Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a rapid and robust high-performance anion-exchange chromatography
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a rapid and robust high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection method for the accurate determination of common sugars in acid-hydrolyzed biomass samples with high carbohydrate concentrations. Application Update (AU) 192: Carbohydrate Determination of Biofuel Samples demonstrates that this approach has a linear range suitable for handling high-concentration biomass samples with minimal sample treatment....
Although the 4 March 2014 deadline for the prize has now expired, PETA US' in vitro chicken contest was a success.
Since PETA US announced the prize, laboratory work on in vitro meat has come a long way, and a commercially viable in vitro beef hamburger or pork sausage is certain to be created. Also encouraging, the science used in the development of in vitro pork and beef will eventually be used to create in vitro chicken, sparing chickens – the most abused animals used for food by virtue of their sheer number, more than 50 billion killed around the world every year – mass suffering and death...
TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of Expert System Solutions, ESS (Modena, Italy).
ESS is a privately held company that designs and manufactures innovative non-contact optical thermal analysis instrumentation. Key products from ESS include optical dilatometers in horizontal and vertical orientation with simultaneous DTA measurements, heating microscopes, and an optical fleximeter. ESS systems operate over a wide temperature range, and are a powerful new tool for characterizing metals, ceramics, glasses and other organic and inorganic materials...
New partnership between Malvern Instruments and RheoSense brings m-VROCi to industrial markets
“We are delighted to be working with RheoSense, Inc to bring the benefits of the m-VROCi to industrial customers across the globe,” said Steve Carrington, Product Manager for Malvern Instruments. “The m-VROCi is highly complementary to the existing Malvern rheological portfolio, extending robust, fully enclosed (no solvent loss) flow curve measurement into areas that simply aren’t accessible with alternative rheological instrumentation...
Kromek announces that it has secured $845,000 of new orders to supply radiation detectors and integrated electronic components to a globally leading Original Equipment Manufacturer
Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, announces that it has secured $845,000 of new orders to supply radiation detectors and integrated electronic components to a globally leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (‘OEM’) operating in the Dual Energy X-ray Bone Mineral Densitometry (‘DEXA BMD’) market. The total booking this fiscal year from this customer now exceeds $1.25 million...
Malvern Instruments will demonstrate NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) at BioNanoMed 2014
The 5th International Congress on Nanotechnology, Medicine and Biology, which takes place in Krems, Austria from 26 – 28 March. A specialist from the company will also make a 10-minute presentation as part of the business sessions held alongside the conference. The acquisition of NanoSight in September 2013 has extended Malvern’s range of analytical solutions for characterization at the nanoscale, with NTA ideally complementing the company’s Zetasizer Nano, Archimedes and Viscotek SEC systems...
The RISE Microscope enables for the first time the acquisition of SEM and Raman images from the same sample area and the correlation of ultra-structural and chemical information with one microscope system
RISE Microscopy is a novel correlative microscopy technique which combines confocal Raman Imaging and Scanning Electron (RISE) Microscopy within one integrated microscope system. This unique combination provides clear advantages for the microscope user with regard to comprehensive sample characterization: electron microscopy is an excellent technique for visualizing the sample surface structures in the nanometer range; confocal Raman imaging is an established spectroscopic method used for the detection of the chemical and molecular components of a sample. It can also generate 2D- and 3D-images and depth profiles to visualize the distribution of the molecular compounds within a sample...
Read MoreVIAFLO ASSIST Pipetting Assistant Wins Design AwardMar 27, 2014
INTEGRA Biosciences has received a Red Dot Design Award for its innovative VIAFLO ASSIST - a new laboratory device that, in combination with a VIAFLO II electronic handheld pipette, enables the pipette’s protocols to be performed automatically.
With its origins dating back to 1955, the Red Dot Design Award ranks among the most renowned design competitions in the world. INTEGRA received the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for the innovative design and function of its VIAFLO ASSIST pipetting assistant that reduces the need for traditional handheld pipetting to a minimum, relieving lab personnel from activities that may cause repetitive stress injuries.
Read MoreKNF Lab breaks new ground at Analytica 2014 with the RC900 Rotary EvaporatorMar 27, 2014
Visitors to Analytica in Munich, April 1-4 2014, will be first in the queue to see KNF Lab’s ground-breaking new RC900 Rotary Evaporator, an efficient, robust instrument set to transform rotary evaporation and make the technique easier and safer than ever before.
The elegant, easy-to-clean design of the RC900 offers a range of novel features that focus on easy and reliable operation and increasing operator safety – including a unique remote control unit, simple one button functions for routine tasks such as changing flasks, easily adjustable rotation speeds and dynamic temperature control – resulting in a breakthrough in performance and reliability for a wide range of applications....
Photonex Roadshows will be visiting two regions in June this year: the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland (4th June) and Robinson College at the University of Cambridge (18th June). These Roadshows are a unique joint event, combining industry tutorials and a professional academic conference with a supplier’s exhibition.
Displaying a broad range of components, instruments and systems, these Roadshows are just like a ‘mini’ PHOTONEX and bring together the UK’s top photonics technology suppliers, leading experts and guest speakers for special one-day-only events, not at all dissimilar to the larger national event in Coventry. As always, the meeting and whole event is free to attend. Advanced registration is needed for the conference and exhibition. Please register to visit or to receive more details via the website....
Read MoreGreiner Bio-One to launch six new products at Analytica 2014Mar 27, 2014
Greiner Bio-One is showcasing a total of six innovative new products at Analytica 2014 in Munich.
This Austro-German medium-sized company, a technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries, is thus once again underlining the great importance it attaches to research and development. With the new Cryo.s biobank tubes, Greiner Bio-One which has been developing products for cryogenic storage for 30 years is expanding its product portfolio to include a solution for high-throughput sample storage in automated storage systems.....
MediCity today announces the arrival of its first tenants, after five companies recently signed tenancy agreements.
MediCity, the health, beauty and wellness innovation hub based in Nottingham, today announces the arrival of its first tenants, after five companies recently signed tenancy agreements to locate within the newly refurbished building on the Boots site in Beeston. The tenant companies are involved in a range of commercial activities including human performance measurement technology, haircare product innovation, early-stage drug development, health-sector public relations and med-tech business support...
Until 31 July you can buy a Techne thermal cycler at our lowest ever price. Personal 3Prime 48-well models are only £1995/€2395/$3195. Prime 96-well models are only £2495/€2995/$3995. Premium Prime Elite models are only £3200/€3840/$5120. Available NOW from your local Techne distributor....
Read MoreVivienne Parry OBE to facilitate international Laboratory ShowMar 24, 2014
Nottingham, UK: 14 May 2014. The Scientific Laboratory Show & Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
Writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE will introduce and facilitate The Scientific Laboratory Show & Conference to be held in Nottingham on 14 May this year. Hosted by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) and organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the biennial event is expected to draw over 1,000 UK and overseas delegates interested in laboratory technology, logistics, safety, project management and commercialisation....
Read MoreLive Cell Imaging Revolutionises Disease Diagnostics and Drug DiscoveryMar 24, 2014
Stakeholder collaboration will be crucial to convert these developments into clinically meaningful tests
Tremendous advances in electronics, optics, fluorescent tools, and molecular biology have made live cell imaging technologies more accessible to life scientists looking to understand biological dynamics and visualize cellular events in organisms. The foray of omics technologies and nanotechnologies into mainstream medicine has already enabled commercial lab-on-a-chip microfluidics systems that analyse cells, DNA, RNA and proteins. As live cell imaging evolves, it will become an integral part of disease diagnostics and drug discovery processes....
Read MoreMsoft Recruits And Clinches New Bloodhound ContractsMar 24, 2014
A leading healthcare technology company has recruited new members to its team and announced fresh contract wins.
MSoft eSolutions has appointed Abraham Kurian as Account Manager to help drive and manage further growth in the blood-tracking side of the business. Abraham will have responsibility for the south of England as well as recruiting distributors and re-sellers around the world as MSoft continues to break into overseas markets....
Scientific Digital Imaging’s [SDI’s] Syngene Division, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions is delighted to introduce the new high sensitivity G:BOX Chemi XX6 and XX9 image analysis systems.
Utilizing the power of the latest CCD camera technology, these systems are suitable for scientists needing a versatile system capable of exceptional imaging of 1D and 2D gels, as well as chemi and fluorescent blots. The G:BOX Chemi XX6 and XX9 feature high resolution, high quantum efficiency (73% quantum efficiency at 425nm) low noise CCD cameras with the highest level (f0.95) auto-focus lens and 6 and 9 megapixel resolution respectively....
Data from leading antibody search engine CiteAb suggests that bioscience research in China is set to overtake the United States within the next five to ten years.
CiteAb spun out from the University of Bath in early February 2014. The company has a database containing over 1.8m antibodies from suppliers all over the world, and uses academic research citations to rank antibodies. This gives the company an overview of the amount of research being carried out in over 100 different countries. Founder of CiteAb, Dr Andrew Chalmers, said: “Our data highlights the number of academic research papers using antibodies that are produced by each country, and therefore acts as a fantastic indicator of bioscience research activity around the world. “The data we’ve pulled from CiteAb clearly shows that China is the big winner at the moment...
BioTek Instruments, Inc., received Thermo Fisher Scientific's "Extraordinary New Product Line" award for their Cytation 3 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader.
The award was presented at the Fisher Scientific North America Sales Meeting, held February 24-26, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Cytation 3 was recognized by Fisher Scientific's product management team for its innovative technology and successful sales performance. "We're proud to have Fisher Scientific as a strong partner, and honored to receive this award," noted Gary Barush, Director of Marketing and Sales at BioTek Instruments. "Together, and with Cytation 3's combination of cellular imaging and multi-mode microplate detection, we can continue to provide unique workflow solutions to any laboratory...
Dr Wei Qi and Dr Linda Kidder, both senior scientists within Malvern Instruments’ Bioscience Development Initiative, will present work on techniques for protein analysis at the 2014 Biotherapeutics Analytical Summit which takes place in Baltimore MD, USA, from 24-27 March.
The topic of Dr Wei Qi’s poster is ‘Emerging Techniques for Therapeutic Protein Characterization - Viscosity, Stability and Sub-Visible Particles’ while Dr Linda Kidder’s oral presentation on 25 March will discuss ‘Improved Understanding of Association Between Protein Colloidal and Conformation Stability with Combined DLS/Raman’. Dr Kidder will describe how the combination of dynamic light scattering (DLS) and Raman spectroscopy presents a novel approach to protein therapeutics characterization.....
Biofortuna, a UK based molecular diagnostics company with proprietary freeze drying (lyophilizing) technology, has received FDA 510K clearance for its line of SSPGoTM HLA PCR kits.
The SSPGo HLA Typing Kits are qualitative DNA-based kits for determining HLA alleles in lowto intermediate resolution. The kits are designed for transplantation genotyping and identification of genes which may be associated with various genetic conditions. In 2011, Biofortuna announced an exclusive global distribution agreement with Abbott for its SSPGoTM kits. Until now, the kits were CE marked and only distributed in Europe and Asia Pacific. Now with FDA clearance, kits will be available in early 2014 in the United States. Dr Simon Douglas, CEO of Biofortuna stated “I am delighted that Biofortuna has received FDA clearance of its SSPGoTM kits...
The recent announcement by AstraZeneca of the sale of Alderley Park to Manchester Science Parks (MSP) is welcomed by BioCity, the company appointed by AstraZeneca in May 2013 to develop the BioHub for early-stage and growing bioscience companies on the Cheshire site.
Dr Glenn Crocker CEO of BioCity has supported MSP in its bid for the site: “This is encouraging news for all concerned and we welcome the fact that the long term future of the Alderley Park site as a leading centre for life science innovation looks good. BioCity and MSP share the desire to continue the transformation of this highly valuable site and our respective expertise complement each other, with BioCity very much focussed on fast-growing early stage businesses.”...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a rapid and robust high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection method for the accurate determination of common sugars in acid-hydrolyzed biomass samples with high carbohydrate concentrations. Application Update (AU) 192: Carbohydrate Determination of Biofuel Samples demonstrates that this approach has a linear range suitable for handling high-concentration biomass samples with minimal sample treatment....
Since PETA US announced the prize, laboratory work on in vitro meat has come a long way, and a commercially viable in vitro beef hamburger or pork sausage is certain to be created. Also encouraging, the science used in the development of in vitro pork and beef will eventually be used to create in vitro chicken, sparing chickens – the most abused animals used for food by virtue of their sheer number, more than 50 billion killed around the world every year – mass suffering and death...
ESS is a privately held company that designs and manufactures innovative non-contact optical thermal analysis instrumentation. Key products from ESS include optical dilatometers in horizontal and vertical orientation with simultaneous DTA measurements, heating microscopes, and an optical fleximeter. ESS systems operate over a wide temperature range, and are a powerful new tool for characterizing metals, ceramics, glasses and other organic and inorganic materials...
“We are delighted to be working with RheoSense, Inc to bring the benefits of the m-VROCi to industrial customers across the globe,” said Steve Carrington, Product Manager for Malvern Instruments. “The m-VROCi is highly complementary to the existing Malvern rheological portfolio, extending robust, fully enclosed (no solvent loss) flow curve measurement into areas that simply aren’t accessible with alternative rheological instrumentation...
Kromek, a supplier of patented radiation detection technologies to the medical, security and nuclear markets, announces that it has secured $845,000 of new orders to supply radiation detectors and integrated electronic components to a globally leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (‘OEM’) operating in the Dual Energy X-ray Bone Mineral Densitometry (‘DEXA BMD’) market. The total booking this fiscal year from this customer now exceeds $1.25 million...
The 5th International Congress on Nanotechnology, Medicine and Biology, which takes place in Krems, Austria from 26 – 28 March. A specialist from the company will also make a 10-minute presentation as part of the business sessions held alongside the conference. The acquisition of NanoSight in September 2013 has extended Malvern’s range of analytical solutions for characterization at the nanoscale, with NTA ideally complementing the company’s Zetasizer Nano, Archimedes and Viscotek SEC systems...
With its origins dating back to 1955, the Red Dot Design Award ranks among the most renowned design competitions in the world. INTEGRA received the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for the innovative design and function of its VIAFLO ASSIST pipetting assistant that reduces the need for traditional handheld pipetting to a minimum, relieving lab personnel from activities that may cause repetitive stress injuries.
This Austro-German medium-sized company, a technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries, is thus once again underlining the great importance it attaches to research and development. With the new Cryo.s biobank tubes, Greiner Bio-One which has been developing products for cryogenic storage for 30 years is expanding its product portfolio to include a solution for high-throughput sample storage in automated storage systems.....
Writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE will introduce and facilitate The Scientific Laboratory Show & Conference to be held in Nottingham on 14 May this year. Hosted by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) and organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the biennial event is expected to draw over 1,000 UK and overseas delegates interested in laboratory technology, logistics, safety, project management and commercialisation....
CiteAb spun out from the University of Bath in early February 2014. The company has a database containing over 1.8m antibodies from suppliers all over the world, and uses academic research citations to rank antibodies. This gives the company an overview of the amount of research being carried out in over 100 different countries. Founder of CiteAb, Dr Andrew Chalmers, said: “Our data highlights the number of academic research papers using antibodies that are produced by each country, and therefore acts as a fantastic indicator of bioscience research activity around the world. “The data we’ve pulled from CiteAb clearly shows that China is the big winner at the moment...
The award was presented at the Fisher Scientific North America Sales Meeting, held February 24-26, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Cytation 3 was recognized by Fisher Scientific's product management team for its innovative technology and successful sales performance. "We're proud to have Fisher Scientific as a strong partner, and honored to receive this award," noted Gary Barush, Director of Marketing and Sales at BioTek Instruments. "Together, and with Cytation 3's combination of cellular imaging and multi-mode microplate detection, we can continue to provide unique workflow solutions to any laboratory...
