Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has announced that TAP Biosystems, part of SSB Group since 2013, and Merck & Co., Inc. have won two awards at the prestigious 2014 BioProcess International (BPI) Awards.
The awards recognize that the ambr250™ mini bioreactor system, developed as a result of this successful partnership, is a major breakthrough in bioprocessing technology. At the BioProcess International Awards, TAP Biosystems and Merck won the ‘Best Collaboration Award’ beating off stiff competition from other partnerships including Invetech and Janssen. TAP Biosystems and Merck also won the ‘Best Technology Application — Upstream Award’ for the...
BioTek has been awarded U.S. Patent 8,858,718, covering the use of ultrasonic devices to check for clogged manifold tubes and to clean the manifold tubes of a microplate washer automatically.
The two features are known as Verify™ and Ultrasonic Advantage™ and are available in BioTek’s 405 family of microplate washers. Using Verify technology on the 405 washer, the user can run an automated routine to check for blockages, typically caused by protein or salt build-up in the aspirate and dispense tubes of the 405’s manifold. Verify uses ultrasonic pulses to determine that the volume dispensed or aspirated per tube meets...
Non-contact dispensing technologies such as acoustics will evolve into popular platforms for liquid handling, finds Frost & Sullivan
The escalating need for high throughput data is accelerating the shift towards automation in the Western European liquid handling market. Government investments in the development of bioclusters as well as research and development centres for various drug discovery applications are opening up opportunities for liquid handling companies in the region. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Western European Liquid Handling Market, finds that the...
BioSilta Ltd, a developer of advanced, reagent-based microbial growth systems, today announced that it has completed the set-up of operational and commercial headquarters in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK.
In addition, the Company has strengthened its Board and senior management team with appointments as follows: Mark Bloomfield appointed Chairman. Mark has over 20 years of global management experience and has held executive positions in life science companies such as DAKO, Applied Biosystems, Thermo Electron and Agilent Technologies. He has a proven track record in leading commercially-successful, multi-national teams as well as...
The project is led by a consortium of three institutions based in Lyon, France: Imaxio, the VirPath laboratory at the Université Claude Bernard of Lyon and the International Center for Infectiology Research (CIRI)
The funding will accelerate the pre-clinical development of a candidate influenza vaccine with the aim of starting Phase I trials by 2017. Imaxio, a biopharmaceutical company specialized in vaccines, today announces that it has been awarded funding of EUR 600,000 (USD 772,000) by the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) for the OPTIVAC project 'leveraging On t-cell immune resPonse To Improve influenza VACcines'. The aim of the OPTIVAC project is to improve the efficacy of vaccines for seasonal influenza and current pandemics. To achieve this...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced that a partnership led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) will invest over £230 million in a range of revolutionary technologies aimed at identifying the causes of diseases such as cancer and dementia, and dramatically speeding up diagnosis and treatment.
The state-of-the-art technologies will be used to find out how differences in the cellular and molecular make-up of people affect how they respond to diseases and to treatment. The Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative will bring together funding from UK Government, devolved administrations, Arthritis Research UK, British Heart Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, to advance clinical research in 23 key projects at centres across the...
Bigneat will now be supporting users of its laboratory automation enclosures and ductless fume hoods with a newly formed team to concentrate on all North American customers.
Bigneat is a world leading manufacturer of hoods and enclosures that provide user and process protection during experimentation and laboratory research procedures. Following a period of growth in demand for its equipment, with a significant increase in the number of users and a wide geographic distribution of installations across North America, Bigneat realized the need to open its first US office to support these customers directly. The Bigneat North American operation brings...
ZEISS congratulates Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner on winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
All three underscored the value of microscopy in research with their discovery of methods to achieve superresolution. The limit of optical resolution calculated by Ernst Abbe, company founder Carl Zeiss's partner, in the 19th century has been considerably improved through the use of modern technologies. Today, photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) enables scientists to view processes in living cells and tissues down to the molecular level – in other words, with resolution in...
EnPresso growth systems now available to research scientists through Sigma-Aldrich
BioSilta Ltd, a developer of advanced, reagent-based microbial growth systems, today announced the signing of a non-exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL). Research scientists now have the option of ordering BioSilta’s EnPresso® growth systems for microbial cell cultures through global supplier Sigma-Aldrich. BioSilta’s lead product range, EnPresso B growth systems, offer a series of reagent-based...
The P500 offers cost-effective bench top automation for clinical chemistry
The Diatron Group, global provider of hematology and clinical chemistry analyzers, will launch its new economic walk-away clinical chemistry analyzer, the P500, at Medica, Dusseldorf (12-15 November 2014), on booth 3A 07. The new medium throughput system (215 tests/hour on a typical sample mix) is ergonomically designed and user-friendly with a high level of automation that delivers assured result quality. The advanced...
Cytation™ 5 is a uniquely integrated, configurable system that combines automated digital widefield microscopy with conventional multi-mode microplate detection to provide phenotypic cellular information and well-based quantitative data.
Antibiotic Research UK looks to find at least one drug before end of decade
Bacteria are now making antibiotics ineffective. Surgery as we know it today will become impossible – new hips, knees, organ transplantation and many cancer treatments will become high risk. To tackle this impending medical catastrophe a new national charity ‘Antibiotic Research UK– developing new antibiotics’ (acronym ANTRUK ) has been formed by a group of scientific experts from 14 of the country’s top universities and...
LaVison BioTec, developers of advanced microscopy solutions for the life sciences, report on users of their Ultramicroscope Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscope system to aid the research of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis under the supervision of Professor Vance Lemmon, the Walter G. Ross Distinguished Chair in Developmental Neuroscience & Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami.
In 2003, Professor Vance Lemmon accepted a position at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami. This centre has taken the philosophy that by promoting interactions between basic and clinical scientists, it will be possible to speed the finding of a cure for a devastating clinical problem. This research has focused on answering questions that help define human spinal cord injury and reveal strategies for the repair of damaged spinal tissue...
Ever fancied a clear smooth coffee with all the flavour and none of the bitterness? This is what Richard Ayoade, presenter of Channel 4’s, the Gadget Man, wanted in his restaurant of the future.
Heidolph-UK was able to achieve this using the Hei-VAP rotary evaporator which featured in Series 3 Episode 7 about Cooking and Dining Out. Finding new ways of enhancing familiar flavours and even creating new flavours is at the heart of great cooking and is the reason why rotary evaporators are found not only in laboratories but also in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants. Operating at a very low atmospheric pressure, the...
Sophia Genetics, the European leader in Clinical Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis, today launches a unique CFTR IVD Solution allowing clinicians to run full cystic fibrosis analysis in a single NGS experiment.
The CE-IVD marked solution covers the identification and characterisation of all types of variants in a single NGS experiment with clinical grade analytical performance. Until now, it has not been possible to simultaneously analyse all relevant CFTR variants in a one-step NGS experiment. But Sophia Genetics has made two major breakthroughs, which enable the Sophia Data Driven Medicine (DDM) platform to identify and characterise all types of...
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has entered a worldwide co-exclusive distribution agreement with Haplogen Genomics GmbH (Haplogen).
The agreement provides Horizon with access to a new high-throughput, affordable cell line engineering service. Haplogen’s extensive experience with haploid cell lines, along with a highly optimized production pipeline, allows knockouts for any non-essential gene to be generated at a throughput of hundreds of new isogenic cell lines per month. This highly efficient operation for the first time puts custom and validated human isogenic cell line pairs in...
Leading research and advisory firm, BioInformatics LLC, today announced that 50 companies have met the criteria for nomination as a potential recipient of the prestigious Life Science Industry Awards®.
Over 1,000 scientific customers named more than 400 individual life science companies as “best-in-class” in 30 different award categories. Only 50, however, met the criteria for inclusion as a nominee on the ballot ballot now being completed by thousands of scientists around the world. Their votes will determine the Winners to be named at a gala ceremony to be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC on November 18, 2014...
Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. (ACD), a global technology and market leader in in situ nucleic acid detection for life science research and clinical diagnostics, has been awarded a two-year, $1.4 million grant from National Cancer Institute (NCI) under its SBIR Phase II Program.
ACD and its academic partner Cleveland Clinic will use the grant to develop and validate a diagnostic test based on ACD’s proprietary RNAscope® technology for discriminating various B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) from benign lymphoproliferative diseases. “This award is a further validation of the clinical utility of RNAscope technology. We are very pleased that NCI has recognized the diagnostic potential of...
Scientists have developed a faster method of producing an effective vaccine for the devastating animal disease caused by Bluetongue virus (BTV); a virus that has infected and killed thousands of livestock throughout the world.
BTV is spread to cattle, sheep and some other wild ruminants by a type of midge, which is a biting insect. Infected animals experience a range of symptoms, which are fatal in some cases. There are also indirect impacts including weight loss and reduced milk production. Previous prevention measures have included the culling of animals along with the use of inactivated vaccines...
The line-up for the Lions’ Lair competition at Lab Innovations 2014 has finally been unveiled.
Metrohm, Asynt, Spex Certiprep and the current reigning champions, Cleaver Scientific, will all step into the Lair, pitching their latest technologies and innovations to an expert panel of judges, in front of a live audience, in order to win best in show. First into the Lair will be Cleaver Scientific, with its new product, the COMPAC-50 High Throughput COMET Assay system. Comet Assay has become an increasingly popular procedure for assessing DNA damage...
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems for life science applications, is delighted to announce that TAP Biosystems and Merck have been nominated as co-finalists for two awards at the prestigious 2014 BioProcess International (BPI) Awards.
The nominations recognise that the ambr250™ System, developed as a result of the collaboration, is a major advance in bioprocessing technology. At the BioProcess International Awards, TAP Biosystems and Merck have been selected as finalists in the ‘Best Collaboration Award’ and the ‘Best Technology Application — Upstream Award’ categories from amongst numerous outstanding industrial collaborations for their partnership to develop the...
The awards recognize that the ambr250™ mini bioreactor system, developed as a result of this successful partnership, is a major breakthrough in bioprocessing technology. At the BioProcess International Awards, TAP Biosystems and Merck won the ‘Best Collaboration Award’ beating off stiff competition from other partnerships including Invetech and Janssen. TAP Biosystems and Merck also won the ‘Best Technology Application — Upstream Award’ for the...
The two features are known as Verify™ and Ultrasonic Advantage™ and are available in BioTek’s 405 family of microplate washers. Using Verify technology on the 405 washer, the user can run an automated routine to check for blockages, typically caused by protein or salt build-up in the aspirate and dispense tubes of the 405’s manifold. Verify uses ultrasonic pulses to determine that the volume dispensed or aspirated per tube meets...
The escalating need for high throughput data is accelerating the shift towards automation in the Western European liquid handling market. Government investments in the development of bioclusters as well as research and development centres for various drug discovery applications are opening up opportunities for liquid handling companies in the region. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Western European Liquid Handling Market, finds that the...
In addition, the Company has strengthened its Board and senior management team with appointments as follows: Mark Bloomfield appointed Chairman. Mark has over 20 years of global management experience and has held executive positions in life science companies such as DAKO, Applied Biosystems, Thermo Electron and Agilent Technologies. He has a proven track record in leading commercially-successful, multi-national teams as well as...
The state-of-the-art technologies will be used to find out how differences in the cellular and molecular make-up of people affect how they respond to diseases and to treatment. The Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative will bring together funding from UK Government, devolved administrations, Arthritis Research UK, British Heart Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, to advance clinical research in 23 key projects at centres across the...
Bigneat is a world leading manufacturer of hoods and enclosures that provide user and process protection during experimentation and laboratory research procedures. Following a period of growth in demand for its equipment, with a significant increase in the number of users and a wide geographic distribution of installations across North America, Bigneat realized the need to open its first US office to support these customers directly. The Bigneat North American operation brings...
All three underscored the value of microscopy in research with their discovery of methods to achieve superresolution. The limit of optical resolution calculated by Ernst Abbe, company founder Carl Zeiss's partner, in the 19th century has been considerably improved through the use of modern technologies. Today, photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) enables scientists to view processes in living cells and tissues down to the molecular level – in other words, with resolution in...
The Diatron Group, global provider of hematology and clinical chemistry analyzers, will launch its new economic walk-away clinical chemistry analyzer, the P500, at Medica, Dusseldorf (12-15 November 2014), on booth 3A 07. The new medium throughput system (215 tests/hour on a typical sample mix) is ergonomically designed and user-friendly with a high level of automation that delivers assured result quality. The advanced...
Bacteria are now making antibiotics ineffective. Surgery as we know it today will become impossible – new hips, knees, organ transplantation and many cancer treatments will become high risk. To tackle this impending medical catastrophe a new national charity ‘Antibiotic Research UK– developing new antibiotics’ (acronym ANTRUK ) has been formed by a group of scientific experts from 14 of the country’s top universities and...
In 2003, Professor Vance Lemmon accepted a position at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami. This centre has taken the philosophy that by promoting interactions between basic and clinical scientists, it will be possible to speed the finding of a cure for a devastating clinical problem. This research has focused on answering questions that help define human spinal cord injury and reveal strategies for the repair of damaged spinal tissue... 
Heidolph-UK was able to achieve this using the Hei-VAP rotary evaporator which featured in Series 3 Episode 7 about Cooking and Dining Out. Finding new ways of enhancing familiar flavours and even creating new flavours is at the heart of great cooking and is the reason why rotary evaporators are found not only in laboratories but also in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants. Operating at a very low atmospheric pressure, the...
The CE-IVD marked solution covers the identification and characterisation of all types of variants in a single NGS experiment with clinical grade analytical performance. Until now, it has not been possible to simultaneously analyse all relevant CFTR variants in a one-step NGS experiment. But Sophia Genetics has made two major breakthroughs, which enable the Sophia Data Driven Medicine (DDM) platform to identify and characterise all types of...
The agreement provides Horizon with access to a new high-throughput, affordable cell line engineering service. Haplogen’s extensive experience with haploid cell lines, along with a highly optimized production pipeline, allows knockouts for any non-essential gene to be generated at a throughput of hundreds of new isogenic cell lines per month. This highly efficient operation for the first time puts custom and validated human isogenic cell line pairs in...
Over 1,000 scientific customers named more than 400 individual life science companies as “best-in-class” in 30 different award categories. Only 50, however, met the criteria for inclusion as a nominee on the ballot ballot now being completed by thousands of scientists around the world. Their votes will determine the Winners to be named at a gala ceremony to be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC on November 18, 2014...
ACD and its academic partner Cleveland Clinic will use the grant to develop and validate a diagnostic test based on ACD’s proprietary RNAscope® technology for discriminating various B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) from benign lymphoproliferative diseases. “This award is a further validation of the clinical utility of RNAscope technology. We are very pleased that NCI has recognized the diagnostic potential of...
BTV is spread to cattle, sheep and some other wild ruminants by a type of midge, which is a biting insect. Infected animals experience a range of symptoms, which are fatal in some cases. There are also indirect impacts including weight loss and reduced milk production. Previous prevention measures have included the culling of animals along with the use of inactivated vaccines...
The nominations recognise that the ambr250™ System, developed as a result of the collaboration, is a major advance in bioprocessing technology. At the BioProcess International Awards, TAP Biosystems and Merck have been selected as finalists in the ‘Best Collaboration Award’ and the ‘Best Technology Application — Upstream Award’ categories from amongst numerous outstanding industrial collaborations for their partnership to develop the...