Alpha Laboratories is excited to announce that its eco-conscious pipette tip products, Fastrak® and FastZAP™ have received third party verification from the non-profit organisation “My Green Lab”. ACT certification emphasises Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency around manufacturing, energy and water use, packaging, and end-of-life. This makes it easier for labs to choose more sustainable products...
A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Called FAIRY (Fluorescence Assay for vIRal IntegritY), the assay can screen viruses against virucidal antivirals in minutes, allowing for the effectiveness of antiviral measures, such as disinfectants that break the chain of infection, to be quickly determined...
Fluent's single-cell analysis technology eliminates the need for complex, expensive instrumentation and microfluidic consumables. This novel approach removes many of the barriers and limitations of current methods, making single-cell analysis accessible for a broader set of customers, and catalyzing new experiments enabled by the ability to perform that assay at the point of sample collection...
This year, the Hamburg based life sicences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its prestigious research prize for the 29th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky, Cambridge, UK, selected Dr. Clemens Plaschka, IMP - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2024. Clemens Plaschka, born 1989, receives the 20,000 euro award for his research on the molecular machines that generate and export messenger RNA...
Indica Labs announces the expansion of their reseller network in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. New distributorship agreements have been inked with MRL Cybertec Corporation, Pathology Ware International, Minh Khang Technical Service & Trading Co. Ltd., and Histocenter, for distribution in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, respectively. The new partnerships build upon Indica’s previous commercial success in China and Japan where sales have grown substantially in recent years...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotech industry, has announced that global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using Benchling across more than 1,500 scientists from 30 teams. Benchling is working with Sanofi to transition from legacy R&D systems to a digital platform through Benchling R&D Cloud; this is an integral process to enable Sanofi's AI-powered R&D ambition. As a result of Sanofi’s digital and AI leadership, R&D teams are able to scale and accelerate groundbreaking research processes in just hours instead of weeks...
EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns Group, in collaboration with research groups from the Center for Experimental Medicine Institute of Tumor Biology and the Martini Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), as well as the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, has revealed a new mechanism through which cells counteract one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by stacking and fixing its molecules in a pile...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has officially opened its new 10,000 sq. ft. US Headquarters and Customer Interaction Center in Waltham’s Biotech Hub in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. Refeyn CEO Gerry Mackay – along with two members of the sales team and one of the company’s co-founders, Prof. Philipp Kukura helped to cut the ribbon at the opening event...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has published new survey findings that reveal 77% of R&D professionals are not using in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, and only 23% describe themselves as ‘very familiar’ with any kind of animal model alternative. More than 350 survey respondents participated, including representatives from pharma companies, regulators, and CROs...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation announces an agreement to be acquired by Malvern Panalytical, a global leader in the analytics of material and life sciences. Malvern Panalytical is a leading brand in the laboratory, world-renowned for superior measurements and high levels of customer support. They offer a high-performance range of physical, structural and elemental analysis products that are highly complementary to Micromeritics‘ technologies...
INTEGRA Biosciences and Parse Biosciences have partnered to automate single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot. This new protocol combines Parse Biosciences’ Evercode™ combinatorial barcoding technology with INTEGRA’s liquid handling expertise, and is already helping labs in academia and industry to streamline and standardize their sequencing workflows for faster throughput and more reproducible results...
The 8th edition of analytica Vietnam 2025, scheduled to take place from April 2-4, 2025, at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, will bring together leading experts, researchers, and professionals from around the world. With an impressive 85% of exhibition space booked nine months ahead and past exhibitors increasing their booth sizes compared to the 2023 edition, the upcoming event promises to be the biggest and most successful yet...
In life science laboratories, where precision and purity are non-negotiable, the demand for environmentally friendly solutions is now higher than it has ever been. Laboratories are grappling with the environmental impact of their activities, and they are aware that the ever-increasing demand for plastic consumables is not resource-friendly. Therefore, in order to become more sustainable, future laboratory consumables made from plastic materials must be able to be manufactured from renewable or recycled raw materials...
The PPD clinical research business will nearly double its laboratory footprint in northern Kentucky, add more than 250 jobs. The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced the expansion of its central laboratory operations in Kentucky dedicated to accelerating pharmaceutical and biotech customers’ delivery of safe, effective medicines to patients...
Leica Biosystems and Navinci Partner to Accelerate Cancer Research Through First-Ever Fully Automated In Situ Proximity Ligation Assays. Leica Biosystems, a global leader in anatomic pathology, and Navinci, a leader in developing innovative solutions for studying protein interactions, announce a strategic collaboration to drive innovation in cancer patient care. This partnership enables automated in situ proximity ligation assays on the BOND RX Fully Automated Research Stainer...
TESTA Analytical has published a new technical study that demonstrates the utility of its non-invasive liquid flowmeter for validating the performance of HPLC systems across a wide range of different solvents. HPLC separation protocols employ many different solvents to accommodate the unique properties of different analytes. Ensuring consistent elution profiles is a key requirement to ensure reproducible results...
The acquisition of Reach will enable CatSci to offer its global customers access to holistic chromatographic services that will aid them from discovery through to manufacture, catering to full asset development or standalone projects. This enhanced separation science offering will provide the highest quality analysis for small molecules, oligonucleotides and other complex synthetic medicines...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, and Olink Holding AB (publ)(“Olink”)(Nasdaq: OLK), a provider of proteomics solutions at unrivaled throughput, have announced the introduction of an additional automation option for the Olink® Explore HT protocol for high-throughput proteomics with SPT Labtech’s firefly® liquid handling platform...
In 1974, 10 countries came together to establish a European research organisation for life sciences. One of its primary goals was to create an attractive working environment for European researchers and to nurture their science so that experts would not feel the need to migrate across the ocean to do their research. As it turned out, this visionary project was the beginning of a great success story for borderless biological research, not only in Europe but all over the world...
The environmental impact of KNAUER's top-selling HPLC systems has now been evaluated by My Green Lab with the assignment of its ACT Ecolabel. My Green Lab's ACT Environmental Impact Factor Ecolabel provides scientists and purchasing professionals with third-party verified information on the environmental impact of laboratory products. To date more than 1300 laboratory product are in the ACT database...
Shimadzu Corporation has concluded a business partnership agreement with TESCAN GROUP, a.s. (TESCAN), a leading manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) in the Czech Republic. TESCAN's SEM will be added to our core analytical measurement product lineup, and the product will be launched in Japan this fall, creating synergies with existing analytical and measurement instruments...
The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK, a not-for-profit, volunteer-led organisation for the drug discovery community, has partnered with The Protein Society (TPS), an international, not-for-profit, scholarly society, with the mission to provide forums for the advancement of research into protein structure, function, design and applications. The partners will collaborate to deliver a joint conference on ‘Protein Sciences in Drug Discovery’ ...
Alpha Laboratories is excited to announce that its eco-conscious pipette tip products, Fastrak® and FastZAP™ have received third party verification from the non-profit organisation “My Green Lab”. ACT certification emphasises Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency around manufacturing, energy and water use, packaging, and end-of-life. This makes it easier for labs to choose more sustainable products...
A new method that can rapidly determine whether a virus is infectious or non-infectious could revolutionise the response to future pandemics. Called FAIRY (Fluorescence Assay for vIRal IntegritY), the assay can screen viruses against virucidal antivirals in minutes, allowing for the effectiveness of antiviral measures, such as disinfectants that break the chain of infection, to be quickly determined...
Fluent's single-cell analysis technology eliminates the need for complex, expensive instrumentation and microfluidic consumables. This novel approach removes many of the barriers and limitations of current methods, making single-cell analysis accessible for a broader set of customers, and catalyzing new experiments enabled by the ability to perform that assay at the point of sample collection...
This year, the Hamburg based life sicences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its prestigious research prize for the 29th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky, Cambridge, UK, selected Dr. Clemens Plaschka, IMP - Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2024. Clemens Plaschka, born 1989, receives the 20,000 euro award for his research on the molecular machines that generate and export messenger RNA...
Indica Labs announces the expansion of their reseller network in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. New distributorship agreements have been inked with MRL Cybertec Corporation, Pathology Ware International, Minh Khang Technical Service & Trading Co. Ltd., and Histocenter, for distribution in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, respectively. The new partnerships build upon Indica’s previous commercial success in China and Japan where sales have grown substantially in recent years...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotech industry, has announced that global pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using Benchling across more than 1,500 scientists from 30 teams. Benchling is working with Sanofi to transition from legacy R&D systems to a digital platform through Benchling R&D Cloud; this is an integral process to enable Sanofi's AI-powered R&D ambition. As a result of Sanofi’s digital and AI leadership, R&D teams are able to scale and accelerate groundbreaking research processes in just hours instead of weeks...
EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns Group, in collaboration with research groups from the Center for Experimental Medicine Institute of Tumor Biology and the Martini Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), as well as the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, has revealed a new mechanism through which cells counteract one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by stacking and fixing its molecules in a pile...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has officially opened its new 10,000 sq. ft. US Headquarters and Customer Interaction Center in Waltham’s Biotech Hub in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. Refeyn CEO Gerry Mackay – along with two members of the sales team and one of the company’s co-founders, Prof. Philipp Kukura helped to cut the ribbon at the opening event...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has published new survey findings that reveal 77% of R&D professionals are not using in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, and only 23% describe themselves as ‘very familiar’ with any kind of animal model alternative. More than 350 survey respondents participated, including representatives from pharma companies, regulators, and CROs...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation announces an agreement to be acquired by Malvern Panalytical, a global leader in the analytics of material and life sciences. Malvern Panalytical is a leading brand in the laboratory, world-renowned for superior measurements and high levels of customer support. They offer a high-performance range of physical, structural and elemental analysis products that are highly complementary to Micromeritics‘ technologies...
INTEGRA Biosciences and Parse Biosciences have partnered to automate single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot. This new protocol combines Parse Biosciences’ Evercode™ combinatorial barcoding technology with INTEGRA’s liquid handling expertise, and is already helping labs in academia and industry to streamline and standardize their sequencing workflows for faster throughput and more reproducible results...
The 8th edition of analytica Vietnam 2025, scheduled to take place from April 2-4, 2025, at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, will bring together leading experts, researchers, and professionals from around the world. With an impressive 85% of exhibition space booked nine months ahead and past exhibitors increasing their booth sizes compared to the 2023 edition, the upcoming event promises to be the biggest and most successful yet...
In life science laboratories, where precision and purity are non-negotiable, the demand for environmentally friendly solutions is now higher than it has ever been. Laboratories are grappling with the environmental impact of their activities, and they are aware that the ever-increasing demand for plastic consumables is not resource-friendly. Therefore, in order to become more sustainable, future laboratory consumables made from plastic materials must be able to be manufactured from renewable or recycled raw materials...
The PPD clinical research business will nearly double its laboratory footprint in northern Kentucky, add more than 250 jobs. The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced the expansion of its central laboratory operations in Kentucky dedicated to accelerating pharmaceutical and biotech customers’ delivery of safe, effective medicines to patients...
Leica Biosystems and Navinci Partner to Accelerate Cancer Research Through First-Ever Fully Automated In Situ Proximity Ligation Assays. Leica Biosystems, a global leader in anatomic pathology, and Navinci, a leader in developing innovative solutions for studying protein interactions, announce a strategic collaboration to drive innovation in cancer patient care. This partnership enables automated in situ proximity ligation assays on the BOND RX Fully Automated Research Stainer...
TESTA Analytical has published a new technical study that demonstrates the utility of its non-invasive liquid flowmeter for validating the performance of HPLC systems across a wide range of different solvents. HPLC separation protocols employ many different solvents to accommodate the unique properties of different analytes. Ensuring consistent elution profiles is a key requirement to ensure reproducible results...
The acquisition of Reach will enable CatSci to offer its global customers access to holistic chromatographic services that will aid them from discovery through to manufacture, catering to full asset development or standalone projects. This enhanced separation science offering will provide the highest quality analysis for small molecules, oligonucleotides and other complex synthetic medicines...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, and Olink Holding AB (publ)(“Olink”)(Nasdaq: OLK), a provider of proteomics solutions at unrivaled throughput, have announced the introduction of an additional automation option for the Olink® Explore HT protocol for high-throughput proteomics with SPT Labtech’s firefly® liquid handling platform...
In 1974, 10 countries came together to establish a European research organisation for life sciences. One of its primary goals was to create an attractive working environment for European researchers and to nurture their science so that experts would not feel the need to migrate across the ocean to do their research. As it turned out, this visionary project was the beginning of a great success story for borderless biological research, not only in Europe but all over the world...
The environmental impact of KNAUER's top-selling HPLC systems has now been evaluated by My Green Lab with the assignment of its ACT Ecolabel. My Green Lab's ACT Environmental Impact Factor Ecolabel provides scientists and purchasing professionals with third-party verified information on the environmental impact of laboratory products. To date more than 1300 laboratory product are in the ACT database...
Shimadzu Corporation has concluded a business partnership agreement with TESCAN GROUP, a.s. (TESCAN), a leading manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) in the Czech Republic. TESCAN's SEM will be added to our core analytical measurement product lineup, and the product will be launched in Japan this fall, creating synergies with existing analytical and measurement instruments...
The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK, a not-for-profit, volunteer-led organisation for the drug discovery community, has partnered with The Protein Society (TPS), an international, not-for-profit, scholarly society, with the mission to provide forums for the advancement of research into protein structure, function, design and applications. The partners will collaborate to deliver a joint conference on ‘Protein Sciences in Drug Discovery’ ...