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...
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....
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.....
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....
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...
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....