Pittcon, scheduled March 5-9, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, will not be held as an in-person event due to the continuous impact of COVID-19. This decision did not come lightly; however, in the face of health and safety risks resulting from the ever-increasing communicability of emerging COVID-19 strains, this was a decision we had to make. As much as we all hoped to carry forward with an in-person Pittcon, we value the wellness of you and all our participants infinitely more....
Malvern Panalytical, a company providing advanced analysis and services solutions for the pharma drug product development, as well as services and solutions for other industries, has announced its acquisition of Creoptix AG, a specialist bioanalysis sensor company. The acquisition forms a critical part of Malvern Panalytical’s strategy to expand its capabilities in support of drug discovery...
In Libya, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) has installed laboratory containers from Waldner, which were completely planned and designed in Wangen im Allgäu, Southern Germany. These laboratory capacities are intended to increase the accessibility of PCR tests in the region. On behalf of the German government, GIZ supports developing and emerging countries in the fight against corona...
The Eppendorf Research® plus single-channel pipette line-up with variable volume has been certified with an “ACT®” Environmental Impact Factor Label by the “My Green Lab®” non-profit organization. By emphasizing Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency (ACT) around manufacturing, energy and water use, packaging, and end-of-life, the ACT label makes it easier for labs to choose more sustainable products....
Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announce that it has completed the transaction to acquire Protein Metrics, Inc., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical protein characterization and proteomics analysis software. The acquisition expands the Company’s R&D value chain to widen the biopharmaceutical protein analysis arena, unblocking data analysis bottlenecks currently associated with large-scale protein studies...
Ivor Campbell discusses recruitment challenges within UK diagnostics industry. Ivor Campbell is Managing Director of Stirlingshire-based Snedden Campbell, a search company for the medical technology industry. Even before the Covid pandemic struck there were signs of significant growth in the UK in vitro diagnostics industry. 2019, the last year for which figures are available, saw its market increase by 3.1%, compared with a rise of just 0.3% in France and a fall of 0.4% in Germany, its nearest competitors...
Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software and services, is proud to announce that following ISO13485 certification, HALO AP® has received a CE Mark for use in primary diagnosis within the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK. The HALO AP platform was developed by Indica Labs to address the specific needs of anatomic pathology labs by supporting a wide range of tissue-based workflows...
Nigel Whittle, head of medical & healthcare at Plextek looks at how artificial intelligence is shedding new light on novel therapeutics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing and impacting many different medical sectors and helping to solve problems that have challenged experts for years. Determining the shape of proteins, known as the ‘protein folding problem’, has beaten some of the best minds in biology for the past 50 years...
GenNext Technologies, Inc., a growth-stage company providing instrumentation, software, and services, announced that it has earned a second seminal patent protecting the company’s novel radical dosimetry technology which vastly improves the utility of protein footprinting for the study of biopharmaceutical structure, function, and safety. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Patent US 11,181,529 B2: "Radical Dosimetry for the Analysis of Biopharmaceuticals and Biological Molecules...
Evotec SE has announced that the Company has been selected by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ("BMBF") to receive a grant for the development of EVT075, a potential first-in-class immunomodulatory therapy against COVID-19. Evotec is one of three companies receiving a highly competitive grant as part of a new initiative by the BMBF to support the clinical development of novel therapeutic candidates against COVID-19...
Lonza, a leading global cell and gene therapy manufacturer, and Agilent Technologies, a leader in life sciences analytics, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, has announced a collaboration that has the potential to transform the way personalized cell therapies are manufactured and realized. Product quality and consistency are significant challenges for cell therapy manufacturing due to the complexity of the products and patient-specific variability....
New laboratories and scientific start-ups can benefit from a special offer aimed at making high-performance appliances more accessible. Miele is the leading manufacturer of laboratory glasswashers and washer-disinfectors for businesses in the science and healthcare sectors. Effectively cleaning laboratory glassware is not only vital to remove contaminants that can cause unreliable results but also to gain consistent levels of cleaning through validated cycles....
PacBio has announced an expansion of its extensive suite of HiFi applications with Azenta Life Sciences, formerly GENEWIZ. The deal will increase PacBio’s HiFi sequencing platforms across Azenta’s newly combined company and support Azenta’s mission to enable life science companies to deliver impactful breakthroughs and therapies to market faster...
40 senior people working across UK labs were surveyed by Automata on their current challenges and views. The poll identified that automation is seen as a solution to relieve existing pressures, improve day-to-day capacity and turnaround time, reduce human error and ultimately enhance patient outcomes. Respondents worked across pathology (60%) and diagnostics (38%), with the vast majority (93%) of those questioned undertaking NHS work...
Telstar expresses its sorrow for the death of its president who has left us on December 19 at the age of 57. Born in Terrassa on November 21st, 1964, Ton Capella has been closely linked to Telstar, a family business founded in 1963 for the design and manufacture of vacuum pumps for industry. After joining the company in 1991 to drive the activity of the company in the foreign market and the initiation of its export activities in 1992, he drove a solid internationalization process leading the company to operate in more than 100 countries....
INTEGRA Biosciences is proud to be supporting vital translational research into diffuse intrinsic ponsglioma (DIPG) – a rare childhood brain tumor – at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) with a festive donation of 20,000 EUR. Brain tumors in children are thankfully rare, but are often associated with poor prognoses and low survival rates....
Following the recent success of our latest webinar Managing and Maintaining Sterile Manufacturing with Environmental Monitoring, Autoscribe Informatics has made the recording available for Quality Management personnel and other interested parties. Describing the use of the integrated Environmental Monitoring (EM) module as part of Autoscribe’s Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management (LIMS) solution, the webinar describes how the module lets quality control teams monitor and manage environmental manufacturing conditions...
Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, returned to the NEC, Birmingham, on November 3 and 4, 2021 and brought the laboratory community together for the first time after almost two years apart. With 3,117 visitors, the show gave the industry’s leading professionals and companies the chance to meet face-to-face, network and discover the latest innovations...
R-Biopharm, an international specialist in clinical diagnostics, announces that the company’s RIDA®GENE Flu & SARS-CoV-2 multiplex test (PG6825) has been approved in the UK under the UK Health Security Agency’s Medical Devices (Coronavirus Test Device Approvals) Regulations 2021 (“CTDA”). R-Biopharm, which has a significant operation in Glasgow, will now work to resume the sale of the product in the UK...
Labviva, a leader in life sciences marketplace software that modernizes procurement practices announce Gilson as a strategic supply partner. Gilson’s liquid handling, purification, and extraction solutions will be available through Labviva’s marketplace. Through this partnership, organizations like large pharmaceuticals, research institutions, and biotechnology firms who use the Labviva platform to procure laboratory supplies can easily access Gilson’s portfolio...
Middle East & Africa laboratory services market expected to grow with a CAGR of 4.7% between 2021 & 2028, with market value reaching $7.5 billion. Managing the rise of infectious diseases and how they are contributing towards driving the Middle East & Africa clinical laboratory services market, will be just one of the hot topics on the agenda, as participants gather for the next edition of Medlab Middle East which takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 24-27 January 2022....
Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, has announced it has expanded its capabilities and expertise through the addition of automated low volume liquid handling capability and 384-well electrophysiology and fluorescence-based high throughput screening (HTS) assay systems. In the newly created position of Head of Screening Technologies, Dr Gary Clark will lead the implementation...
Pittcon, scheduled March 5-9, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, will not be held as an in-person event due to the continuous impact of COVID-19. This decision did not come lightly; however, in the face of health and safety risks resulting from the ever-increasing communicability of emerging COVID-19 strains, this was a decision we had to make. As much as we all hoped to carry forward with an in-person Pittcon, we value the wellness of you and all our participants infinitely more....
Malvern Panalytical, a company providing advanced analysis and services solutions for the pharma drug product development, as well as services and solutions for other industries, has announced its acquisition of Creoptix AG, a specialist bioanalysis sensor company. The acquisition forms a critical part of Malvern Panalytical’s strategy to expand its capabilities in support of drug discovery...
In Libya, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) has installed laboratory containers from Waldner, which were completely planned and designed in Wangen im Allgäu, Southern Germany. These laboratory capacities are intended to increase the accessibility of PCR tests in the region. On behalf of the German government, GIZ supports developing and emerging countries in the fight against corona...
The Eppendorf Research® plus single-channel pipette line-up with variable volume has been certified with an “ACT®” Environmental Impact Factor Label by the “My Green Lab®” non-profit organization. By emphasizing Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency (ACT) around manufacturing, energy and water use, packaging, and end-of-life, the ACT label makes it easier for labs to choose more sustainable products....
Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announce that it has completed the transaction to acquire Protein Metrics, Inc., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical protein characterization and proteomics analysis software. The acquisition expands the Company’s R&D value chain to widen the biopharmaceutical protein analysis arena, unblocking data analysis bottlenecks currently associated with large-scale protein studies...
Ivor Campbell discusses recruitment challenges within UK diagnostics industry. Ivor Campbell is Managing Director of Stirlingshire-based Snedden Campbell, a search company for the medical technology industry. Even before the Covid pandemic struck there were signs of significant growth in the UK in vitro diagnostics industry. 2019, the last year for which figures are available, saw its market increase by 3.1%, compared with a rise of just 0.3% in France and a fall of 0.4% in Germany, its nearest competitors...
Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software and services, is proud to announce that following ISO13485 certification, HALO AP® has received a CE Mark for use in primary diagnosis within the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK. The HALO AP platform was developed by Indica Labs to address the specific needs of anatomic pathology labs by supporting a wide range of tissue-based workflows...
Nigel Whittle, head of medical & healthcare at Plextek looks at how artificial intelligence is shedding new light on novel therapeutics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing and impacting many different medical sectors and helping to solve problems that have challenged experts for years. Determining the shape of proteins, known as the ‘protein folding problem’, has beaten some of the best minds in biology for the past 50 years...
GenNext Technologies, Inc., a growth-stage company providing instrumentation, software, and services, announced that it has earned a second seminal patent protecting the company’s novel radical dosimetry technology which vastly improves the utility of protein footprinting for the study of biopharmaceutical structure, function, and safety. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Patent US 11,181,529 B2: "Radical Dosimetry for the Analysis of Biopharmaceuticals and Biological Molecules...
Evotec SE has announced that the Company has been selected by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ("BMBF") to receive a grant for the development of EVT075, a potential first-in-class immunomodulatory therapy against COVID-19. Evotec is one of three companies receiving a highly competitive grant as part of a new initiative by the BMBF to support the clinical development of novel therapeutic candidates against COVID-19...
Lonza, a leading global cell and gene therapy manufacturer, and Agilent Technologies, a leader in life sciences analytics, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, has announced a collaboration that has the potential to transform the way personalized cell therapies are manufactured and realized. Product quality and consistency are significant challenges for cell therapy manufacturing due to the complexity of the products and patient-specific variability....
New laboratories and scientific start-ups can benefit from a special offer aimed at making high-performance appliances more accessible. Miele is the leading manufacturer of laboratory glasswashers and washer-disinfectors for businesses in the science and healthcare sectors. Effectively cleaning laboratory glassware is not only vital to remove contaminants that can cause unreliable results but also to gain consistent levels of cleaning through validated cycles....
PacBio has announced an expansion of its extensive suite of HiFi applications with Azenta Life Sciences, formerly GENEWIZ. The deal will increase PacBio’s HiFi sequencing platforms across Azenta’s newly combined company and support Azenta’s mission to enable life science companies to deliver impactful breakthroughs and therapies to market faster...
40 senior people working across UK labs were surveyed by Automata on their current challenges and views. The poll identified that automation is seen as a solution to relieve existing pressures, improve day-to-day capacity and turnaround time, reduce human error and ultimately enhance patient outcomes. Respondents worked across pathology (60%) and diagnostics (38%), with the vast majority (93%) of those questioned undertaking NHS work...
Telstar expresses its sorrow for the death of its president who has left us on December 19 at the age of 57. Born in Terrassa on November 21st, 1964, Ton Capella has been closely linked to Telstar, a family business founded in 1963 for the design and manufacture of vacuum pumps for industry. After joining the company in 1991 to drive the activity of the company in the foreign market and the initiation of its export activities in 1992, he drove a solid internationalization process leading the company to operate in more than 100 countries....
INTEGRA Biosciences is proud to be supporting vital translational research into diffuse intrinsic ponsglioma (DIPG) – a rare childhood brain tumor – at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) with a festive donation of 20,000 EUR. Brain tumors in children are thankfully rare, but are often associated with poor prognoses and low survival rates....
Following the recent success of our latest webinar Managing and Maintaining Sterile Manufacturing with Environmental Monitoring, Autoscribe Informatics has made the recording available for Quality Management personnel and other interested parties. Describing the use of the integrated Environmental Monitoring (EM) module as part of Autoscribe’s Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management (LIMS) solution, the webinar describes how the module lets quality control teams monitor and manage environmental manufacturing conditions...
Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, returned to the NEC, Birmingham, on November 3 and 4, 2021 and brought the laboratory community together for the first time after almost two years apart. With 3,117 visitors, the show gave the industry’s leading professionals and companies the chance to meet face-to-face, network and discover the latest innovations...
Labviva, a leader in life sciences marketplace software that modernizes procurement practices announce Gilson as a strategic supply partner. Gilson’s liquid handling, purification, and extraction solutions will be available through Labviva’s marketplace. Through this partnership, organizations like large pharmaceuticals, research institutions, and biotechnology firms who use the Labviva platform to procure laboratory supplies can easily access Gilson’s portfolio...
Middle East & Africa laboratory services market expected to grow with a CAGR of 4.7% between 2021 & 2028, with market value reaching $7.5 billion. Managing the rise of infectious diseases and how they are contributing towards driving the Middle East & Africa clinical laboratory services market, will be just one of the hot topics on the agenda, as participants gather for the next edition of Medlab Middle East which takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 24-27 January 2022....
Metrion Biosciences Limited (“Metrion”), the specialist ion channel contract research and drug discovery company, has announced it has expanded its capabilities and expertise through the addition of automated low volume liquid handling capability and 384-well electrophysiology and fluorescence-based high throughput screening (HTS) assay systems. In the newly created position of Head of Screening Technologies, Dr Gary Clark will lead the implementation...