With the new avenues in ‘omics’ technology, biomarkers are now being applied to optimize therapies, in a market expected to soar to $3.54 billion by 2020
With the efficacy for most drugs targeting severe therapeutic indications ranging from a meagre 25 percent to 50 percent, there is a tremendous market for biomarkers. Thus far, drugs have been administered without knowing if they will work for a specific patient. Biomarkers are now being used in the first stages of drug development to provide suitable signals in in-vitro or animal trials to indicate if a specific compound will have high or low efficacy in humans...
Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) will complete the integration of SGE Analytical Science (SGE) at all major operational centers in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia, as of July 1, 2014, when SGE entities will register new Trajan business names.
For workers in many laboratories around the world, SGE is synonymous with the highest quality in chromatography components and consumables. The company has established a leading reputation over the last 50 years. The SGE brand will live on and continue to grow in this field, supported by Trajan and its well-established network of distributors. Stephen Tomisich, Trajan’s Chief Executive Officer said, “We are proud to build on...
Filtros Anoia, SA has now partnered with UK based laboratory sales company Stratlab Ltd to offer their huge portfolio of filtration products to the UK.
These include laboratory papers and membranes for analysis, chromatography, testing, drying, pH, lens cleaning etc; industrial use filters and general use filters and papers. Many of the products offered carry the trademark Filter-Lab. Prioritizing quality at all times, respect the environment and health of people....
Read MoreCLSI Assists Three Tanzanian Laboratories in Achieving AccreditationJul 7, 2014
Five years of hard work on the part of three Tanzanian laboratories as well as Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) staff and volunteers have led to accreditation by the Southern African Development Community Accreditation Services (SADCAS).
After a year-long process, the National Health Laboratory Quality Assurance and Training Centre in Dar es Salaam, the Bugando Medical Centre Laboratory in Mwanza City, and the Mbeya Referral Hospital Laboratory in Mbeya received accreditation aligned to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 15189 (Medical laboratories – Requirements for quality and competence). The Muhimbili National Hospital Laboratory has also been recommended for SADCAS accreditation...
Scientific Digital Imaging’s [AIM-SDI] Synoptics Health Division, a manufacturer of innovative digital imaging systems for healthcare applications, is pleased to announce the appointment of industry leading surgical instrument cleaning firm, Ultra Clean Systems, Inc as its North American distributor of the ultrasensitive ProReveal Protein Detection Test.
Ultra Clean Systems will distribute and support Synoptic Health’s ProReveal Protein Detection Test (a rapid and ultra-sensitive fluorescence technique that detects microgram levels of residual protein remaining on surgical instruments after the washer disinfector process) through its extensive support network across North America. This agreement will allow Sterile Services Departments (SSDs) throughout the country to...
Zinc Ahead is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Naimoli as Vice President of US Operations.
Michael brings a wide range of experience to Zinc having worked in senior level positions for both pharmaceutical companies as well as industry leading software providers. Most recently, Michael served as Global Vice President, Life Sciences Industry Business Unit, for SAP where he was responsible for the direction and management of new offerings for the life sciences industry. Prior to that, Michael served as ...
Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has acquired the business and assets of the Canadian company La Corporation Scientifique Claisse Inc. (‘Claisse’), a global market leader in sample preparation for atomic spectroscopy (including X-ray) analysis, for an undisclosed sum.
Revenues for the year ending March 2014 were CAD 13 million. Claisse designs, manufactures and sells consumables and instruments used to prepare consistent and comparable samples for spectroscopic analysis in mining, pharmaceutical, academic research and industrial applications. Claisse will become part of the Materials Analysis segment and will be integrated into PANalytical, combining two leaders in fusion and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis...
Representatives will set up a local presence in Boston.
Global Care Initiative (GCI), a consortium of five leading non-profit French research institutes, today announces that it will have a representative in the US, in Boston, Massachusetts. This new presence in Boston will provide better accessibility to American partners. Global Care combines strong skillsets, recognized IP and unique technology platforms in their offering. The consortium functions as a one-stop shop to life sciences companies and research organizations that seek effective R&D partnerships.....
Eppendorf has launched a new, updated version of its UK website, combining its existing eShop with a comprehensive library of product information.
Customers can now access everything they need to make informed purchase decisions on the complete range of Eppendorf premium laboratory products. Visitors to the site can order free consumables samples, take advantage of current promotional offers, and access valuable service and customer support such as the Eppendorf epServices offering – all from within a single, easy to navigate location...
Nuclear detection and Breast Cancer imaging technology (“Kromek” or “the Company”)
Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, is pleased to announce that it has signed a number of further contracts, in the Nuclear Detection and Medical markets. Nuclear Detection: Kromek has been awarded a contract with the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (“DTRA”) for the design, manufacture and optimisation of high sensitivity, next generation, solid state detectors for the homeland security radiation detection market. The contract is worth $1.45 million to Kromek over the next two years and...
VolitionRx Limited (OTCQB: VNRX), a life sciences company, today announces its first wholesale order of NuQ® Research Use Only kits to Active Motif. Each kit allows epigenetics researchers to identify and analyze a different nucleosome structure.
Active Motif will distribute the kits in its key markets of Europe, the United States and Japan. These assays allow researchers – in areas as diverse as stem cells, apoptosis and epigenetic regulation – to study nucleosome based epigenetic features in animal or human cell culture samples. The four different types of kits which will be available through Active Motif are...
QImaging's optiMOS Scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera for fluorescence microscopy has won aLaboratory Equipment Readers' Choice Award in the "Optics & Image Analyzers" category. Award entries were evaluated and voted on by a panel of Laboratory Equipment readers and selected by the magazine's editors.
"The optiMOS sCMOS camera is a budget-friendly CCD alternative that gives cell biologists the performance they need to capture rapid cellular dynamics without the data management hassles typically associated with digital microscopy," said Chris Ryan, QImaging's product manager. "We are honored to have Laboratory Equipment'sreaders recognize our product's achievements."
TTP Labtech, an employee-owned life science company based near Cambridge, UK, has reported an impressive 43% increase in revenues and an associated increase in profits over 2013.
Most of this growth is based on the strength of TTP Labtech’s core products in the areas of cell imaging, liquid handling and sample management. In particular mirrorball® and comPOUND® saw an accelerated growth of over 300%. “We have a team of passionate, talented and dedicated individuals behind each product and a collaborative relationship with our customers – something that differentiates us from other...
UK-based contract research organisation Onyx Scientific is set to make a significant investment into continuous flow manufacturing to allow its customers to explore alternatives during product research and development programs.
The chemistry specialist, which excels in pre-clinical development projects, has decided to adopt a more novel approach to manufacturing API in a bid to overcome the often time-consuming and costly process of batch manufacturing. Denise Bowser, commercial director at Onyx Scientific, said: “The move to continuous flow manufacturing has been seen by a handful of companies in the sector to date so we feel that we are very much at the forefront of technological advances when it comes to...
Temperature control professional expands his international distribution network
JULABO has recently opened another subsidiary in Boven-Leeuwen close to Nijmegen in the Netherlands. With this new addition, JULABO is now closer to its Dutch customers to offer direct consulting and support. JULABO Netherlands´ customers and partners will have access to JULABO’s entire product and service portfolio. The new subsidiary team has started their work in modern offices, and service and storage facilities...
The businesses who took part sought over EUR 230 million in funding and met a range of high-level industry representatives and investors. As a part of France-China 50, the Forum attracted high-level experts and introduced a new series of open sessions for the general public...
Better Buildings Alliance Laboratories Team Demonstrates Stirling Ultracold Energy Savings of 66% over Average Ultra-Low Freezer Power Consumption
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has released preliminary results of an independent study of comparative ultra-low temperature freezer performance confirming significant energy reduction of the Stirling Ultracold ultra-low freezer in side-by-side evaluations with top competitors. The study was commissioned by the Better Buildings Alliance Laboratories and performed for the DOE by Navigant Consulting...
Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced that its San Jose, California facility has registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a medical device establishment.
The site has established a quality in accordance with the FDA Quality System Regulations to design and manufacture devices for analyzing samples from patients for in vitro diagnostic use. “Last year we achieved ISO 13485 certification for the San Jose site, and this FDA registration is the next major milestone in our ongoing initiative to develop Class 1 mass spectrometry-based instruments for the clinical market,” said Dan Shine, president, chromatography and mass spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific...
Novel Program Increases Lab Accuracy and Unknown Compound Identification with Single Quadrupole Instrumentation
Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced Agilent will distribute Cerno Bioscience’s MassWorks™ calibration and analysis software with all Agilent GC/MSD systems. This novel calibration technology increases the mass accuracy of Agilent's single quadrupole GC/MSD to enable unknown compound identification. This process normally requires more complex instruments such as Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometers "Making Cerno MassWorks directly available to GC/MSD users through Agilent channels opens the qualitative power of accurate mass information to...
The British Laboratory Managers Association has announced the dates for the next laboratory management training course.
It will be held at Brownsover Hall hotel, Rugby on 8th & 9th October 2014. The course which has already been run successfully twice before in 2013 is specifically aimed to help current and aspiring laboratory managers deal with the challenges they face in managing people in a modern day laboratory...
GENALICE has announced that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Molecular Diagnostics Centre has signed a contract for a larger model of the GENALICE VAULT, GENALICE’s Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processing appliance.
This all-in-one bioinformatics appliance is preloaded with the ultra-fast and highly accurate NGS data processing software, GENALICE MAP. GENALICE recently announced the upgrade of its groundbreaking DNA processing solution to include Variant Calling. This upgrade makes GENALICE MAP a complete processing workflow. The product is specifically designed to support high volume DNA sequencing centers that require high throughput at high quality...
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With the efficacy for most drugs targeting severe therapeutic indications ranging from a meagre 25 percent to 50 percent, there is a tremendous market for biomarkers. Thus far, drugs have been administered without knowing if they will work for a specific patient. Biomarkers are now being used in the first stages of drug development to provide suitable signals in in-vitro or animal trials to indicate if a specific compound will have high or low efficacy in humans...
For workers in many laboratories around the world, SGE is synonymous with the highest quality in chromatography components and consumables. The company has established a leading reputation over the last 50 years. The SGE brand will live on and continue to grow in this field, supported by Trajan and its well-established network of distributors. Stephen Tomisich, Trajan’s Chief Executive Officer said, “We are proud to build on...
After a year-long process, the National Health Laboratory Quality Assurance and Training Centre in Dar es Salaam, the Bugando Medical Centre Laboratory in Mwanza City, and the Mbeya Referral Hospital Laboratory in Mbeya received accreditation aligned to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 15189 (Medical laboratories – Requirements for quality and competence). The Muhimbili National Hospital Laboratory has also been recommended for SADCAS accreditation...
Ultra Clean Systems will distribute and support Synoptic Health’s ProReveal Protein Detection Test (a rapid and ultra-sensitive fluorescence technique that detects microgram levels of residual protein remaining on surgical instruments after the washer disinfector process) through its extensive support network across North America. This agreement will allow Sterile Services Departments (SSDs) throughout the country to...
Michael brings a wide range of experience to Zinc having worked in senior level positions for both pharmaceutical companies as well as industry leading software providers. Most recently, Michael served as Global Vice President, Life Sciences Industry Business Unit, for SAP where he was responsible for the direction and management of new offerings for the life sciences industry. Prior to that, Michael served as ...
Revenues for the year ending March 2014 were CAD 13 million. Claisse designs, manufactures and sells consumables and instruments used to prepare consistent and comparable samples for spectroscopic analysis in mining, pharmaceutical, academic research and industrial applications. Claisse will become part of the Materials Analysis segment and will be integrated into PANalytical, combining two leaders in fusion and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis...
Global Care Initiative (GCI), a consortium of five leading non-profit French research institutes, today announces that it will have a representative in the US, in Boston, Massachusetts. This new presence in Boston will provide better accessibility to American partners. Global Care combines strong skillsets, recognized IP and unique technology platforms in their offering. The consortium functions as a one-stop shop to life sciences companies and research organizations that seek effective R&D partnerships.....
Customers can now access everything they need to make informed purchase decisions on the complete range of Eppendorf premium laboratory products. Visitors to the site can order free consumables samples, take advantage of current promotional offers, and access valuable service and customer support such as the Eppendorf epServices offering – all from within a single, easy to navigate location...
Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, is pleased to announce that it has signed a number of further contracts, in the Nuclear Detection and Medical markets. Nuclear Detection: Kromek has been awarded a contract with the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (“DTRA”) for the design, manufacture and optimisation of high sensitivity, next generation, solid state detectors for the homeland security radiation detection market. The contract is worth $1.45 million to Kromek over the next two years and...
Active Motif will distribute the kits in its key markets of Europe, the United States and Japan. These assays allow researchers – in areas as diverse as stem cells, apoptosis and epigenetic regulation – to study nucleosome based epigenetic features in animal or human cell culture samples. The four different types of kits which will be available through Active Motif are...
"The optiMOS sCMOS camera is a budget-friendly CCD alternative that gives cell biologists the performance they need to capture rapid cellular dynamics without the data management hassles typically associated with digital microscopy," said Chris Ryan, QImaging's product manager. "We are honored to have Laboratory Equipment'sreaders recognize our product's achievements."
Most of this growth is based on the strength of TTP Labtech’s core products in the areas of cell imaging, liquid handling and sample management. In particular mirrorball® and comPOUND® saw an accelerated growth of over 300%. “We have a team of passionate, talented and dedicated individuals behind each product and a collaborative relationship with our customers – something that differentiates us from other...
The chemistry specialist, which excels in pre-clinical development projects, has decided to adopt a more novel approach to manufacturing API in a bid to overcome the often time-consuming and costly process of batch manufacturing. Denise Bowser, commercial director at Onyx Scientific, said: “The move to continuous flow manufacturing has been seen by a handful of companies in the sector to date so we feel that we are very much at the forefront of technological advances when it comes to...
JULABO has recently opened another subsidiary in Boven-Leeuwen close to Nijmegen in the Netherlands. With this new addition, JULABO is now closer to its Dutch customers to offer direct consulting and support. JULABO Netherlands´ customers and partners will have access to JULABO’s entire product and service portfolio. The new subsidiary team has started their work in modern offices, and service and storage facilities...
The businesses who took part sought over EUR 230 million in funding and met a range of high-level industry representatives and investors. As a part of France-China 50, the Forum attracted high-level experts and introduced a new series of open sessions for the general public...
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has released preliminary results of an independent study of comparative ultra-low temperature freezer performance confirming significant energy reduction of the Stirling Ultracold ultra-low freezer in side-by-side evaluations with top competitors. The study was commissioned by the Better Buildings Alliance Laboratories and performed for the DOE by Navigant Consulting...
The site has established a quality in accordance with the FDA Quality System Regulations to design and manufacture devices for analyzing samples from patients for in vitro diagnostic use. “Last year we achieved ISO 13485 certification for the San Jose site, and this FDA registration is the next major milestone in our ongoing initiative to develop Class 1 mass spectrometry-based instruments for the clinical market,” said Dan Shine, president, chromatography and mass spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific... 
Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced Agilent will distribute Cerno Bioscience’s MassWorks™ calibration and analysis software with all Agilent GC/MSD systems. This novel calibration technology increases the mass accuracy of Agilent's single quadrupole GC/MSD to enable unknown compound identification. This process normally requires more complex instruments such as Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometers "Making Cerno MassWorks directly available to GC/MSD users through Agilent channels opens the qualitative power of accurate mass information to...
It will be held at Brownsover Hall hotel, Rugby on 8th & 9th October 2014. The course which has already been run successfully twice before in 2013 is specifically aimed to help current and aspiring laboratory managers deal with the challenges they face in managing people in a modern day laboratory...
This all-in-one bioinformatics appliance is preloaded with the ultra-fast and highly accurate NGS data processing software, GENALICE MAP. GENALICE recently announced the upgrade of its groundbreaking DNA processing solution to include Variant Calling. This upgrade makes GENALICE MAP a complete processing workflow. The product is specifically designed to support high volume DNA sequencing centers that require high throughput at high quality...