The recent installation of an Oxford Nanoimaging single molecule microscope at the Westmead Research Hub will provide researchers with much needed super resolution imaging capabilities. The microscope will allow researchers to observe cellular interactions at the nanoscale, giving them greater insights into how diseases such as cancer behave, increasing the chances of developing breakthrough cures...
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has completed and moved into a new extension of their life sciences development facility. The additional multi-disciplinary suite of lab space provides a Class II bio-handling and tissue culture laboratory and a dedicated facility for diagnostic system development under ISO 13485:2016. The new facilities are part of an ongoing investment at TTP in dedicated space for system development programmes for life science...
The way healthcare is delivered around the globe is changing. Patients are now at the centre of how medical care is delivered and recent advances in medical technology have allowed medical laboratory testing to move in parallel with this course. Keeping up-to-date with latest industry trends emerging from within the medical laboratory industry is critical to the lab professional, particularly in Europe...
Weighing is the most commonly performed task in any laboratory. There are many types of balances that are being used for this purpose, they differ in capacities and readabilities but all of them are sensitive to harsh environment conditions. There are many factors that influence the weighing results. If the balance's location does not comply with the guidelines of good...
High-precision analysis by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna uncovers differences in recombinantly produced immunoglobulins; process also affects stability. Differences in production methods for therapeutic antibodies can lead to variations in their structure, depending on the recombinant procedure selected....
A plague of vampire horseflies bringing with them the threat of serious infection has illustrated why Britain must lead the race to develop new antibiotics – claims a charity. The hot weather has seen populations of bloodsucking clegs – or horseflies – reach Mediterranean levels. And with the female feeding off blood, Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK) has warned that bites could result...
FLIR Systems has announced a new guidebook for CBRNE professionals entitled '10 Things You Need to Know About Handheld Explosives Trace Detectors’. As the global threat of terrorism increases, security teams depend more than ever on proactive and preventative technologies. Handheld explosive trace detectors (ETDs) provide the portable screening capability needed to take the security mission mobile...
Incorrect capillary blood sampling is most common reason for inaccurate POC hemoglobin results. EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, has published an Educational Guide which provides a quick overview of capillary blood sampling best practice. It aims to help health care professionals understand common causes of pre-analytical errors and reduce their impact on hemoglobin results...
Evotec AG has announced that the strategic transaction signed on 15 June 2018, to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit including licensing-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio, has been successfully closed with effect from 01 July 2018. This closing marks the completion of the required legal social process, initiated on....
Funding will support development of a novel enzymatic process for DNA synthesis in collaboration with Durham University. EVONETIX LTD, the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, has announced that it had been awarded substantial funding to support the development of a novel enzymatic approach to DNA synthesis...
Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on how the University of Tsukuba team of Professor Jun-Ichi Fujita have developed a method to visualise local fields at relatively low beam voltages using the Deben ARM2-STEM detector. Jun-Ichi Fujita is a Professor in the Institute of Applied Physics at the University...
Algenuity, based in Stewartby, Bedfordshire, is celebrating the successful launch of the MicroalgaE as Renewable Innovative green cell facTories project, MERIT, a three-year ERA CoBioTech project financed under the Horizon 2020 programme. The project, which will involve a multidisciplinary, international consortium, aims to develop novel targeted methods of biotechnological production...
TTP Plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, and Cubed Laboratories (Cubed), a developer of rapid, DNA-based molecular diagnostic devices and test kits, has announced the successful completion of a project to develop Cubed’s core product, the NESDEP portable laboratory for pathogen detection....
For the first time, researchers have been able to use the Nobel Prize winning technology, cryo-electron microscopy, to reveal the detailed structure of the common herpes virus. Researchers at the University of Glasgow used the cutting-edge technique to reveal, in high resolution, the biological mechanisms the herpes virus uses to infect people....
Postnova Analytics has published a new application note that describes a new approach for analysis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in commercial sunscreens. The technique, which combines Inverse Supercritical Fluid Extraction (I-SFE) and Miniaturized Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation hyphenated with UV-Vis and MultiAngle Light Scattering...
The Royal Academy of Engineering reveals Owlstone Medical as the winners of the 2018 MacRobert Award. Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, has announced the team behind the Company’s unique Breath Biopsy® platform has been named the winner of the MacRobert Award 2018 by the Royal Academy of Engineering....
By Rajeev Sehgal, Director of Informatics at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)
Microbiology laboratories are facing challenges on a number of fronts: cost pressures and staff shortages constrain their ability to process samples, and increasing test volumes make it difficult for some labs to run tests and get results back to clinicians in a timely manner. Microbiology labs are constantly juggling at least four key priorities....
An Asia flow chemistry system from Syrris is helping to streamline biocatalysis reactions for researchers at the Biocatalysis and Organic Synthesis Group at the Chemistry Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Professor Rodrigo de Souza explained: “Our main aim is to take existing batch processes and optimize them under continuous flow conditions....
On June 13, 2018, the "Peter Huber Prize" of the Valerius Füner Foundation was awarded at the Achema. As the best graduates from the years 2016 and 2017, the winners this year are Joseph Michel and Florian Theobald. Michel received the award for his Master's thesis on the optimization and simulation of combined heat and power plants. Theobald was honored for his work developing new models....
Researchers at the University Hospital of Salzburg's EB House Austria are using a Tecan Spark® multimode reader to investigate epidermolysis bullosa (EB). Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare inherited disease that causes the skin to become ‘as fragile as a butterfly’s wings’, blistering in response to friction or trauma. Dr Verena Wally, group leader of small molecules research, explained...
BioAscent Discovery Limited has secured £1.6m in funding from Maven Capital Partners. The investment will facilitate BioAscent’s growth through its unique offering of integrated drug discovery, and compound management services, as well as the Compound Cloud library of lead-like pharma compounds, from its state-of-the-art facilityat BioCity...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2018 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, July 18th with Getting More From Your LIMS and Knowing When It's Time to Upgrade....
The recent installation of an Oxford Nanoimaging single molecule microscope at the Westmead Research Hub will provide researchers with much needed super resolution imaging capabilities. The microscope will allow researchers to observe cellular interactions at the nanoscale, giving them greater insights into how diseases such as cancer behave, increasing the chances of developing breakthrough cures...
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has completed and moved into a new extension of their life sciences development facility. The additional multi-disciplinary suite of lab space provides a Class II bio-handling and tissue culture laboratory and a dedicated facility for diagnostic system development under ISO 13485:2016. The new facilities are part of an ongoing investment at TTP in dedicated space for system development programmes for life science...
The way healthcare is delivered around the globe is changing. Patients are now at the centre of how medical care is delivered and recent advances in medical technology have allowed medical laboratory testing to move in parallel with this course. Keeping up-to-date with latest industry trends emerging from within the medical laboratory industry is critical to the lab professional, particularly in Europe...
Weighing is the most commonly performed task in any laboratory. There are many types of balances that are being used for this purpose, they differ in capacities and readabilities but all of them are sensitive to harsh environment conditions. There are many factors that influence the weighing results. If the balance's location does not comply with the guidelines of good...
High-precision analysis by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna uncovers differences in recombinantly produced immunoglobulins; process also affects stability. Differences in production methods for therapeutic antibodies can lead to variations in their structure, depending on the recombinant procedure selected....
A plague of vampire horseflies bringing with them the threat of serious infection has illustrated why Britain must lead the race to develop new antibiotics – claims a charity. The hot weather has seen populations of bloodsucking clegs – or horseflies – reach Mediterranean levels. And with the female feeding off blood, Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK) has warned that bites could result...
FLIR Systems has announced a new guidebook for CBRNE professionals entitled '10 Things You Need to Know About Handheld Explosives Trace Detectors’. As the global threat of terrorism increases, security teams depend more than ever on proactive and preventative technologies. Handheld explosive trace detectors (ETDs) provide the portable screening capability needed to take the security mission mobile...
Incorrect capillary blood sampling is most common reason for inaccurate POC hemoglobin results. 
Evotec AG has announced that the strategic transaction signed on 15 June 2018, to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit including licensing-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio, has been successfully closed with effect from 01 July 2018. This closing marks the completion of the required legal social process, initiated on....
Funding will support development of a novel enzymatic process for DNA synthesis in collaboration with Durham University. EVONETIX LTD, the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, has announced that it had been awarded substantial funding to support the development of a novel enzymatic approach to DNA synthesis...
Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on how the University of Tsukuba team of Professor Jun-Ichi Fujita have developed a method to visualise local fields at relatively low beam voltages using the Deben ARM2-STEM detector. Jun-Ichi Fujita is a Professor in the Institute of Applied Physics at the University...
Algenuity, based in Stewartby, Bedfordshire, is celebrating the successful launch of the MicroalgaE as Renewable Innovative green cell facTories project, MERIT, a three-year ERA CoBioTech project financed under the Horizon 2020 programme. The project, which will involve a multidisciplinary, international consortium, aims to develop novel targeted methods of biotechnological production...
TTP Plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, and Cubed Laboratories (Cubed), a developer of rapid, DNA-based molecular diagnostic devices and test kits, has announced the successful completion of a project to develop Cubed’s core product, the NESDEP portable laboratory for pathogen detection....
Postnova Analytics has published a new application note that describes a new approach for analysis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in commercial sunscreens. The technique, which combines Inverse Supercritical Fluid Extraction (I-SFE) and Miniaturized Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation hyphenated with UV-Vis and MultiAngle Light Scattering...
The Royal Academy of Engineering reveals Owlstone Medical as the winners of the 2018 MacRobert Award. Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, has announced the team behind the Company’s unique Breath Biopsy® platform has been named the winner of the MacRobert Award 2018 by the Royal Academy of Engineering....
Microbiology laboratories are facing challenges on a number of fronts: cost pressures and staff shortages constrain their ability to process samples, and increasing test volumes make it difficult for some labs to run tests and get results back to clinicians in a timely manner. Microbiology labs are constantly juggling at least four key priorities....
An Asia flow chemistry system from Syrris is helping to streamline biocatalysis reactions for researchers at the Biocatalysis and Organic Synthesis Group at the Chemistry Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Professor Rodrigo de Souza explained: “Our main aim is to take existing batch processes and optimize them under continuous flow conditions....
On June 13, 2018, the "Peter Huber Prize" of the Valerius Füner Foundation was awarded at the Achema. As the best graduates from the years 2016 and 2017, the winners this year are Joseph Michel and Florian Theobald. Michel received the award for his Master's thesis on the optimization and simulation of combined heat and power plants. Theobald was honored for his work developing new models....
Researchers at the University Hospital of Salzburg's EB House Austria are using a Tecan Spark® multimode reader to investigate epidermolysis bullosa (EB). Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare inherited disease that causes the skin to become ‘as fragile as a butterfly’s wings’, blistering in response to friction or trauma. Dr Verena Wally, group leader of small molecules research, explained...
BioAscent Discovery Limited has secured £1.6m in funding from Maven Capital Partners. The investment will facilitate BioAscent’s growth through its unique offering of integrated drug discovery, and compound management services, as well as the Compound Cloud library of lead-like pharma compounds, from its state-of-the-art facilityat BioCity...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2018 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, July 18th with Getting More From Your LIMS and Knowing When It's Time to Upgrade....