A cancer treatment already approved for use in certain types of cancer has been found to block cell growth in a common form of lung cancer for which there is currently no specific treatment available. The new findings, published today in Science Translational Medicine and led by the University of Glasgow, suggest that a large number of...
Comprehensive metabolic biomarker profiles of the world's largest health database to be analysed in 30 months. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. The ground-breaking research initiative....
Halide perovskites are a promising class of materials for a wide variety of optoelectronic applications such as photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, lasers and optical sensing. They have received widespread attention due to their many attractive synthetic and photophysical properties, namely: solution processability, high tunability, long charge carrier lifetimes and high charge carrier mobilities...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, talks with Harrisburg University's Associate Professor, Catherine Santai. She leads the Integrative Sciences program teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry to undergraduates. This includes the application of benchtop NMR spectroscopy using a Magritek 60 MHz Spinsolve spectrometer...
PhoreMost, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has announced it has entered into a collaboration with o2h discovery (o2h), an Anglo-Indian medicinal chemistry company that has in-house capability to take drug discovery programmes to the IND filing stage....
Collaboration combines expertise in novel chemical compound synthesis with GMP manufacture in drug discovery. Enamine Ltd., a chemical research organization and producer of novel building blocks and screening libraries, and TBD Biodiscovery, a premium GMP manufacturer of fine chemicals including chemical active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), today announced they have entered into...
The overall UK radiology equipment market spend for the six months to the end of March 2018 is down by around 30% compared to the same period in the previous year. This is according to latest figures from AXREM (the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy and Care), which represents all the major medical imaging...
Evotec AG announce having signed a transaction agreement with Sanofi to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit into its organisation. Pursuant to this agreement, Evotec will also licence-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio and initiatives. This successfully seals the exclusive negotiations between the two...
Rapid, one-step, lateral flow test for real-time detection of herbicide resistance in blackgrass. Mologic Ltd, a developer of personalised diagnostics, and Newcastle University, have announced they have developed an on-farm blackgrass resistance diagnostic (BReD). The one-step, rapid lateral flow product for detecting glutathione transferase (AmGSTF1) concentrations...
Approach is being assessed by Public Health England for its potential to routinely test all meningococcal disease cases. Researchers at the University of Leicester and Meningococcal Reference Unit have developed a new approach to assess the effectiveness of the Men B vaccine, Bexsero®, against different strains that cause meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia...
Testing lots of genetic variants can pick out 1 per cent of men at highest risk. Researchers plan to evaluate saliva test in GP practices. A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer. Researchers devised a new test combining these single letter genetic variants....
Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on how groups of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are making grazing-incidence x-ray scattering measurements using a Linkam HFSX350 thermal stage on Beamline 8-ID-E under the guidance of the Time-Resolved Research group. Dr Joseph Strzalka is a physicist...
Plastics are used extensively in products and packaging. Unfortunately, these make their way into the environment and cause significant pollution, not only as bulk material but also as microplastics: small, hard-to-spot, particles. A Danish research institute is using a Raman spectroscopy system, from Renishaw, to help its clients understand and reduce the amount of microplastics in the environment...
Researchers found traces of foreign, non-human genetic material in human blood samples. It turned out that it was not a groundbreaking scientific discovery, but mostly the result of contaminated laboratory materials. Scientists led by Associate Prof. Paul Wilmes of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg recently published an article about their unexpected findings in...
Grant will allow company to launch large-scale prospective validation study of METAglut1 test to help early diagnosis of rare De Vivo disease (Glut1 deficiency syndrome) Metafora biosystems, a company developing diagnostic tests to detect abnormalities in cellular energetics, today announces that it has received a European grant of €3.2 million ($3.75M) as part of the phase 2 of the European...
Scientists have identified a pattern of genetic changes that could pick out men with advanced prostate cancer who are likely to benefit from immunotherapy. Developing a genetic test to pick out these men could speed up the path of immunotherapy into use for prostate cancer patients. A major clinical trial earlier this month became the first to show that immunotherapy could work in advanced prostate cancer...
International competition rewards four top proteomics researchers for outstanding innovation and impact. Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recognize the winners of the 2018 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) Research Award at the opening of a breakfast workshop held on June 6, 2018, in conjunction with the 66th American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference
Biodegradable crop protection products without risks or side effects. Traditional insecticides are killers: they not only kill pests, they also endanger bees and other beneficial insects, as well as affecting biodiversity in soils, lakes, rivers and seas. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed an alternative: A biodegradable agent that keeps pests at bay without poisoning them...
The versatile Asia flow chemistry system from Syrris is helping researchers at the University of Perugia in Italy to develop novel integrated systems for medicinal chemistry programs. Antimo Gioiello, Associate Professor in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, explained...
Inspired by the beauty and breadth of images submitted for Image of the Year 2017, Olympus continues its quest for the best light microscopy art in 2018. For the chance to win a microscope or camera, applicants can now submit their best life science light microscopy images. Olympus’ Image of the Year European Life Science Light Microscopy Award 2018 recognizes the very best in...
SP Scientific, a leading innovator in freeze drying and lyophilization equipment, has announced the dates, venues and agendas for its September 2018 international ‘Insights in Lyophilization Science’ tour. With informative seminar programs published for Basel (Switzerland), Dublin (Ireland), Boston (USA) and Warminster (USA), attending the tour is a must for anyone involved or interested in lyophilization science...
Expanding global oncology testing for clinical trials. Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD), a leading global contract research organization (CRO), and NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc., a leading provider of cancer-focused genetic testing services, are forming a strategic alliance to provide a seamless and fully integrated global pathology and molecular testing solution....
A cancer treatment already approved for use in certain types of cancer has been found to block cell growth in a common form of lung cancer for which there is currently no specific treatment available. The new findings, published today in Science Translational Medicine and led by the University of Glasgow, suggest that a large number of...
Comprehensive metabolic biomarker profiles of the world's largest health database to be analysed in 30 months. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. The ground-breaking research initiative....
Halide perovskites are a promising class of materials for a wide variety of optoelectronic applications such as photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, lasers and optical sensing. They have received widespread attention due to their many attractive synthetic and photophysical properties, namely: solution processability, high tunability, long charge carrier lifetimes and high charge carrier mobilities...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, talks with Harrisburg University's Associate Professor, Catherine Santai. She leads the Integrative Sciences program teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry to undergraduates. This includes the application of benchtop NMR spectroscopy using a Magritek 60 MHz Spinsolve spectrometer...
PhoreMost, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has announced it has entered into a collaboration with o2h discovery (o2h), an Anglo-Indian medicinal chemistry company that has in-house capability to take drug discovery programmes to the IND filing stage....
Collaboration combines expertise in novel chemical compound synthesis with GMP manufacture in drug discovery. Enamine Ltd., a chemical research organization and producer of novel building blocks and screening libraries, and TBD Biodiscovery, a premium GMP manufacturer of fine chemicals including chemical active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), today announced they have entered into...
The overall UK radiology equipment market spend for the six months to the end of March 2018 is down by around 30% compared to the same period in the previous year. This is according to latest figures from AXREM (the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy and Care), which represents all the major medical imaging...
Evotec AG announce having signed a transaction agreement with Sanofi to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit into its organisation. Pursuant to this agreement, Evotec will also licence-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio and initiatives. This successfully seals the exclusive negotiations between the two...
Rapid, one-step, lateral flow test for real-time detection of herbicide resistance in blackgrass. Mologic Ltd, a developer of personalised diagnostics, and Newcastle University, have announced they have developed an on-farm blackgrass resistance diagnostic (BReD). The one-step, rapid lateral flow product for detecting glutathione transferase (AmGSTF1) concentrations...
Approach is being assessed by Public Health England for its potential to routinely test all meningococcal disease cases. Researchers at the University of Leicester and Meningococcal Reference Unit have developed a new approach to assess the effectiveness of the Men B vaccine, Bexsero®, against different strains that cause meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia...
Testing lots of genetic variants can pick out 1 per cent of men at highest risk. Researchers plan to evaluate saliva test in GP practices. A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer. Researchers devised a new test combining these single letter genetic variants....
Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on how groups of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are making grazing-incidence x-ray scattering measurements using a Linkam HFSX350 thermal stage on Beamline 8-ID-E under the guidance of the Time-Resolved Research group. Dr Joseph Strzalka is a physicist...
Plastics are used extensively in products and packaging. Unfortunately, these make their way into the environment and cause significant pollution, not only as bulk material but also as microplastics: small, hard-to-spot, particles. A Danish research institute is using a Raman spectroscopy system, from Renishaw, to help its clients understand and reduce the amount of microplastics in the environment...
Researchers found traces of foreign, non-human genetic material in human blood samples. It turned out that it was not a groundbreaking scientific discovery, but mostly the result of contaminated laboratory materials. Scientists led by Associate Prof. Paul Wilmes of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg recently published an article about their unexpected findings in...
Grant will allow company to launch large-scale prospective validation study of METAglut1 test to help early diagnosis of rare De Vivo disease (Glut1 deficiency syndrome) Metafora biosystems, a company developing diagnostic tests to detect abnormalities in cellular energetics, today announces that it has received a European grant of €3.2 million ($3.75M) as part of the phase 2 of the European...
International competition rewards four top proteomics researchers for outstanding innovation and impact. 
Biodegradable crop protection products without risks or side effects. Traditional insecticides are killers: they not only kill pests, they also endanger bees and other beneficial insects, as well as affecting biodiversity in soils, lakes, rivers and seas. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed an alternative: A biodegradable agent that keeps pests at bay without poisoning them...
The versatile Asia flow chemistry system from Syrris is helping researchers at the University of Perugia in Italy to develop novel integrated systems for medicinal chemistry programs. Antimo Gioiello, Associate Professor in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, explained...
SP Scientific, a leading innovator in freeze drying and lyophilization equipment, has announced the dates, venues and agendas for its September 2018 international ‘Insights in Lyophilization Science’ tour. 
Expanding global oncology testing for clinical trials. Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD), a leading global contract research organization (CRO), and NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc., a leading provider of cancer-focused genetic testing services, are forming a strategic alliance to provide a seamless and fully integrated global pathology and molecular testing solution....