Bigneat Ltd has been announced winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2017 – the UK’s highest accolade for business success.
Bigneat, an established manufacturer and leading provider of safety cabinets, hoods and enclosures for science and industry, has been awarded the Queen’s Award for International Trade in recognition of its Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the past three years....
Besides branches in Singapore, Russia, China and France now FRITSCH opened its first subsidiary in the US: Fritsch Milling and Sizing Inc.
For a long time we have been serving customers in the USA but in order to meet the demands of our customers in a growing market it was time to have a FRITSCH branch directly in the US. The new FRITSCH Headquarters USA is located in North Carolina and is part of the so called “Research Triangle” consisting of numerous research institutes, established companies as well as renowned universities....
Science World, the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience, broadened its audience in Germany by going to Kap Europa, Messe Frankfurt on 9 May.
The event, hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific, showcased the latest in laboratory innovations available through the Fisher Scientific channel. Thousands of products were available for attendees to experience, making it an ideal event for anyone working in or around a laboratory....
Cloud-based imaging technology delivers compliant results without typical human bias
ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced the acquisition of ImageIQ, originally established as Cleveland Clinic’s Biomedical Imaging and Analysis Center. The acquisition enables ERT to offer advanced, end-to-end clinical trial imaging analysis using best-in-class technology that delivers compliant data for use in clinical development. “After conducting an exhaustive industry search...
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) announced today that the company has signed a patent licensing agreement that gives Thermo Fisher Scientific access to the company’s novel gene design platform. "Most people think visually, so seeing a graphic representation of a sequence is very helpful in the design process,” said Alan Villalobos...
The Native Antigen Company (NAC) announce that it has relocated into larger facilities, in Oxfordshire, UK
The new building has purpose-built laboratories and doubles the Company’s manufacturing capacity. This will increase the speed of new product development within NAC’s core business of infectious disease antigens and antibodies. The new laboratory space also enables NAC to add custom immunoassays to its offering to support customer’s ELISA assay and lateral flow device requirements....
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, announced the launch of a full range of chemistry testing services.
Offered by its subsidiary BioOutsource, they characterize the physicochemical properties and structural attributes of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The service platform methods have been developed to ensure rapid sample analysis and reporting for mAbs and biosimilars....
Analytik are pleased to announce their appointment as exclusive distributors for Nanophoton, Japanese manufacturers of innovative, benchtop Raman imaging systems for both industrial and research laboratories.
Nanophoton is a manufacturer of high performance analytical and imaging instruments with major focus on innovative Raman systems by using most up-to-date photonics and nanotechnology. Nanophoton’s instruments include high performance Raman Imaging Systems, fast Raman Screening Systems...
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. held an opening ceremony on May 9 for the Electron Microscopy Center of Excellence at the KAUST campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
This new center builds upon the long-standing partnership between KAUST and Thermo Fisher, and will focus on excellence in instrument performance and R&D collaboration. The Center of Excellence aims to offer KAUST scientists and collaborators exploration and experimentation capabilities through Thermo Fisher’s leading electron microscopy platform...
Isogenica Ltd, a leader in the design and construction of innovative and highly diverse synthetic antibody libraries, announces the availability of its new fully synthetic, human Fab fragment library.
An announcement was made at the 13th annual PEGS meeting in Boston, MA by Guy Hermans, Isogenica’s CSO, who commented: “This novel fully synthetic antibody library, built using the company’s DNA library synthesis method (COLIBRA™), takes advantage of the most up to date understanding of the human antibody repertoire. Combining massive sequence diversity and dispersity with high functionality and developability, it offers the most efficient route to...
Powder characterisation specialists, Freeman Technology, continues to expand their global presence with the establishment of an operation in Japan and the appointment of Takashi Nishimura as Product Manager.
Based in Kobe City, Mr Nishimura has over 10 years of experience working in the analytical instrumentation industry and will provide sales and customer support in the region....
MR Solutions will be showing their latest state of the art 3T to 9.4T superconducting, cryogen-free MRI imaging technology with optional PET and SPECT imaging modalities at the 16th annual World Preclinical Congress in Boston.
The congress focusses on the very latest trends and technologies impacting the preclinical drug discovery and development world. MR Solutions’ preclinical imaging systems are revolutionising drug discovery by providing better scanners with a more viable footprint by doing away with all the equipment and building modifications required for liquid helium cooled machines....
ResistancePlus™ MG Test would bring disease and antibiotic resistance testing for potential “superbug”
SpeeDx Pty. Ltd., a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, has signed an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. The announcement was made at the 27thEuropean Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) in Vienna
Read MoreWellcome Trust Backs Dundee and GSK in Quest to find new Drugs for Neglected DiseasesMay 30, 2017
The University of Dundee has been awarded £7.9 million by the Wellcome Trust for a joint project with GSK to boost efforts to find new drugs to treat some of the world’s most devastating parasitic diseases including visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, and Chagas’ disease.
These neglected diseases cause substantial suffering and an estimated 60,000 deaths annually world-wide. The funding will enable the established Dundee/GSK team to continue their work to develop novel drugs to treat these diseases over the next five years....
Award for international trade recognises outstanding, world-class drug development services
The Prime Minister’s office has announced that Propath, a trusted specialist in molecular pathology for biopharmaceutical research and development, is to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the company’s exceptional contribution to the UK’s Life Sciences sector....
The new £multi-million food and health research centre that will become the state-of-the-art home for the Quadram Institute is on schedule to be complete by mid-2018.
As a first step to realising the ambition of the Quadram Institute, the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has realigned its science strategy to deliver to the vision of the new Institute. In preparation for the full opening of the Quadram Institute in 2018, IFR will transition into Quadram Institute Bioscience....
Important value inflection point validating commercial potential of Affimer technology and Company's business model
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, is pleased to report that an evaluation of the Affimer technology by a large, global diagnostics developer has concluded successfully and that the third party has taken exclusive rights to several Affimer reagents....
BioTek Instruments continues to strengthen their commitment to sustainability by announcing the opening of their second solar facility.
In addition to the company’s existing 500 kilowatt solar farm in Whiting, Vermont, a new, 88 kilowatt photovoltaic solar energy farm is now on line in Milton, Vermont....
Greiner Bio-One invests in a new high-bay warehouse at its Frickenhausen site
Greiner Bio-One GmbH is constructing a new high-bay warehouse at its home base in Frickenhausen. The new 29-metre-high construction will replace the current high-bay warehouse, which is no longer capable of dealing with the greatly increased warehouse technology and capacity requirements....
Agreement includes exclusive distribution of PurePep Coupling Agents in North America
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Luxembourg Bio Technologies for two of its proprietary coupling agents, PyOxim® and K-Oxyma®, and HDMA on a non-exclusive basis...
Researchers in Switzerland no longer need to import IDT products; local expertise facilitates ordering
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), has signed a distributor agreement with LubioScience GmbH (LubioScience), based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Through LubioScience, researchers in Switzerland will benefit from local access to IDT’s full range of high quality reagents for genomics research...
Merck has announced that BioInvent International AB, a Swedish company which develops novel immuno-regulatory antibodies to treat cancer, is upgrading and expanding its drug manufacturing facility with a full line of Merck’s Mobius® single-use bioreactors.
BioInvent will add 3-, 50-, 200- and 1000-liter bioreactors to its upstream facility in Lund, Sweden, expanding capacity and improving flexibility and scalability....
Bigneat, an established manufacturer and leading provider of safety cabinets, hoods and enclosures for science and industry, has been awarded the Queen’s Award for International Trade in recognition of its Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the past three years....
For a long time we have been serving customers in the USA but in order to meet the demands of our customers in a growing market it was time to have a FRITSCH branch directly in the US. The new FRITSCH Headquarters USA is located in North Carolina and is part of the so called “Research Triangle” consisting of numerous research institutes, established companies as well as renowned universities....
The event, hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific, showcased the latest in laboratory innovations available through the Fisher Scientific channel. Thousands of products were available for attendees to experience, making it an ideal event for anyone working in or around a laboratory....
ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced the acquisition of ImageIQ, originally established as Cleveland Clinic’s Biomedical Imaging and Analysis Center. The acquisition enables ERT to offer advanced, end-to-end clinical trial imaging analysis using best-in-class technology that delivers compliant data for use in clinical development. “After conducting an exhaustive industry search...
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) announced today that the company has signed a patent licensing agreement that gives Thermo Fisher Scientific access to the company’s novel gene design platform. "Most people think visually, so seeing a graphic representation of a sequence is very helpful in the design process,” said Alan Villalobos...
The new building has purpose-built laboratories and doubles the Company’s manufacturing capacity. This will increase the speed of new product development within NAC’s core business of infectious disease antigens and antibodies. The new laboratory space also enables NAC to add custom immunoassays to its offering to support customer’s ELISA assay and lateral flow device requirements....
Offered by its subsidiary BioOutsource, they characterize the physicochemical properties and structural attributes of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The service platform methods have been developed to ensure rapid sample analysis and reporting for mAbs and biosimilars....
This new center builds upon the long-standing partnership between KAUST and Thermo Fisher, and will focus on excellence in instrument performance and R&D collaboration. The Center of Excellence aims to offer KAUST scientists and collaborators exploration and experimentation capabilities through Thermo Fisher’s leading electron microscopy platform...
An announcement was made at the 13th annual PEGS meeting in Boston, MA by Guy Hermans, Isogenica’s CSO, who commented: “This novel fully synthetic antibody library, built using the company’s DNA library synthesis method (COLIBRA™), takes advantage of the most up to date understanding of the human antibody repertoire. Combining massive sequence diversity and dispersity with high functionality and developability, it offers the most efficient route to...
Based in Kobe City, Mr Nishimura has over 10 years of experience working in the analytical instrumentation industry and will provide sales and customer support in the region....
The congress focusses on the very latest trends and technologies impacting the preclinical drug discovery and development world. MR Solutions’ preclinical imaging systems are revolutionising drug discovery by providing better scanners with a more viable footprint by doing away with all the equipment and building modifications required for liquid helium cooled machines....
SpeeDx Pty. Ltd., a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, has signed an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. The announcement was made at the 27thEuropean Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) in Vienna
These neglected diseases cause substantial suffering and an estimated 60,000 deaths annually world-wide. The funding will enable the established Dundee/GSK team to continue their work to develop novel drugs to treat these diseases over the next five years....
The Prime Minister’s office has announced that Propath, a trusted specialist in molecular pathology for biopharmaceutical research and development, is to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the company’s exceptional contribution to the UK’s Life Sciences sector....
As a first step to realising the ambition of the Quadram Institute, the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has realigned its science strategy to deliver to the vision of the new Institute. In preparation for the full opening of the Quadram Institute in 2018, IFR will transition into Quadram Institute Bioscience....
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, is pleased to report that an evaluation of the Affimer technology by a large, global diagnostics developer has concluded successfully and that the third party has taken exclusive rights to several Affimer reagents....
In addition to the company’s existing 500 kilowatt solar farm in Whiting, Vermont, a new, 88 kilowatt photovoltaic solar energy farm is now on line in Milton, Vermont....
Greiner Bio-One GmbH is constructing a new high-bay warehouse at its home base in Frickenhausen. The new 29-metre-high construction will replace the current high-bay warehouse, which is no longer capable of dealing with the greatly increased warehouse technology and capacity requirements....
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Luxembourg Bio Technologies for two of its proprietary coupling agents, PyOxim® and K-Oxyma®, and HDMA on a non-exclusive basis...
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), has signed a distributor agreement with LubioScience GmbH (LubioScience), based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Through LubioScience, researchers in Switzerland will benefit from local access to IDT’s full range of high quality reagents for genomics research...
BioInvent will add 3-, 50-, 200- and 1000-liter bioreactors to its upstream facility in Lund, Sweden, expanding capacity and improving flexibility and scalability....