A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Called FAIRY (Fluorescence Assay for vIRal IntegritY), the assay can screen viruses against virucidal antivirals in minutes, allowing for the effectiveness of antiviral measures, such as disinfectants that break the chain of infection, to be quickly determined...
Fluent's single-cell analysis technology eliminates the need for complex, expensive instrumentation and microfluidic consumables. This novel approach removes many of the barriers and limitations of current methods, making single-cell analysis accessible for a broader set of customers, and catalyzing new experiments enabled by the ability to perform that assay at the point of sample collection...
Waters Corporation has announced the global release of the TA Instruments™ Rapid Screening-Differential Scanning Calorimeter (TA Instruments RS-DSC), designed for biopharmaceutical developers. The TA Instruments RS-DSC is a high-throughput DSC for precise thermal stability testing of high-concentration biologic formulations specifically for antibody drugs and engineered proteins...
Bettersize Instruments, a leading manufacturer of particle analysis instrumentation, announces its latest innovation, the BeScan Lab, setting a new standard in stability analysis across diverse industries.Harnessing advanced Static Multiple Light Scattering (SMLS) technology, BeScan Lab offers unparalleled versatility, sensitivity, and reliability for comprehensive stability assessments...
This year, the Hamburg based life sicences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its prestigious research prize for the 29th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky, Cambridge, UK, selected Dr. Clemens Plaschka, IMP - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2024. Clemens Plaschka, born 1989, receives the 20,000 euro award for his research on the molecular machines that generate and export messenger RNA...
Indica Labs announces the expansion of their reseller network in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. New distributorship agreements have been inked with MRL Cybertec Corporation, Pathology Ware International, Minh Khang Technical Service & Trading Co. Ltd., and Histocenter, for distribution in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, respectively. The new partnerships build upon Indica’s previous commercial success in China and Japan where sales have grown substantially in recent years...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotech industry, has announced that global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using Benchling across more than 1,500 scientists from 30 teams. Benchling is working with Sanofi to transition from legacy R&D systems to a digital platform through Benchling R&D Cloud; this is an integral process to enable Sanofi's AI-powered R&D ambition. As a result of Sanofi’s digital and AI leadership, R&D teams are able to scale and accelerate groundbreaking research processes in just hours instead of weeks...
EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns Group, in collaboration with research groups from the Center for Experimental Medicine Institute of Tumor Biology and the Martini Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), as well as the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, has revealed a new mechanism through which cells counteract one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by stacking and fixing its molecules in a pile...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has officially opened its new 10,000 sq. ft. US Headquarters and Customer Interaction Center in Waltham’s Biotech Hub in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. Refeyn CEO Gerry Mackay – along with two members of the sales team and one of the company’s co-founders, Prof. Philipp Kukura helped to cut the ribbon at the opening event...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has published new survey findings that reveal 77% of R&D professionals are not using in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, and only 23% describe themselves as ‘very familiar’ with any kind of animal model alternative. More than 350 survey respondents participated, including representatives from pharma companies, regulators, and CROs...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation announces an agreement to be acquired by Malvern Panalytical, a global leader in the analytics of material and life sciences. Malvern Panalytical is a leading brand in the laboratory, world-renowned for superior measurements and high levels of customer support. They offer a high-performance range of physical, structural and elemental analysis products that are highly complementary to Micromeritics‘ technologies...
Specialised Imaging has introduced a new version of its market-leading SIM family of ultra high-speed framing camera that makes hyperspectral imaging simpler with the option of user interchangeable filters. Though hyperspectral imaging was possible on previous models, the new SIM design was driven by requests from the field of energetic materials research which required a camera with simple and fast exchange of filters in all its operating channels...
INTEGRA Biosciences and Parse Biosciences have partnered to automate single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot. This new protocol combines Parse Biosciences’ Evercode™ combinatorial barcoding technology with INTEGRA’s liquid handling expertise, and is already helping labs in academia and industry to streamline and standardize their sequencing workflows for faster throughput and more reproducible results...
Oxford Instruments Andor has announced the release of Imaris 10.2, the latest version of its market-leading AI-powered image analysis software for microscopic images. In the last decade, Imaris has constantly evolved to improve the visualisation and analysis of large images. Past releases have introduced AI (machine learning) to improve object identification and classification, spatial measurements, correlative data visualisation, and other tools for more precise segmentation...
HORIBA, a global leader in analytical and measurement technology, has expanded its award-winning compact hematology instrument range with the launch of new models with Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) on board. The new Yumizen H550E (autoloader), H500E CT (closed tube), and Yumizen H500E OT (open tube)now offer combined testing for CBC/DIFF with ESR results from whole blood in 60 seconds, adding a comprehensive profile for inflammatory disease assessment...
The 8th edition of analytica Vietnam 2025, scheduled to take place from April 2-4, 2025, at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, will bring together leading experts, researchers, and professionals from around the world. With an impressive 85% of exhibition space booked nine months ahead and past exhibitors increasing their booth sizes compared to the 2023 edition, the upcoming event promises to be the biggest and most successful yet...
Linkam Scientific Instruments is showcasing its cryo-correlative portfolio at this year’s M&M conference, and will be hosting tutorials and workshops at the event. Linkam will also be presenting two posters during the conference. Linkam’s CryoGenium plunger system, one of the company’s latest developments, will be shown on the booth. The CryoGenium is a fully automated system which offers a range of features for users of cryo-EM, cryo-tomography, single particle tomography (SPT) and cryo-CLEM methods....
In life science laboratories, where precision and purity are non-negotiable, the demand for environmentally friendly solutions is now higher than it has ever been. Laboratories are grappling with the environmental impact of their activities, and they are aware that the ever-increasing demand for plastic consumables is not resource-friendly. Therefore, in order to become more sustainable, future laboratory consumables made from plastic materials must be able to be manufactured from renewable or recycled raw materials...
TESCAN, a leading provider of scientific instrumentation, announces the launch of the TESCAN AMBER 2, the fourth generation of the TESCAN gallium FIB-SEM platform and the successor to the current AMBER generation, at the Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) Expo 2024. Alongside AMBER 2, TESCAN is also unveiling two new integrated innovative tools...
Evident’s popular PRECiV™ image analysis software now powers our DSX1000 digital microscope, bringing new levels of ease of use and usability. With the launch of PRECiV v. 2.1.1, a single, unified software program can now be used to control all our manual, motorized, and digital industrial microscopes. PRECiV DSX makes using the DSX1000 digital microscope even simpler, providing seamless control over all motorized functions for greater speed and accuracy...
The PPD clinical research business will nearly double its laboratory footprint in northern Kentucky, add more than 250 jobs. The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced the expansion of its central laboratory operations in Kentucky dedicated to accelerating pharmaceutical and biotech customers’ delivery of safe, effective medicines to patients...
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announce the launch of the ChemiDoc™ Go Imaging System, the latest addition to its portfolio of ChemiDoc Imaging Systems. The system offers rapid, reliable, and highly sensitive gel and western blot imaging on a benchtop scale. The ChemiDoc Go Imaging System uses complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) digital imaging to capture gel and western blot images with the same high sensitivity as larger instruments...
A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Called FAIRY (Fluorescence Assay for vIRal IntegritY), the assay can screen viruses against virucidal antivirals in minutes, allowing for the effectiveness of antiviral measures, such as disinfectants that break the chain of infection, to be quickly determined...
Fluent's single-cell analysis technology eliminates the need for complex, expensive instrumentation and microfluidic consumables. This novel approach removes many of the barriers and limitations of current methods, making single-cell analysis accessible for a broader set of customers, and catalyzing new experiments enabled by the ability to perform that assay at the point of sample collection...
Waters Corporation has announced the global release of the TA Instruments™ Rapid Screening-Differential Scanning Calorimeter (TA Instruments RS-DSC), designed for biopharmaceutical developers. The TA Instruments RS-DSC is a high-throughput DSC for precise thermal stability testing of high-concentration biologic formulations specifically for antibody drugs and engineered proteins...
Bettersize Instruments, a leading manufacturer of particle analysis instrumentation, announces its latest innovation, the BeScan Lab, setting a new standard in stability analysis across diverse industries.Harnessing advanced Static Multiple Light Scattering (SMLS) technology, BeScan Lab offers unparalleled versatility, sensitivity, and reliability for comprehensive stability assessments...
This year, the Hamburg based life sicences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its prestigious research prize for the 29th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky, Cambridge, UK, selected Dr. Clemens Plaschka, IMP - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2024. Clemens Plaschka, born 1989, receives the 20,000 euro award for his research on the molecular machines that generate and export messenger RNA...
Indica Labs announces the expansion of their reseller network in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. New distributorship agreements have been inked with MRL Cybertec Corporation, Pathology Ware International, Minh Khang Technical Service & Trading Co. Ltd., and Histocenter, for distribution in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, respectively. The new partnerships build upon Indica’s previous commercial success in China and Japan where sales have grown substantially in recent years...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotech industry, has announced that global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using Benchling across more than 1,500 scientists from 30 teams. Benchling is working with Sanofi to transition from legacy R&D systems to a digital platform through Benchling R&D Cloud; this is an integral process to enable Sanofi's AI-powered R&D ambition. As a result of Sanofi’s digital and AI leadership, R&D teams are able to scale and accelerate groundbreaking research processes in just hours instead of weeks...
EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns Group, in collaboration with research groups from the Center for Experimental Medicine Institute of Tumor Biology and the Martini Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), as well as the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, has revealed a new mechanism through which cells counteract one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by stacking and fixing its molecules in a pile...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has officially opened its new 10,000 sq. ft. US Headquarters and Customer Interaction Center in Waltham’s Biotech Hub in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. Refeyn CEO Gerry Mackay – along with two members of the sales team and one of the company’s co-founders, Prof. Philipp Kukura helped to cut the ribbon at the opening event...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has published new survey findings that reveal 77% of R&D professionals are not using in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, and only 23% describe themselves as ‘very familiar’ with any kind of animal model alternative. More than 350 survey respondents participated, including representatives from pharma companies, regulators, and CROs...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation announces an agreement to be acquired by Malvern Panalytical, a global leader in the analytics of material and life sciences. Malvern Panalytical is a leading brand in the laboratory, world-renowned for superior measurements and high levels of customer support. They offer a high-performance range of physical, structural and elemental analysis products that are highly complementary to Micromeritics‘ technologies...
Specialised Imaging has introduced a new version of its market-leading SIM family of ultra high-speed framing camera that makes hyperspectral imaging simpler with the option of user interchangeable filters. Though hyperspectral imaging was possible on previous models, the new SIM design was driven by requests from the field of energetic materials research which required a camera with simple and fast exchange of filters in all its operating channels...
INTEGRA Biosciences and Parse Biosciences have partnered to automate single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot. This new protocol combines Parse Biosciences’ Evercode™ combinatorial barcoding technology with INTEGRA’s liquid handling expertise, and is already helping labs in academia and industry to streamline and standardize their sequencing workflows for faster throughput and more reproducible results...
Oxford Instruments Andor has announced the release of Imaris 10.2, the latest version of its market-leading AI-powered image analysis software for microscopic images. In the last decade, Imaris has constantly evolved to improve the visualisation and analysis of large images. Past releases have introduced AI (machine learning) to improve object identification and classification, spatial measurements, correlative data visualisation, and other tools for more precise segmentation...
HORIBA, a global leader in analytical and measurement technology, has expanded its award-winning compact hematology instrument range with the launch of new models with Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) on board. The new Yumizen H550E (autoloader), H500E CT (closed tube), and Yumizen H500E OT (open tube)now offer combined testing for CBC/DIFF with ESR results from whole blood in 60 seconds, adding a comprehensive profile for inflammatory disease assessment...
The 8th edition of analytica Vietnam 2025, scheduled to take place from April 2-4, 2025, at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, will bring together leading experts, researchers, and professionals from around the world. With an impressive 85% of exhibition space booked nine months ahead and past exhibitors increasing their booth sizes compared to the 2023 edition, the upcoming event promises to be the biggest and most successful yet...
Linkam Scientific Instruments is showcasing its cryo-correlative portfolio at this year’s M&M conference, and will be hosting tutorials and workshops at the event. Linkam will also be presenting two posters during the conference. Linkam’s CryoGenium plunger system, one of the company’s latest developments, will be shown on the booth. The CryoGenium is a fully automated system which offers a range of features for users of cryo-EM, cryo-tomography, single particle tomography (SPT) and cryo-CLEM methods....
In life science laboratories, where precision and purity are non-negotiable, the demand for environmentally friendly solutions is now higher than it has ever been. Laboratories are grappling with the environmental impact of their activities, and they are aware that the ever-increasing demand for plastic consumables is not resource-friendly. Therefore, in order to become more sustainable, future laboratory consumables made from plastic materials must be able to be manufactured from renewable or recycled raw materials...
TESCAN, a leading provider of scientific instrumentation, announces the launch of the TESCAN AMBER 2, the fourth generation of the TESCAN gallium FIB-SEM platform and the successor to the current AMBER generation, at the Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) Expo 2024. Alongside AMBER 2, TESCAN is also unveiling two new integrated innovative tools...
vident’s popular PRECiV™ image analysis software now powers our DSX1000 digital microscope, bringing new levels of ease of use and usability. With the launch of PRECiV v. 2.1.1, a single, unified software program can now be used to control all our manual, motorized, and digital industrial microscopes. PRECiV DSX makes using the DSX1000 digital microscope even simpler, providing seamless control over all motorized functions for greater speed and accuracy...
The PPD clinical research business will nearly double its laboratory footprint in northern Kentucky, add more than 250 jobs. The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced the expansion of its central laboratory operations in Kentucky dedicated to accelerating pharmaceutical and biotech customers’ delivery of safe, effective medicines to patients...
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announce the launch of the ChemiDoc™ Go Imaging System, the latest addition to its portfolio of ChemiDoc Imaging Systems. The system offers rapid, reliable, and highly sensitive gel and western blot imaging on a benchtop scale. The ChemiDoc Go Imaging System uses complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) digital imaging to capture gel and western blot images with the same high sensitivity as larger instruments...