Award entails publication in Science magazine and prize money of U.S. $25,000 - Exceptional scientists are invited to apply
Sartorius, a leading international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment provider, together with the renowned Science magazine will award a Sartorius & Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Therapy...
Developed to supportassay development and validation for detection of anti-drug antibodies
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, has announced it has launched a new version of its anti-drug antibody(ADA)solution for the immunogenicity market....
APIN Public Health Initiatives Ltd/Gte will be using the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from Autoscribe Informatics to manage the collection and testing of blood samples at 4 different sites in Nigeria.
APIN is a leading non-government organisation in Nigeria in the provision of prevention, care and treatment services to patients with HIV/AIDS and other diseases of public health significance. The testing of blood samples is the fundamental method for the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS and for monitoring the effectiveness of ART (Anti Retroviral Therapy) treatments....
Researchers have found a direct window into the brain systems involved in making everyday decisions based on preference.
The study, led by a team of neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, and published today in Nature Communications, offers crucial insight into the neural mechanisms underlying our decision-making process, opening up new avenues for the investigation of preference-based choices in humans....
INTEGRA has published a ‘How-It-Works’ guide to explain the benefits of using a peristaltic pump for pumping and dispensing a wide variety of liquids.
Pumping and dispensing culture media, buffer solutions and other liquids are routine tasks undertaken by many laboratories. Making sure that the liquid remains contamination-free during the pumping / dispensing operation, ease of operation and maintenance as well as ensuring a wide range of liquids can be transferred with high precision are key attributes of a good peristaltic pump....
Researchers from University of Leicester and EarthSense examine associations of air pollution in Leicestershire
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester and other institutions has played a pivotal role in research investigating a possible link between air pollution and the rise in type 2 diabetes. New research, published in the journal Environment International, examined data from 10,443 participants from diabetes screening studies in Leicestershire, UK...
A group of UK scientists led by the University of Dundee have demonstrated how aggregating image data from laboratories all around the world has the potential to revolutionise scientific research.
A team headed by Professor Jason Swedlow in the University’s School of Life Sciences has built the Image Data Resource (IDR), a public database that collects and integrates imaging data related to experiments published in leading scientific journals. This means that ‘Big Data’ from imaging experiments conducted by scientists all over the world that were previously too large and difficult to share are now publicly available...
Discovery Park Ltd has begun a significant programme of investment to ensure the science park’s continued success as a global centre for pharmaceutical R&D, technology and business.
Since taking over Discovery Park in November 2016, the new owners have carried out a full operational and strategic review. While honouring the master plan, agreed by Dover District Council in October 2014, the company has started to put their own stamp on the future development of the site....
A leading Contract Research and Development Organisation (CRDO) – Arcinova has invested in a Uniqsis FlowSyn™ continuous flow reactor enabling them to develop and simplify the scale-up of a challenging API batch process.
Following a trial of the FlowSyn™ system – Arcinova could justify their investment based upon rapid synthetic method development and the considerable cost and time savings demonstrated versus using large scale reactor vessels for the selected process. Dr. Samuel Bourne, Continuous Manufacturing Lead at Arcinova commented...
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZ), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, notes its complete RNA reference standards product range have been endorsed by Thermo Fisher Scientific for use in its Ion Ampliseq and Oncomine fusion assays for cancer research.
The results from the 6-month collaborative project have been published by Thermo Fisher in a White Paper. The White Paper concludes that by combining Horizon’s RNA reference standards with Thermo Fisher’s Ampliseq and Oncomine fusion assays in oncology research, end-users will be provided with a robust and reliable solution compared to existing reference standards....
Postnova Analytics reports on the extended data available through integrating its AF2000 MultiFlow Flow Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF) platform with its SC2000 modular multi-detector Size Exclusion chromatography (SEC) system.
Drawing on over three decades of cutting-edge separations leadership, Postnova has designed an advanced orthogonal system that allows both SEC and FFF separations to be carried out on the same sample within one instrument platform. The result is enabling labs around the world to generate more useful information from even complex proteins, antibodies, polypeptides and polysaccharides....
Copper accessories as a safety feature in addition to the BINDER anti-contamination concept.
The cultivation of animal cells provides valuable findings in medical research. Contamination is certainly the biggest, and most-feared, problem in cell cultivation. The humid heat in the incubator does not only offer the ideal growth conditions for cells – mycoplasma, bacteria, and fungi also thrive and often grow much faster than the actual cell culture....
Phasefocus provides a range of products and services based on its proprietary Ptychographic Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) technology to provide a wide range of analytical applications including label-free cell imaging and quantitative electron phase microscopy.
Here, they report on the Light Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute’s selection of the Livecyte® label-free cell analysis system. Dr Kurt Anderson heads up the Light Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute....
Innova to continue to provide custom bioconjugation services to support TTP’s Desktop Biology initiative
TTP plc, Europe's leading technology and product development company, announces its ongoing partnership with Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, to enable its rapid point-of-care diagnostics development program....
Cresset announces that the Shiv Nadar University, India, has licensed the following applications to educate the computational chemist of the future: Forge - powerful ligand-focused workbench for SAR and design; and Spark - scaffold hopping application for progressing through lead optimization faster.
“Cresset actively supports academic research by providing flexible licensing terms,” says Dr David Bardsley, Commercial Director at Cresset. “We are delighted that Shiv Nadar University, India, joined the growing number of academics who are using our applications globally....
Deben reports on how the new Zeiss Global Centre at the University of Portsmouth will use Deben’s mechanical stages for in situ µXCT studies of the structural competence of biological structures.
The Zeiss Global Centre (ZGC) is a strategic collaboration between the School of Engineering at the University of Portsmouth and Carl Zeiss Ltd. The Centre is directed by Professor Asa Barber (bio-inspired engineering) and Dr Gianluca Tozzi (healthcare applications)....
Scientists have developed a three-in-one blood test that could transform treatment of advanced prostate cancer through use of precision drugs designed to target mutations in the BRCA genes.
By testing cancer DNA in the bloodstream, researchers found they could pick out which men with advanced prostate cancer were likely to benefit from treatment with exciting new drugs called PARP inhibitors.
Firms to Co-Market New Semi-Automated Sample Preparation Approach for Protein Therapeutics Glycosylation Profiling
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an easy-to-use, semi-automated sample preparation approach for released N-glycan profiling and analysis by LC and LC-MS....
BBI Solutions (BBI) has invested into its facilities and resource in order to increase the capacity of cell culture transferrin production by up to 40%.
Stephane Argivier, BBI’s Director of Product Management said “demand for our cell culture grade transferrin was growing at such a rate that we had reached our full capacity. In response to market demand we saw the opportunity to increase our capacity to meet the needs of our customers and provide room for growth....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands utilises Magritek’s Spinsolve 60 benchtop NMR to quantitatively investigate illicit medicinal products.
Dr Peter Keizers is a scientist in the Centre for Health Protection at RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment based in Bilthoven. As a chemist, he investigates (illegal) drugs, medical devices and other medicinal products....
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its automated air-monitoring systems for both canister and tube sampling have been officially endorsed by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection.
This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). The endorsed technologies, which are based on the company’s UNITY-xr, CIA Advantage and TD100-xr instruments....
ZCube, Research Venture of the pharmaceutical group Zambon, launches the second edition of Open Accelerator, a fast track acceleration program for life science start-up projects.
Open Accelerator is a 12-steps program providing training to international researchers, scientists and aspiring entrepreneurs that, following a selection process, could receive seed investment of up to €100.000 per project....
Sartorius, a leading international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment provider, together with the renowned Science magazine will award a Sartorius & Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Therapy...
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, has announced it has launched a new version of its anti-drug antibody(ADA)solution for the immunogenicity market....
APIN is a leading non-government organisation in Nigeria in the provision of prevention, care and treatment services to patients with HIV/AIDS and other diseases of public health significance. The testing of blood samples is the fundamental method for the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS and for monitoring the effectiveness of ART (Anti Retroviral Therapy) treatments....
The study, led by a team of neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, and published today in Nature Communications, offers crucial insight into the neural mechanisms underlying our decision-making process, opening up new avenues for the investigation of preference-based choices in humans....
Pumping and dispensing culture media, buffer solutions and other liquids are routine tasks undertaken by many laboratories. Making sure that the liquid remains contamination-free during the pumping / dispensing operation, ease of operation and maintenance as well as ensuring a wide range of liquids can be transferred with high precision are key attributes of a good peristaltic pump....
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester and other institutions has played a pivotal role in research investigating a possible link between air pollution and the rise in type 2 diabetes. New research, published in the journal Environment International, examined data from 10,443 participants from diabetes screening studies in Leicestershire, UK...
A team headed by Professor Jason Swedlow in the University’s School of Life Sciences has built the Image Data Resource (IDR), a public database that collects and integrates imaging data related to experiments published in leading scientific journals. This means that ‘Big Data’ from imaging experiments conducted by scientists all over the world that were previously too large and difficult to share are now publicly available...
Since taking over Discovery Park in November 2016, the new owners have carried out a full operational and strategic review. While honouring the master plan, agreed by Dover District Council in October 2014, the company has started to put their own stamp on the future development of the site....
Following a trial of the FlowSyn™ system – Arcinova could justify their investment based upon rapid synthetic method development and the considerable cost and time savings demonstrated versus using large scale reactor vessels for the selected process. Dr. Samuel Bourne, Continuous Manufacturing Lead at Arcinova commented...
The results from the 6-month collaborative project have been published by Thermo Fisher in a White Paper. The White Paper concludes that by combining Horizon’s RNA reference standards with Thermo Fisher’s Ampliseq and Oncomine fusion assays in oncology research, end-users will be provided with a robust and reliable solution compared to existing reference standards....
Drawing on over three decades of cutting-edge separations leadership, Postnova has designed an advanced orthogonal system that allows both SEC and FFF separations to be carried out on the same sample within one instrument platform. The result is enabling labs around the world to generate more useful information from even complex proteins, antibodies, polypeptides and polysaccharides....
The cultivation of animal cells provides valuable findings in medical research. Contamination is certainly the biggest, and most-feared, problem in cell cultivation. The humid heat in the incubator does not only offer the ideal growth conditions for cells – mycoplasma, bacteria, and fungi also thrive and often grow much faster than the actual cell culture....
Here, they report on the Light Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute’s selection of the Livecyte® label-free cell analysis system. Dr Kurt Anderson heads up the Light Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute....
TTP plc, Europe's leading technology and product development company, announces its ongoing partnership with Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, to enable its rapid point-of-care diagnostics development program....
“Cresset actively supports academic research by providing flexible licensing terms,” says Dr David Bardsley, Commercial Director at Cresset. “We are delighted that Shiv Nadar University, India, joined the growing number of academics who are using our applications globally....
The Zeiss Global Centre (ZGC) is a strategic collaboration between the School of Engineering at the University of Portsmouth and Carl Zeiss Ltd. The Centre is directed by Professor Asa Barber (bio-inspired engineering) and Dr Gianluca Tozzi (healthcare applications)....
By testing cancer DNA in the bloodstream, researchers found they could pick out which men with advanced prostate cancer were likely to benefit from treatment with exciting new drugs called PARP inhibitors.
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an easy-to-use, semi-automated sample preparation approach for released N-glycan profiling and analysis by LC and LC-MS....
Stephane Argivier, BBI’s Director of Product Management said “demand for our cell culture grade transferrin was growing at such a rate that we had reached our full capacity. In response to market demand we saw the opportunity to increase our capacity to meet the needs of our customers and provide room for growth....
Dr Peter Keizers is a scientist in the Centre for Health Protection at RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment based in Bilthoven. As a chemist, he investigates (illegal) drugs, medical devices and other medicinal products....
This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). The endorsed technologies, which are based on the company’s UNITY-xr, CIA Advantage and TD100-xr instruments....
Open Accelerator is a 12-steps program providing training to international researchers, scientists and aspiring entrepreneurs that, following a selection process, could receive seed investment of up to €100.000 per project....