Helium filled party balloons could be relegated to the past if the supply of helium dwindles, but MR Solutions, the world technology leader in preclinical MRI systems could be riding to the rescue with scanners that do not require liquid helium.
Last month, anaesthetist, Dr Tom Dolphin of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee, called for a ban in using helium in balloons as there is a shortage for MRI scanners. British based MR Solutions produced the world's first commercial, superconducting, preclinical, MRI scanner in 2013 that does not require the traditional liquid helium cooling jacket. Dr David Taylor, physicist and CEO of MR Solutions predicts that “within five years...
After a major investment in multiple systems with semi-permanently mounted vessels, each occupying a dedicated fume hood with a dedicated circulator, Dart Neuroscience switched to Reactor-Ready and Reactor-Ready Pilot systems with a selection of vacuum jacketed process vessels.
The systems included software control, as valuable process data was not being recorded via manual methods. Radley systems have mostly replaced the previous brand in the lab and the user experience is much improved due to well-designed hardware:
Breakthrough in non-invasive gut health testing opens path for new therapeutics
The small, pill-shaped IntelliCap wireless medical device is opening up research opportunities into the impact of the small intestine microbiota on health and disease. For the first time, scientists have been able to obtain and analyse samples of the small intestine’s microbiome in a non-invasive way. This is likely to lead to a greater understanding of the significant role the gut microbiome plays in health and disease; and with it, opportunities for...
BioTek announces the release of the new Synergy Neo2 Multi-Mode Reader.
With improved performance and new features, Synergy Neo2 is now the most advanced, high-performance, high-speed plate reader on the market today. Synergy™ Neo2 is designed for speed and ultra high performance, incorporating BioTek’s patented Hybrid Technology™, with its independent optical paths that ensure uncompromised performance. Continuously variable bandwidth quadruple monochromators, sensitive high transmission...
£20,000 prize from Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technology Competition
A University of Leicester spin-out company has won a prestigious £20,000 award for a new technology it is developing to control bleeding in surgery and trauma. The Nottingham-based company, Haemostatix Ltd, claimed top spot in the healthcare sector at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technology Competition with its new peptide dendrimer technology. This new generation compound is based on a purely synthetic peptide construct...
Imperial Innovations Group has secured a new GBP 50 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support investment in the UK biotech and life science sector.
The new support from Europe’s long-term lending institution will be used by the leading technology commercialisation company to strengthen support for harness research ideas and turn them into commercial success. Imperial Innovations works with Europe’s top four research intensive universities in Imperial College, Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL to identify exciting university research at an early stage and develop it to build substantial, high quality...
Scientists studying the regional climate have discovered the reason why British summers are getting wetter.
The study, published in the International Journal of Climatology, and led by Liverpool John Moores University’s (LJMU’s) Dr Tom Matthews has provided context for the region’s recent wash-out summers. The experts have assessed 142-year record of storms for the British-Irish Isles. Compared to earlier decades (around the 1960s-1980s), the researchers found that summers in the UK and Ireland have become much wetter as a result of more...
Laboratories of every size and budget can now bring magnetic bead separation into their experiments with the introduction of these smartly priced, innovative racks from SP Scienceware.
Independent sleeves are one of the features that makes these new Bel-Art® Magnetic Bead Separation Racks by SP Scienceware® unique to the market. “Along with their completive pricing, these racks offer exceptional quality and value compared to other brands,” according to SP Scienceware Product Manager Michael Grzelak....
Analytik Jena AG is supporting science education in the crisis-ridden country of Ukraine.
Donetsk National University, which recently had to leave its conflict-torn home to move to the western Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia, is now receiving a large donation of equipment from Jena. In the words of Torsten Olschewski, General Manager of the Analytical Instrumentation business unit at Analytik Jena AG: “Due to the difficult circumstances, the University is lacking technical equipment in all of its fields of endeavor, including analytical...
Cellectricon, a leading provider of advanced cell-based discovery services, has appointed Dr Edwin Johnson, Director of The Stockholm Brain Institute, as the first member of its new Scientific Advisory Board.
To be established over the next few months, the new, hand-picked Board will bring together the most highly experienced scientists with extensive drug discovery backgrounds in the fields of Chronic Pain and CNS research, extending Cellectricon’s expertise in these areas. “Cellectricon is assembling a first-class team of scientists and engineers - all focused on the challenging task of developing enhanced assay technologies for early...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces the launch of their fourth generation of life science, market-leading AFM technology, the NanoWizard® 4 BioScience AFM.
Working closely with their user base worldwide, JPK is pleased to announce their fourth generation AFM product, the NanoWizard® 4 BioScience AFM system. The pioneering manufacturers of nano solutions for life scientists have raised the bar in terms of technical performance to deliver a new applications-driven solution for users. It features fast scanning up to 70 Hertz line rate. Translated, this means users can follow dynamic processes with outstanding resolution...
Renishaw, a world leader in metrology and spectroscopy technologies, reports on the use of its SEM-SCA interface at the Vibrational Spectroscopy Core Facility of the University of Sydney.
Dr Elizabeth Carter is Manager of the Vibrational Spectroscopy Core Facility, VSCF, at the University of Sydney. This professional services unit houses one of the largest concentrations of state-of-the-art Raman and FT-IR spectrometers in Australia. The research interests of facility users are diverse and applications include: nanotechnology; materials science; art and archaeology; polymer science; pharmaceutics; environmental; forensics; mineralogy and...
The hotly anticipated Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) conference, returns to Lab Innovations, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC on 4 & 5 November 2015.
The two day free-to-attend programme will focus on an array of critical industry themes, including 3D Printing, Science in Space, Laboratory Safety, Best Practices and Tax Relief. Dr Geraint Morgan, Project Officer within the Faculty of Science at The Open University, will be taking to the stage on day one of the show to present ‘Down to Earth’ - a look at the first ever landing of a space craft on a comet. He will explore how the European Space...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, have joined SEAHA as an industrial partner and will help in the supervision of a student in the use of spectral imaging techniques to evaluate historical artefacts.
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) is an 8-year initiative (2014-2022) to establish an infrastructure to meet challenges set by the heritage sector, industry and government. Analytik have joined this project as an industrial partner and student supervisor. Analytik are leading suppliers of portable and handheld spectrometers including Visible and Near-Infrared (Vis-NIR)...
NLSDays September 9-10 is the Nordic region’s premier event for investors and global companies looking for biopharma, medtech and digital opportunities.
With still two and a half months to go, Nordic Life Science Days today announced that the region’s premier life sciences event is already on course for record numbers. The meeting has grown rapidly year by year and we expect more than 1000 delegates for the combined conference, partnering and exhibition to be held at Stockholm’s new Waterfront convention centre on September 9-10. For the growing number of international visitors in...
Lonza has announced that it has reached an exclusive agreement with TAP Biosystems, part of the Stedim Biotech Group, to distribute the company’s RAFT™ (Real Architecture For 3D Tissue) 3D Cell Culture System.
The RAFT™ System uses a patented absorber technology to create cell layers in high-density collagen that mimic the in vivo environment. This system enables researchers to generate more biologically meaningful data from their cell culture studies. The versatile RAFT™ Kit is available in a number of formats and is appropriate for analysis using a wide variety of imaging, biochemical and histological techniques. In combination with Lonza’s human...
Quotient Clinical, the Translational Pharmaceutics® Company, has announced the initiation of a new RapidFACT program for Druggability Technologies (DRGT) for evaluating enhanced formulations of abiratone acetate, a marketed drug prescribed in combination with prednisone to patients suffering from metastatic prostate cancer.
The program will assess new formulations using DRGT’s proprietary Super-API technology, and aims to reduce dose and address food effects associated with the drug. Quotient’s RapidFACT service provides formulation development, real-time GMP manufacturing and clinical testing, all in one location, creating a streamlined approach to optimizing drug formulations for clinical development. It has been proven to accelerate program timelines...
First study of its kind reveals role of homozygosity and Britain’s biggest killer disease
A study to examine recessively inherited genome-wide DNA sequences has for the first time discovered a potential link with Britain’s biggest killer – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). The research led by a team from the University of Leicester was the first time that recessively inherited DNA sequences in the whole genome called Runs of homozygosity (ROHs) were examined for a connection to the disease. The study appears in The American Journal of Human Genetics...
Markes International’s operations at its UK headquarters in Llantrisant, near Cardiff, are set to expand still further with the acquisition of another building.
The new building, which is adjacent to the company’s existing manufacturing facility and Technical Centre, comprises nearly 3000 square feet of office space, which initially will be allocated to the company’s expanding Engineering operations. This news comes as the company looks to further its success in the export market, having won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in April. “The new accommodation will not only give us room for growth but will...
Canadian company MetaOptima Technology Incorporated is one of five new companies to join MediCity, the UK’s rapidly-expanding innovation hub for consumer healthcare, medical technology, diagnostics and beauty products.
Four further companies, uMotif Digital Health, Clearview Med. UK, MindforYou and Saflushmyss are now part of a globally-driven community of 33 start-up and growing companies who have chosen the Nottingham Enterprise Zone hub on the Boots site in Beeston as their base. MetaOptima technology is applied to the identification and management of skin conditions, in particular the early detection of skin cancers. The team has developed the first home...
Animal models are an efficient and cost-effective way to understand underlying mechanisms of several human conditions, says Frost & Sullivan
The use of small animal models in basic and preclinical research is now an integral part of developing and testing new pharmaceutical drugs prior to commercialisation. Small animal imaging is an efficient and cost-effective research platform for the timely validation and commercialisation of novel drug agents. Moreover, it is a highly essential technology to understand underlying mechanisms of conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and...
The 2015 Supporting World Class Science Conference will be held at the University of Leeds on September 16-17. Highlights include:
A keynote entitled ‘Is Science Facilities Management Rocket Science? By Kim Toufectis of NASA, one of the world’s largest employers of scientists and engineers, and covering topics such as the impact of changing science requirements on lab design, and successful project management. More than 20 case studies of new and refurbished laboratories from all branches of STEM research and teaching (aquaria and marine science, biology, chemistry...
Last month, anaesthetist, Dr Tom Dolphin of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee, called for a ban in using helium in balloons as there is a shortage for MRI scanners. British based MR Solutions produced the world's first commercial, superconducting, preclinical, MRI scanner in 2013 that does not require the traditional liquid helium cooling jacket. Dr David Taylor, physicist and CEO of MR Solutions predicts that “within five years...
The systems included software control, as valuable process data was not being recorded via manual methods. Radley systems have mostly replaced the previous brand in the lab and the user experience is much improved due to well-designed hardware:
The small, pill-shaped IntelliCap wireless medical device is opening up research opportunities into the impact of the small intestine microbiota on health and disease. For the first time, scientists have been able to obtain and analyse samples of the small intestine’s microbiome in a non-invasive way. This is likely to lead to a greater understanding of the significant role the gut microbiome plays in health and disease; and with it, opportunities for...
With improved performance and new features, Synergy Neo2 is now the most advanced, high-performance, high-speed plate reader on the market today. Synergy™ Neo2 is designed for speed and ultra high performance, incorporating BioTek’s patented Hybrid Technology™, with its independent optical paths that ensure uncompromised performance. Continuously variable bandwidth quadruple monochromators, sensitive high transmission...
A University of Leicester spin-out company has won a prestigious £20,000 award for a new technology it is developing to control bleeding in surgery and trauma. The Nottingham-based company, Haemostatix Ltd, claimed top spot in the healthcare sector at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technology Competition with its new peptide dendrimer technology. This new generation compound is based on a purely synthetic peptide construct...
The new support from Europe’s long-term lending institution will be used by the leading technology commercialisation company to strengthen support for harness research ideas and turn them into commercial success. Imperial Innovations works with Europe’s top four research intensive universities in Imperial College, Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL to identify exciting university research at an early stage and develop it to build substantial, high quality...
The study, published in the International Journal of Climatology, and led by Liverpool John Moores University’s (LJMU’s) Dr Tom Matthews has provided context for the region’s recent wash-out summers. The experts have assessed 142-year record of storms for the British-Irish Isles. Compared to earlier decades (around the 1960s-1980s), the researchers found that summers in the UK and Ireland have become much wetter as a result of more...
Donetsk National University, which recently had to leave its conflict-torn home to move to the western Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia, is now receiving a large donation of equipment from Jena. In the words of Torsten Olschewski, General Manager of the Analytical Instrumentation business unit at Analytik Jena AG: “Due to the difficult circumstances, the University is lacking technical equipment in all of its fields of endeavor, including analytical...
To be established over the next few months, the new, hand-picked Board will bring together the most highly experienced scientists with extensive drug discovery backgrounds in the fields of Chronic Pain and CNS research, extending Cellectricon’s expertise in these areas. “Cellectricon is assembling a first-class team of scientists and engineers - all focused on the challenging task of developing enhanced assay technologies for early...
Working closely with their user base worldwide, JPK is pleased to announce their fourth generation AFM product, the NanoWizard® 4 BioScience AFM system. The pioneering manufacturers of nano solutions for life scientists have raised the bar in terms of technical performance to deliver a new applications-driven solution for users. It features fast scanning up to 70 Hertz line rate. Translated, this means users can follow dynamic processes with outstanding resolution...
Dr Elizabeth Carter is Manager of the Vibrational Spectroscopy Core Facility, VSCF, at the University of Sydney. This professional services unit houses one of the largest concentrations of state-of-the-art Raman and FT-IR spectrometers in Australia. The research interests of facility users are diverse and applications include: nanotechnology; materials science; art and archaeology; polymer science; pharmaceutics; environmental; forensics; mineralogy and...
The two day free-to-attend programme will focus on an array of critical industry themes, including 3D Printing, Science in Space, Laboratory Safety, Best Practices and Tax Relief. Dr Geraint Morgan, Project Officer within the Faculty of Science at The Open University, will be taking to the stage on day one of the show to present ‘Down to Earth’ - a look at the first ever landing of a space craft on a comet. He will explore how the European Space...
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) is an 8-year initiative (2014-2022) to establish an infrastructure to meet challenges set by the heritage sector, industry and government. Analytik have joined this project as an industrial partner and student supervisor. Analytik are leading suppliers of portable and handheld spectrometers including Visible and Near-Infrared (Vis-NIR)...
With still two and a half months to go, Nordic Life Science Days today announced that the region’s premier life sciences event is already on course for record numbers. The meeting has grown rapidly year by year and we expect more than 1000 delegates for the combined conference, partnering and exhibition to be held at Stockholm’s new Waterfront convention centre on September 9-10. For the growing number of international visitors in...
The RAFT™ System uses a patented absorber technology to create cell layers in high-density collagen that mimic the in vivo environment. This system enables researchers to generate more biologically meaningful data from their cell culture studies. The versatile RAFT™ Kit is available in a number of formats and is appropriate for analysis using a wide variety of imaging, biochemical and histological techniques. In combination with Lonza’s human...
The program will assess new formulations using DRGT’s proprietary Super-API technology, and aims to reduce dose and address food effects associated with the drug. Quotient’s RapidFACT service provides formulation development, real-time GMP manufacturing and clinical testing, all in one location, creating a streamlined approach to optimizing drug formulations for clinical development. It has been proven to accelerate program timelines...
The new building, which is adjacent to the company’s existing manufacturing facility and Technical Centre, comprises nearly 3000 square feet of office space, which initially will be allocated to the company’s expanding Engineering operations. This news comes as the company looks to further its success in the export market, having won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in April. “The new accommodation will not only give us room for growth but will...
Four further companies, uMotif Digital Health, Clearview Med. UK, MindforYou and Saflushmyss are now part of a globally-driven community of 33 start-up and growing companies who have chosen the Nottingham Enterprise Zone hub on the Boots site in Beeston as their base. MetaOptima technology is applied to the identification and management of skin conditions, in particular the early detection of skin cancers. The team has developed the first home...
The use of small animal models in basic and preclinical research is now an integral part of developing and testing new pharmaceutical drugs prior to commercialisation. Small animal imaging is an efficient and cost-effective research platform for the timely validation and commercialisation of novel drug agents. Moreover, it is a highly essential technology to understand underlying mechanisms of conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and...
A keynote entitled ‘Is Science Facilities Management Rocket Science? By Kim Toufectis of NASA, one of the world’s largest employers of scientists and engineers, and covering topics such as the impact of changing science requirements on lab design, and successful project management. More than 20 case studies of new and refurbished laboratories from all branches of STEM research and teaching (aquaria and marine science, biology, chemistry...