Deben reports on how the new Zeiss Global Centre at the University of Portsmouth will use Deben’s mechanical stages for in situ µXCT studies of the structural competence of biological structures.
The Zeiss Global Centre (ZGC) is a strategic collaboration between the School of Engineering at the University of Portsmouth and Carl Zeiss Ltd. The Centre is directed by Professor Asa Barber (bio-inspired engineering) and Dr Gianluca Tozzi (healthcare applications)....
Scientists have developed a three-in-one blood test that could transform treatment of advanced prostate cancer through use of precision drugs designed to target mutations in the BRCA genes.
By testing cancer DNA in the bloodstream, researchers found they could pick out which men with advanced prostate cancer were likely to benefit from treatment with exciting new drugs called PARP inhibitors.
Firms to Co-Market New Semi-Automated Sample Preparation Approach for Protein Therapeutics Glycosylation Profiling
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an easy-to-use, semi-automated sample preparation approach for released N-glycan profiling and analysis by LC and LC-MS....
BBI Solutions (BBI) has invested into its facilities and resource in order to increase the capacity of cell culture transferrin production by up to 40%.
Stephane Argivier, BBI’s Director of Product Management said “demand for our cell culture grade transferrin was growing at such a rate that we had reached our full capacity. In response to market demand we saw the opportunity to increase our capacity to meet the needs of our customers and provide room for growth....
New Q Exactive HF-X Orbitrap mass spectrometer enables scientists to advance disease research and drug discovery
Scientists studying complex protein samples can now take advantage of a new high-performing Orbitrap mass spectrometer designed to quickly and consistently produce superior data quality for challenging workflows across life science research and biopharma applications....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands utilises Magritek’s Spinsolve 60 benchtop NMR to quantitatively investigate illicit medicinal products.
Dr Peter Keizers is a scientist in the Centre for Health Protection at RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment based in Bilthoven. As a chemist, he investigates (illegal) drugs, medical devices and other medicinal products....
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its automated air-monitoring systems for both canister and tube sampling have been officially endorsed by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection.
This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). The endorsed technologies, which are based on the company’s UNITY-xr, CIA Advantage and TD100-xr instruments....
ZCube, Research Venture of the pharmaceutical group Zambon, launches the second edition of Open Accelerator, a fast track acceleration program for life science start-up projects.
Open Accelerator is a 12-steps program providing training to international researchers, scientists and aspiring entrepreneurs that, following a selection process, could receive seed investment of up to €100.000 per project....
Siemens Healthineers brings FTD’s assays and multisyndromic panels onto expanded menu for VERSANT® kPCR Molecular System
In an effort to provide customers with expanded, more comprehensive solutions for molecular testing, Siemens Healthineers announces a new strategic relationship with Fast-track Diagnostics (FTD) that includes the addition of FTD’s broad range of CE-marked kits and multisyndromic panels to the menu of the Siemens Healthineers VERSANT® kPCR Molecular System....
Acquisition strengthens company’s competence and expertise for solving the most challenging photonics applications
AMS Technologies, Europe’s leading solution provider and distributor for optical, power and thermal management technologies, has acquired UK photonics company Elforlight. With access to Elforlight’s know-how, AMS Technologies is now able to realise turnkey solutions, even for particularly challenging problems in the field of optics....
The latest software release for the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from Autoscribe Informatics provides greater bulk sample registration flexibility and enhanced features for visualisation and communications for users.
These include the ability to define the location of a sampling point on an image, record a screenshot with a single button and add attachments to e-mails generated within the LIMS. These useful new features have all been introduced in response to suggestions from Matrix Gemini users....
Adam Equipment, a leading provider of weighing instruments worldwide, has published a new guide on how to assemble a lab workstation.
The guide outlines the procedure in four simple steps, using comprehensive explanations and easy-to-follow terminology. Workstation components include Adam’s Nimbus or Eclipse balance, AVT anti-vibration table, OIML/ASTM certified weights, and Adam DU specialized software....
PerkinElmer, Inc. have announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EUROIMMUN Medical Laboratory Diagnostics AG. The agreement provides that PerkinElmer will acquire up to a 100% stake in EUROIMMUN.
The total purchase price of the transaction based on all outstanding shares being acquired will be approximately $1.3 billion in cash.Based in Lübeck, Germany, with approximately 2,400 employees, EUROIMMUN is widely recognized as a global leader in autoimmune testing and an emerging force in infectious disease and allergy testing.....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.has announced a co-marketing agreement with Biognosys AG to provide a comprehensive, efficient workflow to enable library creation and data processing for Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) studies, through the combined use of Orbitrap mass spectrometers and Spectronaut Pulsar software.
Compatible with the new Thermo Scientific Q Exactive HF-X Hybrid Quadrupole Orbitrap mass spectrometer, in addition to previous Orbitrap instruments, the Biognosys Spectronaut Pulsar software allows researchers to conduct data-independent analysis using MS1 quantitation for reproducible and accurate quantitation of thousands of proteins in a single run....
Provides MSc students with industry-relevant learning tools and pharma with a new pipeline of candidate compounds
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced it had entered into a collaboration with Imperial College London, the world leading science-based research institution and university, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit drug R&D organisation developing new treatments for neglected diseases....
Dolomite Microfluidics’ Mitos P-Pumps are proving popular with customers around the globe.
Designed specifically for microfluidic systems, this key enabling technology is ideally suited for the production of highly monodisperse droplets in a diverse array of scientific sectors, such as food, cosmetics, agrochemicals, pharma, diagnostics, drug delivery and biomedicine....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, have launched a ready-to-use kit for accurate and confident metabolic phenotyping on high-resolution mass spectrometry instruments.
As part of a co-marketing agreement, the companies will jointly promote and market the combined use of the kit and Thermo Fisher’s Q Exactive high-resolution, accurate-mass (HRAM) platform of mass spectrometers.....
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce a new demonstration capability at their Berlin headquarters.
In collaboration with Abberior Instruments, visitors to JPK's applications facility will be able to see STED capability demonstrated in conjunction with the NanoWizard® AFMs. Following collaboration with Abberior Instruments (Göttingen, Germany), visitors to JPK's facility in Berlin will now be able to see a demonstration of STED capability....
Horizon’s CHO SOURCE Platform now incorporates exclusive ATUM vectors as standard - ATUM has licensed Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform to offer cell line development services with its Leap-In Transposase Technology
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) and Horizon Discovery (LSE: HZD), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, have announced they have signed a cross-license agreement for Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform and ATUM’s vector technology to speed development of highly productive stable cell lines for drug development.....
Waters Collaborates With IonSense on Direct Analysis for Mass Detection Waters and IonSense Exploring the Possibilities Enabled by Coupling the IonSense DART Source to the Waters ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) have announced a collaborative engagement with IonSense (Saugus, Mass.) to interface the compact Waters® ACQUITY® QDa® Mass Detector with the IonSense® DART® ionization source....
Lab Innovations – the UK’s only dedicated showcase for laboratory technology, analytical and biotech equipment – returns for its sixth consecutive year on 1& 2 November 2017 at the NEC, Birmingham.
With the largest gathering of laboratory suppliers in the UK, this free-to-attend show has lots on offer for professionals across a wide range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals to food and drink. Lab Innovations continues its strong links with the scientific community....
SepSolve Analytical has announced a change in its business operations that greatly expand its capability to offer full instrument packages to the analytical chemistry community, with a focus on two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) for challenging applications.
Founded in early 2016, SepSolve was originally launched to offer advice on sampling, separation and detection methodologies for GC and GC×GC analysis. Since that time, SepSolve’s GC×GC flow modulator, INSIGHT™....
The Zeiss Global Centre (ZGC) is a strategic collaboration between the School of Engineering at the University of Portsmouth and Carl Zeiss Ltd. The Centre is directed by Professor Asa Barber (bio-inspired engineering) and Dr Gianluca Tozzi (healthcare applications)....
By testing cancer DNA in the bloodstream, researchers found they could pick out which men with advanced prostate cancer were likely to benefit from treatment with exciting new drugs called PARP inhibitors.
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an easy-to-use, semi-automated sample preparation approach for released N-glycan profiling and analysis by LC and LC-MS....
Stephane Argivier, BBI’s Director of Product Management said “demand for our cell culture grade transferrin was growing at such a rate that we had reached our full capacity. In response to market demand we saw the opportunity to increase our capacity to meet the needs of our customers and provide room for growth....
Scientists studying complex protein samples can now take advantage of a new high-performing Orbitrap mass spectrometer designed to quickly and consistently produce superior data quality for challenging workflows across life science research and biopharma applications....
Dr Peter Keizers is a scientist in the Centre for Health Protection at RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment based in Bilthoven. As a chemist, he investigates (illegal) drugs, medical devices and other medicinal products....
This cements their long-standing reputation as high-performance, well-designed and cost-effective technologies for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). The endorsed technologies, which are based on the company’s UNITY-xr, CIA Advantage and TD100-xr instruments....
Open Accelerator is a 12-steps program providing training to international researchers, scientists and aspiring entrepreneurs that, following a selection process, could receive seed investment of up to €100.000 per project....
In an effort to provide customers with expanded, more comprehensive solutions for molecular testing, Siemens Healthineers announces a new strategic relationship with Fast-track Diagnostics (FTD) that includes the addition of FTD’s broad range of CE-marked kits and multisyndromic panels to the menu of the Siemens Healthineers VERSANT® kPCR Molecular System....
AMS Technologies, Europe’s leading solution provider and distributor for optical, power and thermal management technologies, has acquired UK photonics company Elforlight. With access to Elforlight’s know-how, AMS Technologies is now able to realise turnkey solutions, even for particularly challenging problems in the field of optics....
These include the ability to define the location of a sampling point on an image, record a screenshot with a single button and add attachments to e-mails generated within the LIMS. These useful new features have all been introduced in response to suggestions from Matrix Gemini users....
The guide outlines the procedure in four simple steps, using comprehensive explanations and easy-to-follow terminology. Workstation components include Adam’s Nimbus or Eclipse balance, AVT anti-vibration table, OIML/ASTM certified weights, and Adam DU specialized software....
The total purchase price of the transaction based on all outstanding shares being acquired will be approximately $1.3 billion in cash.
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced it had entered into a collaboration with Imperial College London, the world leading science-based research institution and university, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit drug R&D organisation developing new treatments for neglected diseases....
Designed specifically for microfluidic systems, this key enabling technology is ideally suited for the production of highly monodisperse droplets in a diverse array of scientific sectors, such as food, cosmetics, agrochemicals, pharma, diagnostics, drug delivery and biomedicine....
In collaboration with Abberior Instruments, visitors to JPK's applications facility will be able to see STED capability demonstrated in conjunction with the NanoWizard® AFMs. Following collaboration with Abberior Instruments (Göttingen, Germany), visitors to JPK's facility in Berlin will now be able to see a demonstration of STED capability....
ATUM (formerly DNA2.0, Inc.) and Horizon Discovery (LSE: HZD), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, have announced they have signed a cross-license agreement for Horizon’s CHO SOURCE platform and ATUM’s vector technology to speed development of highly productive stable cell lines for drug development.....
With the largest gathering of laboratory suppliers in the UK, this free-to-attend show has lots on offer for professionals across a wide range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals to food and drink. Lab Innovations continues its strong links with the scientific community....
Founded in early 2016, SepSolve was originally launched to offer advice on sampling, separation and detection methodologies for GC and GC×GC analysis. Since that time, SepSolve’s GC×GC flow modulator, INSIGHT™....