ResistancePlus™ MG Test would bring disease and antibiotic resistance testing for potential “superbug”
SpeeDx Pty. Ltd., a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, has signed an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. The announcement was made at the 27thEuropean Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) in Vienna
Read MoreQuantum dots to shine bright with ROMIL solventsMay 31, 2017
ROMIL solvents are helping researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge’s Department of Physics, to develop novel quantum dots which could be used in the next generation of solar panels.
James Xiao, a PhD student in the laboratory, explained: “We’re currently working on quantum dots which emit light in the infrared range, with the aim of significantly increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic cells.”....
Research led by University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust reveals ‘transformative outcomes’ for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Scientists have described new results of a blood cancer study as ‘outstanding’ in tackling previously untreatable forms of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). The advance led by a team from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, within the Hope Clinical Trials Facility...
The University of Dundee has been awarded £7.9 million by the Wellcome Trust for a joint project with GSK to boost efforts to find new drugs to treat some of the world’s most devastating parasitic diseases including visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, and Chagas’ disease.
These neglected diseases cause substantial suffering and an estimated 60,000 deaths annually world-wide. The funding will enable the established Dundee/GSK team to continue their work to develop novel drugs to treat these diseases over the next five years....
Award for international trade recognises outstanding, world-class drug development services
The Prime Minister’s office has announced that Propath, a trusted specialist in molecular pathology for biopharmaceutical research and development, is to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the company’s exceptional contribution to the UK’s Life Sciences sector....
Exclusive licence enables the development and commercialisation of 5hmC technologies for epigenetic biomarker discovery
Cambridge Epigenetix, a pioneer in the development and application of epigenetic technologies, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Boston Children’s Hospital giving access to leading-edge DNA profiling technologies...
On 24 April 2017 ZEISS opened the new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe at the Oberkochen site. This is the most comprehensive ZEISS Customer Center including light, electron and X-ray microscopy in a single location...
The new £multi-million food and health research centre that will become the state-of-the-art home for the Quadram Institute is on schedule to be complete by mid-2018.
As a first step to realising the ambition of the Quadram Institute, the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has realigned its science strategy to deliver to the vision of the new Institute. In preparation for the full opening of the Quadram Institute in 2018, IFR will transition into Quadram Institute Bioscience....
Leading autoclave and steriliser manufacturers, Astell Scientific, has a proud history dating back to 1884, but even they were slightly taken aback when Manchester brewers JW Lees asked them to replace their Astell laboratory autoclave: it was 30 years old!
JW Lees has been brewing since 1828 and produces a range of cask ales including CAMRA award-winning Moonraker dark ale, and limited edition seasonal cask ales, as well as lagers and smooth beers. The laboratory monitors the microbiology of the brewing process from wort to final packaging....
Important value inflection point validating commercial potential of Affimer technology and Company's business model
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, is pleased to report that an evaluation of the Affimer technology by a large, global diagnostics developer has concluded successfully and that the third party has taken exclusive rights to several Affimer reagents....
LGC Standards is delighted to announce that their agreement to distribute the National Measurement Institute of Australia (NMIA)’s reference materials (RMs) has been renewed, allowing customers continuing access to the NMIA’s expanding range of specialist RMs in four key areas: forensic drugs, sports drugs, pesticides and veterinary materials.
The NMIA is a world renowned National Measurement Institute (NMI). It has NATA accreditation for chemical reference materials production and is fully compliant with ISO Guide 34. In particular, the NMIA is a leading centre of expertise for sports drugs testing...
BioTek Instruments continues to strengthen their commitment to sustainability by announcing the opening of their second solar facility.
In addition to the company’s existing 500 kilowatt solar farm in Whiting, Vermont, a new, 88 kilowatt photovoltaic solar energy farm is now on line in Milton, Vermont....
Agreement includes exclusive distribution of PurePep Coupling Agents in North America
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Luxembourg Bio Technologies for two of its proprietary coupling agents, PyOxim® and K-Oxyma®, and HDMA on a non-exclusive basis...
Greiner Bio-One invests in a new high-bay warehouse at its Frickenhausen site
Greiner Bio-One GmbH is constructing a new high-bay warehouse at its home base in Frickenhausen. The new 29-metre-high construction will replace the current high-bay warehouse, which is no longer capable of dealing with the greatly increased warehouse technology and capacity requirements....
AMSBIO reports on an independent study that evaluated the use of CELLBANKER® and STEM CELLBANKER® reagents for cryopreservation and thawing of organoids.
Data is presented that clearly shows that liver organoids recovered and grew well in STEM-CELLBANKER®–GMP, CELLBANKER® 1 and CELLBANKER® 2 freezing media after being thawed out after 2 days and 4-days cryopreservation....
Researchers in Switzerland no longer need to import IDT products; local expertise facilitates ordering
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), has signed a distributor agreement with LubioScience GmbH (LubioScience), based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Through LubioScience, researchers in Switzerland will benefit from local access to IDT’s full range of high quality reagents for genomics research...
Merck has announced that BioInvent International AB, a Swedish company which develops novel immuno-regulatory antibodies to treat cancer, is upgrading and expanding its drug manufacturing facility with a full line of Merck’s Mobius® single-use bioreactors.
BioInvent will add 3-, 50-, 200- and 1000-liter bioreactors to its upstream facility in Lund, Sweden, expanding capacity and improving flexibility and scalability....
Business Secretary Greg Clark has named the UK businesses within the Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group as winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s 91st birthday.
Watson-Marlow Ltd and Bio Pure Technology Limited, win the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2017. The award reflects the company’s outstanding continuous growth of 76.6% in overseas sales over the judging period....
New Products - New Website at www.microscopeheaters.com
Environmental Chambers, Heated Stage Inserts, Gas Controllers keeping cells alive on microscopes for 4-5 days. All the major microscope platforms and modalities supported. Temperature Controlled Glass Plates to control and standardise sample preparation, manipulation or microinjection procedures....
The μEncapsulator System from Dolomite Bio is a complete solution for high throughput encapsulation of individual cells into picoliter droplets.
Ideal for profiling natively-paired T-cell receptors (TCRs), this compact, flexible and modular system can process up to 300,000 cells in 15 minutes. T-cells play a vital role in the destruction and subsequent removal of pathogens in the adaptive immune response....
Aircuity 2.0 delivers measurable savings and actionable insights
Aircuity, creator of measurably better environments, announced the launch of its 2.0 platform. Aircuity 2.0 is ideal for research laboratory facilities looking to significantly reduce energy costs, monitor space conditions and occupant behavior, and achieve quantifiable savings that can be reinvested in research....
Cole-Parmer Ltd announced today that as of May, its key brands, including Stuart, Electrothermal, Jenway, Techne, and PCRmax, will be using Kite Packaging’s Wrap and Hold system to pack the majority of their products.
The Wrap and Hold system offers an environmentally friendly, high-performance and cost-efficient alternative to standard packaging. It is becoming increasingly important for companies to minimise their impact on the environment as factors such as climate change and...
SpeeDx Pty. Ltd., a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, has signed an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. The announcement was made at the 27thEuropean Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) in Vienna
James Xiao, a PhD student in the laboratory, explained: “We’re currently working on quantum dots which emit light in the infrared range, with the aim of significantly increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic cells.”....
These neglected diseases cause substantial suffering and an estimated 60,000 deaths annually world-wide. The funding will enable the established Dundee/GSK team to continue their work to develop novel drugs to treat these diseases over the next five years....
The Prime Minister’s office has announced that Propath, a trusted specialist in molecular pathology for biopharmaceutical research and development, is to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the company’s exceptional contribution to the UK’s Life Sciences sector....
Cambridge Epigenetix, a pioneer in the development and application of epigenetic technologies, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Boston Children’s Hospital giving access to leading-edge DNA profiling technologies...
On 24 April 2017 ZEISS opened the new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe at the Oberkochen site. This is the most comprehensive ZEISS Customer Center including light, electron and X-ray microscopy in a single location...
As a first step to realising the ambition of the Quadram Institute, the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has realigned its science strategy to deliver to the vision of the new Institute. In preparation for the full opening of the Quadram Institute in 2018, IFR will transition into Quadram Institute Bioscience....
JW Lees has been brewing since 1828 and produces a range of cask ales including CAMRA award-winning Moonraker dark ale, and limited edition seasonal cask ales, as well as lagers and smooth beers. The laboratory monitors the microbiology of the brewing process from wort to final packaging....
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, is pleased to report that an evaluation of the Affimer technology by a large, global diagnostics developer has concluded successfully and that the third party has taken exclusive rights to several Affimer reagents....
The NMIA is a world renowned National Measurement Institute (NMI). It has NATA accreditation for chemical reference materials production and is fully compliant with ISO Guide 34. In particular, the NMIA is a leading centre of expertise for sports drugs testing...
In addition to the company’s existing 500 kilowatt solar farm in Whiting, Vermont, a new, 88 kilowatt photovoltaic solar energy farm is now on line in Milton, Vermont....
Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Luxembourg Bio Technologies for two of its proprietary coupling agents, PyOxim® and K-Oxyma®, and HDMA on a non-exclusive basis...
Greiner Bio-One GmbH is constructing a new high-bay warehouse at its home base in Frickenhausen. The new 29-metre-high construction will replace the current high-bay warehouse, which is no longer capable of dealing with the greatly increased warehouse technology and capacity requirements....
Data is presented that clearly shows that liver organoids recovered and grew well in STEM-CELLBANKER®–GMP, CELLBANKER® 1 and CELLBANKER® 2 freezing media after being thawed out after 2 days and 4-days cryopreservation....
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), has signed a distributor agreement with LubioScience GmbH (LubioScience), based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Through LubioScience, researchers in Switzerland will benefit from local access to IDT’s full range of high quality reagents for genomics research...
BioInvent will add 3-, 50-, 200- and 1000-liter bioreactors to its upstream facility in Lund, Sweden, expanding capacity and improving flexibility and scalability....
Watson-Marlow Ltd and Bio Pure Technology Limited, win the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2017. The award reflects the company’s outstanding continuous growth of 76.6% in overseas sales over the judging period....
Environmental Chambers, Heated Stage Inserts, Gas Controllers keeping cells alive on microscopes for 4-5 days. All the major microscope platforms and modalities supported. Temperature Controlled Glass Plates to control and standardise sample preparation, manipulation or microinjection procedures....
Ideal for profiling natively-paired T-cell receptors (TCRs), this compact, flexible and modular system can process up to 300,000 cells in 15 minutes. T-cells play a vital role in the destruction and subsequent removal of pathogens in the adaptive immune response....
Aircuity, creator of measurably better environments, announced the launch of its 2.0 platform. Aircuity 2.0 is ideal for research laboratory facilities looking to significantly reduce energy costs, monitor space conditions and occupant behavior, and achieve quantifiable savings that can be reinvested in research....
The Wrap and Hold system offers an environmentally friendly, high-performance and cost-efficient alternative to standard packaging. It is becoming increasingly important for companies to minimise their impact on the environment as factors such as climate change and...