Colossal, the de-extinction and species preservation company, announces numerous breakthrough successes in all stages of the thylacine de-extinction effort that put the company much closer to returning the iconic thylacine to Australia. From the generation of the highest quality ancient genome to date, to breaking records in multiplex genome editing, to innovations in assisted reproductive technologies for marsupials...
EIBF, the UK registered charity that promotes business education for engineers and scientists, and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Metrology Institute, are partnering on an MBA scholarship scheme that will provide business education for scientists. The collaboration will provide MBA scholarships worth £50,000 to eight UK science graduates each year...
The American scientist Laura Seeholzer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, has won the 2024 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work on elucidating a role for airway neuroendocrine cells in responding to external threats. “Laura Seeholzer’s essay brilliantly describes how she identified a group of laryngeal and tracheal neuroendocrine cells that protect our airways” explained Dr. Peter Stern, Senior Editor at the journal Science and Chairman of the Prize Jury...
Veolia Water Technologies announces the opening of its state-of-the-art Life Science Centre of Excellence near Dublin, Ireland. At over 8,000 square feet (743 square meters), the facility houses a dedicated customer showroom experience, featuring numerous flagship water treatment and purification technologies, including OrionTM, SirionTM, PolarisTM 2.0, the PureLabTM Quest, Flex and Chorus ranges, Ozonia and Sievers Instruments...
Arctoris, a leading contract research organisation (CRO) advancing drug discovery experimentation through its unique automated laboratory and data science platform, UlyssesⓇ, has announced it has entered into a joint partnership with SpiroChem AG. The partnership combines Arctoris' cutting-edge automated biology capabilities with SpiroChem's world-class medicinal and synthetic chemistry platforms including photochemistry, electrochemistry, flow chemistry, and parallel solid-phase synthesis...
ZEISS announces its full schedule of activities at the 50th annual ISTFA Conference, taking place at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2024. ZEISS will deliver four tutorials and six paper presentations showcasing its expertise in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fault isolation, failure analysis (FA) and yield enhancement. ZEISS will also participate in two panel discussions about the industry roadmap and AI and will be part of the Tools of the Trade tour...
The two Berlin-based companies labforward and LabTwin, a subsidiary of the life science group Sartorius, are merging in order to be able to offer a significantly expanded portfolio of AI and voice-supported solutions for digitalization, connectivity and workflow optimization in the laboratory environment under the name labforward. labforward GmbH, a leading provider of solutions for digital transformation in the laboratory with a platform for the digital integration of laboratory equipment and the connectivity of entire workflows...
Biotech Fluidics reports that renowned experts in liquid chromatography – Dr Maisch HPLC GmbH has installed a Biotech Liquid Micro Flow Meter in its testing set-up to validate the performance of all capillary columns it manufactures. Based in the Southwest of Germany – Dr Maisch has over the last 45 years earned a reputation as a leading developer of high-quality standard and specialist capillary columns for HPLC and UHPLC...
RAPT Therapeutics in San Francisco, USA, relies on INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes to seamlessly accelerate the development of its candidate small molecule inhibitors for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancers. These liquid handling solutions help the company’s R&D team to efficiently analyze its lead drug candidates at every stage of the process – from discovery to clinical trials – driving its innovative therapies towards commercialization...
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. One half of the prize has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” Protein design. The remarkable work by David Baker and colleagues in computational protein design, which recently has been revolutionised by Al, has made it possible to custom-build protein according to a researchers specifications...
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, including purpose-built LIMS platforms enabling rapid deployment at reduced costs, has announced it has been awarded the prestigious Company of the Year Award in the Global Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Industry by Frost & Sullivan...
Since 1995, the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators, endowed with 20,000 EUR, has honored outstanding achievements in the field of biomedical research in Europe once a year. The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators is presented in collaboration with Nature. Scientists up to the age of 35 with an advanced degree, who are conducting research in Europe, can apply from October 1, 2024 to January 15, 2025 online...
Hexaware Technologies, a provider of IT services and solutions, has partnered with Blumetra Solutions, an innovator in master data management (MDM) solutions. This collaboration aims to provide cloud-based MDM solutions tailored for the life sciences industry. This partnership will enhance MDM and governance, enabling data integration across research, development, clinical, and commercial teams...
At the 36th annual European Congress of Pathology in Florence, Italy, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader serving science, announced the latest recipients of the Oncomine Clinical Research Grant, designed to support emerging research on molecular profiling in oncology and to help democratize the future of precision medicine. Now in its fourth year, the grant recognizes research from Tata Memorial Centre in India; Leiden University Center in The Netherlands; Western University in Canada; and Fred Hutch Cancer Center in the U.S...
Flow chemistry engineering specialist Vapourtec is investing in the future of flow chemistry through a partnership with the organic chemistry team at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), headed up by Professor Varinder K Aggarwal. Over the next five years a minimum of 70 PhD candidates will have access to Vapourtec’s R-Series and E-Series flow chemistry systems in the first year of their doctorates as part of a scheme that is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)...
To simplify the process of toxicology assessment, testing and regulatory consultancy Broughton has launched the latest version of Tox HQ, an online data-driven tool that allows customers to confidentially submit its products for toxicological assessment. Tox HQ acts as a chemical repository, storing the properties of chemicals, hazard assessments, health-based guidance values and toxicological information, and a tool for building mixtures and formulations...
Azenta, I nc. has announced its participation in the FinnGen project, a large-scale research initiative at the forefront of personalized medicine in Finland. The FinnGen project is a pioneering endeavor that has collected and is currently analyzing genomic and health data from a cohort of 500,000 Finnish biobank participants In collaboration with the University of Helsinki, the organization leading the FinnGen study, Azenta will provide comprehensive proteomics profiling on up to 20,000 individuals...
Autoscribe Informatics is excited to announce its participation in the 2024 Australasian Biospecimen Network Association (ABNA) Conference, which will take place from October 16 to 18 at The Stamford Grand, Glenelg, Adelaide. As a leader in laboratory informatics, Autoscribe Informatics will be showcasing its state-of-the-art Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)...
A group of former Pfizer employees have successfully created their own businesses based at and supported by Discovery Park, a thriving life sciences community in Kent. The new businesses are all contract research organisations, namely Biowaived, Matheus Engineering and Particology Ltd. Their launch has been supported by Pfizer’s Pharmaceutical Sciences Small Molecule (PSSM) division, with contracts for work to build their initial viability and momentum...
During the Sustainability Weeks, Starlab employees will visit over 100 laboratories in the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany to provide information on reducing laboratory plastic waste and their TipOne recycling service. These in-person visits encourage direct exchange and provide practical stimulus for effectively integrating sustainability into everyday laboratory operations...
Wiley, one of the world's largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, and Digital Surf, editor of analysis software solutions for microscopy and spectroscopy, have announced the release of Wiley Surface-to-Spectral Analysis, a complete correlation & spectroscopy analysis software solution for microscopy. Wiley Surface-to-Spectral Analysis provides a comprehensive, powerful solution to process, combine, and analyze images and data from various spectroscopic techniques...
CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, announce the initiation of a collaboration with Leica Microsystems, a leading provider of microscopy and scientific instrumentation. The partnership enables Leica Microsystems to offer CrestOptics’ CICERO spinning disk unit within its new THUNDER Imager Cell Spinning Disk system...