The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas has transformed a previously little-known virus into a World Health Organization (WHO) declared global public health emergency.
Yet scientists still don’t know enough about Zika, including why and how it has spread so rapidly in recent months and what has led to the rise of new disease symptoms. Many of the answers may lie in understanding the virus’s genomic make-up. Now scientists from the University of Glasgow have been able to shed more light on how the Zika virus works, by sequencing the full-length genome of the virus from a patient in Brazil and studying how a molecule...
Quorum Technologies, market and technology leaders in electron microscopy coating and cryogenic preparation products, report on how their PP3010T Cryo-SEM preparation system is being used to assist polymer and self-assembled materials research at the Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS-University of Strasbourg.
The Institute Charles Sadron is a CNRS-Institute located at the University of Strasbourg performing fundamental and applied research on polymers and self-assembled systems. Dr Marc Schmutz works in the Electron Microscopy facility where he uses a Hitachi SU8010 Ultra High Resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope in conjunction with a PP3010T cryo-SEM preparation system from Quorum Technologies. It is used to study a broad variety of materials...
Machine learning and advanced analytics help Healx identify new uses for existing drugs
Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has made an early-stage investment in Healx, an innovative British healthcare company that seeks new uses for existing drugs in the fight against rare diseases. Amadeus Capital is investing in a £1.5 million Series A round, alongside renowned healthcare entrepreneur, Jonathan Milner....
Biofortuna Ltd, a UK-based diagnostics company offering molecular diagnostic products and contract manufacturing services, has successfully achieved key milestones in the development of its new blood group genotyping product family – ReadyPlex™.
This breakthrough has released the second tranche of its 2015 funding – totalling £1.5m – which will be used for final development and commercialisation of this innovative product line. The ReadyPlex range is aimed at the transfusion market, and will offer rapid genomic analysis of erythrocyte blood groups, human platelet antigens (HPAs), human neutrophil antigens (HNAs) and coagulation polymorphisms...
CAMECA is pleased to announce the launch of the SKAPHIA Shielded Electron Probe Initiative, which brings together key players in the nuclear industry and nuclear research community to develop the next generation of shielded Electron Probe Microanalyzers (EPMA).
The initiative capitalizes on CAMECA’s more than years 50 years of experience in developing and servicing shielded microanalytical instruments for nuclear fuel characterization, irradiated materials behavior investigation, and radioactive waste management. CAMECA has had a great deal of success supporting the nuclear industry and scientific community, starting in 1978 with the installation of the first shielded electron probe microanalyzer...
From October 1, 2016, until January 15, 2017, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe can apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators.
This highly prestigious 20,000 EUR prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts. The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)....
PerkinElmer Highlights Innovative Mass Spectrometry and Liquid & Gas Chromatography Technologies for Food, Environmental and Industrial Customers at analytica China
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the launch of its new QSight™ Triple Quadrupole LC/MS/MS instrument at a press conference during analytica China, the international trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre....
SP Scientific has purchased ControLyo™ Nucleation Technology and all related patents from Praxair Inc. (Danbury, CT).
ControLyo™ nucleation technology controls the freezing stage of the freeze drying process for more consistent and repeatable outcomes that aid drug development, scale-up and production efforts. SP which manufactures a full range of research through production lyophilization equipment and technologies has had a licensing agreement with Praxair, Inc. to provide ControLyo™ technology as part of its portfolio since 2010...
The Medica exhibition in Dusseldorf is a popular event on the exhibition calendar for British autoclave manufacturer Priorclave.
It provides the ideal opportunity to showcase some of the latest developments in a range of energy efficient laboratory autoclaves and research steriliser that have gained a global presence, delivering durable and reliable autoclaves whatever the format - benchtop, top and front loading free-standing, double-door, stackable and powerdoor to most countries across the worldwide....
Anton Paar will be exhibiting a Lab Innovations at stand C13. Take part in our prize draw for a chance to win a Kindle Fire. Simply drop your business card and one lucky winner will be selected.
Anton Paar produces high-end measuring and laboratory instruments for industry and research. World leaders in the measurement of Density, Concentration, CO2 and Rheometry, other areas of specialty are: Petroleum Testing, Microwave Synthesis, Viscometry, Polarimetry, Refractometry, X-Ray Scattering, Sample Preparation, Indentation Testing and Surface Characterization....
Science World, the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience, made its successful launch in France at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès in Strasbourg on 29 September.
The event, hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific, showcased the latest in laboratory innovations available through the Fisher Scientific channel. Thousands of products were available for attendees to experience, making it an ideal event for anyone working in or around a laboratory. Highlights from Science World included the well-known anthropologist Yves Coppens who presented a keynote speech....
Asynt has produced a new report that compares the thermal performance and advantages of vacuum jacketed versus non-vacuum jacketed reaction vessels.
Data is presented for vacuum jacketed and non-vacuum jacketed reaction vessels connected to a Julabo Presto A30 temperature control system. The report demonstrates that a vacuum jacketed vessel not only achieved faster rates of cooling but was also able to maintain a reaction at -20°C compared to just -15°C for the non-vacuum jacketed vessel....
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is returning to Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s only event dedicated to laboratory professionals, to host a two-day conference in its own dedicated theatre.
The hotly anticipated conference programme, taking place at the NEC Birmingham on 2 & 3 November, will feature leading speakers from the laboratory industry who will take to the stage to discuss a series of key topics, including digital healthcare and elemental discovery. Alongside an array of inspiring seminars, the conference boasts keynote sessions from two internationally renowned figures, who have firmly made their mark on the laboratory industry...
The anti-tumor activity of an ADC is seven times more efficient when combined with the ImmunoCellin internalization technology
BioCellChallenge SAS, a company specialized in the design and development of internalization technologies allowing biologic’s delivery into living cells, today presents the results of its study on the in vivo efficacy of a therapeutic Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) combined with ImmunoCellin. The results show that the efficacy of a therapeutic antibody used to treat breast cancer can be increased sevenfold in an intravenous injection...
Accelerated shelf-life testing in constant climate chambers determines the stability of foods
The variety of foods available in our supermarkets has now reached gigantic proportions. The food industry brings new products to market at ever-decreasing intervals. What's more, the trend away from artificial additives and toward natural ones is a topic that food laboratories have been working on for many years....
Over 800 products and accessories in one catalogue for life science
Gel Company was founded in 1995 in San Francisco and manufactures a range of unique tools and low cost consumables for the life science research community. The company has set its goal to provide innovative, high quality products with an efficient, friendly service....
Proprietary, cost-effective process restores performance, while new optics deliver high reflectivity and precision
Rigaku Innovative Technologies (RIT), a global supplier of high performance multilayer optics, announces that it cleans and recoats old synchrotron optics to either retask the optics for new applications or to refurbish and repair the coatings to enhance performance. This proprietary process restores the optics’ performance with less lead time and at a far lower cost than purchasing new optics....
With a Case Study from WuXi Biologics Detailing the Advantages of Integrating Bioreactor Models with Single-use Production Scale Bioreactors
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) today announced that it is co-presenting a new bioprocess webinar with WuXi Biologics, a premier Contract Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Organization, on Thursday 20th October. Two live events (at 09.00 GMT and 15.00 GMT) will include detail how WuXi Biologics is using ambr® micro and mini bioreactorplatforms....
In spite of ever more effective therapies, HIV keeps managing to survive in the body.
A comprehensive project conducted by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has clarified the molecular processes which contribute to this effect. In the process, approaches were discovered. Thanks to modern therapies, HIV infections have become controllable – but these treatments cannot provide a cure.....
Sakura Finetek today announces the launch of the Tissue-Tek®VIP® 6 AI Tissue Processor.
The Tissue-Tek VIP 6 AI, provides the next level in reliability and safety from Tissue-Tek VIP processors and is a great investment for superior quality tissue processing, enabling easy and accurate diagnosis. Confidence that the required result can be produced first time, every time comes from generation after generation of gold standard technology producing the latest outstandingly reliable VIP....
Department moves into enhanced facility and increases headcount in response to continued demand for services
Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, a leading provider of early stage and specialist drug development services, today announced the expansion of its Data Sciences function with relocation to a larger office, staying in Edinburgh. The expansion comes in response to growing customer demand for the Data Sciences service....
Recent work has shown that Zika virus persists in semen for up to 6 months after infection.
In a correspondence published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the researchers, in addition to confirming its long persistence in semen (in this case for more than 130 days, i.e., over 4 months), reveal the presence of the virus even within spermatozoa. This work results from collaboration between researchers from Inserm, CNRS, and academic practitioners from University Toulouse III....
Yet scientists still don’t know enough about Zika, including why and how it has spread so rapidly in recent months and what has led to the rise of new disease symptoms. Many of the answers may lie in understanding the virus’s genomic make-up. Now scientists from the University of Glasgow have been able to shed more light on how the Zika virus works, by sequencing the full-length genome of the virus from a patient in Brazil and studying how a molecule...
The Institute Charles Sadron is a CNRS-Institute located at the University of Strasbourg performing fundamental and applied research on polymers and self-assembled systems. Dr Marc Schmutz works in the Electron Microscopy facility where he uses a Hitachi SU8010 Ultra High Resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope in conjunction with a PP3010T cryo-SEM preparation system from Quorum Technologies. It is used to study a broad variety of materials...
Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has made an early-stage investment in Healx, an innovative British healthcare company that seeks new uses for existing drugs in the fight against rare diseases. Amadeus Capital is investing in a £1.5 million Series A round, alongside renowned healthcare entrepreneur, Jonathan Milner....
This breakthrough has released the second tranche of its 2015 funding – totalling £1.5m – which will be used for final development and commercialisation of this innovative product line. The ReadyPlex range is aimed at the transfusion market, and will offer rapid genomic analysis of erythrocyte blood groups, human platelet antigens (HPAs), human neutrophil antigens (HNAs) and coagulation polymorphisms...
The initiative capitalizes on CAMECA’s more than years 50 years of experience in developing and servicing shielded microanalytical instruments for nuclear fuel characterization, irradiated materials behavior investigation, and radioactive waste management. CAMECA has had a great deal of success supporting the nuclear industry and scientific community, starting in 1978 with the installation of the first shielded electron probe microanalyzer...
This highly prestigious 20,000 EUR prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts. The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)....
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the launch of its new QSight™ Triple Quadrupole LC/MS/MS instrument at a press conference during analytica China, the international trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre....
ControLyo™ nucleation technology controls the freezing stage of the freeze drying process for more consistent and repeatable outcomes that aid drug development, scale-up and production efforts. SP which manufactures a full range of research through production lyophilization equipment and technologies has had a licensing agreement with Praxair, Inc. to provide ControLyo™ technology as part of its portfolio since 2010...
It provides the ideal opportunity to showcase some of the latest developments in a range of energy efficient laboratory autoclaves and research steriliser that have gained a global presence, delivering durable and reliable autoclaves whatever the format - benchtop, top and front loading free-standing, double-door, stackable and powerdoor to most countries across the worldwide....
Anton Paar produces high-end measuring and laboratory instruments for industry and research. World leaders in the measurement of Density, Concentration, CO2 and Rheometry, other areas of specialty are: Petroleum Testing, Microwave Synthesis, Viscometry, Polarimetry, Refractometry, X-Ray Scattering, Sample Preparation, Indentation Testing and Surface Characterization....
The event, hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific, showcased the latest in laboratory innovations available through the Fisher Scientific channel. Thousands of products were available for attendees to experience, making it an ideal event for anyone working in or around a laboratory. Highlights from Science World included the well-known anthropologist Yves Coppens who presented a keynote speech....
Data is presented for vacuum jacketed and non-vacuum jacketed reaction vessels connected to a Julabo Presto A30 temperature control system. The report demonstrates that a vacuum jacketed vessel not only achieved faster rates of cooling but was also able to maintain a reaction at -20°C compared to just -15°C for the non-vacuum jacketed vessel....
The hotly anticipated conference programme, taking place at the NEC Birmingham on 2 & 3 November, will feature leading speakers from the laboratory industry who will take to the stage to discuss a series of key topics, including digital healthcare and elemental discovery. Alongside an array of inspiring seminars, the conference boasts keynote sessions from two internationally renowned figures, who have firmly made their mark on the laboratory industry...
BioCellChallenge SAS, a company specialized in the design and development of internalization technologies allowing biologic’s delivery into living cells, today presents the results of its study on the in vivo efficacy of a therapeutic Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) combined with ImmunoCellin. The results show that the efficacy of a therapeutic antibody used to treat breast cancer can be increased sevenfold in an intravenous injection...
The variety of foods available in our supermarkets has now reached gigantic proportions. The food industry brings new products to market at ever-decreasing intervals. What's more, the trend away from artificial additives and toward natural ones is a topic that food laboratories have been working on for many years....
Gel Company was founded in 1995 in San Francisco and manufactures a range of unique tools and low cost consumables for the life science research community. The company has set its goal to provide innovative, high quality products with an efficient, friendly service....
Rigaku Innovative Technologies (RIT), a global supplier of high performance multilayer optics, announces that it cleans and recoats old synchrotron optics to either retask the optics for new applications or to refurbish and repair the coatings to enhance performance. This proprietary process restores the optics’ performance with less lead time and at a far lower cost than purchasing new optics....
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) today announced that it is co-presenting a new bioprocess webinar with WuXi Biologics, a premier Contract Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Organization, on Thursday 20th October. Two live events (at 09.00 GMT and 15.00 GMT) will include detail how WuXi Biologics is using ambr® micro and mini bioreactorplatforms....
The Tissue-Tek VIP 6 AI, provides the next level in reliability and safety from Tissue-Tek VIP processors and is a great investment for superior quality tissue processing, enabling easy and accurate diagnosis. Confidence that the required result can be produced first time, every time comes from generation after generation of gold standard technology producing the latest outstandingly reliable VIP....
Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, a leading provider of early stage and specialist drug development services, today announced the expansion of its Data Sciences function with relocation to a larger office, staying in Edinburgh. The expansion comes in response to growing customer demand for the Data Sciences service....
In a correspondence published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the researchers, in addition to confirming its long persistence in semen (in this case for more than 130 days, i.e., over 4 months), reveal the presence of the virus even within spermatozoa. This work results from collaboration between researchers from Inserm, CNRS, and academic practitioners from University Toulouse III....