The University of Glasgow will lead an innovative Pan-European research training program targeting incurable prostate cancer. The four-year Translational Research Network for Prostate Cancer (TransPot) aims to provide a multidisciplinary training program, integrating cancer biology and systems medicine to enable young researchers to become future leaders in cancer research....

Collaboration supports clinical-scale production of high purity Minicircle DNA for viral and non-viral gene transfer. BIA Separations, a leading biochromatography development and manufacturing company, and RBPS Technology (RBPS), a biotech company with proprietary Minicircle DNA technology,announce they have signed a partnership agreement to provide scalable...

Genevac reports on special evaporative techniques for removal of solvents from oil and fat samples. Working with oils and fats can be difficult.  Whether extracting and recovering additives, evaluating lipid content of foods or characterising reclaimed cooking oils before reprocessing or conversion to biofuels, oils and fats can be difficult to dry. Extraction and separation techniques...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Manfred Wilhelm, head of the Polymeric Materials Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Professor Wilhelm has applied Magritek’s 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer to develop a new online chemical detector for size-exclusion chromatography. Manfred Wilhelm is professor and chair of...

Deben, a leading provider of in situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on how TU Dortmund University is using their CT5000TEC compression/tensile stage to study fiber-reinforced composites. This work is being performed using a Nikon X-ray source. Ronja Scholz is a scientific assistant and PhD student in the group of...

Collaboration will use Deep Learning techniques to establish medical imaging biomarkers for more accurate diagnosis. Median Technologies (Paris: ALMDT), the industry-leading Imaging Phenomics Company® and the Nice University Hospital (CHU de Nice) today announced a collaborative agreement that uses Artificial Intelligence to identify medical imaging biomarkers for lung cancer screening.....

Research can help to identify people with mild asthma from those with moderate or severe asthma. A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University has identified biological variations in lung tissue samples that for the first time can help...

Clinithink has helped to achieve a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Fastest genetic diagnosis. The project successfully compressed the time needed to diagnose rare genetic disorders in newborns through DNA sequencing to 19.5 hours, setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title in a seamless end-to-end process and provided further evidence of its patented CLiX natural language processing (NLP) solution used in clinical trials....

Study Results in Leading Scientific Publication Underscores Value of PerkinElmer’s Vanadis NIPT Solution. PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the publication of a research study describing the technology behind the Vanadis NIPT system. The article titled “Imaging Single DNA Molecules for High Precision NIPT” was published online in Nature Scientific Reports...

Findings published in Nature Communications identify stem cell survival pathway, which may serve as a potential target for new breast cancer therapies. A team of researchers in the United States has identified a new stem cell pathway that allows a highly aggressive form of breast cancer – triple-negative breast cancer – to thrive, with their findings potentially pointing the way towards new, more effective...

Genevac reports on how Eurofins Biomnis (Lyon, France) has, using a miVac Quattro concentrator and SpeedTrap frost-free cold trap, considerably improved sample preparation productivity in its specialised clinical pathology laboratory. Sébastien Chanlon, Production Manager of the Eurofins Biomnis Analytical Chemistry Business Unit, commented “My department employs a wide range of...

The Phenomics Discovery Initiative (PDi) has expanded its assay portfolio to a total of 11 complex phenotypic assays that are relevant to human pathophysiology in areas of unmet clinical need including neuropsychiatric illnesses, dementia, cancer and respiratory infections. PDi is a public-private consortium joining the pharmaceutical industry and the National Phenotypic Screening Centre...