Gilson has launched two new interactive versions of their Fluid News promotional brochures, packed with exclusive special offers, product highlights and resources to make lab life easier for scientists. Each interactive guide contains brand-new offers, including half-price consumables, 4 for 3 on their new personalisable MyPIPETMAN® Select, 40% off their rebranded PIPETMAN® range, and exclusive savings on PIPETMAX®, Gilson's automated liquid handling platform....
A healthy immune system is what defends the body from invaders like bacteria and viruses. But for the elderly and those facing chronic diseases, the immune system can wear down over time. To better understand the relationship between immune aging and how the body heals itself, a team of scientists took their research to new heights by leveraging the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to study microgravity’s effects on immune cell function...
LabWare showcases its all-round provision of software, professional implementation services, validation assistance, training and world class technical support at this year’s Lab Innovations. LabWare returns to Lab Innovations with its Enterprise Laboratory Platform (ELP), a unique and proven suite of product capabilities. This integrated and enterprise-ready solution encompasses the award-winning LabWare LIMS™, LabWare ELN™, LabWare Mobile™, LabWare Analytics, and LES...
Azenta has selected the greater Boston area, a key pharma and biotech hub, as the next location to expand its global biorepository footprint. Azenta, Inc has announced it is opening a new location in the greater Boston area to expand its global sample storage business into the Boston market. The 40,000 square foot facility, located in Billerica, MA, will be Azenta's second largest biorepository in terms of sample capacity after its flagship Indianapolis location...
Astrea Bioseparations, a leading provider of high-quality bioseparation and purification technologies that help to improve patient outcomes with safer and more effective production of therapeutics, announces the expansion of its manufacturing and warehousing capabilities in the US. The increased capacity reflects growing demand for the Company’s chromatography solutions in North American markets...
Artificial sweeteners are added to many foods and cosmetic products. As useful as they are in these areas, they pollute wastewater and groundwater. Therefore, powerful LC-MS/MS applications for the most common artificial sweeteners acesulfame, saccharin and cyclamateare essential. Find out more about how to implement an ultra-fast analysis routine in your lab by downloading the application note...
Due to the increasing importance of sustainability at universities, clinics and laboratories, laboratory product manufacturer Starlab is expanding its green activities. This year, the company’s Sustainability Weeks include a total of 87 events, including 56 in the UK, 16 in France, 5 in Italy and 10 in Germany. The company is also offering 5 publicly accessible webinars in different languages. The special attraction of these events is that Starlab is taking its sustainability expertise straight to the labs...
New treatment re-sensitises advanced prostate cancers to treatment by stopping tumours hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help fuel their growth. Prostate cancer’s resistance to treatment can be reversed in some patients by stopping hijacked white blood cells from being ‘pulled into’ tumours, according to new research published in Nature. In an early clinical trial, researchers showed that blocking the messages cancer uses to hijack white blood cells can re-sensitise a subset of advanced prostate cancers to treatment – shrinking tumours or halting their growth...
The Chief Executive of one of Britain’s leading tissue engineering companies has co-authored a book entitled Advances in Cultured Meat Technology that explores the potential of cultured meat production in solving food security challenges and helping to achieve climate targets. With the global population estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050, Professor Che Connon, Chief Executive of the pioneering UK-based clinical and cellular agriculture company 3D Bio-Tissues together with Professor Mark and Dr Chris Bryant...
The UK’s largest annual trade show for the entire lab industry, Lab Innovations has announced its keynote speakers for this year's exhibition will be TV presenter Maggie Philbin and sustainability researcher Dr Rosa Vasquez Espinoza. To catch their talks in person, register for Lab Innovations, taking place at the NEC, Birmingham, on November 1 and 2, and visit the show's Royal of Society of Chemistry theatre at 1pm on both days of the show...
The Schauenburg Analytics Group (Markes International & SepSolve Analytical) is pleased to announce the appointment of Nigel Fry as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As of September 2023, Fry became responsible for all aspects of the business operations of Schauenburg Analytics Ltd and its subsidiaries, Markes International Ltd and SepSolve Analytical Ltd. Fry joins the company from Antylia Scientific (formerly Cole-Palmer), where he served as Managing Director and Vice President International, for over three years.
Known for it’s prize winning innovative power, IKA be returning again to exhibit at Lab Innovations with a selection new, award winning and best-selling laboratory technology suitable for all mixing, heating, distilling and crushing applications. This year we will showcase some of our latest technology our new reactor system for organic or aqueous synthesis, and IKA’s new INC 125 FS which is the first incubator shaker with a patented removable shaking platform. We can also talk to you about our newly released bioreactor, the HABITAT, which received the iF Design Award...
Can a device that is used in the laboratory every day be both functional and visually appealing? The laboratory equipment manufacturer Starlab International addressed this question a year ago when it launched its completely redesigned minicentrifuge. According to the many scientists and laboratory technicians who have since enjoyed the visual appearance and improved usability of the device, the answer to that question is ‘yes...
INTEGRA Biosciences has awarded 31 EVOLVE manual pipettes, GRIPTIPS®pipette tips worth US $1000, and lab accessories to the bioanalytical company DNTOX as part of its recent ‘INTEGRA supports start-ups’ competition, which ran until April 2023. The pipettes will greatly streamline the company’s neurotoxicological hazard assessments, helping to increase its testing capacity and advance research in this vital area...
Azenta Life Sciences latest exciting products for biospecimen sample management will be on show at ISBER 2023 in Granada, Spain (24th-25th October). On display will be products that enable seamless end to end biospecimen sample collection, organisation, processing, and storage leading to better quality epidemiological data, clearer insights into the genetic landscape and easier analysis of complex data sets...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, is releasing the results of a new global survey conducted in partnership with Open Pharma Research, organizers of the Lab of the Future Congress, examining lab technology investment, barriers, and benefits. The Alliance surveyed 200 experts spanning Europe, the Americas and APAC from its network of members, including lab professionals and R&D experts from top pharma companies, medium enterprises and life science start-ups...
Labcold, an ISO9001 certified UK specialist manufacturer of medical and scientific refrigeration, will be unveiling a new range of ATEX fridges and freezers to complement their existing range of laboratory cooling products at this year’s Lab Innovations. Labcold have been supplying science since 1932, so have over 90 years of experience in producing equipment the meets the demands of laboratory professionals...
Leica Microsystems has announced an exciting new collaboration with the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Oxford UK, in the fields of optical and super resolution microscopy, artificial intelligence, correlative microscopy and EM specimen preparation. The Centre of Excellence will be hosted by the world-class Micron Bioimaging Facility within the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Oxford and will feature cutting-edge imaging solutions from Leica microsystems...
Autoscribe Informatics are highlighting key developments in its Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at the UK’s largest dedicated exhibition for laboratory professionals, Lab Innovations 2023. New or updated features on show will include an improved laboratory execution system (LES), a new subcontracting module, an improved audit reporting function, and federated single sign-on (SSO) functionality...
The collaboration represents MilliporeSigma’s joint steps toward breakthrough innovation to make research and quality control in the lab more efficient and sustainable. The new ChemisTwin™ platform combines ACD/Labs’ industry-leading NMR predictors with Millipore Sigma’s digital reference materials (dRMs). Through the first release version of its digital reference material (dRM) platform: ChemisTwin™, MilliporeSigma is providing scientists in quality control labs with an automated structure verification tool by NMR...
Fulfilling part of the Group's growth plan, Milexia Iberica expands its presence in new markets such as Scientific Instrumentation with specialized products for electron microscopy and ion milling techniques as well as excellent customer service, local technical and after-sales support, a full warranty, and spare parts for times when problems arise.
Optibrium, a leading developer of software and AI solutions for drug discovery, has announced the acquisition of BioPharmics LLC, expanding its 3D drug design and modelling offering. Bringing decades of experience in computational chemistry and biology, BioPharmics’ CEO, Dr Ajay Jain, and Director of Applied Science, Dr Ann Cleves, join the Optibrium team, respectively focusing on R&D and Application Science in the newly-created BioPharmics Division...