BioAscent supplies screening plates on demand to provide flexible and cost-effective management of solid and liquid compounds
BioAscent Discovery and Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, part of the Merz Pharma Group, have entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA), under which BioAscent provides a comprehensive outsourced compound management service for a significant part of Merz Pharmaceutical’s compound collection, in both solid and liquid forms....
Highlighting Olympus’ workflow-oriented design quality across its range of life science microscopes, the FLUOVIEW FV3000 and the CX23 microscope have been recognised with the international iF award for exceptional product design.
Globally renowned as a symbol of design excellence, the iF design awards celebrate the best in user-focused, ergonomic and efficient design. With over 5,000 submissions from 70 countries, Olympus Scientific Solutions Division has received two of these prestigious awards for its CX23 upright microscope and FLUOVIEW FV3000 confocal laser scanning...
ioLight is delighted to announce that Bayer plc has purchased 10 microscopes for its Practice Support Advisors.
The ioLight microscope is the first professional quality pocket digital microscope. It is a laboratory grade microscope that fits in a jacket pocket, is simple to use and robust. It unfolds quickly to record and share 5MP still images and real time HD video on a tablet or phone....
We are delighted to have successfully completed the installation of an Edinburgh Instruments FIRL100 CO2/ FIR (THz) Laser system at Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD) Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).
The FIRL-100 laser will be used for the multi-frequency pulsed-field (up to 70 T) ESR spectroscopy of strongly-correlated magnets, including low-dimensional and frustrated spin systems, high-Tc superconductors and related compounds, multiferroics, etc. Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is based on the detection of resonance absorption...
The analysts forecast the global pre-packed chromatography columns market to grow at a CAGR of 8.02% during the period 2016-2020.
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The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global pre-packed chromatography columns market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated from the sale of various sizes of pre-packed columns to end-markets....
Analytik are pleased to announce their appointment as exclusive distributors for the NeoSpectra range of low cost, miniaturised, OEM FT-NIR spectral sensors.
Analytik has been appointed as the exclusive distributors in the UK & Ireland for the NeoSpectra™ range of low cost, miniaturised, OEM FT-NIR spectral sensors. These are based on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology developed by Si-Ware Systems (SWS), an independent fabless semiconductor company that is fostering silicon innovation...
On February 24, 2017, Metrohm USA broke ground on its new North American headquarters located in Riverview, Florida.
Scheduled to be completed in early 2018, this nearly $20 million dollar facility will boast state-of-the-art laboratory and training facilities for Metrohm’s growing employee and customer-base. Metrohm is one of the world’s most trusted manufacturers of high-precision instruments for chemical analysis.....
Research teams based at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh are looking to partner with the pharmaceutical industry to better understand the biological processes that could allow the development of new drugs to support tissue regeneration or repair.
The National Phenotypic Screening Centre (NPSC) at the University of Dundee and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centrefor Regenerative Medicine (CRM) at the University of Edinburgh have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that commits them to work more closely together as they strive to translate novel biological discoveries into new stem...
Deben have supplied leading German instrument manufacturers, JPK Instruments, with a tensile stage to use in conjunction with the world-renowned NanoWizard® AFM platform.
Dr Torsten Mueller is a member of the development team with German nanoscience instrument makers, JPK Instruments. Dr Mueller and his colleagues are based in Berlin supporting a worldwide user network which is continuously testing JPK with requests for new capabilities for their life science and materials nanoscience systems....
Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2017 Young Chemist Award, Aldin Malkoc.
Aldin is completing his graduate work at Arizona State University where he works under the supervision of Professor Michael Caplan, Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department, and Assistant Professor Jeffrey LaBelle. Aldin’s research focuses on cooperative, DNA-based molecular elements for electrochemical biosensors.....
Company Named Finalist for PACT Technology Company of the Year Award
ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes risk and uncertainty in clinical trials, has announced it has been named a finalist for the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) Technology Company of the Year Award. ERT is one of only three companies nominated to receive this recognition....
Sartorius and EMBL join forces to offer advanced training and science education
Sartorius is now a member of the group of corporate EMBL partners aiming to connect industry to academia. Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier, yesterday announced a partnership with EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory....
AMETEK Brookfield, the world standard for viscosity measurement and control, offers its Practical Course on Viscosity Measurements. This popular course was created to help AMETEK Brookfield Viscometer users comprehend the functionality of their instrument, solve the mysteries of fluid behavior and Rheology, and create successful and repeatable viscosity test methods for use in both R&D and QA/QC environments.....
Unique technology portfolio enables design space characterization, effective translation to the large-scale and enhanced process analytics
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, has developed an innovative and fully integrated technology platform to meet the requirements of today’s upstream bioprocessing. It will allow customers to adopt a Quality by Design (QbD) approach in which they build quality into their biological products by combining the power of high-throughput mini bioreactors with...
Second Crowdcube campaign for growth and international expansion
Following on from an extremely successful fund raising campaign in 2015, and a product launch in July 2016, ioLight is delighted to announce that its second crowd funding campaign is now live on the Crowdcube platform. The ioLight microscope is the first professional quality pocket digital microscope....
IDT expands its capacity for direct sales of genomic products in Asia-Pacific region
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), through its Singapore subsidiary, today completed the acquisition of the oligonucleotide manufacturing business of GeneWorks Pty Ltd. (GeneWorks) in Australia. This acquisition sees IDT expand its reach in the Asia-Pacific region, following its recent establishment of sales offices in Japan and Korea.....
Analytik Jena Optimizes the Process for Ultra High throughput Screening
Analytik Jena has joined forces with Bruker Daltonics to accelerate lab processes: uHTS MALDI Sample Preparation in combination with label-free spectrometry guarantees reliable ultra high throughput screens in biopharmaceutical labs. Within the framework of their cooperation, the two companies have been able to build a bridge between matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and sample preparation....
Richmond Pharmacology, one of the UK’s leading early-phase contract research organisations, have opened their new research facility in London Bridge – at the site formerly known as the Guy’s Drug Research Unit.
The move is a significant boost to the UK’s efforts to continue to grow as a global hub for Life Sciences, an area of strategic importance outlined in the Government’s recent industrial strategy. With Richmond having already conducted over 300 studies in London since their establishment in 2001, the new facility will provide a central London base for Richmond Pharmacology’s further research utilising their enhanced capabilities in delivering world-leading, early-phase clinical trials....
Read MoreMolecular Devices and MIMETAS Present New Turnkey Solution for Organ-On-A-Chip MarketMar 8, 2017
In a move to serve customers with ready-to-use solutions for organ-on-a-chip model development and analysis, MIMETAS and Molecular Devices will combine marketing efforts on the OrganoPlate® organ-on-a-chip platform and ImageXpress® Micro Confocal high-content imaging systems.
This agreement was announced at the SLAS2017 conference in Washington. “OrganoPlates® are designed for ease-of-handling at any throughput, and provide unsurpassed physiological relevance,” said Jos Joore, Managing Director of MIMETAS, “As such, they are perfectly suited for the high-content imaging systems from Molecular Devices....
Last year Discovery Park Technology Fund invested seed-funds in pioneering clinical development company, TC BioPharm (TCB) providing a launchpad for clinical trials of new treatments for cancer and viral infections.
This year TCB raised an additional £6.25m series-A fund, cornerstoned by a major pharmaceutical company collaboration. In February 2016, the technology fund run by NCL Innovation, UK’s leading early stage technology investor, on behalf of Kent County Council announced its support of TC BioPharm (TCB), directly investing seed-finance of £500k from a fund focused on cutting edge immunotherapy research...
The partnership will integrate Genedata Screener® software with TTP Labtech’s acumen® Cellista and mirrorball® to improve screening data management
TTP Labtech Ltd, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, has announced that it is partnering with Genedata to provide customers with improved solutions for importing and analysing raw data from their screening instruments.....
New partnership gives researchers improved access to Optibrium’s StarDrop with dedicated local support
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation, announced today that it has appointed Zastra Innovations (Zastra) to be its sole distributor in India for StarDrop™, the company’s flagship product. Zastra will provide researchers in India with the full suite of StarDrop software, combined with local access to expert technical and customer support....