Forum LABO PARIS has revealed the nominees in the 2019 Innovation Awards, which reward the exhibitors’ know-how and the most outstanding new products. The jury of experts from industry, academic research and the trade press has selected 17 nominees from the record-breaking 106 candidates in six categories - Instrumentation, Consumables / reagents / kits, Equipment, computing and Services....
BioTek Instruments was recently honored with the 2018 Supplier of the Year Award in recognition of its outstanding achievements and contributions as a global Fisher Scientific supplier. The award was presented by Ms. Lisa Witte, Thermo Fisher Scientific President, Research & Safety Market Division during the Supplier Awards Luncheon at the 2019 Fisher Scientific North America Sales Meeting in Orlando, Florida....
The directors of Don Whitley Scientific Limited are very sad to announce that Dr Don Whitley, founder and chairman of Don Whitley Scientific Limited, died on Thursday, 28 February 2019 after a short illness. Taking a keen interest in the company’s product development projects up until a few weeks before his death, Don would have celebrated his 90th birthday this coming June. Within a few hours of his death, tributes began to arrive from all over the world....
Chemspace and LabNetwork, a WuXi AppTec company, both online marketplaces for chemical compounds used in drug discovery, has announced they have entered into a collaboration agreement. Under the agreement, LabNetwork’s products will be available on www.chem-space.com, with distribution and technical support provided by Chemspace for European customers. The collaboration expands the market reach of both companies to pharma and biotech companies....
Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading manufacturer of recombinant antibodies, has developed custom protein purification systems to significantly increase its antibody production throughput. The automated robots, now installed in Absolute Antibody’s newly expanded, ISO-certified manufacturing facility in Northeast England, will enable further growth for the company’s recombinant antibody products and services....
Back in 2009 the first seed of Alpha Laboratories’ tree planting scheme Laboratree was sown. Thanks to the dedicated LaboraTree members who have been collecting tokens from their pipette tip packs, over 1,500 trees have now been planted across the country and are helping make a difference to our environment. To celebrate 10 years, Alpha Laboratories has introduced an extra way to collect tokens and plant more trees.....
Chromatrap® has entered into a partnership with Covaris to offer a highly scalable and simple ChIP workflow enabling researchers to easily isolate protein-DNA complexes for downstream applications, such as ChIP-Seq, ChIP-qPCR, Next-generation sequencing (NGS), and Mass Spectrometry (MS). Preparing samples for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) has traditionally been a multi-step, time-consuming, and error-prone workflow....
A2LA is proud to announce the launch of its new Biobank Accreditation Program. This third-party accreditation offers an independent review of an organization’s compliance to ISO 20387 - Technical and Quality Requirements for the operation of various types of biobanks/biorepositories for the desired scope of accreditation. This new program will incorporate a review of the activities performed by biobanks to ensure proper collection...
As an advocate for researchers in the genomics age, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)is expanding its courier zones to ensure that the highest-fidelity oligos are available in less time and at the same price, to more customers. UK scientists based in Cambridge, Oxford, and London—both inside and out of the M25 orbital—can now benefit from IDT’s free next-day delivery service, enabling projects to be started and finished sooner....
Promega Corporation announce it has signed a non-exclusive license agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to sell tools and reagents for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, providing scientists new tools for interrogating endogenous biology. Under the agreement, Promega will combine CRISPR-Cas9 technology with its products that knock-in Promega genetic reporters to the genomes of any cell or cell line, enabling customers to...
The Vorarlberg brewery Frastanz is building Systec sterilization solutions for its in-house quality laboratory as part of its 2018/2019 modernisation drive. Since October 2018, the cooperativebrewery Frastanzhas been using aSystec VB-75 autoclaveto sterilize sampling containers and liquids. This has allowed them to fully optimise their quality control process. The device was provided by the laboratory...
A recent research study by Fact.MR finds that the microreactor sales reached approximately 294 thousand units in 2018 and are projected to grow at a Y-O-Y of nearly 9% in 2019. Increasing competition among manufacturers to develop efficient products remains a key aspect spurring the demand for microreactor technology. Enablement in facilitating effective and efficient drug synthesis is one of the key factors responsible for rising adoption in the pharmaceutical industry....
Certification affirms commitment to providing highest standards of quality and information security. Aigenpulse Ltd., a big data technology company which specialises in structuring, integrating and deriving meaning from large, disparate data assets, today announced it has achieved certification to the internationally recognised standards ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013. The independent assessment was conducted by the British Assessment Bureau, a leading certification body...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech(SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, announced the launch of services for new biological entities, called NBE Product Characterization. These services are offered by its subsidiary, Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource, an experienced, industry-leading contract testing organization based in Glasgow, UK, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA...
Academics from Northumbria University are to continue their ground-breaking research into the behaviour of liquids, leading a new project to investigate how to control the way liquids form into droplets. The team from Northumbria’sSmart Materials and Surfaces Laboratory will work in partnership with Nottingham Trent University on the three-year study, which has received £700,000 funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
The acquisition of B&W Tek LLC by Swiss Metrohm AG in July 2018 creates one of the largest solution providers for applied Raman spectroscopy. Two technology leaders in the field of Raman spectroscopy join forces, and customers all over the world will benefit: That is the key message that Metrohm and B&W Tek are addressing to the market. In addition to the well-established distribution network of B&W Tek, selected Metrohm subsidiaries have started supplying the full range of the B&W Tek product line.
MediSapiens, a leading developer and provider of genomic, biomedical and health data solutions, has partnered with Modul-Bio, a leading provider of solutions for biological sample management, Biobank Information Management Systems (BIMS) and collaborative tools for sharing biological sample collections. With the partnership the two companies aim to complement each other’s solutions for biobanking, providing biobanks an all-round capability in...
A new report by Bidwells, the leading advisor for the science and technology (S&T) sector, says that in spite of Brexit S&T companies are looking to attract 20,000 new R&D workers by 2023. Analysis based on Bidwells’ market data and interviews with 50 leading S&T companies estimates growth in demand for lab and research space of around 2.5m sq ft over the next five years – the equivalent of 60 new labs or 40 football fields....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced that several of its analytical instruments have received multiple prestigious industry awards. These award-winning tools provide scientists across a range of fields and disciplines with the ability to conduct comprehensive proteome profiling and quantitation, biomarker discovery and verification, and the full characterization of complex biotherapeutics....
SLS are pleased to announce an exclusive deal for the supply of Bioline products, including PCR, qPCR reagents, nucleic acid purification kits & NGS kits. As the UK’s largest independent laboratory supplier SLS always strive to offer their customers a comprehensive range of quality products from market leading brands. The Bioline range complements the SLS Life Science product portfolio, meaning they are able to offer a complete solution for customer’s molecular biology needs....
Demonstrating its commitment to advocating for synthetic biology research, Integrated DNA Technologies’ (IDT) Synthetic Biology Start-up Grant Program has once again benefited innovative start-ups in their missions to impact sustainable manufacturing, human health, and/or humanitarian causes. The program provides much-needed synthetic biology products designed to support the next generation of companies aiming to impact these important areas using synthetic biology...
IDT wins two prestigious Life Science Industry Awards. In recognition of its dedication to advocating for customers,Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), has won a prestigious Life Science Industry Award for Best Overall Customer Experience, as well as a Gold award for Most Useful Website. The awards—entirely nominated and voted for by scientists—validate IDT’s continued efforts to support scientists at every stage of...