Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly – in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers in a project at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Freiburg, Germany, have developed a method that speeds up the healing process, making wounds heal three times faster...
Applied Maintenance and Troubleshooting for Gas Chromatography and Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry. This course has been approved by the Royal Society of Chemistry for purposes of Continuing Professional Development. This course looks at the parts of the GC and GC-MS system requiring maintenance. The frequency and how to identify when maintenance is required, are covered in detail. The course then looks at preparing for problems, how to identify problems and the troubleshooting process...
Tecan and DYNEX Technologies have announced a partnership to broaden the availability of quality ELISA products in the US. Customers will now have direct access to Tecan’s ELISA-related kits and comprehensive portfolio of reagents alongside DYNEX's fully automated ELISA workstations. This exciting collaboration between two market leaders will vastly expand customer reach across the US, providing access to a wide range of innovative laboratory solutions...
Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch, who is considered a leading quantum physicist, is to be commended with the ZEISS Research Award for his outstanding research in the field of quantum simulation using ultracold atoms. The company has been recognizing outstanding research in optics and photonics since 1990. The ceremony will take place at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on 26 June 2023. Three young scientists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will also receive awards. They will receive the Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers...
Chocolate...delicious for humans, challenging for analytical methods, perfect for demonstrating the benefits of high mass resolution PTR-TOFMS! The real-time, direct injection PTR technology combined with powerful TOF-MS enables rapid, highly selective and quantitative screening of food, flavor and fragrance samples. Recently, IONICON performed an extensive food and flavor study comparing their ultimate-resolution trace VOC analyzer PTR-TOF 10k to a common high-resolution PTR-TOFMS instrument...
Synthace, a digital life science experiment platform, announces it has had its most successful year on record with major adoption and expansion with customers, industry recognition, product innovation, and a key hire at board level. Synthace experienced 94% annual recurring revenue growth, 166% year-on-year growth in total contract value, and 170% net revenue retention (NRR) growth among customers...
When you pack for an extended trip, you usually bring everything you will need while you are away—food, clothing, medication, and other necessities. But what do you do if your trip takes you to space, where cargo room is extremely limited and expensive? A team of researchers from Rhodium Scientific and the University of Florida propose that you pack some useful microbes along with your essentials. These microbes could help make other products you might need during your stay...
MolGen has acquired Dutch automation company Synchron Instrumenten BV, also known as Synchron Lab Automation. With this acquisition MolGen will expand its existing portfolio and its ability to build high-end automation solutions for DNA/RNA purification, library preparation and NGS setup to support MolGen’s reagent business. The custom liquid handling platforms and rapid prototyping capabilities of Synchron will be used to further expand MolGen’s automation portfolio...
The idea that inflammation—constant, low-level, immune-system activation —could be at the root of chronic diseases such as cancer, arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and even depression is a bold claim. Until relatively recently, this claim was met with skepticism in labs and lecture halls. Can unconnected illnesses of different organs and body parts really share a biological link? Researchers in molecular biology have been compiling evidence that many chronic conditions are triggered by the immune system’s inflammatory response...
The UK’s largest annual trade show for the lab industry, Lab Innovations will return to the NEC, Birmingham, on November 1 and 2, 2023, to champion sustainability and innovation in the lab industry. This year’s exhibition is already shaping up to be a must-attend event, with over 84 per cent of the exhibition space already sold, despite increasing the floorplan at this year’s show to accommodate more exhibitors than ever....
Xyall and Indica Labs have entered into a global strategic partnership designed to bridge the gap between histology and molecular pathology. It unites Xyall’s unique automated tissue dissection solutions with Indica Labs’ AI-powered, diagnostic digital pathology platform. Selecting tumor tissue is at the heart of molecular diagnostic testing. The collaboration will enable molecular laboratories to benefit from a fully digital and automated workflow for tissue macro dissection for molecular diagnostic testing...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2023 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, May 10 with Graduating from Spreadsheets to a True LIMS. This webcast is ideal for laboratory professionals who are currently using paper logbooks or Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets to perform sample tracking and result management, analysis, calculations, and reporting...
ibidi Glass Bottom µ-Plates With 384 Wells are now 30% off* until the end of June! With their highest optical quality coverslip, the µ-Plates enable high throughput screenings for many applications, such as Widefield fluorescence imaging and confocal microscopy, Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) and Super-resolution microscopy (STED, SIM, (F)PALM, (d)STORM)...
Sustainable material innovation company, Kelpi (Bristol, UK), is using Asynt’s DrySyn oil-free heating blocks and CondenSyn waterless air condensers in their fight against marine plastic pollution and single-use plastics manufactured from fossil fuels. Dr Stefanie Federle, Chief Scientific Officer, explained that “Kelpi is here to end the madness of using fossil fuels to create largely unrecycled, single-use packaging that takes hundreds of years to degrade, poisoning our oceans and polluting our landscape....
A recent blog post from AMSBIO introduces a selection of the ‘green products’ it offers to life science researchers looking to maintain rigorous scientific standards in their lab whilst also trying to minimize environmental impact. Laboratories are known to consume a significant amount of energy and produce a considerable amount of waste. However, with the increasing awareness of the importance of sustainability, many life sciences labs are taking steps towards prioritizing sustainable products and practices...
INTEGRA Biosciences is pleased to announce the release of a new eBook providing a complete guide to ELISAs. This resource is relevant for users at all levels of expertise and experience, regardless of their specific application, and is completely free to download. The eBook contains plenty of in-depth educational articles, relevant app notes and user testimonials that will help readers understand all the details behind how ELISAs work...
LGC has announced the acquisition of Lipomed AG’s reference materials business including standards with drugs of abuse and toxicology applications, and thus greatly complementing LGC’s reference standards offering. Lipomed Reference Standards is a leading manufacturer and supplier of analytical reference standards with ISO/IEC 17025 accreditations for testing and ISO 17034 accreditation for production of reference materials...
Todaro Robotics, Inc, a leading laboratory automation and robotics company based in San Diego, has achieved a major milestone with its flagship client Abwiz Bio, Inc a company that speeds up the development of high impact monoclonal antibodies with its proprietary phage display technology. The milestone of operating continuously a very complex system for over two years, has demonstrated the effectiveness of integrated laboratory automation solutions...
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of 2D materials which have unique optical and electronic properties. They are semiconductors with the chemical structure MX2 where M is a transition metal and X a chalcogen. After the isolation of graphene layers, research into alternative 2D layered materials which offer the same, or better, properties has surged...
APEER and arivis are coming together to better serve customers by consolidating hardware- and data-agnostic software under the brand ZEISS arivis. The changes will take place in phases over the coming year, starting in April 2023. Customers can continue to expect the same level of quality and support. The name ZEISS arivis will represent an expanded software product line that includes cloud and AI solutions...
Known for its ease of configurability, the latest version of Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autoscribe Informatics will be on show at the Paperless Lab Academy 2023. Unique among LIMS vendors, every configuration for each customer uses the same software. Configuration is performed using the built-in Matrix Configuration Tools which keeps all configuration separate from the core software...
From 9 to 11 May 2023, the laboratory world meets in Hanover, Germany at LABVOLUTION, the European trade fair for laboratory technology and optimized laboratory workflows. Digitization, artificial intelligence and sustainability will be at the center of the trade fair for the smart laboratory in 2023. As the leading trade fair for digitization in the laboratory, LABVOLUTION 2023 not only showcases innovative lab technology, infrastructure and automation, as well as solutions for optimized laboratory workflows...