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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96/384 multichannel electronic pipette to streamline the experimental workflow of studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a bacterium that commonly infects individuals with lung conditions, such as cystic fibrosis. Alexandre Figueiredo, a PhD student in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, explained: “We recently completed an evolutionary experiment on Pseudomonas....
The Agrihealth Group of companies has utilized the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autsocribe Informatics to accommodate two different aspects of its business. A new case study (www.autoscribeinformatics.com/resources/case-studies) shows how Matrix Gemini is managing the requirements of Agrihealth’s laboratory services and has also streamlined the company’s veterinary services processes...
INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96 electronic multi-channel pipetting system is helping biotechnology company HCS Pharma to improve the reproducibility of high content screening using its patented BIOMIMESYS® 3D cell culture technology. Elodie Vandenhaute, Study Director at HCS Pharma, explained: "96-well cell culture plates are not easy to handle, even with multi-channel pipettes. The VIAFLO 96 is really user-friendly, and allows us to, for example, seed cells, dispense reagents or perform media exchanges in every well simultaneously....
BD, a leading global medical technology company, has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance of the BD Phoenix™ CPO detect test, which will allow hospitals to identify infections caused by carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPOs). The test may help hospitals contain the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by shortening the time it takes to detect CPOs, thereby enabling the earlier implementation of infection control procedures and...
Evotec AG today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Immuneering Corporation, a worldwide leader in data-driven drug discovery, to discover novel small molecules for rare hereditary metabolic diseases. The research collaboration brings together Evotec's leading induced pluripotent stem cell ("iPSC") platform and broad drug discovery capabilities with Immuneering's unique Artificial...
The renowned Innovative Technology Centre (ITC) at the University of Cambridge, UK has used a Uniqsis PhotoSyn flow photoreactor to efficiently scale-up a radical mediated boronic acid coupling under photoredox conditions using a novel organic acridium-based photocatalyst. The acridium-based organic photocatalyst, developed by the University of Cambridge, is demonstrated to be an efficient replacement for iridium-based photocatalysts used to oxidise boronic acid derivatives by a single electron radical coupling process....
USP and Metrohm jointly developed a potentiometric titration method for potassium bicarbonate and potassium carbonate assay. The new method uses autotitration combined with suitable equivalence point detection fulfilling all USP method validation requirements as per USP General Chapter <1225>. Many of the chemical medicine assay procedures are done by manual titration as per USP monographs. The manual titration procedure lacks data integrity and is prone to human error...
In May 2017 Radleys, UK based chemistry equipment and laboratory tools manufacturer, launched Mya 4, a brand new reaction station that has since benefited many businesses and laboratories with improved flexibility, efficiency and space-saving. Meeting the demands of the modern lab in over 14 countries, Mya 4’s introduction to the market has been hugely successful, making chemistry more productive than ever...
Researchers in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Vermont are taking advantage of the ease of use and reproducibility of Dolomite Microfluidics’ microfluidic droplet system and glass junction chips to enhance the study of biomechanics. “Sophisticated tools are now available for the investigation of the genetic structure of plants and subcellular processes, but hardly any exist for studying plant biomechanics at the cellular level,” commented Associate Professor Philip M. Lintilhac....
MediSapiens, a leading developer and provider of genomic, biomedical and health data solutions, has partnered with Terveystalo, a leading private healthcare service provider in Finland, to support their biobank operations with scalable, interactive and secure genomic and clinical data solutions. MediSapiens is providing Terveystalo with an integral solution to support Terveystalo's biobank, enabling effective use of genomic and clinical data in the daily...
BioTek Instruments extends congratulations to Dr. Benjamin R. King as this year’s recipient of the Norman R. Alpert Research Prize. The honor, which includes an engraved plaque and cash award, was announced at the Larner College of Medicine Research Day event held at The University of Vermont (UVM) on October 30, 2018. Dr. King is a 2018 graduate in the UVM Department of Medicine, and under the mentorship of...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), wraps up the 2018 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, December 12th with Lab Automation Today: Five Key Trends Currently Impacting Your Laboratory. This webcast will focus on five trends challenging many testing laboratories today and the role that a LIMS can play in addressing the impact of these trends....
The breath-taking winners of the 44th annual competition unveil the microscopic beauty hidden from the naked eye. Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced the winners of the forty-fourth annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. First place was awarded to Emirati photographer Yousef Al Habshi, who sees the eyes as the windows to stunning insect artwork and research. The 2018 winning image captures part of the compound eyes and surrounding greenish scales of an Asian Red Palm weevil....
Chosen by Independent Expert Panel at the 2018 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards. Elpis Biomed Ltd. (Elpis), a University of Cambridge spin-out developing high quality human cells via its proprietary OPTi-OX platform, is pleased to announce that the Company has been selected as winner in the category Start-Up of the Year at the 2018 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards...
Bionic Vision Technologies Pty Ltd (BVT) has announced that medical researchers have successfully restored a sense of vision in four blind people with its bionic eye as part of a clinical trial in Melbourne. Researchers said they were “very pleased” with the progress of all four patients who have had a “sense of sight” restored. All four have a degenerative genetic condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa which causes loss of vision...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96/384 multichannel electronic pipette to streamline the experimental workflow of studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a bacterium that commonly infects individuals with lung conditions, such as cystic fibrosis. Alexandre Figueiredo, a PhD student in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, explained: “We recently completed an evolutionary experiment on Pseudomonas....
The Agrihealth Group of companies has utilized the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autsocribe Informatics to accommodate two different aspects of its business. A new case study (www.autoscribeinformatics.com/resources/case-studies) shows how Matrix Gemini is managing the requirements of Agrihealth’s laboratory services and has also streamlined the company’s veterinary services processes...
INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96 electronic multi-channel pipetting system is helping biotechnology company HCS Pharma to improve the reproducibility of high content screening using its patented BIOMIMESYS® 3D cell culture technology. Elodie Vandenhaute, Study Director at HCS Pharma, explained: "96-well cell culture plates are not easy to handle, even with multi-channel pipettes. The VIAFLO 96 is really user-friendly, and allows us to, for example, seed cells, dispense reagents or perform media exchanges in every well simultaneously....
BD, a leading global medical technology company, has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance of the BD Phoenix™ CPO detect test, which will allow hospitals to identify infections caused by carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPOs). The test may help hospitals contain the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by shortening the time it takes to detect CPOs, thereby enabling the earlier implementation of infection control procedures and...
Evotec AG today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Immuneering Corporation, a worldwide leader in data-driven drug discovery, to discover novel small molecules for rare hereditary metabolic diseases. The research collaboration brings together Evotec's leading induced pluripotent stem cell ("iPSC") platform and broad drug discovery capabilities with Immuneering's unique Artificial...
The renowned Innovative Technology Centre (ITC) at the University of Cambridge, UK has used a Uniqsis PhotoSyn flow photoreactor to efficiently scale-up a radical mediated boronic acid coupling under photoredox conditions using a novel organic acridium-based photocatalyst. The acridium-based organic photocatalyst, developed by the University of Cambridge, is demonstrated to be an efficient replacement for iridium-based photocatalysts used to oxidise boronic acid derivatives by a single electron radical coupling process....
USP and Metrohm jointly developed a potentiometric titration method for potassium bicarbonate and potassium carbonate assay. The new method uses autotitration combined with suitable equivalence point detection fulfilling all USP method validation requirements as per USP General Chapter <1225>. Many of the chemical medicine assay procedures are done by manual titration as per USP monographs. The manual titration procedure lacks data integrity and is prone to human error...
In May 2017 Radleys, UK based chemistry equipment and laboratory tools manufacturer, launched Mya 4, a brand new reaction station that has since benefited many businesses and laboratories with improved flexibility, efficiency and space-saving. Meeting the demands of the modern lab in over 14 countries, Mya 4’s introduction to the market has been hugely successful, making chemistry more productive than ever... and PhD student Matt Grasso (R) copy.jpg)
Researchers in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Vermont are taking advantage of the ease of use and reproducibility of Dolomite Microfluidics’ microfluidic droplet system and glass junction chips to enhance the study of biomechanics. “Sophisticated tools are now available for the investigation of the genetic structure of plants and subcellular processes, but hardly any exist for studying plant biomechanics at the cellular level,” commented Associate Professor Philip M. Lintilhac....
MediSapiens, a leading developer and provider of genomic, biomedical and health data solutions, has partnered with Terveystalo, a leading private healthcare service provider in Finland, to support their biobank operations with scalable, interactive and secure genomic and clinical data solutions. MediSapiens is providing Terveystalo with an integral solution to support Terveystalo's biobank, enabling effective use of genomic and clinical data in the daily...
BioTek Instruments extends congratulations to Dr. Benjamin R. King as this year’s recipient of the Norman R. Alpert Research Prize. The honor, which includes an engraved plaque and cash award, was announced at the Larner College of Medicine Research Day event held at The University of Vermont (UVM) on October 30, 2018. Dr. King is a 2018 graduate in the UVM Department of Medicine, and under the mentorship of...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), wraps up the 2018 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, December 12th with Lab Automation Today: Five Key Trends Currently Impacting Your Laboratory. This webcast will focus on five trends challenging many testing laboratories today and the role that a LIMS can play in addressing the impact of these trends....
The breath-taking winners of the 44th annual competition unveil the microscopic beauty hidden from the naked eye. Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced the winners of the forty-fourth annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. First place was awarded to Emirati photographer Yousef Al Habshi, who sees the eyes as the windows to stunning insect artwork and research. The 2018 winning image captures part of the compound eyes and surrounding greenish scales of an Asian Red Palm weevil....
Chosen by Independent Expert Panel at the 2018 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards. Elpis Biomed Ltd. (Elpis), a University of Cambridge spin-out developing high quality human cells via its proprietary OPTi-OX platform, is pleased to announce that the Company has been selected as winner in the category Start-Up of the Year at the 2018 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards...
Bionic Vision Technologies Pty Ltd (BVT) has announced that medical researchers have successfully restored a sense of vision in four blind people with its bionic eye as part of a clinical trial in Melbourne. Researchers said they were “very pleased” with the progress of all four patients who have had a “sense of sight” restored. All four have a degenerative genetic condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa which causes loss of vision...