CloudLIMS, a leading SaaS company offering a secure, configurable Laboratory Information Management System, is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar titled “Navigating LIMS Data Migration: Ensuring Seamless Transition and Lab Data Integrity” on April 9, 2024, at 9 AM PDT (5 P.M. BST). The webinar will be presented by Montserrat Valdes, Sr. Scientist at CloudLIMS
Mark your calendars now to attend the Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference, which will take place at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, on May 22, 2024. The prestigious event, hosted by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), the UK's leading supplier of laboratory equipment, consumables and chemicals, promises to be a remarkable meeting of science, technology and innovation as it brings all the lab industry’s leading brands and professionals together in one place...
INTEGRA Biosciences is delighted to announce that Alt Biotech, an innovative French start-up making waves in the cell culture space, has been chosen as a winner of the 'INTEGRA supports start-ups’ competition, receiving 12 EVOLVE manual pipettes and $1000 worth of GRIPTIPS® pipette tips to help develop its potentially game-changing technologies. Alt Biotech aims to revolutionize cell culture, using its innovative bioproduction method to generate growth factors, hormones and cytokines...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, will open a new, € 20 million distribution center in Cajamar, São Paulo, Brazil to better serve its Life Science customers in the region. The new space, which will be operational in late February, has an area of 13,000 square meters – twice as large as the former location in Cotia. According to Vinícius Andremarchi, Head of Distribution for Life Science at Merck, in Brazil, the move to a larger facility supports the country's growing demand for life science products...
Whether in the battle against climate change, in developing vaccines and medicines, or controlling our food, modern analysis methods are indispensable. Over 1,050 exhibitors at analytica in Munich from April 9 to 12 will be showcasing the new instruments and applications the laboratory industry is using to meet the current challenges. The extensive supporting program at the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology makes it easy to exchange know-how and ideas in person...
INTEGRA Biosciences has completed construction of its new campus and pipette tip manufacturing plant at its headquarters in Zizers, Switzerland. The manufacturing facility will help the company to drastically reduce its transport emissions in line with its long-term sustainability goals. The transport of raw materials and products accounted for 44 percent of INTEGRA’s CO2 emissions in 2022...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to distribute its DxFLEX Clinical Flow Cytometer in the United States. Launched regionally in 2020, this advancement brings the popular benchtop IVD flow cytometry system to American labs while expanding testing capabilities. Offering up to 13-colors, additional detectors can be activated as laboratory needs evolve without the need to purchase additional hardware...
Organised and developed by its professional member volunteers, ISPE Singapore’s annual conference & exhibition highlights global and local best practices in process, technology and innovations. International and Asian manufacturers, regulatory agencies and subject matter experts will share case studies and latest knowledge from manufacturing facility design to finished product...
Cresset, a provider of integrated in silico solutions for drug discovery has expanded its existing North American presence, with the creation of a new US facility in Boston, one of the world’s leading global hubs for pharma and life sciences. From its headquarters in Cambridge, UK, Cresset has grown into a drug discovery solutions company with a genuine global reach, with more than 50% of its revenues now coming from outside the UK...
Activity at Infection Innovation Consortium: iiCON, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), will be bolstered through a £10 million government investment to develop large Category Three robotic laboratories capable of handling a range of dangerous and deadly pathogens. The award is part of the Liverpool City Region Life Sciences Investment Zone plans, unveiled today, to supercharge the sector...
NovAliX, a specialized Contract Research Organization dedicated to enabling drug discovery, announces its long-term strategic partnership with the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen. Through this collaboration, NovAliX and the MPI aim to make the vital process of translating scientific research and academic insights into real therapies more efficient...
CryoCloud has recently secured a significant milestone in its journey to revolutionise the field of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), closing a €500,000 pre-seed funding round. Co-founded in 2021 by Robert Englmeier, Ilja Gubins, and Boy Persoon, CryoCloud has rapidly progressed from its conceptual stages, through various accelerator programs, to the launch of a pioneering cloud-based data analysis platform designed to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of cryo-EM in drug development and research...
Asynt, a provider of innovative technologies and services for scientific research, is excited to announce the opening of its new office in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. This strategic move marks a significant step forward in Asynt's commitment to serving its North American clientele more effectively. The San Francisco Bay Area is an ideal location for Asynt's expansion due to its strategic geographical advantages...
The globally active Eppendorf Group is expanding its presence by opening a new location in South Africa. The branch office is located in Johannesburg's economic center "Waterfall City" and offers attractive office workplaces for sales and service activities, a modern pipette calibration laboratory including a service workshop and a customer experience center showcasing Eppendorf instruments. High quality laboratory services are offered here, including customer training and instruments maintenance services...
Bruker Corporation has announced a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Chemspeed Technologies AG, a Swiss provider of vendor-agnostic automated laboratory R&D and QC workflow solutions. Chemspeed is focused on modular automation and robotics solutions for chemical research, pharma drug formulation, materials research for cleantech and consumer applications...
In August 2023 we were looking back at the great Dutch pioneer of microscopy, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who died 300 years ago. When news was released of my discovering Leeuwenhoek’s original specimens, it did not take long for someone to realise that they had one of his microscopes at home. Later, two more appeared, within the space of a few months. Then, in December 2023, a fourth emerged. This one was a silver microscope found during a house clearance in East Anglia...
INTEGRA Biosciences awarded 3 PIPETBOY acu 2 serological pipette controllers to the 2023 iGEM Competition team at Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU_BS) to aid their pioneering research into lithium therapy toxicity testing. The pipette controllers enhanced the team’s pipetting precision and streamlined the multiple liquid handling tasks involved in this exciting project, helping them to achieve their project goals...
TLP Ltd., owner of PEAK Scientific, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Wirac Automation Ltd, trading as Noblegen, a company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of specialist gas and cryogenic solutions. This is the latest step in the Dusty TLP board’s vision to expand its portfolio and develop its range of products to better serve customers around the world...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, and RevoluGen Ltd. (RevoluGen), a UK genomics company, announce the successful automation of RevoluGen’s Fire Monkey™ High Molecular Weight (HMW) DNA extraction chemistry in a bead-based format using SPT Labtech’s firefly® automated liquid handling platform...
The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is adding mycoplasma and additional biosafety testing capabilities to its expanding portfolio of services at its good manufacturing practices (GMP) lab in Middleton, Wisconsin. This new service, offered by the analytical testing service of the clinical research business, ensures biopharmaceutical products are free of contaminants, helping customers deliver safe medicines for patients...
Scientists have developed a water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that makes fingerprints visible in just a few seconds, making forensic investigations safer, easier and quicker. Latent fingerprints (LFPs) are invisible prints formed by sweat or oil left on an object after it’s been touched. Traditional forensic methods for detecting fingerprints either use toxic powders that can harm DNA evidence, or environmentally damaging petrochemical solvents...
OGT, a leading global provider of genomic research and diagnostic solutions, proudly announces the opening of state-of-the-art facilities within the Oxford Technology Park. The move represents a multi-million-pound investment, fuelled by consistent company growth and growing customer demand. Equipped with cutting-edge technology, the facilities will drive development of OGT’s trusted SureSeq™ next generation sequencing (NGS) product portfolio, as well as deliver expert-led training and enhanced opportunities for collaboration...