Titian Software LTD, the global leader in life sciences sample management software, and the life science company Evotec have signed a 3-year agreement to expand their collaboration around Titian Software’s Mosaic Sample Management Platform. Mosaic forms part of Evotec’s plans to expand and harmonise sample management throughout the organisation, underpinning its expanding services...
Revvity has announced that its Revvity Signals Software business has entered into a strategic relationship with Scitara – a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for the scientific industry. Together, the companies will transform the way R&D teams work across the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries with technology that accelerates digital transformation in the lab environment...
Scientists and engineers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)are working with colleagues at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) RAL Space to deliver a small satellite calibration facility. The new facility is being designed, manufactured and tested at NPL’s Teddington site in south-west London and will be located at Harwell Campus. It will draw on expertise from NPL’s STAR-cc-OGSE facility, which provides innovative solutions for calibrating scientific instruments on satellites before their launch into space...
Merck has announced the expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, USA adding 9,100 sq m2 of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media. Lenexa, Kansas, USA facility becomes company’s largest dry powder cell culture media facility and Center of Excellence in North America. The company’s strategic investments to expand capacity with the new dry powder media manufacturing lines in existing production facilities in the Lenexa, Kansas...
A £5 million award from the UK Space Agency will allow Northumbria University to take forward world-leading research to build a new satellite communications system, setting the scene for Northumbria to launch the UK’s first university-led multi-satellite space mission. The funding announcement made today allow the University to move forward with its prototype work on this new laser-based system, which has the potential to transform the satellite communications industry...
Eremid® Genomic Services, LLC (“Eremid”) announces a significant expansion of its in-house sequencing capabilities with the installation of PacBio’s latest HiFi sequencing platform, the Revio. This powerful new sequencing system is the newest addition to Eremid’s suite of high-end genomics tools, and affirms the Company’s commitment to supporting larger scale and more diverse genomics projects following a $3M venture capital investment...
Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, in collaboration with Nashville Biosciences, LLC, a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has announced the five founding members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD). The multiyear agreement aims to accelerate development of therapeutics through large-scale genomics and the establishment of a preeminent clinical genomic resource...
Tecan proudly unveils Phase Separator™, an innovative liquid separation technology that promises to save time and improve accuracy in laboratory workflows. With specific applications in liquid biopsy and biobanking, its benefits will be felt in genomics, proteomics and across multiple disease areas, from oncology and neurodegenerative disease to metabolic disorders. Phase Separator is a unique pipetting capability of the new Air Flexible Channel Arm™ (Air FCA) on Tecan’s flagship liquid handling platform, the Fluent® Automation Workstation..
Award-winning analytical instrument manufacturer Markes International has announced that it has entered into an agreement with ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions to globally sell ExtraTECH’s newly developed and patented vacuum-assisted caps for headspace microextraction. The caps ingeniously extend the applicability of headspace, SPME and SPME Arrow sample extractions by allowing analytes to be extracted under vacuum conditions with milder heating and agitation than is required using current non-vacuum methods....
Despite recommendations from the European Society for Medical Oncology and the EU Beating Cancer Plan, uptake of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in lung cancer remains slow and inequitable across Europe. In the first report of its kind, experts highlight action needed to correct disparity in access to a gold-standard diagnostic technology that could benefit tens of thousands of lung cancer patients across Europe every year...
Eremid® Genomic Services, LLC (“Eremid”), a leading-edge genomics CRO, has announced that it has secured an additional $3.0M investment from venture capital firm Coddle Creek Capital (“CCC”) following its acquisition in 2022. CCC’s Fund 2 will support Eremid's continued growth and the expansion of its clinical genomics capabilities, reinforcing its position as a high-end, scientifically-driven genomics partner in the growing biotech hub at the North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC...
Biotech Fluidics AB reports that it is supplying key microfluidic and degassing components to BioNavis Oy (Tampere, Finland) for its range of Multi-Parametric Surface Plasmon Resonance (MP-SPR) instruments. Surface Plasmon Resonance is the ‘go to’ technique for the measurement of molecular interactions in fluidics including serum, saliva, and organic solvents. SPR technology beneficially allows evaluation of affinity and kinetics of molecular binding reactions without the burdens of labelling as the technique is label-free...
Recycling and industrial biotechnology innovator, Recircle, has relocated to the North West’s sci-tech hotspot, Daresbury Science Park, with a new, tailor-made workspace combining a trifecta of laboratory spaces with modern offices. Recircle's work is dedicated to keeping valuable rubber materials within the resource stream by transforming end-of-life rubber waste into premium quality and high-performing compounds...
Streamlined small molecule microarray services to meet growing demand for novel hit-identification methodologies. Arrayjet, a leading provider of inkjet liquid-handling solutions, has announced that it has partnered with Chemspace, the largest online catalogue of small molecules and biologics, to augment and streamline the Company’s small molecule microarray (SMM) service offering. Chemspace’s curated and deeply annotated compound libraries are now accessible through Arrayjet’s SMM CRO/CMO services...
Sphere Fluidics, a company developing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, has announced Biosyntia, a biotechnology company focused on synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, has adopted the Pico-Mine®platform within its workflows. The platform was chosen by Biosyntia to harness its ultra-high-throughput, picodroplet-based screening capabilities, to accelerate development of novel industrially-relevant cell factories and advance bio-based production of nutritional ingredients...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd (SLS) has launched its latest Back2Basics magazine, featuring exclusive offers on essentials for your laboratory. The 2023 issue is now live, and SLS is working closely with a number of key suppliers to bring you the best deals in the market for selected laboratory products. In this issue, SLS has fantastic offers on selected lines from their own SLS Lab Pro, SLS Select and SLS Lab Basics brands alongside those from world-renowned manufacturers such as Eppendorf, IKA, Ohaus, Corning, Gilson, Thermo Scientific and many more...
The growth of U.S. life sciences researchers remains resilient in the face of economic concerns, according to a recent analysis conducted by CBRE. The number of life sciences researchers in the U.S. increased by 87% over the past 20 years, compared with 14% for all U.S. occupations. Research jobs have not fallen across those 20 years, through three recessions and amid a tight labor market of recent years...
Avantor, Inc., a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences, advanced technologies, and applied materials industries, has inaugurated its expanded Singapore Hub which includes newly added cGMP manufacturing and a world class quality control laboratory. The hub is a one-stop facility serving the needs of customers across Asia, Middle East, and Africa (AMEA), strengthening the region's innovation and biopharma ecosystems...
Discovery Park, in Sandwich, Kent has launched a new business support programme and competition, ‘Discovery Spark’. Discovery Spark is currently accepting applications from life-science start-ups, with a closing deadline of 20 August. From the first cohort of up to 12 companies, one business will be selected to win a prize package worth over £100,000, including £50,000 investment from Discovery Park Ventures, 1 year of free lab space at Discovery Park, plus wrap-around business support and dedicated mentoring...
Researchers are set to to combine expertise in drug discovery, artificial intelligence (AI), and experimental cancer models and platforms in a new programme to design the precision cancer drugs of the future. Under an academic and commercial collaboration between The Institute of Cancer Research, London, the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, and the company Vivan Therapeutics, a multi-disciplijnary team will seek to create drugs that can counteract drug resistance...
NK:IO, a leader in NK cell biology applied to the development of exceptionally potent, off-the-shelf cell therapies targeting solid tumours, has announced it has been awarded £1.6M in grant funding from Innovate UK’s New Cancer Therapeutics program. The funding will support preclinical development, including development of a manufacturing process in collaboration with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, whose mission is to support the UK’s cell and gene therapy industry...
Merck, has awarded Khalid Salaita, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., with the Future Insight Prize 2023 worth € 500,000 for research on a pandemic early alert system. Salaita’s group is developing a novel platform technology for automated surveillance and tracing of airborne pathogens in real time...
Titian Software LTD, the global leader in life sciences sample management software, and the life science company Evotec have signed a 3-year agreement to expand their collaboration around Titian Software’s Mosaic Sample Management Platform. Mosaic forms part of Evotec’s plans to expand and harmonise sample management throughout the organisation, underpinning its expanding services...
Revvity has announced that its Revvity Signals Software business has entered into a strategic relationship with Scitara – a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for the scientific industry. Together, the companies will transform the way R&D teams work across the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries with technology that accelerates digital transformation in the lab environment...
Scientists and engineers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)are working with colleagues at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) RAL Space to deliver a small satellite calibration facility. The new facility is being designed, manufactured and tested at NPL’s Teddington site in south-west London and will be located at Harwell Campus. It will draw on expertise from NPL’s STAR-cc-OGSE facility, which provides innovative solutions for calibrating scientific instruments on satellites before their launch into space...
Merck has announced the expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, USA adding 9,100 sq m2 of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media. Lenexa, Kansas, USA facility becomes company’s largest dry powder cell culture media facility and Center of Excellence in North America. The company’s strategic investments to expand capacity with the new dry powder media manufacturing lines in existing production facilities in the Lenexa, Kansas...
A £5 million award from the UK Space Agency will allow Northumbria University to take forward world-leading research to build a new satellite communications system, setting the scene for Northumbria to launch the UK’s first university-led multi-satellite space mission. The funding announcement made today allow the University to move forward with its prototype work on this new laser-based system, which has the potential to transform the satellite communications industry...
Eremid® Genomic Services, LLC (“Eremid”) announces a significant expansion of its in-house sequencing capabilities with the installation of PacBio’s latest HiFi sequencing platform, the Revio. This powerful new sequencing system is the newest addition to Eremid’s suite of high-end genomics tools, and affirms the Company’s commitment to supporting larger scale and more diverse genomics projects following a $3M venture capital investment...
Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, in collaboration with Nashville Biosciences, LLC, a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has announced the five founding members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD). The multiyear agreement aims to accelerate development of therapeutics through large-scale genomics and the establishment of a preeminent clinical genomic resource...
Tecan proudly unveils Phase Separator™, an innovative liquid separation technology that promises to save time and improve accuracy in laboratory workflows. With specific applications in liquid biopsy and biobanking, its benefits will be felt in genomics, proteomics and across multiple disease areas, from oncology and neurodegenerative disease to metabolic disorders. Phase Separator is a unique pipetting capability of the new Air Flexible Channel Arm™ (Air FCA) on Tecan’s flagship liquid handling platform, the Fluent® Automation Workstation..
Award-winning analytical instrument manufacturer Markes International has announced that it has entered into an agreement with ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions to globally sell ExtraTECH’s newly developed and patented vacuum-assisted caps for headspace microextraction. The caps ingeniously extend the applicability of headspace, SPME and SPME Arrow sample extractions by allowing analytes to be extracted under vacuum conditions with milder heating and agitation than is required using current non-vacuum methods....
Despite recommendations from the European Society for Medical Oncology and the EU Beating Cancer Plan, uptake of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in lung cancer remains slow and inequitable across Europe. In the first report of its kind, experts highlight action needed to correct disparity in access to a gold-standard diagnostic technology that could benefit tens of thousands of lung cancer patients across Europe every year...
Eremid® Genomic Services, LLC (“Eremid”), a leading-edge genomics CRO, has announced that it has secured an additional $3.0M investment from venture capital firm Coddle Creek Capital (“CCC”) following its acquisition in 2022. CCC’s Fund 2 will support Eremid's continued growth and the expansion of its clinical genomics capabilities, reinforcing its position as a high-end, scientifically-driven genomics partner in the growing biotech hub at the North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC...
Biotech Fluidics AB reports that it is supplying key microfluidic and degassing components to BioNavis Oy (Tampere, Finland) for its range of Multi-Parametric Surface Plasmon Resonance (MP-SPR) instruments. Surface Plasmon Resonance is the ‘go to’ technique for the measurement of molecular interactions in fluidics including serum, saliva, and organic solvents. SPR technology beneficially allows evaluation of affinity and kinetics of molecular binding reactions without the burdens of labelling as the technique is label-free...
Recycling and industrial biotechnology innovator, Recircle, has relocated to the North West’s sci-tech hotspot, Daresbury Science Park, with a new, tailor-made workspace combining a trifecta of laboratory spaces with modern offices. Recircle's work is dedicated to keeping valuable rubber materials within the resource stream by transforming end-of-life rubber waste into premium quality and high-performing compounds...
Streamlined small molecule microarray services to meet growing demand for novel hit-identification methodologies. Arrayjet, a leading provider of inkjet liquid-handling solutions, has announced that it has partnered with Chemspace, the largest online catalogue of small molecules and biologics, to augment and streamline the Company’s small molecule microarray (SMM) service offering. Chemspace’s curated and deeply annotated compound libraries are now accessible through Arrayjet’s SMM CRO/CMO services...
Sphere Fluidics, a company developing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, has announced Biosyntia, a biotechnology company focused on synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, has adopted the Pico-Mine®platform within its workflows. The platform was chosen by Biosyntia to harness its ultra-high-throughput, picodroplet-based screening capabilities, to accelerate development of novel industrially-relevant cell factories and advance bio-based production of nutritional ingredients...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd (SLS) has launched its latest Back2Basics magazine, featuring exclusive offers on essentials for your laboratory. The 2023 issue is now live, and SLS is working closely with a number of key suppliers to bring you the best deals in the market for selected laboratory products. In this issue, SLS has fantastic offers on selected lines from their own SLS Lab Pro, SLS Select and SLS Lab Basics brands alongside those from world-renowned manufacturers such as Eppendorf, IKA, Ohaus, Corning, Gilson, Thermo Scientific and many more...
The growth of U.S. life sciences researchers remains resilient in the face of economic concerns, according to a recent analysis conducted by CBRE. The number of life sciences researchers in the U.S. increased by 87% over the past 20 years, compared with 14% for all U.S. occupations. Research jobs have not fallen across those 20 years, through three recessions and amid a tight labor market of recent years...
Avantor, Inc., a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences, advanced technologies, and applied materials industries, has inaugurated its expanded Singapore Hub which includes newly added cGMP manufacturing and a world class quality control laboratory. The hub is a one-stop facility serving the needs of customers across Asia, Middle East, and Africa (AMEA), strengthening the region's innovation and biopharma ecosystems...
Discovery Park, in Sandwich, Kent has launched a new business support programme and competition, ‘Discovery Spark’. Discovery Spark is currently accepting applications from life-science start-ups, with a closing deadline of 20 August. From the first cohort of up to 12 companies, one business will be selected to win a prize package worth over £100,000, including £50,000 investment from Discovery Park Ventures, 1 year of free lab space at Discovery Park, plus wrap-around business support and dedicated mentoring...
Researchers are set to to combine expertise in drug discovery, artificial intelligence (AI), and experimental cancer models and platforms in a new programme to design the precision cancer drugs of the future. Under an academic and commercial collaboration between The Institute of Cancer Research, London, the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, and the company Vivan Therapeutics, a multi-disciplijnary team will seek to create drugs that can counteract drug resistance...
NK:IO, a leader in NK cell biology applied to the development of exceptionally potent, off-the-shelf cell therapies targeting solid tumours, has announced it has been awarded £1.6M in grant funding from Innovate UK’s New Cancer Therapeutics program. The funding will support preclinical development, including development of a manufacturing process in collaboration with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, whose mission is to support the UK’s cell and gene therapy industry...
Merck, has awarded Khalid Salaita, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., with the Future Insight Prize 2023 worth € 500,000 for research on a pandemic early alert system. Salaita’s group is developing a novel platform technology for automated surveillance and tracing of airborne pathogens in real time...