NORTH West oncology company Incanthera Ltd has acquired University of Salford drug discovery spin-out Onco-NX Ltd.

The deal represents the first successful sale of a spin-out company from the University and will see both companies combine their expertise in targeted anticancer drugs, to develop a ground-breaking, therapeutics pipeline. Manchester-based Incanthera has developed a ‘smart bomb’ therapy which selectively targets solid tumours without harming healthy cells. This means there is the potential of virtually no side effects to the rest of the body....

A PIONEERING research company and the architects behind the scheme have been signed up as the first new tenants at Liverpool Science Park’s £8m third building.

Karm Research Group will be moving from its existing premises at the science park into 1,000 sq ft of new laboratory space while Ryder Architecture will be taking 2,500 sq ft of state-of-the-art office space. The third building, which officially opens this week, was built speculatively in response to growing demand for purpose-built office and commercial laboratory space in Liverpool city centre to accommodate the city region’s knowledge-based businesses....

Companies to Develop and Market Products Designed for Nanoparticle Characterization

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announced an agreement with Wyatt Technology Corporation enabling collaboration on products, applications and technical development.  The partnership brings together Wyatt’s expertise in protein characterization, light scattering and biophysics with Beckman Coulter’s expertise in particle counting, particle characterization and cell viability measurement. “We are excited to be working with Wyatt Technology, as they have strong brand recognition in sectors such as biopharmaceuticals...

M908 uses patented High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry to enhance detection and identification capabilities for first responders

908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis, is delighted to introduce M908™, the world’s first truly handheld tool utilizing high-pressure mass spectrometry™ (HPMS). Specifically engineered for civilian users, first responders, and military teams, M908 provides accurate, immediate detection and identification of trace level chemical and explosive hazards at the point-of-action....

The Merseyside-headquartered firm picked up the award at a leading business awards event in Warrington.

MSoft won the Made in the North West Medical and Life Sciences Company of the Year and now goes through to compete for the national award in the same category at the International Festival for Business in Liverpool in July. MSoft beat off stiff competition from other leading companies in the category including Redx Pharma, Biofortuna, Arcis Altos and Perfectus Biomed. Judges said that “the software company was the standout winner”...

Nanalysis and GPE Scientific are working together to incorporate NMR into more academic institutions and industrial labs. 

The goal is for NMR to no longer be a tightly controlled resource available to small groups of end-users.  Undergraduate students will now get the chance to gain NMR knowledge with hands-on learning using standard NMR tubes and instrumentation. GPE Scientific Ltd is a leading distributor and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, based in Leighton Buzzard with over 50 years of experience serving industry, academic, and research customers in the U.K. and Ireland....

Malvern Instruments shows how complementary technologies solve analytical challenges from biopharm to bulk materials 

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), a leading innovator and manufacturer of technology for trace organic analysis, has announced the launch of its new website.

“With new application-specific content, improved navigation, and an enhanced online shop, we’ve made it much easier for our customers to find what they’re looking for, quickly and easily”, said Dr Gavin Davies, Marketing Manager at Markes. The new website features a range of new content, written by Markes’ specialists, explaining key issues and approaches to using the latest thermal desorption (TD) and mass spectrometry (MS) technologies across multiple gas chromatography (GC) application areas - everything from environmental and petrochem to metabolomics and food analysis....

For the second successive time, Chester (UK)-based calibration standards specialist Whitehouse Scientific is sponsoring the Philippine’s national team at the Deloitte Street Child World Cup.

Whitehouse Scientific CEO Dr Graham Rideal has for many years been involved in projects to support young people in the Philippines and in 2010 Whitehouse Scientific was one of the inaugural team sponsors involved in the Deloitte Street Child World Cup.Street children representing up to 20 countries from all five continents will kick off a ten-day tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 28 March 2014. Not only will they play football but they will also be raising awareness towards gaining rights for street children all over the world....

Market research confirms Cherwell as a leading prepared microbiological media supplier

Cherwell Laboratories Ltd’s reputation as a leading supplier of high-quality prepared microbiological media has been endorsed following a recent market research study. Results from this demonstrate that Cherwell are highly regarded by both customers and prospective customers in all areas, including Redipor^® product quality, flexibility of supply, reliability and efficiency at dealing with any customer’s problem. Cherwell commissioned an in depth market research project to gain a better understanding of the prepared microbiological media market and the needs of their customers...

Time for Change - Chronos Advance Launch Success

Cool Logistics successfully launched its new, innovative Chronos Advance™ shipping system and announced its acquisition by Pelican Products Inc. Along with the new acquisition Cool Logistics unveiled the new Chronos Advance™ aimed at setting new standards in the single use shipping industry at the recent IQPC event. Cool Logistics, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of temperature-controlled packaging solutions, unveiled its exclusive high performance product which was universally welcomed by the delegates attending the IQPC event in Luxembourg....

Magritek announces company expansion with the appointment of new hires to the sales and marketing team. 

A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria responsive to antibiotics once again.

Jørn Bolstad and his chemist colleagues hope that the substance will soon be able to tackle the tremendous problems associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). But first, they need to find investors interested in getting the substance onto the market. Before the development of penicillin, people dropped like flies in response to minor infections: in the lungs, in small cuts. Even pimples could grow to boils that killed. But one of the main killers prior to the discovery of antibiotics was tuberculosis...

Analytik Jena AG has obtained a major contract for the supply of 22 instruments of the multi N/C^® series to analyze the water quality in the Chinese province Henan.

The project volume of the contract amounts to a medium-level six-figure range. The instruments are already due to be delivered during the current quarter. "During the tender for this major project we succeeded against numerous large competitors. The quality of our products was convincing", said Torsten Olschewski, General Manager of the business unit Analytical Instrumentation at the Analytik Jena AG. As part of the project "Automatic Monitoring Capacity Building Project of Surface Water Quality" the Chinese province Henan wants to increasingly engage with environmental analysis in the future...

Congratulations to SCIEX Separations (a division of AB SCIEX), for winning the 2014 Pittcon Editors' Award Bronze Medal for their CESI 8000 High Performance Separation-ESI Module.

The company have developed a new front-end separation and ionization technology called CESI, which combines the high efficiency and ultra-low flow of capillary electrophoresis (CE) with an integrated electrospray ionization source. This optimization of electrospray ionization (ESI) into the nanoflow region has shown to greatly improve assay sensitivity and reduce ion suppression....

Congratulations to Texas Instruments, winners of the 2014 Pittcon Editors' Award Gold Medal for the most innovative product for their DLP4500NIR digital micromirror device (DMD).

The DLP4500NIR digital micromirror device (DMD) acts as a spatial light modulator (SLM) to steer near-infrared (NIR) light and create patterns with speed, precision, and efficiency. Featuring high resolution in a compact form factor, the DLP4500NIR DMD is often combined with a single element detector to replace expensive InGaAs array-based detector designs, leading to high performance, cost-effective portable solutions....

2014 Honor Marks Fourth Time in Last Ten Years Waters' has been recognized by Pittcon Media Corps

Waters Corporation is proud to announce that the Pittcon Editors' Silver award for the most innovative product introduced at the 2014 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy goes to the Waters® ACQUITY  QDa™ Detector. "On behalf Waters employees worldwide, we are honored that the Pittcon Editors have recognized the new ACQUITY QDa Detector at this year's Pittsburgh Conference," said Art Caputo, President of the Waters Division for Waters Corporation....

Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK) has announced an exclusive global distribution agreement with RheoSense, Inc. (San Ramon, CA, USA) to promote, market, sell and support the VROC product range into industrial applications.

The agreement enables Malvern to add the m-VROCi, microfluidic Viscometer/Rheometer On a Chip, to its existing portfolio of rotational and capillary rheometers, extending the company’s offering to industrial customers across the globe. Delivering accurate, robust, fully enclosed viscosity measurement, at high shear rates, the m-VROCi addresses an established need to measure low viscosity fluids under process relevant conditions. The results have proven application for the characterization and enhancement of inkjet inks, coatings, rechargeable batteries, lubricants, chemical and food additives, and drink formulations...

Acquisition Of Opus Instruments 

The Board of Scientific Digital Imaging plc, the AIM quoted group focused on the application of digital imaging technology to the needs of the scientific community, announces the acquisition of Opus Instruments Limited (“Opus”) from its founder shareholders for consideration of up to £1,325,000 payable in cash and shares. Opus is the manufacturer of the Osiris camera which the Board of SDI believes is the first camera for infrared reflectography to provide high resolution high speed images in a small portable camera...

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) announces that Tomasz Koprowski of the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering in Zurich, Switzerland, is the grand prize winner of the 2014 JALA & JBS Art of Science Contest.  

Nine finalists from six countries were selected from 60 entries. SLAS members and nonmembers then voted for their favorite finalists at SLAS.org. “Tree of Life” by Tomasz Koprowski captures C.elegans worms on a chunk of agar and as the top vote-getter and grand prize winner, Koprowski received a $500 Amazon gift card.  The eight other finalists each received a $25 Amazon gift card, and all finalists enjoyed 60 days free online access to the SAGE Pharmacology & Biomedical Collection...

Research just released by GVA Connect, the data centre specialist division of property agents GVA, showed UK take-up of data centre space amounted to 830,000 square feet (gross retail area) in calendar year 2013. 

“This represented an 18 per cent jump in data centre space take-up over the previous year,” said GVA Connect director Charles Carden, adding that the company expected take-up to remain at this level during 2014. Confirming London’s position as a leading international data centre hub, Carden revealed that over three quarters of the 2013 data centre take-up was within the so-called London Synchronous Locations (locations which deliver round-trip latency of under three milliseconds). The second most popular location was Manchester with the remainder of take-up spread across the UK...

The company raises EUR 540,000 (USD 738,000) from historical shareholders to expand its staff

Rhenovia, the world leader in biosimulation of the central nervous system, plans to raise a further EUR 2 million in 2014 to step up development in its three key markets of medicinal products, agrifood and neurotoxicity. Rhenovia Pharma, a biotechnology company specialized in the application of biosimulation to the research and development of new medicinal products, today announces that it has raised EUR 540,000 (USD 738,000) from its historical shareholders in a second round of funding. Founded in 2007, Rhenovia is the world leader in biosimulation of the central nervous system...