ZEISS is introducing a new compact confocal laser scanning microscope for high-end confocal imaging, ZEISS LSM 800. Tailored to the needs of a broad range of applications in individual research environments, the system complements the recently introduced ZEISS LSM 8 family. With highly sensitive GaAsP detector technology and fast linear scanning, ZEISS LSM 800 provides high image quality and offers enhanced productivity and throughput, as wel...
iChromatography/Analtech, the only U.S.-based manufacturer of Thin Layer Chromatography Plates, started 2015 with the launch of a new website.
The new site - iChromatography.com - is designed to help visitors find their chromatography product faster and easier as well as discover new developments in the field of separation science. "Since we started more than 50 years ago, we've always been committed to providing not only great products, but the best customer service and information possible to our current and future customers," said Steven C. Miles, General Manager for...
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) released a new edition of its annual supplement Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Twenty-Fifth Informational Supplement (M100-S25).
This document provides the revised breakpoints, new testing recommendations, and reporting changes needed to incorporate into routine practice to improve detection and reporting of antimicrobial resistance. This year, M100-S25 has published in tandem with its two related methodology standards, Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard—Twelfth Edition (M02-A12) and Methods for...
New study examines tweets from a medical conference
A new pilot study into the impact of Twitter on conferences suggests that social media may impact on quality of presentations as speakers receive real-time feedback. The study resulted from collaboration between a group of doctors with a strong interest in Social Media and was brought together by Dr Damian Roland, a honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leicester and Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Care at Leicester’s Hospitals...
Fast-track diagnostics, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of infectious disease detection kits, has released a CE labelled Real-time PCR kit for the detection of the Zaire Ebolavirus – the strain responsible for the current outbreak in West Africa.
The Ebolavirus assay is based on multiplex Real–time PCR so clinicians can deliver fast, accurate diagnoses leading to greater efficiency in the treatment of patients. “Supporting infectious disease detection in the developing world has always been a priority for Fast-track diagnostics,” said Dr William Carman, CEO of Fast-track diagnostics. “We offer substantial discounts to these countries, as well as to anyone involved in relevant research...
PCRmax, a Bibby Scientific company, has launched the Eco 48 real time PCR system.
This high specification, economically priced real time thermal cycler provides users with premium quality alongside unprecedented speed. The optimised instrument is capable of running 40 cycles in 15 minutes while still using standard chemistries and plastics. In a typical run, the instrument can still complete 40 cycles in 40 minutes compared to 2 hours with competitive systems. In addition to this exceptional efficiency...
Titan Enterprises has released a new data recording version of its Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter software interface.
Easy to set-up and use the Atrato flow recorder enables data recording via an external computer. With features that provide monitoring, reporting and management of flow data - the Atrato flow recorder delivers a continuous picture of your process and a reliable alternative to restrictive and costly manual metering. The new software interface will be supplied with all new orders and can also be used with any Atrato flowmeter manufactured...
Following a recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) patient being discharged from a Glasgow hospital and transferred by military plane to a specialist north London centre, Bioquell technology was again called into action.
The Hampshire-based company was commissioned to deploy its hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) technology - the gold standard in bio-decontamination. The firm’s HPV process kills 99.9999% of pathogens, eliminating doubt by destroying biological threats in healthcare and life science environments. The patient, a nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, returned back to the UK before being...
Strategic acquisition of high-throughput functional genomics platform aims to drive product development, revenue growth and enable broader market penetration
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or the "Company"), the international life science company supplying research tools and services to organizations engaged in genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has agreed to acquire Haplogen Genomics GmbH, a biotechnology company based in Vienna, Austria (“Haplogen Genomics”), for an initial consideration of ...
Biologics, oncology drugs and blood-based products will be key revenue-generating segments, finds Frost & Sullivan
Big pharmaceutical companies and foreign investors are flocking to Turkey to capitalise on its encouraging economic policies. The establishment of technology development zones that exempt pharmaceutical entrepreneurs and academics from income taxes until 2023 has played a particularly crucial role in driving R&D activity in the nation’s life sciences industry. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, 2014 Life Sciences Outlook in Turkey...
Specialised Imaging reports that high tech material, testing and process development specialists - REL, Inc. has expanded its capabilities in their high strain rate lab by combining a Kirana Ultra High-Speed camera with their Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) system.
The Specialised Imaging Kirana camera provides REL, Inc with the ability to create high-resolution images of the ultra high-speed events that often occur with materials testing. Taking up to 5,000,000 frames per second, and shuttering every 100 nanoseconds, there is no compromise in capturing high quality data. The data is exported in 180 frames so each test can be easily saved and viewed. The initial applications undertaken...
The upcoming ISN World Congress of Nephrology (WCN 2015) covers cutting-edge medical science and educational sessions on pertinent topics with a particular emphasis on the risk factors that are most prominent in Africa.
Held for the first time on the African continent, it will take place from March 13 to 17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. “The goals of ISN’s 0by25 humanitarian initiative lead many sessions,” says ISN President Giuseppe Remuzzi, who supports one of ISN’s most important missions that nobody should die unnecessarily of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by 2025. In addition to AKI worldwide, sessions will also look at the causes and...
Today, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) announced that over 750,000 entries are now available to the scientific community through the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).
This unique, fully validated database, established in 1965, contains all small-molecule chemical structures ever published and is an essential resource to scientists around the world. The publishing and sharing of ¾ million structures of organic and metal-organic molecules is a significant landmark for the crystallographic community, achieved within the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr). Information derived from...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an ion chromatography method with suppressed conductivity detection for sensitive determination of inorganic anions and carboxylic acids (fluoride, acetate, formate, mesylate, chloride, nitrate, succinate, malonate, sulfate, and oxalate) in airborne particulate matter (PM2.5).
Application Note 1107: Determination of Anions and Carboxylic Acids in Urban Fine Particles (PM2.5) demonstrates that this new method can determine more analytes relevant to air contamination than either of the two standard methods currently in use. The determination is performed using a high-pressure ion chromatography system, the Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ ICS-5000+ Reagent-Free™ HPIC™ system, equipped with a...
To accelerate the understanding of disease and the development of gene knockdown therapies, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is facilitating the advancement of a new transfection technique.
This nanoparticle-based method is explored in a recent DECODED article contributed by Precision NanoSystems Inc. (PNI). By combining IDT’s highly potent Dicer-substrate RNAs (DsiRNAs) and PNI’s unique nanoparticle delivery system for hard-to-transfect cells, the IDT-PNI partnership presents a successful solution for challenging gene silencing applications, achieving >95% transfection efficiency. The novel NanoAssemblr™ system and...
A brand new family of cancer drugs designed to block several key cancer-causing proteins at once could potentially treat incurable skin cancers, a major new study reports.
Clinical trials to test the new drugs in patients should begin as early as 2015. Existing drugs target faulty versions of a protein called BRAF which drives about half of all melanomas, but while initially very effective, the cancers almost always become resistant to treatment within a year. The new drugs – called panRAF inhibitors – could be effective in patients with melanoma who have developed resistance to BRAF inhibitors. The new study was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, and jointly led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research...
Capita Healthcare Decisions has developed a digital tool to facilitate the care of people potentially affected by the Ebola virus.
This new Ebola tool will sit within Capita Healthcare Decisions’ internationally renowned clinical content, enabling patients, their relatives and clinicians to check symptoms against clinically robust criteria. The Ebola tool has been developed to give people the reassurance and advice they need when travelling or working in areas affected by the Ebola virus, and to help prevent the ongoing spread of the virus. It comes in several versions, for...
Convergence of immunodiagnostic and molecular tests will help meet demand in developed countries,says Frost & Sullivan
Unique disease outbreaks across the globe are escalating the demand for screening and spurring the infectious disease diagnostic market. The market will continue to develop as unmet technological needs lead to the creation of faster, more capable platforms. Molecular diagnostics is growing the fastest among the infectious disease market segments, clocking a compound annual growth of 15.30 percent. Although these...
BMG LABTECH exhibits at the biggest Swiss Life Sciences Meeting for the first time
BMG LABTECH, the Microplate Reader Company is Gold sponsor of the LS² Annual Meeting 2015 from January 29-30th in Zurich. A visit to booth #33 at the Campus Irchel of the University of Zurich promises a personal introduction to BMG LABTECH’s high performance microplate readers and latest innovations. Since its establishment in Offenburg, Germany BMG LABTECH has become a world leader in microplate reading due to...
With only three weeks to go until the 4th Annual Clinical Development and Trials Asia Congress, and co-located 5th Annual Pharma R&D World Asia Congress, registration is closing shortly
Taking place on the 27th & 28th January 2015 in Shanghai, the event will be attended by industry leaders in Clinical Development & Clinical Trials Development in Asia, and will offer invaluable insights on successful strategies and technologies in enabling clinical development, clinical outsourcing strategies and clinical trial management....
Read MoreAffordable High Performance Gel Documentation & AnalysisJan 19, 2015
The omniDOC series of gel documentation and analysis systems from Cleaver Scientific provide researchers with a quick, simple and flexible solution for their gel documentation needs in a compact and affordable benchtop unit.
Uniquely combining high performance, leading edge features and affordability the omniDOC series provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful gel imaging system that satisfies the needs of most laboratories. The omniDOCi shares all the same features as the standard omniDOC but with the added benefit of wireless connectivity enabling the system to be run in a darkroom from a remote PC or tablet....
Read MoreAntibiotic Research UK Welcomes OJan 19, 2015
Professor Colin Garner, Chief Executive of Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK), the world’s first charity to tackle the impending health disaster of antibiotic resistance, welcomed the publication of the first report by the O’Neill Commission on antibiotic resistance.
Set up by the Prime Minister, Jim O’Neill and his colleagues were tasked with looking at the economic and societal costs of antibiotic resistance. The figures published today by the O’Neill commission make sobering reading. They estimate by 2050 there will be 10 million deaths a year from antibiotic resistant infections at a cost of up to $100 trillion. Professor Garner said ‘the O’Neill commission’s first report highlights just how...
ZEISS is introducing a new compact confocal laser scanning microscope for high-end confocal imaging, ZEISS LSM 800. Tailored to the needs of a broad range of applications in individual research environments, the system complements the recently introduced ZEISS LSM 8 family. With highly sensitive GaAsP detector technology and fast linear scanning, ZEISS LSM 800 provides high image quality and offers enhanced productivity and throughput, as wel...
The new site - iChromatography.com - is designed to help visitors find their chromatography product faster and easier as well as discover new developments in the field of separation science. "Since we started more than 50 years ago, we've always been committed to providing not only great products, but the best customer service and information possible to our current and future customers," said Steven C. Miles, General Manager for...
This document provides the revised breakpoints, new testing recommendations, and reporting changes needed to incorporate into routine practice to improve detection and reporting of antimicrobial resistance. This year, M100-S25 has published in tandem with its two related methodology standards, Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard—Twelfth Edition (M02-A12) and Methods for...
A new pilot study into the impact of Twitter on conferences suggests that social media may impact on quality of presentations as speakers receive real-time feedback. The study resulted from collaboration between a group of doctors with a strong interest in Social Media and was brought together by Dr Damian Roland, a honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leicester and Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Care at Leicester’s Hospitals...
The Ebolavirus assay is based on multiplex Real–time PCR so clinicians can deliver fast, accurate diagnoses leading to greater efficiency in the treatment of patients. “Supporting infectious disease detection in the developing world has always been a priority for Fast-track diagnostics,” said Dr William Carman, CEO of Fast-track diagnostics. “We offer substantial discounts to these countries, as well as to anyone involved in relevant research...
This high specification, economically priced real time thermal cycler provides users with premium quality alongside unprecedented speed. The optimised instrument is capable of running 40 cycles in 15 minutes while still using standard chemistries and plastics. In a typical run, the instrument can still complete 40 cycles in 40 minutes compared to 2 hours with competitive systems. In addition to this exceptional efficiency...
Easy to set-up and use the Atrato flow recorder enables data recording via an external computer. With features that provide monitoring, reporting and management of flow data - the Atrato flow recorder delivers a continuous picture of your process and a reliable alternative to restrictive and costly manual metering. The new software interface will be supplied with all new orders and can also be used with any Atrato flowmeter manufactured...
The Hampshire-based company was commissioned to deploy its hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) technology - the gold standard in bio-decontamination. The firm’s HPV process kills 99.9999% of pathogens, eliminating doubt by destroying biological threats in healthcare and life science environments. The patient, a nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, returned back to the UK before being...
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or the "Company"), the international life science company supplying research tools and services to organizations engaged in genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has agreed to acquire Haplogen Genomics GmbH, a biotechnology company based in Vienna, Austria (“Haplogen Genomics”), for an initial consideration of ...
Big pharmaceutical companies and foreign investors are flocking to Turkey to capitalise on its encouraging economic policies. The establishment of technology development zones that exempt pharmaceutical entrepreneurs and academics from income taxes until 2023 has played a particularly crucial role in driving R&D activity in the nation’s life sciences industry. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, 2014 Life Sciences Outlook in Turkey...
The Specialised Imaging Kirana camera provides REL, Inc with the ability to create high-resolution images of the ultra high-speed events that often occur with materials testing. Taking up to 5,000,000 frames per second, and shuttering every 100 nanoseconds, there is no compromise in capturing high quality data. The data is exported in 180 frames so each test can be easily saved and viewed. The initial applications undertaken...
Held for the first time on the African continent, it will take place from March 13 to 17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. “The goals of ISN’s 0by25 humanitarian initiative lead many sessions,” says ISN President Giuseppe Remuzzi, who supports one of ISN’s most important missions that nobody should die unnecessarily of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by 2025. In addition to AKI worldwide, sessions will also look at the causes and...
This unique, fully validated database, established in 1965, contains all small-molecule chemical structures ever published and is an essential resource to scientists around the world. The publishing and sharing of ¾ million structures of organic and metal-organic molecules is a significant landmark for the crystallographic community, achieved within the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr). Information derived from...
Application Note 1107: Determination of Anions and Carboxylic Acids in Urban Fine Particles (PM2.5) demonstrates that this new method can determine more analytes relevant to air contamination than either of the two standard methods currently in use. The determination is performed using a high-pressure ion chromatography system, the Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ ICS-5000+ Reagent-Free™ HPIC™ system, equipped with a...
This nanoparticle-based method is explored in a recent DECODED article contributed by Precision NanoSystems Inc. (PNI). By combining IDT’s highly potent Dicer-substrate RNAs (DsiRNAs) and PNI’s unique nanoparticle delivery system for hard-to-transfect cells, the IDT-PNI partnership presents a successful solution for challenging gene silencing applications, achieving >95% transfection efficiency. The novel NanoAssemblr™ system and...
This new Ebola tool will sit within Capita Healthcare Decisions’ internationally renowned clinical content, enabling patients, their relatives and clinicians to check symptoms against clinically robust criteria. The Ebola tool has been developed to give people the reassurance and advice they need when travelling or working in areas affected by the Ebola virus, and to help prevent the ongoing spread of the virus. It comes in several versions, for...
BMG LABTECH, the Microplate Reader Company is Gold sponsor of the LS² Annual Meeting 2015 from January 29-30th in Zurich. A visit to booth #33 at the Campus Irchel of the University of Zurich promises a personal introduction to BMG LABTECH’s high performance microplate readers and latest innovations. Since its establishment in Offenburg, Germany BMG LABTECH has become a world leader in microplate reading due to...
Uniquely combining high performance, leading edge features and affordability the omniDOC series provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful gel imaging system that satisfies the needs of most laboratories. The omniDOCi shares all the same features as the standard omniDOC but with the added benefit of wireless connectivity enabling the system to be run in a darkroom from a remote PC or tablet....
Set up by the Prime Minister, Jim O’Neill and his colleagues were tasked with looking at the economic and societal costs of antibiotic resistance. The figures published today by the O’Neill commission make sobering reading. They estimate by 2050 there will be 10 million deaths a year from antibiotic resistant infections at a cost of up to $100 trillion. Professor Garner said ‘the O’Neill commission’s first report highlights just how...