The Pittcon marketing department is pleased to announce the release of its official 2017 conference and exposition planning tool, Pittcon at a Glance, which is available in app version for mobile devices (Pittcon 2017) and optimized as a web version.
The app version, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions, short courses, events and local city information....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how a research group at the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre at Sonning Common is using their Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer.
Dr Andrew York is a Senior Principal Scientist at the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre at Sonning Common, UK. His current role includes defining projects on catalysis and reaction engineering both internally and with external partners especially Cambridge University’s Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department. Dr York's group purchased the Magritek Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer to characterize materials of importance to the businesses in the...
Biofortuna is expanding its IVD service portfolio to provide a greater focus on immunoassay design, development and manufacture.
The company has made a significant investment in its production capabilities to include plate coating, washing, drying and quality control, creating an exceptional manufacturing suite for immunoassay kits. Biofortuna already has extensive experience in immunoassay development, and this expansion has been driven by the success of current customer projects and increasing demand from the market....
The Geological Institute of Romania, located in Bucharest, was founded in 1906.
It is famous for its museum which hosts a collection of more than 80,000 samples of rocks, fossils and minerals from all over Romania. Oana-Claudia Barbu and Daniel Bîrg?oanu are both PhD students and research assistants in the electron microscopy laboratory, known as MICROCOSMOS, where they study inorganic and mineral samples....
Synbiosis is pleased to announce its ProcScan inhibition zone measurement system is being used together with its SynStats statistical analysis software at specialist Dutch veterinary pharmaceutical firm, Produlab Pharma to accurately and reproducibly assess the quality of veterinary antibiotics.
Microbiologists at Produlab Pharma are using the ProcScan automated system to generate images of inhibition zones around antibiotics on large (240mm x 240mm) antibiotic susceptibility testing plates. The images are scanned directly into soft-ware, which automatically measures zone sizes and these values are transferred into SynStats statistical software...
The continuing threat of hospital acquired infection due to resistant pathogens is putting hospital engineers under increasing pressure.
Guidelines and international standards such as EN15883, HTM2030/2031, NHS Model Engineering Specification C32 and MHRA/HIS require that water used for Sterile Services’ Units and for applications like endoscope reprocessing has to be of the highest possible bacterial and endotoxin quality....
The Design And Operation Of Research Laboratories, Incubators And Science Park Facilities – York Racecourse
The United Kingdom Science Park Association (UKSPA) and S-Lab: Supporting World Class Science are jointly organising a Conference, Exhibition and Gala Dinner at York Racecourse, in partnership with; the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP); Innovation DB Forum; Praxis Unico and York Science Park....
Autoscribe Informatics is providing two opportunities to have a close-up look at the new Environmental Sampling module for the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System).
A 4-minute video provides a short demonstration of this versatile module which has been designed in conjunction with a leading food safety organisation, Deibel Laboratories. Aimed at anyone involved in environmental sampling of production and storage areas in food/beverage production and other...
THE Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), the organisation leading the North’s health science development across the Northern Powerhouse, has appointed a leading North medic to its board of directors.
Professor Paul Stewart is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Leeds. He is also a Non-Executive Director and an Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He will take a leading role in helping to develop the Northern Health Science Alliance’s role in advocating for, and attracting...
Deutsche Post DHL Group, the leading global mail and logistics company, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, today announced a global partnership to help improve vaccine supply chains in Gavi-supported countries.
As immunization programs expand to include new, life-saving vaccines and strive to reach more people, often in remote areas, they are increasingly constrained by outdated supply chains. With vaccine volumes continuing to increase and the persistence of often weak or broken health systems, there is a critical need for improvements in immunization supply chain infrastructure.
A leading producer of high performance filtration and separation technology is driving fresh innovation at the world’s largest annual medtech event with its cutting edge BioVyon™ sintered porous plastic.
Porvair Filtration Group will be on hand at MD&M West, taking place from 7-9 February at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, where it will showcase BioVyon™’s wide-ranging applications across the life sciences, analytical, pharma and medical markets. Its extensive range of features make it the ideal choice in many areas for filtration, separation...
Imaging technology company FluxData Inc. has joined Halma, a UK-based safety, health and environmental technology group.
The advanced multispectral and digital imaging designer and manufacturer will become the newest member of Halma’s Environmental and Analysis sector. Founded in 2006, FluxData provides multi-spectral and polarimetric imaging systems for a wide range of applications, including high volume production quality control, medical imaging, food and...
BMG LABTECH unveils new visual brand identity and showcases the streamlined readers at SLAS 2017
BMG LABTECH’s visual appearance is heading into a new direction. The microplate reader company launched a new corporate colour identity that will be rolled out across all products as well as external and internal communication channels in the coming weeks. “As the company grows and develops, it is important that our brand continues to reflect the high quality, reliability and innovation of our products....
Size really does matter when laboratories specify preclinical MRI imaging technology – in fact space is at such a premium that insufficient floor area often precludes purchase.
The high field Flexiscan and Powerscan cryogen-free systems from MR Solutions have a compact design and are simply wheeled in and connected to the mains and other services whilst providing state of the art imaging. And - to please the finance team - the capital and running costs of this system are substantially less than a larger, wet magnet system....
Combines eMolecules’ collection of commercially available chemicals with StarDrop’s data analysis and compound design capabilities in drug discovery
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced a collaboration with eMolecules, the provider of a comprehensive chemical sourcing database. The collaboration provides StarDrop™ users with seamless access to eMolecules’ extensive collection of screening compounds and chemical building blocks, further extending StarDrop’s capabilities to guide compound selection and design...
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces a new distribution agreement with Opta-Tech.
Under the agreement, Opta-Tech will provide Sectra’s digital pathology solution to the Polish market. Digitizing pathology images increases reviewing efficiency due to fast image access and digital measurement tools. Since Sectra’s solutions for handling medical images are built on the same technical platform, medical images can easily be shared across disciplines. This enhanced ability of collaboration allows clinicians to benefit from integrated diagnostics...
Astell Scientific, the UK’s leading supplier of autoclaves, is helping to ensure the safety and reliability of laboratory work at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
A Cancer Research UK Centre of Excellence, Barts research is directed at preventing cancer and developing better diagnostic techniques and treatments to increase patient survival rates. All the media, instruments, pipettes, tubes and blades used by the researchers in their experiments must be sterilised before use to ensure the scientific integrity of results....
Horizon Discovery Group, the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies announces that it has broadened its gene editing capabilities through the amendment of a pre-existing license with ERS Genomics to include the full commercial rights for the use of CRISPR edited cell lines for the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) manufacturing of biotherapeutics.
The Company has also entered into a grant-funded collaboration with Solentim, the developer of the Cell MetricTM and dedicated instrumentation for cell line development, to establish automated approaches for the gene editing of cell lines.
Read More4 Ways to Create a More Eco-Friendly LabFeb 1, 2017
Climate change is happening and every workplace has a part to play in reducing our total carbon footprint. Individual laboratories and those in schools, universities and other institutions are no different. Labs are being held accountable more and more on how they manage energy, recycle waste and conduct experiments.
The good news is there a few steps every lab can take to create an eco-friendlier environment, without compromising results. Radleys, a leading provider of scientific glassware, is here to offer some top tips for creating a greener lab…
ChargePoint Technology, the high growth manufacturer and innovator of specialist high containment and sterile transfer valves, has secured multi-million pound investment to meet global demand for its ground-breaking devices.
The Liverpool-based company struck a deal with private equity investor LDC, part of Lloyds Banking Group, to capitalise on the strong and increasing demand for its solutions internationally, particularly in North America, Europe and Asia, whilst accelerating sales of its innovative AseptiSafe® Bio product and investment in the development of new products in the aftercare market....
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 sample matrices for clinical, cosmetic and food use.
Nanomaterials are known to be present in over 1300 commercial products. As a result of the European Union (EU) recently providing a precise definition of a nanomaterial for regulatory purposes, it has become important to be able to characterise nanomaterials reliably to understand their behaviour in contact with humans and the environment....
Investment will fund commercial launch of breath biomarker R&D services and clinical trials in lung and colon cancer screening
Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, today announced that it has successfully raised $11.55 million USD (£9.3 million GBP) financing. The investment round was led by existing investors, and will be used to commercially launch the company’s breath biomarker R&D services, including the opening of a new high volume clinical facility, and to fund ongoing clinical trials in lung and colon cancer screening. The funding follows...
The app version, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions, short courses, events and local city information....
Dr Andrew York is a Senior Principal Scientist at the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre at Sonning Common, UK. His current role includes defining projects on catalysis and reaction engineering both internally and with external partners especially Cambridge University’s Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department. Dr York's group purchased the Magritek Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer to characterize materials of importance to the businesses in the...
The company has made a significant investment in its production capabilities to include plate coating, washing, drying and quality control, creating an exceptional manufacturing suite for immunoassay kits. Biofortuna already has extensive experience in immunoassay development, and this expansion has been driven by the success of current customer projects and increasing demand from the market....
It is famous for its museum which hosts a collection of more than 80,000 samples of rocks, fossils and minerals from all over Romania. Oana-Claudia Barbu and Daniel Bîrg?oanu are both PhD students and research assistants in the electron microscopy laboratory, known as MICROCOSMOS, where they study inorganic and mineral samples....
Microbiologists at Produlab Pharma are using the ProcScan automated system to generate images of inhibition zones around antibiotics on large (240mm x 240mm) antibiotic susceptibility testing plates. The images are scanned directly into soft-ware, which automatically measures zone sizes and these values are transferred into SynStats statistical software...
Guidelines and international standards such as EN15883, HTM2030/2031, NHS Model Engineering Specification C32 and MHRA/HIS require that water used for Sterile Services’ Units and for applications like endoscope reprocessing has to be of the highest possible bacterial and endotoxin quality....
The United Kingdom Science Park Association (UKSPA) and S-Lab: Supporting World Class Science are jointly organising a Conference, Exhibition and Gala Dinner at York Racecourse, in partnership with; the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP); Innovation DB Forum; Praxis Unico and York Science Park....
A 4-minute video provides a short demonstration of this versatile module which has been designed in conjunction with a leading food safety organisation, Deibel Laboratories. Aimed at anyone involved in environmental sampling of production and storage areas in food/beverage production and other...
Professor Paul Stewart is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Leeds. He is also a Non-Executive Director and an Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He will take a leading role in helping to develop the Northern Health Science Alliance’s role in advocating for, and attracting...
As immunization programs expand to include new, life-saving vaccines and strive to reach more people, often in remote areas, they are increasingly constrained by outdated supply chains. With vaccine volumes continuing to increase and the persistence of often weak or broken health systems, there is a critical need for improvements in immunization supply chain infrastructure.
Porvair Filtration Group will be on hand at MD&M West, taking place from 7-9 February at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, where it will showcase BioVyon™’s wide-ranging applications across the life sciences, analytical, pharma and medical markets. Its extensive range of features make it the ideal choice in many areas for filtration, separation...
The advanced multispectral and digital imaging designer and manufacturer will become the newest member of Halma’s Environmental and Analysis sector. Founded in 2006, FluxData provides multi-spectral and polarimetric imaging systems for a wide range of applications, including high volume production quality control, medical imaging, food and...
BMG LABTECH’s visual appearance is heading into a new direction. The microplate reader company launched a new corporate colour identity that will be rolled out across all products as well as external and internal communication channels in the coming weeks. “As the company grows and develops, it is important that our brand continues to reflect the high quality, reliability and innovation of our products....
The high field Flexiscan and Powerscan cryogen-free systems from MR Solutions have a compact design and are simply wheeled in and connected to the mains and other services whilst providing state of the art imaging. And - to please the finance team - the capital and running costs of this system are substantially less than a larger, wet magnet system....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule design and optimisation today announced a collaboration with eMolecules, the provider of a comprehensive chemical sourcing database. The collaboration provides StarDrop™ users with seamless access to eMolecules’ extensive collection of screening compounds and chemical building blocks, further extending StarDrop’s capabilities to guide compound selection and design...
Under the agreement, Opta-Tech will provide Sectra’s digital pathology solution to the Polish market. Digitizing pathology images increases reviewing efficiency due to fast image access and digital measurement tools. Since Sectra’s solutions for handling medical images are built on the same technical platform, medical images can easily be shared across disciplines. This enhanced ability of collaboration allows clinicians to benefit from integrated diagnostics...
A Cancer Research UK Centre of Excellence, Barts research is directed at preventing cancer and developing better diagnostic techniques and treatments to increase patient survival rates. All the media, instruments, pipettes, tubes and blades used by the researchers in their experiments must be sterilised before use to ensure the scientific integrity of results....
The Company has also entered into a grant-funded collaboration with Solentim, the developer of the Cell MetricTM and dedicated instrumentation for cell line development, to establish automated approaches for the gene editing of cell lines.
The good news is there a few steps every lab can take to create an eco-friendlier environment, without compromising results. Radleys, a leading provider of scientific glassware, is here to offer some top tips for creating a greener lab…
The Liverpool-based company struck a deal with private equity investor LDC, part of Lloyds Banking Group, to capitalise on the strong and increasing demand for its solutions internationally, particularly in North America, Europe and Asia, whilst accelerating sales of its innovative AseptiSafe® Bio product and investment in the development of new products in the aftercare market....
Nanomaterials are known to be present in over 1300 commercial products. As a result of the European Union (EU) recently providing a precise definition of a nanomaterial for regulatory purposes, it has become important to be able to characterise nanomaterials reliably to understand their behaviour in contact with humans and the environment....
Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, today announced that it has successfully raised $11.55 million USD (£9.3 million GBP) financing. The investment round was led by existing investors, and will be used to commercially launch the company’s breath biomarker R&D services, including the opening of a new high volume clinical facility, and to fund ongoing clinical trials in lung and colon cancer screening. The funding follows...