Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed-water analysis instrumentation and software, recently has been awarded three U.S. patents covering a spectrum of analysis technologies ranging from portable instruments and software to online sensors.
Patent US9228956, “In-situ fluid analysis sensor bolt” describes an innovative online fluid sensor based on a bolt that is engineered to permit fluid to flow through and across its stem past integrated source and detector electronics....
Copley Scientific, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of inhaler testing equipment, and a leading manufacturer of equipment for testing other pharmaceutical dosage forms, continues to grow its international customer base and expand its range of innovative products.
Copley is investing heavily into infrastructure, by expanding its UK HQ to reinforce the company’s export base, which currently supplies to over 90 countries globally. The investment also encompasses recruitment, with the current focus on strengthening customer facing teams....
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee invites contributions to its new inquiry - Life Sciences and the Industrial Strategy.
The Government set out in its Industrial Strategy Green Paper its intention to create a new Life Sciences strategy to make the UK the best place in the world to invest in life sciences. To tackle challenges like cancer and dementia it is important that the UK has a strong life sciences sector.....
BioTek Instruments will be recognized as a 2017 Vermont Business Growth Award winner at a ceremony to be held September 12, 2017 at The Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, in Burlington, VT.
This award is sponsored by Vermont Business Magazine and KeyBank, and is presented to the five Vermont businesses that have experienced the greatest growth over the past five years in various business categories.....
Lab Innovations 2017 – the UK’s only dedicated showcase for laboratory technology, analytical and biotech equipment – is pleased to welcome Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), Eppendorf and GS Biotech to the NEC, Birmingham, on the 1st and 2nd of November.
The UK’s largest independent supplier of scientific products, SLS, is returning for its third consecutive year, as Josh Chapman, marketing director, explained: “Exhibiting at Lab Innovations is a great opportunity to meet with our customers and procurement partners from a variety of industries, and engage with members of our network of over 1,500 suppliers....
Antimicrobial resistance Biopharma selects StarDrop to guide discovery of next generation of antibiotics
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Bugworks Research Inc. (Bugworks), a company focused on discovering biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of critical and serious bacterial infections, today announced the signing of a two-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software....
SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and EVOSCIENCES, a world leader in management of high technology equipment, announced today that SCIEX mass spectrometry systems are now available to purchase through a wide range of flexible financing packages.
With these financing packages, SCIEX equipment is now accessible to a broader range of customers including those with limited or short-term mass spectrometry needs. The financing packages will also allow for greater flexibility meaning customers will easily be able to change from a previous contract and upgrade to new SCIEX technologies when they become available....
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and other database management applications, has moved into larger premises in Lakeville Corporate Park, Lakeville, MA.
This expansion of the US operation follows a similar move by the UK headquarters of Autoscribe Informatics into bigger offices in December 2017. Kristine Joyce, Operations Manager for Autoscribe Informatics in the US, explained....
Unite, the country’s largest union, will meet with senior management at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), following the news that the company announced a significant change of investment direction in the UK, including a potential 240 job losses at the firm’s Worthing plant in Sussex.
Unite regional officer Mick Pollek said: “This is both extremely concerning news – and potentially devastating for the workers and their families as it appeared that GSK was investing significantly at the Worthing operation, and now these job losses are suddenly announced.” ....
New offering will include integrated and comprehensive product development services for fast tracking innovation, progressing ideas into commercial products
TTP plc, a leading technology and product development company, and New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB®), an industry leader in the discovery and production of enzymes for molecular biology applications, announce that they have established a non-exclusive partnership...
The Program Committee is pleased to announce that the 2014 Nobel Laureate, Stefan Hell, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, will deliver the Plenary Lecture at Pittcon 2018....
A senior academic at Robert Gordon University (RGU) has been handed a prestigious honour by a national pharmaceutical body.
Professor Donald Cairns, Head of the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, has recently been selected to be named an Eminent Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS). The appointment will be formally recognised at the Academy’s formal black tie dinner held as part of the PharmSci conference at the University of Hertfordshire....
The Pittcon Exposition Committee is now accepting booth space reservations for Pittcon 2018, which will be held February 27 to March 1. The discounted rate of $2,600 for a standard 10’ x 10’ space is available to all exhibitors until September 8, 2017...
University of Leicester 37th place in clinical medicine by ShanghaiRanking
An international league table has ranked the University of Leicester amongst the top fifty in the world for Clinical Medicine. The ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2017, released on 28 June, contains rankings of universities in 52 subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences.....
Spectro Scientific has been awarded three U.S. patents covering a spectrum of analysis technologies ranging from portable instruments and software to online sensors.
Patent US9228956, “In-situ fluid analysis sensor bolt” describes an innovative online fluid sensor based on a bolt that is engineered to permit fluid to flow through and across its stem past integrated source and detector electronics....
LGC, the international life sciences and measurement testing company, is pleased to announce that its world-renowned range of proficiency testing (PT) schemes is now available via its LGC Standards web shop.
Proficiency Testing, often referred to as external quality assessment in the medical and clinical arena, is a key element in the laboratory accreditation process, providing laboratories with an independent performance assessment to enable them monitor the quality of their analytical results as stipulated in ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 15189....
Second-generation family company, wins 4 business awards including 2 at the KEiBAs
The Kent Excellence in Business Awards (KEiBA) is an annual awards ceremony organised by Kent County Council and KM Media Group. Now in its 9th year, the awards were established to recognise and reward excellence and achievements by companies across Kent....
BioCity's new £30 million ‘Discovery Building', providing 50,000 sq ft of high-tech biology and chemistry laboratories, has opened in Nottingham.
The building is expected to support more than 700 new bioscience roles in Nottingham over the next 30 years, cementing the city's position as the UK's fastest growing life sciences community. The high-tech biology and chemistry laboratories and office space is split across five-storeys....
Leading British autoclave specialist Priorclave is delighted to announce their appointment of Barbra Wells as President and CEO to head up its American operation.
She joined the North American organisation three years ago, predominantly in a marketing role and has been instrumental in driving the growth of the company in the States. For this leading British autoclave design and manufacturing specialist Priorclave, America is rapidly becoming one of its major overseas success stories....
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, announces the completion of licensing agreements with all joint patent holders to provide exclusive worldwide rights to a novel transposon-based gene editing technology platform.
The license broadens Horizon’s gene editing capabilities, with immediate applications in biomanufacturing, diagnostics and cell therapy. This release follows an announcement on 22 May 2017 describing Horizon gaining initial rights to this technology....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and SRI International, a research center that creates world-changing solutions, have announced the results of a collaboration agreement.
The agreement enables researchers to combine the results of high-resolution Orbitrap LC/MS experiments with highly curated and organism-specific metabolic pathway and genome data for quick and effective mass spectrometry-based small molecule research and analysis....
The Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship 2017, sponsored by Dolomite Microfluidics and Lab on a Chip, has been awarded to Professor Aaron Wheeler in recognition of his contribution to digital microfluidics, a technique which involves manipulating of discrete microfluidic droplets on the surface of an array of electrodes coated with a hydrophobic insulator.
Professor Wheeler is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has been the Canada Research Chair of Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Toronto since 2005. He will receive a certificate, a $2,000 prize and the opportunity to present a short lecture at the 2017 MicroTAS conference, which runs from the 22nd to the 26th of October at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center in Georgia, USA. All registered MicroTAS participants are invited...
Patent US9228956, “In-situ fluid analysis sensor bolt” describes an innovative online fluid sensor based on a bolt that is engineered to permit fluid to flow through and across its stem past integrated source and detector electronics....
Copley is investing heavily into infrastructure, by expanding its UK HQ to reinforce the company’s export base, which currently supplies to over 90 countries globally. The investment also encompasses recruitment, with the current focus on strengthening customer facing teams....
The Government set out in its Industrial Strategy Green Paper its intention to create a new Life Sciences strategy to make the UK the best place in the world to invest in life sciences. To tackle challenges like cancer and dementia it is important that the UK has a strong life sciences sector.....
This award is sponsored by Vermont Business Magazine and KeyBank, and is presented to the five Vermont businesses that have experienced the greatest growth over the past five years in various business categories.....
The UK’s largest independent supplier of scientific products, SLS, is returning for its third consecutive year, as Josh Chapman, marketing director, explained: “Exhibiting at Lab Innovations is a great opportunity to meet with our customers and procurement partners from a variety of industries, and engage with members of our network of over 1,500 suppliers....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Bugworks Research Inc. (Bugworks), a company focused on discovering biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of critical and serious bacterial infections, today announced the signing of a two-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software....
With these financing packages, SCIEX equipment is now accessible to a broader range of customers including those with limited or short-term mass spectrometry needs. The financing packages will also allow for greater flexibility meaning customers will easily be able to change from a previous contract and upgrade to new SCIEX technologies when they become available....
This expansion of the US operation follows a similar move by the UK headquarters of Autoscribe Informatics into bigger offices in December 2017. Kristine Joyce, Operations Manager for Autoscribe Informatics in the US, explained....
Unite regional officer Mick Pollek said: “This is both extremely concerning news – and potentially devastating for the workers and their families as it appeared that GSK was investing significantly at the Worthing operation, and now these job losses are suddenly announced.” ....
TTP plc, a leading technology and product development company, and New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB®), an industry leader in the discovery and production of enzymes for molecular biology applications, announce that they have established a non-exclusive partnership...
The Program Committee is pleased to announce that the 2014 Nobel Laureate, Stefan Hell, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, will deliver the Plenary Lecture at Pittcon 2018....
Professor Donald Cairns, Head of the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, has recently been selected to be named an Eminent Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS). The appointment will be formally recognised at the Academy’s formal black tie dinner held as part of the PharmSci conference at the University of Hertfordshire....
The Pittcon Exposition Committee is now accepting booth space reservations for Pittcon 2018, which will be held February 27 to March 1. The discounted rate of $2,600 for a standard 10’ x 10’ space is available to all exhibitors until September 8, 2017...
An international league table has ranked the University of Leicester amongst the top fifty in the world for Clinical Medicine. The ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2017, released on 28 June, contains rankings of universities in 52 subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences.....
Proficiency Testing, often referred to as external quality assessment in the medical and clinical arena, is a key element in the laboratory accreditation process, providing laboratories with an independent performance assessment to enable them monitor the quality of their analytical results as stipulated in ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 15189....
The Kent Excellence in Business Awards (KEiBA) is an annual awards ceremony organised by Kent County Council and KM Media Group. Now in its 9th year, the awards were established to recognise and reward excellence and achievements by companies across Kent....
The building is expected to support more than 700 new bioscience roles in Nottingham over the next 30 years, cementing the city's position as the UK's fastest growing life sciences community. The high-tech biology and chemistry laboratories and office space is split across five-storeys....
She joined the North American organisation three years ago, predominantly in a marketing role and has been instrumental in driving the growth of the company in the States. For this leading British autoclave design and manufacturing specialist Priorclave, America is rapidly becoming one of its major overseas success stories....
The license broadens Horizon’s gene editing capabilities, with immediate applications in biomanufacturing, diagnostics and cell therapy. This release follows an announcement on 22 May 2017 describing Horizon gaining initial rights to this technology....
The agreement enables researchers to combine the results of high-resolution Orbitrap LC/MS experiments with highly curated and organism-specific metabolic pathway and genome data for quick and effective mass spectrometry-based small molecule research and analysis....
Professor Wheeler is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has been the Canada Research Chair of Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Toronto since 2005. He will receive a certificate, a $2,000 prize and the opportunity to present a short lecture at the 2017 MicroTAS conference, which runs from the 22nd to the 26th of October at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center in Georgia, USA. All registered MicroTAS participants are invited...