Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, has announced that it has acquired formulation development specialist Co-Formulate Limited.
Quotient Clinical has brought innovation to the drug development process through its unique Translational Pharmaceutics platform, which challenges the conventional industry approach by integrating formulation development, real-time GMP manufacturing and clinical testing. The acquisition of Co-Formulate reinforces and extends Quotient’s existing pharmaceutical development capabilities across solid, semi-solid and liquid...
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Raman spectroscopy solutions, and AIST-NT, manufacturer of advanced SPM systems designed specifically for integration with optical spectroscopy, deployed their joint solution at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in the US, in collaboration with the Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. The resulting Tip Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS) data was recently published in an article entitled...
FLIR Systems has announced the specially priced C2 Education Kit to bring the power of thermal imaging technology within the reach of elementary schools, high schools and other educational institutes.
The C2 Education Kit includes a FLIR C2 thermal imaging camera, tripod mount and ResearchIR Software as well as access to FLIR education content with lectures, experiments and teacher’s guides. This kit has been specifically designed as an enabling package for classroom instruction and is available with an exclusive discount for educators and students. The FLIR C2 is a full-featured, pocket-sized thermal camera that produces thermal images of...
METTLER TOLEDO is proud to announce that its Rainin TerraRack™ line of pipette tip racks has achieved success in this year’s Green Apple Awards.
The judges clearly recognised the environmental benefits of this innovative product range – which is designed to minimise the problem of plastic tip rack waste – selecting TerraRack from a field of more than 500 entries to receive a Bronze Award for Environmental Best Practice. The award was presented to EU Market Manager Ian Eaton-Taylor at a ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday November 16th...
Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidics innovation, has launched the groundbreaking µEncapsulator 1 System, the only microfluidic product specifically designed to meet the needs of research biologists.
This user-friendly, high throughput system offers simple, straightforward encapsulation of single cells, DNA and/or functionalised beads in high precision, identically-sized picolitre droplets. The launch of the µEncapsulator 1 System is set to benefit scientists working on an array of applications, including characterisation of natively paired T cell receptors, isolation of monoclonal antibody coding sequences from blood samples...
Asynt announces that Rapid Powders Ltd. (Stoke-on-Trent, UK) has been using a PressureSyn High Pressure Reactor to undertake series of process experiments using small amounts of precious materials to produce optimally functionalised polymers.
Rapid Powders Limited specialise in producing polymers with dispersions of functional materials such as metals, ceramics and carbons. Applications for these specialist materials include packaging, electrically conducting polymers, thermally conducting polymers and pigments. To enable them to rapidly make small batches of these functionalised polymers, Rapid Polymers Ltd evaluated various commercial small volume high pressure reactors for safety...
Researchers at The Institute of Petroleum Engineering at TU Clausthal in Germany are being supported by Malvern Instruments in new work to understand and optimize the performance of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) fluids.
The polymeric solutions used for EOR exemplify the fluids used in a range of drilling applications to maximize oil extraction while at the same time safeguarding geological formations. Details of the work have recently been presented in a new webinar which is available for download/viewing. EOR involves injecting a solution into the porous rock surrounding a well and can boost the amount of oil extracted by up to 20%...
Chromatrap®, a business unit of Porvair Sciences, has announced that it will be the Lead Sponsor at the prestigious “Epigenetics in Drug Discovery” conference to be held in Cambridge, UK from 26th-27th January 2016.
Viewed as a new frontier in drug discovery, rapid progress has been made in enhancing understanding of epigenetic mechanisms of both new and existing drugs. With the processes that control epigenomic function providing new opportunities, epigenetics targets are enabling the discovery of novel drugs. At the conference - Dr Amy Beynon will deliver a presentation highlighting the use of new Chromatrap solid state ChIP...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, announce their new social media channels.
Analytik’s social media presence has quickly evolved from an experimental marketing approach to become an essential tool, central to our future growth and development strategy. Social media channels allow Analytik to maintain real-time connections with our customers and show the more personalised and human elements of our services. Social media is about engaging with an online audience and sharing relevant, interesting and...
Fedor Jelezko and Jörg Wrachtrup are the winners of the prestigious ZEISS Research Award in 2016.
They have been honored for their outstanding work on quantum technology with optically addressable spins in diamond. The award will be presented within the framework of the ZEISS Symposium that will take place for the first time on 23 June 2016 in the ZEISS Forum in Oberkochen. During this event international experts will conduct discussions and identify trends and requirements in the fields of optics and photonics that are being strongly influenced and changed by the...
SMi Group Reports: Its 12th annual conference on Asthma & COPD will be held in London on the 11th - 12th April 2016.
Respiratory diseases represent an enormous and increasing healthcare and economic burden across Europe and USA. Over the last few years, significant improvements in the management of asthma and COPD have been made, owing to new drugs, strategies and to the development of the nonpharmacologic treatment of COPD. Nevertheless, there are still many unmet needs in the treatment of these diseases....
Read MoreSeward Invited to Speak at Prestigious Food Safety SummitJan 19, 2016
India’s largest employment sector focuses on enhancing consumer safety
Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the original Stomacher® laboratory paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, announces that its Technical Director, Stuart Ray, has recently presented as an invited speaker at a prestigious food safety conference. The 10th National Food Safety and Quality Summit, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi, focused on ‘Integrating Global...
Syrris, a world leader in flow product innovation, has been a driving force in enhancing R&D chemistry productivity ever since the company’s foundation 14 years ago.
This achievement is amply recognised by the wealth of impressive publications describing novel flow chemistry applications developed using Syrris reactors. Today, scientists have access to hundreds of flow chemistry papers citing groundbreaking applications established on modular reactors from Syrris, including the Ley group’s Accelerating Spirocyclic Polyketide Synthesis using Flow Chemistry1. The group, based at the University...
The Pittcon marketing department is pleased to announce the release of its official conference and exposition mobile app, Pittcon 2016.
The app, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions, short courses and local city information. The Pittcon mobile conference app was developed by ATIV Software and is built...
Vulcathene chemical drainage has been installed extensively throughout new science laboratories, which have been developed from a 1930’s art deco style building at the University of Lincoln.
The new 5,500 square metre Joseph Banks Laboratories houses the University’s Schools of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Pharmacy. The facility has been designed to offer research, teaching and social space in a single, connected learning landscape. Providing state-of-the-art facilities, Joseph Banks Laboratories will conduct research into molecular biology, tissue biology, bioacoustics and DNA analysis, chemistry and pharmacology...
Medical technology company benefits from currency effects / Earnings impacted by special effects
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG looks back on another positive fiscal year: boosted by positive currency effects, the medical technology company's revenue passed the billion mark in fiscal year 2014/15, with a 14 percent increase to € 1,040 million. Adjusted for currency effects, this equates to growth of around 8 percent over the prior year. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 8 percent, to € 130.6 million (prior year: € 120.7 million)...
Illumina invests in Desktop Genetics’ technology to support the platform’s integration with NGS pipelines and improve CRISPR genome editing workflows
Desktop Genetics Ltd (“DTG” or “the Company”), a software company revolutionizing the way biologists use CRISPR gene editing technology, announced today that it has received investment funding from Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The investment will be used to fund the continued development and commercialization of the DESKGEN platform with a particular focus on integration with NGS pipelines. The investment from Illumina follows DTG’s recent fundraising from a syndicate of...
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Neil Hall as its new Director.
Professor Neil Hall will join TGAC in April 2016 from the University of Liverpool where he is currently the Director of The Centre for Genomic Research. As a leader in the field of genomics, Professor Hall has specialised in understanding the genomics of infectious disease over the past decade. He has led projects at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in the US, including the effort to
Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, talks about how the Laboratory for In-situ Microscopy & Analysis in the Department of Engineering, University of Oxford is applying various Microtest tensile stages to characterise materials at different temperatures and under varying loading conditions.
Dr Kalin Dragnevski heads up the Laboratory for In-situ Microscopy & Analysis, LIMA, a contract service and research facility housed in the Department of Engineering at the University of Oxford. Founded in 2012, LIMA is unique in that it comprises over £1m, state of the art characterisation equipment allowing simultaneous investigation of the structure-property-composition relationship in materials systems at different length scales...
Request your new Rainin 2016 "Art of Pipetting" wall calendar now.
This year it features a fun interpretation of the work by internationally acclaimed artist Banksy. These calendars are created each year to help liven up a wall in your lab, and to celebrate the artists, thinkers and scientists who are pushing boundaries and thinking outside the box. If you want to give your lab a spruce up then request your free copy of our "Art of Pipetting" calendar now. To do this simply contact us ensuring your...
A nuclear scientist at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) had an affliction with a kidney stone and just like any curious scientist it got him wondering…
Senior ANSTO research scientist Vladimir Levchenko found himself as part of a startling statistic when he was told he had one of Australia’s most common disorders. Kidney stones affect 1 in 10 Australian men, and 1 in 35 Australian women during their lifetime, however it turns out that very little is known about their growth cycle and longevity. Like so many other scientists before him, a personal question has identified a gap in...
Quotient Clinical has brought innovation to the drug development process through its unique Translational Pharmaceutics platform, which challenges the conventional industry approach by integrating formulation development, real-time GMP manufacturing and clinical testing. The acquisition of Co-Formulate reinforces and extends Quotient’s existing pharmaceutical development capabilities across solid, semi-solid and liquid...
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Raman spectroscopy solutions, and AIST-NT, manufacturer of advanced SPM systems designed specifically for integration with optical spectroscopy, deployed their joint solution at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in the US, in collaboration with the Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. The resulting Tip Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS) data was recently published in an article entitled...
The C2 Education Kit includes a FLIR C2 thermal imaging camera, tripod mount and ResearchIR Software as well as access to FLIR education content with lectures, experiments and teacher’s guides. This kit has been specifically designed as an enabling package for classroom instruction and is available with an exclusive discount for educators and students. 
The judges clearly recognised the environmental benefits of this innovative product range – which is designed to minimise the problem of plastic tip rack waste – selecting TerraRack from a field of more than 500 entries to receive a Bronze Award for Environmental Best Practice. The award was presented to EU Market Manager Ian Eaton-Taylor at a ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday November 16
This user-friendly, high throughput system offers simple, straightforward encapsulation of single cells, DNA and/or functionalised beads in high precision, identically-sized picolitre droplets. The launch of the µEncapsulator 1 System is set to benefit scientists working on an array of applications, including characterisation of natively paired T cell receptors, isolation of monoclonal antibody coding sequences from blood samples...
Rapid Powders Limited specialise in producing polymers with dispersions of functional materials such as metals, ceramics and carbons. Applications for these specialist materials include packaging, electrically conducting polymers, thermally conducting polymers and pigments. To enable them to rapidly make small batches of these functionalised polymers, Rapid Polymers Ltd evaluated various commercial small volume high pressure reactors for safety...
The polymeric solutions used for EOR exemplify the fluids used in a range of drilling applications to maximize oil extraction while at the same time safeguarding geological formations. Details of the work have recently been presented in a new webinar which is available for download/viewing
Viewed as a new frontier in drug discovery, rapid progress has been made in enhancing understanding of epigenetic mechanisms of both new and existing drugs. With the processes that control epigenomic function providing new opportunities, epigenetics targets are enabling the discovery of novel drugs. 
Analytik’s social media presence has quickly evolved from an experimental marketing approach to become an essential tool, central to our future growth and development strategy. Social media channels allow Analytik to maintain real-time connections with our customers and show the more personalised and human elements of our services. 
They have been honored for their outstanding work on quantum technology with optically addressable spins in diamond. The award will be presented within the framework of the ZEISS Symposium that will take place for the first time on 23 June 2016 in the ZEISS Forum in Oberkochen. During this event international experts will conduct discussions and identify trends and requirements in the fields of optics and photonics that are being strongly influenced and changed by the...
Respiratory diseases represent an enormous and increasing healthcare and economic burden across Europe and USA. Over the last few years, significant improvements in the management of asthma and COPD have been made, owing to new drugs, strategies and to the development of the nonpharmacologic treatment of COPD. Nevertheless, there are still many unmet needs in the treatment of these diseases....
Seward Ltd
This achievement is amply recognised by the wealth of impressive publications describing novel flow chemistry applications developed using Syrris reactors. 
The new 5,500 square metre Joseph Banks Laboratories houses the University’s Schools of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Pharmacy. The facility has been designed to offer research, teaching and social space in a single, connected learning landscape. Providing state-of-the-art facilities, Joseph Banks Laboratories will conduct research into molecular biology, tissue biology, bioacoustics and DNA analysis, chemistry and pharmacology...
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG looks back on another positive fiscal year: boosted by positive currency effects, the medical technology company's revenue passed the billion mark in fiscal year 2014/15, with a 14 percent increase to € 1,040 million. Adjusted for currency effects, this equates to growth of around 8 percent over the prior year. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 8 percent, to € 130.6 million (prior year: € 120.7 million)...
Professor Neil Hall will join TGAC in April 2016 from the University of Liverpool where he is currently the Director of The Centre for Genomic Research. 
Dr Kalin Dragnevski heads up the 
This year it features a fun interpretation of the work by internationally acclaimed artist Banksy. 
Senior ANSTO research scientist Vladimir Levchenko found himself as part of a startling statistic when he was told he had one of Australia’s most common disorders.