In a breakthrough for research fields as diverse as diabetes, atherosclerosis and biofuels, the mass, concentration, volume, and surface area of individual lipid droplets have been measured in live, unstained cells for the first time using a Tomocube Holotomography (HT) microscope. The elimination of any preparative or staining steps, and the 110nm lateral resolution of the Tomocube HT...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation has celebrated the opening of its new German subsidiary and European application laboratory "Particle Testing Authority" in Munich-Unterschleissheim in July with invited customers, employees and representatives of local politics. Jeff Sherman, Micromeritics' Vice President Sales and Marketing, and Christoph Böck, First Mayor of Unterschleißheim, inaugurated the new...
SES Water has chosen the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autoscribe Informatics to manage water testing results in its UKAS-accredited laboratory. SES Water is a water-only company and supplies residents in East Surrey, parts of West Sussex, West Kent and South London in the UK. The laboratory annually performs approximately 120,000 tests...
A2LA is pleased to announce the accreditation of GEL Laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025 for cannabis testing, specifically for hemp plant material, oils, and solids. GEL Laboratories is based in Charleston, South Carolina, and is the first hemp testing laboratory accredited in the state. GEL Laboratories is also the first laboratory in the field of environmental testing to expand their scope to include hemp testing....
PhoreMost, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has announced it has entered into a structural biology focussed collaboration with the Centre for Chemical Biology and Therapeutics (CCBT), Bangalore, India. CCBT at the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) is funded by the Department of Biotechnology....
Evotec has announced that the Company has acquired assets from the stem cell specialist Ncardia AG to advance Evotec's iPSC platform, one of the leading iPSC-based discovery platforms in the industry. The acquired assets include intellectual property relevant for iPSC-based phenotypic drug discovery, an existing cellular product business around iPSC-derived cells, as well as 17 strong team of stem cell biology experts...
ImaginAb Inc., a clinical stage immuno-oncology imaging company, announced today that it has entered into a non-exclusive license and collaboration agreement with Roche. Under the terms of the agreement, Roche will use ImaginAb's novel minibody CD8 T cell imaging agent in immuno-oncology clinical trials for multiple types of cancers....
ScreenIn3D, a partner of AMSBIO, has received a share of the £1 million plus prize pot and will receive ongoing support from partners of Scottish Edge - a respected regional business support agency. Scottish EDGE runs a competition aimed at identifying and supporting Scotland’s up-and-coming, innovative, high-growth potential entrepreneurial talent....
BioCity, a pioneering life science incubator and business collective, has announced a new strategic partnership with Oxford AHSN. Working in partnership, the Oxford Academic Health Science Network and BioCity are launching a new Accelerator Programme in Berkshire and South Oxfordshire to catalyse growth in Thames Valley’s world-class health and life sciences cluster by...
Olympus Europe and Cytosurge have partnered in order to accelerate common innovation of next-generation tools for single cell experiments and to expand the distribution of the versatile FluidFM BOT single cell research tool. The ultimate goal of the new co-marketing partnership is to fight diseases and improve human health by enhancing drug development research in pharma, revolutionize single cell gene editing...
Extraction of RNA is well-known to be a difficult process due to the low stability of the RNA molecules and the abundance of RNases.MicroGEM’s RNAGEM solves this with extremely fast, temperature-driven RNA extractions that simultaneously lyse cells and strip protein complexes from nucleic acids, thereby allowing higher processivity of polymerases....
The University of Glasgow has benefited from donations worth $7.5m from graduate John Shaw and his wife Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who have turned her biotech firm Biocon into one of the largest pharmaceutical firms in India. John Shaw’s donation of $5m to the Research Hub, currently under construction on the Western Infirmary site as part of the University’s £1bn campus development....
Water-resistant glass containers are a prerequisite for countless industries, from chemicals to food production. The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) determines how water resistance can be determined with the so-called glass test. Ph. Eur. Version 9.6., which came into force a few months ago, has further tightened the requirements for this test....
Hollywood movies and television shows have introduced audiences to all kinds of cutting-edge, crime-solving forensic tools and techniques over the years. We've seen everything from DNA detection methods that can instantly identify a probable suspect to finding the culprit based on evidence gathered with a cotton swab. While these fictional crime scene investigation (CSI) technologies....
Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), the leader in digital cell biology, has announced the launch of the Lightning™ optofluidic platform, which directly visualizes phenotype and function of 1000s of T cells in days to help scientists address challenges in developing cancer immunotherapies. The product was showcased at the upcoming 34th Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry....
A one-day symposium that explores the latest techniques in multi-dimensional chromatography. Leading specialists from industry and academia will explain how they apply the latest 2-D techniques to achieve very difficult separations in the liquid, supercritical fluid, and gas phases. Instrumentation and consumables will be displayed in a comprehensive supporting exhibition from relevant manufacturers....
ROMIL has appointed Paul Stubbings as its UK National Sales Manager to ensure the best possible service for its expanding UK customer base. This newly created role will help to ensure the highest level of customer service for UK customers, and allow Sales Director Anthony Lenk to dedicate more time to the company’s rapidly growing direct sales and distributor-based export markets....
A Netherlands Cancer Institute team, co-led by Thijn Brummelkamp and Anastassis (Tassos) Perrakis, reported independently, but almost simultaneously with three more groups from all over the world, on the crystal structure and mechanism of a peculiar molecular end-tail of the microtubules that constitute the cell skeleton....
The Native Antigen Company, one of the world’s leading suppliers of reagents that enable research into vaccine development and diagnostics for emerging and endemic infectious diseases, announced today that it has appointed BIOZOL and Shanghai Bioleaf to distribute its high-quality products in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and China, respectively.....
One of the biggest players from the aerospace industry has replaced chromium in their anodizing process of aircraft parts by a mix of sulfuric and tartaric acid (TSA, Tartaric Sulfuric Anodizing). Metrohm developed a new method allowing this customer to determine both acids quickly and reliably using the same sensor, a highly sensitive, fast responding thermometer. An Application Note is available free of charge....
Building a smart laboratory and ensuring you have the right technologies can increase productivity and improve planning, quality assurance and control. With so many new technologies, innovations and informatics systems on the market, it is important to find the right solutions for your laboratory to save you time....