Freeman Technology has published ‘Choosing a powder tester’, previewed at this year’s Powtech trade fair in Germany, the second in a series of educational guides on powder characterisation for industrial applications.
Following on from the well received ‘An Introduction to Powders’ the new guide provides straightforward guidance on the range of techniques available for powder characterisation. Both booklets are now available to download for free from the new Freeman Technology website. Understanding powder behaviour is essential to ensuring effective product and process performance. Powder testing techniques that allow users to understand and control both the product and manufacturing process therefore deliver substantial value...
Malvern Instruments will demonstrate how the Kinexus rotational rheometer and Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle sizing system enable smarter, faster and more effective strategies for food development at FoodTech Processing & Packaging.
The conference takes place at MCH Messecenter Herning, Denmark, from 28 to 30 October 2014. Malvern’s food characterization experts will be on hand throughout the event to demonstrate the analytical strategies that help R&D and QC scientists develop high performance products with enhanced consumer appeal. Visit Malvern on stand M9912....
Malvern Instruments will contribute a scientific poster at the 2014 Protein-Protein Interaction Conference, October 23-24, Boston, MA, USA.
The poster describes new work on rheological approaches to protein stability studies during biologics formulation and will be presented by Matt McGann, Malvern Instruments Life Science Sales and Application Specialist for the Americas. The study of rheology in protein formulation and biotherapeutic development is considered to be a developing and ultimately essential measurement. The Malvern presentation ‘Characterizing the stability of...
Tecan has launched the Freedom EVO® NGS workstation to simplify next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample preparation and PCR set-up.
Offering user-friendly, walkaway automation of library preparation at the touch of a button, it eliminates the need for extensive manual processing. NGS is the fastest growing application in genomics, yet many sample preparation protocols can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. The Freedom EVO NGS workstation has been designed to offer robust and reliable automation – including library preparation, quantification, qPCR set-up, normalization...
Sinensis Life Sciences B.V. has acquired Spinnovation Holding B.V. a contract research organisation specialised in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological market.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The addition of Spinnovation expands and strengthens Sinensis’ chemical R&D group as in addition to NMR Spinnovation offers mass spectrometry (MS) and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy analyses to its customers. Dr Ruud Santing, CEO of Sinensis, commented: “We are excited to add Spinnovation’s analytical equipment and many years of expertise to our existing...
Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex 2014, the UK’s showcase photonics conference & exhibition announce the programme and speakers for the meeting on Nano and Bio-Imaging.
This FREE-to-attend conference will be held on Wednesday 15th October as part of a diverse two-day event at the visitor-friendly Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Applying photonics to a broad group of imaging techniques is providing greatly increased information particularly in the fields of medicine and the life sciences. With researchers continually looking for increased resolution with the addition of chemical information, this year’s conference provides a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding field....
Get your personal copy of the new Alpha Laboratories catalogue with the most up to date information on the full range of quality Diagnostic and Laboratory Products. This special anniversary issue celebrates 40 years of Alpha Laboratories supplying quality to science since 1975. The inclusion of over 1000 new products demonstrates the Company’s commitment to continually sourcing new and innovative products to support scientists’ needs.
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has published an updated standard—Evaluation of Precision of Quantitative Measurement Procedures; Approved Guideline—Third Edition (EP05-A3).
This document provides guidance for studies intended to establish the within-site precision performance characteristics of quantitative measurement procedures used in clinical laboratories, and also for studies addressing site-to-site variability. In CLSI document EP05-A3, multiple experimental protocols are described, along with considerations on how to select and optimize the protocol(s) best suited for a specific measurement...
The world-renowned GPCR specialist will assemble a team of experts in drug discovery and development to guide Domain’s programs.
Domain Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research and development of new medicines targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), today announces the nomination of Michel Bouvier as chairman of the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Michel Bouvier, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Montreal and also chief executive officer of the Institute for...
Xylem will be exhibiting its analytical offering at LabInnovations, showcasing the products of Bellingham + Stanley, ebro, SI Analytics, O.I.Analytical and YSI Life Sciences.
On show including for the first time in the UK will be Bellingham + Stanley’s new ADP600 Series of Peltier temperature controlled polarimeters that are capable of measuring across the UV/Vis spectrum to 3-decimal places; ideal for quality control and research use in the food, chemical and particularly in the pharmaceutical industries where results are required in accordance with Pharmacopeia and FDA regulation 21 CFR Part 11....
Visit Xylem at Lab Innovations | Stand H10Read MorePirbrightOct 10, 2014
The Pirbright Institute hosted its Centenary Conference at The University of Surrey to mark its 100th anniversary of the prevention and control of livestock infectious diseases and discuss current research into virus diseases of livestock and viruses that spread from animals to humans.
The event showcased the importance, challenges and progress in the control of livestock diseases and zoonoses and gave delegates the opportunity to interact and debate recent advances in the control, epidemiology, virology, immunology and vaccinology of viral diseases of livestock, including poultry, and viral zoonoses. Delegates were also provided with a unique opportunity to tour the Institute’s new state-of the-art high biocontainment laboratory facility, the...
IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA), the world's leading provider of proton therapy solutions for the treatment of cancer, announces that University of Iowa and IBA have signed a research collaboration agreement and a technology license agreement to develop ultra-high precision IMPT(*).
This agreement includes an exclusive license on the Dynamic Collimation System (DCS) recently developed and presented by the University of Iowa at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting in Austin, Texas. The Dynamic Collimation System is an innovative device developed by University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty members(**) to improve dose conformity in IMPT...
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today announced its G:BOX Chemi XT4 is being used by scientists at the University of Edinburgh to accurately quantify DNA and proteins from bacteria engineered to produce metal nanoparticles.
This work is contributing to speeding up throughput of research on novel methods of processing toxic metals from contaminated soil. Researchers in the Horsfall Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are using a G:BOX Chemi XT4 multi-application imager to analyse agarose gels of bacterial DNA stained with the green fluorescent dye SafeView™. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XT4 to image SDS-PAGE gels and...
TAP Biosystems announce that its ambr250™ automated mini bioreactor system is being successfully used at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, for optimising their microbial fermentations to accelerate scale-up production of protein-based therapeutics.
Fujifilm’s scientists at Billingham in the UK are using the ambr250 system, with its independent parallel control of 24, single-use 250mL mini bioreactors in their state-of-the-art process development facility to fully evaluate process characteristics of large scale fermenters. The researchers have seen equivalent growth and protein expression profiles when comparing 20L fermenters and the ambr250 mini bioreactors for culturing E.coli and P. pastoris strains expressing a number of model proteins....
Company Wins ISO and EN Certification for its Design & Development Capabilities
Medtech innovator Medimetrics continues its expansion into the global medical devices sector with official recognition of its full design and product development capabilities and the launch of a new, fast release, drug delivery capsule. Medimetrics has newly achieved a certification of compliance to EN ISO 13485:2012. This enhanced level of certification further confirms the company’s expertise in the design, development, manufacturing and...
KNF Lab will be showcasing its award-winning new RC900 Rotary Evaporator on stand F2 at Lab Innovations 2014. Held at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, on the 5th and 6th of November, this annual event will give many visitors the chance to see the revolutionary RC900 for the first time.
This practical, efficient and robust instrument has been developed for everyday laboratory use, and its outstanding design has already been recognised by the prestigious Red Dot Awards. Launched at Analytica in April this year, the state-of-the-art RC900 Rotary Evaporator is set to transform rotary evaporation, making it easier and safer than ever before....
Children’s Cancer Institute and Abcam plc, a global leader in the supply of life science research tools, announced today that they have entered into an exclusive licence, supply and distribution agreement for multidrug resistance protein 4 (MRP4/ABCC4) inhibitors, Ceefourin™ 1 and Ceefourin™ 2, for research purposes.
The first known selective inhibitors of MRP4, Ceefourin 1 and Ceefourin 2 are potent, chemically distinct compounds and represent important tools for investigating essential cellular processes such as multidrug resistance. The compounds will enable the further exploration of MRP4 function and have potential in development of therapeutic drugs to treat cancer. The novel MRP4 inhibitors were discovered and characterised by Children’s Cancer Institute...
SP Scientific has entered into an exclusive agreement with Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) to distribute the LyoFlux® 200 Water Vapor Mass Flow Rate Monitor for laboratory and pilot scale freeze dryers.
The LyoFlux® 200 is an innovative two line-of-sight tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based device for continuous monitoring of laboratory, pilot and production scale lyophilization cycles. Operating in conjunction with SP Scientific’s LyoStar 3 development freeze dryer the LyoFlux® 200 enables users to better understand instantaneous changes in water vapor mass flow, and thus the sublimation rate for a given product during...
Retsch is a leading global solution provider for neutral-to-analysis sample preparation and characterisation of solids providing the essential tools for preparing samples prior to analysis.
On the basis of more than 90 years of experience Retsch develop innovative size reduction and sieving equipment which is characterised by reliability, precision and durability. For turning a laboratory sample into a representative part sample with homogeneous analytical fineness Retsch offers a comprehensive range of the most modern mills and crushers for coarse, fine and ultra-fine size reduction of almost any material.....
Visit Cleaver Scientific at Lab Innovations | Stand D8 and learn how to reduce your assay time by 60%
The COMPAC-50 marks the first of a new range of innovative systems designed specifically for rapid high throughput single cell gel electrophoresis. Developed in collaboration with the Oxidative Stress Group at the University of Leicester (Leicester, UK), the unique design of the COMPAC-50 enables simultaneous electrophoresis of up to 50 COMET Assay slides saving considerable lab space and reducing slide handling time by up to two-thirds when compared to previous standard methods. This would equate to a significant time-saving of up to 90% when handling 50 COMET Assay slides....
Visit Cleaver Scientific at Lab Innovations | Stand D8
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and German Cancer Research Center and William E. Moerner, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
As Mastersizer 3000, the world-leading laser diffraction particle size analyzer, celebrates its 3rd birthday, Malvern Instruments is delivering even smarter particle sizing with the launch of two new additions to the Mastersizer portfolio.
Following on from the well received ‘An Introduction to Powders’ the new guide provides straightforward guidance on the range of techniques available for powder characterisation. Both booklets are now available to download for free from the new Freeman Technology website. Understanding powder behaviour is essential to ensuring effective product and process performance. Powder testing techniques that allow users to understand and control both the product and manufacturing process therefore deliver substantial value...
The poster describes new work on rheological approaches to protein stability studies during biologics formulation and will be presented by Matt McGann, Malvern Instruments Life Science Sales and Application Specialist for the Americas. The study of rheology in protein formulation and biotherapeutic development is considered to be a developing and ultimately essential measurement. The Malvern presentation ‘Characterizing the stability of...
Offering user-friendly, walkaway automation of library preparation at the touch of a button, it eliminates the need for extensive manual processing. NGS is the fastest growing application in genomics, yet many sample preparation protocols can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. The Freedom EVO NGS workstation has been designed to offer robust and reliable automation – including library preparation, quantification, qPCR set-up, normalization...
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The addition of Spinnovation expands and strengthens Sinensis’ chemical R&D group as in addition to NMR Spinnovation offers mass spectrometry (MS) and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy analyses to its customers. Dr Ruud Santing, CEO of Sinensis, commented: “We are excited to add Spinnovation’s analytical equipment and many years of expertise to our existing...
Get your personal copy of the new Alpha Laboratories catalogue with the most up to date information on the full range of quality Diagnostic and Laboratory Products. This special anniversary issue celebrates 40 years of Alpha Laboratories supplying quality to science since 1975. The inclusion of over 1000 new products demonstrates the Company’s commitment to continually sourcing new and innovative products to support scientists’ needs.
This document provides guidance for studies intended to establish the within-site precision performance characteristics of quantitative measurement procedures used in clinical laboratories, and also for studies addressing site-to-site variability. In CLSI document EP05-A3, multiple experimental protocols are described, along with considerations on how to select and optimize the protocol(s) best suited for a specific measurement...
Domain Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research and development of new medicines targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), today announces the nomination of Michel Bouvier as chairman of the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Michel Bouvier, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Montreal and also chief executive officer of the Institute for...
On show including for the first time in the UK will be Bellingham + Stanley’s new ADP600 Series of Peltier temperature controlled polarimeters that are capable of measuring across the UV/Vis spectrum to 3-decimal places; ideal for quality control and research use in the food, chemical and particularly in the pharmaceutical industries where results are required in accordance with Pharmacopeia and FDA regulation 21 CFR Part 11....
The event showcased the importance, challenges and progress in the control of livestock diseases and zoonoses and gave delegates the opportunity to interact and debate recent advances in the control, epidemiology, virology, immunology and vaccinology of viral diseases of livestock, including poultry, and viral zoonoses. Delegates were also provided with a unique opportunity to tour the Institute’s new state-of the-art high biocontainment laboratory facility, the...
This agreement includes an exclusive license on the Dynamic Collimation System (DCS) recently developed and presented by the University of Iowa at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting in Austin, Texas. The Dynamic Collimation System is an innovative device developed by University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty members(**) to improve dose conformity in IMPT...
This work is contributing to speeding up throughput of research on novel methods of processing toxic metals from contaminated soil. Researchers in the Horsfall Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are using a G:BOX Chemi XT4 multi-application imager to analyse agarose gels of bacterial DNA stained with the green fluorescent dye SafeView™. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XT4 to image SDS-PAGE gels and...
Fujifilm’s scientists at Billingham in the UK are using the ambr250 system, with its independent parallel control of 24, single-use 250mL mini bioreactors in their state-of-the-art process development facility to fully evaluate process characteristics of large scale fermenters. The researchers have seen equivalent growth and protein expression profiles when comparing 20L fermenters and the ambr250 mini bioreactors for culturing E.coli and P. pastoris strains expressing a number of model proteins....
Medtech innovator Medimetrics continues its expansion into the global medical devices sector with official recognition of its full design and product development capabilities and the launch of a new, fast release, drug delivery capsule. Medimetrics has newly achieved a certification of compliance to EN ISO 13485:2012. This enhanced level of certification further confirms the company’s expertise in the design, development, manufacturing and...
This practical, efficient and robust instrument has been developed for everyday laboratory use, and its outstanding design has already been recognised by the prestigious Red Dot Awards. Launched at Analytica in April this year, the state-of-the-art RC900 Rotary Evaporator is set to transform rotary evaporation, making it easier and safer than ever before....
The first known selective inhibitors of MRP4, Ceefourin 1 and Ceefourin 2 are potent, chemically distinct compounds and represent important tools for investigating essential cellular processes such as multidrug resistance. The compounds will enable the further exploration of MRP4 function and have potential in development of therapeutic drugs to treat cancer. The novel MRP4 inhibitors were discovered and characterised by Children’s Cancer Institute...
The LyoFlux® 200 is an innovative two line-of-sight tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based device for continuous monitoring of laboratory, pilot and production scale lyophilization cycles. Operating in conjunction with SP Scientific’s LyoStar 3 development freeze dryer the LyoFlux® 200 enables users to better understand instantaneous changes in water vapor mass flow, and thus the sublimation rate for a given product during...
On the basis of more than 90 years of experience Retsch develop innovative size reduction and sieving equipment which is characterised by reliability, precision and durability. For turning a laboratory sample into a representative part sample with homogeneous analytical fineness Retsch offers a comprehensive range of the most modern mills and crushers for coarse, fine and ultra-fine size reduction of almost any material.....