Apply both dynamic and static light scattering for size and molecular weight measurement
Malvern Instruments’ detector range for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) now includes the Zetasizer µV, a versatile size and molecular weight detector that can be added to any system to boost experimental productivity by maximizing information flow from a single experiment. Complementary to Malvern’s established Viscotek range, which includes detectors for concentration, intrinsic viscosity and absolute molecular weight measurement, the Zetasizer µV is a dual integrated light scattering system with particular value for protein characterization...
Read MoreAutomated Online Sample Preparation Comes to Waters UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) PlatformNov 22, 2012
Exclusive Agreement With Spark Holland Makes Waters ACQUITY UPLC System Fully Compatible With Spark Holland Symbiosis Online Solid Phase Extraction Technology
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today that its ACQUITY UPLC® System is now available with online solid phase extraction (SPE) technology from Spark Holland BV (Emmen, The Netherlands). The Waters® ACQUITY UPLC Online SPE Manager is based on a special version of the highly-popular Spark Holland online SPE technology, which Spark Holland is making available to Waters exclusively. The Waters ACQUITY UPLC Online SPE Manager is now available as an integrated Waters UPLC/MS system or as an upgrade to installed ACQUITY UPLC Systems...
Read MoreR-Biopharm RhNov 22, 2012
R-Biopharm Rhône, one of Scotland's most successful scientific exporters, is embarking on a recruitment drive following another record year of sales and profits
The company, which makes diagnostic test kits for use in the agri-food industry, is looking for another two research and development scientists to add to its complement of 15 industry-leading specialists, as well as up to three production operatives to reinforce the production unit...
Read MoreUpcoming Webinar Nov 21, 2012
Looking to perform a microplate cell-based assay for the first time or would like to develop a higher throughput for your current cell-based assay?
IVLA is the second largest Steel mill located in the depths of southern Italy. A number of recent deaths from cancer and respiratory failure have been attributed to the effluent released from the factory, threatening its long term future. A rapid solution was needed to reduce emissions and clean up the plant including stricter monitoring of the effluent it produces
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on the use of the CPS Instruments Disc Centrifuge in the Surface and Nanoanalysis group at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK
The Surface and Nanoanalysis research group studies the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and nanomaterials, including biological samples and electronic components. NPL supplies a range of measurement services, reference materials, and software, which underpin quantitative surface analysis. Among the measurement services offered is nanoparticle sizing for which a suite of particle sizing techniques are employed...
Read MoreOlympus VS120 virtual slide scanning system earns three awards at the prestigious second International Scanner ContestNov 16, 2012
The Olympus VS120 Slide Scanning System has earned three first place awards at the prestigious second International Scanner Contest (ISC), which took place in Berlin earlier this year
The advanced technology of the VS120 creates a “virtual slide”, a high resolution image of the complete specimen that can be electronically stored on a central server for simultaneous viewing anywhere in the world, at a range of magnifications. Awards were obtained in the fields of Colour and Precision, Fluorescence 20X, and Fluorescence 40X. Exhibiting unsurpassed performance in fluorescence microscopy, combined with...
Lophius Biosciences, a leader in the field of novel T cell based diagnostic test systems, reported today about its first successfully concluded clinical Proof of Principle study with respect to detection of active tuberculosis (TB) using its novel T-Track® TB test which is based on Lophius Biosciences proprietary Reverse T Cell Technology (RT Technology)
The clinical Proof of Principle was concluded in India with a cohort of 44 patients. Results demonstrate that the T-Track® TB test was able to detect active TB in in 10 of 12 non-treated patients. Besides its high sensitivity and specificity the T-Track® TB test also demonstrated a remarkably short turnaround time of 2 days which compares favorably to currently used classical detection methods...
Read MoreResearch on Visual Perception Wins 2012 Eppendorf & Science PrizeNov 15, 2012
The US scientist, Marlene R. Cohen Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh has won the 2012 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Dr. Cohen uses the response of groups of visual neurons to estimate which part of the visual world an animal is paying attention to at any given moment. Her approach provides a new way to study how our mental activity affects what we perceive and how cognitive processes such as attention are controlled...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Solid Phase Extraction Sample Preparation Products Win G.I.T InnovationsAward 2012Nov 14, 2012
Independent Jury, Journal Readers and Attendees of Analytica 2012 and Achema 2012 Vote Thermo Fisher SOLA Solid Phase Extraction Cartridges and Plates as Category Favorite
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its SOLA Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) cartridges and plates have won the GIT Innovation Award 2012 in Catergory D. The G.I.T InnovationsAward honors innovative new products and solutions for laboratory and process technology... Read MoreTecan and Siloam Biosciences co-market new ELISA systemNov 13, 2012
Tecan and Siloam Biosciences Inc. announce their intent to co-market a new automated low volume, high sensitivity microfluidic ELISA
The system is based on Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling technology and the Siloam Biosciences’ OptiMax™ microplate. It offers rapid, sensitive and specific chemifluorescence-based ELISA procedures using exceedingly small sample volumes. The speed, sensitivity and small sample requirements are achieved as a result of the unique microfluidic design of the Optimiser™ technology. All reactions, including analyte capture and detection, occur within an ~5 μl microfluidic reaction chamber...
Read MoreQuotient Bioresearch looks to new horizons at the 5th EBF Open SymposiumNov 13, 2012
Quotient Bioresearch is preparing to head to Barcelona to deliver five presentations and present two posters at the prestigious European Bioanalysis Forum (EBF) Open Symposium, taking place on November 14th to 16th
With the recent £1.5m expansion to its bioanalytical facility in Cambridgeshire, UK, the forthcoming EBF Symposium provides a perfect opportunity for Quotient scientists to exchange ideas with peers in the broader bioanalytical community...
Read MoreBioCity Nottingham celebrates 10 years of life science business incubationNov 12, 2012
Widely regarded as Europe’s busiest bio science business incubator, BioCity Nottingham is ten years old this November When Boots/BASF vacated their research and development facility in 2002 around 500 highly-specialised scientific jobs were lost
Now BioCity, in the newly-formed Creative Quarter of Nottingham, provides a base for 74 early-stage and growing life science companies. These firms have access to world-class laboratory and office facilities, business advice, networking events, meeting facilities and even social clubs. Nearly 700 jobs have been created by BioCity companies, making this one of the fastest-growing business incubators in the UK...
Read MoreLinkam Scientific Instruments reports on the use of their warm stages in UK fertility laboratories to assess sperm viabilityNov 9, 2012
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been chosen as suppliers of warm stages to a number of laboratories in the UK for sperm assessment
The concentration, motility and morphology of sperm are universal indicators of fertility- regardless of whether the male is human or an animal. Fertility is a big health issue within the UK: about 25% of couples are affected by fertility problems, with around 35% of men sub-fertile and 2% infertile. Many NHS hospitals and private labs offer fertility testing to couples and for men that means assessment of a semen sample.
Read MoreOcean Thin Films Announces Multispectral Imaging Research Grant Program Nov 9, 2012
Academic, industry professionals can use free or subsidized SpectroCam for data collection
Ocean Thin Films is calling for grant proposals featuring multispectral imaging applications that would utilize the SpectroCam™ platform. SpectroCam is an imaging system that integrates scientific-grade sensors with eight filters to produce multispectral images. This grant gives participants the unique opportunity to add a high-end instrument to their lab at little or no cost...
Read MoreThe British Laboratory Managers Association launched at Lab InnovationsNov 7, 2012
A new organisation called the British Laboratory Managers Association is being launched by GAMBICA at LAB INNOVATIONS
Modern laboratory managers face a unique blend of technical and people management challenges. Many have climbed the technical ranks and are well positioned to address the technical challenges but don’t have or have had very little formal training in management skills, especially when they start managing a laboratory...
Read MoreExtracellular Matrix Combinatorial Library LaunchedNov 6, 2012
AMSBIO is a leading supplier of innovative tools for growing cells in a physiologically relevant manner. A unique Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Mimetic Library for engineering surfaces to direct receptor binding specificity, signalling and growing cells in 3D has been launched
Containing nearly 300 biomimetics of Fibronectin, Vitronectin, Laminin and Collagen, for coating plates or creating 3D culture scaffolds, AMSBIO's new ECM combinatorial library provides a powerful tool for identifying the cellular adhesion profile of your cell line or tumour against the widest commercially available collection of cell surface receptor binding peptide motifs...
Read MoreEppendorf Young Investigator Award 2013Nov 6, 2012
Call for entries!
Up until 15 January 2013, young researchers working in Europe and younger than 35 years are invited to apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious prize was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts... Read MoreDrugs of abuse screening benefits from LoGiCal reference materialsNov 6, 2012
Unilabs AB in Eskilstuna, Sweden, is taking advantage of LGC Standards’ LoGiCal reference materials to perform clinical analyses and screen for drugs of abuse, as chemist Elin Widing explained
“Unilabs is a privately owned clinical laboratory that analyses company healthcare and workplace samples, as well as samples from drug abuse centres. Samples are received from across Sweden and screened either qualitatively or semi-quantitatively using immunological assays, followed by quantitative for verification. Ready-to-use LoGiCal solutions are ideal for our purposes; it is so much simpler than weighing powders for in¬house preparation of reference materials.”...
Read MoreNIST research highlights promise of AFM-IR for quantitative nanoscale chemical analysisNov 5, 2012
Anasys Instruments announces a new paper authored by Dr Andrea Centrone and his colleagues at NIST published recently in Small, a leading publication which focuses on the nano and micro worlds
Dr Centrone's team reported on experiments that carefully studied the AFM-IR signal strength versus sample thickness. The experiments showed that the AFM-IR signal increases linearly with thickness for samples up to 1µm thick. This observed linearity may pave the way for quantitative chemical analysis at the nanoscale...
Read MoreTAP Biosystems Announces Webinar on Innovations in 3D cell cultureNov 5, 2012
Live event Discusses Applications in Neuroscience and Presents RAFT 3D Cell Culture System
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced that it will be hosting two live webinar sessions on Thursday November 8th on ‘Innovations in 3D cell culture’. These webinars are essential for all life-scientists who are assessing strategies for making their cell-based assays more physiologically relevant...
Read MoreTecan and TAP Biosystems to automate RAFT 3D cell culturing on the Freedom EVONov 1, 2012
Tecan and TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems, have announced a co¬-marketing agreement to further expand the automated 3D cell culture capabilities of the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform
Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D cell cultures in a 96-well, SBS-¬format. The RAFT 3D cell culture system uses biologically relevant concentrations of collagen matrix to ensure cells grow and proliferate in an environment closely resembling the native tissue...
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Malvern Instruments’ detector range for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) now includes the Zetasizer µV, a versatile size and molecular weight detector that can be added to any system to boost experimental productivity by maximizing information flow from a single experiment. Complementary to Malvern’s established Viscotek range, which includes detectors for concentration, intrinsic viscosity and absolute molecular weight measurement, the Zetasizer µV is a dual integrated light scattering system with particular value for protein characterization...
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today that its ACQUITY UPLC® System is now available with online solid phase extraction (SPE) technology from Spark Holland BV (Emmen, The Netherlands). The Waters® ACQUITY UPLC Online SPE Manager is based on a special version of the highly-popular Spark Holland online SPE technology, which Spark Holland is making available to Waters exclusively. The Waters ACQUITY UPLC Online SPE Manager is now available as an integrated Waters UPLC/MS system or as an upgrade to installed ACQUITY UPLC Systems...
The company, which makes diagnostic test kits for use in the agri-food industry, is looking for another two research and development scientists to add to its complement of 15 industry-leading specialists, as well as up to three production operatives to reinforce the production unit...
TOC would not work in this waste stream as it does not provide the correct information to assess how lethal the waste really is to health. Conventional methods of assessing water quality utilising Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) using Dichromate can take up to 3 hours to obtain the results. In response to the urgency for improved detection times within the Steel Mill, Mantech Inc, have successfully installed a PeCOD system into the mill...
The Surface and Nanoanalysis research group studies the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and nanomaterials, including biological samples and electronic components. NPL supplies a range of measurement services, reference materials, and software, which underpin quantitative surface analysis. Among the measurement services offered is nanoparticle sizing for which a suite of particle sizing techniques are employed...
The advanced technology of the VS120 creates a “virtual slide”, a high resolution image of the complete specimen that can be electronically stored on a central server for simultaneous viewing anywhere in the world, at a range of magnifications. Awards were obtained in the fields of Colour and Precision, Fluorescence 20X, and Fluorescence 40X. Exhibiting unsurpassed performance in fluorescence microscopy, combined with...
The clinical Proof of Principle was concluded in India with a cohort of 44 patients. Results demonstrate that the T-Track® TB test was able to detect active TB in in 10 of 12 non-treated patients. Besides its high sensitivity and specificity the T-Track® TB test also demonstrated a remarkably short turnaround time of 2 days which compares favorably to currently used classical detection methods...
Dr. Cohen uses the response of groups of visual neurons to estimate which part of the visual world an animal is paying attention to at any given moment. Her approach provides a new way to study how our mental activity affects what we perceive and how cognitive processes such as attention are controlled...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its SOLA Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) cartridges and plates have won the GIT Innovation Award 2012 in Catergory D. The G.I.T InnovationsAward honors innovative new products and solutions for laboratory and process technology...
The system is based on Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling technology and the Siloam Biosciences’ OptiMax™ microplate. It offers rapid, sensitive and specific chemifluorescence-based ELISA procedures using exceedingly small sample volumes. The speed, sensitivity and small sample requirements are achieved as a result of the unique microfluidic design of the Optimiser™ technology. All reactions, including analyte capture and detection, occur within an ~5 μl microfluidic reaction chamber...
With the recent £1.5m expansion to its bioanalytical facility in Cambridgeshire, UK, the forthcoming EBF Symposium provides a perfect opportunity for Quotient scientists to exchange ideas with peers in the broader bioanalytical community...
Now BioCity, in the newly-formed Creative Quarter of Nottingham, provides a base for 74 early-stage and growing life science companies. These firms have access to world-class laboratory and office facilities, business advice, networking events, meeting facilities and even social clubs. Nearly 700 jobs have been created by BioCity companies, making this one of the fastest-growing business incubators in the UK...
The concentration, motility and morphology of sperm are universal indicators of fertility- regardless of whether the male is human or an animal. Fertility is a big health issue within the UK: about 25% of couples are affected by fertility problems, with around 35% of men sub-fertile and 2% infertile. Many NHS hospitals and private labs offer fertility testing to couples and for men that means assessment of a semen sample.
Ocean Thin Films is calling for grant proposals featuring multispectral imaging applications that would utilize the SpectroCam™ platform. SpectroCam is an imaging system that integrates scientific-grade sensors with eight filters to produce multispectral images. This grant gives participants the unique opportunity to add a high-end instrument to their lab at little or no cost...
Modern laboratory managers face a unique blend of technical and people management challenges. Many have climbed the technical ranks and are well positioned to address the technical challenges but don’t have or have had very little formal training in management skills, especially when they start managing a laboratory...
Containing nearly 300 biomimetics of Fibronectin, Vitronectin, Laminin and Collagen, for coating plates or creating 3D culture scaffolds, AMSBIO's new ECM combinatorial library provides a powerful tool for identifying the cellular adhesion profile of your cell line or tumour against the widest commercially available collection of cell surface receptor binding peptide motifs...
Up until 15 January 2013, young researchers working in Europe and younger than 35 years are invited to apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious prize was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts...
“Unilabs is a privately owned clinical laboratory that analyses company healthcare and workplace samples, as well as samples from drug abuse centres. Samples are received from across Sweden and screened either qualitatively or semi-quantitatively using immunological assays, followed by quantitative for verification. Ready-to-use LoGiCal solutions are ideal for our purposes; it is so much simpler than weighing powders for in¬house preparation of reference materials.”...
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced that it will be hosting two live webinar sessions on Thursday November 8th on ‘Innovations in 3D cell culture’. These webinars are essential for all life-scientists who are assessing strategies for making their cell-based assays more physiologically relevant...
Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D cell cultures in a 96-well, SBS-¬format. The RAFT 3D cell culture system uses biologically relevant concentrations of collagen matrix to ensure cells grow and proliferate in an environment closely resembling the native tissue...