Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, have incorporated a multi-detector array size exclusion chromatography (SEC) system from Malvern Instruments (Viscotek TDA –Triple Detector Array) at the laboratory’s powerful small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) beamline to improve the productivity and quality of detailed protein characterization work
Use of the Viscotek TDA triple detector array system prior to analysis provides complementary biophysical data and simultaneously purifies samples for measurement. This results in more information and better quality data from each experiment. This innovative set-up is not only limited to the institute itself, but is widely accessible to structural biology researchers via BioStructX, a European Commission initiative that creates a single gateway to Europe’s leading synchrotron facilities...
New application laboratories, sales and service offices and customer facilities
The UK manufacturing and sales divisions of Carl Zeiss have cemented their roots in Cambridge with an expansion of their existing production site and the construction of new application laboratories, sales and service offices and customer facilities. Coldhams Lane in Cambridge has been home to Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd for some years. Due to the sustained growth in international orders, the business has acquired neighbouring premises in order to increase production of their scanning electron microscopes, including EVO, ∑IGMA and process specific tools...
Read MoreEndecotts - Mar 4, 2013
Visit Endecotts at the AGG1 show 19th - 21st March 2013 Booth 2713
Endecotts particle analysis equipment is used worldwide in many laboratories. The company offers a wide range of sieves with different sizes, depths, choice of materials and certified degrees of inspection to meet every National and International standard and virtually every specification, including ISO 3310 and ASTM E-11. Endecotts also offer a wide range of shakers suitable for all types of sieving and samples - shakers designed to produce the optimum sieving action for fast reproducible results....
Read MoreCAMAG and Advion form Exclusive Alliance to Commercialize Unique TLC/CMS Assay System for Synthetic Organic and Peptide ChemistsMar 1, 2013
Advion, Inc., a leading life sciences systems and consumables developer, today announced that an exclusive OEM and distribution partnership agreement has been signed with CAMAG of Basel, Switzerland for its TLC-MS Interface product
Based upon excellent results obtained by joint Advion and CAMAG customers, as well as leading researchers, the two companies have partnered to commercialize a combined system to Advion’s Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Peptide Synthesis global market segments. The terms of the agreement allow Advion exclusive marketing and support rights in key geographic markets including North America and parts of Europe....
Techcomp (Group) Ltd is pleased to announce the acquisition of the majority holding of shares in Edinburgh Instruments Ltd (EI) with immediate effect
Edinburgh Instruments is the world’s leading manufacturer of Lifetime Fluorescence Spectrometers, Lasers and Gas Sensors for scientific research and industrial markets. The business is based in Livingston, Scotland and was founded in 1971 as an early pioneer of Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), laser and gas sensing technologies....
Read MorePro-curo Software LtdFeb 28, 2013
Pro-curo Software Ltd, supplier of sample inventory and tracking software to life science markets, has introduced a 24-hour customer service and support system which incorporates various channels of communication
Pro-curo Software Ltd has a high focus on providing excellent levels of support and this fresh approach ensures that customers are always able to reach their assigned technical support contact, even in the case of 24-hour laboratories or those in different time zones. The support system uses a combination of email, telephone, text message and live chat, keeping the process as efficient and pain free as possible. Users only speak with a single contact, who then interacts with separate departments within the company to ensure an issue is resolved.
Read MoreNew Protein Engineering Service PortalFeb 28, 2013
With years of advancement and accumulation, Creative BioMart has become a new protein engineering service “portal”. Creative Biomart has strong expertise in de novo gene synthesis that allows us to synthesize complex protein libraries without any dramatic increase in cost
Protein engineering is a new approach. Currently it has been widely used by researchers for the studies, such as protein structure, creation of new material, finding target, function mechanism, combination of new protein with preset features and others. In the future, more detailed knowledge of protein structure and function, as well as advancements in high-throughput technology, may greatly expand the capabilities of protein engineering. Eventually, even unnatural amino acids may be incorporated thanks to the new method that allows the inclusion of novel amino acids in the genetic code.
The debut edition of Forensics Europe Expo takes place this 24-25 April 2013 at London’s Olympia venue. But what’s the thinking behind the show’s launch, and what can visitors expect to gain from attending? Event director Phillip Hunter provides the details
The landscape for the forensics industry has changed considerably in recent times. Up until March 2012, the vast majority of forensic testing in the UK was done by the government’s Forensic Science Service. When the government took the decision to close the service last year, the model for the industry changed massivelyfor good. It’s now an open and free market, and the challenge is to ensure that the facilities used by people like the police and the legal sector are accredited and up to standard...
Carbolite, a leading manufacturer of furnaces and ovens, will exhibit a wide range of products for laboratory heat testing applications at ArabLab and Pittcon in 2013
As a leading UK manufacturer, the company will showcase products from their laboratory equipment portfolio. This extensive range includes both laboratory chamber/box furnaces and laboratory tube furnaces capable of reaching temperatures up to 1800°C, providing reliable and effective solutions across a range of research and testing applications.Read MoreFreeman Technology will present new research on the impact of humidity on powders at Powtech 2013Feb 27, 2013
At Powtech 2013 (23-25 April, Nürnberg, Germany), the team from Freeman Technology, the powder characterisation specialists, will present new research on the impact of humidity on powders, a topic of significant interest to many powder processors
The presentation, entitled ‘The influence of ambient moisture on powder flow’, will be the first opportunity to learn about the company’s latest study highlighting how the FT4 Powder Rheometer® can be used to quantify the impact of humidity in a process relevant way. The team will also present two posters entitled “Investigation of the influence of atomic layer deposition coatings on powder rheology” and “Quantifying the effect of caking by powder rheometry”...
New Derek™ module for StarDrop™ facilitates the efficient design and selection of safe, efficacious compounds in early drug discovery
Optibrium and Lhasa Limited, providers of software for compound design, selection and property prediction,today announce a technology collaboration agreement. Lhasa’s Derek Nexus™ platform for knowledge-based prediction of compound toxicity will be integratedas an optional plug-in module for Optibrium’s StarDrop software, that guides the design and selection of high quality compounds in drug discovery...
Read MoreBioCellChallenge launches the first universal delivery system for transporting antibodies into live cellsFeb 25, 2013
This new technology means thousands of existing antibodies can now be used as research tools, with or without additives. It also provides the pharmaceutical industry with an unprecedented tool for determining the therapeutic potential of their antibodies
BioCellChallenge SAS, a biotechnology firm specialized in the creation and development of delivery systems for introducing active principles into live cells, today announces the launch of a new delivery system, ImmunoCellin, which is designed to transport antibodies into live cells even in the presence of additives. The company has recently filed a patent for this pioneering technology...
Read MoreSygnature Discovery selected as an SME Partner in Feb 22, 2013
Major pharmaceutical companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and academia join forces in an IMI-supported Public Private Partnership (PPP) to accelerate early drug discovery and so address the ever-increasing need for innovative therapeutics to tackle unmet medical needs
The European Lead Factory, a novel platform for innovative drug discovery, was launched today by an international consortium of 30 partners. This partnership, the first of its kind, is supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and creates unprecedented opportunities for the discovery of new medicines by providing public partners with an ‘industry-like’ discovery platform to translate cutting-edge academic research into high-quality drug lead molecules on a scale and speed that was not possible previously...
Read MoreHORIBA Medical UK incorporated into HORIBA UK Ltd - enhancing expertise sharingFeb 22, 2013
Organisational change brings UK’s HORIBA Group companies together
HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical division – today announces that from 1st January 2013 the UK’s HORIBA Group companies have been brought together into one company to establish HORIBA UK Ltd. Through this organisational change, the UK’s HORIBA Group business segments can streamline operational activities and enhance on-going product research and development...
Read MoreFDA to Discuss Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) at Food Labs Conference in Conjunction with Pittcon 2013Feb 19, 2013
Food Safety Tech, the organizers of Food Labs Conference, which will be held in conjunction with Pittcon 2013, March 19-20, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, announces the agenda of speakers for the two-day event
The Food Labs program will open with a presentation by Palmer A. Orlandi, Ph.D. CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service, Sr. Science Advisor Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food & Drug Administration on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the regulation's impact on food laboratories. According to information from the FDA website, FSMA is the most sweeping reform of FDA's food safety authority in more than 70 years...
Read MoreCarl Zeiss Receives Second Prize at 2013 CLEAN! Fraunhofer Cleanliness Technology AwardFeb 19, 2013
Jury Impressed by Correlative Particle Analysis
On 6 February 2013, the Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss received second prize in the 2013 CLEAN! Fraunhofer Cleanliness Technology Award for its Correlative Particle Analyzer (CAPA). The judges of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation (IPA) honored the three award winners on day two of the Cleanroom Lounge trade fair in Karlsruhe. "By bridging scanning electron and light microscopy, Correlative Particle Analyzer is revolutionizing cleanliness technology," said the Fraunhofer Institute commenting on its success....
Read MoreResponse to the 2013 State of the Union AddressFeb 18, 2013
“The American Chemical Society (ACS) thanks President Barack Obama and congressional leaders who have prioritized creating jobs for Americans as the most critical challenge during these difficult economic times”
“As the world’s largest scientific society with over 163,000 members — chemists, chemical engineers, biomedical chemists, other allied science professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs and leaders in industry, academia, government and small business — we wholeheartedly agree with the importance of this issue as outlined in the President’s State of the Union address and remarks by leaders from both parties in Congress.”...Read MoreMetrohm and FOSS enter strategic allianceFeb 15, 2013
Metrohm and FOSS have entered into a strategic alliance strengthening the two companies’ leading positions in their respective key markets. In this strategic alliance, Metrohm will become the sole global distributor of FOSS NIR instruments for the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and environmental sectors
“Metrohm will extend its product offering beyond the company’s traditional focus on solutions for wet-chemistry analytical techniques thereby benefiting our customers with new possibilities both in laboratory and process analysis”, said Dr. Christoph Fässler, CEO of Metrohm....
Frost & Sullivan will present global trends, challenges and opportunities with a focus on Europe at the 2nd Biosimilars Congregation in London this month
Top representatives from the healthcare industry are confirmed to attend the 2nd Biosimilars Congregation which will take place in London on the 19th and 20th of February 2013. Ranjith Gopinathan, Frost & Sullivan Program Manager for Life Sciences, Europe Practice is set to participate to the event’s Keynote Panel Discussion focusing on challenges and opportunities in the global biosimilars market....
Read MoreLIMS on show at ArabLab 2013Feb 15, 2013
Autoscribe will be demonstrating the flexibility and scalability offered by its flagship Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) at the ArabLab exhibition. Autoscribe will be exhibiting on the booth of its local distributor, Laboratory Automation Services Middle East FX-LLC
Matrix Gemini has applications in a wide range of laboratories including, food, pharmaceutical, chemicals, oil, petrochemicals, veterinary, healthcare, and environmental information management systems. In addition, Matrix Gemini’s Quality Management Suite provides a comprehensive business data management capability and facilitates compliance with ISO 9001 (2008) and ISO/TS 16949 (2002)....
Read MoreVeeva Systems Introduces Regulatory Compliant Email Solution for Global Life Sciences CompaniesFeb 15, 2013
New cloud solution empowers pharmaceutical sales teams with integrated email to maximize productivity
Veeva Systems’ new Approved Email solution is set to radically increase the productivity of life sciences sales teams by enabling users to email approved content to customers directly from iRep and Veeva CRM. Veeva CRM Approved Email represents a technology and business breakthrough in the industry as the first end-to-end solution to enable regulatory compliant email communication between sales reps and healthcare practitioners...
Read More1st Metrohm Environmental Analysis Symposium, November 19th Feb 14, 2013
Metrohm is pleased to invite professionals from academic research, public authorities, and the private sector to the 1st Metrohm Environmental Analysis Symposium
Join us in this 3-day event and catch up with the latest analytical methods during presentations and practical demonstrations. Discuss challenges in environmental analysis with experts and colleagues from all over the world and enjoy three days of inspiring learning in the beautiful Appenzellerland. Participants will get to know the latest analytical solutions developed by Metrohm for environmental analysis and can test them in practice. There will be plenty of opportunities to exchange ideas and discuss questions with Metrohm’s application chemists as well as peers from research and various industries. Guest speakers include specialists from environmental laboratories, authorities, standards organizations, and academia...
Use of the Viscotek TDA triple detector array system prior to analysis provides complementary biophysical data and simultaneously purifies samples for measurement. This results in more information and better quality data from each experiment. This innovative set-up is not only limited to the institute itself, but is widely accessible to structural biology researchers via BioStructX, a European Commission initiative that creates a single gateway to Europe’s leading synchrotron facilities...
The UK manufacturing and sales divisions of Carl Zeiss have cemented their roots in Cambridge with an expansion of their existing production site and the construction of new application laboratories, sales and service offices and customer facilities. Coldhams Lane in Cambridge has been home to Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd for some years. Due to the sustained growth in international orders, the business has acquired neighbouring premises in order to increase production of their scanning electron microscopes, including EVO, ∑IGMA and process specific tools...
Endecotts particle analysis equipment is used worldwide in many laboratories. The company offers a wide range of sieves with different sizes, depths, choice of materials and certified degrees of inspection to meet every National and International standard and virtually every specification, including ISO 3310 and ASTM E-11. Endecotts also offer a wide range of shakers suitable for all types of sieving and samples - shakers designed to produce the optimum sieving action for fast reproducible results....
Based upon excellent results obtained by joint Advion and CAMAG customers, as well as leading researchers, the two companies have partnered to commercialize a combined system to Advion’s Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Peptide Synthesis global market segments. The terms of the agreement allow Advion exclusive marketing and support rights in key geographic markets including North America and parts of Europe....
Edinburgh Instruments is the world’s leading manufacturer of Lifetime Fluorescence Spectrometers, Lasers and Gas Sensors for scientific research and industrial markets. The business is based in Livingston, Scotland and was founded in 1971 as an early pioneer of Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), laser and gas sensing technologies....
Pro-curo Software Ltd has a high focus on providing excellent levels of support and this fresh approach ensures that customers are always able to reach their assigned technical support contact, even in the case of 24-hour laboratories or those in different time zones. The support system uses a combination of email, telephone, text message and live chat, keeping the process as efficient and pain free as possible. Users only speak with a single contact, who then interacts with separate departments within the company to ensure an issue is resolved.
The landscape for the forensics industry has changed considerably in recent times. Up until March 2012, the vast majority of forensic testing in the UK was done by the government’s Forensic Science Service. When the government took the decision to close the service last year, the model for the industry changed massivelyfor good. It’s now an open and free market, and the challenge is to ensure that the facilities used by people like the police and the legal sector are accredited and up to standard...
As a leading UK manufacturer, the company will showcase products from their laboratory equipment portfolio. This extensive range includes both laboratory chamber/box furnaces and laboratory tube furnaces capable of reaching temperatures up to 1800°C, providing reliable and effective solutions across a range of research and testing applications.
The presentation, entitled ‘The influence of ambient moisture on powder flow’, will be the first opportunity to learn about the company’s latest study highlighting how the FT4 Powder Rheometer® can be used to quantify the impact of humidity in a process relevant way. The team will also present two posters entitled “Investigation of the influence of atomic layer deposition coatings on powder rheology” and “Quantifying the effect of caking by powder rheometry”...
Optibrium and Lhasa Limited, providers of software for compound design, selection and property prediction,today announce a technology collaboration agreement. Lhasa’s Derek Nexus™ platform for knowledge-based prediction of compound toxicity will be integratedas an optional plug-in module for Optibrium’s StarDrop software, that guides the design and selection of high quality compounds in drug discovery...
BioCellChallenge SAS, a biotechnology firm specialized in the creation and development of delivery systems for introducing active principles into live cells, today announces the launch of a new delivery system, ImmunoCellin, which is designed to transport antibodies into live cells even in the presence of additives. The company has recently filed a patent for this pioneering technology...
The European Lead Factory, a novel platform for innovative drug discovery, was launched today by an international consortium of 30 partners. This partnership, the first of its kind, is supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and creates unprecedented opportunities for the discovery of new medicines by providing public partners with an ‘industry-like’ discovery platform to translate cutting-edge academic research into high-quality drug lead molecules on a scale and speed that was not possible previously...
HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical division – today announces that from 1st January 2013 the UK’s HORIBA Group companies have been brought together into one company to establish HORIBA UK Ltd. Through this organisational change, the UK’s HORIBA Group business segments can streamline operational activities and enhance on-going product research and development...
The Food Labs program will open with a presentation by Palmer A. Orlandi, Ph.D. CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service, Sr. Science Advisor Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food & Drug Administration on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the regulation's impact on food laboratories. According to information from the FDA website, FSMA is the most sweeping reform of FDA's food safety authority in more than 70 years...
On 6 February 2013, the Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss received second prize in the 2013 CLEAN! Fraunhofer Cleanliness Technology Award for its Correlative Particle Analyzer (CAPA). The judges of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation (IPA) honored the three award winners on day two of the Cleanroom Lounge trade fair in Karlsruhe. "By bridging scanning electron and light microscopy, Correlative Particle Analyzer is revolutionizing cleanliness technology," said the Fraunhofer Institute commenting on its success....
“As the world’s largest scientific society with over 163,000 members — chemists, chemical engineers, biomedical chemists, other allied science professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs and leaders in industry, academia, government and small business — we wholeheartedly agree with the importance of this issue as outlined in the President’s State of the Union address and remarks by leaders from both parties in Congress.”...
“Metrohm will extend its product offering beyond the company’s traditional focus on solutions for wet-chemistry analytical techniques thereby benefiting our customers with new possibilities both in laboratory and process analysis”, said Dr. Christoph Fässler, CEO of Metrohm....
Top representatives from the healthcare industry are confirmed to attend the 2nd Biosimilars Congregation which will take place in London on the 19th and 20th of February 2013. Ranjith Gopinathan, Frost & Sullivan Program Manager for Life Sciences, Europe Practice is set to participate to the event’s Keynote Panel Discussion focusing on challenges and opportunities in the global biosimilars market....
Matrix Gemini has applications in a wide range of laboratories including, food, pharmaceutical, chemicals, oil, petrochemicals, veterinary, healthcare, and environmental information management systems. In addition, Matrix Gemini’s Quality Management Suite provides a comprehensive business data management capability and facilitates compliance with ISO 9001 (2008) and ISO/TS 16949 (2002)....
Veeva Systems’ new Approved Email solution is set to radically increase the productivity of life sciences sales teams by enabling users to email approved content to customers directly from iRep and Veeva CRM. Veeva CRM Approved Email represents a technology and business breakthrough in the industry as the first end-to-end solution to enable regulatory compliant email communication between sales reps and healthcare practitioners...
Join us in this 3-day event and catch up with the latest analytical methods during presentations and practical demonstrations. Discuss challenges in environmental analysis with experts and colleagues from all over the world and enjoy three days of inspiring learning in the beautiful Appenzellerland. Participants will get to know the latest analytical solutions developed by Metrohm for environmental analysis and can test them in practice. There will be plenty of opportunities to exchange ideas and discuss questions with Metrohm’s application chemists as well as peers from research and various industries. Guest speakers include specialists from environmental laboratories, authorities, standards organizations, and academia...