In a ground-breaking collaboration, leading biotechnology companies and research organizations in UK and Canada are entering into a R&D project jointly funded by a £1.1 million grant from Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation) and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The project is led by VVector Bio and joined by the NRC, Revvity and Abselion...
Temperature monitoring is a critical requirement in various industrial settings, from research labs and clinical environments to retail outlets and, even, shipping tankers. Here Gary Bradshaw, director at alarm annunciator specialist Omniflex, explores the importance of alarm annunciators in temperature monitoring applications, drawing on examples from different industrial settings...
Assay Automation Makes Cutting-Edge Research More Accessible to Labs. Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, in partnership with Illumina, a leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, offers a promising new approach to oncology research delivering faster results with fewer touchpoints...
Fast lipidomic analysis with high resolution of the molecular species. Achieve high-resolution lipidomic LC-MS/MS analysis with YMC Accura Triart C8 columns. Ideal for clinical samples, this new method ensures fast comprehensive separation and reliable results from the first injection. Download the detailed Application Note to see the full method and benefits...
DNA analysis refutes the theory that Kaspar Hauser was a ‘lost prince’ of the House of Baden. A new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists has helped bust a popular 200-year-old myth surrounding Kaspar Hauser, whose identity became one of the most mysterious riddles in German history. Kaspar Hauser was a youth who seemingly appeared out of nowhere in Germany in 1828...
Scientists at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich are using the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot from INTEGRA Biosciences to semi-automate and streamline their cell seeding tasks. These cells are used to understand pediatric cancer metabolism and support the development of novel chemotherapies for children and adolescents...
To help accelerate research into new treatments for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is partnering with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – part of the National Institutes of Health – on the myeloMATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) precision medicine umbrella trial..
A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Called FAIRY (Fluorescence Assay for vIRal IntegritY), the assay can screen viruses against virucidal antivirals in minutes, allowing for the effectiveness of antiviral measures, such as disinfectants that break the chain of infection, to be quickly determined...
This year, the Hamburg based life sicences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its prestigious research prize for the 29th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky, Cambridge, UK, selected Dr. Clemens Plaschka, IMP - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2024. Clemens Plaschka, born 1989, receives the 20,000 euro award for his research on the molecular machines that generate and export messenger RNA...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotech industry, has announced that global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using Benchling across more than 1,500 scientists from 30 teams. Benchling is working with Sanofi to transition from legacy R&D systems to a digital platform through Benchling R&D Cloud; this is an integral process to enable Sanofi's AI-powered R&D ambition. As a result of Sanofi’s digital and AI leadership, R&D teams are able to scale and accelerate groundbreaking research processes in just hours instead of weeks...
EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns Group, in collaboration with research groups from the Center for Experimental Medicine Institute of Tumor Biology and the Martini Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), as well as the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, has revealed a new mechanism through which cells counteract one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by stacking and fixing its molecules in a pile...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has published new survey findings that reveal 77% of R&D professionals are not using in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, and only 23% describe themselves as ‘very familiar’ with any kind of animal model alternative. More than 350 survey respondents participated, including representatives from pharma companies, regulators, and CROs...
INTEGRA Biosciences and Parse Biosciences have partnered to automate single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot. This new protocol combines Parse Biosciences’ Evercode™ combinatorial barcoding technology with INTEGRA’s liquid handling expertise, and is already helping labs in academia and industry to streamline and standardize their sequencing workflows for faster throughput and more reproducible results...
TESTA Analytical has published a new technical study that demonstrates the utility of its non-invasive liquid flowmeter for validating the performance of HPLC systems across a wide range of different solvents. HPLC separation protocols employ many different solvents to accommodate the unique properties of different analytes. Ensuring consistent elution profiles is a key requirement to ensure reproducible results...
In 1974, 10 countries came together to establish a European research organisation for life sciences. One of its primary goals was to create an attractive working environment for European researchers and to nurture their science so that experts would not feel the need to migrate across the ocean to do their research. As it turned out, this visionary project was the beginning of a great success story for borderless biological research, not only in Europe but all over the world...
The National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (NARDI) in Fundulea, Romania, relies on electronic multichannel pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its liquid handling workflows. These pipettes help the institute’s phenotyping and genotyping laboratory to extract and analyze DNA from hundreds of samples each day as part of a scientific approach to tackle the current challenges in agriculture, such as climate change, land scarcity and a loss of biodiversity.
BBI Solutions OEM Limited (BBI), a trusted expert provider of end-to-end solutions for the development of high-performance assays, has signed a partnership agreement with BioAgilytix, a leading global bioanalytical laboratory. The partnership will integrate BBI’s ability to efficiently produce high-quality custom antibody reagents for a variety of testing applications, with BioAgilytix’s renowned bioanalytical testing services...
In partnership with leading researchers at the Crick, the project aims to develop novel applications for Broken String’s proprietary DNA break-mapping platform, INDUCE-seq™, beyond its established capabilities in gene-editing. The research will be focused on leveraging the technology to investigate the impact of genomic instability in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)...
A new startup company is leading the charge to a new form of sustainable power, by creating a battery that recharges itself when placed in soil. Bactery, a University of Bath spinout company, has developed bacteria-powered batteries – or ‘Bacteries’ – which harvest green energy from soil by taking advantage of natural processes that occur in microorganisms within it...
Northern Ireland’s CoreLIMS programme has achieved another significant milestone by migrating the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) away from its 15-year-old laboratory information system and onto Clinisys WinPath. The CoreLIMS programme, delivered by Business Services Organisation (BSO), has been set up to support the transformation of pathology services in Northern Ireland by combining the seven information systems used by laboratories across the country onto a single platform...
Blood stem cells from healthy people carry major chromosomal alterations, suggesting we are all genetic mosaics, according to a new study from EMBL and the Max Delbrück Center. Researchers at EMBL and the MDC-BIMSB found that approximately one in 40 human bone marrow cells carry massive chromosomal alterations without causing any apparent disease or abnormality. Even so-called normal cells carry all sorts of genetic mutations, meaning there are more genetic differences between individual cells...
llumina sequencing is a next generation sequencing method used to sequence millions of DNA fragments in parallel. In this video, INTEGRA Biosciences explain how Illumina sequencing works. Standard Illumina sequencing can be split into the following steps, Fragmentation, Addition of primer binding sites and capture sequences, Denaturation, Immobilization, Amplification and Sequencing...
In a ground-breaking collaboration, leading biotechnology companies and research organizations in UK and Canada are entering into a R&D project jointly funded by a £1.1 million grant from Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation) and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The project is led by VVector Bio and joined by the NRC, Revvity and Abselion...
Temperature monitoring is a critical requirement in various industrial settings, from research labs and clinical environments to retail outlets and, even, shipping tankers. Here Gary Bradshaw, director at alarm annunciator specialist Omniflex, explores the importance of alarm annunciators in temperature monitoring applications, drawing on examples from different industrial settings...
Assay Automation Makes Cutting-Edge Research More Accessible to Labs. Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, in partnership with Illumina, a leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, offers a promising new approach to oncology research delivering faster results with fewer touchpoints...
Fast lipidomic analysis with high resolution of the molecular species. Achieve high-resolution lipidomic LC-MS/MS analysis with YMC Accura Triart C8 columns. Ideal for clinical samples, this new method ensures fast comprehensive separation and reliable results from the first injection. Download the detailed Application Note to see the full method and benefits... 
DNA analysis refutes the theory that Kaspar Hauser was a ‘lost prince’ of the House of Baden. A new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists has helped bust a popular 200-year-old myth surrounding Kaspar Hauser, whose identity became one of the most mysterious riddles in German history. Kaspar Hauser was a youth who seemingly appeared out of nowhere in Germany in 1828...
Scientists at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich are using the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot from INTEGRA Biosciences to semi-automate and streamline their cell seeding tasks. These cells are used to understand pediatric cancer metabolism and support the development of novel chemotherapies for children and adolescents...
To help accelerate research into new treatments for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is partnering with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – part of the National Institutes of Health – on the myeloMATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) precision medicine umbrella trial..
A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Called FAIRY (Fluorescence Assay for vIRal IntegritY), the assay can screen viruses against virucidal antivirals in minutes, allowing for the effectiveness of antiviral measures, such as disinfectants that break the chain of infection, to be quickly determined...
This year, the Hamburg based life sicences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its prestigious research prize for the 29th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky, Cambridge, UK, selected Dr. Clemens Plaschka, IMP - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2024. Clemens Plaschka, born 1989, receives the 20,000 euro award for his research on the molecular machines that generate and export messenger RNA...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotech industry, has announced that global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using Benchling across more than 1,500 scientists from 30 teams. Benchling is working with Sanofi to transition from legacy R&D systems to a digital platform through Benchling R&D Cloud; this is an integral process to enable Sanofi's AI-powered R&D ambition. As a result of Sanofi’s digital and AI leadership, R&D teams are able to scale and accelerate groundbreaking research processes in just hours instead of weeks...
EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns Group, in collaboration with research groups from the Center for Experimental Medicine Institute of Tumor Biology and the Martini Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), as well as the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, has revealed a new mechanism through which cells counteract one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by stacking and fixing its molecules in a pile...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has published new survey findings that reveal 77% of R&D professionals are not using in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, and only 23% describe themselves as ‘very familiar’ with any kind of animal model alternative. More than 350 survey respondents participated, including representatives from pharma companies, regulators, and CROs...
INTEGRA Biosciences and Parse Biosciences have partnered to automate single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot. This new protocol combines Parse Biosciences’ Evercode™ combinatorial barcoding technology with INTEGRA’s liquid handling expertise, and is already helping labs in academia and industry to streamline and standardize their sequencing workflows for faster throughput and more reproducible results...
TESTA Analytical has published a new technical study that demonstrates the utility of its non-invasive liquid flowmeter for validating the performance of HPLC systems across a wide range of different solvents. HPLC separation protocols employ many different solvents to accommodate the unique properties of different analytes. Ensuring consistent elution profiles is a key requirement to ensure reproducible results...
In 1974, 10 countries came together to establish a European research organisation for life sciences. One of its primary goals was to create an attractive working environment for European researchers and to nurture their science so that experts would not feel the need to migrate across the ocean to do their research. As it turned out, this visionary project was the beginning of a great success story for borderless biological research, not only in Europe but all over the world...
The National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (NARDI) in Fundulea, Romania, relies on electronic multichannel pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its liquid handling workflows. These pipettes help the institute’s phenotyping and genotyping laboratory to extract and analyze DNA from hundreds of samples each day as part of a scientific approach to tackle the current challenges in agriculture, such as climate change, land scarcity and a loss of biodiversity.
BBI Solutions OEM Limited (BBI), a trusted expert provider of end-to-end solutions for the development of high-performance assays, has signed a partnership agreement with BioAgilytix, a leading global bioanalytical laboratory. The partnership will integrate BBI’s ability to efficiently produce high-quality custom antibody reagents for a variety of testing applications, with BioAgilytix’s renowned bioanalytical testing services...
In partnership with leading researchers at the Crick, the project aims to develop novel applications for Broken String’s proprietary DNA break-mapping platform, INDUCE-seq™, beyond its established capabilities in gene-editing. The research will be focused on leveraging the technology to investigate the impact of genomic instability in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)...
A new startup company is leading the charge to a new form of sustainable power, by creating a battery that recharges itself when placed in soil. Bactery, a University of Bath spinout company, has developed bacteria-powered batteries – or ‘Bacteries’ – which harvest green energy from soil by taking advantage of natural processes that occur in microorganisms within it...
Northern Ireland’s CoreLIMS programme has achieved another significant milestone by migrating the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) away from its 15-year-old laboratory information system and onto Clinisys WinPath. The CoreLIMS programme, delivered by Business Services Organisation (BSO), has been set up to support the transformation of pathology services in Northern Ireland by combining the seven information systems used by laboratories across the country onto a single platform...
Blood stem cells from healthy people carry major chromosomal alterations, suggesting we are all genetic mosaics, according to a new study from EMBL and the Max Delbrück Center. Researchers at EMBL and the MDC-BIMSB found that approximately one in 40 human bone marrow cells carry massive chromosomal alterations without causing any apparent disease or abnormality. Even so-called normal cells carry all sorts of genetic mutations, meaning there are more genetic differences between individual cells...
llumina sequencing is a next generation sequencing method used to sequence millions of DNA fragments in parallel. In this video, INTEGRA Biosciences explain how Illumina sequencing works. Standard Illumina sequencing can be split into the following steps, Fragmentation, Addition of primer binding sites and capture sequences, Denaturation, Immobilization, Amplification and Sequencing...