BioTek Instruments, Inc., a leader in life science instrumentation, was issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its “User-Trained Autofocus” feature in their Gen5™ Microplate Reader and Imager Software, integrated with their advanced cell imaging systems. This autofocus method allows users to overcome imaging challenges arising from debris or dead cells, thick biology...
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has completed and moved into a new extension of their life sciences development facility. The additional multi-disciplinary suite of lab space provides a Class II bio-handling and tissue culture laboratory and a dedicated facility for diagnostic system development under ISO 13485:2016. The new facilities are part of an ongoing investment at TTP in dedicated space for system development programmes for life science...
New identity signals continued integration with VWR and ongoing commitment to customers. Following the acquisition of VWR in 2017, Avantor® introduced a new logo and visual identity today, signaling the company’s position as a leading global provider of products, services and solutions for professionals in the life sciences and advanced technology industries...
Gyros Protein Technologies to develop immunoassay kits for biotherapeutic impurity analysis using Cygnus Technologies’ proprietary reagents. Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, and Cygnus Technologies, the leading assay and services provider for the detection and characterization...
Heraeus is expanding its production capacities for Platinum-based Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (Pt hAPIs). The expansion is Heraeus’ response to increasing global demands for these products in cancer treatment. Cancer cases are globally on the rise, causing an increasing demand for their treatment....
Evotec AG has announced that the strategic transaction signed on 15 June 2018, to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit including licensing-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio, has been successfully closed with effect from 01 July 2018. This closing marks the completion of the required legal social process, initiated on....
Pittcon’s non-profit mission funds grants to colleges, high schools, elementary schools, researchers and more. Year after year, Pittcon distributes approximately $1 million towards its mission to sponsor and sustain educational and charitable activities for the advancement and benefit of scientific endeavor...
Customers to benefit from Sysmex’s extensive operational footprint. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has announced that it is now directly selling Cytocell Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation (FISH) products through several established affiliates of Sysmex Corporation in Europe following its acquisition last year....
Funding will support development of a novel enzymatic process for DNA synthesis in collaboration with Durham University. EVONETIX LTD, the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, has announced that it had been awarded substantial funding to support the development of a novel enzymatic approach to DNA synthesis...
Lonza Bioscience is inviting visitors to explore its new dedicated website: bioscience.lonza.com. Filled with detailed application and product information, the website has been designed to support the work of scientists across the bioresearch, drug discovery and pharmaceutical manufacturing fields. Not only is the new website user friendly and mobile optimized, but it also...
TTP Plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, and Cubed Laboratories (Cubed), a developer of rapid, DNA-based molecular diagnostic devices and test kits, has announced the successful completion of a project to develop Cubed’s core product, the NESDEP portable laboratory for pathogen detection....
Attributes ongoing success to scientific ethos, project management, and innovative research programs. IONTAS Limited (IONTAS), a leader in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. To mark the occasion, the Company held an anniversary party at King’s College, Cambridge, on 30th June 2018, with drinks, dinner and live music....
Learn and earn CPD points at the UK’s only lab-dedicated showcase and scientific seminar series. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, announces the launch of free advance registration for visitors. Returning to the NEC, Birmingham, on 31 October & 1 November 2018 for its seventh successive year...
Premium partnership between Bruker & Cytosurge – enabling FluidFM® single cell experiments on the BioScope Resolve® BioAFM. Thanks to this Premium partnership, researchers can combine the femtoliters scale fluid control and cell treatment precision of FluidFM with the force control, resolution and speed available with Bruker’s exclusive PeakForce Tapping® technology....
ScreenIn3D (Glasgow, UK) is a new joint venture company set up by AMSBIO and the University of Strathclyde exploiting the latest advances in microfluidics and 3D culture to develop a novel microfluidic screening platform. he unique combination of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology with physiologically relevant 3D spheroids is designed to make drug discovery more closely relevant with what happens in the body...
On June 13, 2018, the "Peter Huber Prize" of the Valerius Füner Foundation was awarded at the Achema. As the best graduates from the years 2016 and 2017, the winners this year are Joseph Michel and Florian Theobald. Michel received the award for his Master's thesis on the optimization and simulation of combined heat and power plants. Theobald was honored for his work developing new models....
BioAscent Discovery Limited has secured £1.6m in funding from Maven Capital Partners. The investment will facilitate BioAscent’s growth through its unique offering of integrated drug discovery, and compound management services, as well as the Compound Cloud library of lead-like pharma compounds, from its state-of-the-art facilityat BioCity...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with HistoCyte Laboratories Ltd, Tyne, U.K., to be the exclusive multinational distributor of the company’s portfolio of cell line reference products for immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization....
Back in April 2018, ReAgent Chemical Services tripled its manufacturing space with the opening of its new eco-friendly facility. Standing at 38,000 square foot, the new premises has been entirely built-to-spec to offer the most efficient, high quality and environmentally friendly service to customers....
RGU and NHS combine to promote the importance of laboratory science. Biomedical science staff from Robert Gordon University’s (RGU) School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences arepartnering with NHS Grampian to celebrate Biomedical Science Day at Aberdeen Science Centre. The national awareness day takes place annually each July...
The Pittcon Exposition Committee has announced that booth space reservations have opened for Pittcon 2019, taking place in Philadelphia from March 17 to 21. Each 10x10 space is available for $3,050. Additionally, returning exhibitors are eligible for a $2,500 expansion rate towards additional 10x10 spaces.
OBN, OneNucleus, BioNow, Medilink Midlands and MediWales, major not-for-profit life sciences membership organisations in the UK, which together represent around 2,000 active life sciences companies, have sent an open letter on Friday 22 June to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Rt Hon Philip Hammond, MP in regard to the recently proposed changes to Entrepreneurs’ Relief....
BioTek Instruments, Inc., a leader in life science instrumentation, was issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its “User-Trained Autofocus” feature in their Gen5™ Microplate Reader and Imager Software, integrated with their advanced cell imaging systems. This autofocus method allows users to overcome imaging challenges arising from debris or dead cells, thick biology...
TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, has completed and moved into a new extension of their life sciences development facility. The additional multi-disciplinary suite of lab space provides a Class II bio-handling and tissue culture laboratory and a dedicated facility for diagnostic system development under ISO 13485:2016. The new facilities are part of an ongoing investment at TTP in dedicated space for system development programmes for life science...
New identity signals continued integration with VWR and ongoing commitment to customers. Following the acquisition of VWR in 2017, Avantor® introduced a new logo and visual identity today, signaling the company’s position as a leading global provider of products, services and solutions for professionals in the life sciences and advanced technology industries...
Gyros Protein Technologies to develop immunoassay kits for biotherapeutic impurity analysis using Cygnus Technologies’ proprietary reagents. Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, and Cygnus Technologies, the leading assay and services provider for the detection and characterization...
Heraeus is expanding its production capacities for Platinum-based Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (Pt hAPIs). The expansion is Heraeus’ response to increasing global demands for these products in cancer treatment. Cancer cases are globally on the rise, causing an increasing demand for their treatment....
Evotec AG has announced that the strategic transaction signed on 15 June 2018, to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit including licensing-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio, has been successfully closed with effect from 01 July 2018. This closing marks the completion of the required legal social process, initiated on....
Pittcon’s non-profit mission funds grants to colleges, high schools, elementary schools, researchers and more. Year after year, Pittcon distributes approximately $1 million towards its mission to sponsor and sustain educational and charitable activities for the advancement and benefit of scientific endeavor...
Customers to benefit from Sysmex’s extensive operational footprint. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has announced that it is now directly selling Cytocell Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation (FISH) products through several established affiliates of Sysmex Corporation in Europe following its acquisition last year....
Funding will support development of a novel enzymatic process for DNA synthesis in collaboration with Durham University. EVONETIX LTD, the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, has announced that it had been awarded substantial funding to support the development of a novel enzymatic approach to DNA synthesis...
Lonza Bioscience is inviting visitors to explore its new dedicated website: bioscience.lonza.com. Filled with detailed application and product information, the website has been designed to support the work of scientists across the bioresearch, drug discovery and pharmaceutical manufacturing fields. Not only is the new website user friendly and mobile optimized, but it also...
TTP Plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product development company, and Cubed Laboratories (Cubed), a developer of rapid, DNA-based molecular diagnostic devices and test kits, has announced the successful completion of a project to develop Cubed’s core product, the NESDEP portable laboratory for pathogen detection....
Attributes ongoing success to scientific ethos, project management, and innovative research programs. IONTAS Limited (IONTAS), a leader in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. To mark the occasion, the Company held an anniversary party at King’s College, Cambridge, on 30th June 2018, with drinks, dinner and live music....
Learn and earn CPD points at the UK’s only lab-dedicated showcase and scientific seminar series. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, announces the launch of free advance registration for visitors. Returning to the NEC, Birmingham, on 31 October & 1 November 2018 for its seventh successive year...
ScreenIn3D (Glasgow, UK) is a new joint venture company set up by AMSBIO and the University of Strathclyde exploiting the latest advances in microfluidics and 3D culture to develop a novel microfluidic screening platform. he unique combination of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology with physiologically relevant 3D spheroids is designed to make drug discovery more closely relevant with what happens in the body...
On June 13, 2018, the "Peter Huber Prize" of the Valerius Füner Foundation was awarded at the Achema. As the best graduates from the years 2016 and 2017, the winners this year are Joseph Michel and Florian Theobald. Michel received the award for his Master's thesis on the optimization and simulation of combined heat and power plants. Theobald was honored for his work developing new models....
BioAscent Discovery Limited has secured £1.6m in funding from Maven Capital Partners. The investment will facilitate BioAscent’s growth through its unique offering of integrated drug discovery, and compound management services, as well as the Compound Cloud library of lead-like pharma compounds, from its state-of-the-art facilityat BioCity...
Back in April 2018, ReAgent Chemical Services tripled its manufacturing space with the opening of its new eco-friendly facility. Standing at 38,000 square foot, the new premises has been entirely built-to-spec to offer the most efficient, high quality and environmentally friendly service to customers....
RGU and NHS combine to promote the importance of laboratory science. Biomedical science staff from Robert Gordon University’s (RGU) School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences arepartnering with NHS Grampian to celebrate Biomedical Science Day at Aberdeen Science Centre. The national awareness day takes place annually each July...
The Pittcon Exposition Committee has announced that booth space reservations have opened for Pittcon 2019, taking place in Philadelphia from March 17 to 21. Each 10x10 space is available for $3,050. Additionally, returning exhibitors are eligible for a $2,500 expansion rate towards additional 10x10 spaces.
OBN, OneNucleus, BioNow, Medilink Midlands and MediWales, major not-for-profit life sciences membership organisations in the UK, which together represent around 2,000 active life sciences companies, have sent an open letter on Friday 22 June to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Rt Hon Philip Hammond, MP in regard to the recently proposed changes to Entrepreneurs’ Relief....