A new applications report from FLIR Systems details how Integral UK, has used FLIR thermal imaging technology to reduce facility chiller downtime

A new applications report from FLIR Systems details how Integral UK, one of the largest independent providers of property maintenance services in the UK, has used FLIR thermal imaging technology to reduce facility chiller downtime thereby reducing inconvenience and ongoing maintenance costs to their clients. Facility chillers commonly use refrigerant gas to provide cooling and therefore temperature control for large commercial properties....

LPW Technology, a leading supplier of  optimised metal powders for high end additive manufacturing (AM) applications, is using the FT4 Powder Rheometer® from Freeman Technology to research new powders and exert control over product performance.

LPW Technology develops and supplies customised metal powders for high performance, functional component manufacture, supplying, amongst others, the automotive, aerospace and biomedical industries. Comprehensive powder testing using the FT4 Powder Rheometer provides the information needed to engineer powder behaviour for specific AM processes and applications and to ensure a consistent quality product. “Powder testing is a critical part of what we do, both in the development of new powders and as a service for customers looking to optimise existing AM processes,” explains Dr Robert Deffley, Research and Development Manager at LPW Technology...

Peter Ingram and Simon Rainbow join GPE Scientific

GPE Scientific has over 50 years of experience in the manufacturing of precision glass materials for industry, laboratory and research companies and have recently expanded our Sales Team to meet our customer’s needs. GPE are pleased to announce the recruitment of our Northern and Southern Sales Representatives Peter Ingram and Simon Rainbow....

Metrohm is pleased to announce a practical course focusing on best practices for analyzing nonalcoholic beverages by titration and ion chromatography.

The course will take place from March 18 through 19, 2014 in the laboratories and conference facilities of the Metrohm Academy in Herisau, Switzerland. The main focus of this practical course will be on analytical challenges in the QC lab of the beverage industry and solutions how to meet them. Participants will have plenty of opportunities to discuss any questions with the Metrohm application specialists as well as with peers from the bevarage industry. Topics the preliminary program are...

Quotient Clinical, a provider of outsourced, early stage drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry, has been acquired from the Quotient Bioresearch Group by Bridgepoint Development Capital for an undisclosed sum.

Employing over 200 people, Quotient Clinical has developed a platform which offers an integrated approach to formulation development, “real-time” drug product manufacturing and clinical testing.  Using this platform has been proven to significantly reduce the time and cost of the early stage drug development process....

Exeter Analytical, specialists in elemental microanalysis, has developed proprietary techniques based on their Model 440 CHN analyser to enable accurate determination of percentage Carbon (C) and Hydrogen (H) in Carbon fibre composite materials.

Carbon fibre analysis is of great interest to developers of products that benefit from the unique strength to weight ratio and rigidity of Carbon fibre reinforced materials - often referred to as carbon fibre composites. Applications for Carbon fibre composites include aerospace, marine craft, formula 1 and high-end automobiles, bicycles, sports equipment and firearms manufacture. With this wide range of applications comes the need for accurate Carbon fibre / composite materials analysis...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Greiner Bio-One GmbH.

Over the past five decades, the business founded in Nürtingen, Germany, as Greiner Labortechnik has become an international high-tech company, but it has never lost sight of its modest SMB roots. Combining tradition with innovation has created a globally successful technology partner for the diagnostic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Greiner Labortechnik started out in 1963 in Nürtingen, producing the first plastic Petri dishes. A further production facility that opened in Austria in 1974 also initially manufactured Petri dishes. In the 1980s, Greiner unveiled VACUETTE ­ the first evacuated blood collection system with a plastic safety cap ­ which can maintain a vacuum for at least 18 months...

AMSBIO has introduced a new range of neural progenitor cells, and cerebral cortical neurons, derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Despite the large investment and interest in neuroscience traditional methods of studying the human nervous system and disease pathogenesis and mechanisms required the generation of animal models. However, these methods are time consuming, costly and often fail to replicate the desired human pathologies and symptoms. Using cutting-edge stem cell technologies to generate high purity human neural cells and neurons, AMSBIO is able to provide healthy and Alzheimer disease patient derived cerebral cortical neurons and neural progenitor cells...

Contract of Dr. Hermann Gerlinger renewed until 2017

Head of Medical Technology business group Dr. Ludwin Monz joins the Executive Board. The start of calendar year 2014 will see some changes to the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG headed by President and CEO Dr. Michael Kaschke. The enlargement of the Executive Board and the reallocation of responsibilities are aimed at driving forward the consistent positioning of ZEISS as a portfolio company in line with market its segments...

New Insights Published on Key Protein Interactions Involved in the Bacterial Flagellar Motor Complex Show Promise for Other Difficult Biomolecular Systems

New Application Note from Wyatt Technology Showcases the Ability of CG-MALS to Quantify Complex Proteins. Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, has today published a new application note highlighting a study on the complex interactions between proteins and how they modulate the rotational direction of bacteria flagella....

The ease of integration of Tecan’s Cavro^® Air Displacement Pipettor

The ease of integration of Tecan’s Cavro^® Air Displacement Pipettor (ADP) has helped French microbiological instrument manufacturer i2a to develop PRELUD^®, anautomated pre-analytical instrument for the inoculation of culture plates and preparation of agar susceptibility tests. Project manager Michel Roch explained: “When we were developing PRELUD, the integration of a liquid handling system for streaking Petri dishes was essential....

Link Technologies provides key protocols for oligonucleotide synthesis and modification 

Link Technologies Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, is providing scientists with a complete resource for oligonucleotide synthesis and modification. Spanning the breadth of oligo chemistry, the Link Technologies 2013/14 Product Guide leads users through practical methods and application-based advice for total assurance in reagent selection and performance of the resulting oligos....

Drawing upon many years’ experience, AMSBIO has developed a custom phospho-specific antibody production service that is both reliable and produces highly specific quality antisera.

Phospho-specific antibodies are widely accepted for use in defining regulatory mechanisms that control cell functions such as activation of enzymes and receptors, cellular transcription, signal transduction, and cell signalling networks. Phospho-specific antibodies from AMSBIO are affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies that are monospecific for a target protein that is phosphorylated on a specific tyrosine, threonine, or serine residue...

Revenue Reaches New Record High

The Innovation Forum is launching their first annual Innovation Leaders Conference to be held at Cambridge University, UK on February 27th and 28th 2014.

The aim of the conference is to promote the translation of cutting edge research into leading products and services – by building bridges between academia, investors, industry and government and linking innovative minds across disciplines. The event is being supported by leading recruitment specialists - george james ltd who have arranged for leading industry experts across a broad range of disciplines to be available to give free advice to both start up and established companies and individuals looking for careers advice...

A NORTH-WEST businessman has set up a new venture to help early stage biomedical companies put the right management in place to secure funding for further growth.

Michael Norris has set up Manchester-based Norris Biomedical Services to provide services for small and medium sized biomedical businesses looking to develop and implement their commercial business plans. The company comprises a team of over 30 expert consultants from a variety of backgrounds, including early stage technology development specialists, doctors and experts in biomedical fields such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices....

Preclinical results have already demonstrated its remarkable action on solid tumors

A first proprietary product is under development to treat ovarian cancer. This platform can be used with a wide range of anti-tumoral agents. Adocia a biotechnology company specializing in the development of ‘best-in-class’ medicines from already approved therapeutic proteins, announces today the signature of an exclusive license agreement with the CNRS, the University Bordeaux I, the Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux and Aquitaine Science Transfert (SATT Aquitaine)...

Evolving Applications for Sintered Porous Plastics

Porvair Filtration Group has written a technical article that documents the evolution of how sintered porous plastics have been used in industrial applications to their incorporation today in novel Chromatin Immunoprepitation (ChIP) assay kits used by scientists at the forefront of epigenetics research. Sintered porous plastics are produced by heat sintering together porous polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene...

Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce a new technical note which demonstrates high resolution chromatographic separations of organic acids in beer samples.

Organic acids are end products of yeast fermentation critical to the flavor of beer, but are also products of bacterial fermentation that introduce a sour flavor, either purposely or unintentionally due to spoilage. Technical Note 126: Determination of Organic Acids in Beer Samples Using a High-Pressure Ion Chromatography System specifically discusses the separation of organic acids in beer samples using a Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ IonPac™ AS11-HC-4μm anion-exchange column....

Asynt in conjunction with the Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews (UK) and Advanced Chemical Safety Inc. (USA) have produced an 8-page illustrated document to provide laboratory staff with an IN BEST PRACTICE GUIDE to safe use of heating block systems.

Heating blocks provide a safe, convenient and productive alternative to heating mantles and oil baths for heating round bottomed flasks, tubes and vials. Used in combination with a standard hotplate stirrer - heating blocks such as the Asynt DrySyn range have proved themselves with their ability to outperform the heat-conducting properties of oil baths....

Harvard professor explains how to programme complex oligo structures for new applications 

The quarterly newsletter DECODED, from Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) explores the work of Dr Pen Yin, assistant professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, who is harnessing the base pairing properties of DNA to create 3D structures of “DNA bricks”. This new nano-construction technique is based on short DNA oligos, which assemble at right-angles to interlocking sequences, forming 3D units. With such a heavy dependency on oligonucleotide quality, Dr Yin has relied on IDT. These DNA bricks are inspiring many future applications, such as catalysts and drug compounds, and can eventually be used to create electrical circuit boards on the nanometer scale...

Specialised Imaging has created a new web page that describe its growing range of high performance accessories for its ultra high-speed camera systems.

As a leading technological innovator – Specialised Imaging has always strived to develop ultra high speed camera systems that enable users to expand the boundaries of their scientific, industrial and defence research. However, to realise the potential of these market-leading cameras often also requires top performance accessories. The new accessories web page includes an introduction and downloadable data sheets for Specialised Imaging’s range of laser illuminators, velocity measurement system, camera triggers, high power flashes and camera supports...