Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today unveiled a new high performance liquid chromatography system designed from the ground up to provide new levels of performance, productivity and usability when used as a standalone system or with the latest mass spectrometers.
The new Thermo Scientific Vanquish UHPLC looks different from standard UHPLC systems, and there are benefits to its clean design. The monolithic case contains an instrument that combines the ruggedness of an integrated system with the flexibility and serviceability of a modular system. Vanquish stands about 25 percent lower than comparable modular stacks for safety and convenience in the laboratory...
At Powtech 2014, Freeman Technology, the powder characterisation specialists, will present ‘Choosing a Powder Tester’.
When evaluating powder testers, there is no shortage of options; this new booklet provides guidance on selecting the most suitable instrumentation. It considers questions such as ‘what makes powder testing complex?’ and ‘what should I look for in a powder testing method?’ allowing readers to make an informed decision when sourcing an appropriate measurement technology. The second in a series of three educational guides, the booklet is a follow up to the highly popular...
Synexus has been identified as a Hyper Growth business by GrowthAccelerator the government backed business growth advisory service.
Synexus which is now the world's largest multi-national company entirely focused on the recruitment and running of clinical trials at its own research centres has grown from a single site in Chorley Lancashire to 24 sites across nine countries. The commonly accepted definition of hyper growth is “a business which achieves annual growth rates into turnover or number of employees of over 20 per cent for three consecutive years.” In the...
Diapharm has opened its branch in Shanghai in reaction to a surging demand for pharmaceutical consultancy services in China.
Diapharm helps pharmaceutical companies to obtain drug approval in Europe and assists them in quality assurance. “We will advise and assist Chinese companies as they make their way to Europe and also support European companies that purchase active ingredients or finished products from China and that may require assistance in auditing their suppliers,” Ralf Sibbing, general manager of Diapharm, explains...
Resolve Optics Ltd. has supplied a number of non-browning zoom lens to the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., USA.
A key aim of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been to investigate human and robotic satellite servicing while developing the technologies necessary to bring in-orbit spacecraft inspection, repair, refueling, component replacement and assembly capabilities to space. Following the mantra of “test, test and retest,” SSCO is conducting a number of tests and demonstrations in orbit, in the air and on the ground, to prove the readiness of this...
Strong business opportunities exist for big pharmaceutical and generic pharmaceutical companies in Ghana and Nigeria.
This is of no surprise as the tropical climate of Africa makes the continent a hotbed for infectious diseases, particularly malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. Outbreaks of polio, meningitis, cholera, pandemic influenza, yellow fever, measles, hepatitis and tetanus are also frequent. The rising adoption of a Western diet and sedentary lifestyle is also causing a paradigm shift in the burden of illness towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs)...
Synexus, the world's largest multi-national company entirely focused on the recruitment and running of clinical trials has been identified as a top player in the prestigious annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table, published on Sunday, 13 July, 2014.
This lists private companies with the fastest growing international sales. To achieve a listing in the league table, companies are ranked according to their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in international sales over two years and this is compared to sales at the start date. Synexus was one of 26 companies in the North West to win a place on the league table. In the national listings it has been placed in the 69th position out of 200 companies...
d3 Medicine LLC and Viroclinics Biosciences BV announced today that they have signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding to provide biopharmaceutical customers with an integrated solution to accelerate the preclinical and clinical development of drugs, biologicals, vaccines and diagnostics targeting viral infectious diseases.
The alliance leverages the strengths of the two companies and will offer services that enable biopharmaceutical customers to accelerate virological investigational agents through preclinical and clinical development to market launch. Viroclinics Biosciences will provide a range of preclinical and clinical diagnostic services, including high throughput serology, virology and molecular assays, phenotyping and genotyping in both translational studies and...
SP Industries, Inc. (SP), a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, biological drug manufacturing solutions, and specialty glassware, has announced that it has acquired privately held Bel-Art Products (Bel-Art).
Headquartered in Wayne (NJ, USA), Bel-Art is a global provider of innovative laboratory solutions serving the scientific, industrial, and healthcare end markets. Through this acquisition, SP, which offers a diverse collection of market leading process and laboratory equipment and specialty glassware, adds to its portfolio over 3,500 additional products sold under Bel-Art’s flagship Scienceware and H-B Instrument brand names. “The acquisition of best-in-class companies that complement our existing product lines and allow us to expand our presence in the...
genOway guarantees freedom to operate (FTO) and offers important gains in conditional knockout development time for industry scientists
GenOway (Alternext-NYSE Euronext: ALGEN; ISIN: FR0004053510), the biotechnology company dedicated to the development of genetically modified animal models, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK) and Helmholtz Zentrum München (Germany), members of the EUCOMM Program (European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program) and its successor program EUCOMMTOOLS (EUCOMM: Tools for functional annotation of the mouse genome) announce today the signing of a license enabling genOway to provide industry scientists with conditional knockout (KO) models developed by...
The Welsh Government has launched the Life Sciences Hub Wales, a national and international focal point for the Life Sciences and Healthcare sectors in Wales.
Vision UK brings a whole host of imaging and vision technologies to the PHOTONEX exhibition in Coventry, 15th and 16th October 2014 and is supported by the UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA).
The UK's largest showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies now incorporates Vision UK and highlights for 2014 include industrial vision, machine vision, scientific and hyperspectral imaging. Adding fresh interest at the event this year is the co-location of the HSI 2014 Conference. Now in its fourth year, hyperspectral imaging is growing in use, well known for applications in remote sensing, as an aerial sensing technique to...
Grant of over EUR 400,000 awarded by the Conseil Régional Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’azur to the consortium of TxCell, Gene and Cell therapy Unit, Nice (UTCG) and Biosafe
TxCell SA, a biotech developing innovative, personalized cell-based immunotherapies using antigen-specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announces today the launch of, and funding awarded to, the POSITIVE project in collaboration with the Gene and Cell therapy Unit (UTCG) developing new antiviral cell-based immunotherapies and Biosafe, a Swiss private company, a developer of...
Resolve Optics Ltd. has supplied a number of non-browning zoom lens to the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., USA.
A key aim of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been to investigate human and robotic satellite servicing while developing the technologies necessary to bring in-orbit spacecraft inspection, repair, refueling, component replacement and assembly capabilities to space. Following the mantra of “test, test and retest,” SSCO is conducting a number of tests and demonstrations in orbit, in the air and on the ground, to prove the readiness of this technology portfolio...
Skuldtech, an expert in the discovery of genomic and transcriptomic biomarkers founded in 1999, is specialized in the development of innovative diagnostics.
Today the company changes its name to Acobiom. The new name is intended to confirm the company’s strategic shift towards personalized medicine, which started in 2009 and represents a major opportunity for the medicine of the future. Personalized medicine tailors treatment to the patient’s biological characteristics. It is one of the most promising approaches in oncology and in the targeted treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and some infections...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced it has fully integrated its mass spectrometry division, ALMSCO International, into its core business operations.
This process, which was initiated in September 2013, is now complete, with all ALMSCO-branded products now fully under the Markes International banner. Markes’ time-of-flight mass spectrometry (the BenchTOF™ range) and software products were originally launched under the ALMSCO brand, in order to ensure that Markes’ reputation as a supplier of analytical thermal desorption instrumentation didn’t limit the potential and scope of these technologies...
Concept Life Sciences, a newly formed international scientific laboratory and consultancy business, has made three acquisitions with a combined enterprise value approaching $100 million.
The companies the group has acquired are Peakdale Molecular Limited, Resource & Environmental Consultants Limited and Scientific Analysis Laboratories Limited. Concept Life Sciences is led by Executive Chairman Michael Fort and Chief Executive Officer Alan Morgan. Michael Fort has significant experience in the life sciences field having most recently held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Synexus Clinical Research where he worked for over 11 years. Michael has been involved in more than five M&A deals with a track record of building substantial value in the SME sector...
Dr Steven Bradshaw, a former Ophthalmologist and medical research expert, has signed up to be become a mentor at AuthorAID to support developing countries researchers in publishing their work to the global audience.
Dr Bradshaw has over 15 years of experience in pharmaceuticals and healthcare, with over 30 published articles in medical journals. He was once Editor at the Nature Publishing Group and is also a regular expert peer reviewer for journals such as British Journal of General Practice, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, and Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. AuthorAID is a charitable global research network that provides free support and...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a premier supplier of Laboratory Data Management Solutions is excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the 2014 VA AWWA/VWEA GLP Conference, July 28-29, at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, VA.
Sample Master® and TITAN® Laboratory Data Management solutions are designed to support Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and assist with maintaining compliance data and quality assurance processes. These tools aid in organizing and storing analytical data, and enabling the conversion of data from information to knowledge, while facilitating regulatory compliance goals. ATL's software solutions identify each sample, store metadata and...
The Pathology Partnership has awarded Capita Healthcare Decisions a seven year, £9.7m contract to provide a laboratory information system, and the platform to host it, to the hospitals in its shared service arrangement.
Capita will work with partner CliniSys to deliver the system. Combining the pathology laboratories of Cambridge, Ipswich, Hinchingbrooke, Colchester, and West Suffolk hospitals, together with East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, the Pathology Partnership was formed in the wake of the Carter reviewwhich recommended that performance improvement in pathology would be driven by the consolidation of multiple, acute trust pathology departments into single, managed networks...
As an established and major sponsor of the Filtration Society’s annual international conference and exhibition, Whitehouse Scientific is proud to be helping the Society celebrate its 50th anniversary at this year’s event.
The Filtration Society 50th Anniversary Conference will take place on 13-14 November 2014 at the Riverside Innovation Centre, Chester, UK. With a confirmed line up of international speakers drawn from industry and academia, as well as a well-supported trade exhibition, the organisers are expecting to welcome conference participants from around the world. The Filtration Society was formed in London in 1964 and has the objectives of...
The Pittcon Exposition Committee is now accepting booth space reservations for Pittcon 2015, which will be held March 8-12, at the Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The discounted rate of $2,400 for a standard 10’ x 10’ space is available to all exhibitors up to July 14, 2014. The cost per booth after July 14 is $2,900. Those who wish to be included in the first round of booth assignments should have their agreements submitted by the end of July, as assignments will begin August 2014. The Exposition Committee also announces a new section that will be part of the 2015 expo floor, a Food section, which will...
The new Thermo Scientific Vanquish UHPLC looks different from standard UHPLC systems, and there are benefits to its clean design. The monolithic case contains an instrument that combines the ruggedness of an integrated system with the flexibility and serviceability of a modular system. Vanquish stands about 25 percent lower than comparable modular stacks for safety and convenience in the laboratory...
When evaluating powder testers, there is no shortage of options; this new booklet provides guidance on selecting the most suitable instrumentation. It considers questions such as ‘what makes powder testing complex?’ and ‘what should I look for in a powder testing method?’ allowing readers to make an informed decision when sourcing an appropriate measurement technology. The second in a series of three educational guides, the booklet is a follow up to the highly popular...
Synexus which is now the world's largest multi-national company entirely focused on the recruitment and running of clinical trials at its own research centres has grown from a single site in Chorley Lancashire to 24 sites across nine countries. The commonly accepted definition of hyper growth is “a business which achieves annual growth rates into turnover or number of employees of over 20 per cent for three consecutive years.” In the...
Diapharm helps pharmaceutical companies to obtain drug approval in Europe and assists them in quality assurance. “We will advise and assist Chinese companies as they make their way to Europe and also support European companies that purchase active ingredients or finished products from China and that may require assistance in auditing their suppliers,” Ralf Sibbing, general manager of Diapharm, explains...
A key aim of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been to investigate human and robotic satellite servicing while developing the technologies necessary to bring in-orbit spacecraft inspection, repair, refueling, component replacement and assembly capabilities to space. Following the mantra of “test, test and retest,” SSCO is conducting a number of tests and demonstrations in orbit, in the air and on the ground, to prove the readiness of this...
This is of no surprise as the tropical climate of Africa makes the continent a hotbed for infectious diseases, particularly malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. Outbreaks of polio, meningitis, cholera, pandemic influenza, yellow fever, measles, hepatitis and tetanus are also frequent. The rising adoption of a Western diet and sedentary lifestyle is also causing a paradigm shift in the burden of illness towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs)... 
This lists private companies with the fastest growing international sales. To achieve a listing in the league table, companies are ranked according to their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in international sales over two years and this is compared to sales at the start date. Synexus was one of 26 companies in the North West to win a place on the league table. In the national listings it has been placed in the 69th position out of 200 companies...
The alliance leverages the strengths of the two companies and will offer services that enable biopharmaceutical customers to accelerate virological investigational agents through preclinical and clinical development to market launch. Viroclinics Biosciences will provide a range of preclinical and clinical diagnostic services, including high throughput serology, virology and molecular assays, phenotyping and genotyping in both translational studies and...
Headquartered in Wayne (NJ, USA), Bel-Art is a global provider of innovative laboratory solutions serving the scientific, industrial, and healthcare end markets. Through this acquisition, SP, which offers a diverse collection of market leading process and laboratory equipment and specialty glassware, adds to its portfolio over 3,500 additional products sold under Bel-Art’s flagship Scienceware and H-B Instrument brand names. “The acquisition of best-in-class companies that complement our existing product lines and allow us to expand our presence in the...
The UK's largest showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies now incorporates Vision UK and highlights for 2014 include industrial vision, machine vision, scientific and hyperspectral imaging. Adding fresh interest at the event this year is the co-location of the HSI 2014 Conference. Now in its fourth year, hyperspectral imaging is growing in use, well known for applications in remote sensing, as an aerial sensing technique to...
TxCell SA, a biotech developing innovative, personalized cell-based immunotherapies using antigen-specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announces today the launch of, and funding awarded to, the POSITIVE project in collaboration with the Gene and Cell therapy Unit (UTCG) developing new antiviral cell-based immunotherapies and Biosafe, a Swiss private company, a developer of...
A key aim of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been to investigate human and robotic satellite servicing while developing the technologies necessary to bring in-orbit spacecraft inspection, repair, refueling, component replacement and assembly capabilities to space. Following the mantra of “test, test and retest,” SSCO is conducting a number of tests and demonstrations in orbit, in the air and on the ground, to prove the readiness of this technology portfolio...
Today the company changes its name to Acobiom. The new name is intended to confirm the company’s strategic shift towards personalized medicine, which started in 2009 and represents a major opportunity for the medicine of the future. Personalized medicine tailors treatment to the patient’s biological characteristics. It is one of the most promising approaches in oncology and in the targeted treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and some infections...
This process, which was initiated in September 2013, is now complete, with all ALMSCO-branded products now fully under the Markes International banner. Markes’ time-of-flight mass spectrometry (the BenchTOF™ range) and software products were originally launched under the ALMSCO brand, in order to ensure that Markes’ reputation as a supplier of analytical thermal desorption instrumentation didn’t limit the potential and scope of these technologies...
Dr Bradshaw has over 15 years of experience in pharmaceuticals and healthcare, with over 30 published articles in medical journals. He was once Editor at the Nature Publishing Group and is also a regular expert peer reviewer for journals such as British Journal of General Practice, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, and Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. AuthorAID is a charitable global research network that provides free support and...
Sample Master® and TITAN® Laboratory Data Management solutions are designed to support Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and assist with maintaining compliance data and quality assurance processes. These tools aid in organizing and storing analytical data, and enabling the conversion of data from information to knowledge, while facilitating regulatory compliance goals. ATL's software solutions identify each sample, store metadata and...
The Filtration Society 50th Anniversary Conference will take place on 13-14 November 2014 at the Riverside Innovation Centre, Chester, UK. With a confirmed line up of international speakers drawn from industry and academia, as well as a well-supported trade exhibition, the organisers are expecting to welcome conference participants from around the world. The Filtration Society was formed in London in 1964 and has the objectives of...
The discounted rate of $2,400 for a standard 10’ x 10’ space is available to all exhibitors up to July 14, 2014. The cost per booth after July 14 is $2,900. Those who wish to be included in the first round of booth assignments should have their agreements submitted by the end of July, as assignments will begin August 2014. The Exposition Committee also announces a new section that will be part of the 2015 expo floor, a Food section, which will...