Talon Analytical, a cannabis testing laboratory in Long Island, New York, is using INTEGRA Biosciences’ ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot with 8 channel VIAFLO electronic pipettes to aid contaminant testing of hemp, CBD, and medical cannabis products. The instruments are integral to the company’s workflow, streamlining its testing process and ensuring robust and reliable processing...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the deployment of the next generation of alarm resolution technology for checkpoints throughout London Heathrow airport, delivering advanced security and efficiency. The Insight200M from Agilent ensures increased safety on planes while improving passenger experience at airports. The ban on liquids in carry-on luggage was slowly lifted to allow baby food, medicinal items, and duty-free items, and there is a continuous shift...

As part of the Analysis for Innovators program round 6, Queensgate, in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), were awarded funding for a project to investigate parasitic motion/off-axis errors in multi-axis nanopositioning stages, and develop a unique and practical correction methodology. Full details of the research are available in a paper previously presented at ASPE and EUSPEN...

Live Webinar | December 13th, 2022 | 2 - 3.30 PM. For the development of the ZEISS Lattice Lightsheet 7, the ZEISS Microscopy team has received the " Deutscher Zukunftspreis" - the German President's Award for Technology and Innovation. This is a wonderful achievement and to mark the award ZEISS would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about the technology and how it is used to accelerate 3D Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy...

Rapid 2D barcode rack readers and automated tube picking equipment from Ziath are helping Colorifix (Norwich, UK) to accelerate development of revolutionary biological dyes to help the textile industry dramatically reduce its environmental impact. Dyeing of fabrics by the textile industry represents one of Man’s most polluting industrial processes, using many toxic chemicals and over 5 trillion litres of water every year...

Trauma is the main cause of premature death internationally, resulting in more deaths in people under 40 years of age than all other causes combined. Even trauma victims that are taken to hospital have a high mortality rate, in part due to massive systemic inflammatory reactions leading to the dysfunction of organs that were not initially injured. A team at Oslo University Hospital in Norway has been investigating the role of the protein HMGB1...

Perfect skin, clear conscience. Asynt reports how sustainable cosmetics innovator – Keracol Ltd (Leeds, UK) is using its DrySyn heating blocks and CondenSyn air condensers in the development and scale-up of their award-winning Dr Craft Mandarin green beauty product range. Keracol Ltd is a sustainable cosmetics spin-out company born from over 15 years of scientific research between Professor Chris Rayner and Professor Richard Blackburn of the University of Leeds, UK...

Esya Labs will be partnering with MSD (tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA) for this grant to validate peripheral biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease and accelerate potential therapeutics development. MJFF’s mission is to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease through funding diagnostic and therapeutic research efforts to improve the lives of those living with Parkinson’s disease...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a new strategic partnership with Monash University Malaysia (Monash) to build a Malaysia integrated biology center. As part of the partnership agreement, Agilent and Monash will combine their respective strengths in analytical techniques and biomedical knowledge to accelerate research and development (R&D) in the field of science over the next three years...

The SC-41 Plate Reader, a fluorescence plate reader, enables high throughput measurements on the FS5 Spectrofluorometer via the automated measurements of microwell plates. Standard and custom microwell plates can be measured containing up to 384 wells. Both spectral and lifetime measurements can be acquired, a unique feature of the SC-41. This technical note demonstrates the use of the SC-41 Plate Reader for ratio analysis...

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) have evolved throughout the years to offer ever greater resolution and magnification capabilities. However, for an instrument to work at its best, all external interferences that can affect the position of the electron beam – such as vibrations and stray magnetic fields – need to be removed. Researchers at Cataler Corporation have turned to Spicer Consulting to help them to optimise their equipment for investigations into non-homogeneous catalysts...

The Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) has partnered with PerkinElmer's Horizon Discovery to develop and manufacture somatic reference samples (SRSs) to simplify and support validation of next generation sequencing (NGS)-based cancer diagnostics. The SRSs are expected to be commercially available by early 2024, following a rigorous characterization and validation process in collaboration with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)...

The American scientist Ann Kennedy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA has won the 2022 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work on the neural population dynamics that generate and maintain our emotions and behavioral drives. By comparing the activation of neurons in multiple deep brain regions, she identifies differences between them that point to the role each region plays in shaping the drives behind survival behaviors such as fighting or fleeing...

Sartorius entered a research partnership with The BASE Facility at The University of Queensland (UQ) to improve the manufacturing process of nucleic acid products led by the external collaboration group, Separation Technology Marketing team. The BASE facility is an internationally recognized leader in mRNA sciences at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at UQ...

Aims to improve efficiency of pharma pipelines by leveraging industry-leading ability to identify genetic variants that contribute to human disease. Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has announced a strategic research collaboration with AstraZeneca, a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company, to accelerate drug target discovery by combining their strengths in artificial intelligence (AI) based genome interpretation and genomic analysis...

Shimadzu and Germany's UMG – University Medical Center Göttingen – are teaming up to develop new clinical LC-MS methods for a more rapid and flexible TDM analysis. As part of Shimadzu’s ambitious European Innovation Center (EUIC) program, this new collaboration seeks to speed up the LC-MS analysis of TDM tests. LC-MS analysis already offers accuracy and flexibility that is superior to conventional methods of TDM test analysis...

The UK is investing £2M to kick-start research on the next generation of radiotherapy treatments for cancer, through the development of the Ion Therapy Research Facility (ITRF). The UK has driven important advances in cancer therapy and treats many patients successfully with radiotherapy, using both X-rays and protons. However some tumours remain difficult to treat. Scientists believe that heavier particles, such as helium and carbon ions may offer therapeutic advantages...

Can you use a large electron microscope next to a freight train? In this article, Dr. Thomas E. Davies, Experimental Officer with the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University, describes how working with vibration control specialist Mason UK allowed him and his colleagues to overcome the challenges of operating highly sensitive equipment surrounded by vibration-generating activities...

The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators, endowed with 20,000 EUR, is granted annually to an early career scientist in Europe for outstanding contributions ot biomedical research. It has been awarded, in partnership with Nature, since 1995. Researchers in Europe up to 35 years with an advanced degree in the field of biomedical research can apply only between October 1, 2022, and January 15, 2023...