Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract research services for small molecule discovery and design, announces full line-up for The Cresset User Group Meeting, 29th – 30th June 2017 in Cambridge, UK.
The scientific program on 29th June 2017 features speakers from 4 continents. Cresset scientists will present ‘New Insights for Structure-based Design with Flare’, ‘Peeking into the Heart of New Cresset Science’ and ‘What’s New in Ligand-based Design’....
Uniqsis has published details of a new flow-through protocol developed by the Lamaty Group at Universite de Montpellier (France) on a FlowSyn™ Multi-X system that provides efficient ring closing olefin metathesis.
Olefin metathesis is an important reaction that provides a useful synthetic route to highly functionalized molecules such as drug precursors or polymers. Although this reaction is highly efficient in batch, scaling-up usually results in poor reproducibility. While several research groups have reported the development of olefin metathesis in continuous flow, most of them have focused on the use of a heterogeneous catalyst....
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, announced the launch of a full range of chemistry testing services.
Offered by its subsidiary BioOutsource, they characterize the physicochemical properties and structural attributes of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The service platform methods have been developed to ensure rapid sample analysis and reporting for mAbs and biosimilars....
Goldfinch Bio’s researchers select StarDrop to guide successful drug discovery
Optibrium, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Goldfinch Bio, a company focused on discovering and developing precision therapies to treat patients with kidney disease, today announced that the company has signed a multi-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop software....
The Phenomics Discovery Initiative (PDi), a unique collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and academia, has unveiled its first series of novel phenotypic assays.
The assays are under development within the labs of the National Phenotypic Screening Centre (NPSC) – a collaboration between the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Oxford - and are designed to identify new molecules with pharmacological activity in respiratory, oncology, immunology and cellular stress indications....
Deben reports on how the Marrow group in the Materials Department at the University of Oxford applies Deben’s mechanical stage for in situ µXCT studies of multiple engineering and natural materials.
Professor James Marrow leads a research group specialising in the structure-property relationship of a broad range of engineering and natural materials. Based in the Materials Department at the University of Oxford, Marrow's team use high resolution X-ray computed tomography to make in situ studies of three-dimensional deformation and damage....
Analytik are pleased to announce their appointment as exclusive distributors for Nanophoton, Japanese manufacturers of innovative, benchtop Raman imaging systems for both industrial and research laboratories.
Nanophoton is a manufacturer of high performance analytical and imaging instruments with major focus on innovative Raman systems by using most up-to-date photonics and nanotechnology. Nanophoton’s instruments include high performance Raman Imaging Systems, fast Raman Screening Systems...
Phasefocus provides a range of products and services based on its proprietary Ptychographic Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) technology to provide a wide range of analytical applications including label-free cell imaging and quantitative electron phase microscopy.
Here, they report on a poster presented at ASCB that shows the power of Livecyte for individual cell segmentation. Professor Norman Maitland's team from the Cancer Research Unit at the University of York presented a poster that showed the potential of Phasefocus’ Livecyte label-free cell analysis system as a rapid characterisation tool of cell cultures derived from patient tissue. “Characterisation of the subpopulations of heterogeneous primary...
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. held an opening ceremony on May 9 for the Electron Microscopy Center of Excellence at the KAUST campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
This new center builds upon the long-standing partnership between KAUST and Thermo Fisher, and will focus on excellence in instrument performance and R&D collaboration. The Center of Excellence aims to offer KAUST scientists and collaborators exploration and experimentation capabilities through Thermo Fisher’s leading electron microscopy platform...
Lab infrastructure solution ZEISS ZEN 2 core is connecting systems, data and workflows
ZEISS presents a networked lab for quality control and quality assurance. Connected systems, data and workflows enable more efficient collaboration - even across lab boundaries....
Cerno Bioscience has announced that it has released the first shipments of its innovative mass spec calibration and analysis software, MassWorks Version 5.0.
The software boasts a host of new features and improvements that extend the versatility of the software including integration with NIST GC/MS library search and formula look-up as well as ChemSpider formula look-up to assist in identifying unknown compounds....
AMSBIO has introduced a new range of ready-to-use Reporter Lentivirus for assessing cell signaling activities in virtually any mammalian cell type.
These pre-made products use a unique combination of transcription factor reporter technology coupled with lentiviral delivery to provide a simple, highly sensitive method capable of operating over a large dynamic range....
PerkinElmer, Inc. Provides Research-Use-Only Automated Immunoassay to Detect Creatine Kinase Muscle Isozyme in Dried Blood Spots
A new study published in Clinical Chemistry has revealed a potential automated assay for identifying Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) in newborn babies. Duchenne is a progressive, X-chromosome linked neuromuscular disorder with a worldwide average incidence rate of approximately 1 in 5,000 babies....
Oxford Nanoimaging Limited manufacture and sell custom microscopes offering super-resolution and single-molecule capabilities to research users.
The BioMAN Laboratory is led by Professor Rizal Hariadi. Situated in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, the super-resolution Nanoimager is being used to understand cell functionality emerging from interactions between proteins in healthy & disease states....
Funding by entrepreneur Mr Jimmy Mayer to establish world’s first register of patients with disease that is one of the biggest causes of kidney failure globally
The University of Leicester has received its biggest ever single gift from a private individual - £2.7 million- which will be used to fund life-saving kidney research of global significance in the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology.
Isogenica Ltd, a leader in the design and construction of innovative and highly diverse synthetic antibody libraries, announces the availability of its new fully synthetic, human Fab fragment library.
An announcement was made at the 13th annual PEGS meeting in Boston, MA by Guy Hermans, Isogenica’s CSO, who commented: “This novel fully synthetic antibody library, built using the company’s DNA library synthesis method (COLIBRA™), takes advantage of the most up to date understanding of the human antibody repertoire. Combining massive sequence diversity and dispersity with high functionality and developability, it offers the most efficient route to...
Genevac has published a customer report that describes an evaporative sample preparation protocol for highly sensitive analytical methods used to test foodstuffs, principally meat, fish and shellfish, for the presence of antibiotics.
The analytical method calls for good upstream sample preparation to eliminate the effects of the matrix, and can be manual and time consuming, particularly where evaporation is concerned. The authors describe how the installation of the Genevac EZ-2 evaporator in their laboratory is estimated to save the laboratory 2-3 hours per day that previously was spent on evaporation tasks...
Allows German Researchers to Easily Detect Leukaemia Associated Proteins
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is pleased to announce its PXi multi-application imager is being used by scientists at the prestigious Freie Universtät Berlin for the new application of imaging fluorescent peptides on Western blots....
MR Solutions will be showing their latest state of the art 3T to 9.4T superconducting, cryogen-free MRI imaging technology with optional PET and SPECT imaging modalities at the 16th annual World Preclinical Congress in Boston.
The congress focusses on the very latest trends and technologies impacting the preclinical drug discovery and development world. MR Solutions’ preclinical imaging systems are revolutionising drug discovery by providing better scanners with a more viable footprint by doing away with all the equipment and building modifications required for liquid helium cooled machines....
Powder characterisation specialists, Freeman Technology, continues to expand their global presence with the establishment of an operation in Japan and the appointment of Takashi Nishimura as Product Manager.
Based in Kobe City, Mr Nishimura has over 10 years of experience working in the analytical instrumentation industry and will provide sales and customer support in the region....
SLS are delighted to say they have surpassed previous editions in the sheer number and quality of offers.
Ideal for university laboratories especially teaching labs that are looking to restock on small bench-top equipment and consumables for the new term. Users will find products from SLSs’ own great value SLS Lab Basics and SLS SELECT ranges....
INTEGRA announces how its VIAFLO 96 multichannel electronic pipette has been adopted by Neoteryx LLC as an integral part of a new high throughput biological sample collection and processing system.
An increasing number of clinical labs are being confronted with a growing need to process more samples in parallel without jeopardizing the quality of their results. At a certain point it becomes impossible to keep up the pace using traditional multichannel pipettes...
The scientific program on 29th June 2017 features speakers from 4 continents. Cresset scientists will present ‘New Insights for Structure-based Design with Flare’, ‘Peeking into the Heart of New Cresset Science’ and ‘What’s New in Ligand-based Design’....
Olefin metathesis is an important reaction that provides a useful synthetic route to highly functionalized molecules such as drug precursors or polymers. Although this reaction is highly efficient in batch, scaling-up usually results in poor reproducibility. While several research groups have reported the development of olefin metathesis in continuous flow, most of them have focused on the use of a heterogeneous catalyst....
Offered by its subsidiary BioOutsource, they characterize the physicochemical properties and structural attributes of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The service platform methods have been developed to ensure rapid sample analysis and reporting for mAbs and biosimilars....
Optibrium, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, and Goldfinch Bio, a company focused on discovering and developing precision therapies to treat patients with kidney disease, today announced that the company has signed a multi-year agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop software....
The assays are under development within the labs of the National Phenotypic Screening Centre (NPSC) – a collaboration between the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Oxford - and are designed to identify new molecules with pharmacological activity in respiratory, oncology, immunology and cellular stress indications....
Professor James Marrow leads a research group specialising in the structure-property relationship of a broad range of engineering and natural materials. Based in the Materials Department at the University of Oxford, Marrow's team use high resolution X-ray computed tomography to make in situ studies of three-dimensional deformation and damage....
Here, they report on a poster presented at ASCB that shows the power of Livecyte for individual cell segmentation. Professor Norman Maitland's team from the Cancer Research Unit at the University of York presented a poster that showed the potential of Phasefocus’ Livecyte label-free cell analysis system as a rapid characterisation tool of cell cultures derived from patient tissue. “Characterisation of the subpopulations of heterogeneous primary...
This new center builds upon the long-standing partnership between KAUST and Thermo Fisher, and will focus on excellence in instrument performance and R&D collaboration. The Center of Excellence aims to offer KAUST scientists and collaborators exploration and experimentation capabilities through Thermo Fisher’s leading electron microscopy platform...
ZEISS presents a networked lab for quality control and quality assurance. Connected systems, data and workflows enable more efficient collaboration - even across lab boundaries....
The software boasts a host of new features and improvements that extend the versatility of the software including integration with NIST GC/MS library search and formula look-up as well as ChemSpider formula look-up to assist in identifying unknown compounds....
These pre-made products use a unique combination of transcription factor reporter technology coupled with lentiviral delivery to provide a simple, highly sensitive method capable of operating over a large dynamic range....
A new study published in Clinical Chemistry has revealed a potential automated assay for identifying Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) in newborn babies. Duchenne is a progressive, X-chromosome linked neuromuscular disorder with a worldwide average incidence rate of approximately 1 in 5,000 babies....
The BioMAN Laboratory is led by Professor Rizal Hariadi. Situated in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, the super-resolution Nanoimager is being used to understand cell functionality emerging from interactions between proteins in healthy & disease states....
An announcement was made at the 13th annual PEGS meeting in Boston, MA by Guy Hermans, Isogenica’s CSO, who commented: “This novel fully synthetic antibody library, built using the company’s DNA library synthesis method (COLIBRA™), takes advantage of the most up to date understanding of the human antibody repertoire. Combining massive sequence diversity and dispersity with high functionality and developability, it offers the most efficient route to...
The analytical method calls for good upstream sample preparation to eliminate the effects of the matrix, and can be manual and time consuming, particularly where evaporation is concerned. The authors describe how the installation of the Genevac EZ-2 evaporator in their laboratory is estimated to save the laboratory 2-3 hours per day that previously was spent on evaporation tasks...
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is pleased to announce its PXi multi-application imager is being used by scientists at the prestigious Freie Universtät Berlin for the new application of imaging fluorescent peptides on Western blots....
The congress focusses on the very latest trends and technologies impacting the preclinical drug discovery and development world. MR Solutions’ preclinical imaging systems are revolutionising drug discovery by providing better scanners with a more viable footprint by doing away with all the equipment and building modifications required for liquid helium cooled machines....
Based in Kobe City, Mr Nishimura has over 10 years of experience working in the analytical instrumentation industry and will provide sales and customer support in the region....
Ideal for university laboratories especially teaching labs that are looking to restock on small bench-top equipment and consumables for the new term. Users will find products from SLSs’ own great value SLS Lab Basics and SLS SELECT ranges....
An increasing number of clinical labs are being confronted with a growing need to process more samples in parallel without jeopardizing the quality of their results. At a certain point it becomes impossible to keep up the pace using traditional multichannel pipettes...