Genomics plc have announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with DNAnexus, the global leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management.
The companies will work together to improve researchers’ ability to analyse population-scale sequencing data. With DNA sequencing costs continuing to fall, sequencing projects involving tens or hundreds of thousands of people are becoming increasingly common. Such projects include Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project, and the Regeneron Genetics Center and Geisinger Health DiscovEHR...
eMolecules Inc. and World Fusion US, Inc. today announced a global partnership resulting in the integration of eMolecules’ drug discovery ecommerce solutions with World Fusion’s “Life Science Knowledge Bank” (LSKB).
“We are really excited about the opportunities that this partnership creates and we view this as a great start in our vision of enabling the Japanese marketplace to reduce the time and cost of drug discovery” said Dr. Niko Gubernator, CEO at eMolecules, Inc. “Not only does this partnership extend our reach into the Japanese marketplace, but the integration of World Fusion’s LSKB informatics platform with...
Agena Bioscience to provide Horizon’s human genomic reference standards to assess quality and performance of oncology-based assays on the MassARRAY System
Agena Bioscience (“Agena”) and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") today announced a Supply and Distribution agreement to launch iPLEX® reference standards for performance verification of oncology assays used on the MassARRAY® System. Under the partnership, Agena Bioscience will offer multiplexed sets of iPLEX-branded reference standards containing somatic variants in...
GÉANT, Europe?s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure for research and education, has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to act as network connectivity provider for Microsoft?s Azure ExpressRoutes service.
This will connect Microsoft?s cloud services directly to Europe?s vital research and education community, and represents further growth in the portfolio of above-the-net services offered by GÉANT and its National Research and Education Network (NREN) partners to over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoutes enables institutions to extend their on-premises network into the...
St Neots-based Kinesis is celebrating after being named a winner of the UK’s highest accolade for business success - The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.
The awards are made annually by HM The Queen, and this year coincide with Her Majesty’s 90th birthday on April 21st. Kinesis are one of the select businesses recognised as winners of the 2016 Queen’s Award, which the company has received due to their outstanding success in International Trade. The award was made in recognition of achieving continuous growth in export sales over the last six years of...
Following record sales in 2015 and into the first quarter of this year, Freeman Technology, a global leader in the development and application of powder characterisation techniques, has expanded its European network as well as its operations in China.
“Continued growth is, of course, highly encouraging and a tribute to the team,” said Tim Freeman, Managing Director of Freeman Technology. “New partnerships in Italy, and the Czech Republic, along with our recent expansion of the China team, underline our commitment to maintaining exemplary service across the globe, as we grow. The recent launch of the Uniaxial Powder Tester also emphasises our...
BioTek Instruments, Inc., a global leader in microplate instrument technology, is pleased to announce the addition of Traditional Chinese to the growing list of languages available on www.biotek.com.
The expansion will enhance native ease-of-use and comprehension, especially for those in the rapidly growing Taiwanese biomedical and biotechnology industries. “Language connects people, creates opportunities and helps us discover the world,” notes Jack Lu, General Manager of BioTek Taiwan. “BioTek’s traditional Chinese language web site will allow researchers and scientists to quickly and comfortably find...
At the 57th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Bruker announced new GHz-class NMR magnet and probe technologies to enable expanding frontiers in structural biology, membrane protein and intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) research.
Bruker has successfully installed the world’s first, next-generation 1GHz NMR system equipped with an actively-shielded Aeon™ 1 GHz magnet at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Active shielding reduces the space requirements for the two-story magnet by more than an order of magnitude, and makes siting of next-generation Aeon 1 GHz magnets...
Christine Wade has recently joined the Priorclave Customer Care Team with special responsibility for co-ordinating every aspect of service support for its range of laboratory and research grade autoclaves.
She will liaise directly with customers to confirm delivery dates and schedule commissioning by the service engineers for a speedy installation. Another key role is planning and scheduling routine maintenance visits to ensure year-on-year performance for proper sterilisation as well as responding to emergency call-out requests. “For customers’ investing in the Priorclave brand means acquiring a top-range autoclave along with...
BioSilta Ltd has acquired a license to worldwide exclusive rights to CyDisCo™ (Cytoplasmic Disulphide bond formation in E. coli) protein production technology from the University of Oulu.
This license agreement will enable BioSilta will combine its EnPresso culture systems technology with CyDisCo protein production technology to make EnPresso-CyDisCo expression systems available to scientists and bio-processing engineers. As part of the agreement, BioSilta will also have future access to those that invented and enhanced the CyDisCo protein production technology for future R&D consultation...
Trajan Scientific and Medical “Trajan” today announced the acquisition of the business of LEAP Technologies (NC, USA).
Formed in 1989 Carrboro, NC in order to serve the automation needs of analytical laboratories (Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry related), LEAP delivers solutions in the fields of research and development, life science, pharmaceutical, polymer, food processing, forensic, and academia. Bringing LEAP into the Trajan Group will complement the widening capability of Trajan, servicing their vision to make a...
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received a sizeable order from the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) to manufacture the relay imaging reflective optics that will form part of two critical viewing diagnostic assemblies for the Joint European Torus (JET) when operating with a deuterium-tritium fuel mixture.
The project is funded under the framework of EUROfusion**. Comprising a series of large diameter (up to 500mm) ultra-smooth flat and spherical mirrors, some of which will have a very long radius of curvature, the relay imaging reflective optics will allow CCFE to monitor a number of physical and operational parameters within the JET fusion vessel with remote cameras from behind the 3m thick concrete shield wall. Knowledge of these parameters...
Ms Elpis Barons of Barons Medical Consulting announced as Trajan Accelerator General Manager
Trajan Scientific and Medical has announced the commencement of the Trajan Accelerator program, a new collaborative model targeting early stage enterprises sharing Trajan’s vision to positively impact human wellbeing through the application of science into society. Conceived in late 2015, Trajan Accelerator aims to help start-up businesses cross the “Valley of Death” to build long-term sustainable businesses with...
Cresset, innovative provider of software and discovery services for small molecule discovery and design, is pleased to announce that Cresset’s CEO, Dr Robert Scoffin, has been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Robert Scoffin FRSC, is an expert in the fields of molecular modeling and cheminformatics. He joined Cresset as CEO in 2010. His previous roles include CEO of Amedis a...nd VP, Europe at CambridgeSoft. He also heads up Re-Pharm, an early stage discovery company which uses Cresset software to assess compounds for repurposing. His DPhil is in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. Dr Scoffin joins
ZEISS announces that it assisted University of Alberta enhance its open access micro and nano scale fabrication facility (nanoFAB) by providing ZEISS helium and electron systems.
The University's recent purchase of a ZEISS ORION NanoFab Helium Ion Microscope and a ZEISS SIGMA Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) ensures that the nanoFAB can offer users the broadest range of characterization opportunities possible. The Helium Ion Microscope purchased is configured with a Capella Gallium Focused Ion Beam and the Fibics NanoPatterning and Visualization Engine (NPVE)...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed AFM system at the University of Liverpool in the group of Dr Luning Liu of the Institute of Integrative Biology to study biological membrane structures and protein dynamics.
Dr Luning Liu leads a research group at the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool. Using interdisciplinary approaches, the Liu Lab aims to explore the molecular mechanism underlying the self-assembly, dynamics and regulation of biological membranes and macromolecular protein complexes. The long-term goal of the group is to understand the physiological adaptation of cellular metabolisms in...
Effective immediately, INFORS HT is solely responsible for the global distribution of aquila biolabs’ Cell Growth Quantifier (CGQ).
The CGQ allows non-invasive online monitoring of biomass in shake flasks. The automatic measurements save time and provide a profound understanding of the bioprocesses, ensuring sustainable success of shake flask experiments. Currently, scientists monitor biomass in shake flask cultures by manual and invasive photometric OD measurements. The CGQ, however, determines the biomass concentration automatically...
Leading UK clinician appointed to guide Sphere’s clinical programme
Sphere Medical, an innovator company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, today announces the appointment of Professor Michael Grocott to its Medical Advisory Board. This advisory board helps Sphere Medical to ensure that it maintains excellence in clinical practices and strives for continual quality improvement in order to best support clinical needs. As Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of...
EM Resolutions, manufacturers and suppliers of tools and accessories for users of electron microscopes, announce availability of products from Energy Beam Sciences and Denka for electron microscopists.
EM Resolutions has been appointed by Energy Beam Sciences (EBS) as exclusive distributor for their tungsten EM filaments and Denka Lanthanum Hexaboride (LaB6) cathodes in the UK and Ireland. As an industry leader in applied energy beam technologies, EBS has built a reputation for superior design and craftsmanship, manufacturing filaments with outstanding performance and longevity...
Eppendorf has been awarded the Company of the Year accolade in the SelectScience® Reviewers’ Choice Awards™ 2016, in recognition of the company’s contribution to scientific research over the past year.
The leading life science company is amongst the winners who were officially announced during a ceremony held at Pittcon 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Reviewers’ Choice Awards™, added to the annual Scientists’ Choice Awards® in 2015, give laboratory scientists an opportunity to have their say by rating and reviewing companies and products that have made a significant difference to their research over the...
SP Industries, Inc. (SP), a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment ; research, pilot and production freeze dryers ; laboratory supplies and glassware has announced that it has acquired the assets of privately held PennTech Machinery Corporation.
Penntech is a global provider of complete vial handling solutions covering washing, sterilization, filling, stoppering, capping and both tray and freeze dryer loading/unloading equipment, located in Warminster (PA, USA). “PennTech has a well-earned reputation for producing high quality, often customized, equipment and is the only U.S. based manufacturer to offer complete aseptic processing lines,” stated...
Cambridge Regional College Awards Recognises Firm’s Outstanding Apprenticeship Scheme
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) is delighted to announce that its Royston site has won two prestigious awards at the Annual Cambridge Regional College Apprenticeship Dinner. The company was chosen as category winners for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Apprenticeships and then went on to win “Overall Employer of the Year”. These awards recognize Sartorius in Royston as an...
The companies will work together to improve researchers’ ability to analyse population-scale sequencing data. With DNA sequencing costs continuing to fall, sequencing projects involving tens or hundreds of thousands of people are becoming increasingly common. Such projects include Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project, and the Regeneron Genetics Center and Geisinger Health DiscovEHR...
“We are really excited about the opportunities that this partnership creates and we view this as a great start in our vision of enabling the Japanese marketplace to reduce the time and cost of drug discovery” said Dr. Niko Gubernator, CEO at eMolecules, Inc. “Not only does this partnership extend our reach into the Japanese marketplace, but the integration of World Fusion’s LSKB informatics platform with...
Agena Bioscience (“Agena”) and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") today announced a Supply and Distribution agreement to launch iPLEX® reference standards for performance verification of oncology assays used on the MassARRAY® System. Under the partnership, Agena Bioscience will offer multiplexed sets of iPLEX-branded reference standards containing somatic variants in...
This will connect Microsoft?s cloud services directly to Europe?s vital research and education community, and represents further growth in the portfolio of above-the-net services offered by GÉANT and its National Research and Education Network (NREN) partners to over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoutes enables institutions to extend their on-premises network into the...
The awards are made annually by HM The Queen, and this year coincide with Her Majesty’s 90th birthday on April 21st. Kinesis are one of the select businesses recognised as winners of the 2016 Queen’s Award, which the company has received due to their outstanding success in International Trade. The award was made in recognition of achieving continuous growth in export sales over the last six years of...
“Continued growth is, of course, highly encouraging and a tribute to the team,” said Tim Freeman, Managing Director of Freeman Technology. “New partnerships in Italy, and the Czech Republic, along with our recent expansion of the China team, underline our commitment to maintaining exemplary service across the globe, as we grow. The recent launch of the Uniaxial Powder Tester also emphasises our...
The expansion will enhance native ease-of-use and comprehension, especially for those in the rapidly growing Taiwanese biomedical and biotechnology industries. “Language connects people, creates opportunities and helps us discover the world,” notes Jack Lu, General Manager of BioTek Taiwan. “BioTek’s traditional Chinese language web site will allow researchers and scientists to quickly and comfortably find...
Bruker has successfully installed the world’s first, next-generation 1GHz NMR system equipped with an actively-shielded Aeon™ 1 GHz magnet at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Active shielding reduces the space requirements for the two-story magnet by more than an order of magnitude, and makes siting of next-generation Aeon 1 GHz magnets...
She will liaise directly with customers to confirm delivery dates and schedule commissioning by the service engineers for a speedy installation. Another key role is planning and scheduling routine maintenance visits to ensure year-on-year performance for proper sterilisation as well as responding to emergency call-out requests. “For customers’ investing in the Priorclave brand means acquiring a top-range autoclave along with...
This license agreement will enable BioSilta will combine its EnPresso culture systems technology with CyDisCo protein production technology to make EnPresso-CyDisCo expression systems available to scientists and bio-processing engineers. As part of the agreement, BioSilta will also have future access to those that invented and enhanced the CyDisCo protein production technology for future R&D consultation...
Formed in 1989 Carrboro, NC in order to serve the automation needs of analytical laboratories (Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry related), LEAP delivers solutions in the fields of research and development, life science, pharmaceutical, polymer, food processing, forensic, and academia. Bringing LEAP into the Trajan Group will complement the widening capability of Trajan, servicing their vision to make a...
The project is funded under the framework of EUROfusion**. Comprising a series of large diameter (up to 500mm) ultra-smooth flat and spherical mirrors, some of which will have a very long radius of curvature, the relay imaging reflective optics will allow CCFE to monitor a number of physical and operational parameters within the JET fusion vessel with remote cameras from behind the 3m thick concrete shield wall. Knowledge of these parameters...
Trajan Scientific and Medical has announced the commencement of the Trajan Accelerator program, a new collaborative model targeting early stage enterprises sharing Trajan’s vision to positively impact human wellbeing through the application of science into society. Conceived in late 2015, Trajan Accelerator aims to help start-up businesses cross the “Valley of Death” to build long-term sustainable businesses with...
Dr Robert Scoffin FRSC, is an expert in the fields of molecular modeling and cheminformatics. He joined Cresset as CEO in 2010. His previous roles include CEO of Amedis a...nd VP, Europe at CambridgeSoft. He also heads up Re-Pharm, an early stage discovery company which uses Cresset software to assess compounds for repurposing. His DPhil is in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. Dr Scoffin joins
The University's recent purchase of a ZEISS ORION NanoFab Helium Ion Microscope and a ZEISS SIGMA Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) ensures that the nanoFAB can offer users the broadest range of characterization opportunities possible. The Helium Ion Microscope purchased is configured with a Capella Gallium Focused Ion Beam and the Fibics NanoPatterning and Visualization Engine (NPVE)...
Dr Luning Liu leads a research group at the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool. Using interdisciplinary approaches, the Liu Lab aims to explore the molecular mechanism underlying the self-assembly, dynamics and regulation of biological membranes and macromolecular protein complexes. The long-term goal of the group is to understand the physiological adaptation of cellular metabolisms in...
The CGQ allows non-invasive online monitoring of biomass in shake flasks. The automatic measurements save time and provide a profound understanding of the bioprocesses, ensuring sustainable success of shake flask experiments. Currently, scientists monitor biomass in shake flask cultures by manual and invasive photometric OD measurements. The CGQ, however, determines the biomass concentration automatically...
Sphere Medical, an innovator company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, today announces the appointment of Professor Michael Grocott to its Medical Advisory Board. This advisory board helps Sphere Medical to ensure that it maintains excellence in clinical practices and strives for continual quality improvement in order to best support clinical needs. As Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of...
EM Resolutions has been appointed by Energy Beam Sciences (EBS) as exclusive distributor for their tungsten EM filaments and Denka Lanthanum Hexaboride (LaB6) cathodes in the UK and Ireland. As an industry leader in applied energy beam technologies, EBS has built a reputation for superior design and craftsmanship, manufacturing filaments with outstanding performance and longevity...
The leading life science company is amongst the winners who were officially announced during a ceremony held at Pittcon 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Reviewers’ Choice Awards™, added to the annual Scientists’ Choice Awards® in 2015, give laboratory scientists an opportunity to have their say by rating and reviewing companies and products that have made a significant difference to their research over the...
Penntech is a global provider of complete vial handling solutions covering washing, sterilization, filling, stoppering, capping and both tray and freeze dryer loading/unloading equipment, located in Warminster (PA, USA). “PennTech has a well-earned reputation for producing high quality, often customized, equipment and is the only U.S. based manufacturer to offer complete aseptic processing lines,” stated...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) is delighted to announce that its Royston site has won two prestigious awards at the Annual Cambridge Regional College Apprenticeship Dinner. The company was chosen as category winners for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Apprenticeships and then went on to win “Overall Employer of the Year”. These awards recognize Sartorius in Royston as an...