Biotechnology startup MicroQuin leveraged the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to grow 3D breast and prostate cancer cell cultures to learn more about how these cancers develop and grow. However, the research team found something incredible that could lead to a way to treat not just breast and prostate cancers but all cancers. Through MicroQuin’s ISS National Lab-sponsored research, the team identified microgravity-induced changes in cancer cell signaling that revealed something critical to cancer cell survival...
Alpha Laboratories (Eastleigh, UK) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded as a supplier on the re-tendered Inter-Regional Laboratory Agreement (IRLA). The agreement provides a compliant and responsible route for universities to purchase a wide range of products for use within their teaching and research laboratories. This includes HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC, NWUPC and SUPC members...
Whether discovering new materials or working to overcome challenges with existing products, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a valuable instrument for industry. Here, Britta Siefer, Senior Sales Account Manager at industrial SEM specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains the considerations when investing in an SEM microscope for an industrial application...
Beauty of cosmic proportions found in microscopic imaging. Evident unveiled the winners of its 5th annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s best in scientific microscopic imaging. The winners were selected from submissions from 29 countries around the world. For the first time, the competition included a video category to showcase the art of capturing small changes in motion under the microscope...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science have announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the nation’s premier middle school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition. Tina Jin, 13, from San Jose, Calif., won the $25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND (Aspiring Scientists Cultivating Exciting New Discoveries) Award, the top prize in the competition...
UK-based drug discovery, development and manufacturing organisation, Concept Life Sciences (CLS), backed by mid-market private equity investment firm Limerston Capital, has completed the acquisition of Charnwood Discovery. The deal underlines CLS’ ambitious growth strategy and strengthens its position as a market leader in pharmaceutical and life science sectors...
Thermo Fisher Scientific is exhibiting at filtration trade show FILTECH 2024 held from 12-14 November, at the Koelnmesse Halls in Cologne, Germany. Leaders and technical experts from Thermo Fisher will be present to offer expertise in electron microscopy and discuss how this technique provides an advanced solution, optimising material analysis for filtration...
PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced SPRQ, an improved sequencing chemistry for its Revio™ long-read sequencing system. The new chemistry will reduce Revio DNA input requirements by 4x to 500ng per sample, which enables more sample types such as saliva extracted with PacBio’s new Nanobind protocol and tumor samples to be sequenced with HiFi sequencing technology...
analytica Vietnam, the largest international exhibition for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology, and diagnostics in Vietnam, will hold its 8th edition from April 2 to 4, 2025. The show is set to expand significantly with the addition of Hall A2 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), bringing the total exhibition area to 8,000 square meters—nearly doubling the space of the 2023 edition...
A new imaging technique could mean patients with aggressive brain tumours benefit from cutting edge immunotherapy treatments, according to researchers. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy, and track the response over time...
INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes are being used by bioanalytical consultancy BioApp Solutions to semi-automate and streamline its repetitive liquid handling protocols. The devices have enabled the company to improve pipetting consistency within its sample analysis and method development workflows, ensuring more reproducible results. BioApp was established in Leeds, UK, in 2015 as a specialist provider of bioanalytical training and consultancy services...
Open access publishing start-up DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation - Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. The award recognises the innovation behind DeSci Publish, the world’s first open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology. The Lab Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the key achievements by individuals and businesses that are driving the future of scientific industries globally...
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...
Biotechnology startup MicroQuin leveraged the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to grow 3D breast and prostate cancer cell cultures to learn more about how these cancers develop and grow. However, the research team found something incredible that could lead to a way to treat not just breast and prostate cancers but all cancers. Through MicroQuin’s ISS National Lab-sponsored research, the team identified microgravity-induced changes in cancer cell signaling that revealed something critical to cancer cell survival...
Alpha Laboratories (Eastleigh, UK) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded as a supplier on the re-tendered Inter-Regional Laboratory Agreement (IRLA). The agreement provides a compliant and responsible route for universities to purchase a wide range of products for use within their teaching and research laboratories. This includes HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC, NWUPC and SUPC members...
Whether discovering new materials or working to overcome challenges with existing products, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a valuable instrument for industry. Here, Britta Siefer, Senior Sales Account Manager at industrial SEM specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains the considerations when investing in an SEM microscope for an industrial application...
Beauty of cosmic proportions found in microscopic imaging. Evident unveiled the winners of its 5th annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s best in scientific microscopic imaging. The winners were selected from submissions from 29 countries around the world. For the first time, the competition included a video category to showcase the art of capturing small changes in motion under the microscope...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science have announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the nation’s premier middle school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition. Tina Jin, 13, from San Jose, Calif., won the $25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND (Aspiring Scientists Cultivating Exciting New Discoveries) Award, the top prize in the competition...
UK-based drug discovery, development and manufacturing organisation, Concept Life Sciences (CLS), backed by mid-market private equity investment firm Limerston Capital, has completed the acquisition of Charnwood Discovery. The deal underlines CLS’ ambitious growth strategy and strengthens its position as a market leader in pharmaceutical and life science sectors...
Thermo Fisher Scientific is exhibiting at filtration trade show FILTECH 2024 held from 12-14 November, at the Koelnmesse Halls in Cologne, Germany. Leaders and technical experts from Thermo Fisher will be present to offer expertise in electron microscopy and discuss how this technique provides an advanced solution, optimising material analysis for filtration...
PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced SPRQ, an improved sequencing chemistry for its Revio™ long-read sequencing system. The new chemistry will reduce Revio DNA input requirements by 4x to 500ng per sample, which enables more sample types such as saliva extracted with PacBio’s new Nanobind protocol and tumor samples to be sequenced with HiFi sequencing technology...
analytica Vietnam, the largest international exhibition for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology, and diagnostics in Vietnam, will hold its 8th edition from April 2 to 4, 2025. The show is set to expand significantly with the addition of Hall A2 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), bringing the total exhibition area to 8,000 square meters—nearly doubling the space of the 2023 edition...
A new imaging technique could mean patients with aggressive brain tumours benefit from cutting edge immunotherapy treatments, according to researchers. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy, and track the response over time...
INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes are being used by bioanalytical consultancy BioApp Solutions to semi-automate and streamline its repetitive liquid handling protocols. The devices have enabled the company to improve pipetting consistency within its sample analysis and method development workflows, ensuring more reproducible results. BioApp was established in Leeds, UK, in 2015 as a specialist provider of bioanalytical training and consultancy services...
Open access publishing start-up DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation - Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. The award recognises the innovation behind DeSci Publish, the world’s first open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology. The Lab Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the key achievements by individuals and businesses that are driving the future of scientific industries globally...
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...