The range of simple to use equipment on stand will help scientists in any food, environmental and pharmaceutical microbiology laboratories to improve precision and increase their productivity. Microbiologists looking for easy to set-up automated colony counters will have the opportunity to access the Protos 3 and aCOLyte 3 HD systems live on stand. Both colony counters feature high-resolution CCD cameras and LED lighting coupled with powerful analysis software....
Porvair Sciences is a leader in bespoke and speciality microplate design and manufacture. Closely examining the needs of clients for special microplate designs, assembly techniques and plate structure, Porvair can deploy more than 30 years’ experience in the design, assembly and testing of microplates to deliver a world-class final product that can meet or exceed the most exacting specifications....
Third-party acknowledgement provides European validation for STEC, advance in preventing flour-based outbreaks. Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, today announced it received extensions to its AOAC-Research Institute validation for the BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay Suite for STEC for two additional matrices: 25g flour and...
REAL Space Navigator offers access to over 640 million pharma-oriented compounds. Enamine Ltd., a leading chemical research organization and producer of the world’s largest collections of novel building blocks (150,000) and screening compound libraries (2,400,000), and BioSolveIT GmbH, premium provider of medicinal chemistry software, today announced the launch of the ‘REAL Space Navigator’. Jointly developed, the new software tool capitalizes on Enamine’s REAL...
Horizon out-licenses proprietary cell line and Helitron transposon gene editing technologies, demonstrating Horizon’s ability to generate revenues from internally derived IP. Horizon retains commercial rights over improvements to its technology platforms to develop new cell line technologies and gene delivery IP that can be licensed to customers for applications in biomanufacturing, diagnostic reference standards, and cell therapy. Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD)..
Corning to become exclusive supplier of CytoSMART’s new Cell Counter. Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and CytoSMART Technologies BV has announced an agreement that will simplify mammalian cell counting in laboratories around the world. Cell counting is a critical step in subcultivation in the cell culture workflow. Corning is the exclusive supplier of the Corning Cell Counter which features new technology developed by CytoSMART and offers superior speed for...
Postnova Analytics reports on how the inorganic analysis team within LGC (Teddington, UK) has been using the AF2000 Field Flow Fractionation system coupled to Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) to characterise nanomaterials in complex food sample matrices. Nanomaterials are known to be present in over 1300 foods and commercial products. ....
Ocean Optics has expanded its spectroscopy capabilities by partnering with Pyreos Limited (Edinburgh, Scotland) to develop new mid-IR solutions. Unlike traditional FT-IR spectrometers, the unique combination of Pyreos’ detectors and Ocean Optics applied spectroscopy knowledge will enable businesses and researchers to create rapid, accurate and field-portable devices. MIR technology makes possible a wealth of potential applications in chemical...
From complete integrated systems to budget-friendly plate handlers, PAA’s lab automation solutions assist almost any workflow. Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader in laboratory automation, displayed its complete range of fully integrated laboratory automation systems at SLAS2018, San Diego, CA, USA. These include PAA’s established S-CEL™ robotic systems which provide a flexible design to accommodate all types of laboratory...
At Arablab (Dubai 2018, 18-21 March), Telstar will be promoting a range of compact laminar flow ecocabinets,Aeolus particularly suitable for handling non-pathogenic samples and Mini-V, specially designed for PCR applications. Particularly suitable for handling non-pathogenic samples, the Aeolus range of cabinets offer up to 35% less power consumption than the...
Asynt reports that medicinal chemistry specialists Charnwood Molecular (Loughborough UK) have been using the DrySyn MAXI heating system to successfully and reproducibly scale up syntheses within their contract research laboratories. Dr Michael McKenzie, Head of Operations, said: “Here at Charnwood Molecular our experienced preclinical R&D team routinely investigate the development of small scale medicinal chemistry routes in order to facilitate the timely supply of...
Edinburgh Instruments is excited to share the latest upgrades to our FS5 Sample Cassettes range. The easy-to-use cassettes see improvements that provide users ease of access, and time-saving features that makes operation more straightforward. With the use of a new, harder wearing material, the cassettes include a ‘Plug n Play’ feature that allows our Fluoracle Software to automatically recognise which measurement module is being used....
You may read the title of this article and wonder how these two are connected as they seem about as far apart as you could possibly imagine. But there are more similarities than you think. And, I believe that liquid chromatography users could learn a great deal from the aviation industry. What made me come to this connection? My experience living near the London Heathrow airport for the past 20 years–which has allowed...
AMSBIO, a transatlantic life sciences company, and the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) have pioneered a multidisciplinary approach combining expertise in microfluidics and 3D culture to develop a novel microfluidic platform for cancer research. The new platform combines microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology with physiologically relevant 3D spheroids to enable formation and long-term culture of 3D multicellular tumors / organoids for drug screening and...
Optibrium, a developer of software for small molecule drug discovery, today announced it has appointed Dr. Scott Lyon as Director of Business Development and relocated its Headquarters and R&D facilities, to Cambridge Innovation Park, Cambridge, UK. Optibrium’s move to larger premises is driven by the company’s rapid recent growth and will accommodate future expansion plans as it accelerates its R&D pipeline and extends research into new technologies....
The automated Genotox solution for early product development without animal experiments. The integrity of the genetic information carrier is essential to human health. DNA impairment can lead to diseases such as (lung) cancer, vascular disease and premature aging. Every substance intended for human consumption is therefore subjected to ever-greater control, in particular...
Advanced analytics and remote diagnostics wireless cold storage monitoring solution voted most innovative product of 2017. Senior executives in manufacturing operations within large global corporations have selected the Thermo Scientific InSight wireless cold storage monitoring solution as the winner of the 2017 Manufacturing Leaders’ Innovation Award.....
A lot of thought should go into specifying an ultra-low temperature freezer and this post is designed to help you sort through the considerations that apply. These units are not inexpensive; their function is to protect contents of high value and sometimes for long periods of time. Fortunately, there are a number of ultra-low temperature freezers on the market to ease the selection of a model that best suits your needs...
Lab-quality CRP combined with Full Blood Count results rapidly available in Frailty Assessment Hubs. HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical announces that Thame and Marlow Community Hubs, within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, have each recently installed HORIBA Medical’s latest point-of-care testing analyser, the Microsemi CRP. These new analysers are now streamlining existing diagnostic pathways in the community and helping to reduce local A&E admissions for frail patients...
INTEGRA Biosciences is helping researchers to improve pipetting efficiency and ensure reliable results with a recently published guide to choosing the right micropipette. Split into three main topics – reliable results, efficiency and ergonomics – it looks at the main considerations when selecting a pipette to best meet the needs of your application. As a leading provider of high quality laboratory tools, INTEGRA understands the varied demands and requirements of life sciences and medical laboratories....
Researchers from the University of Glasgow have been awarded £875K from the MRC (Medical Research Council) to lead a multi-centre, international research project to better understand the cause of brain bleeding (haemorrhaging) in patients who have had a stroke. Currently, strokes due to haemorrhaging have a poor prognosis, with no available treatment options. They account for 20% of strokes in adults and half of all strokes in children.
During the Society of Toxicology Meeting from 11-15 March 2018 at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, TX (USA), Lonza will present two posters highlighting its latest research into developing more physiologically relevant in vitro cell-culture models for ADME-Tox testing. Lonza is also sponsoring two symposia at the meeting featuring the use of cell-culture models that better mimic the in vivo environment for enhanced research into...
The range of simple to use equipment on stand will help scientists in any food, environmental and pharmaceutical microbiology laboratories to improve precision and increase their productivity. Microbiologists looking for easy to set-up automated colony counters will have the opportunity to access the Protos 3 and aCOLyte 3 HD systems live on stand. Both colony counters feature high-resolution CCD cameras and LED lighting coupled with powerful analysis software....
Porvair Sciences is a leader in bespoke and speciality microplate design and manufacture. Closely examining the needs of clients for special microplate designs, assembly techniques and plate structure, Porvair can deploy more than 30 years’ experience in the design, assembly and testing of microplates to deliver a world-class final product that can meet or exceed the most exacting specifications....
Third-party acknowledgement provides European validation for STEC, advance in preventing flour-based outbreaks. Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, today announced it received extensions to its AOAC-Research Institute validation for the BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay Suite for STEC for two additional matrices: 25g flour and...
REAL Space Navigator offers access to over 640 million pharma-oriented compounds. 
Horizon out-licenses proprietary cell line and Helitron transposon gene editing technologies, demonstrating Horizon’s ability to generate revenues from internally derived IP. 
Corning to become exclusive supplier of CytoSMART’s new Cell Counter. Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and CytoSMART Technologies BV has announced an agreement that will simplify mammalian cell counting in laboratories around the world. Cell counting is a critical step in subcultivation in the cell culture workflow. Corning is the exclusive supplier of the Corning Cell Counter which features new technology developed by CytoSMART and offers superior speed for...
Postnova Analytics reports on how the inorganic analysis team within LGC (Teddington, UK) has been using the AF2000 Field Flow Fractionation system coupled to Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) to characterise nanomaterials in complex food sample matrices. Nanomaterials are known to be present in over 1300 foods and commercial products. ....
Ocean Optics has expanded its spectroscopy capabilities by partnering with Pyreos Limited (Edinburgh, Scotland) to develop new mid-IR solutions. Unlike traditional FT-IR spectrometers, the unique combination of Pyreos’ detectors and Ocean Optics applied spectroscopy knowledge will enable businesses and researchers to create rapid, accurate and field-portable devices. MIR technology makes possible a wealth of potential applications in chemical...
From complete integrated systems to budget-friendly plate handlers, PAA’s lab automation solutions assist almost any workflow. Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader in laboratory automation, displayed its complete range of fully integrated laboratory automation systems at SLAS2018, San Diego, CA, USA. These include PAA’s established S-CEL™ robotic systems which provide a flexible design to accommodate all types of laboratory...
At Arablab (Dubai 2018, 18-21 March), Telstar will be promoting a range of compact laminar flow ecocabinets,Aeolus particularly suitable for handling non-pathogenic samples and Mini-V, specially designed for PCR applications. Particularly suitable for handling non-pathogenic samples, the Aeolus range of cabinets offer up to 35% less power consumption than the...
Asynt reports that medicinal chemistry specialists Charnwood Molecular (Loughborough UK) have been using the DrySyn MAXI heating system to successfully and reproducibly scale up syntheses within their contract research laboratories. Dr Michael McKenzie, Head of Operations, said: “Here at Charnwood Molecular our experienced preclinical R&D team routinely investigate the development of small scale medicinal chemistry routes in order to facilitate the timely supply of...
Edinburgh Instruments is excited to share the latest upgrades to our FS5 Sample Cassettes range. The easy-to-use cassettes see improvements that provide users ease of access, and time-saving features that makes operation more straightforward. With the use of a new, harder wearing material, the cassettes include a ‘Plug n Play’ feature that allows our Fluoracle Software to automatically recognise which measurement module is being used....
You may read the title of this article and wonder how these two are connected as they seem about as far apart as you could possibly imagine. But there are more similarities than you think. And, I believe that liquid chromatography users could learn a great deal from the aviation industry. What made me come to this connection? My experience living near the London Heathrow airport for the past 20 years–which has allowed...
AMSBIO, a transatlantic life sciences company, and the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) have pioneered a multidisciplinary approach combining expertise in microfluidics and 3D culture to develop a novel microfluidic platform for cancer research. The new platform combines microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology with physiologically relevant 3D spheroids to enable formation and long-term culture of 3D multicellular tumors / organoids for drug screening and...
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The automated Genotox solution for early product development without animal experiments. 
Advanced analytics and remote diagnostics wireless cold storage monitoring solution voted most innovative product of 2017. 
A lot of thought should go into specifying an ultra-low temperature freezer and this post is designed to help you sort through the considerations that apply. These units are not inexpensive; their function is to protect contents of high value and sometimes for long periods of time. Fortunately, there are a number of ultra-low temperature freezers on the market to ease the selection of a model that best suits your needs...
Lab-quality CRP combined with Full Blood Count results rapidly available in Frailty Assessment Hubs. HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical announces that Thame and Marlow Community Hubs, within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, have each recently installed HORIBA Medical’s latest point-of-care testing analyser, the Microsemi CRP. These new analysers are now streamlining existing diagnostic pathways in the community and helping to reduce local A&E admissions for frail patients...
INTEGRA Biosciences is helping researchers to improve pipetting efficiency and ensure reliable results with a recently published guide to choosing the right micropipette. 
Researchers from the University of Glasgow have been awarded £875K from the MRC (Medical Research Council) to lead a multi-centre, international research project to better understand the cause of brain bleeding (haemorrhaging) in patients who have had a stroke. Currently, strokes due to haemorrhaging have a poor prognosis, with no available treatment options. They account for 20% of strokes in adults and half of all strokes in children.
During the Society of Toxicology Meeting from 11-15 March 2018 at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, TX (USA), Lonza will present two posters highlighting its latest research into developing more physiologically relevant in vitro cell-culture models for ADME-Tox testing. Lonza is also sponsoring two symposia at the meeting featuring the use of cell-culture models that better mimic the in vivo environment for enhanced research into...