Phasefocus continues to increase its global international profile with the appointment of Nuohai Life Sciences as the company’s exclusive distributor for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Nuohai Life Sciences will provide sales, service and technical support for the Livecyte™ Cell Imaging System throughout the region, building on their reputation for introducing innovative new technologies for the Life Science Industry into the Chinese market....

Porvair Sciences Ltd, a leading supplier of separation and filtration technology for life science and healthcare applications, is hitting the small screen in a special showcase of its healthcare expertise.

From 3-7 February 2018, Lonza will be exhibiting at SLAS2018, the annual show hosted by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening.

IDTechEx, a market intelligence company with nearly two decade’s worth of experience tracking the cutting-edge developments in science and technology, has expanded their expertise into the life sciences.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets from EPTEK Technology Co. LTD and several related entities with offices in Taiwan and mainland China.

Fimmic, a Finnish medtech company developing Deep Learning AI solutions for digital medical microscopy, announce that it has closed a €5M investment round to accelerate scaling of its WebMicroscope® AI Cloud for tissue diagnostics.

Led by new investor Ascend Capital Partners, the round brings the Company’s total raised funds in 2017 to €6.6M. Existing investors, including ACME Investments and STO-Rahoitus, also participated this round....

Combined organization delivers innovative, efficient safety & efficacy solutions that support all phases of clinical development

ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, has announced it has acquired iCardiac Technologies, a leading provider of centralized cardiac safety and respiratory solutions that accelerate clinical research....

Grundium is developing the first portable digital microscope scanner in the world

China based investment firm, Ascend Capital Partners, has invested two million Euros to help Grundium OY develop their innovative portable digital microscope scanner. Grundium’s vision is to bring digital microscope scanners to every pathologist’s desk.....

Boulting Environmental Services wins Contractor of the Year award 

At the inaugural National Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) Awards, rapidly growing cleanroom and laboratory design and construction firm, Boulting Environmental Services (BES), won the Contractor of the Year Award. By working in a close collaboration with AstraZeneca, BES delivered a highly sophisticated facility...

Trial will analyze breath biomarkers to improve understanding of the treatment effects of a novel GSK pipeline drug candidate for COPD

Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, has announced that GSK, a world leader in respiratory, will incorporate Owlstone Medical’s Breath Biopsy platform into the clinical development programme of danirixin one of the novel drug candidates in its respiratory disease pipeline....

Hichrom’s 2018 training courses

With courses delivered by world-renowned experts including Mel Euerby, Mark Powell, Diane Turner and others the new 2018 Hichrom training calendar is now available! Whether you are a relative newcomer to chromatography or a seasoned veteran, you can benefit from one of our courses.

Promoting interdisciplinary exchange between science and industry on the topics of regenerative medicine and cell therapy: this is the objective Sartorius will be pursuing by hosting its second Research Xchange Forum on March 20 and 21, 2018, at Sartorius College in Goettingen.

A single protein from a worm parasite may one day offer new therapeutic options for treating inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis, that avoid the potentially serious side effects of current immunosuppressant medications.

The study, published today in Nature Communications, demonstrates the discovery of a distinct new worm protein which mimics a cytokine found in humans, known as transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β). The newly-discovered protein switches off inflammation by...

Secondary school pupils from across the north of Scotland have been experimenting with science over the past month as Robert Gordon University (RGU) continues its tradition of widening access to STEM subjects from an early age.

Members of RGU’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences have held a number of events in recent weeks to engage with youngsters and imprint the scientific curiosity that can take them far in their future careers. It began with the celebration for National Pathology Week, where...

€1.6 million grant will support ‘precise docking of very large DNA cargoes in genomes’ project

Sphere Fluidics, a company providing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Geneva Biotech, an EMBL spin-out developing world-class viral and non-viral DNA delivery systems, have received a €1.6 million grant from Eurostars....

The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, BAM) and Analytik Jena AG have agreed to cooperate extensively in the research and development of optical spectrometry in the area of elemental analysis.

The two parties signed a corresponding cooperation agreement last week in Berlin. The focus of the two partners’ future research efforts will be on the development of new devices and applications for element determination. In this connection, the teams will work jointly on the further development...

Cambridge Epigenetix (CEGX), a pioneer in the development and application of epigenetic technologies, today announced the appointment of leading epigenetics-based therapeutics specialist, Professor Mark Dawson to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).

Professor Dawson brings a wealth of experience in the translation of cancer epigenetics research to clinical practice. The appointment further strengthens CEGX’s panel of opinion leaders providing expert advice across the Company’s key focus areas of epigenetics, oncology, liquid biopsy, diagnostic and therapeutic development....

Melbourne-based melanoma researcher selected as the winner of ‘RNAscope ISH Get Hybridized’ giveaway, supporting cutting-edge research

Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD), a Bio-Techne brand, has announced the winner of its ‘RNAscope ISH Get Hybridized’ giveaway, designed to recognize and support groundbreaking research with RNAscope^® in situ hybridization (ISH) technology. The winner, Dr. Andreas Behren, Group Leader in Cancer Immunobiology....

The global market for chromatography instrumentation is expected to reach USD11.2 billion by the end of 2020, growing at a CAGR of around 6.3% from 2014 to 2021.

The rise in the investments in the field of R&D, the introduction of chromatography tests in drug approvals and advancements in the equipment of chromatography are some of the factors propelling the growth of the market....

Elpis BioMed Ltd has announced that it has raised funds to bring its human cell products and services to market.

Backed by a world-class investor team, led by industry expert Jonathan Milner, with co-investments from Darrin Disley, Weslie Janeway and Nikolaus Starzacher. The funds will be used to grow the Company’s catalogue of off-the-shelf human cell type products and expand its service offerings...

Scientists have been searching for it for decades: the enzyme that cuts the amino acid tyrosine off an important part of the cell’s skeleton.

Researchers of the Netherlands Cancer Institute have now identified this mystery player, which may be of vital importance to the understanding of cell function and division, and therefore the understanding of cancer. They published their finding in Science on November 16^th....

Bigneat Ltd, winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise earlier this year, received their Award from Nigel Atkinson Esq, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire on 16th October at the Bigneat factory in Waterlooville.

The Queen’s Award for International Trade has been given to Bigneat in recognition of its outstanding short-term growth in overseas sales over the past three years. Bigneat equipment is used for protection in laboratories undertaking research, experimentation and measurements in biology, chemistry, drug discovery, education, electronics, food, medical, nanotechnology....