Recipharm has announced a 5 million SEK investment into a new GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) compliant bioanalysis laboratory at its development facility in Uppsala, Sweden, in response to growing customer demand.
The investment will see the opening of a 500 square metre purpose-built facility in November 2016, which will become the largest GLP bioanalysis laboratory of its kind in the Nordic countries. Recipharm’s development team in Uppsala specialises in medicinal chemistry, offering synthesis and analytical preclinical development services to drug development companies progressing products through clinical trials.....
Once again, Systec GmbH, the leading manufacturer of autoclaves, including laboratory autoclaves, media preparators, and plate pourers for liquid media and microbiological culture media, will be presenting the highlights of its comprehensive product range at this year’s Medica.
Advantages and special features of Systec autoclaves. Systec autoclaves can be used in all laboratory applications, including challenging sterilization processes: Sterilizing liquids (such as culture media, nutrient media), solid bodies (such as instruments, pipettes, glassware), waste (sterilization of liquid waste in bottles or solid waste in waste bags before destruction), and biologically hazardous materials in...
Porvair Sciences has confirmed that 2016 will see record sales of its Ultravap and Minivap ranges of blowdown evaporators to laboratories worldwide.
The company first began selling nitrogen blowdown evaporators for microplate sample drying in 1999. Offering unmatched ease of integration into robotic liquid handling workflows, the latest Porvair microprocessor controlled evaporators, the Ultravap Mistral and Ultravap Levante, has consolidated their position as a leading international supplier of microplate evaporators....
It’s a challenging time for UK plc as the country sets sail for a post-Brexit world but the South-East’s leading science and technology focused campus, Discovery Park is confident of a globally successful future.
Located in Sandwich and part of Dover district, this formerly Pfizer owned R&D hub has long seen itself as being inextricably linked to Europe, with France just a short hop across the English Channel. But initial uncertainty following the 23 June ballot over what this would mean for research funding and collaboration between the continent’s finest scientific minds has been replaced - for now at least – by a determination to seek out new opportunities, and to be ready for what comes next.
Particle Works – the nano- and microstructured material specialist – provides microencapsulation services for drug development applications, including controlled drug release, solubility enhancement or targeted drug delivery.
Using its expertise in microfluidics and nanoparticle synthesis, the company can create bespoke PLGA formulations and coatings to alter drug release profiles, enhance the efficiency of targeted drug delivery and more precisely control dosing regimes. Microencapsulation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is increasingly being employed in the drug development arena to improve the solubility of candidate drugs ....
Genomics plc, a leading analysis company developing an integrated platform to uncover the relationships between genetic variation and human disease, today announced that it has been appointed as Analysis Partner for the Genomics England Genomics Expert Network for Enterprises (GENE) Consortium.
Genomics plc will be analysing genomes at an unprecedented scale and, together with the Company’s existing knowledge base, be providing insights into human biology that will help to inform pharmaceutical R&D investment decisions. Genomics England is delivering the UK 100,000 Genomes Project – whole genome sequencing rare disease and cancer patients in the National Health Service....
Continuous success with innovative solutions for real-time trace VOC analysis since 1998.
IONICON Analytik, the Austrian based leading manufacturer of real-time trace VOC analyzers, based on the unique PTR-MS technology, has sold its 300th instrument. The analyzer, a PTR-TOF 1000 system, was shipped abroad in September 2016 and will be used for analyzing chemical pollutants in industrial areas. The whole IONICON team with currently more than 30 employees celebrates this achievement. Taking a look back. Everything started in...
Machine learning and advanced analytics help Healx identify new uses for existing drugs
Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has made an early-stage investment in Healx, an innovative British healthcare company that seeks new uses for existing drugs in the fight against rare diseases. Amadeus Capital is investing in a £1.5 million Series A round, alongside renowned healthcare entrepreneur, Jonathan Milner....
CAMECA is pleased to announce the launch of the SKAPHIA Shielded Electron Probe Initiative, which brings together key players in the nuclear industry and nuclear research community to develop the next generation of shielded Electron Probe Microanalyzers (EPMA).
The initiative capitalizes on CAMECA’s more than years 50 years of experience in developing and servicing shielded microanalytical instruments for nuclear fuel characterization, irradiated materials behavior investigation, and radioactive waste management. CAMECA has had a great deal of success supporting the nuclear industry and scientific community, starting in 1978 with the installation of the first shielded electron probe microanalyzer...
SP Scientific has purchased ControLyo™ Nucleation Technology and all related patents from Praxair Inc. (Danbury, CT).
ControLyo™ nucleation technology controls the freezing stage of the freeze drying process for more consistent and repeatable outcomes that aid drug development, scale-up and production efforts. SP which manufactures a full range of research through production lyophilization equipment and technologies has had a licensing agreement with Praxair, Inc. to provide ControLyo™ technology as part of its portfolio since 2010...
Science World, the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience, made its successful launch in France at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès in Strasbourg on 29 September.
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. Highlights from Science World included the well-known anthropologist Yves Coppens who presented a keynote speech....
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is returning to Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s only event dedicated to laboratory professionals, to host a two-day conference in its own dedicated theatre.
The hotly anticipated conference programme, taking place at the NEC Birmingham on 2 & 3 November, will feature leading speakers from the laboratory industry who will take to the stage to discuss a series of key topics, including digital healthcare and elemental discovery. Alongside an array of inspiring seminars, the conference boasts keynote sessions from two internationally renowned figures, who have firmly made their mark on the laboratory industry...
Department moves into enhanced facility and increases headcount in response to continued demand for services
Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, a leading provider of early stage and specialist drug development services, today announced the expansion of its Data Sciences function with relocation to a larger office, staying in Edinburgh. The expansion comes in response to growing customer demand for the Data Sciences service....
Clean, renewable energy is now powering BioTek Instruments!
The company’s headquarters and manufacturing plant in Winooski will receive power from their new five-acre photovoltaic solar energy farm in Whiting, Vermont. The solar farm has a maximum capacity of up to 500 kilowatts, and was designed and installed by Green Earth Energy...
Analytik Jena AG and the private Fresenius University of Applied Sciences are setting up a joint application center for customers for both teaching and research at the university’s site in Idstein in Hessen, Germany.
They signed a three-way cooperation agreement with the Wesemann laboratory furnishing company, which provides modern and flexible laboratory furniture of the LABterminal series. Under the agreement, Analytik Jena is making available six analytical instruments with a total value of approximately EUR 500,000 for use in water, environmental, food, and pharmaceutical analysis....
Over 80 new jobs will be created by Scymaris ? a new company that has relaunched the former Astra Zeneca Brixham Environmental Laboratory, Brixham, Devon, UK ? following financial backing and support from Torbay Council and Plymouth University.
Scymaris has become the anchor tenant at Brixham Laboratory providing unrivalled environmental laboratory testing services to pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical industries across the globe. ?Brixham Laboratory is a world-class facility with a deep 65-year history of environmental laboratory testing including: aquatic ecotoxicology, environmental fate and biodegradation services...
Gyros Japan KK provides sales, field applications and service for the immunoassay business
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, today announced it has established a dedicated office in Tokyo, Japan and has established Gyros Japan KK....
Desktop Genetics Ltd. has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Vectalys SAS and Horizon Discovery Group plc, to design, produce and commercialize custom-made CRISPR lenti-gRNA libraries.
The agreement will provide customers with access to fully licensed lentivirus and CRISPR libraries designed for their specific experiment and cell line. The libraries will allow researchers to perform precise edits to the genome of cells, including a variety of cell lines that might otherwise be out of reach with standard CRISPR delivery methods....
MR Solutions has received an order for a high-powered 7T, cryogen-free, preclinical PET-MRI multi-modality imaging system from the newly formed pre-clinical imaging resource at the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute (ZNI) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).
The simultaneous acquisition of PET and MR images marries the exquisite sensitivity of PET with the high spatial resolution and soft tissue contrast of MRI. MR Solutions is the only company in the world to be able to deliver this ground breaking cryogen free technology. Dr. Russell Jacobs, Professor of Research Physiology and Biophysics at the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute commented...
The Board member responsible for Sales and Marketing, Ulrich Krauss, will become the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer as of October 1, 2016.Klaus Berka, who founded Analytik Jena with two partners in April 1990 and has led the Company ever since, will become a member of the Supervisory Board as of April 1, 2017. Until then, he will sit on the Executive Board as the member responsible for the area of Innovation...
MarqMetrix has developed the only TouchRaman spectroscopy measurement device and is partnering with Metrohm USA, a leading provider of laboratory and process instrumentation, to make Raman spectroscopy more accessible, accurate and reliable.
The Metrohm Mira is a compact Raman spectrometer for rapid, nondestructive identification of samples from a variety of industries. The increased accuracy of the Mira is due to its exclusive Orbital Raster Scan (ORS) technology. The innovative MarqMetrix TouchRaman BallProbe with the patented spherical lens, allows users to “touch the sample, take the measurement” without any sample prep or handling...
166,000 Trade visitors and 3,800 Exhibitors from 56 countries for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries.
The extensive range of new products and initial product introductions underline the importance of ACHEMA as the "world innovative summit" for the process industries. The next ACHEMA shall take place at the Messe Frankfurt 11- 15 June 2018. Exhibitor Registration has just begun, the first deadline for registrations is 15th November 2016.....
The investment will see the opening of a 500 square metre purpose-built facility in November 2016, which will become the largest GLP bioanalysis laboratory of its kind in the Nordic countries. Recipharm’s development team in Uppsala specialises in medicinal chemistry, offering synthesis and analytical preclinical development services to drug development companies progressing products through clinical trials.....
Advantages and special features of Systec autoclaves. Systec autoclaves can be used in all laboratory applications, including challenging sterilization processes: Sterilizing liquids (such as culture media, nutrient media), solid bodies (such as instruments, pipettes, glassware), waste (sterilization of liquid waste in bottles or solid waste in waste bags before destruction), and biologically hazardous materials in...
The company first began selling nitrogen blowdown evaporators for microplate sample drying in 1999. Offering unmatched ease of integration into robotic liquid handling workflows, the latest Porvair microprocessor controlled evaporators, the Ultravap Mistral and Ultravap Levante, has consolidated their position as a leading international supplier of microplate evaporators....
Using its expertise in microfluidics and nanoparticle synthesis, the company can create bespoke PLGA formulations and coatings to alter drug release profiles, enhance the efficiency of targeted drug delivery and more precisely control dosing regimes. Microencapsulation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is increasingly being employed in the drug development arena to improve the solubility of candidate drugs ....
Genomics plc will be analysing genomes at an unprecedented scale and, together with the Company’s existing knowledge base, be providing insights into human biology that will help to inform pharmaceutical R&D investment decisions. Genomics England is delivering the UK 100,000 Genomes Project – whole genome sequencing rare disease and cancer patients in the National Health Service....
IONICON Analytik, the Austrian based leading manufacturer of real-time trace VOC analyzers, based on the unique PTR-MS technology, has sold its 300th instrument. The analyzer, a PTR-TOF 1000 system, was shipped abroad in September 2016 and will be used for analyzing chemical pollutants in industrial areas. The whole IONICON team with currently more than 30 employees celebrates this achievement. Taking a look back. Everything started in...
Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has made an early-stage investment in Healx, an innovative British healthcare company that seeks new uses for existing drugs in the fight against rare diseases. Amadeus Capital is investing in a £1.5 million Series A round, alongside renowned healthcare entrepreneur, Jonathan Milner....
The initiative capitalizes on CAMECA’s more than years 50 years of experience in developing and servicing shielded microanalytical instruments for nuclear fuel characterization, irradiated materials behavior investigation, and radioactive waste management. CAMECA has had a great deal of success supporting the nuclear industry and scientific community, starting in 1978 with the installation of the first shielded electron probe microanalyzer...
ControLyo™ nucleation technology controls the freezing stage of the freeze drying process for more consistent and repeatable outcomes that aid drug development, scale-up and production efforts. SP which manufactures a full range of research through production lyophilization equipment and technologies has had a licensing agreement with Praxair, Inc. to provide ControLyo™ technology as part of its portfolio since 2010...
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. Highlights from Science World included the well-known anthropologist Yves Coppens who presented a keynote speech....
The hotly anticipated conference programme, taking place at the NEC Birmingham on 2 & 3 November, will feature leading speakers from the laboratory industry who will take to the stage to discuss a series of key topics, including digital healthcare and elemental discovery. Alongside an array of inspiring seminars, the conference boasts keynote sessions from two internationally renowned figures, who have firmly made their mark on the laboratory industry...
Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, a leading provider of early stage and specialist drug development services, today announced the expansion of its Data Sciences function with relocation to a larger office, staying in Edinburgh. The expansion comes in response to growing customer demand for the Data Sciences service....
The company’s headquarters and manufacturing plant in Winooski will receive power from their new five-acre photovoltaic solar energy farm in Whiting, Vermont. The solar farm has a maximum capacity of up to 500 kilowatts, and was designed and installed by Green Earth Energy...
They signed a three-way cooperation agreement with the Wesemann laboratory furnishing company, which provides modern and flexible laboratory furniture of the LABterminal series. Under the agreement, Analytik Jena is making available six analytical instruments with a total value of approximately EUR 500,000 for use in water, environmental, food, and pharmaceutical analysis....
Scymaris has become the anchor tenant at Brixham Laboratory providing unrivalled environmental laboratory testing services to pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical industries across the globe. ?Brixham Laboratory is a world-class facility with a deep 65-year history of environmental laboratory testing including: aquatic ecotoxicology, environmental fate and biodegradation services...
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, today announced it has established a dedicated office in Tokyo, Japan and has established Gyros Japan KK....
The agreement will provide customers with access to fully licensed lentivirus and CRISPR libraries designed for their specific experiment and cell line. The libraries will allow researchers to perform precise edits to the genome of cells, including a variety of cell lines that might otherwise be out of reach with standard CRISPR delivery methods....
The simultaneous acquisition of PET and MR images marries the exquisite sensitivity of PET with the high spatial resolution and soft tissue contrast of MRI. MR Solutions is the only company in the world to be able to deliver this ground breaking cryogen free technology. Dr. Russell Jacobs, Professor of Research Physiology and Biophysics at the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute commented...
The Board member responsible for Sales and Marketing, Ulrich Krauss, will become the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer as of October 1, 2016.Klaus Berka, who founded Analytik Jena with two partners in April 1990 and has led the Company ever since, will become a member of the Supervisory Board as of April 1, 2017. Until then, he will sit on the Executive Board as the member responsible for the area of Innovation...
The Metrohm Mira is a compact Raman spectrometer for rapid, nondestructive identification of samples from a variety of industries. The increased accuracy of the Mira is due to its exclusive Orbital Raster Scan (ORS) technology. The innovative MarqMetrix TouchRaman BallProbe with the patented spherical lens, allows users to “touch the sample, take the measurement” without any sample prep or handling...
The extensive range of new products and initial product introductions underline the importance of ACHEMA as the "world innovative summit" for the process industries. The next ACHEMA shall take place at the Messe Frankfurt 11- 15 June 2018. Exhibitor Registration has just begun, the first deadline for registrations is 15th November 2016.....