SMi present theirannual RNAi, miRNA & siRNA: A Focus on Nanotechnology & Delivery Conference to be held on 11th &12th June 2012 in London.. This year's event will focus on the utility of nanotechnology to aid the delivery and development of novel therapeutics in the field of RNAi, miRNA and siRNA and senior industry executives will present attendees with in depth studies on targeted exosomes, structure-activity relationships and antisense technologies...
Quote "Lab Bulletin" to receive £100 discount!! Read MoreMetrohm publishes new Application Notes (ANs) about photometric titrationMay 2, 2012Accompanying the introduction of the new Optrode photometric sensor, Metrohm presents a range of titrimetric applications using the advantages of photometric detection of the equivalence point. The new applications cover a number of industries including the pharmaceutical industry, the petrochemical industry, and water analysis. The new ANs are available for free from the homepage of Metrohm International Headquarters...
Read MoreFisher Scientific Celebrates Success of its 21st Science World EventMay 1, 2012Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, celebrates another successful Science World event this week, its twenty-first. The event took place at Wembley Stadium on 19 April. More than 900 delegates, including laboratory managers, technicians, purchasing managers and teaching staff from universities, attended the flagship event...
Read MoreSygnature Discovery Celebrates Official Opening of New Research Laboratories with a Symposium of World Class ScienceMay 1, 2012Sygnature Discovery, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, today celebrated the official opening of its new research laboratories with a symposium of world class science. Dr Stewart Adams OBE, the inventor of ibuprofen, started the festivities by officially opening the third laboratory in Sygnature's purpose-designed and built "state-of-the-art" facility. This is the largest laboratory in the company's operations, located in the Laurus Building, BioCity Nottingham, with the capacity to house 25 medicinal chemists and in vitro biologists... Read MoreBMG LABTECH report on AnalyticaMay 1, 2012Like all good things, Analytica 2012 has come and gone. Similarly to previous shows, Analytica 2012 was a great venue for BMG LABTECH, The Microplate Reader Company. Providing one of the most common analytical life science instruments to laboratories, BMG LABTECH was able to showcase its unique technology to many different researchers...
Read MoreThe Linkam TH60-6 warm stage is used at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, SwedenMay 1, 2012Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their TH60-6 warm stage to study bird hybridization at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden. At the Evolutionary Biology Centre, Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology at Uppsala University, PhD student, Murielle Podevin, is studying two species of birds; the collared and the pied flycatcher. These species started to diverge approximately 2 million years ago and have separate distributions in Europe but breed in common areas on two islands in the Baltic Sea... Read MoreLabtex to launch major lab supplies catalogueMay 1, 2012Labtex, the Huddersfield based specialist laboratory equipment supplier, have signed a deal with Lab Logistics Group of Germany, the 3rd largest lab supplies company in Europe. Labtex will provide marketing and sales support for LLG throughout the North of England and distribute LLGs 1300 page catalogue of equipment and consumables...
Read MoreMalvern foundations in rheology web seminars now available in eight languagesMay 1, 2012In support of expanding global demand, materials characterization company Malvern Instruments is rapidly increasing its provision of multilanguage webcasts. In the latest posting, researchers across the world can now download a two-part foundation presentation covering rheology principles and applications, in eight different languages...
Read MoreHigh expectations for ACHEMA 2012 Apr 30, 2012Two months before the start of ACHEMA 2012, the outlook on the global flagship event for chemical engineering and biotechnology is exceedingly positive. The organizers expect a slight growth compared to the last event in 2009 when 3,767 exhibitors and more than 173,000 participants were counted...
Read More3rd International Definiens Symposium to be Held in Munich Apr 30, 2012Definiens®, the global leader of image and data analysis solutions for quantitative digital pathology, invites professionals interested in pathology and biomarker development to the 3rd International Definiens Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Definiens headquarters in Munich from June 14-16, 2012. The annual event is the premier forum for the latest trends in quantitative research in histology, tissue-based biomarker development and cutting-edge biomedical image and data analysis...
Read MoreCritical Pharmaceuticals and The University of Nottingham to Develop Nano-Enabled Nasal Spray for OsteoporosisApr 30, 2012Critical Pharmaceuticals, an emerging biotechnology company, and The University of Nottingham today announce a £545,000 collaboration to develop a nano-enabled intranasal formulation of teriparatide for the treatment of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, US and Japan with more than 180,000 patients suffer fragility fractures in the UK alone each year, at a cost of around £2 billion to the NHS...
Read MoreCould beetroot be the key to a healthy burger?Apr 30, 2012Scientists are investigating if a burger can be made healthier by adding beetroot to its ingredients. Nutritional experts at the University of Aberdeen have devised their own turkey burger, which includes extracts of the vegetable. They believe that beetroot - which contains antioxidants - stops the body from absorbing the ‘bad' fat found in burgers...
Read MoreMorningside Pharmaceuticals scoops QueenApr 27, 2012A Leicestershire-based company that aims to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible worldwide has been rewarded with the UK's highest business accolade. Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltd has received The Queen's Award for International Trade in recognition of its substantial and continuous export growth over the past six years...
Read MoreINTEGRA PIPETBOY Brand Celebrates 30th AnniversaryApr 27, 2012Specialists in laboratory liquid handling tools - INTEGRA has announced a special 3-year warranty to celebrate 30 years of its PIPETBOY serological pipette controller brand. During the last 30 years, millions of scientists around the world have benefited from the comfortable, safe and effortless way that PIPETBOY pipette controllers have enabled them to reproducibly pipette liquids from 0.1 to 100 ml...
Read MoreBoehringer Ingelheim Standardizes All Prescription Medicine Commercial Teams Worldwide on Cloud-Based, Veeva CRM and iRepApr 27, 2012Boehringer Ingelheim, a Top 20 global pharmaceutical company has selected Veeva CRM, including iRep for the iPad, for global deployment supporting its prescription medicine commercial and medical teams. Boehringer Ingelheim is headquartered in Germany, and operates globally with 145 affiliates and more than 42,000 employees. Over 13,500 users in 60 markets worldwide will go live on Veeva's cloud-based solution over the next two years; 650 users in Russia are already live on Veeva CRM. Boehringer Ingelheim executives conducted a thorough review of the major CRM providers, narrowing it down to three, followed by a three-month pilot of two solutions before locking on Veeva CRM...
Read MoreCarl Zeiss has received two orders for the extreme ultraviolet lithography system AIMS EUVApr 27, 2012Two out of four members of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership placed orders with Carl Zeiss to purchase an actinic aerial image metrology system AIMSTM EUV for reviewing defects in advanced masks needed for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Intel, Samsung Electronics, and TSMC are the members of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership. According to the slot assignment two out of the four semiconductor companies have placed orders with Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division... Read MoreClinical Trial Logistics conference returns for its sixth editionApr 27, 2012 SMi present their 6th annual Clinical Trial Logistics event to be held in London on 22nd & 23rd of May 2012. The event will be focusing on how to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness in your clinical supply chain. Presentations on Shipping validation, transportation studies, timely delivery of clinical trials & understanding and analysis of risk will help you to address any weaknesses in your supply chain, but more importantly, to build on your strengths. In keeping with this, presentations on potential challenges posed by the Olympics and distribution strategy for a virtual company provide unique focus to the discussion...
Quote "Lab Bulletin" to receive £200 discount!Read MoreSwine Infection Screening Using Oral Fluids Apr 26, 2012Large numbers of pigs could be screened more quickly and cost-effectively for a range of common pathogens, such as PRRSV, SIV and PCV2, thanks to a new PCR-based test system. The system uses samples of oral fluids which can be obtained quickly and easily by leaving a cotton rope in each pen for pigs to chew on. After 20 minutes or so, the rope can be retrieved and the saliva and gingival crevicular fluid squeezed into a sample bag and represents a pooled sample from the group... Read MoreNoemaLifeApr 26, 2012NoemaLife, Europe's leading provider of clinical and hospital software solutions, has launched HALIA, new middleware for clinical chemistry, microbiology and molecular biology labs. Utilising a rule-based engine to deliver all-round control over laboratory workflow and sample processing, HALIA's powerful functionality significantly improves laboratory efficiency, compliance and quality control...
Read MoreFreeman Technology celebrates 2012 QueenApr 26, 2012Powder characterisation specialist Freeman Technology is delighted to announce that the company is to receive the 2012 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category International Trade. Recognised around the world, the Queen's Awards for Enterprise are Britain's most coveted commercial prizes and this appreciation of Freeman Technology's rapidly growing international presence follows the company's 2007 Queen's Award in the category of Innovation...
Read MoreMalvern refocuses laser diffraction masterclasses to include new Mastersizer 3000Apr 26, 2012Malvern Instruments has refocused its popular Mastersizer Masterclass webinars to encourage exploitation of the full potential of the new Mastersizer 3000. The Mastersizer Masterclass series provides all the information required to apply best practice and get the most from laser diffraction measurements. The course is open to all laser diffraction users, whether or not they are Malvern customers...
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Malvern Instruments' Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer has been awarded ‘Best New Instrument of the Year 2011' by the Annual Conference of China Scientific Instruments 2012 (ACCSI 2012) held in March 2012 in Beijing. A total of 533 new instruments from 257 companies were proposed for the award and the Mastersizer 3000, which was launched in September 2011, was one of only 23 new instruments declared winners...
Accompanying the introduction of the new Optrode photometric sensor, Metrohm presents a range of titrimetric applications using the advantages of photometric detection of the equivalence point. The new applications cover a number of industries including the pharmaceutical industry, the petrochemical industry, and water analysis. The new ANs are available for free from the homepage of Metrohm International Headquarters...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, celebrates another successful Science World event this week, its twenty-first. The event took place at Wembley Stadium on 19 April. More than 900 delegates, including laboratory managers, technicians, purchasing managers and teaching staff from universities, attended the flagship event...
Sygnature Discovery, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, today celebrated the official opening of its new research laboratories with a symposium of world class science. Dr Stewart Adams OBE, the inventor of ibuprofen, started the festivities by officially opening the third laboratory in Sygnature's purpose-designed and built "state-of-the-art" facility. This is the largest laboratory in the company's operations, located in the Laurus Building, BioCity Nottingham, with the capacity to house 25 medicinal chemists and in vitro biologists...
Like all good things, Analytica 2012 has come and gone. Similarly to previous shows, Analytica 2012 was a great venue for BMG LABTECH, The Microplate Reader Company. Providing one of the most common analytical life science instruments to laboratories, BMG LABTECH was able to showcase its unique technology to many different researchers...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their TH60-6 warm stage to study bird hybridization at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden. At the Evolutionary Biology Centre, Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology at Uppsala University, PhD student, Murielle Podevin, is studying two species of birds; the collared and the pied flycatcher. These species started to diverge approximately 2 million years ago and have separate distributions in Europe but breed in common areas on two islands in the Baltic Sea...
Labtex, the Huddersfield based specialist laboratory equipment supplier, have signed a deal with Lab Logistics Group of Germany, the 3rd largest lab supplies company in Europe. Labtex will provide marketing and sales support for LLG throughout the North of England and distribute LLGs 1300 page catalogue of equipment and consumables...
In support of expanding global demand, materials characterization company Malvern Instruments is rapidly increasing its provision of multilanguage webcasts. In the latest posting, researchers across the world can now download a two-part foundation presentation covering rheology principles and applications, in eight different languages...
Two months before the start of ACHEMA 2012, the outlook on the global flagship event for chemical engineering and biotechnology is exceedingly positive. The organizers expect a slight growth compared to the last event in 2009 when 3,767 exhibitors and more than 173,000 participants were counted...
Definiens®, the global leader of image and data analysis solutions for quantitative digital pathology, invites professionals interested in pathology and biomarker development to the 3rd International Definiens Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Definiens headquarters in Munich from June 14-16, 2012. The annual event is the premier forum for the latest trends in quantitative research in histology, tissue-based biomarker development and cutting-edge biomedical image and data analysis...
Critical Pharmaceuticals, an emerging biotechnology company, and The University of Nottingham today announce a £545,000 collaboration to develop a nano-enabled intranasal formulation of teriparatide for the treatment of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, US and Japan with more than 180,000 patients suffer fragility fractures in the UK alone each year, at a cost of around £2 billion to the NHS...
Scientists are investigating if a burger can be made healthier by adding beetroot to its ingredients. Nutritional experts at the University of Aberdeen have devised their own turkey burger, which includes extracts of the vegetable. They believe that beetroot - which contains antioxidants - stops the body from absorbing the ‘bad' fat found in burgers...
A Leicestershire-based company that aims to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible worldwide has been rewarded with the UK's highest business accolade. Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltd has received The Queen's Award for International Trade in recognition of its substantial and continuous export growth over the past six years...
Specialists in laboratory liquid handling tools - INTEGRA has announced a special 3-year warranty to celebrate 30 years of its PIPETBOY serological pipette controller brand. During the last 30 years, millions of scientists around the world have benefited from the comfortable, safe and effortless way that PIPETBOY pipette controllers have enabled them to reproducibly pipette liquids from 0.1 to 100 ml...
Boehringer Ingelheim, a Top 20 global pharmaceutical company has selected Veeva CRM, including iRep for the iPad, for global deployment supporting its prescription medicine commercial and medical teams. Boehringer Ingelheim is headquartered in Germany, and operates globally with 145 affiliates and more than 42,000 employees. Over 13,500 users in 60 markets worldwide will go live on Veeva's cloud-based solution over the next two years; 650 users in Russia are already live on Veeva CRM. Boehringer Ingelheim executives conducted a thorough review of the major CRM providers, narrowing it down to three, followed by a three-month pilot of two solutions before locking on Veeva CRM...
Two out of four members of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership placed orders with Carl Zeiss to purchase an actinic aerial image metrology system AIMSTM EUV for reviewing defects in advanced masks needed for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Intel, Samsung Electronics, and TSMC are the members of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership. According to the slot assignment two out of the four semiconductor companies have placed orders with Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division...
Large numbers of pigs could be screened more quickly and cost-effectively for a range of common pathogens, such as PRRSV, SIV and PCV2, thanks to a new PCR-based test system. The system uses samples of oral fluids which can be obtained quickly and easily by leaving a cotton rope in each pen for pigs to chew on. After 20 minutes or so, the rope can be retrieved and the saliva and gingival crevicular fluid squeezed into a sample bag and represents a pooled sample from the group...
NoemaLife, Europe's leading provider of clinical and hospital software solutions, has launched HALIA, new middleware for clinical chemistry, microbiology and molecular biology labs. Utilising a rule-based engine to deliver all-round control over laboratory workflow and sample processing, HALIA's powerful functionality significantly improves laboratory efficiency, compliance and quality control...
Powder characterisation specialist Freeman Technology is delighted to announce that the company is to receive the 2012 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category International Trade. Recognised around the world, the Queen's Awards for Enterprise are Britain's most coveted commercial prizes and this appreciation of Freeman Technology's rapidly growing international presence follows the company's 2007 Queen's Award in the category of Innovation...
Malvern Instruments has refocused its popular Mastersizer Masterclass webinars to encourage exploitation of the full potential of the new Mastersizer 3000. The Mastersizer Masterclass series provides all the information required to apply best practice and get the most from laser diffraction measurements. The course is open to all laser diffraction users, whether or not they are Malvern customers...