NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, on behalf of Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board, contracted with Leica Biosystems for its Aperio digital pathology solutions.

This partnership has enabled the merging of three sites: Glan Clwyd, Wrexham & Bangor to form the new trust: North Wales. Digital pathology enables rapid distribution, eliminating slide shipping costs and travel time. Additionally, the digital slides can be annotated to facilitate a more efficient and accurate review from one pathologist to another. The use of digital pathology is leveraging NHS Wales as a pioneering healthcare organization...

Protagen AG, a company concerned with the development of advanced diagnostic tools to address some of the most severe autoimmune diseases, has today announced that it will join the MATURA Consortium.

The overarching mission of the MATURA Consortium is to improve patient care in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) by rationalizing therapy decisions through a stratified medicine approach.

MATURA (MAximising Therapeutic Utility for Rheumatoid Arthritis) aims to identify treatment response predictors which will allow the allocation of patients to subgroups defined by the therapy they are most likely to respond to, early in the disease process. RA provides the ideal setting for the introduction of a stratified medicine approach as the treatment is standardized, there is a significant non-responder rate to each marketed and commonly used drug, and early and effective therapy has consistently been shown to improve long-term outcomes, including joint damage, disability and employment.

A collaboration between Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) and Bio-Rad (Hercules, California) has delivered new analytical tools for the rapid identification of unknown particles.

New software to support Malvern’s Morphologi G3-ID, which analyzes particle size, shape and chemical composition, enables the direct comparison of measured Raman spectra with reference spectra in the extensive database of Bio-Rad’s market-leading KnowItAll® software. The result is powerful, robust particle identification capabilities for scientists working in forensic analysis and pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical development who are...

SP Scientific has announced their next series of educational events to be held during 2016 for scientists involved with lyophilization.

Information and registration details for these upcoming events which include LyoLearn webinars, seminars and hands-on training courses is available through the SP LyoTech Center**. In addition to upcoming events, the LyoTech Center offers a comprehensive repository of previously recorded webinars; informative articles and technical papers; and a variety of free tools and programs to assist freeze dryer users. LyoLearn webinars...

New data paves way for adoption of sTNFR1 as a routine test for Diabetic Nephropathy management

EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that new data has been presented in support of soluble Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 (sTNFR1) as a biomarker to predict progression of Diabetic Nephropathy (also referred to as Diabetic Kidney Disease). This new data [1] was recently presented at Kidney Week, the world’s premier nephrology meeting, organised by the American Society for Nephrology (ASN) and is...

Acquisition increases capacity to deliver high quality, locally manufactured oligos.

Integrated DNA Technologies, the global leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the oligonucleotide synthesis business of AITbiotechPte. Ltd. in Singapore (“AITbiotech”). With this acquisition, IDT expands its customer base across Southeast Asia making it possible for these additional customers to now have access to its broad range of products for genomic applications. AITbiotech will...

Quotient Clinical the Translational Pharmaceutics® company, has announced that it has been acquired by specialist healthcare investor GHO Capital, with financial details of the transaction remaining undisclosed.

Quotient Clinical has brought innovation to the drug development process through its unique Translational Pharmaceutics® platform, which integrates formulation development, real-time GMP manufacturing and clinical testing. This approach has been proven to accelerate timelines and reduce associated costs, driving overall improvements in R&D productivity. With over 280 employees, the company serves an international customer...

Have superbugs breached the last line of antibiotic defences for the first time? Industry gathers next March to collaborate on tackling antimicrobial resistance

With a focus on pushing financial and collaborative incentives to accelerate clinical success of antibiotic drugs, the agenda for SMi’s 18th annual summit on Superbugs & Superdrugs will spotlight on models for successful partnerships, progressive R&D, strengthening the antibiotic pipeline and pioneering approaches to "smart" antibiotics.

Cell counting and analysis just got easier and better

Eikonix are pleased to announce that they have been appointed by Countstar to sell their automated cell counters and fluorescence cell analyser in the UK. Featuring ease of use, efficiency, accuracy and reliability, these products have been widely used in major research and medical institutions in various fields including biopharmaceuticals, beer and beverages.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have found a way to make swallowable cameras more effective at detecting cancers of the throat and gut. 

In recent years, tiny sensing systems small enough for patients to swallow have proven to be a valuable clinical alternative to more intrusive imaging methods such as endoscopes. Until now, the systems, often known as video-pill, have relied on illuminating patients’ innards using a small light source, restricting clinicians to conclusions based on what they can see in the spectrum of visible light. In a new paper published in the...

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics today launched its new website specifically for molecular diagnostics. 

The new site beckmancoulter.com/moleculardiagnostics has been designed not only to showcase the company’s DxN VERIS Molecular Diagnostics System* but also to provide quick and easy access to scientific resources and educational materials for the molecular diagnostics laboratory. “Our aim with the new site has been to make finding information about our molecular diagnostics products – both the DxN VERIS system and its...

Key achievements include facilities, research and development, partnerships and recruitment

The Cell Therapy Catapult, the UK organisation dedicated to the growth of the UK cell and gene therapy industry by bridging the gap between scientific research and commercialisation, today announces the release of their 2015 Annual Review. The second review covers the 12 months from April 2014 to 2015, during which the Cell Therapy Catapult...

New Report Available

The World Market for Liquid Chromatography in Healthcare, provides useful business planning information and competitive analysis for this particular industry, including Market Size, Forecast, Research and Clinical Markets, Market Share, Analyst Commentary and Corporate Profiles. This is slow-evolving industry but recently, new technologies and applications are providing change in the market. The report covers these trends in detail...

MR Solutions and Summit Pharmaceuticals have reached an agreement where Summit Pharmaceuticals will be the sole supplier for MR Solutions’ preclinical, multi-modality cryogen free MRI imaging systems to the Japanese market.

Summit Pharmaceuticals, part of the Sumitomo Corporation, is a leading Japanese provider of drug discovery instruments and through this partnership, both companies will be able to offer a complete imaging portfolio of high field preclinical multi-modality MRI solutions including PET/MR and SPECT/MR, plus CT, optical systems, and bioresource materials. Based in Surrey, UK, MR Solutions pioneered the development of the world’s...

As part of the annual awards ceremony for the Lifetime Business Achievement Medal of Honor event, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Nils Shmid presented Gerhard Juchheim with the Lifetime Business Achievement Medal of Honor for 2015 from the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Since 1978 this award has been bestowed on leaders and companies for their outstanding professional and entrepreneurial achievements. Gerhard Juchheim was honored for his lifetime business contribution in Baden-Württemberg by Mr. Schmid in the famous marble ballroom of the Neuen Schloss (New Castle) in Stuttgart. It was an honor not only for Gerhard Juchheim but also for the long-standing historical tradition of this family company...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Potential for its ‘Groundbreaking’ Functionality

Medtech innovator Medimetrics has won the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Award for ‘Product Innovation in Personalized Drug Delivery’ for its IntelliCap micro-electronics, oral drug delivery system. The award is open to companies trading in North America.IntelliCap enables the pre cise delivery of drugs in the gastro-intestinal tract and the measurement and reporting of conditions in the body. The official Frost & Sullivan report...

Re-Pharm, an early-stage drug discovery and development company based on the principles of compound re-profiling, is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a GB patent on the re-purposed compound RP0217 for the treatment of inflammatory disorders.

This patent protects the topical use of RP0217 for the treatment or prevention of respiratory and gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders, including rhinitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease. “Patients with chronic inflammation typically rely on steroids to control their disorders,” explains Dr Robert Scoffin, CEO of Re-Pharm. “We are delighted to have identified this non-steroidal alternative...

Gel Company celebrates 20 years of serving the life science market. Founded in 1995, Gel Company, based in San Francisco, develops manufactures, and supplies low cost products to the life science research community.

The company has set its goal to provide innovative, high quality products with an efficient, friendly service. The aim of Gel Company is to offer all its products at competitive prices. The focus is to develop, manufacture and supply innovative tools for proteomics, genomics, cell biology, liquid handling and microarray applications to scientists around the world.

AMSBIO has launched DNA-In® CRISPR – an innovative transfection reagent that simplifies and accelerates genome editing using large plasmids and difficult-to-transfect cells for life science researchers generating disease models.

Since its emergence, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has been rapidly adopted as a mainstream approach for performing genetic manipulation. This powerful tool has transformed the process of generating “footprint-free” cellular models for studying genetic diseases. Using this approach, researchers can easily generate disease-relevant isogenic models to determine the impact of correcting or introducing disease-relevant mutations on cellular...

Hot topics include food safety, homeland security, bioanalytical science

Pittcon is pleased to announce the 2016 Technical Program that includes over 2,000 technical presentations offered in symposia, oral sessions, workshops, awards, and posters.  The core of the Technical Program, analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy, covers a wide range of applications such as, but not limited to, biotechnology, biomedical, drug discovery, environmental, food science, fuels/energy, genomics, lab...

Dolomite, part of the Blacktrace group of companies, is celebrating a decade of excellence in the design and manufacture of novel, high quality microfluidic products, including individual components such as pumps, chips, connectors, temperature controllers and sensors, software solutions and complete microfluidic systems.

The company, based in Royston, UK, was the world’s first microfluidic application centre, and has gone from strength to strength since its formation in 2005, opening offices in the USA, Japan, India and Brazil, and establishing a global distributor network. Today, it serves many thousands of customers in over 50 countries around the world, working in fields as diverse as academia, biotechnology, drug discovery, food and cosmetics...

LUSH Cosmetics Awards Group £25,000 for Its Educational and Training Work

The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. will receive the prestigious LUSH Prize Training Award in London today. The award recognises the Science Consortium's multifaceted approach to providing educational outreach to companies and regulators through the organisation of webinars, initiating face-to-face training sessions, and developing educational resources to promote the acceptance and uptake of non-animal methods...