Thermo Scientific Exactive Plus EMR and Q Exactive Plus Orbitrap systems join new Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid and TSQ Quantiva and Endura systems at HUPO

Less than four months after introducing important new core “Tribrid” and triple quadrupole liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) platforms built to transform customers’ work with unprecedented performance and ease of use, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces two additional systems designed to advance intact protein analysis and “quanfirmation.” 

ZEISS has installed 13 systems worth over two million euros at Istanbul Medipol University as well as trained the staff there.

Various light microscopes, as well as stereo and confocal microscopes are in operation at the university's Regenerative and Restorative Medical Research Center now. At the same time, the university agreed to sign a cooperation agreement with ZEISS to hold joint workshops and training, as well as to introduce the new light sheet fluorescence microscope system Lightsheet Z.1 to Turkey...

Autoscribe, developer of the well-established Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Quality Management Systems, has launched a new combined UK and US website to reflect the worldwide nature of Autoscribe’s business.

With a fresher, cleaner look, much improved navigation, additional content and more downloads, the site features a new ‘market’ section which allows visitors to see at a glance the applications of information management systems in different market areas, as well as a more in depth view of the Business Solutions that are available. Another new section is devoted to information on the unique configuration capabilities of the Matrix family of LIMS....

Sygnature Discovery, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery solutions to the global pharmaceutical industry, today announced that Dr Louis J. Nisbet has joined its Board as a Non-Executive Director.

Dr Nisbet is highly-regarded life sciences professional and a Venture Partner with Kurma Life Sciences Partners, Paris, and Chairman of BioCity, Nottingham.  Having gained drug discovery research experience within major pharmaceutical companies in his early career, then becoming a serial entrepreneur and now an active venture capital investor, Dr Nisbet has an exceptional insight into the issues concerning growing R&D focused pharmaceutical businesses.  He brings this unique experience to Sygnature Discovery to help facilitate the next stage of the company’s growth...

A Freedom EVO^® workstation with an integrated HydroSpeed™ plate washer and Infinite^® F200 PRO multimode reader is helping researchers at Jikei University School of Medicine to perform high throughput compound screening in the battle to combat persistent bacterial infections.

Dr Ken-­ichi Okuda, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bacteriology at Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, explained: “Bacteria within biofilms have a low susceptibility to the immune system and antibiotics, which means that infection is more difficult to eradicate in many cases. Our objective is to find compounds that prevent formation of the biofilms, and then to analyze the detailed composition of the molecular interactions of these compounds with the bacteria.”...

Children’s Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF) and Core, the national charity fighting gut and liver disease are collaborating for the first time in order to launch a joint research funding opportunity.

The charities have joined forces to seek applications for a research project covering scientific, clinical and medical aspects of liver disease diagnosed in the paediatric/ adolescent age group (up to the age of 18) for a total award of £200,000. The grant will be for an established researcher rather than for fellowship applications and funding is restricted to use atUKinstitutions...

Analytik Jena once more expands the range of applications of the revolutionary contrAA^® product series

Now the simultaneous analysis of several absorption lines in the measured spectral range is also possible. This offers great benefits especially in the relatively time-consuming graphite furnace technology, because several elements can be detected simultaneously using a single atomization....

The ‘Mother Earth’ table decoration by Wenzel Jamnitzer, dating from 1549 and owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, has been restored to its former glory with help from a Metrohm Autolab potentiostat.

Wenzel Jamnitzer was a German goldsmith whose work was strongly influenced by Italian Renaissance style. As well as using precious metals, he sometimes incorporated sea shells, coral, snail shells and tiny birds' eggs into his pieces. The replication of miniature plants and animals became a distinctive feature of his oeuvre. And it was these delicate objects that made it impossible to restore his table decoration using the traditional wet chemistry method....

The American Chemical Society (ACS) applauds the Senate action today in passing helium supply legislation by a vote of 97 to 2.

“ACS urges the House and Senate to swiftly conference this legislation so it can be presented to President Barack Obama for his immediate signature,” said ACS President Marinda Li Wu, Ph.D. “MRIs that image cancer tumors use helium,” said Wu. “Heart patients rely on helium for proper catheterization during surgery. It’s vital for national defense. Even scuba divers who conduct rescue operations rely on helium. If the liquid helium supply was to suddenly vanish, our society would be turned upside down.”...

Topline results for olesoxime as add–on therapy to Interferon beta are expected in early 2014

Trophos SA, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announces today that they have completed enrollment in the Translate MS-Repair Phase Ib multiple sclerosis (MS) trial. The trial is a randomized, placebo controlled, Phase Ib study in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with Trophos’ olesoxime as an add-on therapy to Interferon beta. In three months, 44 patients have been recruited in three investigational sites in France. The first subject was enrolled on April 2 and the last subject on July 11, 2013...

Simple, automated, nanoliter-scale assays requiring as little as 1uL of sample. Ready-to-use kits are fully validated for reliable use in clinical research. Accuracy and precision meet or exceed ELISA performance.

Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, today announced a partnership with Gyros AB to develop, manufacture and commercialize immunoassay kits for the Gyrolab™ platform. The new, fully validated kits from Merck Millipore will enable clinical researchers and drug developers to generate valuable research data much faster than typical ELISA kits. Traditional ELISAs can consume significant time, sample and reagents. With the fully automated, walk-away system from Gyros, up to 560 data points can be generated in a run...

The role of women in science and their historic under-representation in the field are explored in a new short documentary film and book.

The book tells the story of how the University of Edinburgh's female scientists have fought for equality, beginning with street riots in the 1870s. Today, an Edinburgh professor is the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The film celebrates how much has been achieved, but warns that unconscious bias against women still persists, and that more needs to be done to achieve parity. The initiative, entitled A Chemical Imbalance, was funded by the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Prize awarded to Professor Polly Arnold, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry and Director of Research in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh...

Liposofast extruders are simple devices for the creation of unilamellar populations of liposomes.

Extrusion is a simple process to produce liposomes of a particular size. A multilamellar sample is forced repeatedly through polycarbonate filters with a defined pore size.  Extrusion is a simple and nondamaging method of ensuring a homogenous sample. It is a gentle process which does not require addition of any solvents and only moderate pressures and takes only a few minutes to complete....

Anasys Instruments reports on three user groups who have published peer reviewed papers where nanoIR is being applied to look at characterization challenges in semiconductors, polymers and healthcare.

There have been several recent exciting publications by nanoIR users in a number of growing applications areas. These include plasmonics, health care, fuel cell membranes and polymer nanostructures. Three of these publications are reported here. Nanoscale Imaging of Plasmonic Hot Spots and Dark Modes with the Photothermal-Induced Resonance Technique. The lead author is Dr Andrea Centrone from NIST, USA. In this publication from NIST, the AFM-IR technique is applied for the first time to image the dark plasmonic resonance of gold asymmetric split ring resonators (A-SRRs) in the mid-infrared (IR) spectral region with nanoscale resolution...

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its worldwide thermal desorption and mass spectrometry business is set to expand into Germany.

Carbolite will exhibit an example of  its new 1200?C ‘E-Series’ compact tube furnaces, for the first time in the UK, at Lab Innovations 2013  (6 - 7 November 2013, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK).

Visit Carbolite on stand number B13

Bibby Scientific will exhibit some of the newest products from its range of laboratory equipment at Lab Innovations 2013. Appearing for the first time at a UK show will be the Techne Combi-Block, for use with Prime thermal cyclers, and the Jenway Genova Nano spectrophotometer. These will be joined on stand C6 by equipment from Bibby Scientific’s Electrothermal, Stuart, Jenway and Techne brands.

Techne introduced the new Combi-Block for its widely used Prime Thermal Cycler range earlier this year. The Combi-Block holds up to 33 tubes of 0.2 ml or 0.5 ml volumes, and offers an optional 25°C temperature gradient spread over its 11 columns. The provision of wells of different sizes means that a variety of consumables can be accommodated, making the Combi-Block a practical and convenient solution for laboratories with a range of different cycling requirements....

Visit Bibby Scientific on stand number C6

ELGA Process Water has supplied a laboratory water system to Dalton Cumbrian Facility, the state-of-the-art nuclear research complex on the Westlakes Science & Technology Park in West Cumbria.

The facility forms part of the nuclear research facilities of The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, and provides a suite of equipment for use by academia and industry from all over the world to collaborate in radiation science and nuclear plant decommissioning R&D. Like all laboratories, the facility requires different water qualities for different uses: ultrapure water for analytical work and lower quality for general applications like media preparation, pH buffers and glassware washing...

AMSBIO has announced addition of new biotinylated histones and nucleosomes to its expanding range of recombinant nucleosomes, purified nucleosomes and full length histone proteins.

A nucleosome is the basic unit of DNA packaging. It consists of a segment of DNA wound around a core (“octamer”) of 8 histone proteins (two each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4). The “tails” of these histone proteins stick out, where they can be modified by a number of different histone acetyltransferases, methyltransferases, PARPs, and other epigenetic enzymes. Many of these enzymes modify very specific sites e.g. EZH2, specifically tri-methylates the lysine at position 27 in the H3 histone...

SCID screening improves medical outcomes with early detection, intervention

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader in improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today introduced the first commercially available screening test for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). The EnLite™ Neonatal TREC System expands the newborn screening portfolio of commercially available tests and will be introduced under CE marking, for sale in select countries in Europe and the Middle East. SCID impacts an estimated 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 100,000 newborns globally every year...

Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK), a leading global provider of instrumentation and expertise for materials and biophysical characterization, has acquired nanoparticle characterization company NanoSight Ltd (Amesbury, UK). The acquisition was completed on Friday 27 September 2013.

Production of the first stem cell burger, which recently hit the headlines throughout the world, also owes its success to high-quality laboratory products from Greiner Bio-One.

For the first time, scientists from Maastricht University in the Netherlands have succeeded in cultivating a hamburger in a laboratory from the stem cells of cattle. The stem cells can be extracted from muscle cells, for example. The stem cells from a single cow can be used to produce around 200 million burgers. Industrial production, it is hoped, could act as a significant brake on intensive livestock farming and thus also curb environmental pollution...