Immunologists in the Immune Sensing and Signaling Dynamics Group | ImmunoHUB at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) in Porto, Portugal, are using INTEGRA Biosciences laboratory tools to help further our understanding of the human immune system. The research team is using the VACUSAFE safe aspiration system and PIPETBOY acu 2 pipet controller to enhance their investigations into the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) in responding to bacterial infections and tumor growth...
Leading centrifugal separation solutions provider Alfa Laval has forged a collaborative partnership with Ireland’s National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) to enhance and expand the Institute’s cell separation training solutions for the biopharma manufacturing industry. Under this collaboration, Alfa Laval has made a CultureOne Primo Separator, the company’s cutting-edge single-use disc stack centrifuge, available to NIBRT’s research and training facilities...
Veolia Water Technologies has designed and installed a bespoke centralised water purification system in a newly refurbished laboratory for a Hertfordshire-based biopharma company. The bespoke solution, utilising existing CENTRA™ reverse osmosis technology, provides a higher make-up rate of purified water to fulfil the company’s requirements...
Touchlight, a biotechnology CDMO pioneering enzymatic DNA production has been awarded a second grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to continue work with Professor Shelley Minteer's research group, Missouri University of Science and Technology, to further propel the development of DNA-enabled biobatteries. Biobatteries use enzymes to generate electricity from the breakdown of complex fuels, such as carbohydrates, fatty acids and alcohols...
Veolia Water Technologies recently provided lab purification solutions to facilitate the life-saving work carried out by a prestigious University-based research institution. Through early engagement, the Veolia Water Technologies team were able to integrate their solutions within a highly bespoke lab design.Upgrading laboratory facilities in a cutting-edge research institution, which is dedicated to advancing the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease, unsurprisingly comes with complex considerations and rigorous requirements...
When the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States of America compared their steam-jacketed autoclaves and Priorclave’s non-jacketed laboratory autoclaves side-by-side, they found that jacketed autoclaves used in excess of thirty times more water – with no corresponding benefit. In field tests, Priorclave's laboratory autoclaves operating costs have been documented at more than 80% lower than same-capacity jacketed autoclaves...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces its co-marketing collaboration with Roche to deliver a streamlined method for Illumina-compatible Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) library preparation. By leveraging SPT Labtech’s all-in-one automated liquid handling platform, firefly®, this collaboration offers genomics researchers fully automated workflows..
Veolia Water Technologies and Miele Professional and have collaborated to enhance a major research facility’s glassware washer capacity. Miele Professional’s PLW8617 large-capacity glassware dishwasher paired with Veolia's CENTRA™ centralised RO system combined to create a solution that prioritises a high delivery date and robust redundancy to minimise downtime...
With the Scientific Challenge, RETSCH, a leading manufacturer of laboratory mills and sieve shakers for the preparation and characterization of solids, has invited scientists from all over the world to present their research projects in areas such as recycling, green chemistry, materials development or life sciences. The only condition: ball mills are used in the project and the research is aimed at improving environmental and living conditions...
NovAliX, a specialized Contract Research Organization dedicated to enabling drug discovery, announces its long-term strategic partnership with the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen. Through this collaboration, NovAliX and the MPI aim to make the vital process of translating scientific research and academic insights into real therapies more efficient...
INTEGRA Biosciences awarded 3 PIPETBOY acu 2 serological pipette controllers to the 2023 iGEM Competition team at Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU_BS) to aid their pioneering research into lithium therapy toxicity testing. The pipette controllers enhanced the team’s pipetting precision and streamlined the multiple liquid handling tasks involved in this exciting project, helping them to achieve their project goals...
Scientists have developed a water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that makes fingerprints visible in just a few seconds, making forensic investigations safer, easier and quicker. Latent fingerprints (LFPs) are invisible prints formed by sweat or oil left on an object after it’s been touched. Traditional forensic methods for detecting fingerprints either use toxic powders that can harm DNA evidence, or environmentally damaging petrochemical solvents...
Autoscribe Informatics (A Xybion Company) took the opportunity in a recent webinar to discuss the much-misunderstood subject of cloud hosted laboratory software solutions. This webinar gives senior managers in organizations with laboratories, the knowledge to ask the tough questions and uncover which is the right choice for them. Developed using Autoscribe’s many years of industry experience, it provides a balanced view of the benefits and limitations of on-premise and cloud solutions...
This practical, step-by-step online educational program is designed to empower chemists and researchers in enhancing their chromatography skills. Lab managers, burdened by tight schedules and limited resources, now have a game-changing training source in PhenoAcademy. Tailored for new graduates bridging the gap between theory and real-world application, and for career-focused researchers seeking advancement, PhenoAcademy offers content that is highly beneficial to their endeavors...
UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd. has demonstrated a new protocol for automated bead-based high molecular weight HMW-DNA extraction with its proprietary Fire Monkey chemistry. Under a collaboration with LGC Biosearch TechnologiesTM, RevoluGen has coupled its Fire Monkey chemistry with LGC magnetic beads and LGC oKtopureTM liquid handling robot to produce ready to use HMW-DNA.
INTEGRA Biosciences’ selection of liquid handling tools provides scientists worldwide with the solutions they need to improve workflow accuracy. The company offers a variety of manual, electronic and fully automated pipettes, which are designed to address the many pipetting challenges lab technicians encounter daily. This can help to improve the reliability of data while increasing throughput in a wide range of applications...
A new £13 million Centre of Excellence in water-based health monitoring is set to be established at the University of Bath following a major funding award. The Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection, WBE@Bath, will develop a public health surveillance system to detect outbreaks of diseases by testing water systems for traces of pathogens or other biomarkers at a community level...
A University of Bath spinout company dedicated to making vaccines safer has been awarded a highly competitive UK government contract through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). The aim of the two-year contract, valued at around £1.7million, is to develop the world's first thermally stable mRNA vaccine. In its work at the university, the team behind Ensilicated Technologies Ltd (EnsiliTech) has developed ensilication – a technology that allows vaccines and other biological materials to be transported and stored without the use of refrigeration...
Biotech Fluidics reports on the development of a custom 8-channel DEGASi® Plus inline degassing system for AutoSyn AB - a start-up company specializing in flow chemistry and continuous processing systems. Existing off-the-shelf product solutions do not always cover user needs. For a critical customer application, the degassing performance offered by the AutoSyn advanced flow chemistry system was not sufficient...
A team of UK scientists has got a step closer to making several different types of plastic much easier to recycle, using a method that could be applied to a whole range of difficult-to-recycle polymers, including rubbers, gels and adhesives. Thermoplastics and thermosets are two types of plastics that both consist of long chains of molecules called polymers but behave differently when heated...
Antrum Biotech, a healthcare innovations company dedicated to developing rapid diagnostic tools for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), has integrated serological pipette controllers from INTEGRA Biosciences into its laboratories. The pipetting aids have become an invaluable asset in the company’s liquid handling workflows, streamlining the commercialization of a variety of innovative healthcare products that will have a lasting impact on how we diagnose and control disease...
Using technology originally designed for defect detection in electronics manufacturing, the newly built “ExA-SPIM” microscope is showing scientists the mouse brain as it’s never been seen before. ExA-SPIM, developed by a team at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, a division of the Allen Institute, is a one-of-a-kind microscope built for capturing images of the entire mouse brain at incredible resolution. The images coming off the scope allow the scientists to view individual neurons and their wiring in the context of the entire mouse brain...
Immunologists in the Immune Sensing and Signaling Dynamics Group | ImmunoHUB at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) in Porto, Portugal, are using INTEGRA Biosciences laboratory tools to help further our understanding of the human immune system. The research team is using the VACUSAFE safe aspiration system and PIPETBOY acu 2 pipet controller to enhance their investigations into the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) in responding to bacterial infections and tumor growth...
Leading centrifugal separation solutions provider Alfa Laval has forged a collaborative partnership with Ireland’s National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) to enhance and expand the Institute’s cell separation training solutions for the biopharma manufacturing industry. Under this collaboration, Alfa Laval has made a CultureOne Primo Separator, the company’s cutting-edge single-use disc stack centrifuge, available to NIBRT’s research and training facilities...
Veolia Water Technologies has designed and installed a bespoke centralised water purification system in a newly refurbished laboratory for a Hertfordshire-based biopharma company. The bespoke solution, utilising existing CENTRA™ reverse osmosis technology, provides a higher make-up rate of purified water to fulfil the company’s requirements...
Touchlight, a biotechnology CDMO pioneering enzymatic DNA production has been awarded a second grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to continue work with Professor Shelley Minteer's research group, Missouri University of Science and Technology, to further propel the development of DNA-enabled biobatteries. Biobatteries use enzymes to generate electricity from the breakdown of complex fuels, such as carbohydrates, fatty acids and alcohols...
Veolia Water Technologies recently provided lab purification solutions to facilitate the life-saving work carried out by a prestigious University-based research institution. Through early engagement, the Veolia Water Technologies team were able to integrate their solutions within a highly bespoke lab design.Upgrading laboratory facilities in a cutting-edge research institution, which is dedicated to advancing the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease, unsurprisingly comes with complex considerations and rigorous requirements...
When the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States of America compared their steam-jacketed autoclaves and Priorclave’s non-jacketed laboratory autoclaves side-by-side, they found that jacketed autoclaves used in excess of thirty times more water – with no corresponding benefit. In field tests, Priorclave's laboratory autoclaves operating costs have been documented at more than 80% lower than same-capacity jacketed autoclaves...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces its co-marketing collaboration with Roche to deliver a streamlined method for Illumina-compatible Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) library preparation. By leveraging SPT Labtech’s all-in-one automated liquid handling platform, firefly®, this collaboration offers genomics researchers fully automated workflows..
Veolia Water Technologies and Miele Professional and have collaborated to enhance a major research facility’s glassware washer capacity. Miele Professional’s PLW8617 large-capacity glassware dishwasher paired with Veolia's CENTRA™ centralised RO system combined to create a solution that prioritises a high delivery date and robust redundancy to minimise downtime...
With the Scientific Challenge, RETSCH, a leading manufacturer of laboratory mills and sieve shakers for the preparation and characterization of solids, has invited scientists from all over the world to present their research projects in areas such as recycling, green chemistry, materials development or life sciences. The only condition: ball mills are used in the project and the research is aimed at improving environmental and living conditions...
NovAliX, a specialized Contract Research Organization dedicated to enabling drug discovery, announces its long-term strategic partnership with the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen. Through this collaboration, NovAliX and the MPI aim to make the vital process of translating scientific research and academic insights into real therapies more efficient...
INTEGRA Biosciences awarded 3 PIPETBOY acu 2 serological pipette controllers to the 2023 iGEM Competition team at Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU_BS) to aid their pioneering research into lithium therapy toxicity testing. The pipette controllers enhanced the team’s pipetting precision and streamlined the multiple liquid handling tasks involved in this exciting project, helping them to achieve their project goals...
Scientists have developed a water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that makes fingerprints visible in just a few seconds, making forensic investigations safer, easier and quicker. Latent fingerprints (LFPs) are invisible prints formed by sweat or oil left on an object after it’s been touched. Traditional forensic methods for detecting fingerprints either use toxic powders that can harm DNA evidence, or environmentally damaging petrochemical solvents...
Autoscribe Informatics (A Xybion Company) took the opportunity in a recent webinar to discuss the much-misunderstood subject of cloud hosted laboratory software solutions. This webinar gives senior managers in organizations with laboratories, the knowledge to ask the tough questions and uncover which is the right choice for them. Developed using Autoscribe’s many years of industry experience, it provides a balanced view of the benefits and limitations of on-premise and cloud solutions...
This practical, step-by-step online educational program is designed to empower chemists and researchers in enhancing their chromatography skills. Lab managers, burdened by tight schedules and limited resources, now have a game-changing training source in PhenoAcademy. Tailored for new graduates bridging the gap between theory and real-world application, and for career-focused researchers seeking advancement, PhenoAcademy offers content that is highly beneficial to their endeavors...
UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd. has demonstrated a new protocol for automated bead-based high molecular weight HMW-DNA extraction with its proprietary Fire Monkey chemistry. Under a collaboration with LGC Biosearch TechnologiesTM, RevoluGen has coupled its Fire Monkey chemistry with LGC magnetic beads and LGC oKtopureTM liquid handling robot to produce ready to use HMW-DNA.
INTEGRA Biosciences’ selection of liquid handling tools provides scientists worldwide with the solutions they need to improve workflow accuracy. The company offers a variety of manual, electronic and fully automated pipettes, which are designed to address the many pipetting challenges lab technicians encounter daily. This can help to improve the reliability of data while increasing throughput in a wide range of applications...
A new £13 million Centre of Excellence in water-based health monitoring is set to be established at the University of Bath following a major funding award. The Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection, WBE@Bath, will develop a public health surveillance system to detect outbreaks of diseases by testing water systems for traces of pathogens or other biomarkers at a community level...
A University of Bath spinout company dedicated to making vaccines safer has been awarded a highly competitive UK government contract through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). The aim of the two-year contract, valued at around £1.7million, is to develop the world's first thermally stable mRNA vaccine. In its work at the university, the team behind Ensilicated Technologies Ltd (EnsiliTech) has developed ensilication – a technology that allows vaccines and other biological materials to be transported and stored without the use of refrigeration...
Biotech Fluidics reports on the development of a custom 8-channel DEGASi® Plus inline degassing system for AutoSyn AB - a start-up company specializing in flow chemistry and continuous processing systems. Existing off-the-shelf product solutions do not always cover user needs. For a critical customer application, the degassing performance offered by the AutoSyn advanced flow chemistry system was not sufficient...
A team of UK scientists has got a step closer to making several different types of plastic much easier to recycle, using a method that could be applied to a whole range of difficult-to-recycle polymers, including rubbers, gels and adhesives. Thermoplastics and thermosets are two types of plastics that both consist of long chains of molecules called polymers but behave differently when heated...
Antrum Biotech, a healthcare innovations company dedicated to developing rapid diagnostic tools for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), has integrated serological pipette controllers from INTEGRA Biosciences into its laboratories. The pipetting aids have become an invaluable asset in the company’s liquid handling workflows, streamlining the commercialization of a variety of innovative healthcare products that will have a lasting impact on how we diagnose and control disease...
Using technology originally designed for defect detection in electronics manufacturing, the newly built “ExA-SPIM” microscope is showing scientists the mouse brain as it’s never been seen before. ExA-SPIM, developed by a team at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, a division of the Allen Institute, is a one-of-a-kind microscope built for capturing images of the entire mouse brain at incredible resolution. The images coming off the scope allow the scientists to view individual neurons and their wiring in the context of the entire mouse brain...