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...
During the annual trade fair EUROLAB in Warsaw the new Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer secured an award in the Best Products competition.
During the traditional exhibitor evening, FRITSCH sales representative for Eastern Europe, Mr Thomas Loch, was presented with the award certificate. The independent, high calibre jury, consisting of professors from the faculty of the University of Technology (Institute for Chemistry) in Warsaw, led by Prof. Dr Hab. Jerzy Golimowski, judged the numerous exhibited laboratory instruments. The new Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer for...
The French medical diagnostics supplier, Biocentric, is the latest company to achieve Platinum Distributor Status from DiaSorin in recognition of their outstanding contribution to sales of the DiaSorin Arrow instrument and molecular extraction kits throughout France and overseas.
In the 5 years that Biocentric has been a distributor of Arrow products, their annual sales have demonstrated significant year on year growth. “We are pleased to partner with innovative and dynamic companies, such as Biocentric” comments Paul Eros, Global Vice President Molecular, DiaSorin. "A supplier of Arrow products since 2009, Biocentric has ensured that sales of the Arrow instrument and extraction kits have grown steadily year on year, not just in...
The overwhelming majority of past and present imaging systems use a lens to focus the subject of interest, even today's super-resolution light microscopes that breach the diffraction limit through ingenious experimental methods.
Lensless imaging offers the prospect of a radical improvement in resolution by reconstructing a high-resolution image of an object from one or more diffraction patterns. One downside of lensless imaging is that samples typically need to fulfil very specific geometric constraints and illuminated with a narrow, stable and accurately defined spectrum. These technical limitations have been overcome recently by a team from LaserLaB Amsterdam at the VU University in Amsterdam. Writing in the new nature.com journal 'Light: Science and Applications', they describe a...
PHOTONEX exhibition is underpinned by a developing conference with key growth sectors being discussed in 2014, giving visitors the opportunity for continued high-level professional development.
The UK's largest showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies will be held on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th October, returning to the popular Ricoh Arena in Coventry. With a broad light technologies remit, this event provides researchers and industry professionals the unique opportunity to meet with suppliers across the spectrum of photonics in the exhibition and in the in-depth “Enlighten” conference covering applications and...
Qinec, a company providing an operating model for better healthcare delivery, has today announced that Synexus has implemented QinecEnterprise across its 24 worldwide facilities, including dedicated research sites in South Africa, the UK, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.
The deployment is Qinec's first outside the UK and provides it with a foothold into several key emerging markets. Synexus is the largest company in the world to recruit and run clinical trials at its own facilities. Clinical trials are very time sensitive and Synexus needed an operating system that could help it to effectively manage people through the recruitment to care process as well as track the patient's ongoing progress. QinecEnteprise will...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, announce the Agilent 4300 Handheld FTIR spectrometer for a wide range of applications.
Analytik announces the UK and Ireland release of the Agilent 4300 Handheld FTIR spectrometer. This lightweight, ergonomic analyser enables the direct identification and assessment of high-value materials without sample extraction, making handheld FTIR a true non-destructive testing solution. The 4300 Handheld FTIR enables the user to take measurements wherever they are needed – regardless of the physical size or location of the object...
Two Fold Software Ltd are pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of staff to assist with ever increasing sales of both new systems and upgrades, and ensure continued high customer satisfaction levels. Ron Kessels has been appointed as Business Development Manager, with key responsibility for developing relationships with strategic partners and distributors around the globe....
New technology supports HIV-1 drug resistance surveillance in resource-limited countries
ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, has licensed technology from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific, to bring a rapid and cost- effective PCR-based method of monitoring HIV drug resistance to resource-limited countries. The ATCC® HIV-1 Drug Resistance Genotyping Kit was optimized for off-the-shelf detection, sequencing, and genotyping of...
The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce its 2015 Wallace H. Coulter Lecture, “Plasmonics: Shedding Light on Cross-cutting Science and Technologies,” which will be presented by Naomi J. Halas, Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The lecture will take place during the Pittcon Opening Session on Sunday, March 8, 2015, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Halas is a professor at Rice University and the founding director of the Rice Laboratory for Nanophotonics. She is a pioneering researcher in the field of plasmonics, creating the concept of the “tunable plasmon” and inventing a family of nanoparticles with resonances spanning the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum. Halas pursues fundamental studies of...
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...
During the traditional exhibitor evening, FRITSCH sales representative for Eastern Europe, Mr Thomas Loch, was presented with the award certificate. The independent, high calibre jury, consisting of professors from the faculty of the University of Technology (Institute for Chemistry) in Warsaw, led by Prof. Dr Hab. Jerzy Golimowski, judged the numerous exhibited laboratory instruments. The new Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer for...
In the 5 years that Biocentric has been a distributor of Arrow products, their annual sales have demonstrated significant year on year growth. “We are pleased to partner with innovative and dynamic companies, such as Biocentric” comments Paul Eros, Global Vice President Molecular, DiaSorin. "A supplier of Arrow products since 2009, Biocentric has ensured that sales of the Arrow instrument and extraction kits have grown steadily year on year, not just in...
The UK's largest showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies will be held on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th October, returning to the popular Ricoh Arena in Coventry. With a broad light technologies remit, this event provides researchers and industry professionals the unique opportunity to meet with suppliers across the spectrum of photonics in the exhibition and in the in-depth “Enlighten” conference covering applications and...
The deployment is Qinec's first outside the UK and provides it with a foothold into several key emerging markets. Synexus is the largest company in the world to recruit and run clinical trials at its own facilities. Clinical trials are very time sensitive and Synexus needed an operating system that could help it to effectively manage people through the recruitment to care process as well as track the patient's ongoing progress. QinecEnteprise will...
Analytik announces the UK and Ireland release of the Agilent 4300 Handheld FTIR spectrometer. This lightweight, ergonomic analyser enables the direct identification and assessment of high-value materials without sample extraction, making handheld FTIR a true non-destructive testing solution. The 4300 Handheld FTIR enables the user to take measurements wherever they are needed – regardless of the physical size or location of the object...
Two Fold Software Ltd are pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of staff to assist with ever increasing sales of both new systems and upgrades, and ensure continued high customer satisfaction levels. Ron Kessels has been appointed as Business Development Manager, with key responsibility for developing relationships with strategic partners and distributors around the globe....
ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, has licensed technology from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific, to bring a rapid and cost- effective PCR-based method of monitoring HIV drug resistance to resource-limited countries. The ATCC® HIV-1 Drug Resistance Genotyping Kit was optimized for off-the-shelf detection, sequencing, and genotyping of...
The lecture will take place during the Pittcon Opening Session on Sunday, March 8, 2015, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Halas is a professor at Rice University and the founding director of the Rice Laboratory for Nanophotonics. She is a pioneering researcher in the field of plasmonics, creating the concept of the “tunable plasmon” and inventing a family of nanoparticles with resonances spanning the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum. Halas pursues fundamental studies of...