BMG LABTECH, a leading manufacturer of microplate readers, announces that the company has received grant for the U.S. Patent 9,733,124, entitled “Microplate Reader with Linear Variable Filter”.
The patent’s claims cover a revolutionary new type of dual monochromator technology using Linear Variable Filters (LVF) for the selection of wavelength and bandwidths. The patent provides protection for this unique LVF MonochromatorTM design and recognition of the high quality of the innovation being carried out by the BMG LABTECH team....
Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, the West of Scotland and Galway have grown three-dimensional samples of mineralised bone from human mesenchymal stem cells for the first time without typical osteoinductive media.
The research, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, is the latest advance in a technique known as ‘Nanokicking’, and is an essential first step in the potential culture of cellularised bone grafts. The technique - developed by a team including Matthew Dalby, Professor of Cell Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and....
The further development of a promising Chikungunya vaccine candidate by Themis Bioscience is now supported with 3 Mio.GBP by the United Kingdom's innovation agency, Innovate UK.
Themis, the Vienna-based specialist for vaccine development, will use these funds to identify and validate a correlate of protection for its prophylactic Chikungunya vaccination candidate. Currently the candidate is tested in three parallel phase II clinical trials, including one that is performed in an endemic area for Chikungunya....
Median Technologies have announced that it will lead a scientific and medical round table to discuss the application of its next generation imaging platform iBiopsy® for NASH.
The round table panel will include four world-renowned key opinion leaders: Dr. Richard Jones, MD, MRCP, Vice President, General Medicine, Princeton, NJ, USA. Dr. Jones is a GMC registered UK Physician specializing in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology and cardiology....
Genevac reports that its Rocket Synergy centrifugal evaporator is being adopted by laboratories looking to replace multiple rotary evaporators, from benchtop to production capacity, saving them valuable bench space and improving productivity.
Rocket Synergy evaporator controls are very easy to use - simply load your samples, select the correct method, press start and walk away. The evaporator is equipped with high performance features that prevent foaming, bumping and cross contamination.....
Global High-Performance Liquid Chromatography market is projected to grow from US$4.462 billion in 2017 to US$5.672 billion in 2022, growing at a CAGR of 4.91% over the forecast period.
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is a technique which helps in separating and identifying of components in a mixture. Ongoing research and development is contributing to expanding application of HPLC applications in medical, research, and manufacturing sector....
Andor Zyla 5.5 sCMOS camera at the heart of new technique to perform real-time 3D imaging at unprecedented spatial resolution
Advances in confocal, two-photon and light-sheet microscopy have rapidly advanced our understanding of cellular and subcellular structures and processes. However, live cell and whole animal imaging could be on the verge of even more breakthroughs following the publication in Nature Photonics of work by a team of Columbia University scientists....
30 percent growth and innovation products wins Manchester company BVCA award
Having the right technology at the right time has made Elucigene Diagnostics a world leading developer and distributor of prenatal, rare disease and infertility genetics diagnostics. The Manchester-based company has been selected as the winner of the Venture-backed Management Team 2017 award for the Northwest....
Nikon Instruments announces winners of seventh annual competition that reveals details about an unseen microscopic world
Nikon Instruments Inc. have unveiled the winners of the seventh annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition, awarding First Place to Daniel von Wangenheim from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for his time lapse video following the root tip of Arabidopsis thaliana...
Gilson, an industry leader in Manual and Automated Liquid Handling instruments, officialy opens its new world-class, purpose built UK Centre of Excellence in Dunstable.
At an exclusive Grand Opening Ceremony, Andrew Selous, MP for South West Bedfordshire and Peter Tudor, Gilson European Director, officially unveil the new building. Gilson’s continued growth within the UK and commitment to excellence has fueled their demand and need to relocate to a larger and more modern premises.....
Entire library of 56,000 samples transferred in under 3 days
BioAscent Discovery Limited has taken delivery of Medivir AB’s compound collection of around 56,000 samples, to manage on an outsourced basis. To ensure business continuity during this transfer process, the complete collection was transferred within three working days....
FLIR Systems has published an applications article that describes how a leading US university has been using a FLIR A655sc thermal imaging camera to study the effect of temperature on tissue autofluorescence.
Tissue autofluorescence spectroscopy is a technique that measures the intrinsic light emissions from biological agents upon excitation by a light source. The technique has been proven to differentiate between normal and diseased tissue and thus shows great promise for surgical procedures.....
Leading industrial biotechnology company Ingenza has acquired a high performance benchtop bioreactor system to enable faster development of new fermentation processes.
The Sartorius ambr® 250 modular system combines automated operation and monitoring with small-scale, single-use fermentation vessels, offering potential benefits across the business. This compact instrument is designed to fit seamlessly into laboratory fermentation workflows, helping to accelerate development timelines....
Tecan’s innovative Spark® multimode reader can now provide walkaway processing of up to 50 assay plates per run with the addition of the new Spark-Stack™ integrated microplate stacker.
This versatile and field-upgradeable module is designed to reliably automate plate loading, unloading and re-stacking for non-lidded SLAS-format microplates from six to 1,536 wells. Ideal for assays requiring room temperature pre-incubation steps, the Spark-Stack is equipped with removable dark covers to protect light sensitive assay, such as AlphaLISA®, AlphaScreen®, AlphaPlex™ and GFP-transfected cells....
Beginning October 1st until December 31st a portion of each sale of our 9mm R.A.M.TM Pink Caps, 11mm Pink Snap Top CapsTM, Pink Limited Volume Plastic Vials, and new 2mL Pink 96 Round Well Polypropylene Plate will be donated to the Gilda’s Club. Our donation will be made in the memory of our company founder and Mom - Josephine Finneran....
The versatile uEye SE cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems are ideally suited to laboratory automation applications.
The wide choice of CMOS sensors and a choice of USB or GigE interfaces means that cameras can be precisely matched to the particular application. The latest generation of these cameras are available with GigE and USB 3.1 Type-C connections and can be supplied in a robust, dust proof housing with a C-mount lens connection or as a board stack version with or without a C-mount connector....
Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test that can take just seconds to confirm whether someone has used cocaine.
This new breakthrough, published in Clinical Chemistry, comes as a result of the first large scale study of cocaine users and could pave the way for the detection of a range of other Class A substances.The research was carried out with partners from the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Intelligent Fingerprinting....
INTEGRA is making multichannel pipetting quicker and easier than ever before.
The company’s extensive range of manual and electronic handheld pipettes – combined with the revolutionary GripTips system – is helping take the ‘pain’ out of multichannel pipetting, boosting productivity and ensuring happy, healthy staff....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports how Dr Hilde Roex from the University College Leuven & Limburg leads second year undergraduates through an organic chemistry laboratory to show them the value of NMR spectroscopy.
The students use the Magritek Spinsolve Proton benchtop NMR spectrometer. The University College Leuven Limburg, UCLL, is a multi-campus group in the region of Limburg and Flemish Brabant. Dr Hilde Roex is the co-ordinator of the second year organic chemistry laboratory course of the Chemistry Program....
Flow chemistry engineering specialists Vapourtec have been engaged in a successful collaboration with Cambridge-based New Path Molecular Research Ltd (NPM) over the past year, focusing on the development of new reactor technology and methods for peptide synthesis.
The collaboration has focused on the development of continuous flow technologies to reduce wastage and implement in-process controls in solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). Benefits delivered so far by the partnership include the real-time, in-process monitoring of coupling efficiency....
Asynt reports that it has supplied Redbrick Molecular Ltd with a wide range of synthetic organic chemistry equipment for its new environmentally responsible laboratory.
Owned by an expandable group of leading UK universities, Redbrick Molecular has unparalleled access to intellectual property generated by these partners allowing them to produce novel strategic building blocks and organic fragments that are attractive to industrial medicinal chemists....
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have discovered a process to trigger the death of cancer cells that could be more effective than current methods.
The new method of killing cancer cells – called Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD), and published today in Nature Cell Biology, led to the complete eradication of tumours in experimental models. A short video explaining the process with visual footage of the cells in action is available....
The patent’s claims cover a revolutionary new type of dual monochromator technology using Linear Variable Filters (LVF) for the selection of wavelength and bandwidths. The patent provides protection for this unique LVF MonochromatorTM design and recognition of the high quality of the innovation being carried out by the BMG LABTECH team....
The research, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, is the latest advance in a technique known as ‘Nanokicking’, and is an essential first step in the potential culture of cellularised bone grafts. The technique - developed by a team including Matthew Dalby, Professor of Cell Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and....
Themis, the Vienna-based specialist for vaccine development, will use these funds to identify and validate a correlate of protection for its prophylactic Chikungunya vaccination candidate. Currently the candidate is tested in three parallel phase II clinical trials, including one that is performed in an endemic area for Chikungunya....
The round table panel will include four world-renowned key opinion leaders: Dr. Richard Jones, MD, MRCP, Vice President, General Medicine, Princeton, NJ, USA. Dr. Jones is a GMC registered UK Physician specializing in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology and cardiology....
Rocket Synergy evaporator controls are very easy to use - simply load your samples, select the correct method, press start and walk away. The evaporator is equipped with high performance features that prevent foaming, bumping and cross contamination.....
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is a technique which helps in separating and identifying of components in a mixture. Ongoing research and development is contributing to expanding application of HPLC applications in medical, research, and manufacturing sector....
Advances in confocal, two-photon and light-sheet microscopy have rapidly advanced our understanding of cellular and subcellular structures and processes. However, live cell and whole animal imaging could be on the verge of even more breakthroughs following the publication in Nature Photonics of work by a team of Columbia University scientists....
Having the right technology at the right time has made Elucigene Diagnostics a world leading developer and distributor of prenatal, rare disease and infertility genetics diagnostics. The Manchester-based company has been selected as the winner of the Venture-backed Management Team 2017 award for the Northwest....
Nikon Instruments Inc. have unveiled the winners of the seventh annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition, awarding First Place to Daniel von Wangenheim from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for his time lapse video following the root tip of Arabidopsis thaliana...
At an exclusive Grand Opening Ceremony, Andrew Selous, MP for South West Bedfordshire and Peter Tudor, Gilson European Director, officially unveil the new building. Gilson’s continued growth within the UK and commitment to excellence has fueled their demand and need to relocate to a larger and more modern premises.....
BioAscent Discovery Limited has taken delivery of Medivir AB’s compound collection of around 56,000 samples, to manage on an outsourced basis. To ensure business continuity during this transfer process, the complete collection was transferred within three working days....
Tissue autofluorescence spectroscopy is a technique that measures the intrinsic light emissions from biological agents upon excitation by a light source. The technique has been proven to differentiate between normal and diseased tissue and thus shows great promise for surgical procedures.....
Beginning October 1st until December 31st a portion of each sale of our 9mm R.A.M.TM Pink Caps, 11mm Pink Snap Top CapsTM, Pink Limited Volume Plastic Vials, and new 2mL Pink 96 Round Well Polypropylene Plate will be donated to the Gilda’s Club. Our donation will be made in the memory of our company founder and Mom - Josephine Finneran....
The wide choice of CMOS sensors and a choice of USB or GigE interfaces means that cameras can be precisely matched to the particular application. The latest generation of these cameras are available with GigE and USB 3.1 Type-C connections and can be supplied in a robust, dust proof housing with a C-mount lens connection or as a board stack version with or without a C-mount connector....
This new breakthrough, published in Clinical Chemistry, comes as a result of the first large scale study of cocaine users and could pave the way for the detection of a range of other Class A substances.The research was carried out with partners from the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Intelligent Fingerprinting....
The students use the Magritek Spinsolve Proton benchtop NMR spectrometer. The University College Leuven Limburg, UCLL, is a multi-campus group in the region of Limburg and Flemish Brabant. Dr Hilde Roex is the co-ordinator of the second year organic chemistry laboratory course of the Chemistry Program....
The collaboration has focused on the development of continuous flow technologies to reduce wastage and implement in-process controls in solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). Benefits delivered so far by the partnership include the real-time, in-process monitoring of coupling efficiency....
Owned by an expandable group of leading UK universities, Redbrick Molecular has unparalleled access to intellectual property generated by these partners allowing them to produce novel strategic building blocks and organic fragments that are attractive to industrial medicinal chemists....
The new method of killing cancer cells – called Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD), and published today in Nature Cell Biology, led to the complete eradication of tumours in experimental models. A short video explaining the process with visual footage of the cells in action is available....