Laborama Expo is held this year on the 17^th and 18^th of March in Brussels Kart Expo. This two-day professional fair has become the meeting place for the laboratory sector.

At the moment around a 100 companies have confirmed their presence as exhibitor. They are ready to present their novelties to a specialized public of end-users. Each year,  2000 visitors from all over Belgium come to visit the more than 100 exhibitors. The main theme for 2016 is safety in the lab. This means that visitors can participate in an educational tour  that takes them by several exhibitors.  On each booth of the tour the visitor...

With its range of innovative features, the Stuart range of Undergrad Hotplate stirrers already has a proven track record.

Features including a mains independent hot warning light, which continues to function once the unit is switched off and even unplugged. Our unique LED temperature indicator which progressively illuminates to show the surface temperature. Compatibility with retort rods or stands, compact footprint and smart storage solutions.The entire range of Undergrad hotplates and hotplate stirrers are also compatible with the Stuart SCT1 temperature controller, enabling accurate sample temperature control....

Our world is becoming more environmentally aware with recycling being considered a necessity both domestically and commercially.

Anybody working in a laboratory and using pipettes and tips knows how much waste tip racks produce, how expensive they are to dispose of and the amount of space these used racks can take up.  For most labs the cost of running a recycling scheme can be prohibatory as they tend to be priced upon the weight of the plastic being recycled.

For a limited time only Techne are offering a free water bath with every TE-10D thermoregulator purchased, saving up to £380.  

The Techne TE-10D thermoregulator can be used to heat and circulate liquids from ambient to 120°C and being a thermoregulator they also offer excellent temperature stability of +/-0.01°C at 40°C. The entire range comes with a bright 4 digit LED temperature display and are ideal for routine laboratory applications. Safety features include an automatic cut-out when low liquid levels are reached and a user adjustable over-temperature cut-out....

With courses delivered by world-renowned experts including John Dolan, Mel Euerby, Mark Powell, Diane Turner, Alan McKeown, Geoff Pickerell, Brian Montgomery, Helen Poole, Gemma Lo and Annette Larder, the new 2016 Hichrom training calendar is now available! Whether you are a relative newcomer to chromatography or a seasoned veteran, you can benefit from one of our courses.

Our courses will show you how to decrease costs, increase throughput, prevent costly method problems occurring, transfer methods between laboratories or from HPLC to UHPLC and develop faster, more reproducible HPLC/UHPLC or GC assays in a time effective manner. In fact, all of these courses are guaranteed to increase productivity and efficiency in your laboratory, reducing your analysis costs. If this doesn’t happen Hichrom will happily refund your money! New scheduled courses for 2016 include Data Integrity and CIM Monolith Chromatography for Biomolecules....

Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, has announced that it has completed its 100th RapidFACT (Rapid Formulation development And Clinical Testing) program – a significant milestone in the growth of this service, which addresses drug R&D productivity issues.

RapidFACT has been proven to accelerate drug formulation development for all routes of delivery, and over 50 leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies globally have now adopted this approach.RapidFACT can reduce development timelines by at least 50 % while delivering significant cost savings. This is achieved through Quotient Clinical’s innovative Translational Pharmaceutics platform, which integrates formulation development, GMP manufacturing and clinical testing in one location, allowing the product to be adapted in real-time, based on emerging clinical data....

For a limited time only Jenway are offering a scanning spectrophotometer for the price of a non-scanning spectrophotometer.

Models 7310 and 7315 are scanning visible and UV/Visible spectrophotometers with measurements modes for absorbance, % transmittance, concentration, spectrum scanning, kinetics and quantitation. Both models can save results and methods to a USB memory stick, making it easy to set up multiple instruments with the same parameters.

A new customer technical note compares the performance of the INTEGRA VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing multichannel pipette with a manual single channel pipette for performing real-time PCR experiments. 

In undertaking these experiments, independent researchers found that the unique electronically adjustable tip facility on the VOYAGER not only generated time savings of up to 80% from minimising the number of required manual handling steps but also improved pipetting reproducibility and reduced pipetting errors.

Ingenza is using its proprietary inABLE® technology to help develop a robust, versatile platform for the production of cyclic peptides for therapeutic use.

Not to be missed savings on all Electrothermal digital melting points, until the end of March.

The Electrothermal digital melting point series offers a quick and easy way to measure the melting point of samples, without sacrificing accuracy. It is ideal for multiple users, as it has been ergonomically designed to ensure comfortable viewing for everyone; with a height adjustable extension arm and a viewing head which may be rotated to suit each user. The viewing arm can also be collapsed easily to maximise storage space....

Leica Biosystems, a global leader in anatomic pathology solutions and workflow automation, and Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. (ACD), a world leader in RNA biomarker analysis for precision medicine, today announced a comprehensive partnership to develop and commercialize tissue-based diagnostic tests based on ACD's RNAscope in situ hybridization (ISH) assays on Leica Biosystems' BOND clinical advanced staining instruments.

The agreement supports Leica Biosystems' development and commercialization of fully automated RNAscope-based companion diagnostic (CDx) tests in partnership with biopharmaceutical companies. The combination of ACD's RNAscope technology with Leica Biosystems' fully automated pathology solutions allows companies and laboratories in clinical markets to integrate the power of new RNA-based biomarker tests into the...

Dr Alessio Ciulli of the University of Dundee has been named the winner of a major award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr Ciulli, from the University’s School of Life Sciences, has been named joint winner of the Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Award by the RSC. The award recognises outstanding work in medicinal or computational medicinal chemistry and is given to `an individual judged to have made an important contribution to the discovery or development of new medicines’, with nominations open to candidates up to the age of 40. The award has been given to Dr Ciulli in recognition of...

‘This basic research set the grounds for structure-based drug design approaches that could be beneficial for cancer treatments’ Dr. Cyril Dominguez, University of Leicester

A team from the University of Leicester has for the first time published a detailed description of a protein linked to many types of cancer. The lab-based study from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology now provides an opportunity for scientists to develop drugs to target this protein. Dr Cyril Dominguez who led the work at Leicester said: “My research field is structural biology. The proteins that we have studied, called...

Industry Veteran Susan Macdonald’s new venture brings a cross-industry approach to life sciences talent acquisition

Macdonald Lewis Associates Limited today officially opens the doors of a new executive resourcing firm for the life sciences industry. Founded by life sciences talent management expert Susan Macdonald, the new firm will support the changing talent needs of life sciences clients in new and emerging as well as existing strategic business functions. “As the world we live in changes exponentially, so do the needs, wants and...

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that it will be giving a short course on ambient air monitoring at Pittcon 2016 (in Atlanta, Georgia, USA), and present several technical papers, rather than having an exhibition booth on the tradeshow floor.

The half-day course, entitled “Ambient air monitoring: What are the right tools for the job?” will take place in the morning of Thursday, March 10^th and is aimed at analysts, test laboratories, environmental consultants, regulators, universities and environmental representatives from industry. Registration for the course is via the Pittcon website.The course consists of modules on: Real-world analysis: Test lab perspective...

Cleaver Scientific will be displaying its latest innovations in Gel Electrophoresis at ARABLAB 2016, to be held 20-23 March 2016 at the Dubai International Convention & Visitors Centre in the United Arab Emirates.

Compact system for surface analysis

The new ZEISS Smartproof 5 widefield confocal microscope is designed for a wide range of industrial applications in quality assurance and quality control departments, production environments and R&D labs. The microscope system provides 3D reconstructions and roughness measurements for a wide range of work piece surfaces. Users benefit from an integrated design, repeatable results and high throughput...

The Omega Lum G from Aplegen is rapidly growing into the gel and western blot imaging documentation system of choice for many people. Installations are growing across Europe as more and more researchers learn about the high performance and yet low cost for this very popular system.

As with all Aplegen systems it is powered by the intelligent SmartCapture Technology which simplifies imaging to the point where the user just has to pick an application and the image is automatically captured with the optimum exposure. This automatically controlled system even takes care of filter selection and focusing.  Within seconds the user will have a high quality publication quality image at the click of a button....

Prior Scientific reports that its OptiScan® controller together with associated microscope stage and focus motor have been used to create stunning artistic designs.

Using this equipment, Richard Weston, a former Professor of Architecture at Cardiff University (UK) has acquired high magnification images of minerals, such as agate, fluorite, and calcite, to produce unique designs for a range of products including scarves, glass panels, and in one case a facade for a three story house. Asked about his novel use of the Prior stage and stepper motor, Richard Weston commented...

Anachem is pleased to announce the launch of ShopAnachem.

This new state of the art website brings you added enhancements for improved functionality, ease of use and an all-around better, faster website. The fresh, new look home page with new search & site navigation options give you a greatly enhanced user experience. By using the sophisticated filtering system you can find the products you are looking for in a matter of seconds. As well as in-depth product information you will also...

The ease of configuration offered within Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) will be showcased at PITTCON by Autoscribe Informatics.

Visitors to Booth #4063 can see a sample registration/submission screen tailored to their exact requirements. Visitors simply need to stop by Booth #4063 with a sketch of how they would like the screen to look and let Autoscribe Informatics staff configure it before their very eyes! This real-life demonstration highlights how easy it is to modify any workflow, screen or report to the exact needs of any laboratory and see the...

The annual two-week Festival, which runs from 7 – 20 March and stages more than 300 events, examines the growing interaction between humans and technology

Will artificial intelligence be superior to or as creative as the human brain? Are we letting machines take over and give rise to mass unemployment or worse? Should we be worried about quantum computing and the impact it will have on the way we work, communicate and live in the future? Or should we harness rather than hate the digital deluge? As we teeter on the brink of total machine dependency and epoch-making technological...