BioAscent has further enhanced its comprehensive service offering in integrated drug discovery and compound management, with a £1m/$1.3m investment in new instrumentation and equipment. The investment follows consistent growth, particularly over the last two years, with numerous successful projects delivered by BioAscent’s growing team of highly experienced drug discovery scientists....
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has today announced a new partnership with Start Codon, the life science and healthcare business accelerator. The collaboration aims to strengthen Start Codon’s support for life science and healthcare start-ups, with TTP providing technical consultancy and advice, leveraging TTP’s expertise to fast-track technology development and commercialisation. TTP will be delivering a virtual seminar on 17 September...
NanoImaging Services, Inc. (NIS), specialists in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), has announced they have partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to increase accessibility to cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) technology for the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology community. Having pioneered cryoEM for use in drug discovery and vaccine development applications, NIS brings its proven expertise and experience into this partnership, supported by its growing network of state-of-the-art facilities....
Register for this free-of-charge webinar. Rapid advances in analytical technologies, such as sample preparation, 1D and 2D chromatographic separation and detection by mass spectrometry, are resulting in a massive increase in the data we get from our analyses. This means we can gain ever increasing insights into our samples’ composition. But how can we make processing all this data simpler and more productive?...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced its first-ever instrument subscription program, designed to meet the needs of customers with dynamic businesses who want the latest technology backed by the industry’s best service and support. Agilent Instrument Subscriptions provides customers access to the technology they need when they need it, and with the flexibility and affordability...
If every lab achieved better sustainable practice, in the UK alone they would be saving signifiacnt costs every year, funding would go further, research could grow and the impact on the environment would be reduced. But it's not always easy to know where to start. That's why Lab Innovations has a big focus on lab sustainability. Register now so you can visit the Sustainable Lab on the show floor, and join the free-to-attend conference programmes...
iST Scientific, one of the UK’s leading laboratory equipment suppliers to the life sciences industry, announces that it has supplied 5.2 million specialist micro-plate sealing films, which are vital components in Covid-19 tests, across the globe. This figure equates to over half a billion individual wells being used throughout the PCR process internationally.
Bruker and Purity-IQ have joined forces to create a powerful new testing system for medical cannabis in Canada. The Purity-IQ Cannabis Fingerprint™ combines Bruker’s expertise in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based screening technology with Purity-IQ’s genomics capabilities to offer traceability and identity testing throughout the cannabis supply chain. There are currently no standardized regulations...
Following three years of successful live forensics events in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, Clarion Events is now ready to launch Forensics Middle East & Africa as a fully virtual conference 12-14 October, 2020. The event was previously due to take place in Cairo and will now be the first virtual event delivered by Clarion Defence & Security. The event will offer a much-needed space where the community of forensic practitioners - many of whom are frontliners in the current pandemic...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it will expand its state-of-the-art production facility in Frederick, Colorado, that develops and manufactures “oligos,” which are short DNA and RNA molecules used to create nucleic acid-based therapeutics. Oligos hold the potential to be used in developing treatments for cancer, COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, rare and infectious diseases, and other conditions....
IBMS Council delivers a position statement on the need for accreditation and registered staff in all laboratories doing COVID-19 testing. The national response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required an unprecedented increase in the UK’s capacity to provide timely and accurate testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) supports the UK government strategy to control the virus by increasing testing numbers and by implementing the test, track and trace programme....
Intravacc and the Celonic Group has announced that they have signed a research agreement to further design, develop and produce a Covid-19 vaccine based on an immunogenic Spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 combined with Intravacc’s prorietary Outer Membrane Vesicle (OMV) technology. In the beginning of March this year Intravacc started working on the development of four candidate coronavirus vaccines...
The Symposium Chairmen and Organizers of the 50th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2021-Duesseldorf) are delighted to announce the conference dates and details for the upcoming 2021 edition of the HPLC symposium series...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (“LSTM”) to clinically validate the rapid, saliva-based coronavirus antigen test that Avacta is developing with Cytiva. LSTM has been at the forefront of research into infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases since 1898....
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected to grow in the coming years. Here, Katie Gray, marketing manager at Lab Innovations 2020, the largest laboratory event in the UK, looks at why labs will need to become more adaptable....
Tecan is excited to announce an agreement with Thomas Scientific, a distributor of laboratory solutions and equipment, to support the sales of Tecan’s detection instruments and consumables portfolio in the US. This collaboration will allow Tecan to expand its presence for these product lines and reach a wider customer base across the academic and biotech communities....
As part of their continuing expansion, Envair Technology has announced the acquisition of Lancashire based fume cupboard manufacturers Total Containment Solutions (TCS) in a deal worth £2 million. The funding, through private equity managers Foresight, takes the total investment in Envair Technology to £8 million. The growth delivered to date by existing group companies ONFAB and Envair Limited has provided the platform for this next stage of the group’s ambition to become the leading global clean air containment company....
As further step into the green future, My Green Lab, a global non-profit organization promoting sustainability in the Life Science Industry through Green Lab Certification and validation of sustainable and energy efficient equipment has certified several Eppendorf ULT freezers (-80°C) to ACT, the Environmental Impact Factor label....
Olympus, a leading manufacturer of high-end research microscopes, and Cytosurge, a precision manufacturer of cell manipulation technologies, have entered a co-marketing agreement to become a complete system provider to the scientific community’s growing need for next-generation single-cell and CRISPR genetic manipulation solutions....
Empirical Bioscience announce that their QuantiTASE and QuantiTASE PLUS One Step RT-qPCR RT-qPCR Kits have been successfully tested in assays using EUA authorized qPCR detection kits using the established CDC testing protocol. The test amplifies and identifies genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 in one step. The QuantiTASE RT-qPCR Assay Kits works by converting the CoV-2 RNA into DNA and amplifying to detect the presence of pathogenic material in patient samples....
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with Integumen plc to evaluate recently generated Affimer reagents that bind the SARS-COV-2 spike protein for the detection of the coronavirus in waste water, to provide a real-time alert system to warn of localised COVID-19 outbreaks...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, opened its M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Shanghai, the company’s largest of nine centers worldwide. “With the booming pharmaceutical industry in Asia and greater emphasis on novel drug therapies, we see an increase in R&D on leading-edge treatments including cell and gene therapies in China,” said Udit Batra, member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science....
BioAscent has further enhanced its comprehensive service offering in integrated drug discovery and compound management, with a £1m/$1.3m investment in new instrumentation and equipment. The investment follows consistent growth, particularly over the last two years, with numerous successful projects delivered by BioAscent’s growing team of highly experienced drug discovery scientists....
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has today announced a new partnership with Start Codon, the life science and healthcare business accelerator. The collaboration aims to strengthen Start Codon’s support for life science and healthcare start-ups, with TTP providing technical consultancy and advice, leveraging TTP’s expertise to fast-track technology development and commercialisation. TTP will be delivering a virtual seminar on 17 September...
NanoImaging Services, Inc. (NIS), specialists in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), has announced they have partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to increase accessibility to cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) technology for the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology community. Having pioneered cryoEM for use in drug discovery and vaccine development applications, NIS brings its proven expertise and experience into this partnership, supported by its growing network of state-of-the-art facilities....
Register for this free-of-charge webinar. Rapid advances in analytical technologies, such as sample preparation, 1D and 2D chromatographic separation and detection by mass spectrometry, are resulting in a massive increase in the data we get from our analyses. This means we can gain ever increasing insights into our samples’ composition. But how can we make processing all this data simpler and more productive?...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced its first-ever instrument subscription program, designed to meet the needs of customers with dynamic businesses who want the latest technology backed by the industry’s best service and support. Agilent Instrument Subscriptions provides customers access to the technology they need when they need it, and with the flexibility and affordability...
If every lab achieved better sustainable practice, in the UK alone they would be saving signifiacnt costs every year, funding would go further, research could grow and the impact on the environment would be reduced. But it's not always easy to know where to start. That's why Lab Innovations has a big focus on lab sustainability. Register now so you can visit the Sustainable Lab on the show floor, and join the free-to-attend conference programmes...
iST Scientific, one of the UK’s leading laboratory equipment suppliers to the life sciences industry, announces that it has supplied 5.2 million specialist micro-plate sealing films, which are vital components in Covid-19 tests, across the globe. This figure equates to over half a billion individual wells being used throughout the PCR process internationally.
Bruker and Purity-IQ have joined forces to create a powerful new testing system for medical cannabis in Canada. The Purity-IQ Cannabis Fingerprint™ combines Bruker’s expertise in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based screening technology with Purity-IQ’s genomics capabilities to offer traceability and identity testing throughout the cannabis supply chain. There are currently no standardized regulations...
Following three years of successful live forensics events in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, Clarion Events is now ready to launch Forensics Middle East & Africa as a fully virtual conference 12-14 October, 2020. The event was previously due to take place in Cairo and will now be the first virtual event delivered by Clarion Defence & Security. The event will offer a much-needed space where the community of forensic practitioners - many of whom are frontliners in the current pandemic...
Intravacc and the Celonic Group has announced that they have signed a research agreement to further design, develop and produce a Covid-19 vaccine based on an immunogenic Spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 combined with Intravacc’s prorietary Outer Membrane Vesicle (OMV) technology. In the beginning of March this year Intravacc started working on the development of four candidate coronavirus vaccines...
The Symposium Chairmen and Organizers of the 50th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2021-Duesseldorf) are delighted to announce the conference dates and details for the upcoming 2021 edition of the HPLC symposium series...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (“LSTM”) to clinically validate the rapid, saliva-based coronavirus antigen test that Avacta is developing with Cytiva. LSTM has been at the forefront of research into infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases since 1898....
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected to grow in the coming years. Here, Katie Gray, marketing manager at Lab Innovations 2020, the largest laboratory event in the UK, looks at why labs will need to become more adaptable....
Tecan is excited to announce an agreement with Thomas Scientific, a distributor of laboratory solutions and equipment, to support the sales of Tecan’s detection instruments and consumables portfolio in the US. This collaboration will allow Tecan to expand its presence for these product lines and reach a wider customer base across the academic and biotech communities....
As part of their continuing expansion, Envair Technology has announced the acquisition of Lancashire based fume cupboard manufacturers Total Containment Solutions (TCS) in a deal worth £2 million. The funding, through private equity managers Foresight, takes the total investment in Envair Technology to £8 million. The growth delivered to date by existing group companies ONFAB and Envair Limited has provided the platform for this next stage of the group’s ambition to become the leading global clean air containment company....
As further step into the green future, My Green Lab, a global non-profit organization promoting sustainability in the Life Science Industry through Green Lab Certification and validation of sustainable and energy efficient equipment has certified several Eppendorf ULT freezers (-80°C) to ACT, the Environmental Impact Factor label....
Olympus, a leading manufacturer of high-end research microscopes, and Cytosurge, a precision manufacturer of cell manipulation technologies, have entered a co-marketing agreement to become a complete system provider to the scientific community’s growing need for next-generation single-cell and CRISPR genetic manipulation solutions....
Empirical Bioscience announce that their QuantiTASE and QuantiTASE PLUS One Step RT-qPCR RT-qPCR Kits have been successfully tested in assays using EUA authorized qPCR detection kits using the established CDC testing protocol. The test amplifies and identifies genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 in one step. The QuantiTASE RT-qPCR Assay Kits works by converting the CoV-2 RNA into DNA and amplifying to detect the presence of pathogenic material in patient samples....
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with Integumen plc to evaluate recently generated Affimer reagents that bind the SARS-COV-2 spike protein for the detection of the coronavirus in waste water, to provide a real-time alert system to warn of localised COVID-19 outbreaks...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, opened its M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Shanghai, the company’s largest of nine centers worldwide. “With the booming pharmaceutical industry in Asia and greater emphasis on novel drug therapies, we see an increase in R&D on leading-edge treatments including cell and gene therapies in China,” said Udit Batra, member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science....