R-Biopharm Rhône, one of Scotland's most successful scientific exporters, is embarking on a recruitment drive following another record year of sales and profits
The company, which makes diagnostic test kits for use in the agri-food industry, is looking for another two research and development scientists to add to its complement of 15 industry-leading specialists, as well as up to three production operatives to reinforce the production unit...
Read MorePipette Controllers Offer Perfect Combination of Speed & Fine DosingNov 22, 2012
INTEGRA has launched a new video that demonstrates the perfect combination of speed and fine dosing that is routinely possible with its PIPETBOY range of pipette controllers
Today research, quality control and clinical laboratories require precision pipette controllers able to exactly dispense small volumes of liquids, reproducibly. As a consequence pipette controllers must reliably offer the highest accuracy, precision and robustness over many years of use...
Read MoreMantech PeCOD Analyzer saves steel Mill from closure in southern ItalyNov 20, 2012
IVLA is the second largest Steel mill located in the depths of southern Italy. A number of recent deaths from cancer and respiratory failure have been attributed to the effluent released from the factory, threatening its long term future. A rapid solution was needed to reduce emissions and clean up the plant including stricter monitoring of the effluent it produces
TOC would not work in this waste stream as it does not provide the correct information to assess how lethal the waste really is to health. Conventional methods of assessing water quality utilising Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) using Dichromate can take up to 3 hours to obtain the results. In response to the urgency for improved detection times within the Steel Mill, Mantech Inc, have successfully installed a PeCOD system into the mill...
Read MoreNew LAB INNOVATIONS Show - A Huge SuccessNov 19, 2012
The UK’s first LAB INNOVATIONS show was a major success. Laboratory managers right through to board-level executives flocked to Birmingham’s NEC to see how the new event - the UK’s only show dedicated to the latest laboratory technology & consumables, analytical & biotech equipment – would shape up
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on the use of the CPS Instruments Disc Centrifuge in the Surface and Nanoanalysis group at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK
The Surface and Nanoanalysis research group studies the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and nanomaterials, including biological samples and electronic components. NPL supplies a range of measurement services, reference materials, and software, which underpin quantitative surface analysis. Among the measurement services offered is nanoparticle sizing for which a suite of particle sizing techniques are employed...
Read MoreSynoptics Introduces a New Division, Synoptics HealthNov 16, 2012
Allowing Access to Sensitive Fluorescent Protein Detection Technology
The Olympus VS120 Slide Scanning System has earned three first place awards at the prestigious second International Scanner Contest (ISC), which took place in Berlin earlier this year
The advanced technology of the VS120 creates a “virtual slide”, a high resolution image of the complete specimen that can be electronically stored on a central server for simultaneous viewing anywhere in the world, at a range of magnifications. Awards were obtained in the fields of Colour and Precision, Fluorescence 20X, and Fluorescence 40X. Exhibiting unsurpassed performance in fluorescence microscopy, combined with...
The US scientist, Marlene R. Cohen Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh has won the 2012 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Dr. Cohen uses the response of groups of visual neurons to estimate which part of the visual world an animal is paying attention to at any given moment. Her approach provides a new way to study how our mental activity affects what we perceive and how cognitive processes such as attention are controlled...
Read MoreLab M shows off new capabilities at Medica 2012Nov 15, 2012
At Medica 2012, senior teams from Lab M will be on hand to introduce visitors to the new capabilities and products made possible by the company’s recent move to its new headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility in Greater Manchester, UK
“Medica is the first international trade show we’ve attended since opening our new premises in June this year, so is especially significant for us,” said Managing Director Ian Morris. “Our new facility represents the most significant investment in Lab M’s long history and we’re really looking forward to telling the world more about Lab M’s new capabilities and future plans...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Solid Phase Extraction Sample Preparation Products Win G.I.T InnovationsAward 2012Nov 14, 2012
Independent Jury, Journal Readers and Attendees of Analytica 2012 and Achema 2012 Vote Thermo Fisher SOLA Solid Phase Extraction Cartridges and Plates as Category Favorite
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its SOLA Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) cartridges and plates have won the GIT Innovation Award 2012 in Catergory D. The G.I.T InnovationsAward honors innovative new products and solutions for laboratory and process technology... Read MoreTecan and Siloam Biosciences co-market new ELISA systemNov 13, 2012
Tecan and Siloam Biosciences Inc. announce their intent to co-market a new automated low volume, high sensitivity microfluidic ELISA
The system is based on Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling technology and the Siloam Biosciences’ OptiMax™ microplate. It offers rapid, sensitive and specific chemifluorescence-based ELISA procedures using exceedingly small sample volumes. The speed, sensitivity and small sample requirements are achieved as a result of the unique microfluidic design of the Optimiser™ technology. All reactions, including analyte capture and detection, occur within an ~5 μl microfluidic reaction chamber...
Read MoreQuotient Bioresearch looks to new horizons at the 5th EBF Open SymposiumNov 13, 2012
Quotient Bioresearch is preparing to head to Barcelona to deliver five presentations and present two posters at the prestigious European Bioanalysis Forum (EBF) Open Symposium, taking place on November 14th to 16th
With the recent £1.5m expansion to its bioanalytical facility in Cambridgeshire, UK, the forthcoming EBF Symposium provides a perfect opportunity for Quotient scientists to exchange ideas with peers in the broader bioanalytical community...
Read MoreBioCity Nottingham celebrates 10 years of life science business incubationNov 12, 2012
Widely regarded as Europe’s busiest bio science business incubator, BioCity Nottingham is ten years old this November When Boots/BASF vacated their research and development facility in 2002 around 500 highly-specialised scientific jobs were lost
Now BioCity, in the newly-formed Creative Quarter of Nottingham, provides a base for 74 early-stage and growing life science companies. These firms have access to world-class laboratory and office facilities, business advice, networking events, meeting facilities and even social clubs. Nearly 700 jobs have been created by BioCity companies, making this one of the fastest-growing business incubators in the UK...
Read MoreNEW Pittcon 2013 App Now AvailableNov 12, 2012
The Pittcon 2013 app puts everything you need to know about the world's largest, annual conference and exposition on laboratory science, in the palm of your hand
Malvern Instruments will showcase the new Morphologi G3-ID particle characterization system at Drug Delivery to the Lungs 23, which takes place from 5 – 7 Dec 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland
The company will highlight the system’s ability to generate component-specific particle size and shape data that efficiently support the commercialization of both new and generic Orally Inhaled and Nasal Dry Products (OINDPs). Activities at the conference will include a poster presentation that details results from a new study in which the Morphologi G3-ID was used to successfully measure nasal sprays in the formulated liquid state with minimal sample preparation...
Read More30% more visitors to Vacuum Expo & Conference 2012 Nov 9, 2012
Organisers, Xmark Media report on the success of this year's event and announce the dates for 2013
With twelve new exhibitors at last month's Vacuum Expo 2012, Coventry, the sheer breadth of technology and range of equipment on show proved be a big draw for visitors. The third Vacuum Expo event was the biggest and best event in the series to date. Reports from the show floor indicated that not only had the organisers increased visitor numbers, the visitors were there to do business. Many exhibitors said they had an excellent event with increased prospect numbers and plenty of high quality discussions taking place on their stands. Post show analysis has confirmed this visitor growth to be 30%...
Read MoreLaboratory Decision Makers Cautiously Optimistic about Funding Conditions, Finds Frost & SullivanNov 8, 2012
Deep budget cuts to hiring offset by considerable budget hikes for commodities
The laboratory industry rode a roller coaster in 2011, with the economic recovery and the residual dollars of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. By the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011, the market began to soften with hiring freezes and deterioration of most purchasing budgets...
Read MoreThe British Laboratory Managers Association launched at Lab InnovationsNov 7, 2012
A new organisation called the British Laboratory Managers Association is being launched by GAMBICA at LAB INNOVATIONS
Modern laboratory managers face a unique blend of technical and people management challenges. Many have climbed the technical ranks and are well positioned to address the technical challenges but don’t have or have had very little formal training in management skills, especially when they start managing a laboratory...
Read MoreDrugs of abuse screening benefits from LoGiCal reference materialsNov 6, 2012
Unilabs AB in Eskilstuna, Sweden, is taking advantage of LGC Standards’ LoGiCal reference materials to perform clinical analyses and screen for drugs of abuse, as chemist Elin Widing explained
“Unilabs is a privately owned clinical laboratory that analyses company healthcare and workplace samples, as well as samples from drug abuse centres. Samples are received from across Sweden and screened either qualitatively or semi-quantitatively using immunological assays, followed by quantitative for verification. Ready-to-use LoGiCal solutions are ideal for our purposes; it is so much simpler than weighing powders for in¬house preparation of reference materials.”...
Read MoreTOC, UV/Vis and atomic absorption instrumentation showcased by Analytik Jena UKNov 5, 2012
Analytik Jena UK will be showing an impressive range of analytical instrumentation from the Analytik Jena portfolio at the Lab Innovations exhibition
On show will be two multi N/C TOC analysers, a SPECORD 200 Plus UV/Vis spectrometer and there will be a chance to see solid sampling in action in conjunction with using the contrAA600 High-Resolution Continuum Source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer. The TOPwave microwave digestion sample preparation system completes the equipment display...
Read MorePhotonex 2012 Nov 1, 2012
Organisers, Xmark Media report on the success of this year's event and announce the dates for 2013
Reports from the show floor at the close of the 2012 Photonex show indicate that the organisers have not only managed to increase visitor numbers to the event but also further secured its position as the most all-encompassing meeting for photonics in the UK. Photonex is reaching an ever-broadening range of market sectors and applications. Has Photonex bucked the trend of shrinking meetings? It appears so, with an overall increase in visitors of 6%...
Read MoreTecan and TAP Biosystems to automate RAFT 3D cell culturing on the Freedom EVONov 1, 2012
Tecan and TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems, have announced a co¬-marketing agreement to further expand the automated 3D cell culture capabilities of the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform
Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D cell cultures in a 96-well, SBS-¬format. The RAFT 3D cell culture system uses biologically relevant concentrations of collagen matrix to ensure cells grow and proliferate in an environment closely resembling the native tissue...
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The company, which makes diagnostic test kits for use in the agri-food industry, is looking for another two research and development scientists to add to its complement of 15 industry-leading specialists, as well as up to three production operatives to reinforce the production unit...
Today research, quality control and clinical laboratories require precision pipette controllers able to exactly dispense small volumes of liquids, reproducibly. As a consequence pipette controllers must reliably offer the highest accuracy, precision and robustness over many years of use...
TOC would not work in this waste stream as it does not provide the correct information to assess how lethal the waste really is to health. Conventional methods of assessing water quality utilising Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) using Dichromate can take up to 3 hours to obtain the results. In response to the urgency for improved detection times within the Steel Mill, Mantech Inc, have successfully installed a PeCOD system into the mill...
The overwhelming consensus was that it worked brilliantly and has plugged a major hole in the UK lab market. Dr Qamar Nawaz, CEO at Sterling Pharmaceuticals Ltd said: “It was a brilliant show with a good variety of exhibitors. I will be interested to see how it grows and develops next year.”...
The Surface and Nanoanalysis research group studies the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and nanomaterials, including biological samples and electronic components. NPL supplies a range of measurement services, reference materials, and software, which underpin quantitative surface analysis. Among the measurement services offered is nanoparticle sizing for which a suite of particle sizing techniques are employed...
Synoptics, a world leader in the development and manufacture of innovative digital imaging systems for scientific applications, is delighted to introduce its new Division, Synoptics Health. This Division will focus on imaging techniques within the clinical environment...
The advanced technology of the VS120 creates a “virtual slide”, a high resolution image of the complete specimen that can be electronically stored on a central server for simultaneous viewing anywhere in the world, at a range of magnifications. Awards were obtained in the fields of Colour and Precision, Fluorescence 20X, and Fluorescence 40X. Exhibiting unsurpassed performance in fluorescence microscopy, combined with...
Dr. Cohen uses the response of groups of visual neurons to estimate which part of the visual world an animal is paying attention to at any given moment. Her approach provides a new way to study how our mental activity affects what we perceive and how cognitive processes such as attention are controlled...
“Medica is the first international trade show we’ve attended since opening our new premises in June this year, so is especially significant for us,” said Managing Director Ian Morris. “Our new facility represents the most significant investment in Lab M’s long history and we’re really looking forward to telling the world more about Lab M’s new capabilities and future plans...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its SOLA Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) cartridges and plates have won the GIT Innovation Award 2012 in Catergory D. The G.I.T InnovationsAward honors innovative new products and solutions for laboratory and process technology...
The system is based on Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling technology and the Siloam Biosciences’ OptiMax™ microplate. It offers rapid, sensitive and specific chemifluorescence-based ELISA procedures using exceedingly small sample volumes. The speed, sensitivity and small sample requirements are achieved as a result of the unique microfluidic design of the Optimiser™ technology. All reactions, including analyte capture and detection, occur within an ~5 μl microfluidic reaction chamber...
With the recent £1.5m expansion to its bioanalytical facility in Cambridgeshire, UK, the forthcoming EBF Symposium provides a perfect opportunity for Quotient scientists to exchange ideas with peers in the broader bioanalytical community...
Now BioCity, in the newly-formed Creative Quarter of Nottingham, provides a base for 74 early-stage and growing life science companies. These firms have access to world-class laboratory and office facilities, business advice, networking events, meeting facilities and even social clubs. Nearly 700 jobs have been created by BioCity companies, making this one of the fastest-growing business incubators in the UK...
The Pittcon 2013 app features include...
The company will highlight the system’s ability to generate component-specific particle size and shape data that efficiently support the commercialization of both new and generic Orally Inhaled and Nasal Dry Products (OINDPs). Activities at the conference will include a poster presentation that details results from a new study in which the Morphologi G3-ID was used to successfully measure nasal sprays in the formulated liquid state with minimal sample preparation...
With twelve new exhibitors at last month's Vacuum Expo 2012, Coventry, the sheer breadth of technology and range of equipment on show proved be a big draw for visitors. The third Vacuum Expo event was the biggest and best event in the series to date. Reports from the show floor indicated that not only had the organisers increased visitor numbers, the visitors were there to do business. Many exhibitors said they had an excellent event with increased prospect numbers and plenty of high quality discussions taking place on their stands. Post show analysis has confirmed this visitor growth to be 30%...
The laboratory industry rode a roller coaster in 2011, with the economic recovery and the residual dollars of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. By the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011, the market began to soften with hiring freezes and deterioration of most purchasing budgets...
Modern laboratory managers face a unique blend of technical and people management challenges. Many have climbed the technical ranks and are well positioned to address the technical challenges but don’t have or have had very little formal training in management skills, especially when they start managing a laboratory...
“Unilabs is a privately owned clinical laboratory that analyses company healthcare and workplace samples, as well as samples from drug abuse centres. Samples are received from across Sweden and screened either qualitatively or semi-quantitatively using immunological assays, followed by quantitative for verification. Ready-to-use LoGiCal solutions are ideal for our purposes; it is so much simpler than weighing powders for in¬house preparation of reference materials.”...
On show will be two multi N/C TOC analysers, a SPECORD 200 Plus UV/Vis spectrometer and there will be a chance to see solid sampling in action in conjunction with using the contrAA600 High-Resolution Continuum Source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer. The TOPwave microwave digestion sample preparation system completes the equipment display...
Reports from the show floor at the close of the 2012 Photonex show indicate that the organisers have not only managed to increase visitor numbers to the event but also further secured its position as the most all-encompassing meeting for photonics in the UK. Photonex is reaching an ever-broadening range of market sectors and applications. Has Photonex bucked the trend of shrinking meetings? It appears so, with an overall increase in visitors of 6%...
Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D cell cultures in a 96-well, SBS-¬format. The RAFT 3D cell culture system uses biologically relevant concentrations of collagen matrix to ensure cells grow and proliferate in an environment closely resembling the native tissue...