ZEISS has installed 13 systems worth over two million euros at Istanbul Medipol University as well as trained the staff there.

Various light microscopes, as well as stereo and confocal microscopes are in operation at the university's Regenerative and Restorative Medical Research Center now. At the same time, the university agreed to sign a cooperation agreement with ZEISS to hold joint workshops and training, as well as to introduce the new light sheet fluorescence microscope system Lightsheet Z.1 to Turkey...

Autoscribe, developer of the well-established Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Quality Management Systems, has launched a new combined UK and US website to reflect the worldwide nature of Autoscribe’s business.

With a fresher, cleaner look, much improved navigation, additional content and more downloads, the site features a new ‘market’ section which allows visitors to see at a glance the applications of information management systems in different market areas, as well as a more in depth view of the Business Solutions that are available. Another new section is devoted to information on the unique configuration capabilities of the Matrix family of LIMS....

Sygnature Discovery, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery solutions to the global pharmaceutical industry, today announced that Dr Louis J. Nisbet has joined its Board as a Non-Executive Director.

Dr Nisbet is highly-regarded life sciences professional and a Venture Partner with Kurma Life Sciences Partners, Paris, and Chairman of BioCity, Nottingham.  Having gained drug discovery research experience within major pharmaceutical companies in his early career, then becoming a serial entrepreneur and now an active venture capital investor, Dr Nisbet has an exceptional insight into the issues concerning growing R&D focused pharmaceutical businesses.  He brings this unique experience to Sygnature Discovery to help facilitate the next stage of the company’s growth...

A Freedom EVO^® workstation with an integrated HydroSpeed™ plate washer and Infinite^® F200 PRO multimode reader is helping researchers at Jikei University School of Medicine to perform high throughput compound screening in the battle to combat persistent bacterial infections.

Dr Ken-­ichi Okuda, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bacteriology at Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, explained: “Bacteria within biofilms have a low susceptibility to the immune system and antibiotics, which means that infection is more difficult to eradicate in many cases. Our objective is to find compounds that prevent formation of the biofilms, and then to analyze the detailed composition of the molecular interactions of these compounds with the bacteria.”...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) applauds the Senate action today in passing helium supply legislation by a vote of 97 to 2.

“ACS urges the House and Senate to swiftly conference this legislation so it can be presented to President Barack Obama for his immediate signature,” said ACS President Marinda Li Wu, Ph.D. “MRIs that image cancer tumors use helium,” said Wu. “Heart patients rely on helium for proper catheterization during surgery. It’s vital for national defense. Even scuba divers who conduct rescue operations rely on helium. If the liquid helium supply was to suddenly vanish, our society would be turned upside down.”...

Simple, automated, nanoliter-scale assays requiring as little as 1uL of sample. Ready-to-use kits are fully validated for reliable use in clinical research. Accuracy and precision meet or exceed ELISA performance.

Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, today announced a partnership with Gyros AB to develop, manufacture and commercialize immunoassay kits for the Gyrolab™ platform. The new, fully validated kits from Merck Millipore will enable clinical researchers and drug developers to generate valuable research data much faster than typical ELISA kits. Traditional ELISAs can consume significant time, sample and reagents. With the fully automated, walk-away system from Gyros, up to 560 data points can be generated in a run...

The role of women in science and their historic under-representation in the field are explored in a new short documentary film and book.

The book tells the story of how the University of Edinburgh's female scientists have fought for equality, beginning with street riots in the 1870s. Today, an Edinburgh professor is the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The film celebrates how much has been achieved, but warns that unconscious bias against women still persists, and that more needs to be done to achieve parity. The initiative, entitled A Chemical Imbalance, was funded by the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Prize awarded to Professor Polly Arnold, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry and Director of Research in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh...

Anasys Instruments reports on three user groups who have published peer reviewed papers where nanoIR is being applied to look at characterization challenges in semiconductors, polymers and healthcare.

There have been several recent exciting publications by nanoIR users in a number of growing applications areas. These include plasmonics, health care, fuel cell membranes and polymer nanostructures. Three of these publications are reported here. Nanoscale Imaging of Plasmonic Hot Spots and Dark Modes with the Photothermal-Induced Resonance Technique. The lead author is Dr Andrea Centrone from NIST, USA. In this publication from NIST, the AFM-IR technique is applied for the first time to image the dark plasmonic resonance of gold asymmetric split ring resonators (A-SRRs) in the mid-infrared (IR) spectral region with nanoscale resolution...

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its worldwide thermal desorption and mass spectrometry business is set to expand into Germany.

Carbolite will exhibit an example of  its new 1200?C ‘E-Series’ compact tube furnaces, for the first time in the UK, at Lab Innovations 2013  (6 - 7 November 2013, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK).

Visit Carbolite on stand number B13

ELGA Process Water has supplied a laboratory water system to Dalton Cumbrian Facility, the state-of-the-art nuclear research complex on the Westlakes Science & Technology Park in West Cumbria.

The facility forms part of the nuclear research facilities of The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, and provides a suite of equipment for use by academia and industry from all over the world to collaborate in radiation science and nuclear plant decommissioning R&D. Like all laboratories, the facility requires different water qualities for different uses: ultrapure water for analytical work and lower quality for general applications like media preparation, pH buffers and glassware washing...

SCID screening improves medical outcomes with early detection, intervention

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader in improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today introduced the first commercially available screening test for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). The EnLite™ Neonatal TREC System expands the newborn screening portfolio of commercially available tests and will be introduced under CE marking, for sale in select countries in Europe and the Middle East. SCID impacts an estimated 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 100,000 newborns globally every year...

Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK), a leading global provider of instrumentation and expertise for materials and biophysical characterization, has acquired nanoparticle characterization company NanoSight Ltd (Amesbury, UK). The acquisition was completed on Friday 27 September 2013.

Production of the first stem cell burger, which recently hit the headlines throughout the world, also owes its success to high-quality laboratory products from Greiner Bio-One.

For the first time, scientists from Maastricht University in the Netherlands have succeeded in cultivating a hamburger in a laboratory from the stem cells of cattle. The stem cells can be extracted from muscle cells, for example. The stem cells from a single cow can be used to produce around 200 million burgers. Industrial production, it is hoped, could act as a significant brake on intensive livestock farming and thus also curb environmental pollution...

Whitehouse Scientific is once again a major sponsor of The Filtration Society’s annual international conference and exhibition, returning on 5-6 November 2013 at the Mercure Chester East Hotel, Christleton, Chester, UK.

This year the main one-day event focuses on ‘Filter Media’ and will be preceded by a ‘Media for Gas and Liquid Filtration Course’. Attendance at Filtration Society meetings is open to everyone - members, non-members, UK and non-UK delegates. The full conference programme, registration and exhibition details are now available. Dr Graham Rideal, CEO of Whitehouse Scientific and science correspondent for The Filtration Society, said, “Whitehouse Scientific is very pleased to be supporting the annual Filtration Society conference once again, in this the Society’s 49th year...

The global reaching partnership aims to provide clinical researchers with new biomarkers and validated image analysis protocols, ensuring a continuum from preclinical to clinical phase in the development of anticancer therapies  

Oncodesign,a contract research laboratory dedicated to the discovery of new anticancer therapies, and Banook Central Imaging, a company specializing in the centralized reading of medical images, today announce the start of a partnership to expand the use of new approaches in pharmaco-imaging. The partners expect to share expertise, co-promote joint activities and jointly engage in scientific collaboration to standardize image acquisition and analysis protocols in early clinical phases. The financial details of the agreement were not disclosed...

The latest Eppendorf Advantage promotion delivers substantial savings on the company’s shakers, centrifuges and freezers right up until 31^st December 2013.

There are savings of up to 24 % on selected Eppendorf microcentrifuges including aerosol-tight rotors. Researchers save when buying New Brunswick Innova^® shakers and New Brunswick HEF^® and Green freezers. Eppendorf laboratory equipment is known for its premium quality and excellent performance, and the new product bundles enable purchasers to equip their laboratories at a greatly reduced price...

Jenway, a brand of Bibby Scientific, has launched its newly designed microsite. The unique site, dedicated exclusively to Jenway’s innovative series of spectrophotometers and accessories, brings everything instrument users need to know into one convenient location.

By devoting the site solely to its spectrophotometer range, Jenway provides visitors with targeted information that meets their specific application and product needs. It features comprehensive product details on all the latest instruments, supported with additional videos and downloads. Through the microsite, visitors can also access product specific manuals, application notes and safety data sheets that reside on the main Jenway website...

INTEGRA Biosciences has announced, as of August 1st 2013, a direct sales / support team in the UK to further improve support of its local customer base.

The new team will work closely with local distributor Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd (SLS) to market and provide top quality local support for the company’s innovative laboratory tools for liquid handling and media preparation. Torbjörn Gripp, Direct of Sales for INTEGRA commented "Encouraged by our success in the US market our decision to enter into the UK market with own local sales team was simply a logical step to move the business forward”. He added "In the UK - INTEGRA is already well known for quality products like PIPETBOY serological pipettes and VACUSAFE aspiration systems. With the expanded resource we will intensify our efforts on introducing innovative award winning products such as the VOYAGER Space Adjustable Pipette and the VIAFLO 96 Channel Pipette to the UK"...

Laboratories analyzing food, pharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals, and other complex samples can now purchase Thermo Scientific Q-Exactive and Exactive Plus LC-MS systems equipped from the factory with IonSense ID-CUBE™ ion sources. This configuration is designed to minimize the need for sample preparation to simplify and speed analyses.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into a value added reseller agreement with IonSense, Inc. to permit Thermo Fisher to sell the ID-CUBE ion source with its two Orbitrap-based LC-MS systems, providing a single point of contact for purchasing, installation and service. “One of our core values is to make the benefits of powerful mass spectrometry more accessible to larger populations of users,” said Mari Prieto Conaway, product manager, ion sources, Thermo Fisher Scientific. “IonSense shares this vision, and these ion sources support it by greatly simplifying analytical workflows...

SELECTBIO is pleased to announce the 4th annual European Lab Automation Exhibition

ELA 2014 will be held in parallel with the following conferneces: Advances in NGS & Big Data, High Content Analysis, Advances in Automation & Robotics, Advances in qPCR & dPCR and Advances in Cellular Assays & Cell Culture. Building on the success of the previous years, we expect an exhibition of up to 100 of the industry’s leading solution providers, showcasing current technologies and services.....

AMSBIO has announced that it has reached agreement with Sanguine BioSciences, abiotechnology company enabling personalized medicine research, to distribute and support its products and services throughout Europe.

Commenting on the new agreement Phillip Pridham-Field of AMSBIO said "Sanguine's approach to biospecimen collection and their high patient retention allow researchers to collect the data they need with better turnaround time and with the potential for longitudinal studies. We believe their extensive biospecimen library will be an excellent addition to our current product offerings for researchers in life sciences...