The life science company Sartorius will pay a total of around 20 million euros in special bonuses to employees in appreciation of their substantial commitment and special achievements in 2021. In Germany, this bonus will be 1,500 euros for each employee. “The second exceptional year under pandemic conditions is coming to a close. The massively increased demand for our innovative solutions that are used in the development and production of vaccines and medicines has been challenging for our employees...
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of serum-free and chemically defined cell culture media for bioproduction and cell therapy manufacturing, has announced the establishment of an Innovation and Collaboration Center in Suzhou New District, China. Through this new center, experts will collaborate with customers to design upstream cell culture processes that meet their biomanufacturing needs...
Global provider of human and animal biospecimens - AMSBIO offers a custom procurement service enabling researchers to source specific biofluid and tissue samples which are not already available in their extensive biorepository. To support increasingly complex research, AMSBIO aims to provide a full range of blood-based products, including whole blood, serum, plasma, blood and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)....
ACHEMA 2022 – the World Forum for the Process Industries – will be held at the Frankfurt Fairground from 22 to 26 August 2022, instead of 4 to 8 April 2022 as originally planned. This decision was made in view of the increasing uncertainty caused by the new Corona variant after intensive discussions with the community and in the ACHEMA Committee...
As key partners of the prestigious Imperial College London in the field of optical imaging and its use, Leica helps Imperial drive forward research and innovation through the next generation of biomedical engineering research. Both Imperial campuses in South Kensington and White City are equipped with cutting-edge imaging solutions from Leica Microsystems, such as THUNDER imaging systems and STELLARIS confocal microscope systems...
Formedix, a leading provider of clinical trial software solutions, announces the launch of the Formedix ryze Community, to provide their customers with a location to collaborate, expand their knowledge and share information. Through a range of tools, the ryze Community will support the pharmaceutical industry to streamline and enhance clinical trial set-up and build. The new platform includes a user forum and knowledge base, allowing customers to learn from the wider scientific community...
Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Elkay Laboratory Products (UK) Ltd, a distributor of critical laboratory consumables, instruments and services with headquarters in Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Elkay Labs further enhances Calibre Scientific’s growing presence in the United Kingdom. Elkay Labs is a premier distributor of products including liquid handling, specimen collection, storage, biobanking, test tubes, caps and vials, filtration and centrifugation...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that the performance of its SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assays are not impacted by the emergence of Omicron (B.1.1.529), a variant of concern that was recently identified by the World Health Organization (WHO). There are more than 30 Omicron mutations reported in the S gene of SARS-CoV-2. PerkinElmer’s assays do not target the S gene for SARS-CoV-2 detection and are not affected by these S gene mutations...
Are you interested to find current tools and practical solutions to preparative and process chromatographic separations? Are you wanting to learn how to successfully optimize chromatography processes and minimize costs for the best economic production? Are you looking for a conference with strong scientific content, a robust program, presentations by world renowned experts, lectures by young scientists, workshops offering great training opportunities..
Following the decade-long success of the UK's leading laboratory exhibition, Lab Innovations, Lab Innovations South is launching 20 April 2022. Lab Innovations South is a new dedicated one-day event for laboratory professionals working within life sciences sectors in the golden triangle. It is the sister event for the UK’s leading laboratory exhibition, Lab Innovations. The event will bring together 300 of the UK’s leading Life Sciences researchers and laboratory decision makers...
NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, announces its partnership with Sanofi for the development of new DNA-Encoded Libraries (DELs). This multi-year agreement will see the partners join forces to design both general and focused chemical libraries, and carry out screening activities to identify new and useful chemical structures...
RAFT Solutions Limited (RAFT) and Personalised Diagnostics Limited (PDX) have announced the formation of their transformative joint new venture Veterinary Diagnostics Solutions Limited, trademarked VETDX. This platform will bring efficiencies and better responsiveness in animal diagnostic testing through the deployment of the PDX Software as a Service platform in both traditional clinical pathology and in the increasing adoption of point of care (POC) diagnostics....
Alpha Laboratories Ltd. (Eastleigh, UK) and shuttlepac Ltd. (Telford, UK) are delighted to announce that the unique and innovative ShuttlePouch™ has been awarded Flexible Plastic Pack of the Year in the 2021 UK Packaging Awards. Developed by shuttlepac, ShuttlePouch provides a compliant UN3373 sample packaging solution that protects users from exposure to biological samples during transit and on arrival at the laboratory...
Metrohm is excited to announce the opening of a new office in New Jersey. The new facility will house development, production and manufacturing space for Metrohm Group companies Innovative Photonic Solutions and B&W Tek. It is located in the heart of the U.S. pharmaceutical market and will also serve as a field office for Metrohm USA. Metrohm has been growing its footprint in the spectroscopy market in recent years and is proud to announce its latest investment...
ZEISS announces the opening of its new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Bay Area (ZMCC BA), housed within the ZEISS Innovation Center California, a high-tech building designed to promote customer and employee collaboration. Unique to the industry, the ZMCC BA houses electron, light, and X-ray microscopes all in one location supported by resident application experts in life science, materials research, and electronics segments...
Eppendorf SE donated 20,000 euros to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) during an online presentation ceremony. The funds are for the EMBL project “Advancement of Women in Science,” which enables women scientists to begin managerial careers in scientific fields. In her remarks thanking the company for the donation, Edith Heard, the Director General of the EMBL, described the gift as an important signal for the qualification of women researchers....
Vision Engineering, British leading designer and manufacturer of high quality non-contact measurement, digital 3D visualisation, and ergonomic inspection technologies, is partnering with ZEISS Industrial Microscopy to add an extended depth of focus inspection system to its range of microscopy systems for the first time...
MolGen B.V. is a global solutions provider of innovative DNA / RNA extraction technology, system, products and kits for human and animal diagnostics, agriculture, aquaculture, pharma and biotech, is proud to announce that it has recently opened its UK office. The new office is located at 6th Floor, South Quay Building, 189 Marsh Wall, London, E14 9SH. This expansion will enable the company to meet the rapidly increasing demand for cost-efficient, high quality diagnostic services in new markets...
Concept Life Sciences (CLS), a Malvern Panalytical brand, has announced that it has received certification of compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for the production of active substances at its site in Sandwich, UK. This is the successful outcome of an in-depth Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) inspection and applies to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for both human and veterinary use...
UK medical research charity LifeArc announces its commitment to spend up to £1.3 billion by 2030 to help deliver new diagnostics, drugs, devices and digital solutions that transform the way diseases such as motor neurone disease are prevented, identified and treated. LifeArc plans to double its average annual spend, over the period to 2030. And the charity aims to leverage additional money, skills and resource from others to multiply the impact they can have for patients, together...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has today outlined predictions for the life sciences industry in 2022. The predictions come from three experts recently appointed by the Alliance to drive collaboration efforts across its three key themes. Their insights span the urgent fights against antimicrobial resistance, the potential of quantum computing and commercial space travel, and autonomous laboratories.
MWE are delighted to announce ourselves as the headline sponsor for The Biomedical Scientist Live 2021. The virtual event, brought to you by the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS), will be delivered on the 24th–25th November 2021. MWE will be presenting their story and sharing their views on how the industry has changed over the last two years and will also be discussing what the future of medical devices will look like....
The life science company Sartorius will pay a total of around 20 million euros in special bonuses to employees in appreciation of their substantial commitment and special achievements in 2021. In Germany, this bonus will be 1,500 euros for each employee. “The second exceptional year under pandemic conditions is coming to a close. The massively increased demand for our innovative solutions that are used in the development and production of vaccines and medicines has been challenging for our employees...
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of serum-free and chemically defined cell culture media for bioproduction and cell therapy manufacturing, has announced the establishment of an Innovation and Collaboration Center in Suzhou New District, China. Through this new center, experts will collaborate with customers to design upstream cell culture processes that meet their biomanufacturing needs...
Global provider of human and animal biospecimens - AMSBIO offers a custom procurement service enabling researchers to source specific biofluid and tissue samples which are not already available in their extensive biorepository. To support increasingly complex research, AMSBIO aims to provide a full range of blood-based products, including whole blood, serum, plasma, blood and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)....
ACHEMA 2022 – the World Forum for the Process Industries – will be held at the Frankfurt Fairground from 22 to 26 August 2022, instead of 4 to 8 April 2022 as originally planned. This decision was made in view of the increasing uncertainty caused by the new Corona variant after intensive discussions with the community and in the ACHEMA Committee...
As key partners of the prestigious Imperial College London in the field of optical imaging and its use, Leica helps Imperial drive forward research and innovation through the next generation of biomedical engineering research. Both Imperial campuses in South Kensington and White City are equipped with cutting-edge imaging solutions from Leica Microsystems, such as THUNDER imaging systems and STELLARIS confocal microscope systems... 
Formedix, a leading provider of clinical trial software solutions, announces the launch of the Formedix ryze Community, to provide their customers with a location to collaborate, expand their knowledge and share information. Through a range of tools, the ryze Community will support the pharmaceutical industry to streamline and enhance clinical trial set-up and build. The new platform includes a user forum and knowledge base, allowing customers to learn from the wider scientific community...
Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Elkay Laboratory Products (UK) Ltd, a distributor of critical laboratory consumables, instruments and services with headquarters in Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Elkay Labs further enhances Calibre Scientific’s growing presence in the United Kingdom. Elkay Labs is a premier distributor of products including liquid handling, specimen collection, storage, biobanking, test tubes, caps and vials, filtration and centrifugation...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that the performance of its SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assays are not impacted by the emergence of Omicron (B.1.1.529), a variant of concern that was recently identified by the World Health Organization (WHO). There are more than 30 Omicron mutations reported in the S gene of SARS-CoV-2. PerkinElmer’s assays do not target the S gene for SARS-CoV-2 detection and are not affected by these S gene mutations...
Are you interested to find current tools and practical solutions to preparative and process chromatographic separations? Are you wanting to learn how to successfully optimize chromatography processes and minimize costs for the best economic production? Are you looking for a conference with strong scientific content, a robust program, presentations by world renowned experts, lectures by young scientists, workshops offering great training opportunities..
Following the decade-long success of the UK's leading laboratory exhibition, Lab Innovations, Lab Innovations South is launching 20 April 2022. Lab Innovations South is a new dedicated one-day event for laboratory professionals working within life sciences sectors in the golden triangle. It is the sister event for the UK’s leading laboratory exhibition, Lab Innovations. The event will bring together 300 of the UK’s leading Life Sciences researchers and laboratory decision makers...
NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, announces its partnership with Sanofi for the development of new DNA-Encoded Libraries (DELs). This multi-year agreement will see the partners join forces to design both general and focused chemical libraries, and carry out screening activities to identify new and useful chemical structures...
RAFT Solutions Limited (RAFT) and Personalised Diagnostics Limited (PDX) have announced the formation of their transformative joint new venture Veterinary Diagnostics Solutions Limited, trademarked VETDX. This platform will bring efficiencies and better responsiveness in animal diagnostic testing through the deployment of the PDX Software as a Service platform in both traditional clinical pathology and in the increasing adoption of point of care (POC) diagnostics....
Alpha Laboratories Ltd. (Eastleigh, UK) and shuttlepac Ltd. (Telford, UK) are delighted to announce that the unique and innovative ShuttlePouch™ has been awarded Flexible Plastic Pack of the Year in the 2021 UK Packaging Awards. Developed by shuttlepac, ShuttlePouch provides a compliant UN3373 sample packaging solution that protects users from exposure to biological samples during transit and on arrival at the laboratory...
Metrohm is excited to announce the opening of a new office in New Jersey. The new facility will house development, production and manufacturing space for Metrohm Group companies Innovative Photonic Solutions and B&W Tek. It is located in the heart of the U.S. pharmaceutical market and will also serve as a field office for Metrohm USA. Metrohm has been growing its footprint in the spectroscopy market in recent years and is proud to announce its latest investment...
ZEISS announces the opening of its new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Bay Area (ZMCC BA), housed within the ZEISS Innovation Center California, a high-tech building designed to promote customer and employee collaboration. Unique to the industry, the ZMCC BA houses electron, light, and X-ray microscopes all in one location supported by resident application experts in life science, materials research, and electronics segments...
Eppendorf SE donated 20,000 euros to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) during an online presentation ceremony. The funds are for the EMBL project “Advancement of Women in Science,” which enables women scientists to begin managerial careers in scientific fields. In her remarks thanking the company for the donation, Edith Heard, the Director General of the EMBL, described the gift as an important signal for the qualification of women researchers....
Vision Engineering, British leading designer and manufacturer of high quality non-contact measurement, digital 3D visualisation, and ergonomic inspection technologies, is partnering with ZEISS Industrial Microscopy to add an extended depth of focus inspection system to its range of microscopy systems for the first time...
MolGen B.V. is a global solutions provider of innovative DNA / RNA extraction technology, system, products and kits for human and animal diagnostics, agriculture, aquaculture, pharma and biotech, is proud to announce that it has recently opened its UK office. The new office is located at 6th Floor, South Quay Building, 189 Marsh Wall, London, E14 9SH. This expansion will enable the company to meet the rapidly increasing demand for cost-efficient, high quality diagnostic services in new markets...
Concept Life Sciences (CLS), a Malvern Panalytical brand, has announced that it has received certification of compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for the production of active substances at its site in Sandwich, UK. This is the successful outcome of an in-depth Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) inspection and applies to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for both human and veterinary use...
UK medical research charity LifeArc announces its commitment to spend up to £1.3 billion by 2030 to help deliver new diagnostics, drugs, devices and digital solutions that transform the way diseases such as motor neurone disease are prevented, identified and treated. LifeArc plans to double its average annual spend, over the period to 2030. And the charity aims to leverage additional money, skills and resource from others to multiply the impact they can have for patients, together...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has today outlined predictions for the life sciences industry in 2022. The predictions come from three experts recently appointed by the Alliance to drive collaboration efforts across its three key themes. Their insights span the urgent fights against antimicrobial resistance, the potential of quantum computing and commercial space travel, and autonomous laboratories.
MWE are delighted to announce ourselves as the headline sponsor for The Biomedical Scientist Live 2021. The virtual event, brought to you by the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS), will be delivered on the 24th–25th November 2021. MWE will be presenting their story and sharing their views on how the industry has changed over the last two years and will also be discussing what the future of medical devices will look like....