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’ ...
To support next-generation semiconductor and materials innovation, Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the opening of its first electron microscopy demo center in Taiwan. This state-of-the-art facility, called a NanoPort, is strategically located in the region’s semiconductor manufacturing hub and designed to meet the area’s growing need for advanced analytical instruments and expertise. The new center is now one of six Thermo Fisher NanoPort facilities worldwide and will partner with semiconductor customers in the region...
The National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (NARDI) in Fundulea, Romania, relies on electronic multichannel pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its liquid handling workflows. These pipettes help the institute’s phenotyping and genotyping laboratory to extract and analyze DNA from hundreds of samples each day as part of a scientific approach to tackle the current challenges in agriculture, such as climate change, land scarcity and a loss of biodiversity.
The life science group Sartorius has opened its new Center of Excellence for bioanalytics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, two years after breaking ground in the Tech Loop at Research Park. Sartorius has invested around 100 million US dollars in the state-of-the-art facility, consolidating existing sites and functions in Ann Arbor. The number of employees at the site is expected to double over time...
BBI Solutions OEM Limited (BBI), a trusted expert provider of end-to-end solutions for the development of high-performance assays, has signed a partnership agreement with BioAgilytix, a leading global bioanalytical laboratory. The partnership will integrate BBI’s ability to efficiently produce high-quality custom antibody reagents for a variety of testing applications, with BioAgilytix’s renowned bioanalytical testing services...
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’ ...
The National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (NARDI) in Fundulea, Romania, relies on electronic multichannel pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its liquid handling workflows. These pipettes help the institute’s phenotyping and genotyping laboratory to extract and analyze DNA from hundreds of samples each day as part of a scientific approach to tackle the current challenges in agriculture, such as climate change, land scarcity and a loss of biodiversity.
The life science group Sartorius has opened its new Center of Excellence for bioanalytics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, two years after breaking ground in the Tech Loop at Research Park. Sartorius has invested around 100 million US dollars in the state-of-the-art facility, consolidating existing sites and functions in Ann Arbor. The number of employees at the site is expected to double over time...
BBI Solutions OEM Limited (BBI), a trusted expert provider of end-to-end solutions for the development of high-performance assays, has signed a partnership agreement with BioAgilytix, a leading global bioanalytical laboratory. The partnership will integrate BBI’s ability to efficiently produce high-quality custom antibody reagents for a variety of testing applications, with BioAgilytix’s renowned bioanalytical testing services...