Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that it has entered into a set of agreements with Evotec AG, whereby Evotec AG will provide screening services for Merck's collection of genetic reagents such as CRISPR and shRNA libraries.
Combining access to these libraries with Evotec's screening expertise offers an accelerated pathway to explore and identify new drug targets. "Drug discovery starts with the identification of new targets, a process that can be time- and labor-intensive," said Theresa Creasey, Head of Applied Solutions Strategic Marketing & Innovation, Life Science...
Read MoreWatson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group Acquires Aflex Hose LtdDec 21, 2016
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group strengthens its product portfolio through the acquisition of Aflex Hose Limited.
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), the world leader in niche peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, has acquired Aflex Hose Limited and its subsidiary Aflex Hose USA LLC (Aflex) through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £61.4 million...
Automated, walkaway solutions standardise and streamline the path to accurate therapeutic diagnoses, benefitting both laboratories and patients
Beckman Coulter has launched two automated systems in the UK to ease rapidly increasing workloads in microbiology and virology departments. The DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics system, for same-day molecular viral load testing, and the MicroScan Microbiology Systems for microorganism identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing....
With 35 million biospecimens, cohort biobank will be one of the world’s largest
Hamilton Storage and Hamilton Robotics announced today that they will build automated sample storage and liquid handling systems to be used in the biobank infrastructure for Mayo Clinic, which was awarded funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create the All of Us Research Program (formerly the Precision Medicine Initiative’s Cohort Program)...
Huber Kältemaschinenbau receives “Environmental Prize 2016” from the state of Baden-Württemberg / Environmental Minister Franz Untersteller presents award in Stuttgart
Environmental Minister Franz Untersteller awarded the “Environmental Prize for Companies 2016” on 17 November 2016 in Stuttgart. Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau AG from Offenburg received the award in the category of manufacturing companies. Huber is a pioneer in the development of environmentally friendly chillers and temperature control devices....
Partnership combines MolPort’s 6.3 Million HTS Compounds with StarDrop’s data analysis and compound design capabilities
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation, today announced a collaboration with MolPort, the provider of a comprehensive chemicals database, marketplace and order fulfilment platform. The collaboration offers StarDrop™ users fully integrated access to MolPort’s drug discovery database of 6.3 million commercially available screening compounds....
Bibby Scientific Ltd announced today that it will be taking over the distribution of Argos Technologies products, outside of the USA and Asia Pacific, from December 2016.
As Bibby Scientific and Argos Technologies are now both part of the Cole-Parmer group, this gives the company an opportunity to streamline customer experience in the EMEA market. The distribution of the Argos Technologies products through Bibby Scientific’s European hub means that customers will have a single source for life science equipment and consumables....
ZEISS will provide 1 million euros for innovative research projects at the EPFL
ZEISS will support innovative research projects at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, abbr. EPFL). The company will make one million euros available for new research projects in key technology fields such as biomedical research, medical diagnostics and visualization as well as optical metrology and inspection...
Research report from Mind Metre presents evidence of the high value offered by pathology services, and suggests that current efficiency savings plans be reviewed
A new report from independent research organisation MindMetre has summarised the evidence for return-on-investment from pathology services in the NHS and questioned any urgent pressure to consolidate pathology laboratories - within and between NHS trusts....
Autoscribe Informatics, developer and supplier of the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), has moved to larger premises in the UK.
As from 21st November, 2016, the company’s headquarters are located in Aldermaston, near Reading in the UK. This is a seamless transition for customers as the telephone number, e-mail addresses and website URL all remain unchanged. John Boother, President of Autoscribe Informatics, said: “This expansion is the latest phase in a period of sustained investment into Autoscribe’s worldwide business....
Edinburgh Instruments are pleased to announce that we have been accepted to the Scottish Business Pledge, as part of its ongoing commitment to delivering fairness and equality in the work place.
The Scottish Business Pledge is a values-led partnership between the Scottish Government and business. It is a shared ambition of boosting productivity, competitiveness, sustainable employment, and workforce engagement and development. Edinburgh Instruments pays all employees at least the Living Wage and has no employees on zero hours’ contracts....
AgileBio, a leading global provider of collaborative tools that enhance research productivity and traceability to scientist teams in industry and academia and Mind The graph, the leader of creative life sciences infographics, have announced a technology partnership and integration.
The partnership provides a new scientific communication plugin for the LabCollector Electronic Lab Notebook. Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), for those who are familiar, allows researchers to document, share and search experiments. In this way, lab heads can manage and follow more efficiently the current projects in the lab, which are accessible online and shared among colleagues....
Sophia Genetics and Horizon Discovery Group plc have entered into a new partnership to improve the quality of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) based genetic testing in oncology patient samples.
Under the terms of the agreement, Horizon’s HDx™ Reference Standards will be combined with Sophia Genetics’ artificial intelligence, providing hospitals and laboratories with more accurate and high quality NGS testing services, assays and genomic data analysis....
The successful science and technology site, Discovery Park, has been bought by investment company Discovery Park Estates Ltd.
The deal sees a change of shareholders in the commercial and industrial facilities immediately. The original shareholders will continue as the owners of the company that manages Discovery Park on a day-to-day basis, Parkserve Ltd, and as owners of the residential land....
UK based MR Solutions’, revolutionary pre-clinical scanner MRS 7000, is an award winner at the US-based R&D 100 Awards.
The 54th annual awards, held in Washington in November 2016, recognise the 100 most innovative technologies and services of the past year. The compact MRS 7000 series is the world’s first 7.0T (T is for tesla, the power of the magnet), helium-free, preclinical MRI system, which can be combined with PET (photon emission computed tomography) and SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging modules....
MediSieve, the company behind the groundbreaking magnetic sieve that removes malaria-infected blood cells directly from patients' blood, has received a Phase 1 EU SME Instrument grant of €50,000.
The grant will help MediSieve develop its filter device to treat sepsis - an expansion of its work in treating malaria. In the treatment, targeted magnetic particles combine with the MediSieve magnetic filter to remove pathogens - bacteria and endotoxins - from sepsis patients in intensive care units. In an era of increasing antibiotic resistance, sepsis is a huge and growing global problem...
Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidics innovation, is celebrating the success of its Fluidic Factory 3D printer in the ‘Processing and Prototyping’ category this year’s R&D 100 Awards.
This innovative system – the first commercially available 3D printer for fluidically-sealed devices – offers rapid, straightforward and reliable prototyping of microfluidic components, including chips, manifolds, connectors and other devices. Using cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) makes it easy and affordable to 3D print devices for almost any application....
Horizon Discovery Group plc announces that it has entered into partnerships with three leading Chinese diagnostic kit developers.
Under the terms of the agreements, Horizon will provide HDx Reference Standards for novel Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) assay development, clinical trials, and ultimately for inclusion as in-kit controls under Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreements....
Horizon Discovery Group plc announces it has entered into an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with CareDx®, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company focused on the discovery, development and commercialisation of clinically differentiated, high-value, diagnostic surveillance solutions for transplant patients.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Horizon will supply cell-free DNA-based Molecular Reference Standards for inclusion in CareDx’s cfDNA testing workflows for the monitoring of transplanted organ rejection. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that its digital acquisition marketing team won the 2016 US Search award for "Best In-House" team.
The awards recognize organizations, agencies and individuals for excellence in search and digital marketing. "With more than 300,000 products, our website allows our customers in nearly every country to more easily find the exact products they need to advance their research," said Silji Abraham, Chief Information Officer, Merck Life Science.
Read MoreSakura Finetek Donates High Capacity Histology Instruments to Butaro District Hospital, RwandaDec 1, 2016
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Over the next five years, the annual number of new cases is predicted to increase to one million. From today Partners for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Africa provide access to rapid cancer diagnostics for three million civilians in Rwanda. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Sakura Finetek....
Synoptics, a world leader in the development and manufacture of innovative digital imaging systems for life science and clinical applications, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Brian Stammers as its new CEO.
Brian’s wealth of experience in the life science industry will help guide Synoptics’s strategic direction to deliver innovative and commercially successful products. As the CEO of Synoptics, which is part of the AIM quoted UK company Scientific Digital Imaging (SDI), Dr Stammers will oversee the commercial and technical direction of Synoptics’s three divisions, Syngene, Synbiosis and Synoptics Health....
Combining access to these libraries with Evotec's screening expertise offers an accelerated pathway to explore and identify new drug targets. "Drug discovery starts with the identification of new targets, a process that can be time- and labor-intensive," said Theresa Creasey, Head of Applied Solutions Strategic Marketing & Innovation, Life Science...
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), the world leader in niche peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, has acquired Aflex Hose Limited and its subsidiary Aflex Hose USA LLC (Aflex) through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £61.4 million...
Beckman Coulter has launched two automated systems in the UK to ease rapidly increasing workloads in microbiology and virology departments. The DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics system, for same-day molecular viral load testing, and the MicroScan Microbiology Systems for microorganism identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing....
Environmental Minister Franz Untersteller awarded the “Environmental Prize for Companies 2016” on 17 November 2016 in Stuttgart. Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau AG from Offenburg received the award in the category of manufacturing companies. Huber is a pioneer in the development of environmentally friendly chillers and temperature control devices....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation, today announced a collaboration with MolPort, the provider of a comprehensive chemicals database, marketplace and order fulfilment platform. The collaboration offers StarDrop™ users fully integrated access to MolPort’s drug discovery database of 6.3 million commercially available screening compounds....
As Bibby Scientific and Argos Technologies are now both part of the Cole-Parmer group, this gives the company an opportunity to streamline customer experience in the EMEA market. The distribution of the Argos Technologies products through Bibby Scientific’s European hub means that customers will have a single source for life science equipment and consumables....
ZEISS will support innovative research projects at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, abbr. EPFL). The company will make one million euros available for new research projects in key technology fields such as biomedical research, medical diagnostics and visualization as well as optical metrology and inspection...
A new report from independent research organisation MindMetre has summarised the evidence for return-on-investment from pathology services in the NHS and questioned any urgent pressure to consolidate pathology laboratories - within and between NHS trusts....
As from 21st November, 2016, the company’s headquarters are located in Aldermaston, near Reading in the UK. This is a seamless transition for customers as the telephone number, e-mail addresses and website URL all remain unchanged. John Boother, President of Autoscribe Informatics, said: “This expansion is the latest phase in a period of sustained investment into Autoscribe’s worldwide business....
The Scottish Business Pledge is a values-led partnership between the Scottish Government and business. It is a shared ambition of boosting productivity, competitiveness, sustainable employment, and workforce engagement and development. Edinburgh Instruments pays all employees at least the Living Wage and has no employees on zero hours’ contracts....
The partnership provides a new scientific communication plugin for the LabCollector Electronic Lab Notebook. Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), for those who are familiar, allows researchers to document, share and search experiments. In this way, lab heads can manage and follow more efficiently the current projects in the lab, which are accessible online and shared among colleagues....
Under the terms of the agreement, Horizon’s HDx™ Reference Standards will be combined with Sophia Genetics’ artificial intelligence, providing hospitals and laboratories with more accurate and high quality NGS testing services, assays and genomic data analysis....
The deal sees a change of shareholders in the commercial and industrial facilities immediately. The original shareholders will continue as the owners of the company that manages Discovery Park on a day-to-day basis, Parkserve Ltd, and as owners of the residential land....
The 54th annual awards, held in Washington in November 2016, recognise the 100 most innovative technologies and services of the past year. The compact MRS 7000 series is the world’s first 7.0T (T is for tesla, the power of the magnet), helium-free, preclinical MRI system, which can be combined with PET (photon emission computed tomography) and SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging modules....
The grant will help MediSieve develop its filter device to treat sepsis - an expansion of its work in treating malaria. In the treatment, targeted magnetic particles combine with the MediSieve magnetic filter to remove pathogens - bacteria and endotoxins - from sepsis patients in intensive care units. In an era of increasing antibiotic resistance, sepsis is a huge and growing global problem...
This innovative system – the first commercially available 3D printer for fluidically-sealed devices – offers rapid, straightforward and reliable prototyping of microfluidic components, including chips, manifolds, connectors and other devices. Using cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) makes it easy and affordable to 3D print devices for almost any application....
Over the next five years, the annual number of new cases is predicted to increase to one million. From today Partners for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Africa provide access to rapid cancer diagnostics for three million civilians in Rwanda. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Sakura Finetek....
Brian’s wealth of experience in the life science industry will help guide Synoptics’s strategic direction to deliver innovative and commercially successful products. As the CEO of Synoptics, which is part of the AIM quoted UK company Scientific Digital Imaging (SDI), Dr Stammers will oversee the commercial and technical direction of Synoptics’s three divisions, Syngene, Synbiosis and Synoptics Health....