Synexus continues to expand across Eastern Europe with three new Dedicated Research Centres in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, bringing the total to nine centres in Eastern Europe and a total network of 25 across Europe and Africa.
These new centres will provide the company’s clients in pharma and CROs with an expanding pool of patients. The population of Central and Eastern European countries exceeds that of either the US or the five largest Western European markets combined[i], coupled with its excellent healthcare professionals, which is the reason it has continued to remain important to the clinical trials market. Synexus which is based in the UK is the world’s...
A new brochure from Copley Scientific offers comprehensive, authoritative guidance to support the development of optimal testing strategies for new and generic orally inhaled and nasal drug products (OINDPs).
‘Quality Solutions for Inhaler Testing, 2015 Edition’ includes detailed information on regulatory requirements and highlights pertinent new additions to the company’s extensive inhaled product testing range. It can be downloaded freely from the Copley Scientific website (www.copleyscientific.com) with print versions available on request from sales@copleyscientific.co.uk. “We know that our customers value help with understanding the testing requirements for OINDPs, which...
Lab Innovations has signed a new partnership with the British Measurement and Testing Association (BMTA).
As part of the deal, the BMTA will run a paid-for conference at Lab Innovations 2015, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on 4 & 5 November 2015. The BMTA represents the interests of the measurement and testing industry in the UK and in Europe, while Lab Innovations, as the UK’s only show dedicated to the latest laboratory technology and consumables, analytics and biotech equipment, features the latest testing and measurement equipment and...
Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular and nanoparticle characterization, has published a new whitepaper outlining how to evaluate the solution quality of biotherapeutic candidates prior to screening via Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) or Bio Layer Interferometry (BLI).
The DynaPro® Plate Reader II. Analyte quality is critical to obtaining accurate and meaningful measurements in order to select the most promising therapeutic candidates, so ensuring the quality of samples is a vital step in the screening process. The DynaPro high- throughput dynamic light scattering (HT-DLS) system provides an effective method of assessing sample materials using a non-invasive, non-pertubative optical technique...
Leica LMD6 and Leica LMD7 Succeed Leica LMD6500 and Leica LMD7000
Leica Microsystems has launched two instruments of the laser microdissection microscope series, the Leica LMD6 and the LMD7, with LED illumination for transmitted light. Users can now choose between halogen and LED illumination. LEDs are an energy-efficient light source providing homogenous illumination and a constant color temperature. They also save energy, and their lifetime of up to 25,000 hours is longer than that of halogen lamps...
CLSI Excellence Awards are bestowed upon volunteers who are dedicated and committed to CLSI’s mission, and are recognized for significantly contributing their services to the development, implementation, and promotion of consensus standards.
The winners were nominated by their peers and then selected by the CLSI Awards Committee. CLSI volunteers are essential to the organization’s mission to develop best practices in clinical and laboratory testing, and promote their use worldwide. CLSI congratulates all of the 2015 Excellence Awards winners...
A team of international scientists including academics from LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) and the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, have discovered that there is a link between ultra-long Gamma Ray Bursts (extremely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies) and superluminous supernovae, a class of very luminous stellar explosions. They found that these are both the result of the birth of...
Eikonix, the scientific digital imaging specialists, are pleased to announce they will be distributing the Nanohybrids range of silica-coated gold nanorods in the UK.
NanoHybrids harness the power of nanotechnology and molecular targeting to enable improved and non-invasive detection of diseased tissue. The products are highly monodisperse gold nanoparticles provide exceptional signal strength and high thermodynamic stability, and are suitable for functionalisation and antibody conjugation.
The RAININ Classic has traditional pipetting style and quality but with more ergonomic benefits. The ergonomic features ensure a hand-friendly operation and a reduced risk of injuries while remaining a robust, high performance pipette with the look, feel and handling of classical pipettes.
The RAININ Classic will provide you with years of reproducible performance due to its durable construction but, with its comfortable finger hook and with plunger forces 25% lower than similar traditional pipettes, it will give you effortless, hand friendly pipetting, all day long. It covers all 8 volume ranges from PR-2 to PR-10ML, and you don’t have to compromise on accuracy & precision, as RAININ Classic specifications are equivalent or better than those of similar traditional pipettes....
Read MoreIngenza embarks on GSK collaborationJul 28, 2015
Ingenza Ltd, a world leader in the application of industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on an innovative research project.
A vital part of any collaboration is the selection of a trusted partner. Andrew Collis, Synthetic Biochemistry Lead in GSK Global Manufacturing and Supply, explained why the company chose to work with Ingenza: “In any external collaboration, it is essential to partner with a company that can quickly and efficiently deliver GSK’s proof of concept. It is important to choose a partner that will interact well with our own scientists, with an established track record in the field....
Read MoreNew Tribrid Mass Spectrometer with Improved Sensitivity Redefines the Limits of Protein and Small Molecule Quantitation and CharacterizationJul 28, 2015
Delivering new levels of performance and usability for the most challenging research applications
Scientists performing advanced research in proteomics, biopharma, and metabolism/metabolomics can now test new limits of detection, characterization and quantitation with the latest tribrid mass spectrometer. As the newest addition to the pioneering line of Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Tribrid mass spectrometers, the Thermo Scientific OrbitrapFusion Lumos Tribrid Mass Spectrometer is designed to expand performance in advanced proteomics...
Following the launch of its limited edition PIPETGIRL pink pipette controller in support of breast cancer research earlier this year - INTEGRA is pleased to announce it has made a $10,000 contribution to the Susan F Smith Center for Womens Cancers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston (MA, USA).
The Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at Dana-Farber unites many of the world's leading experts in breast and gynecologic cancers with one common goal: to give all women the latest, most advanced care, including innovative therapies that are often available only through clinical trials. A place of hope and action, the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers offers multi-dimensional services to strengthen mind, body, and soul and...
A Syrris Atlas Calorimeter is proving advantageous to the Kyushu works manufacturing technology department of Nippon Steel & Sumikin Chemical Co., Ltd. in Japan, aiding scale-up of new product processes.
Mr. Kenji Umeda from the Production & Technical Department explained: “Our department performs mass production studies for new product development, supporting the company’s business of manufacturing coal tar, basic and fine chemicals. During product development, we undertake a series of processes from small-scale laboratory studies through to large-scale production. To ensure safe practices, we need to acquire calorimetric data during process scale-up and, after looking at various products...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), in association with Exterion Media (UK) Ltd, launch a major digital poster campaign to highlight the value of the analytical chemistry industry to society.
Delivered via digital posters on railway platforms in the UK between London Paddington and Swansea, the campaign ran for 10 days from 29 June, and is part of a drive by Markes to explain to the wider public how its field of science brings substantial benefits to public safety and health. Markes’ Marketing Manager, Dr Gavin Davies, explains the concept in more detail: “Bascially, very few people outside of our highly technical sphere really appreciate the positive role that chemical analysis plays in the...
Analytical scientists at the University of Lincoln’s School of Pharmacy are accelerating their drug development research thanks to Bibby Scientific’s Integrity 10 Reaction Station, which enables different reactions to be performed simultaneously with varied process conditions.
Bibby’s Reaction Stations are designed for screening and optimising ten different reactions in parallel across individually controlled units for applications including solubility and protein crystallisation. The Integrity 10 Reaction Station offers precise control of temperature and stirring speed for each individual reaction, for sample volumes ranging from 1 - 25 mL and temperatures ranging from -30°C to 150°C. It is easily operated with...
Veolia launches Vision - a smarter water management customer portal
Veolia Water Technologies has built an unsurpassed reputation as the No 1 service provider for water treatment systems in the UK. With the largest number of highly trained, field based technicians of any water treatment company, Veolia has the most comprehensive national coverage and fastest response time in the industry. To meet a rapidly growing demand from industry for new ways to manage their water treatment systems, Veolia has launched its new customer portal...
First to combine gas chromatography and high-resolution accurate-mass (HRAM) Orbitrap mass spectrometry for most comprehensive characterization in a single analysis
Laboratories performing food safety and authenticity, pharmaceutical, metabolomic, anti-doping and other analyses using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) can now achieve new levels of performance using high-resolution accurate-mass (HRAM) Orbitrap mass spectrometry, bringing the highest level of detection and identification capabilities to GC-MS studies. The new Thermo Scientific Q Exactive GC hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap...
University of Leicester and Leicester’s Hospitals researchers introduce novel new service to NHS in Leicestershire
‘We believe today is the dawn of a new era of autopsy practice.’- Professor Guy Rutty and Professor Bruno Morgan, University of Leicester Researchers from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust have introduced an alternative method to diagnose the cause of death, which in many cases can replace the need for the traditional invasive autopsy. This can be purchased by the family and will be performed within the NHS hospitals....
Brilliant Transmitted Light Imaging Due to Powerful Ultra-bright LEDs
With the launch of the Leica DM2500 LED, Leica Microsystems completes its Leica DM1000 to 3000 series of microscopes. All the models in this series are now available with LED illumination. The Leica DM2500 LED is suitable for demanding tasks in clinical laboratories as well as for research applications in microbiology, developmental biology, cytology, zoology, botany, and more. The ultra-bright LED illumination of the Leica DM2500 LED was...
Students taking the BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Applied Science at Berkshire College of Agriculture (BCA) were given an insight into the practicalities of laboratory sample handling, tracking and management recently through a presentation by John Boother, Managing Director of Autoscribe Ltd.
Autoscribe, based in nearby Riseley in Berkshire, is a leading software provider specialising in database management applications including Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Quality Management Systems. The presentation, entitled ‘What is a LIMS?’ was designed to complement BCA’s learners' unit on ‘working within the science industry’. The typical workflow in a laboratory was introduced, with detail...
Stomacher® 4500 BAM – the perfect tool for extraction from 375g composite samples
Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the world leading range of original Stomacher® laboratory paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, announces the launch of the Stomacher® 4500 BAM. This robust new laboratory blender is specifically designed for large volume food testing procedures, such as the FDA's Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM), where 375g composite samples are required for the...
Need for genetic and molecular testing data management solutions will generate strong demand for these products, says Frost & Sullivan
Investments in cloud-based laboratory information management systems (LIMS) are part of Europe’s eHealth strategy. Even as LIMS providers in Western Europe focus on offering hosted software-as-a-service with free automatic upgrades and built-in customisations, their success will depend on the ability of the products to meet the needs of diagnostic, speciality and hospital laboratories, which demand low turnaround times for patient samples...
These new centres will provide the company’s clients in pharma and CROs with an expanding pool of patients. The population of Central and Eastern European countries exceeds that of either the US or the five largest Western European markets combined[i], coupled with its excellent healthcare professionals, which is the reason it has continued to remain important to the clinical trials market. Synexus which is based in the UK is the world’s...
‘Quality Solutions for Inhaler Testing, 2015 Edition’ includes detailed information on regulatory requirements and highlights pertinent new additions to the company’s extensive inhaled product testing range. It can be downloaded freely from the Copley Scientific website (www.copleyscientific.com) with print versions available on request from sales@copleyscientific.co.uk. “We know that our customers value help with understanding the testing requirements for OINDPs, which...
As part of the deal, the BMTA will run a paid-for conference at Lab Innovations 2015, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on 4 & 5 November 2015. The BMTA represents the interests of the measurement and testing industry in the UK and in Europe, while Lab Innovations, as the UK’s only show dedicated to the latest laboratory technology and consumables, analytics and biotech equipment, features the latest testing and measurement equipment and...
The DynaPro® Plate Reader II. Analyte quality is critical to obtaining accurate and meaningful measurements in order to select the most promising therapeutic candidates, so ensuring the quality of samples is a vital step in the screening process. The DynaPro high- throughput dynamic light scattering (HT-DLS) system provides an effective method of assessing sample materials using a non-invasive, non-pertubative optical technique...
Leica Microsystems has launched two instruments of the laser microdissection microscope series, the Leica LMD6 and the LMD7, with LED illumination for transmitted light. Users can now choose between halogen and LED illumination. LEDs are an energy-efficient light source providing homogenous illumination and a constant color temperature. They also save energy, and their lifetime of up to 25,000 hours is longer than that of halogen lamps...
The winners were nominated by their peers and then selected by the CLSI Awards Committee. CLSI volunteers are essential to the organization’s mission to develop best practices in clinical and laboratory testing, and promote their use worldwide. CLSI congratulates all of the 2015 Excellence Awards winners...
A team of international scientists including academics from LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) and the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, have discovered that there is a link between ultra-long Gamma Ray Bursts (extremely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies) and superluminous supernovae, a class of very luminous stellar explosions. They found that these are both the result of the birth of...
A vital part of any collaboration is the selection of a trusted partner. Andrew Collis, Synthetic Biochemistry Lead in GSK Global Manufacturing and Supply, explained why the company chose to work with Ingenza: “In any external collaboration, it is essential to partner with a company that can quickly and efficiently deliver GSK’s proof of concept. It is important to choose a partner that will interact well with our own scientists, with an established track record in the field....
Scientists performing advanced research in proteomics, biopharma, and metabolism/metabolomics can now test new limits of detection, characterization and quantitation with the latest tribrid mass spectrometer. As the newest addition to the pioneering line of Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Tribrid mass spectrometers, the Thermo Scientific OrbitrapFusion Lumos Tribrid Mass Spectrometer is designed to expand performance in advanced proteomics...
The Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at Dana-Farber unites many of the world's leading experts in breast and gynecologic cancers with one common goal: to give all women the latest, most advanced care, including innovative therapies that are often available only through clinical trials. A place of hope and action, the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers offers multi-dimensional services to strengthen mind, body, and soul and...
Mr. Kenji Umeda from the Production & Technical Department explained: “Our department performs mass production studies for new product development, supporting the company’s business of manufacturing coal tar, basic and fine chemicals. During product development, we undertake a series of processes from small-scale laboratory studies through to large-scale production. To ensure safe practices, we need to acquire calorimetric data during process scale-up and, after looking at various products...
Delivered via digital posters on railway platforms in the UK between London Paddington and Swansea, the campaign ran for 10 days from 29 June, and is part of a drive by Markes to explain to the wider public how its field of science brings substantial benefits to public safety and health. Markes’ Marketing Manager, Dr Gavin Davies, explains the concept in more detail: “Bascially, very few people outside of our highly technical sphere really appreciate the positive role that chemical analysis plays in the...
Bibby’s Reaction Stations are designed for screening and optimising ten different reactions in parallel across individually controlled units for applications including solubility and protein crystallisation. The Integrity 10 Reaction Station offers precise control of temperature and stirring speed for each individual reaction, for sample volumes ranging from 1 - 25 mL and temperatures ranging from -30°C to 150°C. It is easily operated with...
Veolia Water Technologies has built an unsurpassed reputation as the No 1 service provider for water treatment systems in the UK. With the largest number of highly trained, field based technicians of any water treatment company, Veolia has the most comprehensive national coverage and fastest response time in the industry. To meet a rapidly growing demand from industry for new ways to manage their water treatment systems, Veolia has launched its new customer portal...
‘We believe today is the dawn of a new era of autopsy practice.’- Professor Guy Rutty and Professor Bruno Morgan, University of Leicester Researchers from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust have introduced an alternative method to diagnose the cause of death, which in many cases can replace the need for the traditional invasive autopsy. This can be purchased by the family and will be performed within the NHS hospitals....
Autoscribe, based in nearby Riseley in Berkshire, is a leading software provider specialising in database management applications including Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Quality Management Systems. The presentation, entitled ‘What is a LIMS?’ was designed to complement BCA’s learners' unit on ‘working within the science industry’. The typical workflow in a laboratory was introduced, with detail...
Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the world leading range of original Stomacher® laboratory paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, announces the launch of the Stomacher® 4500 BAM. This robust new laboratory blender is specifically designed for large volume food testing procedures, such as the FDA's Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM), where 375g composite samples are required for the...
Investments in cloud-based laboratory information management systems (LIMS) are part of Europe’s eHealth strategy. Even as LIMS providers in Western Europe focus on offering hosted software-as-a-service with free automatic upgrades and built-in customisations, their success will depend on the ability of the products to meet the needs of diagnostic, speciality and hospital laboratories, which demand low turnaround times for patient samples...