Drug molecules and biofuels can be made to order by living cell factories, where biological enzymes do the job. Now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a computer model that can predict how fast enzymes work, making it possible to find the most efficient living factories, as well as to study difficult diseases. Enzymes are proteins found in all living cells. Their job is to act as catalysts that increase the rate of specific chemical reactions that take place in the cells....
Agilent Technologies has announced that it is collaborating with METTLER TOLEDO to address one of the biggest concerns in any laboratory—error-prone sample preparation. This integrated solution allows the automatic and seamless transfer of weighing results and the associated metadata from METTLER TOLEDO LabX™ Balance software to Agilent OpenLab software...
Specialists in innovative porous plastics technologies – Porvair Sciences has introduced a new range of Vyon® PTFE porous plastic materials for applications where temperature or chemical resistance is important. Vyon® PTFE is a unique, high-performance porous plastic material manufactured from 100% pure polytetrafluoroethylene. Through sintering, Porvair produce porous PTFE structures composed of tortuous interconnected pathways with minimal dead-end pores...
LGC Maine Standards¹ announces the release of VALIDATE® aHBs to meet the linearity and calibration verification needs of clinical laboratories running the Roche cobas®, Abbott ALINITY, and Siemens ADVIA Centaur®, platforms. VALIDATE aHBs (Order No. 801mm) offers Hepatitis B Surface IgG Antibody (aHBs) for easy, fast, efficient linearity and calibration verification. VALIDATE aHBs test kits are liquid and ready-to-use; simply dispense the solution from each dropper bottle, directly into five sample cups, and run in replicates to verify the assay’s reportable range.
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2022 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, September 14 with LIMS: What You Should Know About SaaS vs. On-Premises Deployment. The move to cloud (also known as Software as a Service or SaaS) deployment has seen explosive growth the past few years and all signs point to continuing this upward trend....
AFYS3G, launches the AFYS3G Code Reader for Single Tubes Delta10. The AFYS3G Delta10 features optimized scanning positions for 1D barcodes and 2D Data-Matrix codes ensuring fast and precise code reading. The AFYS3G Tube Reader Delta10 reads the 1D barcodes of the tube and the rack at the front of the reader and the 2D Data-Matrix code of the tube on the top of the reader in less than a second...
The new generation of tubes "Eppendorf Tubes® BioBased" is made from 90 % "bio-circular", renewable-based feedstook (recycled e.g. from food oil wastes and residues) plus 10 % fossil-based feedstock. Thus, these tubes in the sizes 5.0 mL, 15 mL, 25 mL and 50 mL with screw cap are made of certified polypropylene based on renewable, recycled raw materials and are called "BioBased"...
Asynt report how award-winning formulation and development lab – Here2Grow Cosmetics & Homecare Labs (Selby, UK) used the ReactoMate DATUM laboratory reaction vessel system in the development of a next generation clinical haircare product. To tackle common scalp issues encountered by patients, a tricology clinic had been developing scalp therapy products in collaboration with formulation laboratories and manufacturers....
The life science group Sartorius, through its French listed subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Albumedix Ltd. from private investors. The Nottingham, UK-based company provides best-in-class recombinant albumin-based solutions. Recombinant human albumin is an important component for the biopharmaceutical industry required for various applications...
The efficiency and proven reliability of the autoclave sterilising chamber is just part of story on how Priorclave machines support laboratories. The recently announced new categories of research grade laboratory autoclaves also helps in preventing the threat of potential cross contamination in a laboratory. The Priorclave autoclave build programme incorporates panels and frames coated in an anti-bacteria agent....
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and EVIDENT Co., Ltd. ("Evident"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus announce that Olympus concluded a definitive agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (“Bain Capital”), regarding the transfer of Evident. Based on this agreement, all shares of Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is showcasing a new mass spectrometry instrument and consumables that enable biopharmaceutical and proteomics customers to drive scientific breakthroughs and solve analytical challenges. The company will showcase these innovations during the International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC), August 27-September 2, 2022, Booth 6, in the Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC), Maastricht, Netherlands.
Validair Diamond Scientific (VDS) has invested in a new cleanroom at its Chester-le-Street headquarters. The in-house facility was specified and designed to meet exacting requirements for research and fault-finding as well as for use by the company’s field service team as a hands-on training resource. VDS worked closely with Total Clean Air to design and configure the cleanroom to be exceptionally flexible in its performance and functionality, allowing the VDS team to push the boundaries...
Scientists at the UK’s National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at LGC have published a paper, “Monkeypox: another test for PCR”, focusing on how to ensure the PCR diagnosis tests being deployed for monkeypox will be most accurate and that lessons learned on PCR testing from the COVID-19 pandemic are applied to the current epidemic. Dr Jim Huggett, Science Fellow at the NML, said, “Like the early stages of COVID-19, PCR is the only test that can be rapidly deployed to confirm Monkeypox cases....
Greyhound Chromatography is proud to announce that it has reached another milestone in the history of the company and celebrates the company's 40th anniversary. From humble beginnings, founded long before the invention of the Internet, Greyhound has gone from strength to strength, reaching new markets and embracing technology to send products from the world’s leading scientific manufacturers all over the world...
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has set out its vision for a new life sciences cluster in Paddington, founded on its growing partnerships with research, industry and community organisations around St Mary’s Hospital. The Trust unveiled its ‘Paddington Life Sciences’ vision on a new website, including three initiatives getting underway immediately...
Constructive Bio announces its launch as a new UK-based biotechnology company following the completion of a $15 million seed round and an exclusive license from the Medical Research Council (“MRC”) to IP developed by Professor Jason Chin’s Laboratory (the “Chin Lab”) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (“MRC-LMB”). The Chin Lab has pioneered the development and application of methods for reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms...
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostic products, has extended its range of StarBright Dyes to provide greater flexibility in multicolor flow cytometry panels. The StarBright Violet 760, StarBright UltraViolet 575, and StarBright UltraViolet 605 Dyes offer improved brightness with narrow excitation and emission profiles for precise resolution...
Crystallization technology provider Technobis Crystallization Systems has launched two new modules for the CrystalBreeder®, a multi-reactor crystallization platform for medium throughput solid-state research. The new modules offer vapor diffusion and evaporation capabilities, increasing the instrument’s versatility, and facilitating the design space for more advanced experiments...
Creoptix® (a Malvern Panalytical brand) is announcing the addition of two new wizards to their WAVEcontrol software to simplify and streamline workflows. By combining the high sensitivity, throughput, and no-clog microfluidics of the WAVEsystem, with a faster, more flexible, automated approach to screening and characterization, Creoptix is accelerating biologics drug discovery and diagnostics development...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Professor Gerhardt Attard has been selected to receive a prestigious Agilent Thought Leader Award. Prof Attard is a John Black Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research at University College London (UCL). Professor Attard is prominent for his innovative research and clinical trials using cutting-edge liquid biopsy technologies to identify biomarkers to monitor drug response and cancer progression...
Lentiviral vectors are a valuable tool for delivering target genes into most types of dividing and non-dividing mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. Typically, production of custom lentiviral vectors is a laborious and challenging process, especially when high-titer lentiviral vectors are required. The custom lentiviral vector production service from AMSBO offers researchers a proven partner to avoid this bottleneck and speed up your research...
Drug molecules and biofuels can be made to order by living cell factories, where biological enzymes do the job. Now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a computer model that can predict how fast enzymes work, making it possible to find the most efficient living factories, as well as to study difficult diseases. Enzymes are proteins found in all living cells. Their job is to act as catalysts that increase the rate of specific chemical reactions that take place in the cells....
Agilent Technologies has announced that it is collaborating with METTLER TOLEDO to address one of the biggest concerns in any laboratory—error-prone sample preparation. This integrated solution allows the automatic and seamless transfer of weighing results and the associated metadata from METTLER TOLEDO LabX™ Balance software to Agilent OpenLab software...
Specialists in innovative porous plastics technologies – Porvair Sciences has introduced a new range of Vyon® PTFE porous plastic materials for applications where temperature or chemical resistance is important. Vyon® PTFE is a unique, high-performance porous plastic material manufactured from 100% pure polytetrafluoroethylene. Through sintering, Porvair produce porous PTFE structures composed of tortuous interconnected pathways with minimal dead-end pores...
LGC Maine Standards¹ announces the release of VALIDATE® aHBs to meet the linearity and calibration verification needs of clinical laboratories running the Roche cobas®, Abbott ALINITY, and Siemens ADVIA Centaur®, platforms. VALIDATE aHBs (Order No. 801mm) offers Hepatitis B Surface IgG Antibody (aHBs) for easy, fast, efficient linearity and calibration verification. VALIDATE aHBs test kits are liquid and ready-to-use; simply dispense the solution from each dropper bottle, directly into five sample cups, and run in replicates to verify the assay’s reportable range.
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2022 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, September 14 with LIMS: What You Should Know About SaaS vs. On-Premises Deployment. The move to cloud (also known as Software as a Service or SaaS) deployment has seen explosive growth the past few years and all signs point to continuing this upward trend....
AFYS3G, launches the AFYS3G Code Reader for Single Tubes Delta10. The AFYS3G Delta10 features optimized scanning positions for 1D barcodes and 2D Data-Matrix codes ensuring fast and precise code reading. The AFYS3G Tube Reader Delta10 reads the 1D barcodes of the tube and the rack at the front of the reader and the 2D Data-Matrix code of the tube on the top of the reader in less than a second...
The new generation of tubes "Eppendorf Tubes® BioBased" is made from 90 % "bio-circular", renewable-based feedstook (recycled e.g. from food oil wastes and residues) plus 10 % fossil-based feedstock. Thus, these tubes in the sizes 5.0 mL, 15 mL, 25 mL and 50 mL with screw cap are made of certified polypropylene based on renewable, recycled raw materials and are called "BioBased"...
Asynt report how award-winning formulation and development lab – Here2Grow Cosmetics & Homecare Labs (Selby, UK) used the ReactoMate DATUM laboratory reaction vessel system in the development of a next generation clinical haircare product. To tackle common scalp issues encountered by patients, a tricology clinic had been developing scalp therapy products in collaboration with formulation laboratories and manufacturers....
The life science group Sartorius, through its French listed subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Albumedix Ltd. from private investors. The Nottingham, UK-based company provides best-in-class recombinant albumin-based solutions. Recombinant human albumin is an important component for the biopharmaceutical industry required for various applications...
The efficiency and proven reliability of the autoclave sterilising chamber is just part of story on how Priorclave machines support laboratories. The recently announced new categories of research grade laboratory autoclaves also helps in preventing the threat of potential cross contamination in a laboratory. The Priorclave autoclave build programme incorporates panels and frames coated in an anti-bacteria agent....
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and EVIDENT Co., Ltd. ("Evident"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus announce that Olympus concluded a definitive agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (“Bain Capital”), regarding the transfer of Evident. Based on this agreement, all shares of Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is showcasing a new mass spectrometry instrument and consumables that enable biopharmaceutical and proteomics customers to drive scientific breakthroughs and solve analytical challenges. The company will showcase these innovations during the International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC), August 27-September 2, 2022, Booth 6, in the Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC), Maastricht, Netherlands.
Validair Diamond Scientific (VDS) has invested in a new cleanroom at its Chester-le-Street headquarters. The in-house facility was specified and designed to meet exacting requirements for research and fault-finding as well as for use by the company’s field service team as a hands-on training resource. VDS worked closely with Total Clean Air to design and configure the cleanroom to be exceptionally flexible in its performance and functionality, allowing the VDS team to push the boundaries...
Greyhound Chromatography is proud to announce that it has reached another milestone in the history of the company and celebrates the company's 40th anniversary. From humble beginnings, founded long before the invention of the Internet, Greyhound has gone from strength to strength, reaching new markets and embracing technology to send products from the world’s leading scientific manufacturers all over the world...
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has set out its vision for a new life sciences cluster in Paddington, founded on its growing partnerships with research, industry and community organisations around St Mary’s Hospital. The Trust unveiled its ‘Paddington Life Sciences’ vision on a new website, including three initiatives getting underway immediately...
Constructive Bio announces its launch as a new UK-based biotechnology company following the completion of a $15 million seed round and an exclusive license from the Medical Research Council (“MRC”) to IP developed by Professor Jason Chin’s Laboratory (the “Chin Lab”) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (“MRC-LMB”). The Chin Lab has pioneered the development and application of methods for reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms...
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostic products, has extended its range of StarBright Dyes to provide greater flexibility in multicolor flow cytometry panels. The StarBright Violet 760, StarBright UltraViolet 575, and StarBright UltraViolet 605 Dyes offer improved brightness with narrow excitation and emission profiles for precise resolution...
Crystallization technology provider Technobis Crystallization Systems has launched two new modules for the CrystalBreeder®, a multi-reactor crystallization platform for medium throughput solid-state research. The new modules offer vapor diffusion and evaporation capabilities, increasing the instrument’s versatility, and facilitating the design space for more advanced experiments...
Creoptix® (a Malvern Panalytical brand) is announcing the addition of two new wizards to their WAVEcontrol software to simplify and streamline workflows. By combining the high sensitivity, throughput, and no-clog microfluidics of the WAVEsystem, with a faster, more flexible, automated approach to screening and characterization, Creoptix is accelerating biologics drug discovery and diagnostics development...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Professor Gerhardt Attard has been selected to receive a prestigious Agilent Thought Leader Award. Prof Attard is a John Black Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research at University College London (UCL). Professor Attard is prominent for his innovative research and clinical trials using cutting-edge liquid biopsy technologies to identify biomarkers to monitor drug response and cancer progression...
Lentiviral vectors are a valuable tool for delivering target genes into most types of dividing and non-dividing mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. Typically, production of custom lentiviral vectors is a laborious and challenging process, especially when high-titer lentiviral vectors are required. The custom lentiviral vector production service from AMSBO offers researchers a proven partner to avoid this bottleneck and speed up your research...