LGC, an international life sciences measurement and testing company with a specialism in testing for drugs of abuse, is pleased to announce that they have been awarded ISO17025 accreditation for Occupational Drug Testing in Oral Fluid by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
In April 2014, the Occupational Drug Testing (ODT) team at LGC was audited by UKAS for ISO17025 accreditation for detection of drugs of abuse in oral fluid. The positive outcome of the audit allowed LGC to be awarded ISO17025 accreditation as an extension to scope on 2 May 2014. This internationally-recognised standard provides further evidence of the quality associated with LGC’s analytical expertise in a growing range of fields...
Miss Grzes was named as winner of the Poster Prize for the best presented and most interesting poster for her work entitled 'Metabolic regulation in PTEN null T lymphoma / leukemia'. As one of Cancer Research UK’s core-funded institutes - the Beatson Institute carries out a program of world-class science directed at understanding key aspects of cancer cell behaviour, and try to translate these discoveries into new therapies and...
The license recognizes that equipment designed and manufactured by Telstar is consistently produced and controlled in accordance with CFDA quality standards. In the laboratory field, Telstar manufactures various ranges of biological safety cabinets which are specially designed for research in Life Science markets including universities, hospitals and R&D laboratories, along with pharma and...
Due to an increased demand of companies outsourcing their freeze-dried production of diagnostic kits, Biofortuna has invested in a new state of the art freeze-dryer together with additional climate control units. The additional freeze drier and infrastructure almost doubles production capacity allowing Biofortuna to accommodate the ever increasing demand of its freeze dried contract service...
Corrosion is of primary concern in many industrial sectors, including oil, transportation, infrastructure, nuclear, and even bio-technology. At the University of Manchester, the Corrosion and Protection Centre has one of the world’s largest academic bases focused on corrosion and its control. Professor Stuart Lyon is the Director of Research and AkzoNobel Professor of Corrosion Control in the School of Materials. His research interests are...
AstraZeneca has also agreed to make various sales-related payments. Upon completion of the transaction, AstraZeneca will own the rights for the development and commercialisation of Almirall’s existing proprietary respiratory business, including rights to revenues from Almirall’s existing partnerships, as well as its pipeline of investigational novel therapies. The franchise includes Eklira® (aclidinium); LAS40464, the combination of...
The Prime range offers something for every application – personal 48 well models to advanced 1536 well networks.
Application Update (AU) 193: Choline in Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals, a Single Laboratory Validation demonstrates that this simple yet robust approach decreases sample preparation time while accurately determining choline in these products. The method detailed in AU 193 runs on an IC system that requires only a source of degassed DI water for generation of high-purity eluent, thus simplifying operation while increasing precision and...
Agilent has released drivers for Shimadzu GC-2010, GC-2010 Plus and GC-2014 integrating to Agilent's OpenLAB CDS, and Shimadzu has released drivers to control Agilent 6890, 6850, 7820 and 7890 GC instruments in Shimadzu's LabSolutions. These releases are the result of the joint collaboration--employing RapidControl (RC.NET) instrument drivers--announced in May 2013 to preserve customers' investments in workflows and operating procedures....
Many hospitals have introduced C. difficile reduction targets or have had these mandated by government bodies or regulators. When it comes to eliminating doubt, hospitals need efficient, secure and time-saving solutions to protect patients from infection risks. The challenge of infection control and successful outbreak management is one that the Bioquell team have chosen to take on...
The system is faster and more efficient than traditional methods, resulting in increased reliability and streamlined workflows. The unit, which conforms to international standards (EP/USP) and water testing regulations, can be used for filtration of liquid samples including water, raw materials, in-process samples and final products. "The EZ-Fit™ Filtration Unit represents the latest addition to our comprehensive portfolio of products that facilitate and...
The work, which is at the forefront of nanotoxicity testing, has focused on using the unique size, concentration and visualization capabilities provided by NTA to monitor how specific changes in nanoparticle surface chemistry influence the impact of the particles on molecular species in environmental media. NTA is used as part of an ensemble of analytical techniques that includes Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) with the...
The state-of-the-art clinic which moved from a much smaller site in Bochum is situated in the historic Kortum House. The five hundred square meter clinic runs primary care clinical trials for major clinical research organisations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies and provides facilities for up to six professional investigators. Commenting on the new facility Christophe Berthoux, CEO of Synexus said: “Germany is one of our foremost locations for...
Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, today announced that the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) has chosen Avere for access to the world’s largest, centralized repository of whole genome sequence data. ITMI, a research and development arm of Inova Health System, will use Avere’s FXT Series Edge Filers with FlashMove™ software to move data into and out of the...
TAP Biosystems (now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems for life science applications, today announced that the ambr15™ micro bioreactor system is being used at the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), Canada to rapidly develop methods for culturing stem cells in bioreactors, thus shortening timelines for successfully scaling-up and...
PD01A is the first therapy against the protein alpha-synuclein, a promising Parkinson’s drug target, to enter clinical testing. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) supported the study with a $ 1.5 million grant, and presented at the press conference on the impact a disease-modifying therapy would have for patients. The Foundation will support a follow-up study testing a boost vaccination, the next step toward a Phase II trial...
CEO, Mr Sander den Hoedt, made the first of these presentations at the mmc2014 which was held in Manchester in July. DELMIC have developed an innovative product for life scientists - SECOM. The SECOM system is a platform that may be used to easily and quickly combine light and electron microscopy. In its primary configuration, the SECOM platform allows the user to obtain functional color information through fluorescence microscopy and structural information by using...
The chemists, led by Professor Peter Scott at the University of Warwick, UK, have been able to produce molecules that have a similar structure to peptides which are naturally produced in the body to fight cancer and infection. Published in Nature Chemistry, the molecules produced in the research have proved effective against colon cancer cells in laboratory tests, in collaboration with Roger Phillips at the Institute for Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford, UK. Artificial peptides had previously been difficult and prohibitively expensive to manufacture in large quantities, but the...