Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), a leader in the industry for the design and manufacture of automated laboratory equipment, will collaborate to offer automated micro-plate handling capabilities for single cell analysis. PAA's S-LAB™ plate handler will be integrated with Sphere Fluidics’ Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System...
Cancer Research UK recruits first patients in trial to improve the early detection and diagnosis of different cancer types. Study will use Owlstone Medical’s Breath Biopsy platform to identify breath biomarkers to detect and differentiate early-stage disease. Study will recruit 1,500 patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Owlstone Medical, a global diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for applications in early disease detection...
Professor Mel Greaves has been knighted in the New Year honours list 2019 for his pioneering and hugely influential research into childhood leukaemia. Professor Greaves, or Sir Mel, as he can now be known, has carried out groundbreaking work to understand the hidden natural history and causes of childhood leukaemia during a 35-year career at The Institute of Cancer Research, London – leading to advances in...
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that it has entered into an exclusive target discovery partnership with C4X Discovery Holdings plc (AIM: C4XD), a pioneering drug discovery company. The partnership aims to validate the novel synthetic lethal oncology targets that Horizon has identified using its cutting-edge CRISPR-Cas9 technology....
Photochemical deracemization of chiral compounds achieved. Enantiomeric molecules resemble each other like right and left hands. Both variants normally arise in chemical reactions. But frequently only one of the two forms is effectual in biology and medicine. Hitherto, completely converting this mixture into the desired enantiomer was deemed impossible. Deploying a photochemical method, a team from the Technical University of Munich...
This report studies the global flash chromatography market over the period 2017 to 2022. The report provides detailed insights into the market dynamics to enable informed business decision making and growth strategy formulation based on the opportunities present in the market. The global flash chromatography market was valued at US$ 210.7 million in 2016 and is projected to grow at a healthy...
SP Scientific announces sponsorship of the popular 14th annual European freeze-drying seminar Lyoscopedia, being held in the Congress Centrum (Würzburg, Germany) on March 13, 2019. Designed for both freeze-drying experts and novices, the interactive seminar format of Lyoscopedia 2019 provides a platform for exciting discussions about freeze-drying topics relevant to both academic research and...
High throughput, fast analysis times and low detection limits: Analytik Jena has optimized its ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer) solutions for the requirements of routine drinking water analysis. The PlasmaQuant MS series offers optimal performance in throughput and analysis time without sacrificing precision. The ICP-MS systems of the PlasmaQuant MS series analyze 60 drinking water samples per hour for 21 elements...
BMG LABTECH supported the team by providing a CLARIOstar microplate reader. At the 2018 iGEM Gaint Jamboree, the team of the University of Marburg won the Grand Prize in the overgraduate section with their project “VibriGens – Accelerating SynBio”. At the end of October the team received its award in Boston, USA. In response to the great demand, the students presented again their project on Tuesday 27th of November in front of a selected...
Batavia Biosciences announces that the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Batavia Biosciences will work together under a grant to advance the development of a Lassa fever vaccine. With this grant, Batavia Biosciences will leverage its novel, highly intensified manufacturing technology to develop a low-cost, easy-to-implement manufacturing process. This process can facilitate rapid clinical development and establishment of a stockpile of an innovative new Lassa fever vaccine...
WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing and Oxford BioTherapeutics Ltd., a clinical stage oncology company with a pipeline of immuno-oncology and antibody-drug conjugate based therapies, has announced the expansion of their strategic and innovative immuno-oncology (IO) alliance...
Developer of the PredictSURE IBD™ prognostic test awarded £100K from Innovate UK’s ‘Precision medicine technologies: shaping the future’ fund to support feasibility study. PredictImmune, developer of prognostic tools to guide treatment of patients with immune-mediated diseases, announced today that it has been awarded a grant of £100,000 by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. PredictImmune is focussed on the...
Company receives award in healthcare category for cancer therapy in clinical development with an action on cancer stem cells. Genoscience Pharma, a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing anticancer drugs, is delighted to announce that it received the Most Innovative European Biotech SME Award for 2018 in the Healthcare category at EuropaBio. Genoscience Pharma is an innovative SME located in Marseille, France...
LAUDA Heating and Cooling Systems, or HCS for short, is the industrial branch of the constant temperature equipment manufacturer, LAUDA. With more than 60 years of development expertise, the division produces custom-made systems for industrial applications. Heat transfer systems, secondary circuit units or state-of-the-art molten salt systems cover an extensive temperature range from -150 to 550°C. A particularly fascinating aspect is the wide range of applications...
An Orb jacketed reactor from Syrris is helping Italian company NIS Materials to reproducibly synthesize new materials used as active ingredients for products such as paints, polymeric coatings and concrete. Marco Marchetti, founder and CEO, explained: “Currently, we do a lot of work with the building and construction sector, synthesizing active ingredients with specific properties – for example, antibacterial or anti-odor products...
The competition for the Metrohm Young Chemist Award came to a close lately with the three winners visiting Metrohm International Headquarters in Switzerland. From there, Sophia Oukala (France), Antonella Giarra (Italy), and Bibekananda De (India) went on a guided tour all over Switzerland. On the program were destinations such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Gotthard Base Tunnel, Mt. Saentis – and lots of Swiss cheese....
Powder flow specialists, Freeman Technology will be co-hosting a free seminar with Evonik Corporation on February 27th 2019 at Evonik’s facility in Piscataway, NJ. ‘Understanding Powder Behavior in Food, Pharma and Chemical Industries’ will hear leaders in the field discuss the industrial applications of powder rheology. The seminar will include presentations from John Yin, Product Manager at Freeman Technology, who will...
The R&D team at Bio-Rad AbD Serotec in Munich has developed a new type of specific antibodies. These new andbodies can be used as a tool both pre-clincally and clinically to develop new therapeutic antibodies. Attana's technology was applied to select and optimize the best of these new antibodies. The paper describes the different types of these antibody tools, so called anti-idiotypic antibodies. An anti-idiotypic antibody interacts with a therapeutic antibody...
Data integrity in the context of laboratory analytics is a must, particularly in regulated environments. However, how is data integrity exactly defined, and what are the software features required to achieve it? A new Metrohm white paper answers these questions based on examples from modern Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Software.Data integrity is commonly defined by a number of properties, which are summarized by the acronyms ALCOA and ALCOA+, respectively...
The analysis of electrolytic etching solutions is a challenge for a large number of laboratories. Complex matrices from concentrated acids and spectral interferences make it difficult to screen for possible impurities. Regular analysis of the solutions is crucial to the quality of subsequent production processes since even the slightest impurities can have severe consequences. The automotive and aviation industries and mechanical engineering are employing electrolytic etching solutions for the surface treatment of metals...
Renishaw inVia™ microscope user, Prof. Carlos A. Carrero, heads a group that is developing advanced catalysts for the conversion of hydrocarbons into more valuable products at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, USA. The Carrero group undertakes fundamental studies to improve and develop more efficient and sustainable catalytic processes. They aim to develop the best catalysts using in situ / operando Raman spectroscopy to gather molecular, structural, and mechanistic insights....
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...
Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), a leader in the industry for the design and manufacture of automated laboratory equipment, will collaborate to offer automated micro-plate handling capabilities for single cell analysis. PAA's S-LAB™ plate handler will be integrated with Sphere Fluidics’ Cyto-Mine
Cancer Research UK recruits first patients in trial to improve the early detection and diagnosis of different cancer types. 
Professor Mel Greaves has been knighted in the New Year honours list 2019 for his pioneering and hugely influential research into childhood leukaemia. Professor Greaves, or Sir Mel, as he can now be known, has carried out groundbreaking work to understand the hidden natural history and causes of childhood leukaemia during a 35-year career at The Institute of Cancer Research, London – leading to advances in...
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that it has entered into an exclusive target discovery partnership with C4X Discovery Holdings plc (AIM: C4XD), a pioneering drug discovery company. The partnership aims to validate the novel synthetic lethal oncology targets that Horizon has identified using its cutting-edge CRISPR-Cas9 technology....
Photochemical deracemization of chiral compounds achieved. Enantiomeric molecules resemble each other like right and left hands. Both variants normally arise in chemical reactions. But frequently only one of the two forms is effectual in biology and medicine. Hitherto, completely converting this mixture into the desired enantiomer was deemed impossible. Deploying a photochemical method, a team from the Technical University of Munich...
This report studies the global flash chromatography market over the period 2017 to 2022. The report provides detailed insights into the market dynamics to enable informed business decision making and growth strategy formulation based on the opportunities present in the market. The global flash chromatography market was valued at US$ 210.7 million in 2016 and is projected to grow at a healthy...
SP Scientific announces sponsorship of the popular 14th annual European freeze-drying seminar Lyoscopedia, being held in the Congress Centrum (Würzburg, Germany) on March 13, 2019. Designed for both freeze-drying experts and novices, the interactive seminar format of Lyoscopedia 2019 provides a platform for exciting discussions about freeze-drying topics relevant to both academic research and...
High throughput, fast analysis times and low detection limits: Analytik Jena has optimized its ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer) solutions for the requirements of routine drinking water analysis. The PlasmaQuant MS series offers optimal performance in throughput and analysis time without sacrificing precision. The ICP-MS systems of the PlasmaQuant MS series analyze 60 drinking water samples per hour for 21 elements...
BMG LABTECH supported the team by providing a CLARIOstar microplate reader. At the 2018 iGEM Gaint Jamboree, the team of the University of Marburg won the Grand Prize in the overgraduate section with their project “VibriGens – Accelerating SynBio”. At the end of October the team received its award in Boston, USA. In response to the great demand, the students presented again their project on Tuesday 27th of November in front of a selected...
Batavia Biosciences announces that the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Batavia Biosciences will work together under a grant to advance the development of a Lassa fever vaccine. With this grant, Batavia Biosciences will leverage its novel, highly intensified manufacturing technology to develop a low-cost, easy-to-implement manufacturing process. This process can facilitate rapid clinical development and establishment of a stockpile of an innovative new Lassa fever vaccine...
WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing and Oxford BioTherapeutics Ltd., a clinical stage oncology company with a pipeline of immuno-oncology and antibody-drug conjugate based therapies, has announced the expansion of their strategic and innovative immuno-oncology (IO) alliance...
Developer of the PredictSURE IBD™ prognostic test awarded £100K from Innovate UK’s ‘Precision medicine technologies: shaping the future’ fund to support feasibility study. PredictImmune, developer of prognostic tools to guide treatment of patients with immune-mediated diseases, announced today that it has been awarded a grant of £100,000 by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. PredictImmune is focussed on the...
Company receives award in healthcare category for cancer therapy in clinical development with an action on cancer stem cells. Genoscience Pharma, a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing anticancer drugs, is delighted to announce that it received the Most Innovative European Biotech SME Award for 2018 in the Healthcare category at EuropaBio. Genoscience Pharma is an innovative SME located in Marseille, France...
LAUDA Heating and Cooling Systems, or HCS for short, is the industrial branch of the constant temperature equipment manufacturer, LAUDA. With more than 60 years of development expertise, the division produces custom-made systems for industrial applications. Heat transfer systems, secondary circuit units or state-of-the-art molten salt systems cover an extensive temperature range from -150 to 550°C. A particularly fascinating aspect is the wide range of applications...
An Orb jacketed reactor from Syrris is helping Italian company NIS Materials to reproducibly synthesize new materials used as active ingredients for products such as paints, polymeric coatings and concrete. Marco Marchetti, founder and CEO, explained: “Currently, we do a lot of work with the building and construction sector, synthesizing active ingredients with specific properties – for example, antibacterial or anti-odor products...
The competition for the Metrohm Young Chemist Award came to a close lately with the three winners visiting Metrohm International Headquarters in Switzerland. From there, Sophia Oukala (France), Antonella Giarra (Italy), and Bibekananda De (India) went on a guided tour all over Switzerland. On the program were destinations such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Gotthard Base Tunnel, Mt. Saentis – and lots of Swiss cheese....
Powder flow specialists, Freeman Technology will be co-hosting a free seminar with Evonik Corporation on February 27th 2019 at Evonik’s facility in Piscataway, NJ. ‘Understanding Powder Behavior in Food, Pharma and Chemical Industries’ will hear leaders in the field discuss the industrial applications of powder rheology. The seminar will include presentations from John Yin, Product Manager at Freeman Technology, who will...
The R&D team at Bio-Rad AbD Serotec in Munich has developed a new type of specific antibodies. These new andbodies can be used as a tool both pre-clincally and clinically to develop new therapeutic antibodies. Attana's technology was applied to select and optimize the best of these new antibodies. The paper describes the different types of these antibody tools, so called anti-idiotypic antibodies. An anti-idiotypic antibody interacts with a therapeutic antibody...
Data integrity in the context of laboratory analytics is a must, particularly in regulated environments. However, how is data integrity exactly defined, and what are the software features required to achieve it? A new Metrohm white paper answers these questions based on examples from modern Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Software.Data integrity is commonly defined by a number of properties, which are summarized by the acronyms ALCOA and ALCOA+, respectively...
The analysis of electrolytic etching solutions is a challenge for a large number of laboratories. Complex matrices from concentrated acids and spectral interferences make it difficult to screen for possible impurities. Regular analysis of the solutions is crucial to the quality of subsequent production processes since even the slightest impurities can have severe consequences. The automotive and aviation industries and mechanical engineering are employing electrolytic etching solutions for the surface treatment of metals...
Renishaw inVia™ microscope user, Prof. Carlos A. Carrero, heads a group that is developing advanced catalysts for the conversion of hydrocarbons into more valuable products at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, USA. The Carrero group undertakes fundamental studies to improve and develop more efficient and sustainable catalytic processes. They aim to develop the best catalysts using in situ / operando Raman spectroscopy to gather molecular, structural, and mechanistic insights....
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...