A PIONEERING research company and the architects behind the scheme have been signed up as the first new tenants at Liverpool Science Park’s £8m third building.

Karm Research Group will be moving from its existing premises at the science park into 1,000 sq ft of new laboratory space while Ryder Architecture will be taking 2,500 sq ft of state-of-the-art office space. The third building, which officially opens this week, was built speculatively in response to growing demand for purpose-built office and commercial laboratory space in Liverpool city centre to accommodate the city region’s knowledge-based businesses....

Companies to Develop and Market Products Designed for Nanoparticle Characterization

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announced an agreement with Wyatt Technology Corporation enabling collaboration on products, applications and technical development.  The partnership brings together Wyatt’s expertise in protein characterization, light scattering and biophysics with Beckman Coulter’s expertise in particle counting, particle characterization and cell viability measurement. “We are excited to be working with Wyatt Technology, as they have strong brand recognition in sectors such as biopharmaceuticals...

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M908 uses patented High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry to enhance detection and identification capabilities for first responders

908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis, is delighted to introduce M908™, the world’s first truly handheld tool utilizing high-pressure mass spectrometry™ (HPMS). Specifically engineered for civilian users, first responders, and military teams, M908 provides accurate, immediate detection and identification of trace level chemical and explosive hazards at the point-of-action....

The Merseyside-headquartered firm picked up the award at a leading business awards event in Warrington.

MSoft won the Made in the North West Medical and Life Sciences Company of the Year and now goes through to compete for the national award in the same category at the International Festival for Business in Liverpool in July. MSoft beat off stiff competition from other leading companies in the category including Redx Pharma, Biofortuna, Arcis Altos and Perfectus Biomed. Judges said that “the software company was the standout winner”...

Efforts to combat bacteria's growing resistance to antibiotics could be helped by a key discovery about the complex processes that enable bugs to thrive. 

Nanalysis and GPE Scientific are working together to incorporate NMR into more academic institutions and industrial labs. 

The goal is for NMR to no longer be a tightly controlled resource available to small groups of end-users.  Undergraduate students will now get the chance to gain NMR knowledge with hands-on learning using standard NMR tubes and instrumentation. GPE Scientific Ltd is a leading distributor and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, based in Leighton Buzzard with over 50 years of experience serving industry, academic, and research customers in the U.K. and Ireland....

A symposium focusing on the results of a 3-year EU-funded programme to design a novel fibre-based microfluidic technology to enables rapid and simple point-of-use diagnostic testing has been held at the Hauser Forum, Cambridge, UK

The BiognostiX consortium, headed by experts at FFEI Life Science, has brought together academic, research and commercial partners from five European countries. The symposium Leading the way from diagnostics to BiognostiX, featured presentations from each, accelerating the process of disseminating the proof of principle data generated as part of the project...

Malvern Instruments shows how complementary technologies solve analytical challenges from biopharm to bulk materials 

For the second successive time, Chester (UK)-based calibration standards specialist Whitehouse Scientific is sponsoring the Philippine’s national team at the Deloitte Street Child World Cup.

Whitehouse Scientific CEO Dr Graham Rideal has for many years been involved in projects to support young people in the Philippines and in 2010 Whitehouse Scientific was one of the inaugural team sponsors involved in the Deloitte Street Child World Cup.Street children representing up to 20 countries from all five continents will kick off a ten-day tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 28 March 2014. Not only will they play football but they will also be raising awareness towards gaining rights for street children all over the world....

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), a leading innovator and manufacturer of technology for trace organic analysis, has announced the launch of its new website.

“With new application-specific content, improved navigation, and an enhanced online shop, we’ve made it much easier for our customers to find what they’re looking for, quickly and easily”, said Dr Gavin Davies, Marketing Manager at Markes. The new website features a range of new content, written by Markes’ specialists, explaining key issues and approaches to using the latest thermal desorption (TD) and mass spectrometry (MS) technologies across multiple gas chromatography (GC) application areas - everything from environmental and petrochem to metabolomics and food analysis....

Debilitating side effects associated with prescription medication for some of today’s most common conditions could be eradicated if they mimicked the body’s natural hormone secretion cycles, a new report has said.

Scientists from Exeter and Bristol have studied how conventional steroid treatments – commonly used to treat a range of conditions from steroid deficiency to inflammatory diseases such as asthma and arthritis – can have serious side effects due to the way in which they are delivered to the body. The study concluded that many of these side effects could be significantly reduced if the delivery of the medication mimicked the timing of the body’s own natural release mechanisms and that pharmaceutical companies should develop novel techniques for achieving this...

Market research confirms Cherwell as a leading prepared microbiological media supplier

Cherwell Laboratories Ltd’s reputation as a leading supplier of high-quality prepared microbiological media has been endorsed following a recent market research study. Results from this demonstrate that Cherwell are highly regarded by both customers and prospective customers in all areas, including Redipor^® product quality, flexibility of supply, reliability and efficiency at dealing with any customer’s problem. Cherwell commissioned an in depth market research project to gain a better understanding of the prepared microbiological media market and the needs of their customers...

Time for Change - Chronos Advance Launch Success

Cool Logistics successfully launched its new, innovative Chronos Advance™ shipping system and announced its acquisition by Pelican Products Inc. Along with the new acquisition Cool Logistics unveiled the new Chronos Advance™ aimed at setting new standards in the single use shipping industry at the recent IQPC event. Cool Logistics, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of temperature-controlled packaging solutions, unveiled its exclusive high performance product which was universally welcomed by the delegates attending the IQPC event in Luxembourg....

Pauline Carnell, Senior Application Scientist at Malvern Instruments, will present a paper at ISEV 2014 discussing ‘The practical use of nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) to characterise extracellular vesicles in general and when using fluorescence markers’.

Bruker has released an application note detailing a simple and convenient method for the quantification of trace pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in clean water, using Bruker’s EVOQ triple quadrupole liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS).

Accurate results of voltammetric measurements depend on the correct installation and maintenance of the electrode. All you need to know about it is available now on the new, free of charge multimedia guide 'Electrodes in Voltammetry'

'Electrodes in Voltammetry' comes on a single CD and answers all your questions concerning the installation and maintenance of the

• Multi-Mode Electrode
• Reference Electrodes
• Rotating Disc Electrodes

Microbiology company Lab M has made its comprehensive Product Guide available as a digital flip book or a pdf download, as well as offering printed versions for those who prefer to access a hard copy in the laboratory.

The latest additions to Lab M’s portfolio are featured in the guide. These include the new µPREP™ Buffered Peptone Water (ISO), the first in a line of bagged, sterile dehydrated culture media that are made ready to use simply by adding water. Designed for high throughput laboratories where speed, convenience and cost-effectiveness are paramount, and where storage space is at a premium, µPREP™ media are reconstituted and ready for use in minutes....

Anasys Instruments reports on the publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters demonstrating the use of AFM-IR used by French researchers to identify best microbes for biofuel production.

While the debate over using crops for fuel continues, scientists are now reporting a new, fast approach to develop biofuel in a way that doesn't require removing valuable farmland from the food production chain. Their work examining the fuel-producing potential of Streptomyces, a soil bacterium known for making antibiotics, appears in ACS' The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (see footnote). The scientists used atomic force microscopy combined with infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) to measure the size and map the distribution of oil inclusions inside of microorganism without staining or other special sample preparation...

Veeva Systems' Industry Cloud Solutions in 2014

For the second year, Veeva Systems has been ranked by life sciences leaders as one of the top preferred software providers to the industry, based on the Leading Indicators in Life Science IT Spending Survey^[1] released by IDC Health Insights. The 2014 report shows Veeva was the only software provider to increase its position, climbing four places, and is now fourth ranked overall. The only industry cloud vendor to be named, Veeva delivers cloud-based software solutions specifically designed to help life sciences companies achieve their most strategic objectives - bringing drugs to market faster and more efficiently, maximising revenues, and maintaining compliance with government regulations...

As growing numbers of Chinese pharmaceutical companies increase their investment in drug discovery, the adoption of technology to increase their chemical synthesis throughput is growing fast.

There has been considerable interest in the RadleysTornado and Carousel 6 system, which offers controlled parallel heating and mechanical stirring of up to 6 x 250ml flask within a compact benchtop footprint. Professor Chen Biqiang from the College of Life Science and Technology at the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology recently invested in a Tornado system . He commented, “I am primarily engaged in the research of enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acid glycerides and previously used a water bath and mechanical agitation to deal with a sample...

Visitors to Interphex 2014 will have the opportunity to discover how the unique capabilities of the FT4 Powder Rheometer®

Visitors to Interphex 2014 (International Pharmaceutical Expo, 18-20 March, New York City) will have the opportunity to discover how the unique capabilities of the FT4 Powder Rheometer® from Freeman Technology support the development of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. In addition to discussing the latest developments in continuous wet granulation, specialists from Freeman Technology will be on hand throughout the event to demonstrate the FT4 Powder Rheometer and provide practical advice on all aspects of powder characterisation. Meet the team on Booth #2336...