A2LA is pleased to announce both the accreditation of Demeter Laboratory and the renewal of accreditation of Galbraith Laboratories, Inc. to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for cannabis testing. Demeter Laboratory, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Galbraith Laboratories, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, are each their first cannabis testing laboratories accredited within their respective states....
Markes International Ltd, Llantrisant-based manufacturer of world-leading scientific laboratory instrumentation for detecting very small amounts of chemicals, has officially received its two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Markes is one of only of 10 Welsh companies to receive an award and one of only 6 British companies to be recognised in two categories. The Awards were presented by the Lord Lieutenant of Mid Glamorgan...
Source new technologies, future-proof your laboratory and find out ways to make procurement sustainable. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, will showcase at Birmingham’s NEC, 30 & 31 October, multiple options to help visitors future-proof their laboratories - from innovative products, to waste reduction (time included!) and sustainability....
The HD-X - the very latest fully automated technology platform from Quanterix for developing and performing digital immunoassays – has been unveiled at LGC’s GLP/GCP-accredited lab in Fordham, near Cambridge, UK. The HD-X builds on the success of the HD-1 analyser in conveying unprecedented levels of sensitivity, robustness, and throughput to Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) bioanalytical studies....
EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that it has opened a new Research & Development facility at its Cardiff, UK headquarters. The new Special Projects Laboratory will focus on developing new applications for EKF’s many point-of-care and central laboratory medical products to enable the Company to enter new market sectors, as well as providing additional diagnostics sales and regulatory support....
From its beginnings at the University of Oxford in 2016, Arctoris has established the world’s first fully automated, robotic laboratory dedicated to drug discovery, providing global drug discovery teams with on-demand access to a broad range of cellular, molecular and biochemical assays. The company’s automated system delivers high-quality data through standardised, pre-optimised and fully validated processes, while its innovative online portal makes it easy for researchers to plan, order and track their experiments from anywhere in the world....
Illumina, Inc. and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced they have entered into a collaboration for the co-development of secondary genomic analysis algorithms and software. Top data scientists from both institutions will collaborate to bring together the industry-leading open-source GATK algorithms with the speed and enhanced accuracy of Illumina’s DRAGEN™ (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) Bio-IT Platform for commonly used methods....
Provepharm Life Solutions, a laboratory specializing in molecule revitalization, built this 500m2 pilot plant within a 3,000m2 production site in order to produce the group’s active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in an environment that meets the most demanding international requirements. When the first quantities are synthesized, it will allow the company to fill applications...
St George Street Capital (SGSC), a UK registered charity, has signed a license agreement with AstraZeneca to develop two compounds in the clinic: one for idiopathic male infertility, and the other for renal transplant rejection. The agreement enables additional compounds to be added in the future...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Professor Hualiang Jiang has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award. Professor Jiang directs the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is a leading researcher in the area of medicinal chemistry and computational drug design. Professor Jiang has a strong track record identifying new targets for cancer therapy and designing inhibitors that block protein-protein interactions.....
This will be celebrated with an event welcoming back high-calibre Award Alumni to talk about their science and careers: The Young European Investigators Conference held at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg, on June 25, 2020. This free one-day conference is open to all scientists in biomedical research. The scientific program is organized by former winners Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom) and Óscar Fernández-Capetillo (CNIO, Spain & Karolinska Institute, Sweden)....
Verder Scientific has formally agreed to acquire all shares of the Chinese company EZ-mat and become its sole owner. Verder Scientific is a division of the Verder Group, a family owned group of companies already deeply engaged and well reputed in the global development, manufacturing and distribution of products and services of state-of-the-art scientific applications....
E-commerce platform serves scientists by providing a wide selection of compounds from trusted worldwide suppliers for easy search, convenient ordering and hassle-free delivery. MolPort, a dedicated full-service e-commerce platform with extensive expertise in compound sourcing, recently announced its expansion into the US with the opening of MolPort Inc. This new business unit will further streamline the compound ordering process for its many US customers...
Online platform for freelance scientists, Kolabtree, is the first specialist science platform to surpass 10,000 registered freelancers. The company is more equipped than ever to enable access to the specialist skills required for projects, such as analyzing data, designing a clinical trial, helping with regulatory approval or scientific writing. These skills help businesses to develop new products, conduct robust research and grow their businesses...
Source Bioscience, an international provider of integrated laboratory services and products, has announced it has invested €585,000 in microbiology and sterility testing labs at its stability storage facility in Tramore, Co Waterford, Ireland. The investment expands the Company’s current service offering at the site, adding a comprehensive suite of microbiology and sterility testing services with the aim of reducing turnaround times to allow more rapid feedback to customers and to minimise risk when storing samples....
The Lab of the Future Congress is an exciting, Pistoia Alliance-supported, large-scale, international, multidisciplinary conference and exhibition. The congress aims to help drive the successful incorporation of new technologies and thinking into the lab to enable collaboration and help foster innovation that will deliver new medicines to patients with speed and efficiency....
Pharmaceutical development and clinical manufacturing expert, Velesco Pharma, is set to triple its clinical manufacturing capacity with the purchase and fit-out of a new, state-of-the-art facility in Wixom, Michigan. This facility will be supported by Velesco Pharma’s existing QC release and stability testing laboratory also located in Wixom...
Batavia Biosciences has signed a license agreement to utilize Horizon Discovery’s GS knockout CHO K1 cell line expression system for the development of high yield antibody-expressing cell lines. Initially, Batavia will deploy the system for production of a potent Zika virus neutralizing antibody, working in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center and IDBiologics...
Cell and gene therapy manufacturing consultancy eXmoor pharma has announced a strategic collaboration with Karoo CGT to accelerate the huge potential of UK gene therapies coming out of academia. The funding gap between academic research and an investable proposition after Phase I/II trials is well reported. Karoo is building the expertise and infrastructure necessary to provide a fully integrated service...
Alongside this accreditation, ReAgent has also launched a new biological reagent manufacturing service supplying bespoke reagents, including biological buffers, bioprocessing reagents, and in vitro diagnostic reagents. With the ability to manufacture different types of biological reagents, including but not limited to reagents for use in medical devices...
This new report provides market data and insights for 11 categories of portable analytical instrumentation. Its contents will provide detailed qualitative and quantitative data to those with a vested interest in the market for portable or handheld analytical instruments. The portable instrumentation market was $1.4 billion in 2018 and is expected to grow by 4.4% over the next five years....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, presented Professor David Alsteens (33), Catholic University of Louvain (UCLovain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium with the 2019 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference Euroanalysis at Istanbul University in Turkey. “With his groundbreaking investigations revealing the molecular mechanisms established by viruses to hijack the cellular barrier and enter the cell....