Bath Professor recognised by European Life Sciences AwardJun 18, 2012Professor Barry Potter at the University of Bath has been named "Investigator of the Year 2012" at the European Life Sciences Award ceremony held in Hamburg, Germany.
This prestigious award recognises outstanding accomplishments in the global life sciences arena, specifically at the interface of chemistry with biology and medicine. Professor Barry Potter, from the University's Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, researches the chemistry of signalling within cells and drug discovery...
Read MoreATCC Delivers 350 Different Cell Lines Using TAP BiosystemsJun 15, 2012
Six Years' Continuous Production Generating Thousands of High Quality Cell Lines
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, has announced that two of its SelecTTM automated cell culture systems have been used in the production of 350 different cell lines at the world's largest biological resource centre, ATCC® (American Type Culture Collection)...
Optibrium, developer of software solutions for drug discovery, today announces the launch of its application note competition offering StarDrop users the opportunity to win a trip to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring National Meeting & Exposition 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For a chance to win, StarDrop users who use the software in their drug discovery projects are invited to submit an application note demonstrating their innovative use of StarDrop.
Read MoreBioTek Receives European Patent for Microplate Washer TechnologyJun 15, 2012BioTek announces receipt of European Patent EP 2 093 572 B1, covering the ultrasonic cleaning and maintenance feature used in their microplate washers.
Known as Ultrasonic AdvantageTM, this unique cleaning technology is incorporated into most of BioTek's microplate washers including the 405TM Touch, 405 LS, ELx405TM Select Deep Well Microplate Washers and the EL406TM Microplate Washer Dispenser; and is currently patent pending in the United States...
Read MoreBMG LABTECH to present two scientific posters at SLAS AsiaJun 15, 2012Visit BMG LABTECH, The Microplate Reader Company, at Booth 43 at 2012 SLAS Asia Conference and Exhibition in Shanghai, China from 19-21 June 2012. This international venue will highlight the Advances in Drug and Life Sciences R&D Through Laboratory Technology. BMG LABTECH will present the outstanding features of the PHERAstar FS, the gold-standard for HTS instruments... Read MoreImproving the productivity of your chemistryJun 14, 2012Radleys have chosen the forthcoming Achema 2012 to launch an extended range of jacketed reactors and parallel synthesisers designed to improve the productivity of busy medicinal and process chemistry labs.
Visitors to Stand D36, Hall 4.2 will have the chance to see Radleys' range of jacketed lab reactors including the NEW Reactor-Ready pilot scale lab reactor. Radleys unique reaction systems offer process development chemists and chemical engineers the option of single or multiple jacketed or vacuum jacketed reactors from 100ml to 20 litres in a single system...
Read MoreNew Research Center to Focus on Mammalian Single Cell GenomicsJun 14, 2012The Broad Institute and Fluidigm Corporation have announced the launch of a new research center dedicated to accelerating the development of research methods and discoveries in mammalian single-cell genomics.
The Single-Cell Genomics Center is also expected to act as a hub for collaboration among single-cell genomics researchers in many pioneering fields, including stem cells and cancer biology. The Center will be housed at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will feature a complete suite of Fluidigm single-cell tools, protocols and technologies, most notably the BioMarkTM HD System...
Read MoreAurox wins 2012 QueenJun 14, 2012UK 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 MoreCole-Parmer Presents Fluid Handling and Lab Equipment at ACHEMA 2012Jun 13, 2012A full range of Masterflex® pump systems and related accessories will be on display
Attendees of ACHEMA 2012, 18-22 June, Frankfurt am Main, will have the opportunity to see a variety of Masterflex® pump systems live at the Cole-Parmer stand (Hall 4.2, N53). This selection of high-performance pumps serves the biotechnology, chemical, industrial, research and development, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries, among others. In addition to the Masterflex® L/S® (Laboratory/Standard), C/L® (Compact/Low Flow), and I/P® (industrial/Process) pumps, various tubing styles and pump heads will be operating to demonstrate application-based pumping systems...
Read MoreMeasuring Sulfur Content Quickly & ReliablyJun 13, 2012Warwick Analytical Service (WAS) is able to offer a routine service for precise determination of sulphur from ppm to % levels using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) with good precision and accuracy. The Sulfur method is covered by the company's ISO 17025 and UKAS accreditation. Measuring Sulfur by ICP-OES measures the total sulfur, both organic and inorganic. Due to the sensitivity of the technique a broad range of sample weights can be used making the method applicable to a wide cross section of samples...
Read MoreTAP Biosystems Collaborates with OU to Develop Biomimetic 3D CNS ModelsJun 13, 2012Novel Approach Could Contribute to Reducing Number of Pre-Clinical Animal Studies TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with scientists at The Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in drug discovery and pre-clinical testing... Read MoreWyatt Technology Ranks as #4 in The ScientistJun 12, 2012Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, announces it has been ranked the fourth best place to work in the scientific industry.
The accolade comes in the company's 30th anniversary year, when the company is celebrating its unique, family focused approach to business. The 10th Annual Best Places to Work in Industry survey by The Scientist has revealed that respondents ranked personal and scientific satisfaction as the most highly sought company trait, followed by high ethical standards...
Read MoreJULABO at ACHEMA 2012Jun 12, 2012
Several Innovations for Professional Temperature Control
JULABO will present an array of new products at ACHEMA 2012 (18 through 22 June). The Temperature Control Company will introduce a brand new generation of Refrigerated & Heating Circulators. At the JULABO booth visitors are welcome to check out several new models of the all-new, state-of-the-art PRESTO® series of highly dynamic temperature control systems...
Read MoreWhy Genuine Software System Configuration Leads to Greater Customer Satisfaction in the Biobank WorldJun 12, 2012Comprehensive and genuine configurability, without writing custom code or using a programming script, is a rare commodity in the Biobank software business but it is the key to a successful implementation.
Matrix Gemini, Autoscribe's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) offers genuine configurability, without custom code, meaning that a data management solution can be designed quickly to represent exact user requirements in terms of workflows, screen designs, menu designs, terminology, report designs and much more...
Read MoreCould oats and barley grown in the north be even better for our health?Jun 12, 2012Scientists are investigating if oats and barley grown in the north of the UK are even better at protecting the body against heart disease.
Whether ancient varieties of these crops - more commonly grown over a century ago have greater nutritional benefits - will also be investigated in the study, led by nutritional experts at the University of Aberdeen
Read MoreThe North West Fund for Biomedical announces Jun 12, 2012A company that has developed an intranasal delivery system has received £400,000 investment from SPARK Impact, manager of The North West Fund for Biomedical.
Alchemy Pharmatech (APT), which relocated to Daresbury Science and Innovation Park in April 2012, has developed a unique nasal delivery device for a range of pharmaceutical products including DNA vaccines, hormone replacement compounds and pain control products...
Read MoreCopley ScientificJun 12, 2012In May 2012, Copley Scientific's distribution partners from around the world gathered at the company's headquarters in Nottingham, UK, to attend an intensive three-day training programme on all aspects of inhaler testing. Over the course of the meeting, participants were able to hone their knowledge and skills, learning not only about new products, but also the latest regulatory thinking and requirements...
Read MoreJohns Hopkins experience shows Malvern customers buy more than just an instrumentJun 12, 2012Justin Galloway, a graduate member of the Searson and Devreotes Group at The Johns Hopkins University in the Institute of NanoBioTechnology (Maryland, USA), cites Malvern Instruments customer support as being instrumental in helping interpret and develop some of the data associated with the publication of a paper in the journal Nanomedicine...
Read MoreTecan and Reinnervate team up for automation of 3D cell cultureJun 11, 2012Tecan has signed a co-marketing agreement with Reinnervate, a leading company in the 3D cell culture market, to develop a range of automated solutions based on the Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstations and Reinnervate's Alvetex®Scaffold 3D cell culturing technology.
Alvetex products are based on a highly porous, polystyrene scaffold structure with a uniform and well-defined architecture, providing an excellent environment for cells to acquire and maintain their natural three-dimensional shape and organization during incubation that leads to more biologically relevant data...
Read MoreSpectro, Inc. Expands Global Sales and Support Organization in ChinaJun 11, 2012Spectro, Inc., one of the largest worldwide suppliers of oil and fuel analysis instruments to industry and military markets, has established a local sales and support office in Beijing, China under the leadership of China Sales Manager Alex Shi. Mr. Shi previously held the roles of account manager at 3M Corporation, project manager at Sinovel Wind Corporation and marketing development manager at Keithley Instruments...
Read MoreThe International Federation of Biosafety Associations and Nuaire Announce New Collaboration to Strengthen Global Laboratory BiosafetyJun 11, 2012The International Federation of Biosafety Associations is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Nuaire Inc. to strengthen global laboratory biosafety.
Both organizations share similar goals of providing safe, practical and sustainable solutions for biological safety cabinets in all areas of the world. Also driving our organizations is not only the provision of high quality equipment, but a commitment to the ongoing training and servicing to ensure that biological safety cabinets are used properly and sustained over the long term...
Read MoreGrowing analytical business wins regional award Jun 11, 2012Agenda1 Analytical Services has been recognised for its approach to innovation and business at a prestigious regional awards event.
Bradford Science Park-based Agenda1 won the Business or Technical Innovation Award at this year's Telegraph & Argus Bradford Means Business Awards 2012. The team of experienced scientists employ leading analytical techniques to support the development of new products, and the ongoing support of existing products. As well as customers with novel materials, their clients include businesses developing new drug products and medical devices that are marketed worldwide...
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This prestigious award recognises outstanding accomplishments in the global life sciences arena, specifically at the interface of chemistry with biology and medicine. Professor Barry Potter, from the University's Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, researches the chemistry of signalling within cells and drug discovery...
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, has announced that two of its SelecTTM automated cell culture systems have been used in the production of 350 different cell lines at the world's largest biological resource centre, ATCC® (American Type Culture Collection)... 
Optibrium, developer of software solutions for drug discovery, today announces the launch of its application note competition offering StarDrop users the opportunity to win a trip to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring National Meeting & Exposition 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For a chance to win, StarDrop users who use the software in their drug discovery projects are invited to submit an application note demonstrating their innovative use of StarDrop.
Known as Ultrasonic AdvantageTM, this unique cleaning technology is incorporated into most of BioTek's microplate washers including the 405TM Touch, 405 LS, ELx405TM Select Deep Well Microplate Washers and the EL406TM Microplate Washer Dispenser; and is currently patent pending in the United States...
Visit BMG LABTECH, The Microplate Reader Company, at Booth 43 at 2012 SLAS Asia Conference and Exhibition in Shanghai, China from 19-21 June 2012. This international venue will highlight the Advances in Drug and Life Sciences R&D Through Laboratory Technology. BMG LABTECH will present the outstanding features of the PHERAstar FS, the gold-standard for HTS instruments...
Visitors to Stand D36, Hall 4.2 will have the chance to see Radleys' range of jacketed lab reactors including the NEW Reactor-Ready pilot scale lab reactor. Radleys unique reaction systems offer process development chemists and chemical engineers the option of single or multiple jacketed or vacuum jacketed reactors from 100ml to 20 litres in a single system...
The Single-Cell Genomics Center is also expected to act as a hub for collaboration among single-cell genomics researchers in many pioneering fields, including stem cells and cancer biology. The Center will be housed at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will feature a complete suite of Fluidigm single-cell tools, protocols and technologies, most notably the BioMarkTM HD System...
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...
Attendees of ACHEMA 2012, 18-22 June, Frankfurt am Main, will have the opportunity to see a variety of Masterflex® pump systems live at the Cole-Parmer stand (Hall 4.2, N53). This selection of high-performance pumps serves the biotechnology, chemical, industrial, research and development, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries, among others. In addition to the Masterflex® L/S® (Laboratory/Standard), C/L® (Compact/Low Flow), and I/P® (industrial/Process) pumps, various tubing styles and pump heads will be operating to demonstrate application-based pumping systems...
Warwick Analytical Service (WAS) is able to offer a routine service for precise determination of sulphur from ppm to % levels using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) with good precision and accuracy. The Sulfur method is covered by the company's ISO 17025 and UKAS accreditation. Measuring Sulfur by ICP-OES measures the total sulfur, both organic and inorganic. Due to the sensitivity of the technique a broad range of sample weights can be used making the method applicable to a wide cross section of samples...
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with scientists at The Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in drug discovery and pre-clinical testing...
The accolade comes in the company's 30th anniversary year, when the company is celebrating its unique, family focused approach to business. The 10th Annual Best Places to Work in Industry survey by The Scientist has revealed that respondents ranked personal and scientific satisfaction as the most highly sought company trait, followed by high ethical standards...
JULABO will present an array of new products at ACHEMA 2012 (18 through 22 June). The Temperature Control Company will introduce a brand new generation of Refrigerated & Heating Circulators. At the JULABO booth visitors are welcome to check out several new models of the all-new, state-of-the-art PRESTO® series of highly dynamic temperature control systems...
Matrix Gemini, Autoscribe's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) offers genuine configurability, without custom code, meaning that a data management solution can be designed quickly to represent exact user requirements in terms of workflows, screen designs, menu designs, terminology, report designs and much more...
Whether ancient varieties of these crops - more commonly grown over a century ago have greater nutritional benefits - will also be investigated in the study, led by nutritional experts at the University of Aberdeen
Alchemy Pharmatech (APT), which relocated to Daresbury Science and Innovation Park in April 2012, has developed a unique nasal delivery device for a range of pharmaceutical products including DNA vaccines, hormone replacement compounds and pain control products...
In May 2012, Copley Scientific's distribution partners from around the world gathered at the company's headquarters in Nottingham, UK, to attend an intensive three-day training programme on all aspects of inhaler testing. Over the course of the meeting, participants were able to hone their knowledge and skills, learning not only about new products, but also the latest regulatory thinking and requirements...
Justin Galloway, a graduate member of the Searson and Devreotes Group at The Johns Hopkins University in the Institute of NanoBioTechnology (Maryland, USA), cites Malvern Instruments customer support as being instrumental in helping interpret and develop some of the data associated with the publication of a paper in the journal Nanomedicine...
Alvetex products are based on a highly porous, polystyrene scaffold structure with a uniform and well-defined architecture, providing an excellent environment for cells to acquire and maintain their natural three-dimensional shape and organization during incubation that leads to more biologically relevant data...
Spectro, Inc., one of the largest worldwide suppliers of oil and fuel analysis instruments to industry and military markets, has established a local sales and support office in Beijing, China under the leadership of China Sales Manager Alex Shi. Mr. Shi previously held the roles of account manager at 3M Corporation, project manager at Sinovel Wind Corporation and marketing development manager at Keithley Instruments...
Both organizations share similar goals of providing safe, practical and sustainable solutions for biological safety cabinets in all areas of the world. Also driving our organizations is not only the provision of high quality equipment, but a commitment to the ongoing training and servicing to ensure that biological safety cabinets are used properly and sustained over the long term...
Bradford Science Park-based Agenda1 won the Business or Technical Innovation Award at this year's Telegraph & Argus Bradford Means Business Awards 2012. The team of experienced scientists employ leading analytical techniques to support the development of new products, and the ongoing support of existing products. As well as customers with novel materials, their clients include businesses developing new drug products and medical devices that are marketed worldwide...