Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science have announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the nation’s premier middle school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition. Tina Jin, 13, from San Jose, Calif., won the $25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND (Aspiring Scientists Cultivating Exciting New Discoveries) Award, the top prize in the competition...
UK-based drug discovery, development and manufacturing organisation, Concept Life Sciences (CLS), backed by mid-market private equity investment firm Limerston Capital, has completed the acquisition of Charnwood Discovery. The deal underlines CLS’ ambitious growth strategy and strengthens its position as a market leader in pharmaceutical and life science sectors...
Laboratory specialist, Asynt, announces a new unique and extensive range of photochemistry reactors as part of their broad catalogue of both batch and flow equipment which enable flexible use for chemists over a wide range of applications and scales. Advancements in reactor technology in recent years has catalysed the rediscovery of ‘reagentless’ activation methods such as photochemistry, and the resulting new tools have changed the way researchers access photochemistry techniques and devise their synthetic routes and chemistries...
Thermo Fisher Scientific is exhibiting at filtration trade show FILTECH 2024 held from 12-14 November, at the Koelnmesse Halls in Cologne, Germany. Leaders and technical experts from Thermo Fisher will be present to offer expertise in electron microscopy and discuss how this technique provides an advanced solution, optimising material analysis for filtration...
PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced SPRQ, an improved sequencing chemistry for its Revio™ long-read sequencing system. The new chemistry will reduce Revio DNA input requirements by 4x to 500ng per sample, which enables more sample types such as saliva extracted with PacBio’s new Nanobind protocol and tumor samples to be sequenced with HiFi sequencing technology...
analytica Vietnam, the largest international exhibition for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology, and diagnostics in Vietnam, will hold its 8th edition from April 2 to 4, 2025. The show is set to expand significantly with the addition of Hall A2 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), bringing the total exhibition area to 8,000 square meters—nearly doubling the space of the 2023 edition...
A new imaging technique could mean patients with aggressive brain tumours benefit from cutting edge immunotherapy treatments, according to researchers. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy, and track the response over time...
INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes are being used by bioanalytical consultancy BioApp Solutions to semi-automate and streamline its repetitive liquid handling protocols. The devices have enabled the company to improve pipetting consistency within its sample analysis and method development workflows, ensuring more reproducible results. BioApp was established in Leeds, UK, in 2015 as a specialist provider of bioanalytical training and consultancy services...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has taken another step to assure mass photometry is a simpler, more efficient bioanalytics tool with the release of a powerful expansion of its consumables portfolio. The introduction of next-generation microfluidic chips and improvements to Refeyn’s microfluidic system – as well as a new protein calibration standard – will save users time, while ensuring reproducibility across experiments and labs, and supporting a broader range of applications...
Labguru (Biodata Inc.), a leading provider of lab data management solutions, has integrated with NetSuite to create a smoother connection between Labguru’s inventory module and the broader business management system. Labguru’s mission is to simplify and optimize lab operations for the biopharma and life science industries worldwide. With this new functionality, lab managers can effortlessly add items to their shopping lists in Labguru, automatically creating and submitting sales orders in NetSuite...
AMSBIO has launched CellO-IF – an all-in-one immunofluorescent staining reagent kit designed to accelerate the labelling organoids and spheroids directly in hydrogels or extracellular matrices, while preserving delicate structures and cellular integrity. Immunofluorescence (IF) allows detection and localization of antigens in diverse types of tissues in various cell preparations. The technique provides excellent sensitivity and amplification of signal by comparison to immunohistochemistry...
Sapio Sciences, the science-aware™ lab informatics platform, thas announced the addition of new Electronic Batch Record (EBR)functionality to Sapio GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) LIMS. Designed for laboratories that must comply with GMP, 21 CFR 11, and EU Annex 11 standards, the Sapio GMP LIMS offers unparalleled flexibility to meet compliance standards in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, clinical research and diagnostics, food and beverage, chemicals, and environmental testing...
Revvity, Inc. has announced the launch of Revvity Transcribe AI, an innovative optical character recognition (OCR) service designed to convert handwritten text on test request forms into a digitized format. This cutting-edge solution is now available to clinical laboratories, aiming to streamline workflows and reduce manual data entry tasks. Revvity Transcribe AI addresses the need for laboratories to quickly and accurately process test request forms...
Open access publishing start-up DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation - Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. The award recognises the innovation behind DeSci Publish, the world’s first open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology. The Lab Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the key achievements by individuals and businesses that are driving the future of scientific industries globally...
BioPORTER® protein delivery reagent from AMSBIO is proven to efficiently transport functionally active proteins directly into living cells eliminating the traditional DNA transfection, transcription, and protein translation process. Employing a unique lipid-based protein delivery system – BioPORTER® makes studying protein functionality faster and easier than ever before...
Colossal, the de-extinction and species preservation company, announces numerous breakthrough successes in all stages of the thylacine de-extinction effort that put the company much closer to returning the iconic thylacine to Australia. From the generation of the highest quality ancient genome to date, to breaking records in multiplex genome editing, to innovations in assisted reproductive technologies for marsupials...
EIBF, the UK registered charity that promotes business education for engineers and scientists, and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Metrology Institute, are partnering on an MBA scholarship scheme that will provide business education for scientists. The collaboration will provide MBA scholarships worth £50,000 to eight UK science graduates each year...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has unveiled its MiSeq™ i100 Series of sequencing systems, delivering unparalleled benchtop speed and simplicity to advance next-generation sequencing (NGS) for labs. The two new benchtop instruments, MiSeq i100 and MiSeq i100 Plus Systems, will empower customers to unlock powerful insights through an affordable, comprehensive solution that is simple to understand and use, even for those with limited NGS expertise...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has released SpectraPlex, a 3D high-multiplex solution for spatial discoveries on the STELLARIS confocal platform. This groundbreaking innovation sets a new benchmark for 3D spatial phenotyping in life science research. In recent years, Omics techniques – Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics – have taken a central role in life science research...
ZEISS announces the new ZEISS Crossbeam 550 Samplefab, a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) optimized for fully automated preparation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples (lamellae). Built for efficiency and throughput in the semiconductor lab, ZEISS Crossbeam 550 Samplefab provides recipe-based automation for the routine TEM sample preparation work of bulk milling, lift-out and thinning at any number of target points on the sample...
The American scientist Laura Seeholzer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, has won the 2024 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work on elucidating a role for airway neuroendocrine cells in responding to external threats. “Laura Seeholzer’s essay brilliantly describes how she identified a group of laryngeal and tracheal neuroendocrine cells that protect our airways” explained Dr. Peter Stern, Senior Editor at the journal Science and Chairman of the Prize Jury...
Veolia Water Technologies announces the opening of its state-of-the-art Life Science Centre of Excellence near Dublin, Ireland. At over 8,000 square feet (743 square meters), the facility houses a dedicated customer showroom experience, featuring numerous flagship water treatment and purification technologies, including OrionTM, SirionTM, PolarisTM 2.0, the PureLabTM Quest, Flex and Chorus ranges, Ozonia and Sievers Instruments...