Two key challenges in chemistry innovation are solved simultaneously by exploring chemical opportunities with artificial intelligence. Researchers in Japan have developed a machine learning process that simultaneously designs new molecules and suggests the chemical reactions to make them. The team, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo, published their results in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials...
Digital Surf announce the release of the tenth major version of the company’s renowned Mountains® software analysis platform for surface metrology & microscopy, trusted by 50+ leading instrument manufacturers and 22,000+ users. Version 10 highlights include: A new product family for users of light microscopes, MountainsImage®, providing a complete toolkit for pre-processing and analyzing image data...
On January 1st 2023 the 11th edition of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) took effect. In course of revision, it was harmonised with the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP), British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) so that the general chapter 2.2.46 on chromatographic separation techniques received an update. To keep you up to date on the permitted changes, YMC's technical experts have compiled for you these new rules in a helpful technical note, which lists all relevant allowed changes on one page...
Torrey Pines Scientific announces its new EchoTherm™ HPLC Column Chiller/Heater Model CO30 with the largest, easiest to access chamber available. This new column chiller/heater has a temperature range from 4.0°C to 70.0°C readable and settable to 0.1°C. The PID temperature control software regulates temperatures to ±0.2°C, even at ambient. The chamber is large, 15.625" tall x 6.385" wide x 5.125" deep, and is capable of holding four 30 cm x 1 inch columns, plus a valve, tubing and fittings...
Bruker launches the Ascend Evo 400 new standard 400 MHz NMR magnet with a liquid helium hold-time of one year to reduce cost of ownership and enhance operational convenience. This novel magnet also has improved field homogeneity with new cryogenic shimming technology originally developed for ultra-high field magnets, in order to make sample shimming and operation even easier...
Closed, fully automated, and configurable robotic platform for cell therapy manufacture can achieve 30-fold increase in space efficiency and reduces production costs and labour by 51% and 16-fold respectively. Cellular Origins, a TTP Company focused on enabling scalable, cost-effective and space-efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies (CGTs), has announced the launch of Constellation™, its closed, configurable, robotic platform at the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT) Annual Meeting 2023..
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, is lighting up microbioreactor research with its powerful new Light Array Module (LAM) for the popular BioLector XT Microbioreactor. For the first time, this new advancement enables work with light-dependent organisms that need to perform photosynthesis to grow...
The 71st ASMS conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics in Houston, Texas hosted PEAK Scientific’s giant leap in innovation as the company launched their newest nitrogen gas generator, Horizen 24. Designed for Single Quad LC-MS, Horizen 24 is the culmination of 25 years of dedication to manufacturing nitrogen generation solutions for LC-MS. PEAK Scientific, industry-leaders in laboratory gas generators, bring to market a solution that will save laboratories money, space and environmental impact...
Biotage has completed the acquisition of Astrea Bioseparations, a high-growth chromatography solutions provider from Gamma Biosciences, a life sciences tools platform created by KKR. Astrea’s over 150 employees worldwide will join Biotage, and the company’s production sites in Cambridge, UK, Isle of Man, Boston, USA, and Joliette, Canada become an important part of Biotage’s global presence. Biotage’s expanded portfolio will now include chromatography resins, absorbents, and columns...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has unveiled the Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Astral™ mass spectrometer, one of the most significant advancements in mass spectrometry in 15 years. The new Astral analyzer combines fast throughput, high sensitivity and deep proteome coverage to allow researchers worldwide to uncover proteins that previously evaded detection and make breakthrough discoveries more efficiently than ever...
Applied mass spectrometry is evolving to where customers require simplified, robust, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable workflows. In response, Bruker is introducing the unique triple-quad (TQ) mass spectrometer EVOQ DART-TQ+, a high-performance workhorse that enables straightforward routine analysis from simplified tuning and method development through data analysis and report generation for improved efficiency and productivity...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced two new liquid chromatography mass spectrometry systems (LCMS), the Agilent 6495D LC/TQ and the Agilent Revident LC/Q-TOF. Facilitating the high-end performance of the Revident LC/Q-TOF, Agilent is also announcing the new Agilent MassHunter Explorer Profiling software and the new Agilent ChemVista library manager software...
The BI-MwA Multi-Angle Light Scattering (MALS) detector from TESTA Analytical offers the highest performance to price ratio of any light scattering system available for molecular weight determination. If you are looking to determine absolute molecular weights of polysaccharides, proteins, and peptides or their aggregates by HPLC or uHPLC quickly and accurately, then look no further...
ZEISS Volutome is an end-to-end solution for serial block-face imaging from hardware to software including image processing, segmentation, and visualization. The ultramicrotome can be easily replaced by a conventional SEM stage, converting the 3D FE-SEM into a standard FE-SEM, making the system adaptable to a multi-purpose environment...
LynxDx, a Michigan diagnostics laboratory specializing in prostate cancer screening and risk prediction, acquired liquid handling solutions from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its sample preparation for high throughput COVID-19 testing. The lab is now in the process of moving these products over to prostate cancer screening, where they are helping to improve result accuracy and turnaround times and, ultimately, support timely diagnosis and treatment...
Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC™) Process Analysis System and the Sartorius™ Resolute® BioSMB™ multi-column chromatography platform will give bioprocess engineers access...
Automata, a leading company powering life science labs to fully automate their workflows, has launched LINQ Cloud: cutting-edge laboratory automation software. LINQ Cloud connects a lab’s physical and digital environment together, enabling life science organisations to scale while reducing the manual workload for scientists. LINQ Cloud works alongside Automata’s new LINQ automated lab bench, to create a lab automation solution specific to every lab’s workflow that enables true walkaway time...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, invests € 35 million in biosafety testing at its Glasgow and Stirling sites, Scotland. Biosafety testing is a critical step in the drug development and manufacturing process that ensures drugs are safe, efficacious, and meet regulatory requirements. The expansion will create nearly 500 new jobs, bringing Merck’s workforce to over 1,200 employees across the two sites...
The Earlham Institute has been awarded £31.4m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UKRI, to deliver an ambitious programme of research, develop new technology, and deliver innovation and impact over the next five years. This investment covers two new strategic programmes of research - Cellular Genomics and Decoding Biodiversity - and two National Bioscience Research Infrastructures (NBRIs) - Transformative Genomics and the Earlham Biofoundry...
Vision Engineering, the world-leading provider of innovative inspection, metrology, and digital 3D visualisation solutions, today announced the launch of Mantis 3rd Gen, the latest addition to its best-selling and award-winning range of ergonomic optical stereo microscopes. Mantis is in use in tens of thousands of R&D, manufacturing and analytical sites around the world. Mantis 3rd Gen incorporates the latest developments in optics, digital cameras and fully adjustable LED lighting, to keep Mantis at the forefront of stereo imaging.
Revvity, Inc. announce that its EUROIMMUN business has launched the UNIQO 160 (CE-IVDR), an automated indirect immunofluorescence test (IIFT) system for autoimmune disease diagnostics. Now available in countries accepting the CE mark, this all-in-one solution increases the efficiency of the entire IIFT process, encompassing sample preparation, incubation, washing and mounting of slides as well as image acquisition and analysis...
A tidy workplace is half the battle. For busy scientists in the lab, however, it can be a challenge to keep track of everything. With its stainless-steel freezer racks, Hamburg-based life science company Starlab Group solves this problem - and more than ever. With 23 new models, the labware manufacturer is now expanding its range. After all, a tidy freezer encourages scientists to keep it in such a way that they can find their samples quickly and work more efficiently...
Two key challenges in chemistry innovation are solved simultaneously by exploring chemical opportunities with artificial intelligence. Researchers in Japan have developed a machine learning process that simultaneously designs new molecules and suggests the chemical reactions to make them. The team, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo, published their results in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials...
Digital Surf announce the release of the tenth major version of the company’s renowned Mountains® software analysis platform for surface metrology & microscopy, trusted by 50+ leading instrument manufacturers and 22,000+ users. Version 10 highlights include: A new product family for users of light microscopes, MountainsImage®, providing a complete toolkit for pre-processing and analyzing image data...
On January 1st 2023 the 11th edition of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) took effect. In course of revision, it was harmonised with the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP), British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) so that the general chapter 2.2.46 on chromatographic separation techniques received an update. To keep you up to date on the permitted changes, YMC's technical experts have compiled for you these new rules in a helpful technical note, which lists all relevant allowed changes on one page...
Torrey Pines Scientific announces its new EchoTherm™ HPLC Column Chiller/Heater Model CO30 with the largest, easiest to access chamber available. This new column chiller/heater has a temperature range from 4.0°C to 70.0°C readable and settable to 0.1°C. The PID temperature control software regulates temperatures to ±0.2°C, even at ambient. The chamber is large, 15.625" tall x 6.385" wide x 5.125" deep, and is capable of holding four 30 cm x 1 inch columns, plus a valve, tubing and fittings...
Bruker launches the Ascend Evo 400 new standard 400 MHz NMR magnet with a liquid helium hold-time of one year to reduce cost of ownership and enhance operational convenience. This novel magnet also has improved field homogeneity with new cryogenic shimming technology originally developed for ultra-high field magnets, in order to make sample shimming and operation even easier...
Closed, fully automated, and configurable robotic platform for cell therapy manufacture can achieve 30-fold increase in space efficiency and reduces production costs and labour by 51% and 16-fold respectively. Cellular Origins, a TTP Company focused on enabling scalable, cost-effective and space-efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies (CGTs), has announced the launch of Constellation™, its closed, configurable, robotic platform at the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT) Annual Meeting 2023..
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, is lighting up microbioreactor research with its powerful new Light Array Module (LAM) for the popular BioLector XT Microbioreactor. For the first time, this new advancement enables work with light-dependent organisms that need to perform photosynthesis to grow...
The 71st ASMS conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics in Houston, Texas hosted PEAK Scientific’s giant leap in innovation as the company launched their newest nitrogen gas generator, Horizen 24. Designed for Single Quad LC-MS, Horizen 24 is the culmination of 25 years of dedication to manufacturing nitrogen generation solutions for LC-MS. PEAK Scientific, industry-leaders in laboratory gas generators, bring to market a solution that will save laboratories money, space and environmental impact...
Biotage has completed the acquisition of Astrea Bioseparations, a high-growth chromatography solutions provider from Gamma Biosciences, a life sciences tools platform created by KKR. Astrea’s over 150 employees worldwide will join Biotage, and the company’s production sites in Cambridge, UK, Isle of Man, Boston, USA, and Joliette, Canada become an important part of Biotage’s global presence. Biotage’s expanded portfolio will now include chromatography resins, absorbents, and columns...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has unveiled the Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Astral™ mass spectrometer, one of the most significant advancements in mass spectrometry in 15 years. The new Astral analyzer combines fast throughput, high sensitivity and deep proteome coverage to allow researchers worldwide to uncover proteins that previously evaded detection and make breakthrough discoveries more efficiently than ever...
Applied mass spectrometry is evolving to where customers require simplified, robust, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable workflows. In response, Bruker is introducing the unique triple-quad (TQ) mass spectrometer EVOQ DART-TQ+, a high-performance workhorse that enables straightforward routine analysis from simplified tuning and method development through data analysis and report generation for improved efficiency and productivity...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced two new liquid chromatography mass spectrometry systems (LCMS), the Agilent 6495D LC/TQ and the Agilent Revident LC/Q-TOF. Facilitating the high-end performance of the Revident LC/Q-TOF, Agilent is also announcing the new Agilent MassHunter Explorer Profiling software and the new Agilent ChemVista library manager software...
The BI-MwA Multi-Angle Light Scattering (MALS) detector from TESTA Analytical offers the highest performance to price ratio of any light scattering system available for molecular weight determination. If you are looking to determine absolute molecular weights of polysaccharides, proteins, and peptides or their aggregates by HPLC or uHPLC quickly and accurately, then look no further...
ZEISS Volutome is an end-to-end solution for serial block-face imaging from hardware to software including image processing, segmentation, and visualization. The ultramicrotome can be easily replaced by a conventional SEM stage, converting the 3D FE-SEM into a standard FE-SEM, making the system adaptable to a multi-purpose environment...
LynxDx, a Michigan diagnostics laboratory specializing in prostate cancer screening and risk prediction, acquired liquid handling solutions from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its sample preparation for high throughput COVID-19 testing. The lab is now in the process of moving these products over to prostate cancer screening, where they are helping to improve result accuracy and turnaround times and, ultimately, support timely diagnosis and treatment...
Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC™) Process Analysis System and the Sartorius™ Resolute® BioSMB™ multi-column chromatography platform will give bioprocess engineers access...
Automata, a leading company powering life science labs to fully automate their workflows, has launched LINQ Cloud: cutting-edge laboratory automation software. LINQ Cloud connects a lab’s physical and digital environment together, enabling life science organisations to scale while reducing the manual workload for scientists. LINQ Cloud works alongside Automata’s new LINQ automated lab bench, to create a lab automation solution specific to every lab’s workflow that enables true walkaway time...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, invests € 35 million in biosafety testing at its Glasgow and Stirling sites, Scotland. Biosafety testing is a critical step in the drug development and manufacturing process that ensures drugs are safe, efficacious, and meet regulatory requirements. The expansion will create nearly 500 new jobs, bringing Merck’s workforce to over 1,200 employees across the two sites...
The Earlham Institute has been awarded £31.4m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UKRI, to deliver an ambitious programme of research, develop new technology, and deliver innovation and impact over the next five years. This investment covers two new strategic programmes of research - Cellular Genomics and Decoding Biodiversity - and two National Bioscience Research Infrastructures (NBRIs) - Transformative Genomics and the Earlham Biofoundry...
Vision Engineering, the world-leading provider of innovative inspection, metrology, and digital 3D visualisation solutions, today announced the launch of Mantis 3rd Gen, the latest addition to its best-selling and award-winning range of ergonomic optical stereo microscopes. Mantis is in use in tens of thousands of R&D, manufacturing and analytical sites around the world. Mantis 3rd Gen incorporates the latest developments in optics, digital cameras and fully adjustable LED lighting, to keep Mantis at the forefront of stereo imaging.
Revvity, Inc. announce that its EUROIMMUN business has launched the UNIQO 160 (CE-IVDR), an automated indirect immunofluorescence test (IIFT) system for autoimmune disease diagnostics. Now available in countries accepting the CE mark, this all-in-one solution increases the efficiency of the entire IIFT process, encompassing sample preparation, incubation, washing and mounting of slides as well as image acquisition and analysis...
A tidy workplace is half the battle. For busy scientists in the lab, however, it can be a challenge to keep track of everything. With its stainless-steel freezer racks, Hamburg-based life science company Starlab Group solves this problem - and more than ever. With 23 new models, the labware manufacturer is now expanding its range. After all, a tidy freezer encourages scientists to keep it in such a way that they can find their samples quickly and work more efficiently...