image analysis and management platform for drug discovery research. The new offering is designed to help scientists accurately process and analyse their high-content screening (HCS) and cellular imaging data in a matter of hours, instead of days or weeks, so they can make more informed decisions faster...

H.E.L Group (H.E.L), a global developer and manufacturer of innovative laboratory tools for process optimization, safety, and scale-up, has announced the release of the latest version of its laboratory automation software, labCONSOL™ 1.2. The new functionality included in the update further enhances the intuitive user experience to increase lab productivity and efficiency, and facilitate process automation...

DP5 Network is the latest version of Ziath's market leading 2D rack decoding web browser software designed to unchain scientists from their lab bench. Using high-speed, web-based communications protocols - DP5 Network can be run from a laptop, desktop, phone, tablet or any other network connected device. This powerful new software enables full control of multiple tube barcode scanners on the same LAN to be operated from one or more devices connected to that LAN....

BioChromato reports that it has installed more than 10 Smart Evaporator systems across the Russian Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers (HEC) network of institutes as part of a national program of acquiring leading edge analytical and sample preparation equipment. This major investment by the Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers was to enable them to improve the well-being of the population by monitoring...

Vision Engineering Limited (Woking, UK) welcomed HRH, The Princess Royal to its Global HQ & Manufacturing facility in Send, Surrey, to present them with The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its Lynx EVO ergonomic stereo microscope, used for quality control in many manufacturing sites around the world. On arrival at the modern manufacturing site, The Princess Royal was met by Mr Michael Hayman, a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey, who presented Mark Curtis, Managing Director of Vision Engineering....

After a successful first summit in April 2021 that concentrated on moving forward in a post-pandemic world, the second Olympus Discovery Summit will focus on how microscopy imaging can advance research. Presentation topics include the use of complementary imaging technologies to understand the immune system, deconvolution techniques to improve image quality, 3D imaging, how AI is helping researchers analyze large amounts of microscopy image data and more...

SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, has unveiled new branding that brings together its technologies with those from recent acquisitions into a single entity. The merged portfolio and positioning reflect SPT Labtech's commitment to harnessing the ingenuity and product development track record of its extended business to help scientists do better research...

The Calibrex™ bottle-top dispensers from Socorex are robust instruments with excellent chemical resistance. Intended for the safe and reproducible liquid distribution, the line includes 7 different sizes: 0.1-1 / 0.25-2.5 / 0.5-5 / 1-10 / 2.5-25 / 5-50 / 10-100 mL. Calibrex™ organo 525 includes a ground glass or ceramic plunger, both suited for organics and non-crystallizing solutions. Calibrex™ solutae 530 has a glass or ceramic PFA coated plunger for trouble free distribution of salt solutions, weak and strong acids and bases....

Spicer Consulting Limited – a leader in magnetic field detection and cancellation systems – is excited to introduce its new SC28 monitoring system. The SC28 enables long-term, uninterrupted monitoring of magnetic fields, vibrations and acoustics – as well as temperature and humidity – within the lab and semiconductor fab. This system is purpose-designed to survey the environment for electron beam instruments....

Celebrating 40 years in business this year, Autoscribe Informatics will be demonstrating Matrix Gemini LIMS v6.0 at the UK’s largest dedicated exhibition for laboratory professionals, Lab Innovations. V6.0 includes multiple enhancements including an updated and improved calculation engine and additional multi-language support. Multiple technical developments are also incorporated including support for 64-bit computing...

NanoImaging Services, Inc., the premier industry provider of cryoEM services, microscope access and training, and Viva Biotech Holdings, a leading open-access and innovation-driven technology platform company, have announced a partnership agreement to develop a streamlined, cryoEM enabled gene-to-structure workflow, to ultimately accelerate medicinal chemistry analysis....