With years of experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sector, Creative Diagnostics recently launches a wide range of fluorescent silica particles with a high amount of covalently bound fluorescence dye in the silica matrix. These new fluorescent silica nanoparticles are available with red fluorescence, green fluorescence and blue fluorescence, which can be applied in fluorescent imaging and multimodal imaging, drug and gene delivery, and theranostics platform....
As a global leading supplier of of raw materials, antibodies, and reagents for bio-technology industry, Creative Diagnostics is proud to announce that it has launched a new set of antibodies specific to cytotoxic drugs for life science community facing the growing challenges for scientific research. With these newly launched cytotoxic drug antibodies, Creative Diagnostics now is able to successfully develop highly sensitive MMAE and MMAF ELISA kits....
Restek has expanded its line of LC accessories to bring you even more of what you need to keep your LC flowing. Over 140 new items are now available, including fittings, tubing, mobile phase management and safety supplies, and more. Featured products include bottle top inlet valves to protect your lab from volatile compounds and your mobile phase from bacterial contamination, outlet valves to regulate pressure during helium sparging, and safety exhaust filters with a color indicator to clearly show when a changeout is needed.
A radical new method of producing drug molecules, which uses downloadable blueprints to easily and reliably synthesise organic chemicals via a programmable ‘chemputer’, could be set to democratise the pharmaceutical industry, scientists say. In a new paper published online in the journal Science today (November 29), researchers from the University of Glasgow present for the first time how synthesis of important drug molecules can be achieved in an...
PHARM Connect Congress is the premier networking business event dedicated to pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovations and trends from development through commercialisation in Central and Eastern Europe. The organiser - TEG The Events Group - cordially welcome all lead business professionals, academicians, researchers and peers from the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing and biotechnology to participate in the upcoming Congress, taking place in Budapest....
To select the correct undercounter/freestanding lab refrigeration system for a small to medium-sized laboratory or healthcare facility you must evaluate a system’s capability to satisfy a number of important criteria. This post explains important criteria to consider. They include: required storage capacity, refrigerator/freezer temperature range, stable, accurate temperature control, alarm systems signaling temperature excursions, auto defrost vs. manual defrost, compliance with standards and other useful features...
Only half a year after the launch of the entry-level rotational viscometer ViscoQC 100, Anton Paar releases the next rotational viscometer, ViscoQC 300: a true all-rounder in multi-point viscosity determination and analysis. The only touch-screen viscometer ready for immediate start-up right out of the box. Measurements with ViscoQC 300 can be started right away as the instrument is already assembled when delivered...
Join SP Scientific and Dr. Alexandra Braun, of GILYOS GmbH, for an insightful webinar on miniaturization in freeze drying. Miniaturization is an important topic – especially in the early development phase of new drug entities – due to the limited availability and costs of most Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API). This webinar, which takes place on January 24 2019, will focus on ways to jumpstart your development effort...
LABWorld China 2019, hosted by CCCMHPI, UBM EMEA and UBM Sinoexpo, will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) on June 18-20, 2019. As an industry weather vane, LABWorld China 2019 will focus on R&D, inspection and analysis in the pharmaceutical chemical and biotechnology fields, and set up a bridge of communication between the broad laboratory equipment and analytical instrument manufacturers and pharmaceutica...
Metrohm is proud to continue its productive collaboration with USP (the United States Pharmacopeia) on a global initiative to modernize monographs that have traditionally featured wet chemistry methods. The goal of this modernization initiative is to replace the methods in these monographs with selective and sensitive methodologies that reflect recent innovations and technology updates. Method innovations coupled with new instrumentation will make laboratory workflows more efficient and cost-effective....
WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing, today announced that the construction of new biologics drug substance manufacturing facility has commenced on the Industrial Development Authority's (IDA) greenfield site in Mullagharlin, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Being the company's first site...
Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of fluid analysis instrumentation and software, has been purchased by AMETEK, Inc. Spectro has annual sales of approximately $50 million and was acquired for approximately $190 million. Spectro was a privately held company and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. It joins AMETEK as part of its Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) - a leader in advanced analytical, monitoring, testing, calibrating and...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on their Particle Metrix ZetaView® users at Oxford Brookes University who are studying extracellular vesicles. Dr Genevieve Melling is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. She works in the laboratory of Dr Dave Carter which has been established to study the effects of non-coding RNAs and extracellular vesicles in stress response...
Genevac, an SP Scientific brand, recently provided a leading pharmaceutical company with a glovebox-enclosed version of its EZ-2 centrifugal evaporator to safely remove solvents from cytotoxic drug preparations. Cytotoxic drugs are used widely in the treatment of cancers as well as other diseases. Antibody drug conjugates are a class of highly potent therapeutic drugs used for treating targeted cancerous tumors. These chemotherapeutic drugs can be 100...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments reports being awarded a contract to supply two automated Spinsolve 80 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometers for forensic applications. Magritek announces that it has been awarded a major contract by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for two Spinsolve 80 Carbon benchtop NMR spectrometers. The purchase was made through a competitive award process and will allow DEA laboratories...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are using microencapsulation technologies developed by Dolomite Microfluidics to develop self-healing construction materials. As highlighted in recent BBC News broadcasts, the Department of Engineering’s Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group is developing microcapsules containing ‘healing’ agents – such as minerals, epoxy or polyurethane – which can be...
UniLine Furniture offerings include Base Cabinets, Wall Cabinets, Countertops, Sinks, Fixtures, Base-Tables, Mobile Work Stations, Specialty Storage Cabinets and Peg Boards. Our UniLineCasework Groupings are designed to incorporate our most popular casework styles in a complete package. Our services can also include a complete turnkey installation to ensure the one source quality standards that you expect and deserve...
AMSBIO introduces ALiCE® - a new high yield cell-free protein expression system. Cell-free protein expression (CFPE) is today used by protein chemists to quickly produce small amounts of proteins when screening DNA libraries. However current technologies are limited and there is a need for higher protein expression yields. ALiCE® is a unique eukaryotic system, which yields an unprecedented 3 mg/ml of protein in batch mode...
The European Hematology Association (EHA) and European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) will hold the first European CAR T Cell Meeting together in Paris on February 14-16, 2019. CAR T Cell Therapy is revolutionizing the field of hematologic malignancies and has the potential to achieve cure for a number of dreadful diseases. The recent approvals of the first CAR T Cell treatments in Europe provide a great opportunity to fight...
The Native Antigen Company has launched a series of ground-breaking immunoassays for Zika virus, offering researchers in academia, public health and drug discovery the capability to work with unprecedented levels of specificity and sensitivity. Unlike previous methods, the new assays have little or no cross-reactivity with other flaviviruses, including Dengue, West Nile, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Tick-Borne Encephalitis and Usutu virus...
Antibody specialist Absolute Antibody Ltd has announced a major new expansion to its site in North East England. The company opened a production facility in the area just two years after it was founded in Oxford in 2012, and has undergone rapid expansion since then. It now provides custom antibody sequencing, engineering and expression services to leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics companies, as well as academic...
The cooperation with the University’s Plastics & Composites Engineering program strongly focuses on hands-on learning in the field of composites. In September of 2018, KRUSS Scientific Instruments, Inc. and Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA) came together in collaboration to support the education of new engineers in the rapidly-growing field of composites manufacturing. This collaboration allows Western Washington University students the opportunity to work with KRUSS...