Pittcon, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, is pleased to announce the selection of nine finalists in the annual Pittcon Today Excellence Awards conducted by CE Communications, the official publishers of Pittcon Today and the Pittcon Buzz. These awards recognize innovations at this year’s exposition and offer a channel for exhibitors to showcase their scientific advancements. From titrators, wireless temperature sensing, and chromatography columns....
LabTwin GmbH, an independent company backed by Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures (BCG Digital Ventures) and leading biopharma supplier, Sartorius, have announced the launch of the world’s first voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant.Scientists can take notes, capture data, create supply lists and set timers or reminders from anywhere in the lab just by talking to LabTwin....
Increasing accuracy and reducing cost barriers, IDT’s innovative system delivers simple and cost-effective amplicon sequencing. As a dedicated innovator of tools and solutions for genomics applications,Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)introduces its unique,rhAmpSeq™targeted sequencing system - providing researchers with highly accurate, cost-effective and easy-to-use amplicon sequencing on Illumina®next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms...
Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, are running workshops on Re-scan Confocal Microscopy with demonstrations to illustrate the use of use of the technique. Confocal.nl are running a series of workshops on their ground-breaking technology, Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM). With a camera-based detection scheme, RCM offers an easy-to-use confocal system with high resolution and sensitivity in a cost-effective package...
The Programme Committee for “Advances in Photonic Tools and Techniques for the Life Sciences” conference in Glasgow has announced their choice of invited Keynote speaker. Prof Banafshé Larijani will give a headline presentation on “Oncoprotein activation and dynamics in cancer: A new vision of cancer diagnostics”. Banafshé Larijani is the Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at the University of Bath and her Cell Biophysics laboratory...
Linum Labs, a software development studio that builds blockchain-based solutions, has announcedMolecule, a market platform to accelerate innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Molecule connects scientists, patients, and industry in order to advance drug development in a collaborative open market. By creating an open market for participants to crowdfund and discover promising therapeutics, it aims to solve core issues...
Self-healing concrete application demonstrates how SENTIALL® biotechnology can leverage controlled release capabilities to enable unprecedented efficiencies. Corbion, a leading food ingredients and biobased chemicals company, has announced the commercial launch of SENTIALL®, a versatile co-polymer platform that delivers specific, high-value functionalities such as adhesion or controlled release in a range of industries and applications. One of the first successful applications of SENTIALL relates to the project with...
Holotomography (HT) technology enables rapid, high-resolution, label-free, quantitative 3D imaging of healthy and dying cells. Although Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a relatively common neurodegenerative disease, therapeutic treatments are still limited due to its complex pathophysiology. Now, a Korean research team led by Su-A Yang and Jonghee Yoon of the KAIST Institute of Health Science and Technology in Daejeon, has demonstrated...
Microsaic Systems has announced the official launch of its latest point-of-need mass spectrometer at Pittcon 2019. Microsaic’s MiD® ProteinID allows users to verify target proteins, metabolites, by-products and feed-stocks throughout the whole bioprocessing value chain.By providing deterministic characterisation for proteins and small molecules at the point-of-need, MiD® ProteinID helps to ensure critical process parameters and critical quality attributes are attained timely, and simultaneously, which is vital for biologics compliance....
INTEGRA’s innovative ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot, has scooped the SelectScience Scientists’ Choice Award for Best New General Lab Product of 2018. These prestigious awards highlight the best laboratory technologies to emerge over the last year, and are uniquely nominated and voted for by laboratory scientists, truly making them the people’s choice.The multi-award winning ASSIST PLUS is designed to put automation within reach of virtually every lab, streamlining routine pipetting tasks at an affordable price....
"A Chemist’s Guide to Microwave Synthesis". The FREE guide from Anton Paar contains both a basic introduction as well as deeper insights into the fascinating world of microwave-assisted synthesis. Written by chemists for chemists, this compendium covers essential facts and history, the basic principles of microwave heating, comprehensive application examples and an overview of Anton Paar laboratory equipment...
Save the date for the UK’s only lab-dedicated exhibition showcase! More than 150 leading scientific suppliers and 3,000 attendees will descend on Lab Innovations on 30 & 31 October 2019 at the NEC, Birmingham, to discover, debate and discuss the latest scientific developments and equipment. Now in its 8th year, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry continues to enjoy support from some of the UK’s leading scientific institutions and will this year....
Postnova Analytics reports on a recent independent review which details how Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) is a valuable technique to improve the quality of nanoformulated medicines. Currently, only a few standardized methods exist to characterize some of the crucial physicochemical properties and their impact on biological systems of medical nanoparticles. Unfortunately, they are often not applicable...
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), world leading providers of structural chemistry data and insights for materials and life sciences, have announced an update to their Mercury software, a widely adopted solution for crystal structure visualisation, exploration and analysis.The CCDC curates a database of nearly one million experimentally determined chemical structures – the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)....
New antibody purification robots support further company growth. Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading manufacturer of recombinant antibodies, has developed custom protein purification systems to significantly increase its antibody production throughput. The automated robots, now installed in Absolute Antibody’s newly expanded, ISO-certified manufacturing facility in Northeast England, will enable further growth for the company’s recombinant antibody...
The Leica Biosystems " Innoivators Circle" offers cutting edge articles committed to the latest advances in digital pathology. Read the fist issue now - Real-Time Focusing: Breakthrough Innovation in Optics. Leica Biosystems is always innovating across our 12 global Research and Development sites. Over the last several years, our digital pathology engineers in Pathology Imaging have approached many different ways to achieve extremely high-speed line scanning at 40x magnification....
Autoscribe Informatics has appointed NV Genomics as distributor in India for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). NV Genomics, based in Delhi, is a leading service and support provider in the Biobank and Genomics domain in India, with a strong customer base in both Medical and Research sectors. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia at Autoscribe Informatics, said: “We are pleased to further extend the reach of...
Testa Analytical Solutions e.K reports on how its NanoBrook Omni particle size analyser and BI-ZTU autotitrator can be used together to detect the onset of aggregation in nanoparticles. The NanoBrook Omni instrument offers a single powerful and accurate solution for particle sizing and zeta potential analysis. The instrument allows users to measure samples in nearly every possible suspension environment from high salts such as PBS and...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently announced the winners of the Fisher Scientific Channel Supplier Awards during its annual Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference held in Poland. From March 4-7, 2019, almost 750 delegates attended the Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference at the Go??biewski Hotel, Karpacz, Poland. This was the eighth event of its kind, bringing together delegates from 21 different countries....
Could rubber and plastic from tyres, washing into rivers and streams, be contributing to pollution in waste water? A group of scientists from Denmark are using a system from Renishaw to find out. Microplastics are small, hard-to-spot, particles that make their way—from products and packaging—into the environment and cause significant pollution. The Danish Technological Institute (DTI, Aarhus, Denmark) is using a Renishaw Raman spectroscopy system to...
Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of the Nexera Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph series, incorporating artificial intelligence as Analytical Intelligence, allowing systems to detect and resolve issues automatically. The Nexera series makes lab management simple by integrating IoT and device networking, enabling users to easily review instrument status, optimize resource allocation, and achieve higher throughput....
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, announced it has received CE Mark for Ortho's VITROS® XT MicroSlide, a new multi-test technology that allows labs to run two tests simultaneously. Ortho Clinical Diagnostics’ VITROS® XT MicroSlide is a new multi-test technology that allows labs to run two tests simultaneously. Ortho's VITROS® XT MicroSlide is powered by DIGITAL CHEMISTRY™, an optics technology that ....
Pittcon, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, is pleased to announce the selection of nine finalists in the annual Pittcon Today Excellence Awards conducted by CE Communications, the official publishers of Pittcon Today and the Pittcon Buzz. These awards recognize innovations at this year’s exposition and offer a channel for exhibitors to showcase their scientific advancements. From titrators, wireless temperature sensing, and chromatography columns....
LabTwin GmbH, an independent company backed by Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures (BCG Digital Ventures) and leading biopharma supplier, Sartorius, have announced the launch of the world’s first voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant.Scientists can take notes, capture data, create supply lists and set timers or reminders from anywhere in the lab just by talking to LabTwin....
Increasing accuracy and reducing cost barriers, IDT’s innovative system delivers simple and cost-effective amplicon sequencing. As a dedicated innovator of tools and solutions for genomics applications,Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)introduces its unique,rhAmpSeq™targeted sequencing system - providing researchers with highly accurate, cost-effective and easy-to-use amplicon sequencing on Illumina®next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms...
Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, are running workshops on Re-scan Confocal Microscopy with demonstrations to illustrate the use of use of the technique. Confocal.nl are running a series of workshops on their ground-breaking technology, Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM). With a camera-based detection scheme, RCM offers an easy-to-use confocal system with high resolution and sensitivity in a cost-effective package...
The Programme Committee for “Advances in Photonic Tools and Techniques for the Life Sciences” conference in Glasgow has announced their choice of invited Keynote speaker. Prof Banafshé Larijani will give a headline presentation on “Oncoprotein activation and dynamics in cancer: A new vision of cancer diagnostics”. Banafshé Larijani is the Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at the University of Bath and her Cell Biophysics laboratory...
Linum Labs, a software development studio that builds blockchain-based solutions, has announcedMolecule, a market platform to accelerate innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Molecule connects scientists, patients, and industry in order to advance drug development in a collaborative open market. By creating an open market for participants to crowdfund and discover promising therapeutics, it aims to solve core issues...
Self-healing concrete application demonstrates how SENTIALL® biotechnology can leverage controlled release capabilities to enable unprecedented efficiencies. Corbion, a leading food ingredients and biobased chemicals company, has announced the commercial launch of SENTIALL®, a versatile co-polymer platform that delivers specific, high-value functionalities such as adhesion or controlled release in a range of industries and applications. One of the first successful applications of SENTIALL relates to the project with...
Microsaic Systems has announced the official launch of its latest point-of-need mass spectrometer at Pittcon 2019. Microsaic’s MiD® ProteinID allows users to verify target proteins, metabolites, by-products and feed-stocks throughout the whole bioprocessing value chain.By providing deterministic characterisation for proteins and small molecules at the point-of-need, MiD® ProteinID helps to ensure critical process parameters and critical quality attributes are attained timely, and simultaneously, which is vital for biologics compliance....
INTEGRA’s innovative ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot, has scooped the SelectScience Scientists’ Choice Award for Best New General Lab Product of 2018. These prestigious awards highlight the best laboratory technologies to emerge over the last year, and are uniquely nominated and voted for by laboratory scientists, truly making them the people’s choice.The multi-award winning ASSIST PLUS is designed to put automation within reach of virtually every lab, streamlining routine pipetting tasks at an affordable price....
"A Chemist’s Guide to Microwave Synthesis". The FREE guide from Anton Paar contains both a basic introduction as well as deeper insights into the fascinating world of microwave-assisted synthesis. Written by chemists for chemists, this compendium covers essential facts and history, the basic principles of microwave heating, comprehensive application examples and an overview of Anton Paar laboratory equipment...
Save the date for the UK’s only lab-dedicated exhibition showcase! More than 150 leading scientific suppliers and 3,000 attendees will descend on Lab Innovations on 30 & 31 October 2019 at the NEC, Birmingham, to discover, debate and discuss the latest scientific developments and equipment. Now in its 8th year, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry continues to enjoy support from some of the UK’s leading scientific institutions and will this year....
Postnova Analytics reports on a recent independent review which details how Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) is a valuable technique to improve the quality of nanoformulated medicines. Currently, only a few standardized methods exist to characterize some of the crucial physicochemical properties and their impact on biological systems of medical nanoparticles. Unfortunately, they are often not applicable...
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), world leading providers of structural chemistry data and insights for materials and life sciences, have announced an update to their Mercury software, a widely adopted solution for crystal structure visualisation, exploration and analysis.The CCDC curates a database of nearly one million experimentally determined chemical structures – the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)....
New antibody purification robots support further company growth. 
The Leica Biosystems " Innoivators Circle" offers cutting edge articles committed to the latest advances in digital pathology. Read the fist issue now - Real-Time Focusing: Breakthrough Innovation in Optics. Leica Biosystems is always innovating across our 12 global Research and Development sites. Over the last several years, our digital pathology engineers in Pathology Imaging have approached many different ways to achieve extremely high-speed line scanning at 40x magnification....
Autoscribe Informatics has appointed NV Genomics as distributor in India for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). NV Genomics, based in Delhi, is a leading service and support provider in the Biobank and Genomics domain in India, with a strong customer base in both Medical and Research sectors. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia at Autoscribe Informatics, said: “We are pleased to further extend the reach of...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently announced the winners of the Fisher Scientific Channel Supplier Awards during its annual Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference held in Poland. From March 4-7, 2019, almost 750 delegates attended the Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference at the Go??biewski Hotel, Karpacz, Poland. This was the eighth event of its kind, bringing together delegates from 21 different countries....
Could rubber and plastic from tyres, washing into rivers and streams, be contributing to pollution in waste water? A group of scientists from Denmark are using a system from Renishaw to find out. Microplastics are small, hard-to-spot, particles that make their way—from products and packaging—into the environment and cause significant pollution. The Danish Technological Institute (DTI, Aarhus, Denmark) is using a Renishaw Raman spectroscopy system to...
Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of the Nexera Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph series, incorporating artificial intelligence as Analytical Intelligence, allowing systems to detect and resolve issues automatically. The Nexera series makes lab management simple by integrating IoT and device networking, enabling users to easily review instrument status, optimize resource allocation, and achieve higher throughput....
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, announced it has received CE Mark for Ortho's VITROS® XT MicroSlide, a new multi-test technology that allows labs to run two tests simultaneously.