Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the results of its first Pharma Lab Leaders Survey looking to gather insights from pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and contract research laboratories in seven countries around the world. Respondents included 650 laboratory managers, directors, and supervisors from China, Germany, India, South Korea, Switzerland, Austria, and the United States. The laboratories surveyed are involved in a range of activities from disease research to manufacturing...
Pharmaceutical company Hemofarm, based in Vršac, Serbia, has started a project with the Matrix Gemini Stability Management System from Autoscribe Informatics. Hemofarm is a member of STADA Group, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Matrix Gemini Stability Management System will be for stability studies across Hemofarm’s rich product range of...
SelectScience has presented INTEGRA Biosciences with the prestigious Reviewers’ Choice Life Sciences Company of the Year award. INTEGRA was chosen in recognition of the quantity of positive feedback it has received from customers sharing their opinions on the SelectScience website over the past year. INTEGRA offers an extensive range of manual and automated pipetting solutions, providing customers....
The VERDER Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Microtrac, Inc. and MicrotracBEL Corporation from Nikkiso Co. Ltd. Verder’s Scientific Division is herewith extending its product portfolio with product lines for particle characterization by laser diffraction, dynamic light scattering and surface analysis. Microtrac is a leading manufacturer and pioneer of instruments for particle analysis using laser diffraction and dynamic light scattering technologies....
Biotage AB is pleased to announce its strategic collaboration with Shandong Yingsheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Yingsheng is mainly focused on independently researching, producing and selling in vitro diagnostic reagents and medical equipment, building a genetic detection platform and mass spectrometry detection platform around metabolomics and genetics....
The development of the UK’s first dedicated Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) has moved a step closer with the contract to design an advanced array of laboratory and production facilities within a ‘cleanroom wrap’ environment being awarded to WHP. The multi-disciplinary engineering company has won the design work as part of plans for the specification of versatile new cGMP suites and filling rooms for the VMIC, which is being built...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, announce its participation in a collaboration with the Vaccine Formulation Institute and the European Vaccine Initiative. The effort will provide vaccine process development training courses within TRANSVAC2, a collaborative infrastructure project under Horizon 2020. “Involvement in this project is a natural extension to our longtime focus on accelerating vaccine....
MtoZ Biolabs, an international contract research organization (CRO) providing advanced proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and biopharmaceutical analysis services, developed SILAC-based CoIP-MS service to assist researchers study in protein. Co-Immunoprecipitation (CoIP) is a classical method for studying protein interactions based on the principle that antibodies specifically recognize specific antigens.....
This strategic move will allow both partners to significantly enhance their portfolios in the diagnostics market. While MINIFAB is a leading innovator in customized polymer microfluidics. SCHOTT is the world’s leading supplier of glass substrates for microarrays and microfluidic components made of glass. By setting up centers of excellence for polymer in Australia and glass in Germany, both will be able to serve their existing customer bases as well as new customers even more effectively in the future.
Verdel Instruments Ltd, a spin-out company of the University of Warwick, raises seed investment of over £230,000 to develop new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology. Disruptive 2DMS technique to make pharmaceutical research and food safety testing more accurate, more efficient, and at least 10 times quicker than current mass spectrometry approaches – for samples with many components.....
A2LA is proud to announce the issuance of its first accreditation, and the first such accreditation in the world, to the newly published standardISO 20387:2018 – Biobanking – General requirements for biobanking. ISO 20387 contains requirements designed to demonstrate the competence of a biobank’s operation and ability to provide biological material and associated data for research and development....
Lab Connect online meeting planner enables growing exhibitor and visitor numbers to get the most from their visit to the NEC on 30 - 31October 2019. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, announces the launch of a new free networking tool to help visitors and exhibitors set up meetings in advance, so that they can get the most from their visit....
Ziath has announced the opening of direct operations in the US with the appointment of a general manager. The company stated that the move is part of its drive for international expansion and will better enable it to serve the US laboratory automation community particularly in the areas of compound management, high throughput screening, forensics, cannabis testing and biobanking....
Syrris celebrated 10 fantastic years of business in India in style by embarking on an ambitious 1,950 km tour of the country to thank its loyal customers who have helped the business go from strength to strength. The subcontinent adventure took place in April, when the team loaded the Syrris technology onto a truck and drove from Chennai on the East Coast to Mumbai in the west....
Nottingham-based Scientific Laboratory Supplies Limited and Wolf Laboratories Limited, based near York, are both leading distributors of laboratory products in the UK. SLS announce today the acquisition of Wolf labs which will enable the newly enlarged group to provide better choice and an even wider range of products to the scientific community. SLS are a full-service distributor of laboratory products....
Uniqsis reports on two major orders for its FlowSyn™ flow chemistry systems from organisations involved with the South African Pharmaceutical Industry. In the pharmaceutical sector, industry growth in the emerging world is rapidly outpacing mature markets like Europe and the US. Although at present the pharma industries across Africa account for just 2% of the global medicines market....
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has announced that it has partnered with Quotient Ltd, a commercial-stage diagnostics company committed to transforming transfusion diagnostics and beyond to develop and implement a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for Quotient's proprietary MosaiQ system....
Vetter, a global operating Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) announced that a significant level of expansion activities are nearing completion at its US clinical manufacturing facility located at the Illinois Science & Technology Park in suburban Chicago. The ongoing growth of the facility will help satisfy existing and ever-increasing future customer requirements...
The search for new drugs to combat diseases more effectively could be revolutionised through a new £30 million electron microscopy project. Experts would be able to see, for the first time, how a particular drug works within a patient at a cellular level or the molecular processes set in motion by a genetic mutation. The technology aims to create 3D images of cells at very high resolution...
Copley Scientific, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of inhaler testing equipment has acquired Novi Systems, a company with market-leading expertise in the automation of inhaler testing, extending the Copley product range and securing a broader platform for the development of new inhaler testing solutions....
Sygnature Discovery has today announced a collaboration with SilcsBio, a scientific software company focused on high-throughput fully atomistic simulations of protein targets and protein-ligand structures. SilcsBio has provided Sygnature with access to its SILCS (Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation) and SSFEP (Single Step Free Energy Perturbation) software.
BioCity, a pioneering life science incubator and business collective, today announced investment in Deep Branch Biotechnology, a Nottingham-based carbon recycling start-up, developing technology that transforms polluters into producers. Unlike traditional carbon storage technology that simply collects and stores carbon dioxide, Deep Branch’s carbon recycling solution converts carbon dioxide....
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the results of its first Pharma Lab Leaders Survey looking to gather insights from pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and contract research laboratories in seven countries around the world. Respondents included 650 laboratory managers, directors, and supervisors from China, Germany, India, South Korea, Switzerland, Austria, and the United States. The laboratories surveyed are involved in a range of activities from disease research to manufacturing...
Pharmaceutical company Hemofarm, based in Vršac, Serbia, has started a project with the Matrix Gemini Stability Management System from Autoscribe Informatics. Hemofarm is a member of STADA Group, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Matrix Gemini Stability Management System will be for stability studies across Hemofarm’s rich product range of...
SelectScience has presented INTEGRA Biosciences with the prestigious Reviewers’ Choice Life Sciences Company of the Year award. INTEGRA was chosen in recognition of the quantity of positive feedback it has received from customers sharing their opinions on the SelectScience website over the past year. INTEGRA offers an extensive range of manual and automated pipetting solutions, providing customers....
The VERDER Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Microtrac, Inc. and MicrotracBEL Corporation from Nikkiso Co. Ltd. Verder’s Scientific Division is herewith extending its product portfolio with product lines for particle characterization by laser diffraction, dynamic light scattering and surface analysis. Microtrac is a leading manufacturer and pioneer of instruments for particle analysis using laser diffraction and dynamic light scattering technologies....
Biotage AB is pleased to announce its strategic collaboration with Shandong Yingsheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Yingsheng is mainly focused on independently researching, producing and selling in vitro diagnostic reagents and medical equipment, building a genetic detection platform and mass spectrometry detection platform around metabolomics and genetics....
The development of the UK’s first dedicated Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) has moved a step closer with the contract to design an advanced array of laboratory and production facilities within a ‘cleanroom wrap’ environment being awarded to WHP. The multi-disciplinary engineering company has won the design work as part of plans for the specification of versatile new cGMP suites and filling rooms for the VMIC, which is being built...
MtoZ Biolabs, an international contract research organization (CRO) providing advanced proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and biopharmaceutical analysis services, developed SILAC-based CoIP-MS service to assist researchers study in protein. Co-Immunoprecipitation (CoIP) is a classical method for studying protein interactions based on the principle that antibodies specifically recognize specific antigens.....
This strategic move will allow both partners to significantly enhance their portfolios in the diagnostics market. While MINIFAB is a leading innovator in customized polymer microfluidics. SCHOTT is the world’s leading supplier of glass substrates for microarrays and microfluidic components made of glass. By setting up centers of excellence for polymer in Australia and glass in Germany, both will be able to serve their existing customer bases as well as new customers even more effectively in the future.
Verdel Instruments Ltd, a spin-out company of the University of Warwick, raises seed investment of over £230,000 to develop new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology. Disruptive 2DMS technique to make pharmaceutical research and food safety testing more accurate, more efficient, and at least 10 times quicker than current mass spectrometry approaches – for samples with many components.....
A2LA is proud to announce the issuance of its first accreditation, and the first such accreditation in the world, to the newly published standardISO 20387:2018 – Biobanking – General requirements for biobanking. ISO 20387 contains requirements designed to demonstrate the competence of a biobank’s operation and ability to provide biological material and associated data for research and development....
Lab Connect online meeting planner enables growing exhibitor and visitor numbers to get the most from their visit to the NEC on 30 - 31October 2019. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, announces the launch of a new free networking tool to help visitors and exhibitors set up meetings in advance, so that they can get the most from their visit....
Ziath has announced the opening of direct operations in the US with the appointment of a general manager. The company stated that the move is part of its drive for international expansion and will better enable it to serve the US laboratory automation community particularly in the areas of compound management, high throughput screening, forensics, cannabis testing and biobanking....
Syrris celebrated 10 fantastic years of business in India in style by embarking on an ambitious 1,950 km tour of the country to thank its loyal customers who have helped the business go from strength to strength. The subcontinent adventure took place in April, when the team loaded the Syrris technology onto a truck and drove from Chennai on the East Coast to Mumbai in the west....
Nottingham-based Scientific Laboratory Supplies Limited and Wolf Laboratories Limited, based near York, are both leading distributors of laboratory products in the UK. SLS announce today the acquisition of Wolf labs which will enable the newly enlarged group to provide better choice and an even wider range of products to the scientific community. SLS are a full-service distributor of laboratory products....
Uniqsis reports on two major orders for its FlowSyn™ flow chemistry systems from organisations involved with the South African Pharmaceutical Industry. In the pharmaceutical sector, industry growth in the emerging world is rapidly outpacing mature markets like Europe and the US. Although at present the pharma industries across Africa account for just 2% of the global medicines market....
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has announced that it has partnered with Quotient Ltd, a commercial-stage diagnostics company committed to transforming transfusion diagnostics and beyond to develop and implement a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for Quotient's proprietary MosaiQ system....
Vetter, a global operating Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) announced that a significant level of expansion activities are nearing completion at its US clinical manufacturing facility located at the Illinois Science & Technology Park in suburban Chicago. The ongoing growth of the facility will help satisfy existing and ever-increasing future customer requirements...
The search for new drugs to combat diseases more effectively could be revolutionised through a new £30 million electron microscopy project. Experts would be able to see, for the first time, how a particular drug works within a patient at a cellular level or the molecular processes set in motion by a genetic mutation. The technology aims to create 3D images of cells at very high resolution...
Copley Scientific, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of inhaler testing equipment has acquired Novi Systems, a company with market-leading expertise in the automation of inhaler testing, extending the Copley product range and securing a broader platform for the development of new inhaler testing solutions....
Sygnature Discovery has today announced a collaboration with SilcsBio, a scientific software company focused on high-throughput fully atomistic simulations of protein targets and protein-ligand structures. SilcsBio has provided Sygnature with access to its SILCS (Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation) and SSFEP (Single Step Free Energy Perturbation) software. 
BioCity, a pioneering life science incubator and business collective, today announced investment in Deep Branch Biotechnology, a Nottingham-based carbon recycling start-up, developing technology that transforms polluters into producers. Unlike traditional carbon storage technology that simply collects and stores carbon dioxide, Deep Branch’s carbon recycling solution converts carbon dioxide....