Academic, industry professionals can use free or subsidized SpectroCam for data collection
Ocean Thin Films is calling for grant proposals featuring multispectral imaging applications that would utilize the SpectroCam™ platform. SpectroCam is an imaging system that integrates scientific-grade sensors with eight filters to produce multispectral images. This grant gives participants the unique opportunity to add a high-end instrument to their lab at little or no cost...
Read MoreLaboratory Decision Makers Cautiously Optimistic about Funding Conditions, Finds Frost & SullivanNov 8, 2012
Deep budget cuts to hiring offset by considerable budget hikes for commodities
The laboratory industry rode a roller coaster in 2011, with the economic recovery and the residual dollars of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. By the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011, the market began to soften with hiring freezes and deterioration of most purchasing budgets...
Read MoreThe British Laboratory Managers Association launched at Lab InnovationsNov 7, 2012
A new organisation called the British Laboratory Managers Association is being launched by GAMBICA at LAB INNOVATIONS
Modern laboratory managers face a unique blend of technical and people management challenges. Many have climbed the technical ranks and are well positioned to address the technical challenges but don’t have or have had very little formal training in management skills, especially when they start managing a laboratory...
Read MoreExtracellular Matrix Combinatorial Library LaunchedNov 6, 2012
AMSBIO is a leading supplier of innovative tools for growing cells in a physiologically relevant manner. A unique Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Mimetic Library for engineering surfaces to direct receptor binding specificity, signalling and growing cells in 3D has been launched
Containing nearly 300 biomimetics of Fibronectin, Vitronectin, Laminin and Collagen, for coating plates or creating 3D culture scaffolds, AMSBIO's new ECM combinatorial library provides a powerful tool for identifying the cellular adhesion profile of your cell line or tumour against the widest commercially available collection of cell surface receptor binding peptide motifs...
Read MoreWorld Exclusives at LAB INNOVATIONSNov 6, 2012
Think Stothard, Cambridge Reactor Design, YSI, Norgren & Datech Scientific Limited have all just announced that they are using easyFairs LAB INNOVATIONS to launch major new products
Unilabs AB in Eskilstuna, Sweden, is taking advantage of LGC Standards’ LoGiCal reference materials to perform clinical analyses and screen for drugs of abuse, as chemist Elin Widing explained
“Unilabs is a privately owned clinical laboratory that analyses company healthcare and workplace samples, as well as samples from drug abuse centres. Samples are received from across Sweden and screened either qualitatively or semi-quantitatively using immunological assays, followed by quantitative for verification. Ready-to-use LoGiCal solutions are ideal for our purposes; it is so much simpler than weighing powders for in¬house preparation of reference materials.”...
Read MoreEppendorf Young Investigator Award 2013Nov 6, 2012
Call for entries!
Up until 15 January 2013, young researchers working in Europe and younger than 35 years are invited to apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious prize was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts... Read MoreNIST research highlights promise of AFM-IR for quantitative nanoscale chemical analysisNov 5, 2012
Anasys Instruments announces a new paper authored by Dr Andrea Centrone and his colleagues at NIST published recently in Small, a leading publication which focuses on the nano and micro worlds
Dr Centrone's team reported on experiments that carefully studied the AFM-IR signal strength versus sample thickness. The experiments showed that the AFM-IR signal increases linearly with thickness for samples up to 1µm thick. This observed linearity may pave the way for quantitative chemical analysis at the nanoscale...
Read MoreTAP Biosystems Announces Webinar on Innovations in 3D cell cultureNov 5, 2012
Live event Discusses Applications in Neuroscience and Presents RAFT 3D Cell Culture System
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced that it will be hosting two live webinar sessions on Thursday November 8th on ‘Innovations in 3D cell culture’. These webinars are essential for all life-scientists who are assessing strategies for making their cell-based assays more physiologically relevant...
Read MoreTOC, UV/Vis and atomic absorption instrumentation showcased by Analytik Jena UKNov 5, 2012
Analytik Jena UK will be showing an impressive range of analytical instrumentation from the Analytik Jena portfolio at the Lab Innovations exhibition
On show will be two multi N/C TOC analysers, a SPECORD 200 Plus UV/Vis spectrometer and there will be a chance to see solid sampling in action in conjunction with using the contrAA600 High-Resolution Continuum Source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer. The TOPwave microwave digestion sample preparation system completes the equipment display...
Read MoreTecan and TAP Biosystems to automate RAFT 3D cell culturing on the Freedom EVONov 1, 2012
Tecan and TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems, have announced a co¬-marketing agreement to further expand the automated 3D cell culture capabilities of the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform
Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D cell cultures in a 96-well, SBS-¬format. The RAFT 3D cell culture system uses biologically relevant concentrations of collagen matrix to ensure cells grow and proliferate in an environment closely resembling the native tissue...
Read MorePhotonex 2012 Nov 1, 2012
Organisers, Xmark Media report on the success of this year's event and announce the dates for 2013
Reports from the show floor at the close of the 2012 Photonex show indicate that the organisers have not only managed to increase visitor numbers to the event but also further secured its position as the most all-encompassing meeting for photonics in the UK. Photonex is reaching an ever-broadening range of market sectors and applications. Has Photonex bucked the trend of shrinking meetings? It appears so, with an overall increase in visitors of 6%...
Read MoreExclusive agreement to distribute Affinity BiosensorsNov 1, 2012
Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments Ltd. (Malvern, UK) has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Affinity Biosensors LLC (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) which will extend the range of solutions that Malvern offers to the biopharmaceutical sector. The distribution agreement covers all geographies outside the USA and Canada
Meiji Techno in association with Mazurek Optical Services are pleased to announce they have installed a suite of 365 light microscopes to the new Central Teaching Laboratory at the University of Liverpool
The new laboratory complex was officially opened on Monday, October 22nd but has already been extensively used by students returning for the new academic year at the beginning of the month. The University of Liverpool's new Central Teaching Laboratories for the Faculty of Science and Engineering are set to transform the way in which Physical Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Archaeology, Geography, and Earth and Ocean Science) are taught at the University...
Call for applications for next wave of grant funding also announced
The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) has today announced grants totalling £577,687, funding innovative and humane research into Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, oesophageal cancer, brain tumours and toxicology...
Read MoreVisit Endecotts at Lab Innovations 2012Oct 31, 2012
Endecotts – ‘Manufacturers of analysis Equipment of Outstanding Quality’ will be exhibiting the following laboratory equipment at the Lab Innovation show 2012 at stand B24, on the 7th – 8th November at the NEC in Birmingham
Minor M200 - This Sieve Shaker has been designed and manufactured to combine low cost with the benefits of a well designed and engineered shaker incorporating many features usually found only on larger more expensive models. The Minor M200 is easy to use, compact, and quiet in operation...
In a recently published article, researchers from Novozymes Biopharma (Nottingham, UK) and Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) describe collaborative work using light scattering techniques to demonstrate the short- and long-term stability of the novel recombinant human albumins Albucult® and Recombumin®
These rAlbumins have been developed and optimized to deliver a safe, stable and regulatory-compliant product for therapeutic formulations. The teams applied the resolving and detection capabilities of size exclusion chromatography light scattering (SEC-LS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) offered by Malvern systems to monitor the stability of these Novozymes products. The article ‘Tools for evaluating the stability of human recombinant albumins used in human therapeutics’ can be accessed at...
Bibby Scientific is pleased to be participating in the Fisher Activate Science roadshow in October and November 2012
The show aims to help attendees advance their research by introducing them to the latest scientific equipment and consumables. There will be interactive demonstrations of instruments from Bibby Scientific’s Stuart, Jenway, Electrothermal and Techne brands. These will include the Techne 3Prime and 3Prime G thermal cyclers, Jenway’s Genova Nano spectrophotometer, Stuart’s SCT1 temperature controller and undergrad hot plate stirrer setup as well as the Stuart SM5 mini stirrer. Bibby experts will be on hand to answer questions on how the instruments can meet the individual needs of laboratory users...
Read MoreSAW Instruments to Probe into Latest Biosensor TrendsOct 30, 2012
New online survey aims to identify the challenges of accurately measuring molecular interactions
SAW Instruments, developer of the innovative sam® family of biosensors for real-time, label-free assays, has commissioned a survey to identify the current challenges affecting researchers at the forefront of molecular binding studies and kinetic analysis... Read MoreNew Possibilities for Particle Analysis from Carl ZeissOct 26, 2012
The qualities of particles can now be determined using Axio Zoom.V16 and Correlative Microscopy
The Carl Zeiss Microscopy business group is presenting two new options for particle analysis at this year's parts2clean trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany. Using Axio Zoom.V16, testers can investigate a component's cleanliness quickly and efficiently, while correlative microscopy provides chemical information and material classifications on individual particles...
Read MoreDesitin Pharmaceuticals Selects Cloud-Based Veeva CRM to Support Expansion into the UK MarketOct 26, 2012
When German-based pharmaceutical company, Desitin, expanded into the United Kingdom, it searched for a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that could grow with its new sales force. After a thorough review of leading CRM systems, the company selected cloud-based Veeva CRM for the UK field sales team
Desitin cited a number of reasons for selecting Veeva CRM: low maintenance costs with no infrastructure to manage; integrated Closed Loop Marketing (CLM) capabilities on the iPad; fast deployment; and, the overall inherent adaptability that comes only with a multitenant cloud solution...
Read MoreSmart scientists order online at LGC StandardsOct 26, 2012
LGC Standards’ webshop, featuring over 30,000 products, represents the most comprehensive source of online reference materials available
Webshop registrations have increased by almost 300 % in the last four months. Customers can search the webshop quickly and easily, and enjoy the convenience and flexibility of being able to order 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Read More
Ocean Thin Films is calling for grant proposals featuring multispectral imaging applications that would utilize the SpectroCam™ platform. SpectroCam is an imaging system that integrates scientific-grade sensors with eight filters to produce multispectral images. This grant gives participants the unique opportunity to add a high-end instrument to their lab at little or no cost...
The laboratory industry rode a roller coaster in 2011, with the economic recovery and the residual dollars of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. By the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011, the market began to soften with hiring freezes and deterioration of most purchasing budgets...
Modern laboratory managers face a unique blend of technical and people management challenges. Many have climbed the technical ranks and are well positioned to address the technical challenges but don’t have or have had very little formal training in management skills, especially when they start managing a laboratory...
Containing nearly 300 biomimetics of Fibronectin, Vitronectin, Laminin and Collagen, for coating plates or creating 3D culture scaffolds, AMSBIO's new ECM combinatorial library provides a powerful tool for identifying the cellular adhesion profile of your cell line or tumour against the widest commercially available collection of cell surface receptor binding peptide motifs...
“Unilabs is a privately owned clinical laboratory that analyses company healthcare and workplace samples, as well as samples from drug abuse centres. Samples are received from across Sweden and screened either qualitatively or semi-quantitatively using immunological assays, followed by quantitative for verification. Ready-to-use LoGiCal solutions are ideal for our purposes; it is so much simpler than weighing powders for in¬house preparation of reference materials.”...
Up until 15 January 2013, young researchers working in Europe and younger than 35 years are invited to apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious prize was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts...
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced that it will be hosting two live webinar sessions on Thursday November 8th on ‘Innovations in 3D cell culture’. These webinars are essential for all life-scientists who are assessing strategies for making their cell-based assays more physiologically relevant...
On show will be two multi N/C TOC analysers, a SPECORD 200 Plus UV/Vis spectrometer and there will be a chance to see solid sampling in action in conjunction with using the contrAA600 High-Resolution Continuum Source graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer. The TOPwave microwave digestion sample preparation system completes the equipment display...
Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D cell cultures in a 96-well, SBS-¬format. The RAFT 3D cell culture system uses biologically relevant concentrations of collagen matrix to ensure cells grow and proliferate in an environment closely resembling the native tissue...
Reports from the show floor at the close of the 2012 Photonex show indicate that the organisers have not only managed to increase visitor numbers to the event but also further secured its position as the most all-encompassing meeting for photonics in the UK. Photonex is reaching an ever-broadening range of market sectors and applications. Has Photonex bucked the trend of shrinking meetings? It appears so, with an overall increase in visitors of 6%...
Under the terms of the agreement Malvern will distribute the Archimedes Particle Metrology system, developed and manufactured by Affinity Biosensors, through its subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. Malvern will establish a co-marketing arrangement with Affinity Biosensors in North America...
The new laboratory complex was officially opened on Monday, October 22nd but has already been extensively used by students returning for the new academic year at the beginning of the month. The University of Liverpool's new Central Teaching Laboratories for the Faculty of Science and Engineering are set to transform the way in which Physical Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Archaeology, Geography, and Earth and Ocean Science) are taught at the University...
The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) has today announced grants totalling £577,687, funding innovative and humane research into Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, oesophageal cancer, brain tumours and toxicology...
Minor M200 - This Sieve Shaker has been designed and manufactured to combine low cost with the benefits of a well designed and engineered shaker incorporating many features usually found only on larger more expensive models. The Minor M200 is easy to use, compact, and quiet in operation...
These rAlbumins have been developed and optimized to deliver a safe, stable and regulatory-compliant product for therapeutic formulations. The teams applied the resolving and detection capabilities of size exclusion chromatography light scattering (SEC-LS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) offered by Malvern systems to monitor the stability of these Novozymes products. The article ‘Tools for evaluating the stability of human recombinant albumins used in human therapeutics’ can be accessed at...
The show aims to help attendees advance their research by introducing them to the latest scientific equipment and consumables. There will be interactive demonstrations of instruments from Bibby Scientific’s Stuart, Jenway, Electrothermal and Techne brands. These will include the Techne 3Prime and 3Prime G thermal cyclers, Jenway’s Genova Nano spectrophotometer, Stuart’s SCT1 temperature controller and undergrad hot plate stirrer setup as well as the Stuart SM5 mini stirrer. Bibby experts will be on hand to answer questions on how the instruments can meet the individual needs of laboratory users...
SAW Instruments, developer of the innovative sam® family of biosensors for real-time, label-free assays, has commissioned a survey to identify the current challenges affecting researchers at the forefront of molecular binding studies and kinetic analysis...
The Carl Zeiss Microscopy business group is presenting two new options for particle analysis at this year's parts2clean trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany. Using Axio Zoom.V16, testers can investigate a component's cleanliness quickly and efficiently, while correlative microscopy provides chemical information and material classifications on individual particles...
Desitin cited a number of reasons for selecting Veeva CRM: low maintenance costs with no infrastructure to manage; integrated Closed Loop Marketing (CLM) capabilities on the iPad; fast deployment; and, the overall inherent adaptability that comes only with a multitenant cloud solution...
Webshop registrations have increased by almost 300 % in the last four months. Customers can search the webshop quickly and easily, and enjoy the convenience and flexibility of being able to order 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.