Collaboration to develop rapid tests to differentiate between viral and bacterial infections, and differentiate bacterial strains
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and research reagents, is pleased to announce that a collaborative development programme with Leeds University has been awarded a £3.8 million grant by the Medical Research Council to develop novel, rapid diagnostic tools incorporating Affimer reagents, to differentiate between viral and bacterial infections, and differentiate bacterial strains....
Leading Industry Experts Gather for Malvern MicroCal Open Forum Meetings in Europe and the US
Leading microcalorimetry experts from across the globe will be joining Malvern MicroCal scientists at open forum meetings in Europe and the USA that provide a valuable opportunity for scientists to extend their understanding and application of this powerful analytical technique. Microcalorimetry enables detailed investigation of the interactions between and thermodynamics of molecules/biomolecules...
BioTek Instruments will be recognized as a 2016 Vermont Business Growth Award winner in the Technology category at a ceremony to be held September 12, 2016 at the Hilton Burlington hotel, in Burlington, Vermont.
This annual award, formerly known as the 5x5x5 Growth Award, is sponsored by Vermont Business Magazine and KeyBank, and is presented to the five fastest growing businesses in five categories over the last five years in Vermont. “This is the fifth time that BioTek has been honored with this award, and it is no surprise,” commented John Boutin, Publisher of Vermont Business Magazine....
Catherine Bollard becomes new ISCT President in two year role
The International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT), the global society of clinicians, researchers, regulatory specialists, technologists, and industry partners dedicated to the translation of cellular therapy into safe and effective therapies to improve patients’ lives, today announces they have awarded London as the host city for the landmark ISCT 2017 Annual Meeting to be held on May 3-6, at ExCeL London...
Unique Point of Care connectivity developed for patient-dedicated blood gas analysis
Sphere Medical, an innovative company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, today announces that its Proxima™ patient-dedicated blood gas analysis system can now be connected into the Conworx family of laboratory information system interfaces and data management solutions...
Trade in your old pipettes and you'll get up to 57% off the price of brand new Rainin XLS+ pipettes – no limit on quantity, any condition, working or not.
For every old pipette you can replace it with a similar type of Rainin XLS+ model at a discounted price. You can choose from any manual or electronic, single or multichannel pipette. Rainin Pipet-Lite XLS+ Manual Pipettes. The Pipet-Lite XLS+ is one of the most balanced and comfortable pipettes available, due to subtle improvements to the grip, body, finger hook and surface texture....
AESKU Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for HELIOS AUTOMATED IFA SYSTEM with AESKUSLIDES ANA HEp-2-Gamma
AESKU.GROUP, a research-focused supplier of innovative products and services for the early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of autoimmune diseases, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new HELIOS AUTOMATED IFA SYSTEM with AESKUSLIDES ANA HEp-2-Gamma Assay....
Natural method also is proving effective against dengue and chikungunya
Integrated DNA Technologies, is donating reagents to Eliminate Dengue Brazil to help combat the spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Brazil. The Eliminate Dengue Program is an international, non-profit research collaboration led by Prof Scott O’Neill of Monash University, Australia....
TalkingPoint Commander, GHG Software’s workflow scripting solution, is being used as a bridge between legacy LIMS (laboratory information management systems) and the Free D Path specialist software for cancer registry reporting.
Free D Path is a modern database application developed by Dr Fred Mayall, Consultant Histopathologist at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, to manage cancer registry reporting data requirements. It works on most platforms, including PCs, Macs and iPads, and has won an NHS Innovation Prize from the Secretary of State for Health....
Selcia’s compound library for early stage drug discovery can now be ordered in a ready-to-use format through Compound Cloud
BioAscent Discovery and Selcia have entered into an agreement to make Selcia’s unique compound fragment library available to researchers through BioAscent’s new online Compound Cloud service. The new agreement adds to the 125,000+ compounds available through Compound Cloud and stored at BioAscent’s state-of-the-art compound management and logistics facility...
Translating biological assays into market-ready products that deliver ‘Sample to Answer’ from 15 Minutes
The Technology Partnership plc (TTP), a world-leading technology and development organisation, today announced the launch of Desktop Biology™. The new service will enable point-of-care diagnostic providers to rapidly convert their biological assay into a market-ready system capable of producing a result in as little as 15 minutes. The new service provides an accessible and rapid route to market, offering a seamless approach...
A goniometer-based X-ray scattering platform for advanced SAXS/WAXS experiments and more
On the Denver X-ray Conference 2016 in Rosemont (Illinois, USA) PANalytical announced the Empyrean Nano edition, a new hybrid laboratory instrument that offers a unique combination of various advanced X-ray scattering techniques. Researchers can deduce valuable information about nanoscale structures and dimensions and....
Ingenza is pleased to announce it has successfully applied for EU H2020 SME Instrument funding of €50,000 for Phase 1 of its innovative SYNBIOMAN project, allowing the company to forge ahead with the development of this novel synthetic biology-driven biomanufacturing platform.
Successful completion of the Phase 1 study could open the door to additional funding for Phase 2, valued at €2.5 million.
SYNBIOMAN will build on Ingenza’s proprietary industrial synthetic and systems biology tools, helping small and medium-sized biotechnology enterprises to close the gap from lab to market by developing GMP biomanufacturing capabilities that target the production of therapeutic proteins....
Read MoreJohn Rex to Give Exclusive Talk on the Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance this FallAug 31, 2016
Industry expert Dr John Rex will be presenting a special keynote address on the global crisis of antibiotic resistance at SMi’s Superbugs & Superdrugs congress this fall.
The industry meeting set to take place on Nov 14th and 15th in Iselin, New Jersey, will gather a global audience of scientific leaders, funding bodies and drug development specialists, providing a focal point to discuss funding opportunities and clinical advancements in drug discovery....
Dolomite microfluidic chips are helping researchers from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) to develop novel enzymes capable of polymerising synthetic nucleotides.
Using these chips, the team has created a droplet-based optical polymerase sorting (DrOPS) technique allowing rapid screening for novel polymerase activities in uniform water-in-oil microcompartments. The team’s leader, Professor John C. Chaput – formerly at ASU and currently at the University of California, Irvine – explained: “The creation of synthetic nucleic acids is of great interest to synthetic biologists...
New research, led by the University of Glasgow, has identified how cells protect themselves against ‘protein clumps’ known to be the cause of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.
The study, which is published today in Cell and was conducted in collaboration with the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, offers an insight into the role of a gene called UBQLN2 and how it helps to remove toxic protein clumps from the body and protect it from disease. Using biochemistry, cell biology and sophisticated mouse models, the researchers discovered that...
ELRIG have announced that two new Scientific Advisors have joined the committee to help organise the UK’s largest and most successful Drug Discovery conference, which will take place at ACC, Liverpool on 13th and 14th of October 2016.
“This is a very special year in that we are celebrating our 10year anniversary of successfully running this meeting,” said Sanj Kumar, Chairman, ELRIG. “To ensure we continue to provide cutting edge scientific content to our 7,000 strong community we are honoured to welcome two new members to the Scientific Committee....
Light sheet and confocal microscopy combined for long-term imaging of sensitive samples
Leica Microsystems’ Digital LightSheet solution, the Leica TCS SP8 DLS confocal microscope was honored with the Microscopy Today 2016 Innovation Award in Columbus, Ohio. Its design combines the Leica TCS SP8 confocal platform with light sheet technology as a fully integrated module, thus enabling researchers to combine confocal and light sheet imaging in one experiment...
Read MoreNew Analytical Consultancy Offers Unique Combination of Instrumentation, Methodology and Expertise to GC LaboratoriesAug 29, 2016
A new consultancy has been established to assist analytical chemists with complex or demanding applications using gas chromatography (GC).
SepSolve Analytical Ltd (Peterborough, UK), a company of the Schauenburg International Group (Mülheim-Ruhr, Germany), provides a unique combination of expert advice, equipment from numerous suppliers, and applications support to the global analytical chemistry sector for the characterisation of complex mixtures by GC-based technologies....
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoWizard® AFM system at the University of South Australia, Adelaide.
AFM is being applied to many areas including smart wound healing, plant toxicology and novel methods of nanoparticle characterization. Dr Gordon McPhee is head of production for NextCell Pty in Adelaide, Australia. Situated on the Mawson Lakes Campus, he is located next to the University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia's leading university for interdisciplinary research, where he has access to their...
Functionalized gold nanoparticles for easy, fast covalent conjugation of antibodies
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, today announced the launch of a carboxylated derivative of its unique InnovaCoat® GOLD 40 nm nanoparticles. The new product enables customers to quickly generate highly stable covalent gold-antibody conjugates at R&D and manufacturing scales....
The human cell culture specialists join experts in ion channel research to study human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes for drug discovery applications
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company specialising in the supply of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cells, and Metrion Biosciences, a specialist ion channel drug discovery business, have signed a collaboration agreement to improve, standardise and more accurately predict the risk of human clinical pro-arrhythmias....
Leading microcalorimetry experts from across the globe will be joining Malvern MicroCal scientists at open forum meetings in Europe and the USA that provide a valuable opportunity for scientists to extend their understanding and application of this powerful analytical technique. Microcalorimetry enables detailed investigation of the interactions between and thermodynamics of molecules/biomolecules...
This annual award, formerly known as the 5x5x5 Growth Award, is sponsored by Vermont Business Magazine and KeyBank, and is presented to the five fastest growing businesses in five categories over the last five years in Vermont. “This is the fifth time that BioTek has been honored with this award, and it is no surprise,” commented John Boutin, Publisher of Vermont Business Magazine....
The International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT), the global society of clinicians, researchers, regulatory specialists, technologists, and industry partners dedicated to the translation of cellular therapy into safe and effective therapies to improve patients’ lives, today announces they have awarded London as the host city for the landmark ISCT 2017 Annual Meeting to be held on May 3-6, at ExCeL London...
Sphere Medical, an innovative company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, today announces that its Proxima™ patient-dedicated blood gas analysis system can now be connected into the Conworx family of laboratory information system interfaces and data management solutions...
For every old pipette you can replace it with a similar type of Rainin XLS+ model at a discounted price. You can choose from any manual or electronic, single or multichannel pipette. Rainin Pipet-Lite XLS+ Manual Pipettes. The Pipet-Lite XLS+ is one of the most balanced and comfortable pipettes available, due to subtle improvements to the grip, body, finger hook and surface texture....
AESKU.GROUP, a research-focused supplier of innovative products and services for the early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of autoimmune diseases, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new HELIOS AUTOMATED IFA SYSTEM with AESKUSLIDES ANA HEp-2-Gamma Assay....
Integrated DNA Technologies, is donating reagents to Eliminate Dengue Brazil to help combat the spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Brazil. The Eliminate Dengue Program is an international, non-profit research collaboration led by Prof Scott O’Neill of Monash University, Australia....
Free D Path is a modern database application developed by Dr Fred Mayall, Consultant Histopathologist at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, to manage cancer registry reporting data requirements. It works on most platforms, including PCs, Macs and iPads, and has won an NHS Innovation Prize from the Secretary of State for Health....
BioAscent Discovery and Selcia have entered into an agreement to make Selcia’s unique compound fragment library available to researchers through BioAscent’s new online Compound Cloud service. The new agreement adds to the 125,000+ compounds available through Compound Cloud and stored at BioAscent’s state-of-the-art compound management and logistics facility...
The Technology Partnership plc (TTP), a world-leading technology and development organisation, today announced the launch of Desktop Biology™. The new service will enable point-of-care diagnostic providers to rapidly convert their biological assay into a market-ready system capable of producing a result in as little as 15 minutes. The new service provides an accessible and rapid route to market, offering a seamless approach...
On the Denver X-ray Conference 2016 in Rosemont (Illinois, USA) PANalytical announced the Empyrean Nano edition, a new hybrid laboratory instrument that offers a unique combination of various advanced X-ray scattering techniques. Researchers can deduce valuable information about nanoscale structures and dimensions and....
Using these chips, the team has created a droplet-based optical polymerase sorting (DrOPS) technique allowing rapid screening for novel polymerase activities in uniform water-in-oil microcompartments. The team’s leader, Professor John C. Chaput – formerly at ASU and currently at the University of California, Irvine – explained: “The creation of synthetic nucleic acids is of great interest to synthetic biologists...
The study, which is published today in Cell and was conducted in collaboration with the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, offers an insight into the role of a gene called UBQLN2 and how it helps to remove toxic protein clumps from the body and protect it from disease. Using biochemistry, cell biology and sophisticated mouse models, the researchers discovered that...
“This is a very special year in that we are celebrating our 10year anniversary of successfully running this meeting,” said Sanj Kumar, Chairman, ELRIG. “To ensure we continue to provide cutting edge scientific content to our 7,000 strong community we are honoured to welcome two new members to the Scientific Committee....
Leica Microsystems’ Digital LightSheet solution, the Leica TCS SP8 DLS confocal microscope was honored with the Microscopy Today 2016 Innovation Award in Columbus, Ohio. Its design combines the Leica TCS SP8 confocal platform with light sheet technology as a fully integrated module, thus enabling researchers to combine confocal and light sheet imaging in one experiment...
SepSolve Analytical Ltd (Peterborough, UK), a company of the Schauenburg International Group (Mülheim-Ruhr, Germany), provides a unique combination of expert advice, equipment from numerous suppliers, and applications support to the global analytical chemistry sector for the characterisation of complex mixtures by GC-based technologies....
AFM is being applied to many areas including smart wound healing, plant toxicology and novel methods of nanoparticle characterization. Dr Gordon McPhee is head of production for NextCell Pty in Adelaide, Australia. Situated on the Mawson Lakes Campus, he is located next to the University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia's leading university for interdisciplinary research, where he has access to their...
Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, today announced the launch of a carboxylated derivative of its unique InnovaCoat® GOLD 40 nm nanoparticles. The new product enables customers to quickly generate highly stable covalent gold-antibody conjugates at R&D and manufacturing scales....
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company specialising in the supply of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cells, and Metrion Biosciences, a specialist ion channel drug discovery business, have signed a collaboration agreement to improve, standardise and more accurately predict the risk of human clinical pro-arrhythmias....