The Video Gauge non-contact extensometer from Imetrum is widely believed to be the only video extensometer capable of achieving the exacting requirements of ISO527-1: 2012 ASTM D638 equivalent.
Having undergone rigorous and independent testing, it has been proved that this unique system is capable of accurate determination of the tensile modulus by measuring a change of gauge length within accuracy of 1% of the relevant value. In tests, Imetrum was able to achieve between 0.2µm and 0.3µm for all gauge lengths using the same camera and lens combination – over 3x the accuracy required by ISO 527 for a 50mm gauge length...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a premier supplier of Laboratory Data Management Solutions is excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the 2014 VA AWWA/VWEA GLP Conference, July 28-29, at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, VA.
Sample Master® and TITAN® Laboratory Data Management solutions are designed to support Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and assist with maintaining compliance data and quality assurance processes. These tools aid in organizing and storing analytical data, and enabling the conversion of data from information to knowledge, while facilitating regulatory compliance goals. ATL's software solutions identify each sample, store metadata and...
As evidenced by a number of recent outbreaks and food recalls, there remains a need for constant vigilance in testing for Salmonella in foodstuffs.
Lab M’s new Pinnacle™ Salmonella ABC pre-poured plates are designed for the isolation of salmonellae from food samples and are based on Lab M’s established Harlequin™ Salmonella ABC medium. Performance is improved by increased selectivity against competitive flora, such as E. coli, and improved recovery of Salmonella. The medium also possesses an enhanced dual chromogen system that ensures colonies of Salmonella are always green while...
A network of signals active in almost all types of cancer sends the protein factories in our cells into overdrive, and may help fuel a tumour’s uncontrolled growth, new research suggests.
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, identified a molecular trigger responsible for ratcheting up activity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) – the cellular factory that makes the building blocks cancer cells need to keep growing. A protein in the TOR signalling pathway, called SREBP, controls the flow of messages to the endoplasmic reticulum telling it to expand – and could allow cancer cells to...
The Pathology Partnership has awarded Capita Healthcare Decisions a seven year, £9.7m contract to provide a laboratory information system, and the platform to host it, to the hospitals in its shared service arrangement.
Capita will work with partner CliniSys to deliver the system. Combining the pathology laboratories of Cambridge, Ipswich, Hinchingbrooke, Colchester, and West Suffolk hospitals, together with East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, the Pathology Partnership was formed in the wake of the Carter reviewwhich recommended that performance improvement in pathology would be driven by the consolidation of multiple, acute trust pathology departments into single, managed networks...
As an established and major sponsor of the Filtration Society’s annual international conference and exhibition, Whitehouse Scientific is proud to be helping the Society celebrate its 50th anniversary at this year’s event.
The Filtration Society 50th Anniversary Conference will take place on 13-14 November 2014 at the Riverside Innovation Centre, Chester, UK. With a confirmed line up of international speakers drawn from industry and academia, as well as a well-supported trade exhibition, the organisers are expecting to welcome conference participants from around the world. The Filtration Society was formed in London in 1964 and has the objectives of...
The Pittcon Exposition Committee is now accepting booth space reservations for Pittcon 2015, which will be held March 8-12, at the Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The discounted rate of $2,400 for a standard 10’ x 10’ space is available to all exhibitors up to July 14, 2014. The cost per booth after July 14 is $2,900. Those who wish to be included in the first round of booth assignments should have their agreements submitted by the end of July, as assignments will begin August 2014. The Exposition Committee also announces a new section that will be part of the 2015 expo floor, a Food section, which will...
Oxford Global are thrilled to announce the first round of Hot Topics for the 12th Annual Pharmaceutical IT Congress, taking place on the 22nd & 23rd September 2014 in London, UK.
Over the two days, this well established congress will bring together over 175 senior experts to discuss the most pressing challenges in Pharmaceutical IT. Presentations from over 40 speakers will explore pioneering solutions in areas such as enterprise IT, data management, R&D IT and clinical data....
SP Scientific has announced its Summer 2014 program of LyoLearn webinars.
The LyoLearn program of free educational webinars, delivered by industry experts, are devoted to lyophilization, freeze-drying and related topics. Attendees to the live sessions are encouraged to ask questions of the presenter and get their answers in real time. On 25th June 2014 - Peter Stäertzel* of GILYOS GmbH will present 'Principles of Formulation Design' - an informative webinar that provides an introduction to freeze drying of...
During the annual trade fair EUROLAB in Warsaw the new Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer secured an award in the Best Products competition.
During the traditional exhibitor evening, FRITSCH sales representative for Eastern Europe, Mr Thomas Loch, was presented with the award certificate. The independent, high calibre jury, consisting of professors from the faculty of the University of Technology (Institute for Chemistry) in Warsaw, led by Prof. Dr Hab. Jerzy Golimowski, judged the numerous exhibited laboratory instruments. The new Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer for...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a fast and robust ion chromatography (IC)-based method for the determination of chloride and sulfate in adenosine.
Application Note 1075: Ion Chromatography Assay for Chloride and Sulfate in Adenosine demonstrates that this method supports high sample throughput with a run time of just 3.5 min, requires no toxic chemicals, and can replace the U.S. Pharmacopeia monograph’s existing turbidity-based assays of these compounds. A high-pressure IC system (Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ ICS-5000+ HPIC™ IC system) combined with a...
AMSBIO announces MagSi-NGSPREP- a magnetic bead based tool that offers an efficient solution for DNA clean-up and size selection in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)applications.
MagSi-NGSPREP supports all standard DNA clean-up protocols encountered during Next-Gen library preparation, including the classical one-sided and two-sided "solid phase reversible immobilization" (SPRI) size selection protocols. The simple and flexible protocols employed using MagSi-NGSPREP can be adjusted to your specific application and NGS platform. MagSi-NGSPREP can be used manually but is also easy to automate fo...
The French medical diagnostics supplier, Biocentric, is the latest company to achieve Platinum Distributor Status from DiaSorin in recognition of their outstanding contribution to sales of the DiaSorin Arrow instrument and molecular extraction kits throughout France and overseas.
In the 5 years that Biocentric has been a distributor of Arrow products, their annual sales have demonstrated significant year on year growth. “We are pleased to partner with innovative and dynamic companies, such as Biocentric” comments Paul Eros, Global Vice President Molecular, DiaSorin. "A supplier of Arrow products since 2009, Biocentric has ensured that sales of the Arrow instrument and extraction kits have grown steadily year on year, not just in...
A treasure trove of important human fossils has been discovered by a team of scientists from the Natural History Museum, including Liverpool John Moores University's Dr Isabelle De Groote.
Future Ancient DNA analyses of these bones, morphological studies and further dating of the material may shed light on the exodus of modern humans from Africa and on whether the Middle East is the place where Neanderthals and modern humans met and interbred. The collection consisted of boxes of bones discovered among the personal belongings of Sir Arthur Keith who had been the Master at Buckston Brown Farm, a research station of the Royal College of Surgeons next to Darwin’s home, Down House, Kent. After Sir Arthur Keith’s death in 1955 a number of fossils were transferred from the...
Delivery of macromolecules and nano-particles into cells at high speed and high volume
TTP, a leading UK technology and product development company, has recently developed an innovative new approach to the intracellular delivery of macromolecules and nano-particles into cells at high speed and high volume. This new technique could have major implications for a range of cellular applications including the transfection of cells with DNA material. TTP has already successfully demonstrated the transport of antibodies into cells and is now beginning to explore other biomolecules and the full capabilities of this exciting technology...
A question of tolerance: Liver transplants in patients with hepatitis C
Chronic hepatitis C virus infections are among the most common reasons for liver transplants. Because existing viruses also infect the new liver, the immune system is highly active there. Despite this, the new organ is not rejected, as scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now discovered. The long-term stimulation of the innate immune system by the virus actually increases the probability of tolerance...
The overwhelming majority of past and present imaging systems use a lens to focus the subject of interest, even today's super-resolution light microscopes that breach the diffraction limit through ingenious experimental methods.
Lensless imaging offers the prospect of a radical improvement in resolution by reconstructing a high-resolution image of an object from one or more diffraction patterns. One downside of lensless imaging is that samples typically need to fulfil very specific geometric constraints and illuminated with a narrow, stable and accurately defined spectrum. These technical limitations have been overcome recently by a team from LaserLaB Amsterdam at the VU University in Amsterdam. Writing in the new nature.com journal 'Light: Science and Applications', they describe a...
INTEGRA has introduced a Row Dilution Plate Holder accessory for its VIAFLO 96 and 384 handheld benchtop pipettes.
The new row dilution plate holder adds the functionality to perform serial dilutions in rows. Serial dilutions are often carried out in row format because it allows experimenters to dilute more samples (12 instead of 8 in a 96-well plate). The plate holder can easily be adapted to work with either 96 or 384 well plates. Serial dilution of assay components is a key technique in drug discovery and life science research. In assay development, serial dilution can be...
Freeman Technology, a global leader in powder characterisation, has launched a new website, providing an authoritative knowledge base for formulation scientists, process engineers and product developers working with powders.
The new site provides a detailed overview of the complexity of powders and the challenges they present, and uses industry specific examples to demonstrate how powder rheology has been used to solve processing problems. The website uses simple, straightforward language and introduces new videos and animations to illustrate the fundamentals of powder behaviour and the basic principles of powder testing...
Warwick Analytical Service (WAS) has introduced the Quantitative ICP-Scan, a new service that determines the levels of 67 different elements at low part per million making it ideal for analysing unknown or suspect contamination samples.
The service is competitively priced and a great starting point in determining elemental sample composition. The 67 elements covered by this proprietary WAS ICP methodology range from Silver (Ag) through to Zirconium (Zr)**. The WAS Quantitative ICP Scan Service provides information on elements present at 10-100 ppm right up to greater than 1% w/w. Measured intensities are compared to intensities of traceable standards to obtain the...
PHOTONEX exhibition is underpinned by a developing conference with key growth sectors being discussed in 2014, giving visitors the opportunity for continued high-level professional development.
The UK's largest showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies will be held on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th October, returning to the popular Ricoh Arena in Coventry. With a broad light technologies remit, this event provides researchers and industry professionals the unique opportunity to meet with suppliers across the spectrum of photonics in the exhibition and in the in-depth “Enlighten” conference covering applications and...
Qinec, a company providing an operating model for better healthcare delivery, has today announced that Synexus has implemented QinecEnterprise across its 24 worldwide facilities, including dedicated research sites in South Africa, the UK, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.
The deployment is Qinec's first outside the UK and provides it with a foothold into several key emerging markets. Synexus is the largest company in the world to recruit and run clinical trials at its own facilities. Clinical trials are very time sensitive and Synexus needed an operating system that could help it to effectively manage people through the recruitment to care process as well as track the patient's ongoing progress. QinecEnteprise will...
Having undergone rigorous and independent testing, it has been proved that this unique system is capable of accurate determination of the tensile modulus by measuring a change of gauge length within accuracy of 1% of the relevant value. In tests, Imetrum was able to achieve between 0.2µm and 0.3µm for all gauge lengths using the same camera and lens combination – over 3x the accuracy required by ISO 527 for a 50mm gauge length...
Sample Master® and TITAN® Laboratory Data Management solutions are designed to support Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and assist with maintaining compliance data and quality assurance processes. These tools aid in organizing and storing analytical data, and enabling the conversion of data from information to knowledge, while facilitating regulatory compliance goals. ATL's software solutions identify each sample, store metadata and...
Lab M’s new Pinnacle™ Salmonella ABC pre-poured plates are designed for the isolation of salmonellae from food samples and are based on Lab M’s established Harlequin™ Salmonella ABC medium. Performance is improved by increased selectivity against competitive flora, such as E. coli, and improved recovery of Salmonella. The medium also possesses an enhanced dual chromogen system that ensures colonies of Salmonella are always green while...
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, identified a molecular trigger responsible for ratcheting up activity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) – the cellular factory that makes the building blocks cancer cells need to keep growing. A protein in the TOR signalling pathway, called SREBP, controls the flow of messages to the endoplasmic reticulum telling it to expand – and could allow cancer cells to...
The Filtration Society 50th Anniversary Conference will take place on 13-14 November 2014 at the Riverside Innovation Centre, Chester, UK. With a confirmed line up of international speakers drawn from industry and academia, as well as a well-supported trade exhibition, the organisers are expecting to welcome conference participants from around the world. The Filtration Society was formed in London in 1964 and has the objectives of...
The discounted rate of $2,400 for a standard 10’ x 10’ space is available to all exhibitors up to July 14, 2014. The cost per booth after July 14 is $2,900. Those who wish to be included in the first round of booth assignments should have their agreements submitted by the end of July, as assignments will begin August 2014. The Exposition Committee also announces a new section that will be part of the 2015 expo floor, a Food section, which will...
The LyoLearn program of free educational webinars, delivered by industry experts, are devoted to lyophilization, freeze-drying and related topics. Attendees to the live sessions are encouraged to ask questions of the presenter and get their answers in real time. On 25th June 2014 - Peter Stäertzel* of GILYOS GmbH will present 'Principles of Formulation Design' - an informative webinar that provides an introduction to freeze drying of...
During the traditional exhibitor evening, FRITSCH sales representative for Eastern Europe, Mr Thomas Loch, was presented with the award certificate. The independent, high calibre jury, consisting of professors from the faculty of the University of Technology (Institute for Chemistry) in Warsaw, led by Prof. Dr Hab. Jerzy Golimowski, judged the numerous exhibited laboratory instruments. The new Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer for...
Application Note 1075: Ion Chromatography Assay for Chloride and Sulfate in Adenosine demonstrates that this method supports high sample throughput with a run time of just 3.5 min, requires no toxic chemicals, and can replace the U.S. Pharmacopeia monograph’s existing turbidity-based assays of these compounds. A high-pressure IC system (Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ ICS-5000+ HPIC™ IC system) combined with a...
MagSi-NGSPREP supports all standard DNA clean-up protocols encountered during Next-Gen library preparation, including the classical one-sided and two-sided "solid phase reversible immobilization" (SPRI) size selection protocols. The simple and flexible protocols employed using MagSi-NGSPREP can be adjusted to your specific application and NGS platform. MagSi-NGSPREP can be used manually but is also easy to automate fo...
In the 5 years that Biocentric has been a distributor of Arrow products, their annual sales have demonstrated significant year on year growth. “We are pleased to partner with innovative and dynamic companies, such as Biocentric” comments Paul Eros, Global Vice President Molecular, DiaSorin. "A supplier of Arrow products since 2009, Biocentric has ensured that sales of the Arrow instrument and extraction kits have grown steadily year on year, not just in...
TTP, a leading UK technology and product development company, has recently developed an innovative new approach to the intracellular delivery of macromolecules and nano-particles into cells at high speed and high volume. This new technique could have major implications for a range of cellular applications including the transfection of cells with DNA material. TTP has already successfully demonstrated the transport of antibodies into cells and is now beginning to explore other biomolecules and the full capabilities of this exciting technology...
Chronic hepatitis C virus infections are among the most common reasons for liver transplants. Because existing viruses also infect the new liver, the immune system is highly active there. Despite this, the new organ is not rejected, as scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now discovered. The long-term stimulation of the innate immune system by the virus actually increases the probability of tolerance...
The new row dilution plate holder adds the functionality to perform serial dilutions in rows. Serial dilutions are often carried out in row format because it allows experimenters to dilute more samples (12 instead of 8 in a 96-well plate). The plate holder can easily be adapted to work with either 96 or 384 well plates. Serial dilution of assay components is a key technique in drug discovery and life science research. In assay development, serial dilution can be...
The new site provides a detailed overview of the complexity of powders and the challenges they present, and uses industry specific examples to demonstrate how powder rheology has been used to solve processing problems. The website uses simple, straightforward language and introduces new videos and animations to illustrate the fundamentals of powder behaviour and the basic principles of powder testing...
The service is competitively priced and a great starting point in determining elemental sample composition. The 67 elements covered by this proprietary WAS ICP methodology range from Silver (Ag) through to Zirconium (Zr)**. The WAS Quantitative ICP Scan Service provides information on elements present at 10-100 ppm right up to greater than 1% w/w. Measured intensities are compared to intensities of traceable standards to obtain the...
The UK's largest showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies will be held on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th October, returning to the popular Ricoh Arena in Coventry. With a broad light technologies remit, this event provides researchers and industry professionals the unique opportunity to meet with suppliers across the spectrum of photonics in the exhibition and in the in-depth “Enlighten” conference covering applications and...
The deployment is Qinec's first outside the UK and provides it with a foothold into several key emerging markets. Synexus is the largest company in the world to recruit and run clinical trials at its own facilities. Clinical trials are very time sensitive and Synexus needed an operating system that could help it to effectively manage people through the recruitment to care process as well as track the patient's ongoing progress. QinecEnteprise will...