Oncology researchers and clinicians seeking to deepen their understanding of Microsatellite Instability (MSI) have a new resource that gathers a wealth of information in one place, including the importance of MSI as a biomarker and methods of detection. Promega launched its MSI educational website Promega.com/MSIwebthis week ahead of the annual 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago...
Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS), the developer of point of need mass spectrometry ("MS") instruments, has developed proof of concept workflows to analyse in real-time complex samples from bioreactors, which could enable customers to achieve significant costs and time savings. An independent laboratory was engaged to compare the use of Microsaic's MiD® ProteinID technology as an in-situ technique for measuring small and large molecules....
Chaperones keep the tumor suppressor protein p53 in check. The anti-tumor protein p53 can decide on the life or death of a cell: If it detects damage in the cell's genome, the protein pushes the cell to suicide. New research conducted at Technical University of Munich (TUM) shows that this inborn cancer prevention only works when special proteins, known as chaperones, allow it to take place....
The development of the UK’s first dedicated Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) has moved a step closer with the contract to design an advanced array of laboratory and production facilities within a ‘cleanroom wrap’ environment being awarded to WHP. The multi-disciplinary engineering company has won the design work as part of plans for the specification of versatile new cGMP suites and filling rooms for the VMIC, which is being built...
MR Solutions’ high field simultaneous PET-MR systems and large bore, 7T cryogen free MRI technology were seen to be game-changers by leading molecular imaging researchers at the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), in Montreal. The accuracy and speed of acquisition of PET combined with high field MRI imaging is now viewed as the norm by academic laboratories across the world.....
Merck, a leading science and technology company, announce its participation in a collaboration with the Vaccine Formulation Institute and the European Vaccine Initiative. The effort will provide vaccine process development training courses within TRANSVAC2, a collaborative infrastructure project under Horizon 2020. “Involvement in this project is a natural extension to our longtime focus on accelerating vaccine....
'Pushing the limits together' – that’s the claim of Metrohm Process Analytics, the brand of the global Metrohm Group’s subsidiary catering specifically to the process industry.Customized online analyzers from Metrohm Process Analytics allow customers to monitor key quality parameters in multiple process streams in order to increase product yield, reduce costs, and comply with safety and environmental regulations.
MtoZ Biolabs, an international contract research organization (CRO) providing advanced proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and biopharmaceutical analysis services, developed SILAC-based CoIP-MS service to assist researchers study in protein. Co-Immunoprecipitation (CoIP) is a classical method for studying protein interactions based on the principle that antibodies specifically recognize specific antigens.....
This strategic move will allow both partners to significantly enhance their portfolios in the diagnostics market. While MINIFAB is a leading innovator in customized polymer microfluidics. SCHOTT is the world’s leading supplier of glass substrates for microarrays and microfluidic components made of glass. By setting up centers of excellence for polymer in Australia and glass in Germany, both will be able to serve their existing customer bases as well as new customers even more effectively in the future.
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that it has opened the next round of applications for startup companies to participate in the global Merck Accelerator program. Startups can choose to participate in one of the two programs, either at the company’s Innovation Center at global headquarters in Darmstadt or at its China Innovation Hub in Shanghai.
Verdel Instruments Ltd, a spin-out company of the University of Warwick, raises seed investment of over £230,000 to develop new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology. Disruptive 2DMS technique to make pharmaceutical research and food safety testing more accurate, more efficient, and at least 10 times quicker than current mass spectrometry approaches – for samples with many components.....
Extending the Service Life of HPLC System by Filter Processing. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is an analysis method originated from classical liquid chromatography. It is fast and accurate, but the device is precise and expensive. Under this condition, it is particularly important to extend its service life by optimizing the operating processing and maintenance carefully. Here the Hawach recommends some membrane filtration methods...
A2LA is proud to announce the issuance of its first accreditation, and the first such accreditation in the world, to the newly published standardISO 20387:2018 – Biobanking – General requirements for biobanking. ISO 20387 contains requirements designed to demonstrate the competence of a biobank’s operation and ability to provide biological material and associated data for research and development....
Researchers at the University of North Texas are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96 electronic pipette to increase the throughput of their ELISA, Luminex and flow cytometry workflows, as well as to improve the reproducibility of their results. The Applied Physiology Laboratory at UNT focuses on research in two key areas, physiologic and immunologic consequences of weight change, and using nutritional countermeasures to maximize immune health after exercise and performs analysis and testing...
BioTek Instruments announces a new wide field of view (FOV) camera option for their Cytation 5 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader. The new wide FOV camera captures approximately four times the area compared to Cytation 5’s standard camera, allowing users to capture larger areas of interest with fewer images. The new camera increases the speed of acquisition for larger samples and accelerates statistically significant sampling for cell population analysis...
Lab Connect online meeting planner enables growing exhibitor and visitor numbers to get the most from their visit to the NEC on 30 - 31October 2019. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, announces the launch of a new free networking tool to help visitors and exhibitors set up meetings in advance, so that they can get the most from their visit....
Ziath has announced the opening of direct operations in the US with the appointment of a general manager. The company stated that the move is part of its drive for international expansion and will better enable it to serve the US laboratory automation community particularly in the areas of compound management, high throughput screening, forensics, cannabis testing and biobanking....
Nottingham-based Scientific Laboratory Supplies Limited and Wolf Laboratories Limited, based near York, are both leading distributors of laboratory products in the UK. SLS announce today the acquisition of Wolf labs which will enable the newly enlarged group to provide better choice and an even wider range of products to the scientific community. SLS are a full-service distributor of laboratory products....
Syrris celebrated 10 fantastic years of business in India in style by embarking on an ambitious 1,950 km tour of the country to thank its loyal customers who have helped the business go from strength to strength. The subcontinent adventure took place in April, when the team loaded the Syrris technology onto a truck and drove from Chennai on the East Coast to Mumbai in the west....
Analytik reports on how the School of Biological & Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University, London (QMUL) has been using a LM20 Microfluidizer for cell disruption of a broad range of cell types including E. coli, Yeasts and Diatom. The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at QMUL is one of the UK’s leading life science research departments, with a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and research....
Uniqsis reports on two major orders for its FlowSyn™ flow chemistry systems from organisations involved with the South African Pharmaceutical Industry. In the pharmaceutical sector, industry growth in the emerging world is rapidly outpacing mature markets like Europe and the US. Although at present the pharma industries across Africa account for just 2% of the global medicines market....
Cal or automatic calibration is a feature that's found in advanced OHAUS balances such as the Explorer and the Adventurer series. Let's explore what this feature means to you. What does Expansion/Contraction Mean For High Precision Applications? Literally everything that you come in contact with on a daily basis, be it a solid object, a liquid, or the gases around you....
Oncology researchers and clinicians seeking to deepen their understanding of Microsatellite Instability (MSI) have a new resource that gathers a wealth of information in one place, including the importance of MSI as a biomarker and methods of detection. Promega launched its MSI educational website Promega.com/MSIwebthis week ahead of the annual 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago...
Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS), the developer of point of need mass spectrometry ("MS") instruments, has developed proof of concept workflows to analyse in real-time complex samples from bioreactors, which could enable customers to achieve significant costs and time savings. An independent laboratory was engaged to compare the use of Microsaic's MiD® ProteinID technology as an in-situ technique for measuring small and large molecules....
Chaperones keep the tumor suppressor protein p53 in check. The anti-tumor protein p53 can decide on the life or death of a cell: If it detects damage in the cell's genome, the protein pushes the cell to suicide. New research conducted at Technical University of Munich (TUM) shows that this inborn cancer prevention only works when special proteins, known as chaperones, allow it to take place....
The development of the UK’s first dedicated Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) has moved a step closer with the contract to design an advanced array of laboratory and production facilities within a ‘cleanroom wrap’ environment being awarded to WHP. The multi-disciplinary engineering company has won the design work as part of plans for the specification of versatile new cGMP suites and filling rooms for the VMIC, which is being built...
MR Solutions’ high field simultaneous PET-MR systems and large bore, 7T cryogen free MRI technology were seen to be game-changers by leading molecular imaging researchers at the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), in Montreal. The accuracy and speed of acquisition of PET combined with high field MRI imaging is now viewed as the norm by academic laboratories across the world.....
'Pushing the limits together' – that’s the claim of Metrohm Process Analytics, the brand of the global Metrohm Group’s subsidiary catering specifically to the process industry. Customized online analyzers from Metrohm Process Analytics allow customers to monitor key quality parameters in multiple process streams in order to increase product yield, reduce costs, and comply with safety and environmental regulations.
MtoZ Biolabs, an international contract research organization (CRO) providing advanced proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and biopharmaceutical analysis services, developed SILAC-based CoIP-MS service to assist researchers study in protein. Co-Immunoprecipitation (CoIP) is a classical method for studying protein interactions based on the principle that antibodies specifically recognize specific antigens.....
This strategic move will allow both partners to significantly enhance their portfolios in the diagnostics market. While MINIFAB is a leading innovator in customized polymer microfluidics. SCHOTT is the world’s leading supplier of glass substrates for microarrays and microfluidic components made of glass. By setting up centers of excellence for polymer in Australia and glass in Germany, both will be able to serve their existing customer bases as well as new customers even more effectively in the future.
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that it has opened the next round of applications for startup companies to participate in the global Merck Accelerator program. Startups can choose to participate in one of the two programs, either at the company’s Innovation Center at global headquarters in Darmstadt or at its China Innovation Hub in Shanghai.
Verdel Instruments Ltd, a spin-out company of the University of Warwick, raises seed investment of over £230,000 to develop new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology. Disruptive 2DMS technique to make pharmaceutical research and food safety testing more accurate, more efficient, and at least 10 times quicker than current mass spectrometry approaches – for samples with many components.....
Extending the Service Life of HPLC System by Filter Processing. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is an analysis method originated from classical liquid chromatography. It is fast and accurate, but the device is precise and expensive. Under this condition, it is particularly important to extend its service life by optimizing the operating processing and maintenance carefully. Here the Hawach recommends some membrane filtration methods...
A2LA is proud to announce the issuance of its first accreditation, and the first such accreditation in the world, to the newly published standardISO 20387:2018 – Biobanking – General requirements for biobanking. ISO 20387 contains requirements designed to demonstrate the competence of a biobank’s operation and ability to provide biological material and associated data for research and development....
Researchers at the University of North Texas are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96 electronic pipette to increase the throughput of their ELISA, Luminex and flow cytometry workflows, as well as to improve the reproducibility of their results. The Applied Physiology Laboratory at UNT focuses on research in two key areas, physiologic and immunologic consequences of weight change, and using nutritional countermeasures to maximize immune health after exercise and performs analysis and testing...
BioTek Instruments announces a new wide field of view (FOV) camera option for their Cytation 5 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader. The new wide FOV camera captures approximately four times the area compared to Cytation 5’s standard camera, allowing users to capture larger areas of interest with fewer images. The new camera increases the speed of acquisition for larger samples and accelerates statistically significant sampling for cell population analysis...
Lab Connect online meeting planner enables growing exhibitor and visitor numbers to get the most from their visit to the NEC on 30 - 31October 2019. Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, announces the launch of a new free networking tool to help visitors and exhibitors set up meetings in advance, so that they can get the most from their visit....
Ziath has announced the opening of direct operations in the US with the appointment of a general manager. The company stated that the move is part of its drive for international expansion and will better enable it to serve the US laboratory automation community particularly in the areas of compound management, high throughput screening, forensics, cannabis testing and biobanking....
Nottingham-based Scientific Laboratory Supplies Limited and Wolf Laboratories Limited, based near York, are both leading distributors of laboratory products in the UK. SLS announce today the acquisition of Wolf labs which will enable the newly enlarged group to provide better choice and an even wider range of products to the scientific community. SLS are a full-service distributor of laboratory products....
Syrris celebrated 10 fantastic years of business in India in style by embarking on an ambitious 1,950 km tour of the country to thank its loyal customers who have helped the business go from strength to strength. The subcontinent adventure took place in April, when the team loaded the Syrris technology onto a truck and drove from Chennai on the East Coast to Mumbai in the west....
Analytik reports on how the School of Biological & Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University, London (QMUL) has been using a LM20 Microfluidizer for cell disruption of a broad range of cell types including E. coli, Yeasts and Diatom. The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at QMUL is one of the UK’s leading life science research departments, with a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and research....
Uniqsis reports on two major orders for its FlowSyn™ flow chemistry systems from organisations involved with the South African Pharmaceutical Industry. In the pharmaceutical sector, industry growth in the emerging world is rapidly outpacing mature markets like Europe and the US. Although at present the pharma industries across Africa account for just 2% of the global medicines market....
Cal or automatic calibration is a feature that's found in advanced OHAUS balances such as the Explorer and the Adventurer series. Let's explore what this feature means to you. What does Expansion/Contraction Mean For High Precision Applications? Literally everything that you come in contact with on a daily basis, be it a solid object, a liquid, or the gases around you....