INTEGRA Biosciences is excited to announce the launch of its MAG and HEATMAG modules for efficient, automated magnetic bead purification. These innovative solutions allow researchers to streamline several processing steps in molecular biology and proteomics workflows for maximum lab throughput. These time-saving devices are complemented by the COLDPLATE and BIOSHAKE – for precise temperature control and orbital shaking of magnetic beads, respectively – to further streamline protocols...
Whether discovering new materials or working to overcome challenges with existing products, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a valuable instrument for industry. Here, Britta Siefer, Senior Sales Account Manager at industrial SEM specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains the considerations when investing in an SEM microscope for an industrial application...
Beauty of cosmic proportions found in microscopic imaging. Evident unveiled the winners of its 5th annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s best in scientific microscopic imaging. The winners were selected from submissions from 29 countries around the world. For the first time, the competition included a video category to showcase the art of capturing small changes in motion under the microscope...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of its next generation Agilent InfinityLab LC Series portfolio, which includes the 1290 Infinity III LC, 1260 Infinity III Prime LC, and 1260 Infinity III LC systems, all including the biocompatible versions. These are the first HPLC systems on the market to feature the new Agilent InfinityLab Assist Technology, offering enhanced, built-in system assistance capabilities...
Waters Corporation has announced waters_connect Data Intelligence software, a new cloud-based application that helps customers in regulated industries improve how they access, organize, analyze, and drive productivity from laboratory information. The software leverages data from Waters Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) enabling laboratories to achieve confident audit-readiness, helping laboratory managers respond more quickly to audit inquiries with insights...
Vapourtec’s recently launched, pioneering eBPR is an innovative, self-contained, electronically adjustable back pressure regulator that does not require any external reference gas pressure. Back pressure regulators (BPR) have, until now, been fixed and manually or electronically adjustable through the external control of gas pressure. Vapourtec MD Duncan Guthrie explained: “A BPR is a critical part of any flow chemistry system...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...
Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions introduces DuoVane®, a new series of rotary vane vacuum pumps. Usable worldwide, reliable and efficient, they are the optimized successors to the proven pumps from the Pascal and DuoLine series. The DuoVane vacuum pumps achieve a pumping speed of 6 to 22 m³/h. Equipped with a motor that corresponds to the energy efficiency class IE2, these pumps ensure an uncomplicated operation worldwide...
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...
INTEGRA Biosciences is excited to announce the launch of its MAG and HEATMAG modules for efficient, automated magnetic bead purification. These innovative solutions allow researchers to streamline several processing steps in molecular biology and proteomics workflows for maximum lab throughput. These time-saving devices are complemented by the COLDPLATE and BIOSHAKE – for precise temperature control and orbital shaking of magnetic beads, respectively – to further streamline protocols...
Whether discovering new materials or working to overcome challenges with existing products, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a valuable instrument for industry. Here, Britta Siefer, Senior Sales Account Manager at industrial SEM specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains the considerations when investing in an SEM microscope for an industrial application...
Beauty of cosmic proportions found in microscopic imaging. Evident unveiled the winners of its 5th annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s best in scientific microscopic imaging. The winners were selected from submissions from 29 countries around the world. For the first time, the competition included a video category to showcase the art of capturing small changes in motion under the microscope...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of its next generation Agilent InfinityLab LC Series portfolio, which includes the 1290 Infinity III LC, 1260 Infinity III Prime LC, and 1260 Infinity III LC systems, all including the biocompatible versions. These are the first HPLC systems on the market to feature the new Agilent InfinityLab Assist Technology, offering enhanced, built-in system assistance capabilities...
Waters Corporation has announced waters_connect Data Intelligence software, a new cloud-based application that helps customers in regulated industries improve how they access, organize, analyze, and drive productivity from laboratory information. The software leverages data from Waters Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) enabling laboratories to achieve confident audit-readiness, helping laboratory managers respond more quickly to audit inquiries with insights...
Vapourtec’s recently launched, pioneering eBPR is an innovative, self-contained, electronically adjustable back pressure regulator that does not require any external reference gas pressure. Back pressure regulators (BPR) have, until now, been fixed and manually or electronically adjustable through the external control of gas pressure. Vapourtec MD Duncan Guthrie explained: “A BPR is a critical part of any flow chemistry system...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...
Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions introduces DuoVane®, a new series of rotary vane vacuum pumps. Usable worldwide, reliable and efficient, they are the optimized successors to the proven pumps from the Pascal and DuoLine series. The DuoVane vacuum pumps achieve a pumping speed of 6 to 22 m³/h. Equipped with a motor that corresponds to the energy efficiency class IE2, these pumps ensure an uncomplicated operation worldwide...
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...