In response to laboratories’ need to minimize in-person contact during the pandemic, Thermo Fisher Scientific now offers its essential Thermo Scientific Dionex Easion and Thermo Scientific Dionex Aquion Ion Chromatography (IC) systems through easy, online ordering. The newly introduced online purchase option makes it possible for environmental and academic laboratories to order the complete Dionex Easion and Dionex Aquion IC product packages — including anion or cation column sets...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), the UK’s largest independent supplier of scientific products are pleased to announce further consolidation of their relationship with Merck through their appointment as an official distributor for the Merck – Supelco® Range of Analytical Products. Comprising of over 500,000 products, the comprehensive range from SLS provides a solution for most applications....
Markes International Ltd has announced the appointment of Dr Klaus-Peter Sandow as General Manager of Markes International GmbH. Sandow joins Markes on the back of a highly successful, two-decade-long career within the analytical chemistry world, encompassing both technical and commercial roles in global, blue chip electronic technology companies....
FairJourney Biologics (FJB) and IONTAS, leaders in the discovery and optimization of antibodies, have announced the launch of a new protein sciences division, Flow Eighteen38. The new business unit has been introduced to accelerate customer antibody research projects, by delivering reagents, purified proteins, and characterization data on antibody panels and leads....
BioTek Instruments, an Agilent Technologies, Inc., company, announces that it was granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the Automated Media Exchange (AMX) module for the MultiFlo FXMulti-Mode Dispenser. In cell biology workflows, the automated MultiFlo FX with AMX module enables hands-free, gentle, and highly consistent media exchanges and washing in 96- and 384-well microplate formats without disturbing sensitive cells....
Illumina, Inc. has selected nine new genomics companies to join the second global funding cycle of Illumina Accelerator in the U.S. and UK. The global company creation engine, focused on partnering with entrepreneurs to build breakthrough genomics startups, invested in four companies for the second funding cycle of Illumina Accelerator Cambridge, UK and five companies for the twelfth funding cycle of Illumina Accelerator San Francisco Bay Area....
Testa Analytical Solutions e.K reports on the development and OEM supply of a novel combination refractive index / viscometry detector for Brookhaven Instruments Corporation (Holtsville, NY, USA). Polymer and plastics manufacturers offer very many different grades of commodity polymers such as poly(vinyl chloride), polyethylenes and polystyrenes. The Molecular Weight Distribution (MWD) of such polymers is a key item of information in tailoring their implementation for different end uses...
EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that it has expanded into new larger manufacturing facilities at Llandough Trading Estate, Cardiff, to increase production of PrimeStore® MTM viral transport media, a key component for the COVID-19 testing regime. The new facility is over 600 sq. metres, representing a 100% increase in manufacturing area. This enables EKF to fill 36,000 PrimeStore MTM tubes daily and meet growing UK and EU demand for this...
Ahead of the upcoming missions to search for evidence of life on Mars, researchers used Linkam’s HFS600 stage in temperature-controlled experiments to study the formation of mixed sulfates – a key indicator of biological processes on the red planet. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will land on Mars on 18 February 2021, to search for signs of life and explore the planet's geology....
Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, has announced a partnership with HighRes Biosolutions (HighRes), a company that designs and builds innovative robotic systems and laboratory devices. The collaboration combines the high-throughput laboratory automation capability of Dotmatics’ electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) with HighRes’ Cellario instrument control software enabling R&D scientists to plan experiments...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, and Mologic Ltd has announced that they have entered into a commercial partnership to accelerate to market Avacta’s AffiDX™ SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow rapid antigen test. Avacta will also support antigen testing in low and middle income countries by providing access to Avacta’s spike antigen test through Mologic....
The cost of library preparation is one of the biggest obstacles to large next-generation sequencing (NGS) studies, slowing down the pace of insights from infectious disease surveillance, cancer research and beyond. At the Festival of Genomics, SPT Labtech announced an initiative with Thermo Fisher Scientific to co-market solutions that will enable variant detection at a fraction of the cost....
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, announces that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Bruker Corporation (Billerica, MA) (NASDAQ: BRKR, “Bruker”) to evaluate the Affimer-based, bead assisted mass spectrometry (“BAMS™”) SARS-CoV-2 assay, that the Group has developed with Adeptrix Inc. (Beverley, MA) (“Adeptrix”)...
Apricot Designs has established a 30-year track record supporting increasingly complex and evolving laboratory research requirements with the design and manufacture of multichannel micro-volume pipettors and sample preparation devices. The acquisition allows SPT Labtech to strategically expand its range of liquid handling technologies as part of its broader portfolio of innovative automation solutions for drug discovery, structural biology, genomics, cryo-EM, sample management and biobanking.
Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2021 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. This annual international research prize of US$25,000 is awarded to young scientists for their outstanding contributions to neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. Researchers who are not older than 35 years are invited to apply by June 15, 2021....
"Transforming R&D: Digital innovation in the pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries," a new report by MIT Technology Review Insights, explores how leading pharmaceuticals and chemicals companies are using artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other digital technologies to transform scientific research and enhance R&D performance. The report, produced in association with PerkinElmer Informatics, is based on in-depth interviews with R&D executives at organizations including Novartis, Roche, Merck, BASF, and Syngenta....
On Tuesday January 12th, in Nature Communications, strong preclinical results for a new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the team of Prof. Salanti from University of Copenhagen, ExpreS2ion Biotech, its joint venture partner AdaptVac and the PREVENT-nCoV consortium, was published. Based on these results, a clinical trial application (CTA) for a clinical Phase I/II study for the COVID-19 vaccine has been submitted....
Compact Airo Sensors from ViGIE were chosen by Pfizer to monitor the company’s facilities during Covid vaccine production, and to monitor temperatures for the critical transportation of the vaccine between Pfizer factories, distribution centres and hubs worldwide. It is widely known that the new vaccine, first approved for widespread use in the UK, must be kept at a very low temperature of minus 70°C during storage and shipping....
Hamilton Company announces that it is joining its high-throughput automated workflow ingenuity with Artel’s performance testing expertise so that users may be assured of robust and continuous automated liquid handling workstation performance integrity. As part of the collaboration, Artel and Hamilton will co-develop standard automated scripts for Hamilton’s automated workstations...
The Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau AG continues its international expansion. In early November 2020, Huber opened a new support and service center based in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France. The new subsidiary will serve end users and partners in France under the name "Huber France Services". Located in a modern industrial park near Straßbourg, Huber France Services corporate building includes office and workshop area for repairs, as well as service and storage rooms....
Unitemp, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement to distribute the impressive range of Labcold scientific and medical refrigeration, laboratory & pharmacy fridges & freezers and blood storage products. Including fantastic build quality and a wide array of features the Labcold brand is a preferred choice for the NHS and professional medical and scientific establishments looking to accurately maintain temperatures and log results....
Porvair Sciences provides a complete design and manufacture service to help customers develop new and innovative custom microplates for specialist applications. Porvair Sciences is widely recognised as a leader in the field of moulding ultra-pure plastic materials such as polystyrene, polypropylene and polycarbonate. With decades of experience and expertise in ultrasonic welding, surface treatment techniques, co-sintering of polymers / silicas, specialist assembly and a strong understanding of analytical applications...