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.....
Lab Innovations – the UK’s only dedicated showcase for laboratory technology, analytical and biotech equipment – returns for its sixth consecutive year on 1& 2 November 2017 at the NEC, Birmingham.
With the largest gathering of laboratory suppliers in the UK, this free-to-attend show has lots on offer for professionals across a wide range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals to food and drink. Lab Innovations continues its strong links with the scientific community....
Waters Collaborates With IonSense on Direct Analysis for Mass Detection Waters and IonSense Exploring the Possibilities Enabled by Coupling the IonSense DART Source to the Waters ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) have announced a collaborative engagement with IonSense (Saugus, Mass.) to interface the compact Waters® ACQUITY® QDa® Mass Detector with the IonSense® DART® ionization source....
SepSolve Analytical has announced a change in its business operations that greatly expand its capability to offer full instrument packages to the analytical chemistry community, with a focus on two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) for challenging applications.
Founded in early 2016, SepSolve was originally launched to offer advice on sampling, separation and detection methodologies for GC and GC×GC analysis. Since that time, SepSolve’s GC×GC flow modulator, INSIGHT™....
Leaders in NGS tools collaborate to deliver robust multiplexing capabilities and streamline target enrichment methods
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) have announced a broad partnership with Illumina, Inc. to provide improved library preparation multiplexing and target enrichment solutions for the next generation sequencing (NGS) market....
Dr Graeme Clark PHD has joined Concept Life Sciences Dundee as Director of Analytical Services and DMPK.
Concept Life Sciences offers tailored preclinical services in areas including investigative and mechanistic toxicology, exploratory and discovery toxicology, PK and metabolism and dermal absorption, as well as providing integrated drug discovery programs....
Strategic commercial partnership in key European markets
SpeeDx Pty, Ltd. today announced an agreement with Cepheid for distribution of its PlexPCRTM and ResistancePlusTMmolecular diagnostic products in key markets throughout Europe. The agreement, covering Germany, France, Italy, and the UK, will increase coverage for the market-leading ResistancePlus MG test, the first CE-IVD test for Mycoplasma genitalium to combine detection with testing for azithromycin resistance....
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Sysmex Corporation (Sysmex), a Japanese in vitro diagnostic company.
Sysmex will acquire all of OGT’s shares, gaining access to OGT’s genetic analysis technologies and expertise in the cytogenetics domain. OGT will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sysmex. Further terms of the agreement are not being disclosed....
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier to the biopharmaceutical industry, has announced an agreement with Nova Biomedical (Nova), a well-known US manufacturer of cell culture analyzers, to integrate their BioProfile® FLEX2 into the ambr® multi-parallel bioreactor systems for automated, at-line cell culture analytics.
SSB and Nova are collaborating to combine two highly innovative technologies. Both the BioProfile® FLEX2 analyzer and the parallel bioprocessing functionality of the ambr® create a unique tool able to simultaneously run, sample and analyze a massive number of cell culture conditions during high-throughput cell line, media and process development by Design of Experiments (DoE).
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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.....
With the largest gathering of laboratory suppliers in the UK, this free-to-attend show has lots on offer for professionals across a wide range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals to food and drink. Lab Innovations continues its strong links with the scientific community....
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) have announced a collaborative engagement with IonSense (Saugus, Mass.) to interface the compact Waters® ACQUITY® QDa® Mass Detector with the IonSense® DART® ionization source....
Founded in early 2016, SepSolve was originally launched to offer advice on sampling, separation and detection methodologies for GC and GC×GC analysis. Since that time, SepSolve’s GC×GC flow modulator, INSIGHT™....
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) have announced a broad partnership with Illumina, Inc. to provide improved library preparation multiplexing and target enrichment solutions for the next generation sequencing (NGS) market....
Concept Life Sciences offers tailored preclinical services in areas including investigative and mechanistic toxicology, exploratory and discovery toxicology, PK and metabolism and dermal absorption, as well as providing integrated drug discovery programs....
SpeeDx Pty, Ltd. today announced an agreement with Cepheid for distribution of its PlexPCRTM and ResistancePlusTMmolecular diagnostic products in key markets throughout Europe. The agreement, covering Germany, France, Italy, and the UK, will increase coverage for the market-leading ResistancePlus MG test, the first CE-IVD test for Mycoplasma genitalium to combine detection with testing for azithromycin resistance....
Sysmex will acquire all of OGT’s shares, gaining access to OGT’s genetic analysis technologies and expertise in the cytogenetics domain. OGT will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sysmex. Further terms of the agreement are not being disclosed....
SSB and Nova are collaborating to combine two highly innovative technologies. Both the BioProfile® FLEX2 analyzer and the parallel bioprocessing functionality of the ambr® create a unique tool able to simultaneously run, sample and analyze a massive number of cell culture conditions during high-throughput cell line, media and process development by Design of Experiments (DoE).