LGC has announced that it has acquired M.B.H. Analytical Limited, (MBH) a leading manufacturer of metal alloy reference materials (RMs). Located in Barnet, north London, MBH was founded in 1973 and is certified to ISO 9001:2015. Its RMs are used globally for quality control testing and material validation, including positive materials identification testing, in a wide range of end-markets, including the aerospace, automotive, metal...
The R&D team at Bio-Rad AbD Serotec in Munich has developed a new type of specific antibodies. These new andbodies can be used as a tool both pre-clincally and clinically to develop new therapeutic antibodies. Attana's technology was applied to select and optimize the best of these new antibodies. The paper describes the different types of these antibody tools, so called anti-idiotypic antibodies. An anti-idiotypic antibody interacts with a therapeutic antibody...
We’re delighted to announce that Dr Karl Harrison from Alecto Forensics will be joining us at Forensics Europe Expo 2019 in London on 5-6 March 2019, alongside Officer Michael Allard from the Northampton Police Crime Scene Services Unit and Dr Mobin Ul Islam from the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College. Together, these industry-leading experts will discuss the very latest in forensic analysis developments around genome sequencing...
Data integrity in the context of laboratory analytics is a must, particularly in regulated environments. However, how is data integrity exactly defined, and what are the software features required to achieve it? A new Metrohm white paper answers these questions based on examples from modern Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Software.Data integrity is commonly defined by a number of properties, which are summarized by the acronyms ALCOA and ALCOA+, respectively...
A reproducible, physiologically relevant cellular model of human microglia for neurodegenerative disease drug discovery and development. Axol Bioscience, the human cell culture specialist, is launching a new line of Human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC)-derived Microglia for the consistent and reproducible study of neuroglia and their involvement in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease....
The analysis of electrolytic etching solutions is a challenge for a large number of laboratories. Complex matrices from concentrated acids and spectral interferences make it difficult to screen for possible impurities. Regular analysis of the solutions is crucial to the quality of subsequent production processes since even the slightest impurities can have severe consequences. The automotive and aviation industries and mechanical engineering are employing electrolytic etching solutions for the surface treatment of metals...
Renishaw inVia™ microscope user, Prof. Carlos A. Carrero, heads a group that is developing advanced catalysts for the conversion of hydrocarbons into more valuable products at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, USA. The Carrero group undertakes fundamental studies to improve and develop more efficient and sustainable catalytic processes. They aim to develop the best catalysts using in situ / operando Raman spectroscopy to gather molecular, structural, and mechanistic insights....
Labs can have a fragrance which is characteristic of a build-up of trace vapours. Ideally, the lab should not smell; however, in an environment in which automated analysis equipment continuously runs, the likelihood of organic chemical and reagent volatiles leaking increases. This concoction of substances in the air can not only be a fire and explosion risk, but can also be harmful to health. VapLock closed systems make it easy to improve laboratory safety by reducing exposure to vapors and hazardous solvent waste.
A radical new method of producing drug molecules, which uses downloadable blueprints to easily and reliably synthesise organic chemicals via a programmable ‘chemputer’, could be set to democratise the pharmaceutical industry, scientists say. In a new paper published online in the journal Science today (November 29), researchers from the University of Glasgow present for the first time how synthesis of important drug molecules can be achieved in an...
PHARM Connect Congress is the premier networking business event dedicated to pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovations and trends from development through commercialisation in Central and Eastern Europe. The organiser - TEG The Events Group - cordially welcome all lead business professionals, academicians, researchers and peers from the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing and biotechnology to participate in the upcoming Congress, taking place in Budapest....
Join SP Scientific and Dr. Alexandra Braun, of GILYOS GmbH, for an insightful webinar on miniaturization in freeze drying. Miniaturization is an important topic – especially in the early development phase of new drug entities – due to the limited availability and costs of most Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API). This webinar, which takes place on January 24 2019, will focus on ways to jumpstart your development effort...
LABWorld China 2019, hosted by CCCMHPI, UBM EMEA and UBM Sinoexpo, will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) on June 18-20, 2019. As an industry weather vane, LABWorld China 2019 will focus on R&D, inspection and analysis in the pharmaceutical chemical and biotechnology fields, and set up a bridge of communication between the broad laboratory equipment and analytical instrument manufacturers and pharmaceutica...
WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing, today announced that the construction of new biologics drug substance manufacturing facility has commenced on the Industrial Development Authority's (IDA) greenfield site in Mullagharlin, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Being the company's first site...
Metrohm is proud to continue its productive collaboration with USP (the United States Pharmacopeia) on a global initiative to modernize monographs that have traditionally featured wet chemistry methods. The goal of this modernization initiative is to replace the methods in these monographs with selective and sensitive methodologies that reflect recent innovations and technology updates. Method innovations coupled with new instrumentation will make laboratory workflows more efficient and cost-effective....
Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of fluid analysis instrumentation and software, has been purchased by AMETEK, Inc. Spectro has annual sales of approximately $50 million and was acquired for approximately $190 million. Spectro was a privately held company and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. It joins AMETEK as part of its Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) - a leader in advanced analytical, monitoring, testing, calibrating and...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on their Particle Metrix ZetaView® users at Oxford Brookes University who are studying extracellular vesicles. Dr Genevieve Melling is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. She works in the laboratory of Dr Dave Carter which has been established to study the effects of non-coding RNAs and extracellular vesicles in stress response...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments reports being awarded a contract to supply two automated Spinsolve 80 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometers for forensic applications. Magritek announces that it has been awarded a major contract by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for two Spinsolve 80 Carbon benchtop NMR spectrometers. The purchase was made through a competitive award process and will allow DEA laboratories...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are using microencapsulation technologies developed by Dolomite Microfluidics to develop self-healing construction materials. As highlighted in recent BBC News broadcasts, the Department of Engineering’s Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group is developing microcapsules containing ‘healing’ agents – such as minerals, epoxy or polyurethane – which can be...
The European Hematology Association (EHA) and European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) will hold the first European CAR T Cell Meeting together in Paris on February 14-16, 2019. CAR T Cell Therapy is revolutionizing the field of hematologic malignancies and has the potential to achieve cure for a number of dreadful diseases. The recent approvals of the first CAR T Cell treatments in Europe provide a great opportunity to fight...
The cooperation with the University’s Plastics & Composites Engineering program strongly focuses on hands-on learning in the field of composites. In September of 2018, KRUSS Scientific Instruments, Inc. and Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA) came together in collaboration to support the education of new engineers in the rapidly-growing field of composites manufacturing. This collaboration allows Western Washington University students the opportunity to work with KRUSS...
Antibody specialist Absolute Antibody Ltd has announced a major new expansion to its site in North East England. The company opened a production facility in the area just two years after it was founded in Oxford in 2012, and has undergone rapid expansion since then. It now provides custom antibody sequencing, engineering and expression services to leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics companies, as well as academic...
One of the main goals of the USP monograph modernization initiative is to replace non-specific methods with highly selective and sensitive instrumental analysis methods. Based on a joint project with Metrohm, the USP proposes a new ion chromatography method for chloride and sulfate detection in drug substances, potassium carbonate, and potassium bicarbonate. The method is described in a free technical poster....
LGC has announced that it has acquired M.B.H. Analytical Limited, (MBH) a leading manufacturer of metal alloy reference materials (RMs). Located in Barnet, north London, MBH was founded in 1973 and is certified to ISO 9001:2015. Its RMs are used globally for quality control testing and material validation, including positive materials identification testing, in a wide range of end-markets, including the aerospace, automotive, metal...
The R&D team at Bio-Rad AbD Serotec in Munich has developed a new type of specific antibodies. These new andbodies can be used as a tool both pre-clincally and clinically to develop new therapeutic antibodies. Attana's technology was applied to select and optimize the best of these new antibodies. The paper describes the different types of these antibody tools, so called anti-idiotypic antibodies. An anti-idiotypic antibody interacts with a therapeutic antibody...
We’re delighted to announce that Dr Karl Harrison from Alecto Forensics will be joining us at Forensics Europe Expo 2019 in London on 5-6 March 2019, alongside Officer Michael Allard from the Northampton Police Crime Scene Services Unit and Dr Mobin Ul Islam from the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College. Together, these industry-leading experts will discuss the very latest in forensic analysis developments around genome sequencing...
Data integrity in the context of laboratory analytics is a must, particularly in regulated environments. However, how is data integrity exactly defined, and what are the software features required to achieve it? A new Metrohm white paper answers these questions based on examples from modern Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Software.Data integrity is commonly defined by a number of properties, which are summarized by the acronyms ALCOA and ALCOA+, respectively...
A reproducible, physiologically relevant cellular model of human microglia for neurodegenerative disease drug discovery and development. Axol Bioscience, the human cell culture specialist, is launching a new line of Human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC)-derived Microglia for the consistent and reproducible study of neuroglia and their involvement in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease....
The analysis of electrolytic etching solutions is a challenge for a large number of laboratories. Complex matrices from concentrated acids and spectral interferences make it difficult to screen for possible impurities. Regular analysis of the solutions is crucial to the quality of subsequent production processes since even the slightest impurities can have severe consequences. The automotive and aviation industries and mechanical engineering are employing electrolytic etching solutions for the surface treatment of metals...
Renishaw inVia™ microscope user, Prof. Carlos A. Carrero, heads a group that is developing advanced catalysts for the conversion of hydrocarbons into more valuable products at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, USA. The Carrero group undertakes fundamental studies to improve and develop more efficient and sustainable catalytic processes. They aim to develop the best catalysts using in situ / operando Raman spectroscopy to gather molecular, structural, and mechanistic insights....
Labs can have a fragrance which is characteristic of a build-up of trace vapours. Ideally, the lab should not smell; however, in an environment in which automated analysis equipment continuously runs, the likelihood of organic chemical and reagent volatiles leaking increases. This concoction of substances in the air can not only be a fire and explosion risk, but can also be harmful to health. VapLock closed systems make it easy to improve laboratory safety by reducing exposure to vapors and hazardous solvent waste.
A radical new method of producing drug molecules, which uses downloadable blueprints to easily and reliably synthesise organic chemicals via a programmable ‘chemputer’, could be set to democratise the pharmaceutical industry, scientists say. In a new paper published online in the journal Science today (November 29), researchers from the University of Glasgow present for the first time how synthesis of important drug molecules can be achieved in an...
PHARM Connect Congress is the premier networking business event dedicated to pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovations and trends from development through commercialisation in Central and Eastern Europe. The organiser - TEG The Events Group - cordially welcome all lead business professionals, academicians, researchers and peers from the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing and biotechnology to participate in the upcoming Congress, taking place in Budapest....
Join SP Scientific and Dr. Alexandra Braun, of GILYOS GmbH, for an insightful webinar on miniaturization in freeze drying. Miniaturization is an important topic – especially in the early development phase of new drug entities – due to the limited availability and costs of most Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API). This webinar, which takes place on January 24 2019, will focus on ways to jumpstart your development effort...
LABWorld China 2019, hosted by CCCMHPI, UBM EMEA and UBM Sinoexpo, will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) on June 18-20, 2019. As an industry weather vane, LABWorld China 2019 will focus on R&D, inspection and analysis in the pharmaceutical chemical and biotechnology fields, and set up a bridge of communication between the broad laboratory equipment and analytical instrument manufacturers and pharmaceutica...
WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing, today announced that the construction of new biologics drug substance manufacturing facility has commenced on the Industrial Development Authority's (IDA) greenfield site in Mullagharlin, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Being the company's first site...
Metrohm is proud to continue its productive collaboration with USP (the United States Pharmacopeia) on a global initiative to modernize monographs that have traditionally featured wet chemistry methods. The goal of this modernization initiative is to replace the methods in these monographs with selective and sensitive methodologies that reflect recent innovations and technology updates. Method innovations coupled with new instrumentation will make laboratory workflows more efficient and cost-effective....
Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of fluid analysis instrumentation and software, has been purchased by AMETEK, Inc. Spectro has annual sales of approximately $50 million and was acquired for approximately $190 million. Spectro was a privately held company and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. It joins AMETEK as part of its Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) - a leader in advanced analytical, monitoring, testing, calibrating and...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on their Particle Metrix ZetaView® users at Oxford Brookes University who are studying extracellular vesicles. Dr Genevieve Melling is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. She works in the laboratory of Dr Dave Carter which has been established to study the effects of non-coding RNAs and extracellular vesicles in stress response...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments reports being awarded a contract to supply two automated Spinsolve 80 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometers for forensic applications. Magritek announces that it has been awarded a major contract by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for two Spinsolve 80 Carbon benchtop NMR spectrometers. The purchase was made through a competitive award process and will allow DEA laboratories...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are using microencapsulation technologies developed by Dolomite Microfluidics to develop self-healing construction materials. As highlighted in recent BBC News broadcasts, the Department of Engineering’s Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group is developing microcapsules containing ‘healing’ agents – such as minerals, epoxy or polyurethane – which can be...
The European Hematology Association (EHA) and European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) will hold the first European CAR T Cell Meeting together in Paris on February 14-16, 2019. CAR T Cell Therapy is revolutionizing the field of hematologic malignancies and has the potential to achieve cure for a number of dreadful diseases. The recent approvals of the first CAR T Cell treatments in Europe provide a great opportunity to fight...
The cooperation with the University’s Plastics & Composites Engineering program strongly focuses on hands-on learning in the field of composites. In September of 2018, KRUSS Scientific Instruments, Inc. and Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA) came together in collaboration to support the education of new engineers in the rapidly-growing field of composites manufacturing. This collaboration allows Western Washington University students the opportunity to work with KRUSS...
Antibody specialist Absolute Antibody Ltd has announced a major new expansion to its site in North East England. The company opened a production facility in the area just two years after it was founded in Oxford in 2012, and has undergone rapid expansion since then. It now provides custom antibody sequencing, engineering and expression services to leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics companies, as well as academic...
One of the main goals of the USP monograph modernization initiative is to replace non-specific methods with highly selective and sensitive instrumental analysis methods. Based on a joint project with Metrohm, the USP proposes a new ion chromatography method for chloride and sulfate detection in drug substances, potassium carbonate, and potassium bicarbonate. The method is described in a free technical poster....