Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, today launched the industry’s first full set of capabilities for designing, modelling, and studying both natural and chemically modified RNA in a single solution. As the biopharmaceutical industry increases its focus on developing RNA therapeutics, Benchling’s new RNA solution is the first purpose-built offering on the market to help R&D organizations accelerate the delivery of drug candidates...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and biotechnology innovation, announces a partnership with Flownamics to create an automated, on-line solution for bioprocess culture monitoring and control. This delivers a critical and practical update to the significant unmet need for automated, real-time cell analysis in the current bioprocessing environment....
Cansford Laboratories has made a significant investment in equipment at its in-house drug and alcohol testing laboratory in Cardiff, as part of its continuing development programme. The investment has been made in a new Robotic Automatic Liquid Pipetting Handler (RALPH) machine which will help the lab work more efficiently by allowing operators to perform separate processes, simultaneously....
Miniaturisation has existed for a while, but usually at a high cost to medical device manufacturers. When Manchester-based UK Robotics, a specialist in building integrated lab automation solutions for the life sciences, needed to create a new cost-effective two valve nanolitre microplate reagent dispenser, it turned to precision DC motor manufacturer maxon UK and Ireland for help...
EVONETIX LTD, the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has announced the opening of its early access program for semiconductor synthesised DNA. Evonetix’s DNA synthesis capability brings together patented semiconductor chip design and proprietary, thermally controlled synthesis chemistry, which will be integral to the Company’s future gene synthesis platforms...
Agilent Technologies has announced that it is collaborating with METTLER TOLEDO to address one of the biggest concerns in any laboratory—error-prone sample preparation. This integrated solution allows the automatic and seamless transfer of weighing results and the associated metadata from METTLER TOLEDO LabX™ Balance software to Agilent OpenLab software...
The life science group Sartorius, through its French listed subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Albumedix Ltd. from private investors. The Nottingham, UK-based company provides best-in-class recombinant albumin-based solutions. Recombinant human albumin is an important component for the biopharmaceutical industry required for various applications...
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and EVIDENT Co., Ltd. ("Evident"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus announce that Olympus concluded a definitive agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (“Bain Capital”), regarding the transfer of Evident. Based on this agreement, all shares of Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions....
Validair Diamond Scientific (VDS) has invested in a new cleanroom at its Chester-le-Street headquarters. The in-house facility was specified and designed to meet exacting requirements for research and fault-finding as well as for use by the company’s field service team as a hands-on training resource. VDS worked closely with Total Clean Air to design and configure the cleanroom to be exceptionally flexible in its performance and functionality, allowing the VDS team to push the boundaries...
Greyhound Chromatography is proud to announce that it has reached another milestone in the history of the company and celebrates the company's 40th anniversary. From humble beginnings, founded long before the invention of the Internet, Greyhound has gone from strength to strength, reaching new markets and embracing technology to send products from the world’s leading scientific manufacturers all over the world...
Constructive Bio announces its launch as a new UK-based biotechnology company following the completion of a $15 million seed round and an exclusive license from the Medical Research Council (“MRC”) to IP developed by Professor Jason Chin’s Laboratory (the “Chin Lab”) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (“MRC-LMB”). The Chin Lab has pioneered the development and application of methods for reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Professor Gerhardt Attard has been selected to receive a prestigious Agilent Thought Leader Award. Prof Attard is a John Black Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research at University College London (UCL). Professor Attard is prominent for his innovative research and clinical trials using cutting-edge liquid biopsy technologies to identify biomarkers to monitor drug response and cancer progression...
ZEISS has unveiled the five winners of their 2022 ZEISS Microscopy Image Contest. For the second time, ZEISS is celebrating the work of researchers using microscopy in various application fields with an image contest. Microscope systems, analytics, and imaging capabilities play a central role in enabling us to meet the critical challenges we face as a society related to climate change, energy, health, and food...
Eppendorf continues its growth track in Asia in a targeted manner and has opened a new site in Singapore. The new subsidiary is located in the heart of Singapore’s modern Biopolis science center and offers attractive office workplaces for sales and service activities, a modern pipette calibration laboratory and a demo laboratory. Here high-quality laboratory services, which include extensive customer training and maintenance offerings, are provided...
The tension is rising: On August 24, 2022, the ten finalists of the ACHEMA Start-up Award will present themselves live to the audience at ACHEMA. And then it's "The winner is..." for 3 start-ups that will be honored. They receive prize money of 10,000 euros each and the full attention of the global process industry. Entrepreneurial scientists, future founders and owners of start-ups were invited for the third time to apply for the ACHEMA Start-Up Award...
LGC Clinical Diagnostics, a leading supplier and partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, announce the extension of their exclusive partnership with Stanford University Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine Division. Under the terms of the agreement, Stanford University will continue to provide LGC with clinical guidance in recruiting and selecting rare patient donors’ blood samples whose pregnancy has been identified with a genetic abnormality...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it has acquired Polymer Standards Service GmbH (PSS) a provider of solutions in the field of polymer characterization. PSS specializes in hardware and software solutions used in defining the makeup and creation of molecular structures. The company provides complete solutions for gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and size exclusion chromatography (SEC) used in applications to determine the molecular weight and size distribution of macromolecules.
Resolve Optics has received an order from a leading aerospace company to design and supply an optimised wide waveband lens for a multi-spectral microscope required for a Moon exploration mission. Due for delivery and launch in 2024 – a new solar powered land rover – ‘Lunar Vertex’ will explore the Reiner Gamma swirl, one of the most distinctive natural features and so-called “magnetic anomalies” on the Moon...
The globally positioned Eppendorf Group, a life science specialist, is picking up speed when it comes to climate protection. The company is reducing its CO2 emissions and will be climate-neutral by 2028 – much earlier than specified by the EU. To enable this, Eppendorf has developed a company-wide climate strategy with numerous measures for reducing its CO2 emissions. “With our climate strategy, we will make Eppendorf climate-neutral by 2028....
MolPort Inc., the compound sourcing specialist, is proud to unveil new branding and an uplifted website to simplify access to the global R&D chemical marketplace and celebrate 15 years of supporting the drug discovery community. The new, integrated website provides intuitive and seamless access to unique chemicals from a vetted network of more than 70 global chemical suppliers, delivering simpler compound sourcing to millions of scientists around the world...
CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, has been recognised as developing one of the ten best microscopy innovations in the 2022 Microscopy Today Innovation Awards, DeepSIM. Launched in October 2021, DeepSIM is a super resolution module developed to enhance the imaging capabilities of high end microscope systems...
TetraScience, the Scientific Data Cloud company, announce that ACD/Labs, a leading provider of scientific software for R&D, has joined the Tetra Partner Network to help pharma and biopharma customers achieve greater scientific insights and outcomes. "We are thrilled to partner with ACD/Labs, who have a long history of innovating how customers use analytical data analysis in R&D," said Simon Meffan-Main, Ph.D., VP, Tetra Partner Network...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, today launched the industry’s first full set of capabilities for designing, modelling, and studying both natural and chemically modified RNA in a single solution. As the biopharmaceutical industry increases its focus on developing RNA therapeutics, Benchling’s new RNA solution is the first purpose-built offering on the market to help R&D organizations accelerate the delivery of drug candidates...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and biotechnology innovation, announces a partnership with Flownamics to create an automated, on-line solution for bioprocess culture monitoring and control. This delivers a critical and practical update to the significant unmet need for automated, real-time cell analysis in the current bioprocessing environment....
Cansford Laboratories has made a significant investment in equipment at its in-house drug and alcohol testing laboratory in Cardiff, as part of its continuing development programme. The investment has been made in a new Robotic Automatic Liquid Pipetting Handler (RALPH) machine which will help the lab work more efficiently by allowing operators to perform separate processes, simultaneously....
Miniaturisation has existed for a while, but usually at a high cost to medical device manufacturers. When Manchester-based UK Robotics, a specialist in building integrated lab automation solutions for the life sciences, needed to create a new cost-effective two valve nanolitre microplate reagent dispenser, it turned to precision DC motor manufacturer maxon UK and Ireland for help...
EVONETIX LTD, the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has announced the opening of its early access program for semiconductor synthesised DNA. Evonetix’s DNA synthesis capability brings together patented semiconductor chip design and proprietary, thermally controlled synthesis chemistry, which will be integral to the Company’s future gene synthesis platforms...
Agilent Technologies has announced that it is collaborating with METTLER TOLEDO to address one of the biggest concerns in any laboratory—error-prone sample preparation. This integrated solution allows the automatic and seamless transfer of weighing results and the associated metadata from METTLER TOLEDO LabX™ Balance software to Agilent OpenLab software...
The life science group Sartorius, through its French listed subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Albumedix Ltd. from private investors. The Nottingham, UK-based company provides best-in-class recombinant albumin-based solutions. Recombinant human albumin is an important component for the biopharmaceutical industry required for various applications...
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and EVIDENT Co., Ltd. ("Evident"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus announce that Olympus concluded a definitive agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (“Bain Capital”), regarding the transfer of Evident. Based on this agreement, all shares of Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions....
Validair Diamond Scientific (VDS) has invested in a new cleanroom at its Chester-le-Street headquarters. The in-house facility was specified and designed to meet exacting requirements for research and fault-finding as well as for use by the company’s field service team as a hands-on training resource. VDS worked closely with Total Clean Air to design and configure the cleanroom to be exceptionally flexible in its performance and functionality, allowing the VDS team to push the boundaries...
Greyhound Chromatography is proud to announce that it has reached another milestone in the history of the company and celebrates the company's 40th anniversary. From humble beginnings, founded long before the invention of the Internet, Greyhound has gone from strength to strength, reaching new markets and embracing technology to send products from the world’s leading scientific manufacturers all over the world...
Constructive Bio announces its launch as a new UK-based biotechnology company following the completion of a $15 million seed round and an exclusive license from the Medical Research Council (“MRC”) to IP developed by Professor Jason Chin’s Laboratory (the “Chin Lab”) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (“MRC-LMB”). The Chin Lab has pioneered the development and application of methods for reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Professor Gerhardt Attard has been selected to receive a prestigious Agilent Thought Leader Award. Prof Attard is a John Black Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research at University College London (UCL). Professor Attard is prominent for his innovative research and clinical trials using cutting-edge liquid biopsy technologies to identify biomarkers to monitor drug response and cancer progression...
ZEISS has unveiled the five winners of their 2022 ZEISS Microscopy Image Contest. For the second time, ZEISS is celebrating the work of researchers using microscopy in various application fields with an image contest. Microscope systems, analytics, and imaging capabilities play a central role in enabling us to meet the critical challenges we face as a society related to climate change, energy, health, and food...
Eppendorf continues its growth track in Asia in a targeted manner and has opened a new site in Singapore. The new subsidiary is located in the heart of Singapore’s modern Biopolis science center and offers attractive office workplaces for sales and service activities, a modern pipette calibration laboratory and a demo laboratory. Here high-quality laboratory services, which include extensive customer training and maintenance offerings, are provided...
The tension is rising: On August 24, 2022, the ten finalists of the ACHEMA Start-up Award will present themselves live to the audience at ACHEMA. And then it's "The winner is..." for 3 start-ups that will be honored. They receive prize money of 10,000 euros each and the full attention of the global process industry. Entrepreneurial scientists, future founders and owners of start-ups were invited for the third time to apply for the ACHEMA Start-Up Award...
LGC Clinical Diagnostics, a leading supplier and partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, announce the extension of their exclusive partnership with Stanford University Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine Division. Under the terms of the agreement, Stanford University will continue to provide LGC with clinical guidance in recruiting and selecting rare patient donors’ blood samples whose pregnancy has been identified with a genetic abnormality...
Resolve Optics has received an order from a leading aerospace company to design and supply an optimised wide waveband lens for a multi-spectral microscope required for a Moon exploration mission. Due for delivery and launch in 2024 – a new solar powered land rover – ‘Lunar Vertex’ will explore the Reiner Gamma swirl, one of the most distinctive natural features and so-called “magnetic anomalies” on the Moon...
The globally positioned Eppendorf Group, a life science specialist, is picking up speed when it comes to climate protection. The company is reducing its CO2 emissions and will be climate-neutral by 2028 – much earlier than specified by the EU. To enable this, Eppendorf has developed a company-wide climate strategy with numerous measures for reducing its CO2 emissions. “With our climate strategy, we will make Eppendorf climate-neutral by 2028....
MolPort Inc., the compound sourcing specialist, is proud to unveil new branding and an uplifted website to simplify access to the global R&D chemical marketplace and celebrate 15 years of supporting the drug discovery community. The new, integrated website provides intuitive and seamless access to unique chemicals from a vetted network of more than 70 global chemical suppliers, delivering simpler compound sourcing to millions of scientists around the world...
CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, has been recognised as developing one of the ten best microscopy innovations in the 2022 Microscopy Today Innovation Awards, DeepSIM. Launched in October 2021, DeepSIM is a super resolution module developed to enhance the imaging capabilities of high end microscope systems...
TetraScience, the Scientific Data Cloud company, announce that ACD/Labs, a leading provider of scientific software for R&D, has joined the Tetra Partner Network to help pharma and biopharma customers achieve greater scientific insights and outcomes. "We are thrilled to partner with ACD/Labs, who have a long history of innovating how customers use analytical data analysis in R&D," said Simon Meffan-Main, Ph.D., VP, Tetra Partner Network...