With clinical laboratories increasingly turning to high throughput LC-MSMS analysis, laboratory automation specialist Tecan and RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments GmbH, a leading manufacturer of IVD/CE diagnostic products, have announced a co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits.

Visitors to Booth #1 at MSACL 2014 EU in Salzburg, Austria, from the 2^nd to the 5^th of September, had the opportunity to discover how Tecan’s flexible Freedom EVO^® platform offers walkaway automation of the RECIPE ClinMass^® LC-MSMS Complete Kits* for the analysis of vitamin D₂/D₃ and immunosuppressants. The automated process has the advantage of eliminating the potential for manual handling errors and increasing the speed of sample preparation three-fold compared to manual protocols, significantly improving turnaround times while enhancing reproducibility, traceability and sample security....

The cross-disciplinary capabilities of Malvern Instruments’ technology are being fully exploited at Queen Mary University London.

The Zetasizer Nano, NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) and Mastersizer 2000 systems are all employed within the university’s multi-disciplinary lab. The instruments serve a wide variety of research groups working in areas as diverse as silica coating formulation through to tissue regeneration, demonstrating the value that Malvern’s robust technology brings throughout the scientific arena. “Our lab is part of The School of Engineering and...

Veolia Water Technologies will be showing its innovative PURELAB^® Chorus range of laboratory water purifiers at Lab Innovations

The PURELAB^® Chorus, which recently won Gold in the scientific instruments, medical devices and research equipment category of the prestigious A’ Design Award, meets all the needs of tomorrow’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology laboratories. With specific technologies to remove impurities such as RNase, DNase and bacteria as well as trace ions such as silica and boron to below detectable limits, PURELAB^® Chorus can be customized to deliver water purity from...

ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light sheet microscopy.

Science World - the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience, was held on the on 2nd September 2014 at the bcc Berlin Congress Centre GmbH.

Comprising more than 50 leading industry suppliers, the exhibition showcased thousands of innovative laboratory products and welcomed more than 600 delegates representing the breadth of the scientific community, through its doors. As well as a unique opportunity to try out the latest laboratory equipment and meet the people behind brands such as GE Healthcare and Kimberly Clark, the event offered a series of seminars covering life sciences, research and analysis...

The Chartered Institute of Marketing has announced that Markes International (Llantrisant) has been selected as a finalist in two categories for the 2014 CANMOL: Wales Marketing Awards.

CANMOL, which is Welsh for ‘praise’, was set up in 2008 to celebrate and promote excellence in marketing in Wales, and is run by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Markes’ entry focused on the launch of their Select-eV technology, and was shortlisted in two of the eight categories – ‘Construction, engineering, manufacturing’, and ‘Technology and energy’. Each of the three finalists in each category was assessed by at least eight judges, and...

Ocean Optics offers unique interactive tools and educational resources

Ocean Optics has launched a redesigned website at oceanoptics.com. The all new site design helps users more easily navigate through spectroscopy product and educational information with an interactive product selector, spectrometer range and resolution calculator, applications section, measurement techniques section, and a new search function that groups results by type. The biggest change to the site is the addition of two...

Dr Graham Rideal, CEO of calibration standards company Whitehouse Scientific, has completed a lecture tour of Europe, travelling in style and accompanied by the company’s ShapeSizer Image Analyser.

Visiting manufacturers who weave stainless steel cloth for sieves and filters, Dr Rideal demonstrated the ShapeSizer and showed its value in validating glass bead calibration testing of both plain and complex weaves. “The ShapeSizer is one of the most cost-effective and reliable particle metrology tools on the market and we have now extended its application to the NIST traceable calibration of both test sieves and filter apertures via the...

NHS Pharmaceutical QA Service Annual Symposium, 16^th-17^th September 201

Pharmacy manufacturing units in NHS hospitals and trusts have the same responsibility for quality and patient safety as a global drug manufacturer but with fewer people and resources.Cherwell Laboratories have confirmed their ongoing support to helping NHS QA professionals keep up-to-date by attending the NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Service Annual Symposium.Experts from the company will be available to offer advice during the event at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth on...

BioTek is pleased to announce Dan Hannah, U.S. Field Service Manager, has been awarded the Patriot Award by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve program (ESGR), a Department of Defense office.

An employee serving in the National Guard or Reserve, or the spouse of a Guard or Reserve member, may nominate individual supervisors for support provided directly to the nominating Service member and his or her family. The Patriot Award reflects the efforts made to support Citizen Warriors through a wide-range of measures including flexible schedules, time off prior to and after deployment, caring for families and granting leaves of absence if...

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces their expansion into the US market with new distributors and the availability of the NanoWizard® AFM. 

JPK have been developing and supplying nanotechnology instrumentation for the materials & life sciences for more than twelve years. Having introduced their optical tweezers and force robotic measurement systems to the USA, JPK is now responding to requests to bring their AFM instrumentation to the USA. A new web site dedicated to the US market has been launched: www.usa.jpk.com.  The NanoWizard® is the core of...

Lab Innovations 2014, the UK’s only event dedicated to laboratory equipment, technology and services, reports that exhibitor bookings are currently 14 percent up on this stage last year.

Many of these exhibitors are using the show, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on 5 & 6 November, to launch new technologies and concepts. Retsch is launching its E_max to the UK market. This product is an entirely new type of ball mill for high energy milling. The unique combination of high friction and impact results in extremely fine particles and thanks to a revolutionary cooling system with water, the high energy input is...

The latest Advantage offer from Eppendorf provides life science researchers with tailored sample prep solutions at unprecedented prices.

Available until 31^st December 2014, the new offers combine Eppendorf Tubes® 5.0 mL, Eppendorf Research® plus pipettes and a selection of Eppendorf Centrifuges into several money-saving bundles, ultimately saving up to 28%. By selecting the best bundle for their specific needs, researchers can ensure that their investigations have the best possible start. The 5.0 mL Sample Prep Starter Pack, with a saving of 25%, comprises of ...

KNF Lab’s revolutionary new RC900 Rotary Evaporator has achieved outstanding recognition in the renowned Red Dot Design Awards.

The Red Dot Awards, an international competition for design concepts and prototypes, acknowledges the system’s advanced design and user-oriented features. Launched at Analytica in April this year, the RC900 Rotary Evaporator is an efficient, robust instrument set to transform rotary evaporation, making the technique easier and safer than ever before. Its elegant, easy-to-clean design offers a range of novel features focused on simple, reliable operation and...

Edinburgh Instruments is pleased to announce that it is expanding its US presence with the addition of direct sales support within the USA which compliments the existing technical support which was established.

This will help serve the growing demand for its range of fluorescence spectrometers that include the FLS980 research grade fluorescence spectrometer, the new FS5 spectrofluorometer and high performance Laser Flash Photolysis product range.  Mark Vosloo, CEO of Edinburgh Instruments commented, “Our FS5 Spectrofluorometer is taking the market by storm across Asia, and we are seeing more traction on the ground in the USA than ever before...

European laboratories testing feed and food for dioxins and dioxin-like substances now have lower-cost, smaller-footprint alternatives to high-resolution mass spectrometers (HRMS) for confirming levels of the toxic contaminants, thanks to a new  European Union regulation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific worked closely with national reference labs (NRLs) in the European Union to support the development of the new regulation, known as Commission Regulation (EU) No. 709/2014, which permits use of gas chromatograph-triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometers (GC-MS/MS) for confirmation. EU regulations previously permitted the use of GC-MS/MS only to screen samples for dioxins, a group of persistent organic chemicals that can cause...

Spectro Scientific has been awarded two multi-year contracts from the United States Air Force under the Joint Oil Analysis Program (JOAP).

The first is for the continued supply of the company’s Spectroil MN/W optical emission (OE) spectrometers. The second is for the global service and support of the company’s widely deployed Spectroil OE spectrometers. Both contracts are exclusive to Spectro Scientific, run approximately five (5) years in length, and are estimated to have a total value to the company of $18M to $22M. Spectro Scientific President and CEO Brian Mitchell said, “Spectro Scientific has...

Brookfield Engineering is celebrating its 80^th anniversary with a special promotional offer on its top of the line DV3T Rheometer which offers touch screen interface and real time graphical display of data. 

An automatic 10% discount on the purchase price coupled with its unique standalone performance capability make the DV3T the “best buy” opportunity for customers looking to purchase new or upgrade their existing viscometer.  This special offer runs for 90 days from September thru November 2014....

Leica Biosystems and Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. (ACD) have announced the co-marketing of ACD's RNAscope^® LS ISH assays with Leica Biosystems' BOND RX research staining platform*.

This agreement provides researchers with an integrated and fully automated ISH solution. The market-leading RNAscope LS reagent kits and ISH probes are available from ACD while the BOND RX instrument and associated reagents are supplied by Leica Biosystems. ACD's RNAscope assays represent a major technological advance for in situ RNA detection. For the first time, robust single RNA molecule detection is available for...

Analytik Jena AG, a leading manufacturer of analytical measuring technology, life science instruments and optoelectronics, today announced that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the ICP-MS business of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR).

The transaction is expected to close in September 2014. With this acquisition, Analytik Jena AG will enter the rapidly growing global ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) market. Analytik Jena will thereby further broaden its atomic spectroscopy portfolio, and will be among the few suppliers that offer all three core technologies for elemental trace analysis (AAS, ICP-OES & ICP-MS)...

Addition of lentiviral gene delivery capabilities complements strategic partnering portfolio. 

Miltenyi Biotec announced today that it has acquired the lentiviral vector manufacturing business and related assets from US company Lentigen Corporation, a global leader in lentiviral technology for cell and gene therapy applications. The acquisition further strengthens Miltenyi Biotec’s portfolio in cell and gene therapy. Assets obtained in the transaction include a broad range of intellectual property, process technologies, and...