Envair, a world leading manufacturer of isolators, laminar flow and microbiological safety cabinets for the healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical industries, has been awarded a place on the HealthTrust Europe framework. The framework enables healthcare providers to make informed purchasing decisions that support the delivery of exceptional healthcare....
Beckman Coulter, a global clinical diagnostics leader, announces a new partnership with Germany-based company Smart4Diagnostics to close the preanalytical data gap between blood collection and laboratory analysis due to errors that take place before the sample arrives in the laboratory, such as sample collection, patient identification, sample handling, sample transportation, sample loss, etc.
Autoscribe Informatics has released a new case study focusing on how Matrix Gemini LIMS transformed AMS Testing and provided a solid quality framework for its metallurgical testing. Using the new LIMS avoids the need to manually collate and create final reports, enables the creation of quotes and invoices directly from the LIMS, and automatically generates management reports as required...
The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and Carterra, Inc., the world leader in innovative technologies enabling high-throughput biology, announce that the University of Manchester has added Carterra’s LSA instrument to its Biomolecular Analysis Core Facility (BACF) within the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH). The BACF was created in 2005 to facilitate the characterization of biomolecules and their molecular interactions....
This new ‘MND Collaborative Partnership’ brings together people living with MND, charities LifeArc, MND Association, MND Scotland and My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, government bodies Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), with researchers from King’s College London, University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool, University College London, University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh...
In addition to the transformation towards a climate-neutral chemical industry and the perennial topic of digitalisation, the current global political situation also poses massive challenges for the process industry. Which technologies can be used to achieve defossilisation? How to secure and enhance regional and global supply chain networks? And what hurdles must be overcome in the digitalisation of the industry? ACHEMA 2022 offers answers and solutions to these and many more questions...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator Cambridge with the aim to advance breakthroughs in human health. Illumina Accelerator, located in both San Francisco and Cambridge, is a company creation engine that partners with entrepreneurs to create genomics startups and advance innovative applications....
Up to $30m funding will be provided to advance an innovative vaccine technology that could protect against current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants and other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has partnered with a consortium of research and technological institutions to develop a novel vaccine to provide protection against COVID-19 caused by current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as to protect against other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that the company’s customer demonstration laboratory in Waldbronn, Germany has received the highest level of Green Lab Certification, the gold standard in laboratory sustainability best practices. The Green Lab Certification from My Green Lab is recognized by the UN Race to Zero campaign as a key measure of progress for pharmaceutical and medical technology companies toward a zero-carbon future...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, announce Dr Becky Upton as its first female president. Dr Upton will lead the Pistoia Alliance’s strategy and defining its future within areas of increasing importance to the industry, such as data standards, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and precision medicine. Dr Upton will build on the Alliance’s work as champions of science, through pre-competitive collaborative projects...
SPT Labtech ("SPT" or "The Company") a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces its acquisition by EQT IX Fund ("EQT Private Equity"), a purpose-driven, global investment organization, from current owners Battery Ventures. The deal will underpin and accelerate SPT Labtech’s impressive trajectory of market growth and leadership in innovative product development...
LifeArc and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) have launched a new partnership to accelerate development of new diagnostic tests, treatments, and devices from scientific research discoveries to benefit people with dementia, which around 900,000 people in the UK are living with. At the heart of the five-year partnership is a £30 million commitment by medical research charity LifeArc to the UK DRI to support dementia research at six UK host universities...
Matrix Stability, Autoscribe Informatics’ software solution for managing stability and shelf-life studies is to be demonstrated at the Stability VI Symposia hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in London. Matrix Stability provides a complete stability management system. Users can create stability protocols that define all required stability study attributes including pull schedules, cycles, storage conditions and test requirements for specific batches...
University Hospital Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust has signed a commercial collaboration agreement with Automata to develop new applications for laboratory automation technology. Automata is a London based biotech company providing robotic automation solutions to the life sciences industry. Comprising proprietary hardware, single-platform software and a world-class service, Automata partners with labs to take the hassle out of automation, empowering them to achieve more reliable results faster than ever before....
Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable medical products for global health, today formally introduced its first portfolio company, Global Access Diagnostics (GADx). GADx has been created to address gaps in the global provision of diagnostics with a focus on expanding affordable access to quality tests. The Company combines expertise in rapid diagnostics development from Mologic Ltd with low-cost manufacturing and scale-up capability of sister company, Global Access Diagnostics (GAD)...
An excellent mood in five halls, delighted faces and many lively discussions at the exhibition booths: At analytica 2022, the international laboratory industry met again in person from June 21 to 24 in Munich. At the world’s leading trade fair, 891 exhibitors presented their innovations for the entire range of laboratory and analytics technology, life sciences and biotechnology to around 26,000 visitors...
The world's first electron diffractometer offers measurement results of unprecedented quality for the pharmaceutical, electromobility and new materials sectors. The Experience Center for Electron Diffraction has now started operations in Basel-Allschwil. The Swiss company ELDICO Scientific operates the world's first electron diffractometer there...
The autoclaves from Systec GmbH can be used for all laboratory applications: for sterilizing solids, liquids, waste, and biological hazardous substances. All autoclaves can be equipped with options to optimize the sterilization process. The options required for the corresponding sterilization processes can be added to your configuration. When sterilizing solids and waste in bags, for example, Systec autoclaves can be equipped with a vacuum system that completely removes the air from the product...
Evident, a wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, is proud to announce that its Olympus Provi™ CM20 incubation monitoring system is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious "Best of the Best" award in the Product Design category of the Red Dot Design Award. This Award is bestowed on a product that the Red Dot Jury deems as groundbreaking and is the highest honor given in this world-renowned design competition...
At the fair, MolGen presents the PurePrep 24, an DNA/RNA extraction system for high sample volume applications, such as isolating DNA from blood samples. The PurePrep 4800 is a complete DNA/RNA extraction system with sample barcode scanning, liquid handling for reagents and samples, extraction and PCR setup in one system. The newest MolGen testing device is MoaA RT. This multiplex viruses RT-qPCR kit is a single well, which targets 5 highly infectious diseases..
DataApex is pleased to announce that a new control module for the Nexera LC-40 HPLC system has been released! It is a part of Clarity - Shimadzu Edition Chromatography Software that is dedicated to the European market. Customers can use a control module for the Nexera LC-40 HPLC system in combination with hundreds of instruments supported in Clarity, including the Shimadzu Nexis GC-2030....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has signed an agreement with the Administrative Management Committee of Wuxi National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone to significantly expand Merck’s first Asia-Pacific Mobius® Single-Use manufacturing center in China. For more than two decades, Merck’s Life Science business sector...