Chemical detection innovator secures access to global markets
Early-stage investor Rainbow Seed Fund announces that Oxfordshire-based Cobalt Light Systems, a provider of highly differentiated Raman spectroscopic instruments, has been acquired by Agilent Technologies Inc....
SepSolve Analytical (Peterborough, UK) has announced the appointment of two new staff members to its UK-based GC and GC×GC analytical chemistry business.
Aaron Parker joins SepSolve from the University of York, where he specialised in GC–MS in the field of environmental analytics. As SepSolve’s Applications Manager, he is focused on developing full analytical solutions, from sample preparation to reporting...
DiaSorin and Tecan Group have announced that they have agreed to collaborate in a development under which DiaSorin will make use of Tecan’s Fluent®Laboratory Automation Solution as its nucleic acid extraction platform.
The new platform will be used in combination with the DiaSorin Liaison® MDX PCR system to provide the customer with a complete sample to result system for molecular diagnostics. The Fluent platform, to be supplied through Tecan Partnering, will be optimized for use with DiaSorin extraction chemistry and automated PCR set up of the Liaison MDX 96-well disc....
This year, Laborama launches the second edition of its Lab Automation Day.
A one day event that focusses on the exchange of knowledge regarding everything that relates to automation in the lab. On Thursday the 21st of September, Laborama together with a dozen speakers and 20 specialised companies welcome you on the second edition of the Lab Automation Day...
With over 35 years in the industry, the company is launching www.chromessentials.com to provide better service to the market.
Chromatography Essentials announced the launch of the company’s new online shop. The company has been a leader in the industry for over three decades and is now launching a new website in an effort to provide improved service to those in their market....
Finnish biomedical startup Nightingale Health Ltd announced today CE marking for its blood biomarker analysis platform.
The CE mark enables the clinical use of the analysis service and the analysed measures of creatinine and glucose in the EU region. Nightingale’s goal is to bring dozens of biomarkers included in the analysis platform gradually available for clinical use within the next year....
Innova CEO and CSO Dr. Nick Gee becomes Chief Technical Officer of SYGNIS
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, has announced it has been fully acquired by SYGNIS AG, for EUR 8 million in cash and 3.5 million in shares. Innova’s range of antibody and protein labeling products and services ideally complements SYGNIS’ customer base....
The UK’s premier industrial biotechnology company Ingenza is working with the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Plymouth to develop a design and manufacturing platform for the production of a new family of antibiotics.
The consortium has secured £933k in funding from Innovate UK for work on a novel class of drugs based on bacteriocins – potent toxins produced by bacteria to kill closely-related strains. This unique partnership will combine expertise in biotechnology and synthetic biology with an in-depth understanding of bacteriocins, using an artificial intelligence computing approach to aid the design of the new antimicrobials....
Award entails publication in Science magazine and prize money of U.S. $25,000 - Exceptional scientists are invited to apply
Sartorius, a leading international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment provider, together with the renowned Science magazine will award a Sartorius & Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Therapy...
BioTek Instruments’ Gen5™ Microplate Reader and Imager Software was awarded a SelectScience® Silver “Seal of Quality”
The seal was awarded for Gen5 having consistently received the highest review ratings by the more than 80 users who have reviewed the software to date. Gen5 Microplate Reader and Imager Software integrates with all of BioTek’s imaging and detection systems....
Effective July 1, 2017, Analytik Jena AG is selling all of its shares in AJ Blomesystem GmbH to the GUS Group.
The sale of the previously wholly owned subsidiary and provider of comprehensive laboratory software management and information systems (LIMS) results from the strategic orientation of Analytik Jena AG, which will focus on its core business of lab analysis in the future....
Discovery Park Ltd has begun a significant programme of investment to ensure the science park’s continued success as a global centre for pharmaceutical R&D, technology and business.
Since taking over Discovery Park in November 2016, the new owners have carried out a full operational and strategic review. While honouring the master plan, agreed by Dover District Council in October 2014, the company has started to put their own stamp on the future development of the site....
The Company adds a fifth building in California to expand R&D capabilities
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of cell culture media, has announced the expansion of its Orange County, California offices and laboratories, with the addition of a 40,000 square foot purpose-built R&D center at 17112 Armstrong Ave, Irvine, California....
Innova to continue to provide custom bioconjugation services to support TTP’s Desktop Biology initiative
TTP plc, Europe's leading technology and product development company, announces its ongoing partnership with Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, to enable its rapid point-of-care diagnostics development program....
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its automated air-monitoring systems for both canister and tube sampling have been officially endorsed by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection.
This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). The endorsed technologies, which are based on the company’s UNITY-xr, CIA Advantage and TD100-xr instruments....
Siemens Healthineers brings FTD’s assays and multisyndromic panels onto expanded menu for VERSANT® kPCR Molecular System
In an effort to provide customers with expanded, more comprehensive solutions for molecular testing, Siemens Healthineers announces a new strategic relationship with Fast-track Diagnostics (FTD) that includes the addition of FTD’s broad range of CE-marked kits and multisyndromic panels to the menu of the Siemens Healthineers VERSANT® kPCR Molecular System....
Acquisition strengthens company’s competence and expertise for solving the most challenging photonics applications
AMS Technologies, Europe’s leading solution provider and distributor for optical, power and thermal management technologies, has acquired UK photonics company Elforlight. With access to Elforlight’s know-how, AMS Technologies is now able to realise turnkey solutions, even for particularly challenging problems in the field of optics....
PerkinElmer, Inc. have announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EUROIMMUN Medical Laboratory Diagnostics AG. The agreement provides that PerkinElmer will acquire up to a 100% stake in EUROIMMUN.
The total purchase price of the transaction based on all outstanding shares being acquired will be approximately $1.3 billion in cash.Based in Lübeck, Germany, with approximately 2,400 employees, EUROIMMUN is widely recognized as a global leader in autoimmune testing and an emerging force in infectious disease and allergy testing.....
Provides MSc students with industry-relevant learning tools and pharma with a new pipeline of candidate compounds
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced it had entered into a collaboration with Imperial College London, the world leading science-based research institution and university, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit drug R&D organisation developing new treatments for neglected diseases....
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce a new demonstration capability at their Berlin headquarters.
In collaboration with Abberior Instruments, visitors to JPK's applications facility will be able to see STED capability demonstrated in conjunction with the NanoWizard® AFMs. Following collaboration with Abberior Instruments (Göttingen, Germany), visitors to JPK's facility in Berlin will now be able to see a demonstration of STED capability....
Horizon’s CHO SOURCE Platform now incorporates exclusive ATUM vectors as standard - ATUM has licensed Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform to offer cell line development services with its Leap-In Transposase Technology
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) and Horizon Discovery (LSE: HZD), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, have announced they have signed a cross-license agreement for Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform and ATUM’s vector technology to speed development of highly productive stable cell lines for drug development.....
Early-stage investor Rainbow Seed Fund announces that Oxfordshire-based Cobalt Light Systems, a provider of highly differentiated Raman spectroscopic instruments, has been acquired by Agilent Technologies Inc....
Aaron Parker joins SepSolve from the University of York, where he specialised in GC–MS in the field of environmental analytics. As SepSolve’s Applications Manager, he is focused on developing full analytical solutions, from sample preparation to reporting...
Concept Life Sciences offers tailored preclinical services including integrated drug discovery programs providing its international client base with world class integrated services....
The new platform will be used in combination with the DiaSorin Liaison® MDX PCR system to provide the customer with a complete sample to result system for molecular diagnostics. The Fluent platform, to be supplied through Tecan Partnering, will be optimized for use with DiaSorin extraction chemistry and automated PCR set up of the Liaison MDX 96-well disc....
A one day event that focusses on the exchange of knowledge regarding everything that relates to automation in the lab. On Thursday the 21st of September, Laborama together with a dozen speakers and 20 specialised companies welcome you on the second edition of the Lab Automation Day...
Chromatography Essentials announced the launch of the company’s new online shop. The company has been a leader in the industry for over three decades and is now launching a new website in an effort to provide improved service to those in their market....
The CE mark enables the clinical use of the analysis service and the analysed measures of creatinine and glucose in the EU region. Nightingale’s goal is to bring dozens of biomarkers included in the analysis platform gradually available for clinical use within the next year....
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, has announced it has been fully acquired by SYGNIS AG, for EUR 8 million in cash and 3.5 million in shares. Innova’s range of antibody and protein labeling products and services ideally complements SYGNIS’ customer base....
Sartorius, a leading international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment provider, together with the renowned Science magazine will award a Sartorius & Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Therapy...
The seal was awarded for Gen5 having consistently received the highest review ratings by the more than 80 users who have reviewed the software to date. Gen5 Microplate Reader and Imager Software integrates with all of BioTek’s imaging and detection systems....
The sale of the previously wholly owned subsidiary and provider of comprehensive laboratory software management and information systems (LIMS) results from the strategic orientation of Analytik Jena AG, which will focus on its core business of lab analysis in the future....
Since taking over Discovery Park in November 2016, the new owners have carried out a full operational and strategic review. While honouring the master plan, agreed by Dover District Council in October 2014, the company has started to put their own stamp on the future development of the site....
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of cell culture media, has announced the expansion of its Orange County, California offices and laboratories, with the addition of a 40,000 square foot purpose-built R&D center at 17112 Armstrong Ave, Irvine, California....
TTP plc, Europe's leading technology and product development company, announces its ongoing partnership with Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, to enable its rapid point-of-care diagnostics development program....
This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). The endorsed technologies, which are based on the company’s UNITY-xr, CIA Advantage and TD100-xr instruments....
In an effort to provide customers with expanded, more comprehensive solutions for molecular testing, Siemens Healthineers announces a new strategic relationship with Fast-track Diagnostics (FTD) that includes the addition of FTD’s broad range of CE-marked kits and multisyndromic panels to the menu of the Siemens Healthineers VERSANT® kPCR Molecular System....
AMS Technologies, Europe’s leading solution provider and distributor for optical, power and thermal management technologies, has acquired UK photonics company Elforlight. With access to Elforlight’s know-how, AMS Technologies is now able to realise turnkey solutions, even for particularly challenging problems in the field of optics....
The total purchase price of the transaction based on all outstanding shares being acquired will be approximately $1.3 billion in cash.
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced it had entered into a collaboration with Imperial College London, the world leading science-based research institution and university, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit drug R&D organisation developing new treatments for neglected diseases....
In collaboration with Abberior Instruments, visitors to JPK's applications facility will be able to see STED capability demonstrated in conjunction with the NanoWizard® AFMs. Following collaboration with Abberior Instruments (Göttingen, Germany), visitors to JPK's facility in Berlin will now be able to see a demonstration of STED capability....
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) and Horizon Discovery (LSE: HZD), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, have announced they have signed a cross-license agreement for Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform and ATUM’s vector technology to speed development of highly productive stable cell lines for drug development.....