Avacta Group plc has announced it has identified three Affimer proteins capable of binding to a recombinant form of a secreted Zika virus NS1 protein (Non-Structural protein 1), which is diagnostic of Zika virus infection at the early, acute stage.
These Affimer binders were identified and characterised within just thirteen weeks of receiving the virus target and have the potential to be developed into new rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests for Zika infection.
Who is becoming the fastest growing gel documentation company?
Yet another successful installation of an Aplegen gel documentation system. The Omega Lum C is fast becoming the system of choice by scientists around the world for the imaging of gel and chemiluminescent blots. Dr. James Tollervey and his team at Aelan Cell Technologies in San Francisco have recently installed an Omega Lum C in their laboratory....
Analytical solutions designed to streamline workflows, quickly generate data for deeper understanding of molecular complexes
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) has announced a scientific collaboration focused on the development of analytical solutions for the characterisation of complex biopharmaceuticals...
eClinicalHealth Limited, a technology and consulting company dedicated to providing innovative clinical trial solutions, is proud to announce the final results and success of the VERKKO remote online Phase IV clinical trial for diabetes.
The objectives of VERKKO, developed in collaboration with Sanofi, Langland and Mendor, were to study the use of a patient-centric online clinical trial platform integrated with Mendor’s 3G-enabled wireless blood glucose meter in a completely remote clinical trial setting. Sixty patients — all recruited through Facebook — participated in the study that had no site visits. Patients self-registered their interest in the Clinpal system...
Organizations Partner to Enhance the Development of Analytical Methods and Glycan Libraries for Cancer Glycobiology, Focusing on Glycosphingolipids
Waters Corporation has announced a joint effort with the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute within Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), to develop new methods of finding cancer markers and elucidating glycosylation pathways that could pave the way for new therapeutic strategies....
Niguarda Hospital, Milan, shares experiences in newly available case study
A newly released case study, available from Beckman Coulter, describes the experiences of Niguarda Hospital’s Molecular Biology Laboratory in the assessment of the DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System. Involving fewer steps and reagents, and with true, single sample random access, DxN VERIS...
First installation of new optical imaging system at Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Bruker’s recently introduced preclinical in vivo imaging system – In-Vivo Xtreme II™ – is accelerating the preclinical research into infectious diseases being undertaken at the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Infectious diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide....
Find out how you can help reduce the impact on our environment that laboratory plastic waste has with the new ECO News Magazine.
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This issue features ShopAnachem – how it is quicker, easier and greener for ordering your lab equipment. There are also hints and tips for a greener laboratory, pipette tip packaging recycling, how TerraRack pipette tip racks can help your lab with recycling, plus loads of special offers on pipettes and tips
Read MoreCampden BRI Brings its Sensory Delights to Lab InnovationsJul 26, 2016
Lab innovations is thrilled to announce that Campden BRI, the UK’s largest independent food and drink research body, will once again be deepening its links with the show.
Campden BRI will run a free-to-attend conference programme, host two external seminar sessions and will also be exhibiting at Lab Innovations, which takes place on 2 & 3 November 2016 at NEC, Birmingham. The Campden BRI Theatre will feature three presentations on each day, exploring core areas of activity from the food and drink manufacturing industry, including microbiology, chemistry and sensory...
MRC researchers at University of Leicester investigate ‘mutant flies’
The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies. It was found that the death of neurons associated with the disease was prevented when chemicals that...
Beckman Coulter is pleased to highlight results published in the Journal of Clinical Virology that show the company DxN VERIS VERIS CMV Assay is more sensitive, and the DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System has greater ease-of-use benefits, than another commercially available testing system.
Undertaken at the Department of Virology, Toulouse University Hospital, and the Department of Physiopathology, Toulouse Purpan, Unit Inserm U563, Toulouse, France, the study evaluated the analytical characteristics and performance of the fully automated DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System in comparison to results obtained from the Roche COBAS® Ampliprep™/COBAS® TaqMan CMV test...
New Spark eMolecules reagent databases enable researchers to tie bioisosteric replacement ideas to reagent availability
Synergy between technologies speeds up drug optimization cycle. Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract research services for small molecule discovery and design, is pleased to announce the release of the new Spark reagent databases based on available compounds from eMolecules. This will enable researchers to use Spark to find the best R-groups for their projects, whilst also enabling a close...
For the first time in Europe, the Swiss have achieved a fully superconductive coil able to reach a magnetic field of 25 Tesla
The unusual electronic properties of some superconducting materials permit lossless and dense electrical currents at very low temperatures, even in high magnetic fields. Conductors made of these materials are thus ideal for winding coils to generate very high magnetic fields, which are essential for a number of applications like magnetic medical imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the analysis of complex molecules....
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoWizard® AFM and ForceRobot® systems at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea.
They are being applied to the field of medical diagnostics. Professor Joon Won Park is head of the Supersensitive Molecular Laboratory at Korea's Pohang University of Science & Technology. His group's research goal is to bring AFM into the field of medical diagnostics. It is their belief that AFM is the most sensitive tool for detecting various biomarkers without amplification or labelling. Reliability and speed have been...
Postnova Analytics reports on exciting advances in the analysis of plasma proteins using a hyphenated system that couples asymmetric flow Field-Flow Fractionation (AF4) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).
In a new application study researchers show how an AF4-ICP-MS system is able to obtain valuable information on the multi-element speciation and absolute molecular mass of human plasma proteins such as Albumin and Transferrin. Human Serum Albumin (HSA) and Transferrin are the two main plasma proteins that are known to bind and transfer metal ions in biological fluids....
Cellectricon AB, a leading provider of advanced cell-based Discovery Services, today announced a commercial collaboration with UK-based research company Neurexpert Ltd.
Under the agreement, Cellectricon and Neurexpert will co-promote their combined CNS drug discovery expertise, with a particular focus on synaptic function assays, for research into treatments of central nervous system disorders in the fields of psychiatry, neurology, pain and neurodegeneration. “As a provider of specialist neurophysiology expertise and with over 80 years combined experience in developing...
FLIR Systems has published a new paper that looks to strip away the technical jargon terms and explain infrared camera accuracy and measurement uncertainty in plain language.
Often explanations of infrared camera measurement accuracy involve complex terms and jargon that can be confusing and misleading. To trust measurements from infrared cameras when you don’t have a clear understanding of how their sensitivity and accuracy is derived means you are unlikely to get the best results. The authors of the paper explain infrared camera accuracy specifications and introduce the...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the how their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer is being used for teaching practical analytical chemistry to students at the technical High School in Wels, Austria.
HTBLA Wels is a higher technical vocational college of chemistry in Austria. Here, Dr Harald Baumgartner is responsible for the instrumental analytical laboratory. The lab's main focus is to teach students the basics of NMR (interpretation of spectra). Starting this year, all the students have to do their own practical work towards their thesis. This may be in the field of synthetic organic chemistry so NMR is used to determine...
CEREBRO sample tracking and workflow solution deployed to reduce errors
Pathline Emerge, a leading provider of subspecialized anatomic pathology services, has teamed up with Leica Biosystems, a global leader in pathology solutions. In order to fight against medical errors in the laboratory, such as the misidentification of cancer tests, Pathline has implemented Leica Biosystems CEREBRO, a state-of the-art sample tracking and workflow management solution....
Reaction Biology Corporation, a leading early stage contract research organization, announced today that it will join a national network of scientists to increase cancer drug discovery and development, centered at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
The Frederick National Lab, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, is managing the expansion of the Chemical Biology Consortium to 22 sites around the country with world-class expertise in high-throughput screening, structural biology, medicinal chemistry, compound profiling, cancer cell biology, and animal models for oncology. The Reaction Biology will participate in the consortium via a research subcontract from...
Beckman Coulter is pleased to highlight the findings of a poster, presented at ECCMID, Amsterdam, 2016, regarding the analytical performance of the company’s fully automated DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System and VERIS HIV-1 Assay.
The European multi-centre study was undertaken at 10 centres in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the UK. All sites followed the same protocol provided by Beckman Coulter. Method comparisons were made between the Beckman DxN VERIS HIV-1 assay, and the Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 v2.0 assay, the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 assay and the Siemens kPCR HIV-1 assay and were determined on...
BioAscent Discovery, has launched Compound Cloud, a unique new service for early-stage drug discovery, providing rapid online access to a diverse collection of IP-free, high-quality chemicals for screening.
The service applies the cloud-computing concept to drug discovery by enabling scientists to remotely pick and choose specific compounds of interest from over 125,000 stored at BioAscent’s state-of-the-art facility - as well as an increasing number of third party collections - and have them quickly prepared and delivered in the format and volume selected. Alternatively users can order convenient, pre-plated sets that...
These Affimer binders were identified and characterised within just thirteen weeks of receiving the virus target and have the potential to be developed into new rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests for Zika infection.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) has announced a scientific collaboration focused on the development of analytical solutions for the characterisation of complex biopharmaceuticals...
The objectives of VERKKO, developed in collaboration with Sanofi, Langland and Mendor, were to study the use of a patient-centric online clinical trial platform integrated with Mendor’s 3G-enabled wireless blood glucose meter in a completely remote clinical trial setting. Sixty patients — all recruited through Facebook — participated in the study that had no site visits. Patients self-registered their interest in the Clinpal system...
Waters Corporation has announced a joint effort with the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute within Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), to develop new methods of finding cancer markers and elucidating glycosylation pathways that could pave the way for new therapeutic strategies....
A newly released case study, available from Beckman Coulter, describes the experiences of Niguarda Hospital’s Molecular Biology Laboratory in the assessment of the DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System. Involving fewer steps and reagents, and with true, single sample random access, DxN VERIS...
Bruker’s recently introduced preclinical in vivo imaging system – In-Vivo Xtreme II™ – is accelerating the preclinical research into infectious diseases being undertaken at the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Infectious diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide....
The first edition is available to download now from the ShopAnachem website.
Campden BRI will run a free-to-attend conference programme, host two external seminar sessions and will also be exhibiting at Lab Innovations, which takes place on 2 & 3 November 2016 at NEC, Birmingham. The Campden BRI Theatre will feature three presentations on each day, exploring core areas of activity from the food and drink manufacturing industry, including microbiology, chemistry and sensory...
The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies. It was found that the death of neurons associated with the disease was prevented when chemicals that...
Synergy between technologies speeds up drug optimization cycle. Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract research services for small molecule discovery and design, is pleased to announce the release of the new Spark reagent databases based on available compounds from eMolecules. This will enable researchers to use Spark to find the best R-groups for their projects, whilst also enabling a close...
They are being applied to the field of medical diagnostics. Professor Joon Won Park is head of the Supersensitive Molecular Laboratory at Korea's Pohang University of Science & Technology. His group's research goal is to bring AFM into the field of medical diagnostics. It is their belief that AFM is the most sensitive tool for detecting various biomarkers without amplification or labelling. Reliability and speed have been...
In a new application study researchers show how an AF4-ICP-MS system is able to obtain valuable information on the multi-element speciation and absolute molecular mass of human plasma proteins such as Albumin and Transferrin. Human Serum Albumin (HSA) and Transferrin are the two main plasma proteins that are known to bind and transfer metal ions in biological fluids....
Under the agreement, Cellectricon and Neurexpert will co-promote their combined CNS drug discovery expertise, with a particular focus on synaptic function assays, for research into treatments of central nervous system disorders in the fields of psychiatry, neurology, pain and neurodegeneration. “As a provider of specialist neurophysiology expertise and with over 80 years combined experience in developing...
Often explanations of infrared camera measurement accuracy involve complex terms and jargon that can be confusing and misleading. To trust measurements from infrared cameras when you don’t have a clear understanding of how their sensitivity and accuracy is derived means you are unlikely to get the best results. The authors of the paper explain infrared camera accuracy specifications and introduce the...
HTBLA Wels is a higher technical vocational college of chemistry in Austria. Here, Dr Harald Baumgartner is responsible for the instrumental analytical laboratory. The lab's main focus is to teach students the basics of NMR (interpretation of spectra). Starting this year, all the students have to do their own practical work towards their thesis. This may be in the field of synthetic organic chemistry so NMR is used to determine...
Pathline Emerge, a leading provider of subspecialized anatomic pathology services, has teamed up with Leica Biosystems, a global leader in pathology solutions. In order to fight against medical errors in the laboratory, such as the misidentification of cancer tests, Pathline has implemented Leica Biosystems CEREBRO, a state-of the-art sample tracking and workflow management solution....
The Frederick National Lab, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, is managing the expansion of the Chemical Biology Consortium to 22 sites around the country with world-class expertise in high-throughput screening, structural biology, medicinal chemistry, compound profiling, cancer cell biology, and animal models for oncology. The Reaction Biology will participate in the consortium via a research subcontract from...
The service applies the cloud-computing concept to drug discovery by enabling scientists to remotely pick and choose specific compounds of interest from over 125,000 stored at BioAscent’s state-of-the-art facility - as well as an increasing number of third party collections - and have them quickly prepared and delivered in the format and volume selected. Alternatively users can order convenient, pre-plated sets that...