A new £13 million Centre of Excellence in water-based health monitoring is set to be established at the University of Bath following a major funding award. The Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection, WBE@Bath, will develop a public health surveillance system to detect outbreaks of diseases by testing water systems for traces of pathogens or other biomarkers at a community level...
A University of Bath spinout company dedicated to making vaccines safer has been awarded a highly competitive UK government contract through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). The aim of the two-year contract, valued at around £1.7million, is to develop the world's first thermally stable mRNA vaccine. In its work at the university, the team behind Ensilicated Technologies Ltd (EnsiliTech) has developed ensilication – a technology that allows vaccines and other biological materials to be transported and stored without the use of refrigeration...
A milestone on the path to Laboratory 4.0 has been reached in time for analytica 2024. With the Laboratory & Analytical Device Standard, LADS for short, a communication standard is now available that connects software systems and analytical and laboratory equipment from different providers.“ The digital transformation of the laboratory world is progressing inexorably. Vendor-independent equipment communication will now significantly speed up this development...
Through an exclusive new partnership with ProtonDx, (London, UK), Alpha Laboratories (Eastleigh, UK) proudly announces the launch of SmartLid™, a revolutionary magnetic key and lid system that streamlines the nucleic acid extraction process. The groundbreaking solution is designed for rapid and efficient viral DNA/RNA extraction and simplifies the three crucial sample extraction steps - Lysis, Wash, and Elution - offering a smarter way to handle nucleic acids in molecular biology applications...
Ultra Optically Clear assay plates from Azenta Life Sciences provide high optical transmission in the UV waveband, making them ideal for labs tasked with DNA purity measurements performed at 260 / 280nm. The high UV waveband transmission of these plates is derived from an ultra-clear cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) base, which gives superior results by delivering very low background absorbance and low autofluorescence...
AMSBIO has launched a new 2024 travel grant award scheme for scientists under the age of thirty, employed in academia, research institutions, or companies engaged in cancer and stem cell research. Working closely with the global life science community for over three decades AMSBIO believes in partnership and paying back by supporting new research and researchers. Last year, the company funded a travel grant to attend ISSCR 2023...
The constant temperature equipment manufacturer LAUDA is launching a new product on the market to start the new year: the Mobifreeze M 270, the first mobile battery-powered ultra low-temperature chest freezer. Valuable samples or APIs can be safely stored and transported from -86 °C to -50 °C with high temperature resistance – without dry ice. Natural refrigerants are used to provide active temperature control instead...
Green Elephant Biotech GmbH, the world's first company to develop, manufacture and sell consumables for laboratories made from plant-based plastics, announces the commercial launch of the first-of-its-kind plant-based Green Elephant 96-Well Plate. For the first time, laboratory staff can conduct research, diagnoses and analysis more sustainably without compromising quality, all while meeting safety and purity standards. The plate is designed to replace single-use, fossil fuel-based plastic plates...
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the introduction of the CQ3000, a high-content analysis system for capturing high-definition 3D microscopic images of live cell cultures. Expanding the company’s CellVoyager™ family of products, the CQ3000 will be launched commercially later in 2024. The CQ3000 has been designed to capture 3D microscopic images of live cell cultures in high definition at high speed...
Biotech Fluidics reports on the development of a custom 8-channel DEGASi® Plus inline degassing system for AutoSyn AB - a start-up company specializing in flow chemistry and continuous processing systems. Existing off-the-shelf product solutions do not always cover user needs. For a critical customer application, the degassing performance offered by the AutoSyn advanced flow chemistry system was not sufficient...
With his passion for chemistry and many ideas for high-tech laboratory measuring instruments, he enriched the global laboratory industry and created the successful company that bears his name. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Knauer has now died at the age of 92. As the KNAUER company announced, its founder passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Thursday, January 18, 2024...
Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, in collaboration with Nashville Biosciences, LLC (NashBio), a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has announced three new members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD). Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), GSK and Novo Nordisk join founding member organizations AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, and Merck...
Bruker Corporation, the leading provider of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy solutions for life and materials research, has announced the successful installation of a 1.2 Gigahertz (GHz) NMR system at the National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center at The Ohio State University. Ultra-high field NMR is complementary to other structural biology technologies in that NMR can measure functional molecular dynamics and structural rearrangements for functional structural biology...
A team of UK scientists has got a step closer to making several different types of plastic much easier to recycle, using a method that could be applied to a whole range of difficult-to-recycle polymers, including rubbers, gels and adhesives. Thermoplastics and thermosets are two types of plastics that both consist of long chains of molecules called polymers but behave differently when heated...
Antrum Biotech, a healthcare innovations company dedicated to developing rapid diagnostic tools for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), has integrated serological pipette controllers from INTEGRA Biosciences into its laboratories. The pipetting aids have become an invaluable asset in the company’s liquid handling workflows, streamlining the commercialization of a variety of innovative healthcare products that will have a lasting impact on how we diagnose and control disease...
Eremid® Genomic Services, LLC (“Eremid”) announces its College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation, complementing its November 2022 CLIA certification. This landmark demonstrates Eremid’s commitment to meeting and exceeding regulatory standards, proving its ability to provide quality and precision in clinical genomics. This noteworthy development cements Eremid as a trusted partner for end-to-end clinical genomics support capable of delivering high quality test results...
HORIBA Medical has launched the new HELO 2.0 high throughput automated hematology platform which is CE-IVDR approved. Following the success of HORIBA Medical’s previous HELO, this new generation high-end hematology range has been designed in consultation with customers to further improve and cover all needs of high throughput fully automated hematology. HELO 2.0 offers a highly flexible and efficient modular hematology solution that is fully scalable with many possible configurations for mid to large-scale laboratories...
Earlier this year, scientists unveiled the first draft of the pangenome, based on full genetic blueprints from 47 people around the world to create a more diverse representation of the human genome1. To more accurately account for this richer picture of human genomic variation, Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched the new Axiom™ PangenomiX Array*, its largest and most ethnically diverse array to date, offering optimal genetic coverage for population scale disease studies and pharmacogenomic research...
The ART is an innovative platform delivering state-of-the-art reconstruction technologies based on deep learning and cloud computing to enhance the performances of your ZEISS Xradia 3D XRM. It is indeed a set of image reconstruction technologies to significantly enhance XRM performances. Zeiss invite you to join their free online webinar on February 6th in order to learn more about this fascinating technology and its possibilities...
Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high technology products and services to industry and scientific research communities, has announced the acquisition of First Light Imaging SAS (“First Light”), a scientific camera specialist. Based near Aix-en-Provence, France, and founded in 2011, First Light specialises in the design and manufacture of high-speed, low-noise scientific cameras for infrared and visible imaging, with applications in astronomy and life sciences...
Bruker has announced that it has acquired Nion, a privately-held company that develops and manufactures innovative high-end scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM). Nion was the first company to introduce aberration correction for STEM instruments with ultra-high stability for highest resolution images, and Nion is the world leader in ultra-high energy and spatial resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS)...
The cost and availability of helium is becoming increasingly challenging for labs, that can lead to a disruption to analysis. It’s becoming a real headache for analysts, and the situation is not going to improve! Using hydrogen as a carrier gas is a tried-and-tested way to alleviate this problem. Markes’ award-winning Multi-Gas enabled thermal desorbers use hydrogen carrier gas (along with both nitrogen and helium, if you prefer), and when coupled with your GC–MS overcome the problem we’re seeing with helium...
A new £13 million Centre of Excellence in water-based health monitoring is set to be established at the University of Bath following a major funding award. The Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection, WBE@Bath, will develop a public health surveillance system to detect outbreaks of diseases by testing water systems for traces of pathogens or other biomarkers at a community level...
A University of Bath spinout company dedicated to making vaccines safer has been awarded a highly competitive UK government contract through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). The aim of the two-year contract, valued at around £1.7million, is to develop the world's first thermally stable mRNA vaccine. In its work at the university, the team behind Ensilicated Technologies Ltd (EnsiliTech) has developed ensilication – a technology that allows vaccines and other biological materials to be transported and stored without the use of refrigeration...
A milestone on the path to Laboratory 4.0 has been reached in time for analytica 2024. With the Laboratory & Analytical Device Standard, LADS for short, a communication standard is now available that connects software systems and analytical and laboratory equipment from different providers.“ The digital transformation of the laboratory world is progressing inexorably. Vendor-independent equipment communication will now significantly speed up this development...
Through an exclusive new partnership with ProtonDx, (London, UK), Alpha Laboratories (Eastleigh, UK) proudly announces the launch of SmartLid™, a revolutionary magnetic key and lid system that streamlines the nucleic acid extraction process. The groundbreaking solution is designed for rapid and efficient viral DNA/RNA extraction and simplifies the three crucial sample extraction steps - Lysis, Wash, and Elution - offering a smarter way to handle nucleic acids in molecular biology applications...
Ultra Optically Clear assay plates from Azenta Life Sciences provide high optical transmission in the UV waveband, making them ideal for labs tasked with DNA purity measurements performed at 260 / 280nm. The high UV waveband transmission of these plates is derived from an ultra-clear cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) base, which gives superior results by delivering very low background absorbance and low autofluorescence...
AMSBIO has launched a new 2024 travel grant award scheme for scientists under the age of thirty, employed in academia, research institutions, or companies engaged in cancer and stem cell research. Working closely with the global life science community for over three decades AMSBIO believes in partnership and paying back by supporting new research and researchers. Last year, the company funded a travel grant to attend ISSCR 2023...
The constant temperature equipment manufacturer LAUDA is launching a new product on the market to start the new year: the Mobifreeze M 270, the first mobile battery-powered ultra low-temperature chest freezer. Valuable samples or APIs can be safely stored and transported from -86 °C to -50 °C with high temperature resistance – without dry ice. Natural refrigerants are used to provide active temperature control instead...
Green Elephant Biotech GmbH, the world's first company to develop, manufacture and sell consumables for laboratories made from plant-based plastics, announces the commercial launch of the first-of-its-kind plant-based Green Elephant 96-Well Plate. For the first time, laboratory staff can conduct research, diagnoses and analysis more sustainably without compromising quality, all while meeting safety and purity standards. The plate is designed to replace single-use, fossil fuel-based plastic plates...
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the introduction of the CQ3000, a high-content analysis system for capturing high-definition 3D microscopic images of live cell cultures. Expanding the company’s CellVoyager™ family of products, the CQ3000 will be launched commercially later in 2024. The CQ3000 has been designed to capture 3D microscopic images of live cell cultures in high definition at high speed...
Biotech Fluidics reports on the development of a custom 8-channel DEGASi® Plus inline degassing system for AutoSyn AB - a start-up company specializing in flow chemistry and continuous processing systems. Existing off-the-shelf product solutions do not always cover user needs. For a critical customer application, the degassing performance offered by the AutoSyn advanced flow chemistry system was not sufficient...
With his passion for chemistry and many ideas for high-tech laboratory measuring instruments, he enriched the global laboratory industry and created the successful company that bears his name. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Knauer has now died at the age of 92. As the KNAUER company announced, its founder passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Thursday, January 18, 2024...
Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, in collaboration with Nashville Biosciences, LLC (NashBio), a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has announced three new members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD). Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), GSK and Novo Nordisk join founding member organizations AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, and Merck...
Bruker Corporation, the leading provider of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy solutions for life and materials research, has announced the successful installation of a 1.2 Gigahertz (GHz) NMR system at the National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center at The Ohio State University. Ultra-high field NMR is complementary to other structural biology technologies in that NMR can measure functional molecular dynamics and structural rearrangements for functional structural biology...
A team of UK scientists has got a step closer to making several different types of plastic much easier to recycle, using a method that could be applied to a whole range of difficult-to-recycle polymers, including rubbers, gels and adhesives. Thermoplastics and thermosets are two types of plastics that both consist of long chains of molecules called polymers but behave differently when heated...
Antrum Biotech, a healthcare innovations company dedicated to developing rapid diagnostic tools for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), has integrated serological pipette controllers from INTEGRA Biosciences into its laboratories. The pipetting aids have become an invaluable asset in the company’s liquid handling workflows, streamlining the commercialization of a variety of innovative healthcare products that will have a lasting impact on how we diagnose and control disease...
Eremid® Genomic Services, LLC (“Eremid”) announces its College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation, complementing its November 2022 CLIA certification. This landmark demonstrates Eremid’s commitment to meeting and exceeding regulatory standards, proving its ability to provide quality and precision in clinical genomics. This noteworthy development cements Eremid as a trusted partner for end-to-end clinical genomics support capable of delivering high quality test results...
HORIBA Medical has launched the new HELO 2.0 high throughput automated hematology platform which is CE-IVDR approved. Following the success of HORIBA Medical’s previous HELO, this new generation high-end hematology range has been designed in consultation with customers to further improve and cover all needs of high throughput fully automated hematology. HELO 2.0 offers a highly flexible and efficient modular hematology solution that is fully scalable with many possible configurations for mid to large-scale laboratories...
Earlier this year, scientists unveiled the first draft of the pangenome, based on full genetic blueprints from 47 people around the world to create a more diverse representation of the human genome1. To more accurately account for this richer picture of human genomic variation, Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched the new Axiom™ PangenomiX Array*, its largest and most ethnically diverse array to date, offering optimal genetic coverage for population scale disease studies and pharmacogenomic research...
The ART is an innovative platform delivering state-of-the-art reconstruction technologies based on deep learning and cloud computing to enhance the performances of your ZEISS Xradia 3D XRM. It is indeed a set of image reconstruction technologies to significantly enhance XRM performances. Zeiss invite you to join their free online webinar on February 6th in order to learn more about this fascinating technology and its possibilities...
Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high technology products and services to industry and scientific research communities, has announced the acquisition of First Light Imaging SAS (“First Light”), a scientific camera specialist. Based near Aix-en-Provence, France, and founded in 2011, First Light specialises in the design and manufacture of high-speed, low-noise scientific cameras for infrared and visible imaging, with applications in astronomy and life sciences...
Bruker has announced that it has acquired Nion, a privately-held company that develops and manufactures innovative high-end scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM). Nion was the first company to introduce aberration correction for STEM instruments with ultra-high stability for highest resolution images, and Nion is the world leader in ultra-high energy and spatial resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS)...
The cost and availability of helium is becoming increasingly challenging for labs, that can lead to a disruption to analysis. It’s becoming a real headache for analysts, and the situation is not going to improve! Using hydrogen as a carrier gas is a tried-and-tested way to alleviate this problem. Markes’ award-winning Multi-Gas enabled thermal desorbers use hydrogen carrier gas (along with both nitrogen and helium, if you prefer), and when coupled with your GC–MS overcome the problem we’re seeing with helium...