Telstar has reinforced the production of Boreas, a -86º ultra-low-temperature freezers, to meet the growing demand in the short term generated by the industrial production of new vaccines to treat Covid-19. The company will double the manufacturing of the latest generation of ultra-low-temperature freezers that complies with all the stringent requirements of storage needed to protect the integrity of vaccines...
INTEGRA Biosciences has put together a series of ‘How to’ videos, demonstrating how the company’s lightweight VIAFLO electronic pipette and VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette can make your daily pipetting tasks easier and faster, and help you to ensure your lab is following good pipetting practices. The significance of user experience on pipetting precision is often overlooked, and can have a serious impact on the reproducibility and validity of results....
ACHEMA 2021 will be postponed to April 4-8, 2022. This decision was taken after intensive discussions with the community and in the ACHEMA Committee in view of the continuing uncertainty caused by the Corona pandemic. From June 15-16, 2021, ACHEMA Pulse will offer the worldwide ACHEMA community the opportunity to learn about the latest trends...
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced a collaboration with MSD tradename of Merck & Co., Inc, Kenilworth NJ USA. As part of the collaboration MSD has adopted Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software as a central component of their cheminformatics infrastructure. The collaboration, between MSD and Optibrium will include integration of StarDrop with MSD’s in-house capabilities and the joint development of new tools, to improve cycle times...
Start Codon, a life science and healthcare business accelerator based in Cambridge, UK, has announced that it has closed Start Codon Fund I LP (the “Fund”) at £15 million. The Fund will be used to support Start Codon’s offering to start-ups, which includes a minimum of £250K seed funding, business support services, expert guidance, and access to cutting-edge office and lab facilities. Limited Partner ("LP") investors in the Fund include Novartis International AG and Cambridge Innovation Capital....
Pfizer and BioNTech SE have announced that they have reached an agreement with the European Commission to supply 200 million doses of their investigational BNT162b2 mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 to European Union (EU) Member States, with an option for the European Commission to request an additional 100 million doses. Deliveries are anticipated to start by the end of 2020, subject to clinical success and regulatory authorization....
Twist Bioscience Corporation, Illumina, Inc. and Western Digital have announced the formation of an alliance with Microsoft to advance the field of DNA data storage. These founding companies, alongside member organizations, will work together to create a comprehensive industry roadmap that will help the industry achieve interoperability between solutions and help establish the foundations for a cost-effective commercial archival storage ecosystem for the explosive growth of digital data.
Using multichannel pipettes can streamline your assay workflow and increase reproducibility but, to significantly optimize productivity, you need to use them in combination with reagent reservoirs. Many reagent reservoirs have high dead volumes, which can negatively affect the cost of even the most efficiently run experiments. INTEGRA Biosciences offers an ever-expanding range of reagent reservoirs to support a breadth of applications, and is pleased to announce the launch of its new 12 well reagent reservoir....
Label-free holotomography enables quantitative morphological and biophysical analysis of Atherosclerosis foam cells and precise measurement of targeted nanodrug effectiveness at single-cell level. Treatment of Atherosclerosis, the disease responsible for approximately half of all deaths in westernised societies, is a step closer following correlative studies using Tomocube’s HT-2 microscope....
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, announced today that EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, has launched the Anti-SARS-CoV-2 about ELISA (IgG) to quantify IgG antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 S1 antigen. The assay is available for countries accepting the CE mark, and the Company plans to file a request for this product with the U.S. Food and Drug...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a collaboration with SGS has resulted in a new GC/TQ method, the SGS AXYS Method 16130, approved by the US EPA as an alternative method for the future regulation and detection of dioxins. Dioxins are a group of chemical compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants and subsequently find their way into the food chain....
In some methods derived from the Pharmacopoeia the stipulation of a specific injection solvent can lead to issues with peak shape and a reduced sensitivity for some or all compounds analysed. With a custom injection program, you can overcome this hurdle and still be conform to Pharmacopoeia guidelines. Your gain will be a higher chance to achieve your system suitability criterions and a more reproducible and robust analysis...
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading global laboratory informatics provider, announced the release of a new white paper examining the role of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in supporting ISO17025 accreditation. The white paper explores the ways in which a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can play a key role in achieving, maintaining, and benefiting from ISO17025 accreditation...
Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation systems for analytical laboratories, was awarded ‘British Exporter of the Year’ at the 2020 British Business Awards held at the Shanghai Jinjiang Tomson InterContinental Hotel on the evening of October 29th. This is Peak Scientific’s second BBA accolade, after winning Best New Exporter to China award in 2016. The newly-appointed British Ambassador to China and Patron of the BBA 2020, Caroline Wilson CMG attended the awards dinner and delivered a speech....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory (BATL) at Northeastern University, have entered into a collaborative agreement in a bid to advance analytical capabilities and drive innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry in areas including personalized medicine, monoclonal antibodies and gene and cell therapies....
Biotechnology education company Edvotek is dedicated to bringing high technology sciences to the classroom, helping future scientists to learn about the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry. The company uses INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes to produce training kits for teachers, helping them to share the latest exciting scientific developments with their students...
Specialty chemicals manufacturer FAR Chemical is using Matrix Gemini LIMS to improve the efficiency of its operations by significantly reducing the time taken to test and approve samples in the laboratory, the hold-times of products in the reactors have been cut and the efficiency of the entire operation improved. Based in Palm Bay, Florida, FAR Chemical is a leading manufacturer of complex specialty chemicals....
Beckman Coulter, a clinical diagnostics leader, has announced its Access SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulin M (IgM) assay has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The assay detects antibodies that recognize the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein which the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to enter the human host cells. The assay, which demonstrates 99.9% specificity and 98.3% sensitivity, is part of a suite of diagnostic solutions....
Tecan and ProtiFi have partnered to create an integrated, highly scalable and easy-to-use proteomics workflow powered by the ProtiFi S-Trap™ sample preparation system and the Tecan Resolvex® A200 automated positive pressure workstation. The combined solution enables researchers to reproducibly prepare samples of all types for mass spectrometry-based proteomics.
In the last time, you have not heard much about HPLC 2021. We were carefully following and evaluating the worldwide situation regarding the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, this pandemic crisis continues to keep us in trouble and under great uncertainty. We are not very optimistic that international travel can take place unrestricted next year. This would strongly negatively affect the international character of the symposium....
If you give money to medical or research charities, you probably don’t expect 20 per cent of your donation to be clawed back in VAT, however, because of confused guidance on applying zero-rate VAT relief, that’s exactly what often happens. Furthermore, now the temporary relief afforded by the Government’s decision to make all PPE VAT-free came to an end on 31st October, VAT will now be charged on PPE sold for charitably funded medical and veterinary use....
Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, has announced a new partnership with LabVoice to provide R&D scientists with the ability to record, access, and track data within an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) using hands-free voice assisted technology. The integration streamlines data capture into Dotmatics’ web-based ELN through LabVoice’s scientific virtual assistant, saving scientists’ time and improving overall data integrity....
Telstar has reinforced the production of Boreas, a -86º ultra-low-temperature freezers, to meet the growing demand in the short term generated by the industrial production of new vaccines to treat Covid-19. The company will double the manufacturing of the latest generation of ultra-low-temperature freezers that complies with all the stringent requirements of storage needed to protect the integrity of vaccines...
INTEGRA Biosciences has put together a series of ‘How to’ videos, demonstrating how the company’s lightweight VIAFLO electronic pipette and VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette can make your daily pipetting tasks easier and faster, and help you to ensure your lab is following good pipetting practices. The significance of user experience on pipetting precision is often overlooked, and can have a serious impact on the reproducibility and validity of results....
ACHEMA 2021 will be postponed to April 4-8, 2022. This decision was taken after intensive discussions with the community and in the ACHEMA Committee in view of the continuing uncertainty caused by the Corona pandemic. From June 15-16, 2021, ACHEMA Pulse will offer the worldwide ACHEMA community the opportunity to learn about the latest trends...
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced a collaboration with MSD tradename of Merck & Co., Inc, Kenilworth NJ USA. As part of the collaboration MSD has adopted Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software as a central component of their cheminformatics infrastructure. The collaboration, between MSD and Optibrium will include integration of StarDrop with MSD’s in-house capabilities and the joint development of new tools, to improve cycle times...
Start Codon, a life science and healthcare business accelerator based in Cambridge, UK, has announced that it has closed Start Codon Fund I LP (the “Fund”) at £15 million. The Fund will be used to support Start Codon’s offering to start-ups, which includes a minimum of £250K seed funding, business support services, expert guidance, and access to cutting-edge office and lab facilities. Limited Partner ("LP") investors in the Fund include Novartis International AG and Cambridge Innovation Capital....
Pfizer and BioNTech SE have announced that they have reached an agreement with the European Commission to supply 200 million doses of their investigational BNT162b2 mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 to European Union (EU) Member States, with an option for the European Commission to request an additional 100 million doses. Deliveries are anticipated to start by the end of 2020, subject to clinical success and regulatory authorization....
Twist Bioscience Corporation, Illumina, Inc. and Western Digital have announced the formation of an alliance with Microsoft to advance the field of DNA data storage. These founding companies, alongside member organizations, will work together to create a comprehensive industry roadmap that will help the industry achieve interoperability between solutions and help establish the foundations for a cost-effective commercial archival storage ecosystem for the explosive growth of digital data.
Using multichannel pipettes can streamline your assay workflow and increase reproducibility but, to significantly optimize productivity, you need to use them in combination with reagent reservoirs. Many reagent reservoirs have high dead volumes, which can negatively affect the cost of even the most efficiently run experiments. INTEGRA Biosciences offers an ever-expanding range of reagent reservoirs to support a breadth of applications, and is pleased to announce the launch of its new 12 well reagent reservoir....
Label-free holotomography enables quantitative morphological and biophysical analysis of Atherosclerosis foam cells and precise measurement of targeted nanodrug effectiveness at single-cell level. Treatment of Atherosclerosis, the disease responsible for approximately half of all deaths in westernised societies, is a step closer following correlative studies using Tomocube’s HT-2 microscope....
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, announced today that EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, has launched the Anti-SARS-CoV-2 about ELISA (IgG) to quantify IgG antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 S1 antigen. The assay is available for countries accepting the CE mark, and the Company plans to file a request for this product with the U.S. Food and Drug...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a collaboration with SGS has resulted in a new GC/TQ method, the SGS AXYS Method 16130, approved by the US EPA as an alternative method for the future regulation and detection of dioxins. Dioxins are a group of chemical compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants and subsequently find their way into the food chain....
In some methods derived from the Pharmacopoeia the stipulation of a specific injection solvent can lead to issues with peak shape and a reduced sensitivity for some or all compounds analysed. With a custom injection program, you can overcome this hurdle and still be conform to Pharmacopoeia guidelines. Your gain will be a higher chance to achieve your system suitability criterions and a more reproducible and robust analysis...
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading global laboratory informatics provider, announced the release of a new white paper examining the role of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in supporting ISO17025 accreditation. The white paper explores the ways in which a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can play a key role in achieving, maintaining, and benefiting from ISO17025 accreditation...
Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation systems for analytical laboratories, was awarded ‘British Exporter of the Year’ at the 2020 British Business Awards held at the Shanghai Jinjiang Tomson InterContinental Hotel on the evening of October 29th. This is Peak Scientific’s second BBA accolade, after winning Best New Exporter to China award in 2016. The newly-appointed British Ambassador to China and Patron of the BBA 2020, Caroline Wilson CMG attended the awards dinner and delivered a speech....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory (BATL) at Northeastern University, have entered into a collaborative agreement in a bid to advance analytical capabilities and drive innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry in areas including personalized medicine, monoclonal antibodies and gene and cell therapies....
Biotechnology education company Edvotek is dedicated to bringing high technology sciences to the classroom, helping future scientists to learn about the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry. The company uses INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipettes to produce training kits for teachers, helping them to share the latest exciting scientific developments with their students...
Specialty chemicals manufacturer FAR Chemical is using Matrix Gemini LIMS to improve the efficiency of its operations by significantly reducing the time taken to test and approve samples in the laboratory, the hold-times of products in the reactors have been cut and the efficiency of the entire operation improved. Based in Palm Bay, Florida, FAR Chemical is a leading manufacturer of complex specialty chemicals....
Beckman Coulter, a clinical diagnostics leader, has announced its Access SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulin M (IgM) assay has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The assay detects antibodies that recognize the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein which the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to enter the human host cells. The assay, which demonstrates 99.9% specificity and 98.3% sensitivity, is part of a suite of diagnostic solutions....
Tecan and ProtiFi have partnered to create an integrated, highly scalable and easy-to-use proteomics workflow powered by the ProtiFi S-Trap™ sample preparation system and the Tecan Resolvex® A200 automated positive pressure workstation. The combined solution enables researchers to reproducibly prepare samples of all types for mass spectrometry-based proteomics.
In the last time, you have not heard much about HPLC 2021. We were carefully following and evaluating the worldwide situation regarding the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, this pandemic crisis continues to keep us in trouble and under great uncertainty. We are not very optimistic that international travel can take place unrestricted next year. This would strongly negatively affect the international character of the symposium....
If you give money to medical or research charities, you probably don’t expect 20 per cent of your donation to be clawed back in VAT, however, because of confused guidance on applying zero-rate VAT relief, that’s exactly what often happens. Furthermore, now the temporary relief afforded by the Government’s decision to make all PPE VAT-free came to an end on 31st October, VAT will now be charged on PPE sold for charitably funded medical and veterinary use....
Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, has announced a new partnership with LabVoice to provide R&D scientists with the ability to record, access, and track data within an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) using hands-free voice assisted technology. The integration streamlines data capture into Dotmatics’ web-based ELN through LabVoice’s scientific virtual assistant, saving scientists’ time and improving overall data integrity....