Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Celltrio, a leading manufacturer of robotics-based solutions for the life sciences industry, have announced their collaboration to bring a fully automated cell culture system to biotherapeutics customers. The collaboration will integrate the Thermo Scientific Momentum workflow scheduling software with the Celltrio RoboCell cell line automation platform to address the critical unmet market need for high-throughput automated cell line culturing and maintenance...
Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2023 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. This annual international research prize of US$25,000 is awarded to young scientists for their outstanding contributions to neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. Researchers who are not older than 35 years are invited to apply by June 15, 2023...
TransCure bioServices adds BioVolume 3D imaging to its service offerings, enabling them to deliver even higher quality tumor growth results to customers. With a deeper understanding of how tumors grow and respond to stimuli, researchers can more quickly develop the highly efficacious treatments urgently needed to tackle different cancers. The new service is a world first in 3D imaging, allowing the measurement and visualization of tumor growth in animal models across preclinical research, oncology, and drug development.
As part of a global, multiyear agreement, Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced it is working with AstraZeneca to develop a solid tissue and blood-based companion diagnostic (CDx) test for Tagrisso (osimertinib). The CDx will help identify patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who may be eligible for treatment with Tagrisso by identifying tumors that exhibit epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) alterations including exon 21 L858R mutations, exon 19 deletions or T790M mutations...
Dolomite Bio launches new website, with exciting re brand with a new name and focus. The motivation behind the company’s name change to Do Bio reflects their evolution within the microfluidic, biology and life science space. The expertise behind Do Bio’s technology is built on a strong foundation in the field of microfluidics. As the company has grown in recent years, the focus has shifted from purely single cell based applications, to developing and supporting multiple microfluidics based products for life sciences and pharmaceuticals...
Blood samples and urine tests? MRNA or cancer research? Microbe detection in drinking water or PCR tests? Many young women in the UK have virtually no idea what it would be like to work in a laboratory profession as revealed in a survey by laboratory product manufacturer Starlab International. The lack of knowledge of career profiles in science has a severe impact on skills shortage and on many women’s choice of a profession and career opportunities...
Scientists at Microsynth – a leading European company in nucleic acid synthesis, analysis and sequencing – are taking advantage of the remarkable liquid handling capabilities of INTEGRA’s MINI 96 and VIAFLO 96 handheld electronic pipettes in workflows ranging from nucleic acid isolation to sequencing and different types of PCR. Dr Sergey Yakushev, Head of Genetic Analysis at Microsynth, explained...
Novel method of image analysis reveals how cancer cells manipulate their size to resist treatment. Cancer cells can shrink or super-size themselves to survive drug treatment or other challenges within their environment, researchers have discovered. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, combined biochemical profiling technologies with mathematical analyses to reveal how genetic changes lead to differences in the size of cancer cells – and how these changes could be exploited by new treatments...
Computational chemistry, a branch of chemistry that applies computer simulation to assist in solving chemical problems, is a heated topic in the modern scientific community. Possessing a powerful team of experts in chemistry, biology, mathematics, crystallography, and pharmacology, Alfa Chemistry focuses on combining the power of computational chemistry with a variety of research focuses on supporting Computer Aided Drug Design...
Agilent Technologies has announced it is investing approximately $725 million to double manufacturing capacity of therapeutic nucleic acids in response to rapid growth of the $1 billion market and strong demand for the company’s high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).Therapeutic nucleic acids, also called therapeutic oligonucleotides or oligos, are short DNA and RNA molecules that serve as the API for drugs targeting a growing number of diseases...
Azenta, Inc. has announced that it has acquired Ziath, Ltd. and its subsidiaries ("Ziath"). Based in Cambridge, UK, Ziath is a leading provider of 2D barcode readers for life sciences applications. Founded in 2005, Ziath's innovative 2D barcode readers are a key component of the laboratory automation workflow serving pharmaceutical, biotech and academic customers worldwide...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2023 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, February 15, with See How LIMS is Making a Splash in the Water/Wastewater Industry. This webcast will provide an update on some of the leading challenges water, wastewater, and environmental laboratories are facing today and focus on the ways in which some of the latest advances in laboratory automation and LIMS are addressing these challenges...
Chemists from the Chianese Group at Colgate University (NY, USA) have shared kinetic data obtained using the Asynt Multicell 10-position high pressure laboratory reactor in their recent paper, “The Key Role of the Latent N0H Group in Milstein’s Catalyst for Ester Hydrogenation”. Their characterisation of the mechanisms of Milstein’s catalysts has enabled greater understanding of the reactivity of these catalysts in ester hydrogenation...
Analytik Jena's thermal cyclers are known for their high-performance and excellent temperature management. To make them even easier and more convenient to operate and monitor, the company has launched new thermal cycler management software. Efficiency pressure and documentation obligations – the challenges in everyday life science laboratories continue to increase. With its new thermal cycler software "Biometra TSuite", Analytik Jena is addressing precisely this issue...
Cherwell, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and related industries, has published an update to its guide on “Environmental Monitoring Processes and Validation”, incorporating specific detail on the new version of EU GMP Annex 1. This aims to help sterile medicinal product manufacturers with reviewing and improving their Environmental Monitoring (EM) programs in preparation for compliance with the revised guidelines by August 2023...
Automata, a leading robotics and automation company powering life sciences labs, has announced it is partnering with bit.bio, to automate a key aspect of the manufacturing process of their iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell)-derived human cell products. bit.bio’s precision cellular reprogramming technology opti-ox is ideally suited for automation because it enables unprecedented consistency and scalability for the manufacture of human cells from iPSCs...
Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced a partnership with Akoya Biosciences, Inc., The Spatial Biology Company®, to develop multiplex-immunohistochemistry diagnostic solutions for tissue analysis and to commercialize workflow solutions for multiplex assays in the clinical research market. Integrating Agilent’s Dako Omnis (autostaining instrument) and Akoya’s PhenoImager® HT (imaging platform) for multiplex chromogenic immunohistochemistry (mIHC) and immunofluorescent (mIF) assays...
New Virtual Powder Flow Course happening in February 2023 focusing on the properties of powders! Understanding the flow of powders is essential in many industrial applications. Anyone working with powdered materials has once experienced processability problems like a lack of flowability, heavy sticking on pipes and machine surfaces, or variability in dosage among many other examples...
Global warming is a challenge for humanity - Sharm el-Sheikh has just reminded us of this again. But in addition to abstract global issues of the UN, small, personal steps can also help. Discussions about sustainability are primarily about energy consumption. Laboratory equipment is no exception. Even the most environmentally friendly and energy efficient ultra-low temperature freezers still require a significant amount of energy to maintain extremely low temperatures of -80 °C 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for years...
Being committed to continued advances in improving human health, SCHOTT has opened a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand the development and manufacturing of diagnostics and life science consumables. Launching the first fully integrated microfluidic foundry in the United States validates SCHOTT’s global growth plan and increases production capabilities to help get these products to market faster and more efficiently...
Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dynalab Corp. (the “Company”), a Rochester, NY based distributor and manufacturer of laboratory plastics, consumables, equipment, supplies and custom fabricated products serving the scientific, industrial, agricultural, water, pharma and educational markets in the United States. Dynalab marks Calibre Scientific’s debut into the United States distribution market...
Blackford Analysis, one of the leading strategic imaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform and solutions provider, has announced its acquisition by Bayer, a global life science company. Spun out from the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and still headquartered in the city, Blackford has a presence in the UK and US focused on providing healthcare providers with tailored tools and services to unlock the value of medical imaging AI, driving efficiencies and improving patient outcomes...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Celltrio, a leading manufacturer of robotics-based solutions for the life sciences industry, have announced their collaboration to bring a fully automated cell culture system to biotherapeutics customers. The collaboration will integrate the Thermo Scientific Momentum workflow scheduling software with the Celltrio RoboCell cell line automation platform to address the critical unmet market need for high-throughput automated cell line culturing and maintenance...
Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2023 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. This annual international research prize of US$25,000 is awarded to young scientists for their outstanding contributions to neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. Researchers who are not older than 35 years are invited to apply by June 15, 2023...
TransCure bioServices adds BioVolume 3D imaging to its service offerings, enabling them to deliver even higher quality tumor growth results to customers. With a deeper understanding of how tumors grow and respond to stimuli, researchers can more quickly develop the highly efficacious treatments urgently needed to tackle different cancers. The new service is a world first in 3D imaging, allowing the measurement and visualization of tumor growth in animal models across preclinical research, oncology, and drug development.
As part of a global, multiyear agreement, Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced it is working with AstraZeneca to develop a solid tissue and blood-based companion diagnostic (CDx) test for Tagrisso (osimertinib). The CDx will help identify patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who may be eligible for treatment with Tagrisso by identifying tumors that exhibit epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) alterations including exon 21 L858R mutations, exon 19 deletions or T790M mutations...
Dolomite Bio launches new website, with exciting re brand with a new name and focus. The motivation behind the company’s name change to Do Bio reflects their evolution within the microfluidic, biology and life science space. The expertise behind Do Bio’s technology is built on a strong foundation in the field of microfluidics. As the company has grown in recent years, the focus has shifted from purely single cell based applications, to developing and supporting multiple microfluidics based products for life sciences and pharmaceuticals...
Blood samples and urine tests? MRNA or cancer research? Microbe detection in drinking water or PCR tests? Many young women in the UK have virtually no idea what it would be like to work in a laboratory profession as revealed in a survey by laboratory product manufacturer Starlab International. The lack of knowledge of career profiles in science has a severe impact on skills shortage and on many women’s choice of a profession and career opportunities...
Scientists at Microsynth – a leading European company in nucleic acid synthesis, analysis and sequencing – are taking advantage of the remarkable liquid handling capabilities of INTEGRA’s MINI 96 and VIAFLO 96 handheld electronic pipettes in workflows ranging from nucleic acid isolation to sequencing and different types of PCR. Dr Sergey Yakushev, Head of Genetic Analysis at Microsynth, explained...
Novel method of image analysis reveals how cancer cells manipulate their size to resist treatment. Cancer cells can shrink or super-size themselves to survive drug treatment or other challenges within their environment, researchers have discovered. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, combined biochemical profiling technologies with mathematical analyses to reveal how genetic changes lead to differences in the size of cancer cells – and how these changes could be exploited by new treatments...
Computational chemistry, a branch of chemistry that applies computer simulation to assist in solving chemical problems, is a heated topic in the modern scientific community. Possessing a powerful team of experts in chemistry, biology, mathematics, crystallography, and pharmacology, Alfa Chemistry focuses on combining the power of computational chemistry with a variety of research focuses on supporting Computer Aided Drug Design...
Agilent Technologies has announced it is investing approximately $725 million to double manufacturing capacity of therapeutic nucleic acids in response to rapid growth of the $1 billion market and strong demand for the company’s high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).Therapeutic nucleic acids, also called therapeutic oligonucleotides or oligos, are short DNA and RNA molecules that serve as the API for drugs targeting a growing number of diseases...
Azenta, Inc. has announced that it has acquired Ziath, Ltd. and its subsidiaries ("Ziath"). Based in Cambridge, UK, Ziath is a leading provider of 2D barcode readers for life sciences applications. Founded in 2005, Ziath's innovative 2D barcode readers are a key component of the laboratory automation workflow serving pharmaceutical, biotech and academic customers worldwide...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2023 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, February 15, with See How LIMS is Making a Splash in the Water/Wastewater Industry. This webcast will provide an update on some of the leading challenges water, wastewater, and environmental laboratories are facing today and focus on the ways in which some of the latest advances in laboratory automation and LIMS are addressing these challenges...
Chemists from the Chianese Group at Colgate University (NY, USA) have shared kinetic data obtained using the Asynt Multicell 10-position high pressure laboratory reactor in their recent paper, “The Key Role of the Latent N0H Group in Milstein’s Catalyst for Ester Hydrogenation”. Their characterisation of the mechanisms of Milstein’s catalysts has enabled greater understanding of the reactivity of these catalysts in ester hydrogenation...
Analytik Jena's thermal cyclers are known for their high-performance and excellent temperature management. To make them even easier and more convenient to operate and monitor, the company has launched new thermal cycler management software. Efficiency pressure and documentation obligations – the challenges in everyday life science laboratories continue to increase. With its new thermal cycler software "Biometra TSuite", Analytik Jena is addressing precisely this issue...
Cherwell, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and related industries, has published an update to its guide on “Environmental Monitoring Processes and Validation”, incorporating specific detail on the new version of EU GMP Annex 1. This aims to help sterile medicinal product manufacturers with reviewing and improving their Environmental Monitoring (EM) programs in preparation for compliance with the revised guidelines by August 2023...
Automata, a leading robotics and automation company powering life sciences labs, has announced it is partnering with bit.bio, to automate a key aspect of the manufacturing process of their iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell)-derived human cell products. bit.bio’s precision cellular reprogramming technology opti-ox is ideally suited for automation because it enables unprecedented consistency and scalability for the manufacture of human cells from iPSCs...
Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced a partnership with Akoya Biosciences, Inc., The Spatial Biology Company®, to develop multiplex-immunohistochemistry diagnostic solutions for tissue analysis and to commercialize workflow solutions for multiplex assays in the clinical research market. Integrating Agilent’s Dako Omnis (autostaining instrument) and Akoya’s PhenoImager® HT (imaging platform) for multiplex chromogenic immunohistochemistry (mIHC) and immunofluorescent (mIF) assays...
New Virtual Powder Flow Course happening in February 2023 focusing on the properties of powders! Understanding the flow of powders is essential in many industrial applications. Anyone working with powdered materials has once experienced processability problems like a lack of flowability, heavy sticking on pipes and machine surfaces, or variability in dosage among many other examples...
Global warming is a challenge for humanity - Sharm el-Sheikh has just reminded us of this again. But in addition to abstract global issues of the UN, small, personal steps can also help. Discussions about sustainability are primarily about energy consumption. Laboratory equipment is no exception. Even the most environmentally friendly and energy efficient ultra-low temperature freezers still require a significant amount of energy to maintain extremely low temperatures of -80 °C 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for years...
Being committed to continued advances in improving human health, SCHOTT has opened a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand the development and manufacturing of diagnostics and life science consumables. Launching the first fully integrated microfluidic foundry in the United States validates SCHOTT’s global growth plan and increases production capabilities to help get these products to market faster and more efficiently...
Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dynalab Corp. (the “Company”), a Rochester, NY based distributor and manufacturer of laboratory plastics, consumables, equipment, supplies and custom fabricated products serving the scientific, industrial, agricultural, water, pharma and educational markets in the United States. Dynalab marks Calibre Scientific’s debut into the United States distribution market...
Blackford Analysis, one of the leading strategic imaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform and solutions provider, has announced its acquisition by Bayer, a global life science company. Spun out from the University of Edinburgh in 2010 and still headquartered in the city, Blackford has a presence in the UK and US focused on providing healthcare providers with tailored tools and services to unlock the value of medical imaging AI, driving efficiencies and improving patient outcomes...