A new case study on the Cambio website shows how the PowerPlant® Pro DNA Isolation kit has cut DNA extraction time from days to hours for one Durham University researcher. The MoBio kit, part of Cambio’s expanding range of molecular biology products, is being used in a study of arctic forest patches. These are self-contained areas of forest, separated by arctic tundra. Their shape and arrangement can play a role in how the tree line expands, for example under the effects of global warming, making this an important field of study...
Read MoreQuotient Bioresearch Investment in Bioanalytical FacilityOct 12, 2012
Quotient Bioresearch (“Quotient”), the leading provider of early stage and specialist drug development services, has today announced the completion of a £1.5m expansion to its Fordham, Cambridgeshire site
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their Linksys32-DV software to visualise and measure the in-situ growth of fat crystals on the surface of chocolate
Reformulation is a common area of study for food scientists, as worldwide, many universities and private organisations are investing heavily in research to create healthier versions of popular foods. Reformulation is the process of adding or taking away ingredients from an established recipe. This is challenging as many of the chemical processes that occur within the foods are unknown and changing a specific constituent can have consequences on health and safety, cooking, storage and on manufacturing processes... Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Selected by Leading Dutch Biotech Company to Supply Maybridge Fragment Library for Key ResearchOct 11, 2012
Recommended for Use by Renowned Fragment Library Design Expert
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has been selected to supply compounds from its Maybridge Ro3 2500 Diversity Fragment Library to a leading fragment-based drug discovery firm based in the Netherlands. ZoBio, a spin-off of Leiden University, focuses on the development and commercialization of biophysical technologies that enable new approaches to drug development and selected the Maybridge fragment library on the recommendation of Dr. Edward Zartler, CEO of Quantum Tessera Consulting LLC...
Read MoreOpening ceremony of new competence center in Moscow with high-ranking guests Oct 11, 2012
Yesterday, an opening ceremony took place for the newly formed international analytic competence center of Analytik Jena AG in Moscow
This is a shared project of the German manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, its most important sales partner in Russia, InterLab Inc, and of the Moscow Zelinsky Institute for Organic Chemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences). The opening fits well into the German-Russian year of education, science and innovation 2011/2012, and is an actual proof of the close cooperation between both countries...
Read MoreAurox Wins 2012 QueenOct 10, 2012
Oxfordshire company receives recognition for making confocal microscopy “personal”
Aurox Limited, a leader in the design and manufacture of innovative optical imaging equipment, has won a 2012 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation. The award comes in recognition of the development and successful market introduction of the SD62 microscope, one of an ever increasing portfolio of Aurox products...
Read MoreAgar Scientific rewards imaging ability at emc2012Oct 9, 2012
Agar Scientific, a leading supplier of microscopy accessories and consumables, recently took part at the UK's largest ever microscopy event – emc2012, the 15th European Microscopy Congress. Here, the company reports on results of two microscopy imaging competitions
Agar Scientific have been serving microscopists with the supply of accessories and consumables for forty years. In celebration of this anniversary, the company ran a photographic competition at the European Microscopy Congress in Manchester. Entrants were given the opportunity to test their knowledge and imagination. The goal was to identify twenty colour enhanced micrographs from the world of microscopy. Clues to each image were provided and two of the entrants got the maximum score...
Read MoreNew product video from IKA demonstrates the strength, features and benefits of the C-MAG series of Magnetic Stirrers, Magnetic Hotplate Stirrers and HotplatesOct 9, 2012
The C-MAG series provide reliable and safe heating and stirring solutions. It is designed with the most advanced "German Technology" for heating and stirring applications. In this brief product video IKA demonstrates the strength, features and benefits of the devices
The C-MAG series of Magnetic Stirrers, Magnetic Hotplate Stirrers and Hotplates are available with heating plates of 4, 7 and 10 inches. The glass ceramic heating plate offers excellent chemical resistance to acids, bases and solvents. It helps in easy cleaning of the heating plate and the device casing. The elevated control panel protects the display from spilled liquids. This combination makes it perfect for simple laboratory applications and offers "Value for Money" which is backed by performance warranties and service support...
Read MoreThe future is bright for medical imaging companyOct 9, 2012
An advanced medical imaging company has secured £1.2m investment from two early stage technology investors
BiOxyDyn Ltd has received the investment, jointly from The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact and MTI Ventures’ UMIP Premier Fund (UPF). The North West Fund for Biomedical is a sub-fund of The North West Fund, which is jointly financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Investment Bank...
Read MoreMalvern Instruments launches Morphologi G3-ID to global marketsOct 9, 2012
Following the completion of a highly successful early access program, Malvern Instruments has launched the Morphologi G3-ID particle characterization system to the global market
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their FTIR600 stage at the University of Rome Tre to visualise and measure the in-situ dehydration of silicate materials
Geologists are interested in the distribution of volatile constituents across mineral crystals as this can provide insight into the crystallization process. This is now possible to investigate using modern FTIR imaging capabilities. On the Earth's crust, water bearing minerals are common. How these minerals dehydrate is important as this can give clues about dehydration-induced earthquakes and phase transformations at non-ambient conditions...
Read MoreSyngene's G:BOX XR5 is being utilised at the University of Cambridge to Contribute to Understanding which Genes are Involved in RemyelinationOct 8, 2012
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions is delighted to announce that the G:BOX XR5 imaging system is being used at the University of Cambridge to visualise and analyse DNA as part of a research programme to understand the molecular mechanisms behind why the remyelination process fails in diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Scientists in the Neurosciences Group at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, part of the University of Cambridge are using a G:BOX XR5 system to accurately image gels of fluorescent dye stained PCR products derived from genes involved in the remyelination process. By studying these genes, the scientists hope to find a means of enhancing the repair of normally non-repairable clinical conditions such as MS.
Read MoreWaters Selects Metabolomics Laboratory at University of North Texas for Center of Innovation Program HonorsOct 4, 2012
New Laboratory Directed by Prof. Vladimir Shulaev Recognized for Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research and Teaching
At a ceremony officiated by University of North Texas (UNT) Provost Warren Burggren, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed UNT’s Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research Laboratory into the Waters Centers of Innovation Program. The laboratory directed by Professor Vladimir Shulaev is known worldwide for research in the field of metabolomics, the study of all cellular metabolites produced by living organisms. His laboratory is part of UNT's Plant Signaling Cluster, a team of researchers who collaborate to improve the understanding of cellular communication in plants to find solutions related to energy, agriculture, nutrition and medicine...
Read MoreNon-invasive cytometric technique could eliminate need for blood samplesOct 3, 2012
Andor Newton camera powers novel non-invasive probe capable of providing cell concentration and morphological data for blood in vivo
An Israeli team has demonstrated a non-invasive technique for imaging blood cells in vivo that could eliminate the need to extract blood from many patients. Powered by the Andor Newton Electron Multiplying EMCCD camera, their high-resolution Spectrally Encoded Flow Cytometry (SEFC) probe offers primary care physicians the capability to detect directly a wide range of common medical disorders, such as anaemia and bacterial infection, and potentially life threatening conditions, including sepsis, thrombosis and sickle cell crisis...
Read MoreThe North West Fund for Biomedical invests Oct 3, 2012
The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact, has invested £110,000 in a business that makes software that allows biomedical companies to comply with legislation
The Compliance Control Ltd software allows organisations which are subject to regulatory standards, in sectors such as pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical devices, to validate their processes and monitor their compliance in real time, replacing ad-hoc systems and unmanageable paperwork...
Read MoreEppendorf celebrates opening of new UK headquartersOct 2, 2012
“Major investment underpins our belief in UK science,” says CEO
Eppendorf, a leading provider of high quality products and applications support to the life science community, has celebrated the opening of its new UK headquarters in Stevenage together with 60 guests from all walks of science and industry. Guest of honour Dr Dirk Ehlers, President & CEO of Eppendorf AG, performed the official opening of Eppendorf House, a high-grade, energy-efficient facility on the Arlington Business Park in Stevenage. Before unveiling a commemorative plaque, Dr Ehlers spoke about the company’s origins, long history and absolute commitment to scientists in the UK...
Read MoreFisher Scientific Launches Fisherbrand Online Interactive e-CatalogueOct 2, 2012
Fisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched its new Fisherbrand® online e-catalogue
The catalogue contains more than 2,800 Fisherbrand consumable and equipment lines. It is fully searchable, making finding products much easier and quicker than a conventional paper catalogue. Another feature of the e-atalogue is the ability to add items to a shopping basket as users browse. This feature then allows users to change quantities and check real-time stock availability before placing the order. Registered users can also view their net price. Users can easily create bookmarks, enabling them to either produce a PDF or choose a range of pages to print....
Read MoreFuturistic technology Oct 2, 2012
A new generation of software that will allow computers and robots to ‘converse’ with a person is being developed by University of Aberdeen scientists
The technology could be used in industry sectors including aerospace, aviation, defence and energy generation and supply, to perform tasks as wide-ranging as:
Unmanned exploratory missions in hostile environments including other planets – such as Mars - and deep sea
In a new presentation from Malvern Instruments entitled ‘Moving laser diffraction from the laboratory into the production process’, Product Group Manager Dr. Paul Kippax discusses the benefits and challenges of taking laboratory-based particle sizing out into the production process
The presentation is particularly tailored to the pharmaceutical industry but is generally relevant to all manufacturers considering an investment in on-plant real-time particle size measurement and can be freely downloaded...
Read MoreNew technique to see if gas eating bugs can combat climate changeSep 28, 2012
Recent addition to Norwich Research Park brings funding, jobs and insights
Can bugs save the world? Simple single-cell organisms can live in all types of environmental conditions, from hot springs to industrial effluent and sewage outfalls. An initiative at the Norwich Research Park, having just gained £750k from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, aims to develop tools that will identify beneficial microbes that might in the future help clean up pollutants and create opportunities for new types of industry...
Read MoreBruker Launches High-Performance LC Triple Quadrupole Mass SpectrometersSep 28, 2012
At the 2012 Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show (JASIS), Bruker launches two game-changing LC-triple quadrupole (LC-TQ) mass spectrometers, the high-performance EVOQ Qube™ and the ultra-high sensitivity EVOQ Elite, which are setting new standards for analytical performance and quantitative robustness
As with Bruker’s very successful SCION GC-TQ platform, introduced in 2011, the EVOQ series is targeted at LC-TQ performance leadership and delivers major advances in robustness, ease of method developments and productivity. The EVOQ LC-TQ systems introduced today incorporate Bruker’s new Advance™ Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) systems. In addition, the EVOQ platform features several major innovations...
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Novasep, a leading provider of purification-based manufacturing solutions for life science molecules, announces today an investment of EUR 30 million to build in Europe what will be the world's largest chromatography plant used for the production of a large volume commercial API (active pharmaceutical ingredient)...
A new case study on the Cambio website shows how the PowerPlant® Pro DNA Isolation kit has cut DNA extraction time from days to hours for one Durham University researcher. The MoBio kit, part of Cambio’s expanding range of molecular biology products, is being used in a study of arctic forest patches. These are self-contained areas of forest, separated by arctic tundra. Their shape and arrangement can play a role in how the tree line expands, for example under the effects of global warming, making this an important field of study...
The building work took place over the summer and included a new bioanalytical facility with a capacity for 30 mass spectrometers and new laboratories for immunoassay and cell-based work with biopharmaceuticals and biomarkers. The expansion is in response to an increase in demand for Quotient’s services in this area...
Reformulation is a common area of study for food scientists, as worldwide, many universities and private organisations are investing heavily in research to create healthier versions of popular foods. Reformulation is the process of adding or taking away ingredients from an established recipe. This is challenging as many of the chemical processes that occur within the foods are unknown and changing a specific constituent can have consequences on health and safety, cooking, storage and on manufacturing processes...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has been selected to supply compounds from its Maybridge Ro3 2500 Diversity Fragment Library to a leading fragment-based drug discovery firm based in the Netherlands. ZoBio, a spin-off of Leiden University, focuses on the development and commercialization of biophysical technologies that enable new approaches to drug development and selected the Maybridge fragment library on the recommendation of Dr. Edward Zartler, CEO of Quantum Tessera Consulting LLC...
This is a shared project of the German manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, its most important sales partner in Russia, InterLab Inc, and of the Moscow Zelinsky Institute for Organic Chemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences). The opening fits well into the German-Russian year of education, science and innovation 2011/2012, and is an actual proof of the close cooperation between both countries...
Aurox Limited, a leader in the design and manufacture of innovative optical imaging equipment, has won a 2012 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation. The award comes in recognition of the development and successful market introduction of the SD62 microscope, one of an ever increasing portfolio of Aurox products...
Agar Scientific have been serving microscopists with the supply of accessories and consumables for forty years. In celebration of this anniversary, the company ran a photographic competition at the European Microscopy Congress in Manchester. Entrants were given the opportunity to test their knowledge and imagination. The goal was to identify twenty colour enhanced micrographs from the world of microscopy. Clues to each image were provided and two of the entrants got the maximum score...
BiOxyDyn Ltd has received the investment, jointly from The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact and MTI Ventures’ UMIP Premier Fund (UPF). The North West Fund for Biomedical is a sub-fund of The North West Fund, which is jointly financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Investment Bank...
A live webinar on 2 October 2012 introduced participants to the unique capabilities of the system, which combines automated particle imaging with the chemical identification of individual particles using Raman spectroscopy. This fully automated system measures particle size, shape and chemical identity in a single platform...
Geologists are interested in the distribution of volatile constituents across mineral crystals as this can provide insight into the crystallization process. This is now possible to investigate using modern FTIR imaging capabilities. On the Earth's crust, water bearing minerals are common. How these minerals dehydrate is important as this can give clues about dehydration-induced earthquakes and phase transformations at non-ambient conditions...
Scientists in the Neurosciences Group at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, part of the University of Cambridge are using a G:BOX XR5 system to accurately image gels of fluorescent dye stained PCR products derived from genes involved in the remyelination process. By studying these genes, the scientists hope to find a means of enhancing the repair of normally non-repairable clinical conditions such as MS.
At a ceremony officiated by University of North Texas (UNT) Provost Warren Burggren, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed UNT’s Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research Laboratory into the Waters Centers of Innovation Program. The laboratory directed by Professor Vladimir Shulaev is known worldwide for research in the field of metabolomics, the study of all cellular metabolites produced by living organisms. His laboratory is part of UNT's Plant Signaling Cluster, a team of researchers who collaborate to improve the understanding of cellular communication in plants to find solutions related to energy, agriculture, nutrition and medicine...
An Israeli team has demonstrated a non-invasive technique for imaging blood cells in vivo that could eliminate the need to extract blood from many patients. Powered by the Andor Newton Electron Multiplying EMCCD camera, their high-resolution Spectrally Encoded Flow Cytometry (SEFC) probe offers primary care physicians the capability to detect directly a wide range of common medical disorders, such as anaemia and bacterial infection, and potentially life threatening conditions, including sepsis, thrombosis and sickle cell crisis...
The Compliance Control Ltd software allows organisations which are subject to regulatory standards, in sectors such as pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical devices, to validate their processes and monitor their compliance in real time, replacing ad-hoc systems and unmanageable paperwork...
Eppendorf, a leading provider of high quality products and applications support to the life science community, has celebrated the opening of its new UK headquarters in Stevenage together with 60 guests from all walks of science and industry. Guest of honour Dr Dirk Ehlers, President & CEO of Eppendorf AG, performed the official opening of Eppendorf House, a high-grade, energy-efficient facility on the Arlington Business Park in Stevenage. Before unveiling a commemorative plaque, Dr Ehlers spoke about the company’s origins, long history and absolute commitment to scientists in the UK...
The catalogue contains more than 2,800 Fisherbrand consumable and equipment lines. It is fully searchable, making finding products much easier and quicker than a conventional paper catalogue. Another feature of the e-atalogue is the ability to add items to a shopping basket as users browse. This feature then allows users to change quantities and check real-time stock availability before placing the order. Registered users can also view their net price. Users can easily create bookmarks, enabling them to either produce a PDF or choose a range of pages to print....
The technology could be used in industry sectors including aerospace, aviation, defence and energy generation and supply, to perform tasks as wide-ranging as:
The presentation is particularly tailored to the pharmaceutical industry but is generally relevant to all manufacturers considering an investment in on-plant real-time particle size measurement and can be freely downloaded...
Can bugs save the world? Simple single-cell organisms can live in all types of environmental conditions, from hot springs to industrial effluent and sewage outfalls. An initiative at the Norwich Research Park, having just gained £750k from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, aims to develop tools that will identify beneficial microbes that might in the future help clean up pollutants and create opportunities for new types of industry...
As with Bruker’s very successful SCION GC-TQ platform, introduced in 2011, the EVOQ series is targeted at LC-TQ performance leadership and delivers major advances in robustness, ease of method developments and productivity. The EVOQ LC-TQ systems introduced today incorporate Bruker’s new Advance™ Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) systems. In addition, the EVOQ platform features several major innovations...