Purdue University researchers use nanoscale IR spectroscopy via AFM-IR to provide key insights into drug-polymer blendsMay 11, 2012Two new papers are going to press featuring the use of Anasys Instruments' nanoIRTM system by Professor Lynne S. Taylor's group in the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University. In each study, miscibility of pharmaceutically relevant blends was examined and specific sub-micrometer-sized domains characterized using standard atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanoscale Infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR)...
Read MorePeer-Reviewed Paper Shows Matched Performance between ambr and 2L BioreactorsMay 11, 2012TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced that a peer reviewed paper authored by scientists at a leading US biopharmaceutical company, has demonstrated that the advanced micro bioreactor system (ambrTM) system is equivalent in performance to a 2L bioreactor, showing that ambr is a realistic scale-down model... Read MoreFounder of National ChildrenMay 10, 2012A monumental discovery that provides the promise of a cure not only for leukaemia, but cancer at large was announced this morning in London during GIL 2012: Europe. Steve Shor, the founder of the National Children's Leukemia Foundation, a leading non-profit organisation in the United States, unveiled a ground-breaking therapy his research teams in the United States and Israel have discovered. Mr Shor and National Program Director, Dr. Sara Gardin, presented this new non-embryonic stem cell treatment for cancer and leukaemia, referred to as the "Stem cell cocktail" which delivers a combination of therapies including core stem cells and various compounds to tackle cell metastasization...
Read MoreGrant Instruments wins prestigious Best Customer Orientation Award from VWRMay 10, 2012VWR International Management Services GmbH & Co. KG, a global laboratory supplies and services company, has selected Grant Instruments as the recipient for Best Customer Orientation Award for 2012 at the Annual VWR European Sales Conference. Each year, this award goes to the supplier who has given dedication and outstanding support to VWR...
Read MoreSAW Instruments Launches samX Biosensor Access ProgramMay 10, 2012SAW Instruments, developer of the innovative sam® family of biosensors for real-time, label-free assays using viable cells, has launched its new sam®X Biosensor Access Program. Designed to provide access to the sam®X with no capital spend, the program offers a six month lease of the sam®X and includes four free packs of CM short dextran chips for cell work, as well as four free days of application training worth $10,000. With an option to buy after six months, when 100% of the rental money paid is redeemable against the purchase price, the Biosensor Access Program provides the perfect opportunity to see how the sam®X would revolutionize the measurement of biomolecular interactions in your laboratory...
Read MoreFreeze Drying Specialists BTL Announce New Cytotoxic CapabilityMay 10, 2012Biopharma Technology Ltd (BTL) have completed construction of a new standalone cleanroom, enabling them to provide freeze drying R&D services for cytotoxic products. Freeze drying is a complex operation and many drug developers outsource development to contract research organisations specialist in this field. However, few CROs with freeze drying expertise have the ability to handle cytotoxic drugs safely...
Read MoreDr Hadwen Trust announces 2012 grant recipientsMay 8, 2012The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) today announced grants totalling over £720k to fund innovative and humane research into bipolar disorder, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, motor-neuron disease, rabies and schizophrenia. The projects, which will be taking place at seven leading universities across the UK from 2012, aim to further the understanding and treatment of a wide range of diseases while simultaneously developing methods to reduce the number of animals used in research... Read MoreHORIBA Scientific offers KnowItAll software for Raman spectral searchingMay 8, 2012HORIBA Scientific and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., are pleased to announce that Bio-Rad's KnowItAll® Informatics System software package will be offered for use with the HORIBA Scientific range of Raman spectrometers, via HORIBA's LabSpec data acquisition and processing software. The HORIBA Edition of KnowItAll provides an integrated environment for complete spectral searching, analysis and data mining...
Read MoreHCS and Cell Based Assays Returns for Second Year at ELA 2012May 8, 2012Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2012, is delighted to announce the incorporation of a conference stream dedicated to HCS and Cell Based Assays. This popular stream will return for the second annual ELA conference and exhibition on the 30th-31st May at the Conference Center Hamburg, Germany, and will discuss the advancements in HCS and cell based assays, with a particular focus on live cell imaging, and image acquisition and analysis... Read MoreBeckman Coulter Life Sciences Acquires Blue Ocean BiomedicalMay 8, 2012Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired Blue Ocean Biomedical, LLC, a Pembroke Pines, Florida-based manufacturer of automated flow cytometry systems and reagents. The transaction provides Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with low complexity analyzers that integrate automated sample preparation and directly address emerging flow cytometry market trends... Read MoreYork researchers create May 4, 2012Researchers from the University of York are pioneering the development of electron microscopes which will allow scientists to examine a greater variety of materials in new revolutionary ways. The team, headed by Professor Jun Yuan and Professor Mohamed Babiker, from the University's Department of Physics has created electron beams with orbital angular momentum - electron vortex beams - which will open the way to many novel applications including the more efficient examining of magnetic materials...
Read MoreBiomimetic polymer synthesis enhances structure controlMay 4, 2012A new biomimetic approach to synthesising polymers will offer unprecedented control over the final polymer structure and yield advances in nanomedicine, researchers say. In a University of Warwick-led study published in the journal Nature Chemistry, researchers from the UK (Prof Rachel O'Reilly, Dr Ronan McHale, and Joseph Patterson of the University of Warwick) and Australia (A/Prof Per Zetterlund of UNSW) outline a new method of polymer synthesis based on combination of segregation and templating - a pair of natural approaches that have evolved over billions of years that direct complex biological processes...
Read MoreAnalytik Jena Opens Competence Center in Dubai May 4, 2012Analytik Jena AG has strengthened its sales and service presence in the Middle East region and opened an office in Dubai. From there, the Company will manage its entire sales activities in the Middle East region. The new facilities in the Silicon Oasis technology park also house a seminar and training room as well as an applications laboratory. The formal opening now took place with more than 50 guests from 25 countries and representatives of Analytik Jena on the occasion of the regional annual retailers' meeting...
Read MoreAutomation Friendly Microplate ProductsMay 4, 2012Porvair Sciences will present its complete range of automation friendly microplates and equipment at European Lab Automation 2012 in Hamburg, Germany in partnership with long-term collaborator, KBiosystems. Visitors to the Porvair / KBio stand at ELA 2012 will be able to see the Universal Robotic Manifold plus a growing range of high quality reagent reservoirs. The Universal Robotic Manifold is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled by robotic manipulators, thus enabling productive automation of SPE or DNA clean-up procedures...
Read MoreSartorius Stedim Biotech and c-LEcta Sign Sales AgreementMay 4, 2012
SSB sells and distributes Serratia marcescens nuclease worldwide
Perfect addition to SSB´s purification product portfolio
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international pharma and biotech supplier, and the biotechnology specialist c-LEcta, announce the signing of a worldwide sales and distribution agreement for c-LEcta's proprietary Serratia marcescens nuclease for biopharmaceutical applications. The German company specializes in the development of customized enzymes and production strains for industrial applications. Based on this agreement, customized endonuclease will now be available under the product name "Denarase" through all regular Sartorius Stedim Biotech sales channels.
Read MoreNew Scientific Data on use of Stem Cells for Ocular Surface Regeneration Presented by DanielsMay 4, 2012TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is delighted to announce that Professor Julie Daniels' Group at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology will be presenting her latest research on the use of stem cells for corneal regeneration at the world's largest gathering of international eye and vision researchers, ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) meeting on May 6th - 10th in Fort Lauderdale, USA... Read MoreMalvern particle characterization systems supporting inhaled drug development at RDD 2012May 4, 2012Particle size is a critical parameter for inhaled drugs, with a defining influence on deposition behavior in the lung. Particle characterization specialists Joe Wolfgang and Julie Chen from Malvern Instruments will be on hand to discuss these issues at the Respiratory Drug Delivery conference (RDD 2012) in Phoenix, Arizona, May 13-17, where Malvern will showcase the recently launched Mastersizer 3000 particle size analyzer...
Read MoreComputype Campaign Aims to Help Labs Increase Efficiency May 3, 2012Computype, Inc. today announced its new campaign to help lab managers increase efficiency through better labeling identification. The campaign, called "Stump Us," will run from May 15 - 18 during the ISBER 2012 Annual Meeting. Show attendees are encouraged to stop by Computype's booth to submit their most challenging labeling situations and discuss potential customized solutions...
Read MoreSMi present their 4th annual European Conference on KOL Management & MSL Best Practice in EuropeMay 3, 2012 SMi are proud to present their 4th annual European Conference on KOL Management & MSL Best Practice in Europe, to be heldon2nd & 3rd July 2012 in Basel, Switzerland. The 2012 event will bring together senior Pharma executives and key opinion leaders to discuss current issues in the field. With presentations from industry representatives from all over the pharmaceutical sector, this event promises to be a unique platform for networking and problem solving...
Quote "Lab Bulletin" & save £100Read MoreQuotient receives final patent approval for its Enterion technology May 3, 2012Quotient Clinical, part of Quotient Bioresearch ("Quotient") announced today that it has received approval of the final patent for its EnterionTM technology. This completes a portfolio of eight granted patents across North America and Europe, with a lifetime extending through to 2020. The Enterion capsule has been developed to investigate the absorption of drugs from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is a remote-controlled device that is capable of precisely delivering pharmaceutically relevant drug formulations (both liquids and solids) to specific sites within the GI tract...
Read MoreA Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade 2012 has been awarded to NanoSight, the UK's fastest growing biotechnology companyMay 3, 2012NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, are pleased to announce that the company has been selected to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category for International Trade 2012. This award comes after many other prestigious awards in the past twelve months, notably the Technology World 2011 Business Innovation Award presented by Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade, and after being named the UK's fastest growing biotechnology company by Deloitte. NanoSight was founded in 2004 by Dr Bob Carr and John Knowles after Carr discovered a technology which allows particles so small they were below the normal optical microscope limit to be seen, sized and counted in less than a minute for a fraction of the cost of electron microscopes...
Read MoreReinnervate Ltd and Roslin Cellab announce plans to collaborate on the development of protocols for three dimensional growth of hESCMay 2, 2012Reinnervate Ltd and Roslin Cellab, two leading UK companies in the fields of 3D cell culture and stem cell biology, today announced that they will join forces to develop protocols for the three dimensional growth of human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)... Read More
Two new papers are going to press featuring the use of Anasys Instruments' nanoIRTM system by Professor Lynne S. Taylor's group in the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University. In each study, miscibility of pharmaceutically relevant blends was examined and specific sub-micrometer-sized domains characterized using standard atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanoscale Infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR)...
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced that a peer reviewed paper authored by scientists at a leading US biopharmaceutical company, has demonstrated that the advanced micro bioreactor system (ambrTM) system is equivalent in performance to a 2L bioreactor, showing that ambr is a realistic scale-down model...
A monumental discovery that provides the promise of a cure not only for leukaemia, but cancer at large was announced this morning in London during GIL 2012: Europe. Steve Shor, the founder of the National Children's Leukemia Foundation, a leading non-profit organisation in the United States, unveiled a ground-breaking therapy his research teams in the United States and Israel have discovered. Mr Shor and National Program Director, Dr. Sara Gardin, presented this new non-embryonic stem cell treatment for cancer and leukaemia, referred to as the "Stem cell cocktail" which delivers a combination of therapies including core stem cells and various compounds to tackle cell metastasization...
VWR International Management Services GmbH & Co. KG, a global laboratory supplies and services company, has selected Grant Instruments as the recipient for Best Customer Orientation Award for 2012 at the Annual VWR European Sales Conference. Each year, this award goes to the supplier who has given dedication and outstanding support to VWR...
SAW Instruments, developer of the innovative sam® family of biosensors for real-time, label-free assays using viable cells, has launched its new sam®X Biosensor Access Program. Designed to provide access to the sam®X with no capital spend, the program offers a six month lease of the sam®X and includes four free packs of CM short dextran chips for cell work, as well as four free days of application training worth $10,000. With an option to buy after six months, when 100% of the rental money paid is redeemable against the purchase price, the Biosensor Access Program provides the perfect opportunity to see how the sam®X would revolutionize the measurement of biomolecular interactions in your laboratory...
Biopharma Technology Ltd (BTL) have completed construction of a new standalone cleanroom, enabling them to provide freeze drying R&D services for cytotoxic products. Freeze drying is a complex operation and many drug developers outsource development to contract research organisations specialist in this field. However, few CROs with freeze drying expertise have the ability to handle cytotoxic drugs safely...
The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) today announced grants totalling over £720k to fund innovative and humane research into bipolar disorder, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, motor-neuron disease, rabies and schizophrenia. The projects, which will be taking place at seven leading universities across the UK from 2012, aim to further the understanding and treatment of a wide range of diseases while simultaneously developing methods to reduce the number of animals used in research...
HORIBA Scientific and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., are pleased to announce that Bio-Rad's KnowItAll® Informatics System software package will be offered for use with the HORIBA Scientific range of Raman spectrometers, via HORIBA's LabSpec data acquisition and processing software. The HORIBA Edition of KnowItAll provides an integrated environment for complete spectral searching, analysis and data mining...
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA)
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired Blue Ocean Biomedical, LLC, a Pembroke Pines, Florida-based manufacturer of automated flow cytometry systems and reagents. The transaction provides Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with low complexity analyzers that integrate automated sample preparation and directly address emerging flow cytometry market trends...
Researchers from the University of York are pioneering the development of electron microscopes which will allow scientists to examine a greater variety of materials in new revolutionary ways. The team, headed by Professor Jun Yuan and Professor Mohamed Babiker, from the University's Department of Physics has created electron beams with orbital angular momentum - electron vortex beams - which will open the way to many novel applications including the more efficient examining of magnetic materials...
A new biomimetic approach to synthesising polymers will offer unprecedented control over the final polymer structure and yield advances in nanomedicine, researchers say. In a University of Warwick-led study published in the journal Nature Chemistry, researchers from the UK (Prof Rachel O'Reilly, Dr Ronan McHale, and Joseph Patterson of the University of Warwick) and Australia (A/Prof Per Zetterlund of UNSW) outline a new method of polymer synthesis based on combination of segregation and templating - a pair of natural approaches that have evolved over billions of years that direct complex biological processes...
Analytik Jena AG has strengthened its sales and service presence in the Middle East region and opened an office in Dubai. From there, the Company will manage its entire sales activities in the Middle East region. The new facilities in the Silicon Oasis technology park also house a seminar and training room as well as an applications laboratory. The formal opening now took place with more than 50 guests from 25 countries and representatives of Analytik Jena on the occasion of the regional annual retailers' meeting...
Porvair Sciences will present its complete range of automation friendly microplates and equipment at European Lab Automation 2012 in Hamburg, Germany in partnership with long-term collaborator, KBiosystems. Visitors to the Porvair / KBio stand at ELA 2012 will be able to see the Universal Robotic Manifold plus a growing range of high quality reagent reservoirs. The Universal Robotic Manifold is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled by robotic manipulators, thus enabling productive automation of SPE or DNA clean-up procedures...
SSB sells and distributes Serratia marcescens nuclease worldwide 
TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is delighted to announce that Professor Julie Daniels' Group at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology will be presenting her latest research on the use of stem cells for corneal regeneration at the world's largest gathering of international eye and vision researchers, ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) meeting on May 6th - 10th in Fort Lauderdale, USA...
Particle size is a critical parameter for inhaled drugs, with a defining influence on deposition behavior in the lung. Particle characterization specialists Joe Wolfgang and Julie Chen from Malvern Instruments will be on hand to discuss these issues at the Respiratory Drug Delivery conference (RDD 2012) in Phoenix, Arizona, May 13-17, where Malvern will showcase the recently launched Mastersizer 3000 particle size analyzer...
Computype, Inc. today announced its new campaign to help lab managers increase efficiency through better labeling identification. The campaign, called "Stump Us," will run from May 15 - 18 during the ISBER 2012 Annual Meeting. Show attendees are encouraged to stop by Computype's booth to submit their most challenging labeling situations and discuss potential customized solutions...
Quotient Clinical, part of Quotient Bioresearch ("Quotient") announced today that it has received approval of the final patent for its EnterionTM technology. This completes a portfolio of eight granted patents across North America and Europe, with a lifetime extending through to 2020. The Enterion capsule has been developed to investigate the absorption of drugs from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is a remote-controlled device that is capable of precisely delivering pharmaceutically relevant drug formulations (both liquids and solids) to specific sites within the GI tract...
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, are pleased to announce that the company has been selected to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category for International Trade 2012. This award comes after many other prestigious awards in the past twelve months, notably the Technology World 2011 Business Innovation Award presented by Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade, and after being named the UK's fastest growing biotechnology company by Deloitte. NanoSight was founded in 2004 by Dr Bob Carr and John Knowles after Carr discovered a technology which allows particles so small they were below the normal optical microscope limit to be seen, sized and counted in less than a minute for a fraction of the cost of electron microscopes...
Reinnervate Ltd and Roslin Cellab, two leading UK companies in the fields of 3D cell culture and stem cell biology, today announced that they will join forces to develop protocols for the three dimensional growth of human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)...