Siva Therapeutics is pleased to announce that its Targeted Hyperthermia™ technology has successfully passed through the first stages of nanoparticle characterization at the Frederick National Laboratory (FNL) for Cancer Research in Frederick, Md.
FNL’s Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) – a partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology – is a world leader in the characterization of therapeutic nanoparticles, which helps pave the way for regulatory review of nanotechnologies intended for cancer therapies and diagnostics.
Scientists at Novartis in Jersey, USA, rely on METTLER TOLEDO Rainin’s calibration and maintenance service to guarantee the correct operation of their pipettes.
Yusra Saleh, formerly a metrology specialist at the company, explained: “We have around 400 single and multi-channel pipettes ranging from 20 to 2,000 μl, the majority of which are from Rainin. Each one must be calibrated on time and according to user-defined specifications.....
Daiichi Sankyo Co., Limited, Max Planck Innovation GmbH and the Lead Discovery Center GmbH have signed an agreement providing Daiichi Sankyo with the option to receive the exclusive rights to a new lead compound for the treatment of cancer to be discovered and developed at the Lead Discovery Center.
This new partnership builds on biology insights in the field of transcriptional regulation from the work of Prof. Matthias Geyer at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund and the Research Center caesar (Center of Advanced European Studies and Research) in Bonn, Germany....
Deben reports on how the School of Materials at the University of Manchester is using a Deben mechanical stage for the characterisation of the structure and behaviour at the micro- and nano- scale relates to that of bulk materials.
The School of Materials at the University of Manchester is the largest school of its kind in Europe. It has arguably one of the highest research levels of any university for materials activity in the UK, with 80% of their research rated as being internationally excellent or world leading in quality.....
Inlabtec AG reports upon the positive results from a 30-month use, by SGS Fresenius GmbH (Germany), of the Inlabtec Serial Diluter for food quality and safety testing.
SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company and recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 90,000 employees, SGS operates a network of more than 2000 offices and laboratories around the world....
AMSBIO announces its sponsorship of the 'Discovering Organoids: Establishment, Culture & Manipulation’ hands-on training course due to be hosted at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK, on 11th and 12th September 2017.
Attendees to the 2-day intensive course will receive world-class theoretical instruction and hands-on practical training from leaders in the field of Organoid technology. The course will also cover specialist approaches for the application of CRISPR gene editing technology to Organoid cultures....
EligoChem Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial treatments in areas of highest unmet needs, has announced that it has been awarded up to $4.8 million non-dilutive funding from CARB-X, the world's largest public-private partnership devoted to antibacterial R&D.
The award provides immediate funding of up to $1.5 million with options for up to $3.3 million upon achievement of milestones. The CARB-X funded project focuses on candidate selection from a series of helical antimicrobial peptides with potent Gram-negative antibiotic action and low frequency of resistance potential...
MR Solutions’ 9.4T dry magnet MRI system is around seven times lighter
When it comes to choosing a preclinical MRI imaging system there is no need to compromise – MR Solutions’ 9.4T cryogen free, or dry magnet system provides state of the art high resolution imaging within a compact footprint....
Giving patients with bowel cancer an MRI scan and a blood test could pick out those who would benefit from a targeted cancer treatment, a new study reports.
Researchers found that after only two weeks on the drug regorafinib, a test based on an MRI scan could tell which patients would respond an average of 9.4 months longer than those whose treatment failed early....
Magritek reports how Assistant Professor Irosha Nawarathne in the Department of Chemistry at Lyon College, Arkansas, has incorporated the Spinsolve benchtop NMR into the undergraduate teaching curriculum and to aid their biomedical research program.
Lyon College is a selective liberal arts institution in rural Arkansas. Students taking the chemistry major courses are guided to understand the principles underlying the composition, structure, and properties of substances—both natural and man-made—and the transformations they undergo....
Unique online application helps to interpret statistics on cancer survival
Researchers from the University of Leicester have developed an online tool which presents a variety of measures that quantify the survival of patients with cancer from different perspectives. The ‘InterPreT Cancer Survival’ tool, which has been developed by University of Leicester PhD student Sarwar Islam...
Antimicrobial resistance Biopharma selects StarDrop to guide discovery of next generation of antibiotics
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Bugworks Research Inc. (Bugworks), a company focused on discovering biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of critical and serious bacterial infections, today announced the signing of a two-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software....
Olympus is celebrating art in science with a competition to find the best light microscopy images taken in the EMEA region this year.
For the chance to win a microscope, applicants can simply submit their best life science light microscopy images taken with Olympus equipment to the campaign website. Olympus’ Image of the Year European Life Science Light Microscopy Award recognizes the very best in life science imaging....
INTEGRA has published a new video that demonstrates how US-based biotech contract research specialists Likarda LLC are using their VIAFLO ASSIST to cost effectively develop high throughput cell based assays for their customers.
Early phase drug discovery research requires the highest level of accurate and reproducible testing in order to give you the proof to move confidently forward. While Likarda developed and uses a proprietary approach to 3D cell-based testing...
Biognosys, a leading proteomics company, announce that it has secured USD 5m funding from new and existing investors in an extended series C round.
Biognosys' contract research services and tools are successfully applied in biomarker research, drug and target discovery, pathway modeling, mechanisms of action studies and many other areas. Its market leading expertise in next-generation proteomics is recognized...
University of Leicester 37th place in clinical medicine by ShanghaiRanking
An international league table has ranked the University of Leicester amongst the top fifty in the world for Clinical Medicine. The ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2017, released on 28 June, contains rankings of universities in 52 subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences.....
Concept Life Sciences has added polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) analysis in edible oils to its range of ISO 17025 accredited services.
PAHs have been linked to a number of health issues including various forms of cancer, therefore, the food and allied industries have a responsibility to ensure product safety. The recently accredited service meets the demands of the edible oils industry for both food and pharmaceutical use and complies....
Research led by the University of Glasgow has made a breakthrough in developing a possible future treatment of schizophrenia and related psychiatric conditions.
Studies currently show that people with a hereditary form of schizophrenia, or a subset of the general schizophrenic population, are deficient in the brain protein DISC1, an important multi-function ‘scaffolding’ protein vital to key brain functions....
UK scientists now have access to a new kind of next-generation genome sequencing machine which could revolutionise their research to defeat cancer.
The high-tech genome sequencer – the Illumina NovaSeqTM 6000 – has been unveiled at The Institute of Cancer Research, London. The world-leading cancer research institute is the first in the UK to access the technology.....
AMSBIO reports on an independent evaluation and use by I-Stem (Corbeil-Essonnes, France) of the Skeletal Muscle Differentiation kit - a cell culture media system to differentiate human stem cells into functional myotubes.
I-Stem was formed in 2005 through a collaboration between Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and AFM-Telethon the French Association against Myopathies. I-Stem is the largest French laboratory for research and development dedicated to human pluripotent stem cells....
Joint white paper and scientific poster published and presented at Clinical Pharmacy Congress
Cherwell Laboratories, specialists in products for environmental monitoring and process validation, has recently supported the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Pharmacy Unit in developing a new triple-wrapped prepared media product required to ensure the exclusion of bacterial spores during aseptic compounding validation....
Amazon Filters SupaPore FPW microfiltration cartridges from have been widely proven as highly efficient membrane pre-filters by leading wine producers and bottlers.
Wine making is a combination of modern technology and traditional craft. The control or removal of contaminants such as bacteria, crystals, particles, treatment residue and yeast is critical to ensure the taste and shelf-life of the wine....
FNL’s Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) – a partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology – is a world leader in the characterization of therapeutic nanoparticles, which helps pave the way for regulatory review of nanotechnologies intended for cancer therapies and diagnostics.
Yusra Saleh, formerly a metrology specialist at the company, explained: “We have around 400 single and multi-channel pipettes ranging from 20 to 2,000 μl, the majority of which are from Rainin. Each one must be calibrated on time and according to user-defined specifications.....
This new partnership builds on biology insights in the field of transcriptional regulation from the work of Prof. Matthias Geyer at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund and the Research Center caesar (Center of Advanced European Studies and Research) in Bonn, Germany....
The School of Materials at the University of Manchester is the largest school of its kind in Europe. It has arguably one of the highest research levels of any university for materials activity in the UK, with 80% of their research rated as being internationally excellent or world leading in quality.....
SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company and recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 90,000 employees, SGS operates a network of more than 2000 offices and laboratories around the world....
Attendees to the 2-day intensive course will receive world-class theoretical instruction and hands-on practical training from leaders in the field of Organoid technology. The course will also cover specialist approaches for the application of CRISPR gene editing technology to Organoid cultures....
The award provides immediate funding of up to $1.5 million with options for up to $3.3 million upon achievement of milestones. The CARB-X funded project focuses on candidate selection from a series of helical antimicrobial peptides with potent Gram-negative antibiotic action and low frequency of resistance potential...
When it comes to choosing a preclinical MRI imaging system there is no need to compromise – MR Solutions’ 9.4T cryogen free, or dry magnet system provides state of the art high resolution imaging within a compact footprint....
Researchers found that after only two weeks on the drug regorafinib, a test based on an MRI scan could tell which patients would respond an average of 9.4 months longer than those whose treatment failed early....
Lyon College is a selective liberal arts institution in rural Arkansas. Students taking the chemistry major courses are guided to understand the principles underlying the composition, structure, and properties of substances—both natural and man-made—and the transformations they undergo....
Researchers from the University of Leicester have developed an online tool which presents a variety of measures that quantify the survival of patients with cancer from different perspectives. The ‘InterPreT Cancer Survival’ tool, which has been developed by University of Leicester PhD student Sarwar Islam...
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Bugworks Research Inc. (Bugworks), a company focused on discovering biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of critical and serious bacterial infections, today announced the signing of a two-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software....
For the chance to win a microscope, applicants can simply submit their best life science light microscopy images taken with Olympus equipment to the campaign website. Olympus’ Image of the Year European Life Science Light Microscopy Award recognizes the very best in life science imaging....
Early phase drug discovery research requires the highest level of accurate and reproducible testing in order to give you the proof to move confidently forward. While Likarda developed and uses a proprietary approach to 3D cell-based testing...
Biognosys' contract research services and tools are successfully applied in biomarker research, drug and target discovery, pathway modeling, mechanisms of action studies and many other areas. Its market leading expertise in next-generation proteomics is recognized...
PAHs have been linked to a number of health issues including various forms of cancer, therefore, the food and allied industries have a responsibility to ensure product safety. The recently accredited service meets the demands of the edible oils industry for both food and pharmaceutical use and complies....
Studies currently show that people with a hereditary form of schizophrenia, or a subset of the general schizophrenic population, are deficient in the brain protein DISC1, an important multi-function ‘scaffolding’ protein vital to key brain functions....
The high-tech genome sequencer – the Illumina NovaSeqTM 6000 – has been unveiled at The Institute of Cancer Research, London. The world-leading cancer research institute is the first in the UK to access the technology.....
I-Stem was formed in 2005 through a collaboration between Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and AFM-Telethon the French Association against Myopathies. I-Stem is the largest French laboratory for research and development dedicated to human pluripotent stem cells....
Cherwell Laboratories, specialists in products for environmental monitoring and process validation, has recently supported the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Pharmacy Unit in developing a new triple-wrapped prepared media product required to ensure the exclusion of bacterial spores during aseptic compounding validation....
Wine making is a combination of modern technology and traditional craft. The control or removal of contaminants such as bacteria, crystals, particles, treatment residue and yeast is critical to ensure the taste and shelf-life of the wine....