Biotechnology education company Edvotek is dedicated to bringing high technology sciences to the classroom, helping future scientists to learn about the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry. The company uses INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes to produce training kits for teachers, helping them to share the latest exciting scientific developments with their students...
Specialty chemicals manufacturer FAR Chemical is using Matrix Gemini LIMS to improve the efficiency of its operations by significantly reducing the time taken to test and approve samples in the laboratory, the hold-times of products in the reactors have been cut and the efficiency of the entire operation improved. Based in Palm Bay, Florida, FAR Chemical is a leading manufacturer of complex specialty chemicals....
“Microplastics have invaded virtually every crevice on Earth” – a recent headline from a National Geographic article that highlights the global issue of the volume of microplastics in our environment. Microplastics are defined as small solid particles of less than 5 mm composed of polymers. Additionally, they may also contain additives, such as dyes, and impurities from manufacturing. They are either described as primary microplastics which are plastics intentionally made small (e.g. microbeads), or secondary microplastics...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Symphogen, an affiliate of and the antibody center of excellence within the international pharmaceutical company, Servier, announce the extension of a strategic collaboration to deliver industry-proven, innovative characterization and quality control workflows for the simplified analysis of complex therapeutic proteins to advance biopharmaceutical discovery and development....
UNION therapeutics A/S (UNION) announces expansion of the clinical pipeline with the addition of UNI91103 (intranasal niclosamide) to prevent COVID-19 and reduce the severity of the diseases among those already infected. Several high-risk patient groups do not respond well to vaccination suggesting a persistent need for alternative prophylactic measures. In response, UNION has expanded its clinical program for COVID-19 with a niclosamide based nasal spray...
The Granupack is helping many industries to understand better their powder behavior! A new instrument is now available in the Granutools products, the Granupack High Temperature which does everything the Granupack does but also enable you to control the temperature of the cell with precision (up to 200°C). You will be surprised to discover how even slight changes in temperature can affect the flowing properties of your powders...
HCS Pharma is a biotech start-up focused on in vitro preclinical R&D. They specialize in phenotypic screening of physiologically relevant 3D cell models that also consider the extracellular matrix (ECM). See how the team save time and money with automated High-Content Screening (HCS) and imaging approaches, in collaboration with Molecular Devices…
INTEGRA Biosciences’ VIAFILL reagent dispenser is the perfect complement to magnetic particle processors such as ThermoFisher’s KingFisher™ system, streamlining workflows for extraction and purification of nucleic acids. The VIAFILL enables rapid reagent preparation for automated extraction, and supports optimized dispensing of various solutions, such as viscous wash buffers and beads, or volatile liquids like ethanol....
Evaxion Biotech A/S has received funding from the Danish Innovation Fund to further develop their AI platform RAVEN to rapidly respond against future corona virus pandemics - from initial discovery to first in human trials in as little as 13 weeks. During those 13 weeks SB3000 intends to develop and validate a tailored μLOT® continuous manufacturing process for the vaccine at commercial scale. Being modular and easily transportable the μLOT® enabled production units can be deployed to sites across the world....
As more lab personnel work from home to practice social distancing, employees are using remote work IT platforms to communicate and stay productive. But this change in the way scientists and lab personnel work means labs must adapt their methods to fully leverage remote platforms. If you’re not sure where to start, this blog can help. Here are six tips to help you successfully implement remote microscopy...
After encouraging results obtained under named patient use in severe cases of COVID-19, F4 Pharma is now preparing clinical trials in several European centers with its substance FX06. There is emerging evidence that severe COVID-19 affects all organs through a systemic inflammation of the inner layer of the small blood vessels leading to increased permeability of the capillaries, which can finally result in multi-organ failure and death...
Sonic Healthcare UK’s Group Medical Director, Dr Rachael Liebmann, and Ann Hannah, Rapid Response Laboratories and Histology Manager, have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Dr Liebmann has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her services to pathology. Ann Hannah has been awarded a BEM (British Empire Medal) for her services to healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic....
ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property (IP) co-owned by Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, congratulates Emmanuelle on being awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Emmanuelle receives the award jointly with her colleague Dr. Jennifer Doudna....
With Ultimate Goal of Improving Virus Knowledge, Team Now Will Use its Optomechanical System to Design a Prototype for Airborne Virus Analysis. Targeting analysis of biological particles with large aspect ratios, such as viruses or fibrils, CEA scientists have demonstrated a breakthrough in single-particle mass spectrometry (MS) that could fast track the detection of viral particles in hospitals, offices, airplanes and other public places....
ILC Therapeutics, a Scottish biotech company, has announced that its unique synthetic Interferon called Alfacyte™ is fifteen to twenty times more effective at preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) in cell culture than other commercially-available Interferons such as Interferon alpha 2 and Interferon beta 1a. COVID-19 tries to slow down the body’s innate Interferon response to viral infection and Alfacyte™ is designed to help accelerate this response and prevent disease progression....
Metabolic phenotyping using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has been applied to the characterization of the metabolic effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on human blood plasma. Metabolomic analysis was used to quantify key lipid and protein components of blood samples collected from...
Cobra Biologics (Cobra), part of the Cognate BioServices family, an international CDMO manufacturer of biological materials and pharmaceuticals, and Scancell Holdings plc (Scancell), the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease, today announced that they have entered into a collaboration for Cobra to manufacture Scancell’s COVID-19 vaccine....
The American scientist Christopher Zimmerman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, USA has won the 2020 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work on the neural circuits that govern thirst and drinking behavior. Zimmerman discovered that sensory signals originating throughout the body come together within individual neurons in the brain to produce the sense of thirst....
Phase 3 clinical trials are underway for COVID-19 vaccines, some of which call for an ultra-low freezer for storage and transport. Examples described in a September Wall Street Journal article notes the unusually cold storage temperatures – as low as -80?C – required. Covid-19 vaccine candidates are one of many applications for ultra-low freezers. This post provides you with info on when and how to specify one of these units
C4Diagnostics, Bertin Technologies, and Enalees announce the launch of their clinical trial of BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans, a diagnostic test for Covid-19, developed jointly with Pasteur Institute. The BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans test has been submitted to the authorities in accordance with French regulations, the detection process has been validated and a clinical trial has been launched by the consortium in order to obtain CE-IVD marking by the end of September...
From October 1, 2020, until January 15, 2021, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe can apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious 20,000 EUR prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts....
Porvair Sciences reports on testing that demonstrates how its hydrophilic Vyon® porous plastics exhibit outstanding performance in drug discovery applications due to the high hydrophilic void volume conversion of the materials’ pore structure after a special treatment process. Vyon® manufactured from HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and & UHMWPE (Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene) is naturally hydrophobic...
Biotechnology education company Edvotek is dedicated to bringing high technology sciences to the classroom, helping future scientists to learn about the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry. The company uses INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes to produce training kits for teachers, helping them to share the latest exciting scientific developments with their students...
Specialty chemicals manufacturer FAR Chemical is using Matrix Gemini LIMS to improve the efficiency of its operations by significantly reducing the time taken to test and approve samples in the laboratory, the hold-times of products in the reactors have been cut and the efficiency of the entire operation improved. Based in Palm Bay, Florida, FAR Chemical is a leading manufacturer of complex specialty chemicals....
“Microplastics have invaded virtually every crevice on Earth” – a recent headline from a National Geographic article that highlights the global issue of the volume of microplastics in our environment. Microplastics are defined as small solid particles of less than 5 mm composed of polymers. Additionally, they may also contain additives, such as dyes, and impurities from manufacturing. They are either described as primary microplastics which are plastics intentionally made small (e.g. microbeads), or secondary microplastics...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Symphogen, an affiliate of and the antibody center of excellence within the international pharmaceutical company, Servier, announce the extension of a strategic collaboration to deliver industry-proven, innovative characterization and quality control workflows for the simplified analysis of complex therapeutic proteins to advance biopharmaceutical discovery and development....
UNION therapeutics A/S (UNION) announces expansion of the clinical pipeline with the addition of UNI91103 (intranasal niclosamide) to prevent COVID-19 and reduce the severity of the diseases among those already infected. Several high-risk patient groups do not respond well to vaccination suggesting a persistent need for alternative prophylactic measures. In response, UNION has expanded its clinical program for COVID-19 with a niclosamide based nasal spray...
The Granupack is helping many industries to understand better their powder behavior! A new instrument is now available in the Granutools products, the Granupack High Temperature which does everything the Granupack does but also enable you to control the temperature of the cell with precision (up to 200°C). You will be surprised to discover how even slight changes in temperature can affect the flowing properties of your powders...
HCS Pharma is a biotech start-up focused on in vitro preclinical R&D. They specialize in phenotypic screening of physiologically relevant 3D cell models that also consider the extracellular matrix (ECM). See how the team save time and money with automated High-Content Screening (HCS) and imaging approaches, in collaboration with Molecular Devices…
INTEGRA Biosciences’ VIAFILL reagent dispenser is the perfect complement to magnetic particle processors such as ThermoFisher’s KingFisher™ system, streamlining workflows for extraction and purification of nucleic acids. The VIAFILL enables rapid reagent preparation for automated extraction, and supports optimized dispensing of various solutions, such as viscous wash buffers and beads, or volatile liquids like ethanol....
Evaxion Biotech A/S has received funding from the Danish Innovation Fund to further develop their AI platform RAVEN to rapidly respond against future corona virus pandemics - from initial discovery to first in human trials in as little as 13 weeks. During those 13 weeks SB3000 intends to develop and validate a tailored μLOT® continuous manufacturing process for the vaccine at commercial scale. Being modular and easily transportable the μLOT® enabled production units can be deployed to sites across the world....
As more lab personnel work from home to practice social distancing, employees are using remote work IT platforms to communicate and stay productive. But this change in the way scientists and lab personnel work means labs must adapt their methods to fully leverage remote platforms. If you’re not sure where to start, this blog can help. Here are six tips to help you successfully implement remote microscopy...
After encouraging results obtained under named patient use in severe cases of COVID-19, F4 Pharma is now preparing clinical trials in several European centers with its substance FX06. There is emerging evidence that severe COVID-19 affects all organs through a systemic inflammation of the inner layer of the small blood vessels leading to increased permeability of the capillaries, which can finally result in multi-organ failure and death...
Sonic Healthcare UK’s Group Medical Director, Dr Rachael Liebmann, and Ann Hannah, Rapid Response Laboratories and Histology Manager, have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Dr Liebmann has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her services to pathology. Ann Hannah has been awarded a BEM (British Empire Medal) for her services to healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic....
ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property (IP) co-owned by Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, congratulates Emmanuelle on being awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Emmanuelle receives the award jointly with her colleague Dr. Jennifer Doudna....
With Ultimate Goal of Improving Virus Knowledge, Team Now Will Use its Optomechanical System to Design a Prototype for Airborne Virus Analysis. Targeting analysis of biological particles with large aspect ratios, such as viruses or fibrils, CEA scientists have demonstrated a breakthrough in single-particle mass spectrometry (MS) that could fast track the detection of viral particles in hospitals, offices, airplanes and other public places....
ILC Therapeutics, a Scottish biotech company, has announced that its unique synthetic Interferon called Alfacyte™ is fifteen to twenty times more effective at preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) in cell culture than other commercially-available Interferons such as Interferon alpha 2 and Interferon beta 1a. COVID-19 tries to slow down the body’s innate Interferon response to viral infection and Alfacyte™ is designed to help accelerate this response and prevent disease progression....
Metabolic phenotyping using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has been applied to the characterization of the metabolic effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on human blood plasma. Metabolomic analysis was used to quantify key lipid and protein components of blood samples collected from...
Cobra Biologics (Cobra), part of the Cognate BioServices family, an international CDMO manufacturer of biological materials and pharmaceuticals, and Scancell Holdings plc (Scancell), the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease, today announced that they have entered into a collaboration for Cobra to manufacture Scancell’s COVID-19 vaccine....
The American scientist Christopher Zimmerman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, USA has won the 2020 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work on the neural circuits that govern thirst and drinking behavior. Zimmerman discovered that sensory signals originating throughout the body come together within individual neurons in the brain to produce the sense of thirst....
Phase 3 clinical trials are underway for COVID-19 vaccines, some of which call for an ultra-low freezer for storage and transport. Examples described in a September Wall Street Journal article notes the unusually cold storage temperatures – as low as -80?C – required. Covid-19 vaccine candidates are one of many applications for ultra-low freezers. This post provides you with info on when and how to specify one of these units
C4Diagnostics, Bertin Technologies, and Enalees announce the launch of their clinical trial of BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans, a diagnostic test for Covid-19, developed jointly with Pasteur Institute. The BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans test has been submitted to the authorities in accordance with French regulations, the detection process has been validated and a clinical trial has been launched by the consortium in order to obtain CE-IVD marking by the end of September...
From October 1, 2020, until January 15, 2021, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe can apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious 20,000 EUR prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts....
Porvair Sciences reports on testing that demonstrates how its hydrophilic Vyon® porous plastics exhibit outstanding performance in drug discovery applications due to the high hydrophilic void volume conversion of the materials’ pore structure after a special treatment process. Vyon® manufactured from HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and & UHMWPE (Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene) is naturally hydrophobic...