Market leading innovator in laboratory digital transformation, Scitara, has announced a collaboration with scientific analytical technology leader, PerkinElmer. The move will support the integration of the PerkinElmer® Signals Research Suite™ informatics platform, which provides seamless, end-to-end scientific data and workflow management, with laboratory instruments, applications and resources via the Scitara Scientific Integration Platform™ SIP™...
Deadly and currently undruggable cancer proteins will be the focus of a new research centre dedicated to opening up new approaches to cancer treatment, and made possible by a major philanthropic donation. Scientists at the centre will accelerate research in one of the most promising new areas of drug discovery – targeted protein degradation – to discover new research tools and new treatments for hard-to-treat cancers that can work highly precisely...
Analytik Jena has announced that its annual Science Awards have been awarded for work that employed Analytik Jena solutions in the fields of chemical analysis and molecular biology. Richard Pabst was recognized with the award for “Best Scientific Paper in the Field of Molecular Biology”. In his paper "Modern Species Conservation Using eDNA Analysis”, he explains the potential of PCR analysis in the detection of endangered species in their biotopes....
Cresset Discovery, provider of CADD expertise for drug discovery, is collaborating with the Translation team at The Francis Crick Institute as expert computational chemist in residence. Computational chemistry is a powerful method in tool development and drug discovery. It enables chemists to predict the physical properties and biological activity of compounds prior to synthesis and analysis, saving significant time and money by removing unnecessary wet chemistry...
Agilent Technologies announce that it has become a member of the Advanced Mammalian Biomanufacturing Innovation Center (AMBIC). Joining AMBIC demonstrates the company’s commitment to partnering to support the provision of the next generation of analytical tools and comprehensive solutions needed by academic, pharmaceutical, and clinical researchers...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, launches its newest project: IDMP Common Core Ontology. The project will augment the existing Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) framework (ISO 11615:2021) defined by the International Standards Organization. The project team will devise a common core ontology under FAIR data principles to enable semantic interoperability and consistent representation of medicinal products...
We'd like to let you know that Lab Innovations South will now be hosted virtually - and you are invited to join in and listen to what the world-class speakers have to say on the latest developments in the life sciences! Hear from the likes of AstraZeneca, UCL, Avantor, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Queen's Medical Research Institute and more...
IonSense Inc., the innovator of ambient DART™ (Direct Analysis in Real Time) ionization technology, announces that it has been acquired by Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR). The deal provides IonSense with the financial investments to ramp up development of the DART ionization source technology and increase efforts in developing applications in the applied markets, including food analysis and forensics...
Microbiology laboratories invited to see how they can eliminate risk of sample bags leaking and bursting during disposal. Seward, the world’s leader in sample preparation, is inviting microbiology laboratories to trial its newly launchedStomacher® 3500 autoclavable paddle blender bag at no cost. Thanks to its unique material composition, the new autoclavable bag is the first paddle blender bag that can survive irradiation, Stomaching and the autoclave disposal cycle without losing its integrity....
Gilson, a leader in liquid handling technology, has announced that PIPETMAN® L multichannel pipettes featuring V-rings were awarded a Red Dot Award: Product Design 2022. The PIPETMAN L multichannel pipettes equipped with V-rings were a group of products that stood out among a record number of entries evaluated by an international jury. Since 1993, the Red Dot Award has come to represent high standards of design quality....
ISC 2022 is the first significant live event since 2019, covering all fields of chromatography and separation science with a large scale of techniques and applications. The major focus of the symposium will be on the impact of chromatography and separation science to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical, environmental, food and health industry as well as chemical science and medicine...
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) announced the completion of the separation of its Scientific Solutions business to a wholly-owned subsidiary, Evident Corporation (“Evident”). Following the divestiture of its Imaging business, this move further signifies the company’s long-term strategy to cement its position as a major player in the medtech industry...
Companies around the world continue to show strong interest in the Biomek NGeniuS Next Generation Library Prep System from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and seek to develop demonstrated applications on this easy-to-use new NGS automation platform, which reduces errors and minimizes hands-on time. Following a successful unveiling to the media and lab researchers at last month’s Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) International Conference & Exhibition in Boston, the company announces...
Hamburg-based life science company Eppendorf has launched a comprehensive support package for refugees from Ukraine. The program is designed to provide rapid and uncomplicated assistance to those in need of protection. It includes a cash donation of 100,000 euros to the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, as well as an internal company aid program. This enables European Eppendorf employees to take time off with continued payment of wages and salaries to get involved in refugee relief, if they wish to do so...
TestRAMP, the UK marketplace for Covid-19 PCR testing, is launching a new service for genomic testing and profiling of other diseases. Mike Hudson, CEO, said “We want to put the experience of working with the UK’s top genetic and genomic laboratories to good use. Covid testing grew the capacity and expertise of PCR and genomic sequencing labs – now they are well placed to offer molecular testing for other serious diseases”...
GenNext Technologies, Inc., announce the receipt of a two year, Phase II SBIR grant for a project titled "In-Cell Automated Flash Oxidation (IC-AutoFox™) Protein Footprinting System." The grant was awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Systems (NIGMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The purpose of the grant is to extend GenNext’s breakthrough Hydroxyl Radical Protein Footprinting (HRPF) technology and methods to studies involving living cells...
The surge in demand brought about by COVID-19 is pushing medical and non-medical laboratories to their limits, the head of a laboratory supplies company has said, with concerns that clinical laboratories have been favoured due to the pandemic. The Starlab Group, a European supplier of laboratory products with a UK division, conducted a survey of more than 200 laboratory employees from the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy and France...
The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK has announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) with the appointment of senior drug discovery experts Dr Chas Bountra OBE, Dr Richard Eglen, Steve Rees OBE, Dr Cathy Tralau-Stewart, and Dr Ian Waddell. The SAB will help the organisation continue to deliver reliable, cutting-edge content to the life science and drug discovery communities, driving collaboration and knowledge exchange between academic and biopharma industry thought-leaders...
FOx BIOSYSTEMS, a company on the mission to revolutionize life science and pharmacological research with innovative real-time, analysis products and the Biosensors research group at KU Leuven, focused on developing innovative bio-molecular detection concepts and miniaturized analysis systems, announced a novel, label-free assay that can characterize the polyclonal antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 directly in patient blood...
Autoscribe Informatics will be demonstrating the flexibility of Matrix Gemini LIMS at Lab Innovations South, a one-day conference for laboratory professionals in the South-East of the UK. Attendees will be able to see multiple systems including LIMS for pharmaceutical manufacturing, biobank management, drug stability studies, and general QC flows. Uniquely, all these systems use the same software. No code is added or changed...
Whitby based company Natures Laboratory has just received a major funding award worth over 180K from Innovate UK to develop new ways in which propolis – a natural antibiotic produced by bees – can be used to help meet the worldwide crisis in antibiotic resistance. WHO (World Health Organisation) put antibiotic resistance in its top ten global public health threats. The harsh reality is that the drugs don’t work anymore. We are now facing infections where no antibiotics can help...