Group's Gift Will Save Animals, Improve Medical Training 

Thousands of animals on three continents will soon be spared being cut apart and killed in medical training courses, thanks to PETA US' unprecedented donation of $1 million (£610,000) in simulators to countries in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. PETA US, through a landmark partnership with Seattle-based medical simulation manufacturer Simulab, is modernising medical training around the world with a donation of 64 state-of-the-art TraumaMan surgical simulators to replace the crude use of animals in deadly trauma training exercises completely in nine countries...

Freeman Technology shows latest applications for FT4 Powder Rheometer® at PITTCON 2014 Booth #814 

Powder characterisation specialists from Freeman Technology will be at PITTCON 2014 (March 2-6 2014, McCormick Place, Chicago) where the company is exhibiting the FT4 Powder Rheometer®. Firmly established as the most comprehensive powder characterisation system available, the FT4 Powder Rheometer is used across many industrial sectors, from pharmaceuticals to bulk powders. The system delivers data that support process and product understanding and the optimisation of powder processes...

Raster Orbital Scanning Technology from Ocean Optics Recognised at TASIA Awards

The Raster Orbital Scanning (ROS) feature of the IDRaman family of products from Ocean Optics has been recognized as one of 2013’s 15 best innovation technologies by The Analytical Scientist magazine, an industry publication. ROS is a novel Raman spectroscopy sampling technique that helps to derive more accurate and comprehensive measurement results. The IDRaman mini handheld Raman spectrometer and the IDRaman reader integrated Raman spectrometer both feature ROS...

Standardising Cleanroom Production Line Monitoring for Microbial Contamination

Synergy Health’s Applied Sterilisation Technologies (AST) laboratory services are using Cherwell Laboratories’ SAS Pinocchio compressed air and bottled gas sampler to deliver an enhanced service to its customers. Synergy’s microbiological laboratories offer a wide range of services within the medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, including environmental monitoring, sterilisation validation and bioburden analysis. The introduction of Cherwell’s SAS Pinocchio is enabling Synergy to help their customers meet regulatory requirements more effectively...

The Sunday Times Fast Track listing has recognised Kinapse as one of the UK’s fastest growing companies. Kinapse is also the fastest growing life sciences company to feature in the 2013 Fast Track 100.

Kinapse helps the world’s largest life science companies to bring new medicines to patients and to support the monitoring of medicines’ safety and effectiveness once approved.  The company has a unique model which deploys global expertise in strategic advisory services, change management and operational support services. To support its exceptional growth, Kinapse is expanding its operations in US, Europe and India and this month opened new offices in New York and Bangalore. Kinapse is actively recruiting experienced life sciences professionals in all of these locations...

Waters Introduces UPLC System for nano- to Microscale Separations – the ACQUITY UPLC M-Class System 

New UPLC System and Columns Drive Separations Efficiency and the Sensitivity of LC-MS Analyses to New Levels. Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) today introduced the new Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® M-Class System, an industry-first nano- to microscale UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) system rated for 15,000 psi operation. Coupled to Waters mass spectrometers, the system delivers the sensitivity to quantify and to identify vanishingly small concentrations of key molecules....

Porvair Filtration has strengthened its position as a leading sintered porous metal manufacturer with the acquisition of Eisenmann Metallurgical LLC

Porvair Filtration Group, the specialist filtration and separations group, has strengthened its position as a leading sintered porous metal manufacturer with the acquisition of Eisenmann Metallurgical LLC, trading as Chand Eisenmann Metallurgical (CEM). CEM designs and manufactures specialized filters and flow restrictors at a facility located in Caribou, Maine (USA). There is a good commercial fit between CEM and Porvair's existing sintered porous metal filter product portfolio...

FRITSCH Milling and Sizing steadily progresses forward: besides the subsidiary in the Chinese capital Beijing, now an office was opened in Shanghai. 

Since decades FRITSCH is involved in international markets and of course also in the Chinese market. In order to serve the growing customer base in a continuative, flexible, and customer oriented manner a subsidiary was founded directly in Shanghai. Two markets at once will be managed from Shanghai: The South Chinese market as well as Hong Kong which is only 120 km away. End of 2013, barely a year after the opening of the subsidiary in Beijing, the official opening ceremony for the office in Shanghai was held. FRITSCH employees Li Xiao, Diels Ding and Sala Bian welcomed customers from economy, research as well as employees and FRITSCH partners...

New patent for Spark Holland

Spark Holland B.V. is pleased to announce the publication of US patent no. US 8586382 B2 which relates to a method and an apparatus for desorption of a blood sample from a medical test sheet comprising at least one dried blood spot (DBS) for the purpose of biomedical analysis of the blood sample. The patent allows that the new method eliminates the need for first punching out a disc area of the test sheet containing dried blood sample, thus speeding up the procedure considerably and that on-line desorption of dried blood spots is faster and easier and allows for further automation of the process.

Discovery Park Enterprise Zone in East Kent has been awarded more than £6 million to transform buildings and create labs. 

The share in a £100 million nationwide infrastructure fund is designed to stimulate job creation – the zone’s target is 3,000 by 2017 - and even faster growth, Discovery Park, the former Pfizer site near Sandwich, will invest the money in the refurbishment, redesign and fitting out of three vacant buildings – or parts of buildings – for employment use. The decision was being confirmed today (January 29) by Stephen Williams, the Communities Minister, during a visit to the park. He will be holding talks with park managing director Paul Barber, touring the site and meeting leaders of Pfizer and Algaecytes...

Their joint aim is to identify new therapeutic targets in ‘triple negative’ breast cancers  

Curie-Cancer, the body which leads the Institut Curie's industry partner research activity, and Servier, today announce that they have renewed their partnership with the aim of identifying therapeutic targets for treating ‘triple negative’ breast cancers. The partnership will continue for a further three years. ‘Triple negative’ breast cancers account for around 15 per cent of breast cancer cases. They are particularly aggressive and can be unresponsive to the current chemotherapy regimens; hence the urgent need to find new therapies...

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening announced today that Francis Collins will deliver a keynote presentation at SLAS2015

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) announced today that Francis Collins, Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, will deliver a keynote presentation at SLAS2015, the Fourth Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Society, taking place Feb. 7-11, 2015, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., USA. This five-day annual event will convene thousands of the world’s leading scientists, researchers, academicians, business leaders, students and technology providers to share ideas, innovation and insight about laboratory science and technology...

Specialty pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi SA (Rovi) struggled to find a new, more agile customer relationship management (CRM) system to replace an outdated technology.

The company evaluated different systems in search of a modern system that would fully and efficiently support multichannel strategies. Cloud-based Veeva CRM, part of Veeva Systems’ Commercial Suite, stood out from its competitors, offering a highly flexible and integrated platform that seamlessly connects sales and marketing teams with physicians across all channels. Today, more than 250 Rovi users in Spain are utilising Veeva CRM...

Spark Holland OEM agreement includes patented DBS technology

Spark Holland B.V. and GERSTEL GmbH & Co. KG have announced an OEM agreement based on Spark’s patented dried blood spot (DBS) technology which recently received a US patent (US 8586382 B2). The OEM agreement includes the use of Spark’s innovative FTD™ technology and the Spark DBS Autosampler™, allowing GERSTEL to develop and market fully integrated automated DBS systems....

Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) is now a member of BioMelbourne Network.

As a group of companies with headquarters in Melbourne, Trajan is looking forward to strengthening connections with local scientific organisations, business leaders and government. Stephen Tomisich, Trajan’s Chief Executive Officer said, “We hope our membership helps us to engage with other members to support and contribute to the success of the Australian scientific industry, in particular biotechnology in Victoria....

Sartorius appoints internationally experienced laboratory manager to join its top management team

The Scientific Laboratory Show & Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

Leading biomedical scientist and Director of MediCity David Browning is confirmed as headline speaker at 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....

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) welcomed a record-setting 5,819 participants from 46 countries to SLAS2014, the Third Annual SLAS Conference and Exhibition, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.

This five-day annual event convened scientists, academicians, business leaders and students from around the globe to gain new information, ideas and insight about laboratory science and technology. “We’re extremely pleased with the attendance and participation at SLAS2014, and our grateful to our key contributors – including attendees, exhibitors, presenters and volunteers – who made the event the tremendous success that it was,” said Daniel Sipes, SLAS President. “Throughout the conference, it was obvious that scientists, researchers...

Congratulations to Mr. Charles Teta and the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on winning BioTek's MultiFlo™ FX Giveaway!

Mr. Teta was randomly chosen from all global, qualified entrants, and is a research fellow in the university's Department of Environmental Science and Health. The modular MultiFlo FX Microplate Dispenser combines up to four independent dispensers and an optional wash module in one compact unit for endless functionality. The simple color, touch screen interface offers intuitive protocol creation and implementation, while Parallel Dispense™ technology combines syringe and peristaltic pump-based dispensing to eliminate reagent carryover...

Bureau of Indian Standards Committee Decides to Remove Animal Tests From Requirements Following PETA India Campaign 

India has decided to end animal testing for household products after an extensive campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, which included appeals from high-profile members of parliament as well as lengthy discussions with PETA India's scientist and support from scientists at PETA UK and PETA US. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) committee responsible for determining test requirements for household products, on which PETA India's scientist has an official seat, decided....

BioTek Instruments was recently honored with the 2013 Worksite Wellness Gold Level Award from the Vermont Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

As a three-time winner, BioTek will receive the award from Governor Peter Shumlin at the Worksite Wellness Conference, to be held March 27, 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center in Burlington, VT. "Our BioFit wellness program enhances a culture of well-being for BioTekkers that includes physical, nutritional, emotional, social, financial, career and community service activities and education," notes Kathy Gendron, BioTek's Vice President, Human Resources. "This program is embraced at all levels of the company, and it strengthens us, not only as individuals, but as a team...

First autoclave built by UK Company Priorclave for the American market following announcement that it has approval to manufacture to ASME standards was actually a bespoke designed, double stacked steam steriliser.

This somewhat unique autoclave build comprised two 150L front loading autoclaves stacked vertically and encased in a single housing with all associated pipework.  Although stacked to save space each autoclave is a separate entity with independent controls mounted on the side panel allowing both sterilisers to operate simultaneously with different process settings. “This sale highlights that British designed and manufactured products are still among the very best in world and are clearly in demand...