Leading science academics and entrepreneurs from around the world gathered in Nottingham on Wednesday 25^th May for the 2016 Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference.

Organised by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) and The Science Council, “Working Together to Advance UK Science” attracted over 1,000 delegates interested in science innovation, professional career development, STEM work in schools and the latest laboratory technology. Writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE hosted the line-up of keynote speakers who demonstrated how science is being applied to the world of Olympic coaching and...

Precision medicine requires success in two intertwined aspects: precision therapy and personalized medicine.

Precision therapy is being able to effectively treat the right disease; to have therapies that target for the correct pathological pathways.  Personalized medicine requires diagnosing a specific individual’s disease based on accurate assessment their complex health and pathological status. Our underlying premise is that an individual’s baseline proteome reflects their past and present and thus, will dictate their future health and...

Optibrium, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, has announced that Janssen Research and Development has signed an agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop software.

The agreement will provide a global licence for StarDrop and eight of StarDrop’s optional plug-in modules.

Cleaver Scientific announces proSET – an innovative new range of benchtop scale fermentation systems designed to provide an optimized cell cultivation solution for applications including growth of sensitive and fragile mammalian and insect cells.

Horizon’s X-MAN cell lines to be made available in conjunction with Ubiquigent’s ubiquitin-related Drug Discovery Services

Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon"), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies including cell models, today announced it has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with Ubiquigent Ltd (“Ubiquigent”). Under the terms of the agreement, Ubiquigent will be able to utilize Horizon’s X-MAN® cell lines as part of its ubiquitin system focused Drug Discovery Services...

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 Jagiellonian University in Krakow where it is applied to make simultaneous imaging, mechanical and spectroscopy measurements. 

Dr Marek Szymonski is a Professor at the Research Centre for Nanometer-Scale Science and Advanced Materials (NANOSAM) located at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. The aim of his research is to understand the signals that govern intracellular communication between hepatocytes and liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) and between cardiomyocytes and cardiac microvascular endothelial cells...

Chromatrap reports on 3 further customer papers published in different prestigious peer reviewed journals, which cite how its proprietary solid state Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) technology has enabled ground breaking research.

A recent study published in Drug Metabolism & Deposition [1] looks at " The role of Chromatin structural changes in regulating human CYP3A ontogeny. Variability in drug metabolizing enzyme developmental trajectories contributes to inter-individual differences in susceptibility to chemical toxicity and adverse drug reactions, particularly in the first years of life. Factors linked to these inter-individual differences are largely unknown...

The 'Global and Chinese Liquid Chromatography Industry, 2016 Market Research Report' is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global Liquid Chromatography industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

The report provides key statistics on the market status of the Liquid Chromatography manufacturers and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the industry. Firstly, the report provides a basic overview of the industry including its definition, applications and manufacturing technology. Then, the report explores the international and Chinese major industry players in detail...

Tecan is making it easier than ever before to set up and miniaturize qPCR reactions.

With the advent of NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) came the ability to learn more about genomes than ever before and also the ability to do so faster.

This trend has done nothing but continue with speed and data quality improving though chemistry and platform advances. However, NGS is by no means a cheap commodity in any lab. With systems ranging from around $150,000 to easily in excess of $1,000,000 the cost of purchasing and running such systems is still very high, driving a need to get the most from every run....

The New Stuart Automatic Melting point incorporates high resolution video technology combined with an intelligent melt algorithm to determine the melting point of up to three samples, simultaneously and automatically.

The SMP50’s digital camera also records the sample melt, providing confirmation of the automatically-obtained result and time-stamped video files that can be easily transferred to a PC for long-term proof of measurement and traceability. The latest addition to the Stuart range of Melting Point products can be trusted to measure sample melting points automatically, through monitoring and identifying small changes in the sample....

Tandem Ionisation® allows both soft and classical electron ionisation mass spectra to be acquired simultaneously across an entire GC or GC×GC run.

Coming soon to the Jenway range is a new 7200 visible spectrophotometer that measures the entire wavelength range in one measurement using advanced diode array technology.

It has been designed for simple, fast and robust use in routine analysis, research and education laboratories. With its diverse range of measurement modes, it is suitable for many different applications, including food and beverage, quality control and industrial testing. This latest addition to Jenway’s comprehensive range of spectrophotometers uses advanced diode array technology, which helps to improve accuracy and reliability....

The new modular OMNIS platform for comprehensive wet chemical analysis

Quality control in many industries depends on the routine analysis of a handful of key parameters. Often, determination of these parameters is distributed across several technologies and methods. This goes along with cumbersome aggregation of results and management of data from different sources. With the launch of the new, modular OMNIS platform for comprehensive wet chemical analysis, this situation will change....

Original Grace HPLC columns including Vydac, Alltima, Alltima HP, Prevail, Apollo, Allsep, Apex and Genesis HPLC columns are still available!

Hichrom is pleased to announce that we have acquired the worldwide exclusive rights to manufacture and sell these analytical HPLC column ranges from Grace. All columns are manufactured to identical protocols and to the same exacting specifications previously used by Grace/Alltech. Part numbers also remain unaffected by this acquisition. Based in the UK, Hichrom is a leading European manufacturer and distributor of UHPLC and HPLC columns, consumables and media, with manufacturing facilities accredited to both ISO9001 (Quality) and ISO14001 (Environmental) standards.

This new high stability amino phase from Advanced Chromatography Technologies is ideal for the analysis of sugars.

ACE Amino is one of a wide range of carefully engineered ACE UHPLC/HPLC phases. These phases incorporate the latest developments in stationary phase technology in order to provide chromatographers with more choices for alternative selectivity but without compromising stability or robustness. Phases include the ACE C18-AR which combines the hydrophobic characteristics of a C18 phase with the aromatic selectivity of a phenyl phase, the ACE C18-PFP...

Broadens Access to Critical Diagnostic Results for Infants Born with HIV

A new website has been launched by Genevac that provides easily navigable access to the company’s comprehensive portfolio of evaporators and concentrators to suit almost any solvent removal application, purchasing budget or productivity requirement.

Located at www.spscientific.com/genevac - the new site offers visitors ready access to an extensive searchable library of articles, technical papers, application notes and videos in the Evaporation Insights Learning Center. Alison Wake, Genevac Product & Marketing Manager commented “We have adopted the learning center concept developed by our parent company SP Scientific who have found this information...

To enable users to get started, and then gain the full potential of their powerful ResearchIR 4.2 thermal imaging software, FLIR Systems has created several informative online tutorial videos that may be viewed online. 

Available in 20 languages, FLIR ResearchIR 4.2 software provides a comprehensive set of acquisition, diagnostic and data sharing tools as well as customizable, savable workspaces that allow you to arrange how images, data, charts and plots are displayed. ResearchIR4.2 connects directly to FLIR thermal imaging cameras via USB, Firewire, Gigabit Ethernet and Camera Link, enabling fast viewing of thermal snapshots and movie files. The software allows you to...

New Phenome Centre Birmingham to use Thermo Scientific mass spectrometry instruments to advance metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc, the world leader in serving science, is pleased to announce plans to extend its technology collaboration with the University of Birmingham in the UK at the University’s new Phenome Centre. Thermo Fisher will supply a range of advanced mass spectrometry instruments to be used for the centre’s research in metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies...

A European shortage of scientists who can use special imaging techniques that could speed up and reduce the cost of life-saving drug development is to be tackled by a new £3.1million (Euro 4m) training scheme led by the University of Aberdeen.

The 4-year Marie Curie European Networks project, funded by the European Commission will train 15 PhD students in world class, innovative research using a technique called Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging....

Why use flow cytometry when there is now a far simpler method for cell counting and sorting?

In traditional flow cytometry there are three main components which make up a system. These components are the fluidics, the optics and the electronic parts. Then of course there is the data which has to be processed and presented in the right format for the application. So why would you go this route when there is now a far simpler method for cell counting and sorting?...