Agar Scientific, a leading supplier of microscopy accessories and consumables, has launched a new web site. As well as providing the latest microscopy news about accessories and consumables, the site now offers customers full eCommerce capability – a site that delivers useful, current content digitally online.

Agar Scientific's new website presents visitors with comprehensive and current information on  all products together with availability, delivery options and prices to enable straightforward online ordering of materials for their laboratory. Visitors can now request online quotations. This has been specifically tailored for education/research departments where detailed purchase requisitions are frequently required prior to ordering. As would be expected, the new site brings visitors the latest news about new products, special offers including end of line bargains. It also offers sign-up for Agar news and electronic newsletters, particularly for exclusive offers...

Under a new agreement, Victrix CMCC will use Cresset’s software for their computational chemistry consulting projects. Cresset’s Spark, Forge and Torch software will help Victrix clients to carry out structure based drug design projects and build predictive 3D SAR models for lead identification.

“Victrix is very pleased to be able to offer our clients access to Cresset's software,” says Dr Adam Kallel, CSO of Victrix.  “Cresset’s field based software significantly expands our ability to help clients with programmes that have little or no structural information.” Dr Kallel adds, “I have been a believer in field based methodology since I began work in the pharmaceutical industry and I was an early adopter of the Cresset technology.  I believe the XED force field that underlies Cresset’s software provides the ability to model molecules and their molecular fields in a way that is as close to high level quantum mechanics as possible, giving valuable insights into structure reactivity relationships...

The Benefits Of Analytical Ultracentrifugation In Nanoparticle Analysis

Join The Free Live Webinar. Join us for our latest webinar in our Education in Laboratory Technologies Series: “Analytical Ultracentrifugation in Nanoparticle Analysis.” Dr. Joshua Robinson will lead an overview of the theory and techniques involved in using Analytical Ultracentrifugation (AUC) in nanoparticle analysis, including: Ways AUC can uniquely identify how various components of a nanomaterial interact...

World First Clinical Trial Of New Cancer Drug By Australia’s Asbestos Diseases Research Institute

Today, Australia’s Asbestos Diseases Research Institute (ADRI) announced a world-first clinical trial into a newly developed drug therapy for the treatment of mesothelioma, a cancer which is almost uniquely caused by exposure to asbestos fibers. In most patients with mesothelioma the disease has significantly advanced before symptoms appear, making an early diagnosis and effective treatment very difficult. There is no cure. The average survival time after diagnosis is 6-18 months...

The PapilloCheck HPV test from Greiner Bio-One GmbH, technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries, has now received approval from the Dutch Society for Pathology following successful validation based on international guidelines for HPV-DNA tests.

Cervical cancer is one of the most frequent cancers among women. It is caused by a persistent infection involving certain types of human papillomaviruses (HPV). If this infection is detected at an early stage and the patient is given appropriate medical treatment, the development of cervical cancer can be prevented in virtually all cases. HPV tests, which detect the carcinogenic virus, therefore play a major role in cervical cancer screening...

German company LCTech GmbH, a supplier of products and methods for sample preparation and analysis, has been using Tecan Cavro^® components for many years and has incorporated a Cavro Omni Robot and Cavro XLP Pump into its latest FREESTYLE sample preparation workstation.

Dr Uwe Aulwurm, a Managing Director of LCTech, explained: “To meet the varied workflow demands of our customers, we wanted a modular solution that combined a general purpose liquid handling system with a range of different processing devices, including options for solid phase extraction, gel permeation chromatography and evaporation. The Cavro Omni Robot was perfectly suited to our needs, providing a very robust instrument which could be easily modified to access individual processing modules...

Program will emphasize a combination of training in classical clinical chemistry and specialty areas

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today sponsorship of a new, two-year, postdoctoral Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Fellows will be trained in classical clinical chemistry, laboratory administration and research practices to prepare them for directorship positions at medical schools or hospital-based clinical chemistry laboratories. “Our mission is to develop the next generation of leaders in clinical chemistry,” said Robert Fitzgerald, Ph.D., DABCC, UC San Diego School of Medicine professor of pathology and faculty coordinator of the new Clinical Chemistry Fellowship program...

Within weeks of the Supreme Court’s historic decision declaring that human genes cannot be patented, two scientists have started a company that will democratize the human genome and give people direct access to their own genetic information - which can have an immediate impact on their health and wellbeing.

The court’s decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, on June 13, opened an era of genomic liberty, allowing people to look at the DNA for all of their genes – which had been hidden behind patent walls for companies that had a monopoly on such testing....

Crown Bioscience, Inc., a leading global drug discovery and development service company, today announces that it has acquired the shares of Preclinical Oncology Services Limited (PRECOS), a leading pre-clinical research and development service provider with a specific focus on oncology.

As a result of the acquisition Crown Bioscience becomes the world’s only contract research organization that offers such a comprehensive range of services. It will become the largest supplier of oncology services with a global footprint, spanning three major continents in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific...

Long-term storage of clinical samples will be critical to the growth of biobanking

The global proliferation of disease-based regional and national biobanks for clinical research has triggered a massive interest in long-term sample storage conditions. Simultaneously, it has spawned a requirement for good storage practices and standard operating procedures (SOPs)...

Malvern Instruments has kicked off a brand new series of Masterclass webinars available both as live events and subsequently as recorded presentations.

Based on the company’s established Masterclass concept, the ‘Masterclass on Suspension Properties’ series guides participants on how to use rheology in combination with other analytical techniques in order to formulate suspensions to meet specific performance targets. The information is delivered in a very straightforward style, making the subject easily accessible and comprehensible to the broadest of audiences...

To Help Train Professionals how to Optimise Their Decontamination Processes  

Scientific Digital Imaging’s [AIM-SDI] Synoptics Health Division, a manufacturer of innovative digital imaging systems for healthcare applications, today announced that major international healthcare training centre, Eastwood Park, UK will be using ProReveal, a test to detect proteins on surgical instruments, to complement training of sterile services professionals on how to assess the validity of decontamination processes....

Porvair Sciences has announced the first North American edition* of its internationally trusted ‘Catalog of Microplates and Microplate Equipment’.

Many scientists around the world have come to rely upon the Porvair Sciences catalog as a trusted source of information that enables them to choose the optimum microplate, microplate evaporator or sealer for their application. This new2013 edition brings together information on Porvair Sciences comprehensive microplate and microplate equipment product range that is available and supported by knowledgable local agents** through the USA and Canada. Reflecting Porvair's continuing commitment to continuous technological innovation, the North American catalog introduces a suite of exciting new products..

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Introductory 3 for 2 exome sequencing and analyses offer

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative genetics research and biomarker solutions to advance molecular medicine, has extended its high-quality whole exome sequencing services with a targeted Familial Sequencing and Analysis Service. Ideal for investigators of inherited disease, the new service delivers multi-genome analysis of related samples for the detection of causative, de novo and disease susceptibility mutations. With a fully optimised workflow, OGT offers the entire targeted next generation sequencing pipeline, from project design through to end-point mutation discovery and extensive variant annotation...

The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN) will be the official charity partner of the largest international nanotechnology conference to take place in the UK.

Nano London 2014 will take place from 17^th-19^th June 2014 at Olympia in London, and brings together industry leaders, academics, manufacturers, suppliers and investors in the fast growing field of nanotechnology. The IoN is a registered charity which supports education and training within the nanotechnology community and provides industry and governments with intelligence on nanotechnology and its applications. The Institute has a global network of members and is highly active in European research programmes such as FP7...

PREP 2014:  27th International Symposium, Exhibits and Workshops on Preparative and Process Chromatography, Ion Exchange, Adsorption Processes and Related Separation Techniques  

Save the dates! PREP 2014 July 20 - 23, 2014 Boston, MA, USA. Premier arena for the presentation and discussion of the latest developments in Preparative and Process Chromatography, Separation Science and Technology. PREP 2014 is where scientists, engineers, and suppliers of media, equipment, and technology from around the world come to focus on the cutting-edge areas of preparative and process chromatography, to learn how to solve today's practical problems, and to prepare for the future...

Warwick Analytical Service (WAS) has produced an analytical service note that demonstrates the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) specroscopic data the company is able to routinely achieve. 

Drawing upon expertise in the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, petrochemical and environmental markets - Warwick Analytical Service is able to offer NMR as an analytical service for structural elucidation of chemical structure, deformulation of products, quantification of mixture components, kinetic and temperature studies of reaction mixtures and calculation of impurity levels.  In addition – WAS is able to routinely offer NMR characterisation of polymers to elucidate structure, co-monomer ratios, end groups and average molecular weight...

Major Protein Structure Discovery Achieved Using TTP Labtech’s mosquito LCP Innovative liquid handling technology a key factor in the world’s first structural analysis of class B GPCRs

For the first time, researchers have been able to successfully report the structure of a Class B G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) using lipidic cubic phase (LCP) protein crystallisation. The work performed at Heptares, a leading drug discovery and development company, and published this week in Nature, details the structural identification of the stress receptor, corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 (CRF1). This pioneering discovery opens up the technique to an entirely new group of molecules with important roles in the development of diseases as diverse as diabetes, osteoporosis, depression and anxiety...

Recognising Technology’s Novel Method of Improving Liquid Handling Efficiency              

Redd&Whyte, an expert supplier of liquid handling automation for drug discovery and life science research applications, is delighted to announce its innovative Preddator low-volume microplate dispenser has been awarded the “ELRIG Technology Prize”, which recognises the most interesting automation seen at the recent ELRIG Robotics and Automation Conference...

Custom system will ultimately enable DKMS Life Science Lab to type several thousand samples per week

Fluidigm announced an agreement to develop and supply a customized version of its high- throughput library prep system to the DKMS (Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH) Life Science Lab. The new system will help the DKMS accelerate its research to fight against blood cancer by ultimately enabling it to characterize the HLA genes from several thousand samples a week for its donor registry...

International panel of experts bestows seal of quality to products featuring outstanding designs

At the awards ceremony on 1 July 2013, the ZEISS Microscopy business group received the renowned red dot award: product design for the Axio Zoom.V16 zoom microscope. In 19 categories, the jury selected the product with the most successful product concept from the total 4,662 entries. Following the ceremony, the product will be on display in a special four-week exhibition at the red dot design museum at the Aalto Theater in Essen...

A UK COMPANY which offers an innovative solution to recruit and retain global participants for medicine clinical trials has secured an investment of more than £250,000 from a group of investors.