With continuing expansion in the Far East, Titian guarantees local customer support
Leading sample management software provider, Titian Software, is making strategic investments in China to support the growing global popularity of its Mosaic sample management software. As part of this, Titian has recently granted exclusive distribution rights to LBD Life Sciences, who will represent Titian’s Mosaic in China and provide a more accessible support service for Chinese customers....
Pro-curo Software Ltd appoints Planer plc to distribute its sample tracking software worldwide
Pro-curo Software Ltd has appointed a new worldwide distributor, expanding its growing reach into the global marketplace. Through its teams located around the world, Planer plc will supply Pro-curo Software Ltd’s sample tracking software to users ranging from single, small laboratories to large institutes. As a supplier of controlled rate cryo freezers, incubators and loggers to IVF, veterinary, research, hospital and cell laboratories, Planer plc works routinely with researchers handling irreplaceable samples. The need for a reliable, tailored sample tracking system is therefore well understood, and Pro-curo software provides an ideal solution...
PHSS Annual Members Conference 2013, Microbial Aspects of Cleanroom Manufacture
Cherwell Laboratories will be offering expert knowledge and demonstrating their comprehensive range of specialist environmental monitoring and process validation products at the forthcoming PHSS Annual Members Conference 2013, Microbial Aspects of Cleanroom Manufacture. The annual conference, to be held at Wychwood Park Hotel, Crewe on 9th & 10th October 2013, coincides with the release of the new PHSS Bio-contamination technical monograph 20....
San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, the pioneer of an entirely new industry – Green Crude production – is taking advantage of the unique benefits of Bredel hose pump technology from Watson-Marlow Pumps Group.
Sapphire is using a Bredel 2100 for the shear sensitive transfer of algae used in an innovative fuel production process which offers the potential to transform America’s energy and petrochemical landscape. Backed by $100 million of government funding, in August 2012 Sapphire Energy opened its state-of-the-art Green Crude farm in Columbus, New Mexico....
Spectro Inc., a leading Chelmsford, Mass.-based developer and manufacturer of analytical tools and software for the industrial performance fluids market, today announced it has purchased Wilks Enterprise, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Wilks, based in Norwalk, Conn. and established in 1995, specializes in the development and manufacture of mid-infrared (mid-IR) application specific analyzers that are used for biofuel, petrochemical, environmental, quality control, manufacturing and ambient air monitoring measurement...
Biocatalysis and metagenomics used for generation of improved hydrocolloids with potential therapeutic properties
Libragen, a contract research organization dedicated to biocatalysis and metagenomics, has been a major contributor to the success of PolyModE (Polysaccharide Modifying Enzymes), a large collaborative research project funded by the European Community. The project, which began in 2009 and ended in April this year, looked at developing novel polysaccharide modifying enzymes for the optimized use of hydrocolloids as, for example, food additives or novel therapeutic agents in the food sciences and medical industries....
Pharmaceutical formulation development and manufacturing services provider Molecular Profiles Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Laboratories, Inc., (Nasdaq: CBRX) has been selected as the formulation development partner for a major pan-European collaborative project.
The UK-based company has been chosen by clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Telormedix SA (Telormedix) to develop both topical and solid dosage formulations for the use in the treatment of psoriasis. The project, operating under the acronym PAT (Psoriasis Anti-inflammatory Treatment), will involve other consortium partners Biopta, Midatech Biogune and the University Hospital Zurich....
Malvern Instruments is to showcase the company’s range of analytical solutions for pharmaceutical materials characterization at the 2013 AAPS Annual Meeting & Exposition, from 11-14 November in San Antonio TX, USA.
Visitors can tap into the expertise of Malvern’s technical and applications specialists and find out how the company’s range of technologies and instrumentation provides valuable information across the entire pharmaceutical development spectrum, from pre-formulation through to quality control. New systems on show will include the Viscotek SEC-MALS 20 multi-angle light scattering detector for GPC/SEC. The new Viscotek SEC-MALS 20 has more detectors than any other commercially available multi angle light scattering system
Suffolk (UK) based Vapourtec has partnered up with Dr Nicholas Leadbeater and the New Synthetic Methods Group at the University of Connecticut (USA) to produce a new guide entitled “An Introduction to Flow Chemistry – A Practical Laboratory Course”.
Aimed principally at undergraduate teaching laboratories within colleges and universities but also a great asset to the research lab, the 100 page manual details a set of ten continuous-flow processing experiments, each of which can be easily delivered in conjunction with Vapourtec’s E-series flow unit during a regular lab period. Dr Leadbeater, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut and widely recognised as one of the leading lights in the fields of flow chemistry and new educational initiatives, commented: “Flow chemistry offers a lot of exciting possibilities in terms of running reactions for a wide variety of industries and it’s vital that it is encouraged and nurtured in the field of education...
For the first time ACHEMA 2015 is training the spotlight on three major themes
Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Industrial Water Engineering and Biobased Production will be the highlights of the world’s leading event for the process industry set to take place from 15 to 19 June 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. It goes without saying that other areas, from laboratory and analytical techniques to packaging...
Columbia Laboratories Inc. has acquired Molecular Profiles Ltd., a privately-held, cash-flow positive, U.K.-based pharmaceutical development services company, for cash and Columbia’s Common stock totalling approximately $25.0 million, in aggregate.
This acquisition was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, and by Molecular Profiles’ shareholders as well. No further approvals are anticipated to be required. Columbia Laboratories, Inc. has since announced the appointment of three experienced healthcare executives with over 65 years collective industry experience to its Board of Directors, effective immediately..../
Thermo Scientific Exactive Plus EMR and Q Exactive Plus Orbitrap systems join new Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid and TSQ Quantiva and Endura systems at HUPO
Less than four months after introducing important new core “Tribrid” and triple quadrupole liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) platforms built to transform customers’ work with unprecedented performance and ease of use, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces two additional systems designed to advance intact protein analysis and “quanfirmation.”
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.
The German Technical Centre (Markes International GmbH) is located in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt and features a state-of-the-art laboratory for customer demonstrations and the development of new analytical procedures. There is also a conference room for seminars and customer training, as well as offices to house the company’s German staff. The inauguration of Markes’ new German operation comes soon after the opening of new technical facilities in Llantrisant (near Cardiff, UK) and Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), which have already proved invaluable in allowing the company to accelerate its application development program and showcase its leading-edge analytical...
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).
Available from November 2013, the innovative E-Series is ideally suited to routine laboratory applications and includes 150, 300, 450 and 600 mm length furnaces, each of which can accommodate work tubes with outer diameters up to 60 mm. Carbolite is attending Lab Innovations for the first time and will exhibit alongside Retsch UK, its sister company within the Verder Scientific Division. As well as the E-Series, Carbolite will showcase the widely used Peak laboratory ovens, fully equipped with the new nanodac™ combined programmer and data logger which ensures precise temperature control and monitoring...
Pro-curo Software Ltd has appointed a new worldwide distributor, expanding its growing reach into the global marketplace. Through its teams located around the world, Planer plc will supply Pro-curo Software Ltd’s sample tracking software to users ranging from single, small laboratories to large institutes. As a supplier of controlled rate cryo freezers, incubators and loggers to IVF, veterinary, research, hospital and cell laboratories, Planer plc works routinely with researchers handling irreplaceable samples. The need for a reliable, tailored sample tracking system is therefore well understood, and Pro-curo software provides an ideal solution...
Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Industrial Water Engineering and Biobased Production will be the highlights of the world’s leading event for the process industry set to take place from 15 to 19 June 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. It goes without saying that other areas, from laboratory and analytical techniques to packaging...
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...
Available from November 2013, the innovative E-Series is ideally suited to routine laboratory applications and includes 150, 300, 450 and 600 mm length furnaces, each of which can accommodate work tubes with outer diameters up to 60 mm. Carbolite is attending Lab Innovations for the first time and will exhibit alongside Retsch UK, its sister company within the Verder Scientific Division. As well as the E-Series, Carbolite will showcase the widely used Peak laboratory ovens, fully equipped with the new nanodac™ combined programmer and data logger which ensures precise temperature control and monitoring...