Environmental Monitoring is an essential part of any pharmaceutical, medical device or biotechnology manufacturing process in order to show that the microbial and particulate content of all clean room air and work surfaces is below acceptable levels.
Matrix Gemini EM from Autoscribe Informatics provides all the functionality to define a complete environmental monitoring protocol. It can be used in an FDA regulated environment and fully supports the requirements of 21CFR Part 11. Matrix Gemini EM is a specific configuration of the very successful Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). It will support a typical EM workflow “out of the box”...
ISG has been awarded a contract to refurbish and extend the University of Oxford’s Tinbergen Building, to modernise and upgrade existing facilities and create new chemistry teaching laboratories.
Designed by Sir Leslie Martin and named after Nikolaas Tinbergen, joint winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Tinbergen Building is currently home to the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Department of Zoology. Commencing on site in early summer, ISG will carry out a phased refurbishment of the existing four-storey building – encompassing circa...
Experts from Nanopharm, supported by Malvern instruments and with funding from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have carried out experimental studies to identify analytical strategies that can help bring generic nasal sprays to market faster.
The findings, presented at Respiratory Drug Delivery (RDD) 2016, describe the benefits of applying component-specific particle size measurement and rheological characterization to determine the Critical Material and Process Attributes of suspension nasal sprays. By supporting fast and robust bioequivalence testing, these techniques add value in the development of abbreviated new drug applications...
AMSBIO has introduced MitoXpress® Intra, a novel intracellular oxygen assay based on a 96 or 384-well fluorescence plate reader-based approach that facilitates the real-time assessment of transient changes in cell respiration, oxygen gradients and physiological responses across a range of cell models.
Molecular oxygen is the key substrate of aerobic metabolism. Knowledge of cell oxygenation is therefore central to a detailed understanding of the cellular metabolic response to a particular treatment or manipulation. Traditionally intracellular measurements have proven very difficult, requiring the use of invasive, laborious, low-throughput, technically challenging techniques which in turn have limited the use of...
Investment will be used to fund commercial launch of new pancreatic and lung stem cell products for drug discovery and regenerative medicine
DefiniGEN, a leading provider of stem cell life science products, has announced that it has raised £1.5m ($2.29m) in follow-on funding. The round was led by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the University of Cambridge, and 24 Haymarket, with key investors Dr Jonathan Milner (Chairman), Providence Investment Company, Parkwalk, and Cambridge Capital Group also participating...
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, opens a new logistics center for life science and healthcare products at Amsterdam-Schiphol.
The new so-called Life Science Competence Center is located next to the airport at the business park Schiphol Southeast. It serves as a hub for the transport, transport preparation, temporary storage, and transport follow-up of active and passive temperature-controlled pharmaceutical and medicinal products....
CILS have worked with Cancer Research to create a durable, printable label for identifying microslides during manual, xylene-based tissue processing.
The laboratory’s existing labels were inadequate for their standard deparaffinising protocols; separating from the adhesive, disintegrating and causing vital data to be lost. While several solvent-resistant label materials exist, most are constructed for automated processes where the xylene, acetone or similar agent will have evaporated before slides are handled by a technician. In the case of the Cancer Research laboratory, manual tissue processing means slides are handled while wet with xylene, causing printed data to smudge on these labels....
Asynt has introduced GasTrap gas purifiers for analytical laboratories using Gas Chromatography (GC), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) or Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) instrumentation.
Gas purity is essential in any GC, HPLC or GC/MS application requiring high sensitivity. Available in optimised models for Helium, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and pure air - GasTrap gas purifiers dramatically reduce the levels of contaminants, enhance the purity of lower grade helium, and help ensure instrument stability, reproducibility as well as lowering running costs. Laboratory gases for GC, HPLC and GC/MS are typically supplied in pressurised cylinders that...
The first annual Edinburgh Instruments’ Lectureship in Photochemistry and Photophysics at Duke University was held April 29th, 2016, with great success.
The plenary speaker, Prof. Richard Eisenberg of the University of Rochester, presented his talk, titled “Fuel from Water: The Light-Driven Generation of Hydrogen.” The lecture was attended by approximately 100 faculty, students, and researchers from Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, along with a post-lecture “meet-the-speaker” event allowing attendees to...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, is expanding its popular line of Guava® flow cytometers to include a high-power modulated green laser.
The addition of a 532 nanometer laser expands the detection capabilities of the Guava® easyCyte instrument line to enable simultaneous detection of multiple fluorescent proteins. It also offers researchers more spectral choice using fluorescent reagents. More powerful violet, blue and red lasers are now standard in most configurations, meaning the Guava® cytometers are sensitive enough to detect subcellular particles as small as viruses....
Genevac announces the launch of a new website 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...
Chromatrap® has announced a new 96-well high throughput purification plate for production of ultra-pure DNA.
Using proprietary filtration media that allow much higher loadings of active material than has been previously possible, typical assay times using the Chromatrap® DNA Purification Plate are less than 5 minutes. Buffers are optimised to remove any unwanted impurities while providing efficient DNA recovery from samples. The Chromatrap® DNA Purification Kit is designed for the purification and concentration of samples from PCR...
Faster and easier development of your own customised lateral flow assays is now possible with the new generic Rapid Assay Device (gRAD) kits from BioPorto, available exclusively in the UK from Alpha Laboratories.
This open, flexible, versatile platform is NOT analyte dependent and gives you total control to customise the assay using your chosen antibodies. It offers you endless possibilities and applications by enabling creation of lateral flow assays tailored to your needs, in a very short time. gRAD OneDetection is an optimised generic lateral flow strip that is configured with both a test line, where a biotinylated capture antibody will bind...
It is important to take a few minutes to assess whether or not your pipettes are performing as they should be, doing this is an excellent way to assure data integrity and reduce your overall risk.
You can quickly verify the accuracy of most pipettes using a gravimetric balance and vessel, some deionized water and a work area that's free from drafts, direct sunlight and vibration. It's easy to do and Anachem can show you how with our new free Quick Check Poster, simply hang these around your lab to remind your entire team how easy it is to perform a simple quick check. To further assist you with this, we have created a...
BioTek Instruments is proud to announce receipt of the President’s “E” Award for Exports, presented by U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, at a ceremony in Washington, DC today.
The President’s “E” Award is the highest recognition that a U.S. entity can receive for export activities, and BioTek is one of 123 companies honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce for their significant contributions to support American exports. “The “E” Awards Committee was very impressed with BioTek Instruments’ innovative scientific instrument technologies. The company’s development of a business model...
UK technology has potential to bring islet transplant therapy to thousands of patients with type 1 diabetes
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT) and University of Aberdeen, UK, today announce the creation of Islexa, a new company developing a novel technology to produce laboratory grown islets, the organoids responsible for insulin production. The technology could bring the option of an islet transplant to thousands more patients with type I diabetes. Currently in the UK, only 30-50 patients with hypoglycaemic...
FLIR Systems ResearchIR 4.2 thermal imaging software provides researchers and scientists with a state-of-the-art tool for viewing, acquiring, analyzing, and sharing thermal data.
To enable users to get started, and then gain the full potential of this powerful software package, FLIR Systems has created several informative online tutorial videos that may be viewed at www.flir.eu/science/display/?id=55874. 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...
Copley Scientific, a family-owned company that began supplying glassware to the UK pharmaceutical industry in 1946, is celebrating the seven decades of success that have led to its current position as the global leader in inhaled product testing equipment.
“Longevity in business is a true mark of success and in our case a direct tribute to all the staff who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to the company, over many years.” said Mark Copley, Sales Director for Copley Scientific. “The loyalty of our team is reflected in the stability of our customer base and a primary reason for our outstanding customer service and application expertise. I’d like to thank everyone...
The CF2000 Centrifugal Field Flow Fractionation (CF3) system from Postnova Analytics sets a new standard for high resolution separation and fractionation of nanoparticles.
Based on the CF3 principle, the Postnova CF2000 employs a centrifugal field as the driving force for separations. Particles affected by this field are separated by dynamic diffusion on the basis of both particle size and density. This unique feature of the CF2000 allows the separation of different particulate materials having the same particle size. Separations on the CF2000 can be further optimized by using different eluents...
Vitrification provides excellent survivability of embryos and oocytes through the freezing process
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), today announced the receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for expanded use of Vit Kit® vitrification media to include human oocytes. The company is the first, and only company to date, to obtain 510(k) clearance of vitrification media for use with oocytes within the US. Irvine Scientific’s Vit Kit-Freeze and...
MANUFACTURING software specialist LZ Lifescience has announced a partnership with North Carolina State University’s Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) to help promote and support technology expertise in the biopharma industry.
The Golden LEAF BTEC center will introduce LZ Lifescience’s manufacturing execution system (MES) technology into its biotech laboratory, replacing paper-based systems with electronic batch record (EBR) capabilities to improve performance and demonstrate efficiencies. Reflecting an industry-wide shift towards implementing technology to manage manufacturing operations, undergraduates, graduate...
The best Taq DNA Polymerase on the market at special offer price
Vivantis Technologies take pride in being the one stop solution to the scientific community in molecular biology research, providing an extensive selection of products to ensure customer needs are met. One of the company’s leading products it offers is Taq DNA Polymerase. Taq DNA Polymerase is one of the most important components in Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). It has become the standard reagent for the PCR reaction....
Matrix Gemini EM from Autoscribe Informatics provides all the functionality to define a complete environmental monitoring protocol. It can be used in an FDA regulated environment and fully supports the requirements of 21CFR Part 11. Matrix Gemini EM is a specific configuration of the very successful Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). It will support a typical EM workflow “out of the box”...
Designed by Sir Leslie Martin and named after Nikolaas Tinbergen, joint winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Tinbergen Building is currently home to the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Department of Zoology. Commencing on site in early summer, ISG will carry out a phased refurbishment of the existing four-storey building – encompassing circa...
The findings, presented at Respiratory Drug Delivery (RDD) 2016, describe the benefits of applying component-specific particle size measurement and rheological characterization to determine the Critical Material and Process Attributes of suspension nasal sprays. By supporting fast and robust bioequivalence testing, these techniques add value in the development of abbreviated new drug applications...
Molecular oxygen is the key substrate of aerobic metabolism. Knowledge of cell oxygenation is therefore central to a detailed understanding of the cellular metabolic response to a particular treatment or manipulation. Traditionally intracellular measurements have proven very difficult, requiring the use of invasive, laborious, low-throughput, technically challenging techniques which in turn have limited the use of...
DefiniGEN, a leading provider of stem cell life science products, has announced that it has raised £1.5m ($2.29m) in follow-on funding. The round was led by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the University of Cambridge, and 24 Haymarket, with key investors Dr Jonathan Milner (Chairman), Providence Investment Company, Parkwalk, and Cambridge Capital Group also participating...
Gas purity is essential in any GC, HPLC or GC/MS application requiring high sensitivity. Available in optimised models for Helium, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and pure air - GasTrap gas purifiers dramatically reduce the levels of contaminants, enhance the purity of lower grade helium, and help ensure instrument stability, reproducibility as well as lowering running costs. Laboratory gases for GC, HPLC and GC/MS are typically supplied in pressurised cylinders that...
The plenary speaker, Prof. Richard Eisenberg of the University of Rochester, presented his talk, titled “Fuel from Water: The Light-Driven Generation of Hydrogen.” The lecture was attended by approximately 100 faculty, students, and researchers from Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, along with a post-lecture “meet-the-speaker” event allowing attendees to...
The addition of a 532 nanometer laser expands the detection capabilities of the Guava® easyCyte instrument line to enable simultaneous detection of multiple fluorescent proteins. It also offers researchers more spectral choice using fluorescent reagents. More powerful violet, blue and red lasers are now standard in most configurations, meaning the Guava® cytometers are sensitive enough to detect subcellular particles as small as viruses....
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...
Using proprietary filtration media that allow much higher loadings of active material than has been previously possible, typical assay times using the Chromatrap® DNA Purification Plate are less than 5 minutes. Buffers are optimised to remove any unwanted impurities while providing efficient DNA recovery from samples. The Chromatrap® DNA Purification Kit is designed for the purification and concentration of samples from PCR...
This open, flexible, versatile platform is NOT analyte dependent and gives you total control to customise the assay using your chosen antibodies. It offers you endless possibilities and applications by enabling creation of lateral flow assays tailored to your needs, in a very short time. gRAD OneDetection is an optimised generic lateral flow strip that is configured with both a test line, where a biotinylated capture antibody will bind...
You can quickly verify the accuracy of most pipettes using a gravimetric balance and vessel, some deionized water and a work area that's free from drafts, direct sunlight and vibration. It's easy to do and Anachem can show you how with our new free Quick Check Poster, simply hang these around your lab to remind your entire team how easy it is to perform a simple quick check. To further assist you with this, we have created a...
The President’s “E” Award is the highest recognition that a U.S. entity can receive for export activities, and BioTek is one of 123 companies honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce for their significant contributions to support American exports. “The “E” Awards Committee was very impressed with BioTek Instruments’ innovative scientific instrument technologies. The company’s development of a business model...
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT) and University of Aberdeen, UK, today announce the creation of Islexa, a new company developing a novel technology to produce laboratory grown islets, the organoids responsible for insulin production. The technology could bring the option of an islet transplant to thousands more patients with type I diabetes. Currently in the UK, only 30-50 patients with hypoglycaemic...
To enable users to get started, and then gain the full potential of this powerful software package, FLIR Systems has created several informative online tutorial videos that may be viewed at www.flir.eu/science/display/?id=55874. 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...
“Longevity in business is a true mark of success and in our case a direct tribute to all the staff who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to the company, over many years.” said Mark Copley, Sales Director for Copley Scientific. “The loyalty of our team is reflected in the stability of our customer base and a primary reason for our outstanding customer service and application expertise. I’d like to thank everyone...
Based on the CF3 principle, the Postnova CF2000 employs a centrifugal field as the driving force for separations. Particles affected by this field are separated by dynamic diffusion on the basis of both particle size and density. This unique feature of the CF2000 allows the separation of different particulate materials having the same particle size. Separations on the CF2000 can be further optimized by using different eluents...
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), today announced the receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for expanded use of Vit Kit® vitrification media to include human oocytes. The company is the first, and only company to date, to obtain 510(k) clearance of vitrification media for use with oocytes within the US. Irvine Scientific’s Vit Kit-Freeze and...
The Golden LEAF BTEC center will introduce LZ Lifescience’s manufacturing execution system (MES) technology into its biotech laboratory, replacing paper-based systems with electronic batch record (EBR) capabilities to improve performance and demonstrate efficiencies. Reflecting an industry-wide shift towards implementing technology to manage manufacturing operations, undergraduates, graduate...