Thermo Fisher Scientific Provides Custom Coating Development and ManufactureNov 24, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, helps you to decrease your time to market with its custom coating service. The complete custom coating capabilities of MicroWell plates are detailed in the new interactive and searchable Thermo Scientific immunoassay plate guide. Thermo Fisher Scientific's proven strengths in surface treatment, surface capabilities and production enables you to improve your output, with shorter lead times. Furthermore, each plate undergoes strict quality control in a certified facility to ensure high quality and consistency throughout the entire process... Read MoreFRITSCH Nov 24, 2011Negative developments in business relations for example default of payment or loss of accounts receivable are for the most part no coincidence. With correctly interpreted, as well as clear indicators to risks, uncertainties in monetary transactions can be minimized. Customers and business partners are on the safe side with FRITSCH - Milling and Sizing though. The independent rating agency Hoppenstedt Kreditinformationen (credit information) awarded FRITSCH the "Hoppenstedt CreditCheck Top Rating-Certificate" 2011...
Read MoreFully supported Edman sequencer offers cost effective N-Terminal protein sequencing benefitsNov 24, 2011Providing a simple and robust solution for many laboratories, protein sequencing utilizing automated Edman degradation chemistry remains a vital method of producing unambiguous data on biopharmaceutical or biochemical materials. An Edman sequencer, such as Shimadzu's innovative PPSQ series instrument, is ideal for producing N-Terminal Sequencing information for proteins and peptides and is less complex to use than many alternative mass spectrometry-based techniques... Read MoreEurope's healthcare elite assemble for HIMSS CIO Summit in GenevaNov 24, 2011Leading European IT directors and senior healthcare IT executives have gathered this week at the HIMSS Europe CIO Summit in Geneva (November 20-22) to recognise the best use and adoption practices for healthcare IT in Europe. The events of the HIMSS CIO Summit can be followed in a Live Newsticker at www.healthtechwire.com/himss...
Read MoreGOW-MAC Presented with Export Achievement CertificateNov 23, 2011GOW-MAC® Instrument Co. has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce for its innovation and exportation of instruments and components for use in gas analysis and gas chromatography to foreign companies. GOW-MAC officers Jeffrey B. Lawson, President, and Kenneth B. Fincke, Vice President, were presented the US Department of Commerce’s Export Achievement Certificate (EAC) at company headquarters in Bethlehem, PA, on November 10th...
Read MoreMalvern Instruments scientist receives Ernst Abbe Memorial Award at 50th anniversary of the Eastern Analytical SymposiumNov 23, 2011Dr E. Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer at Malvern Instruments can now count the prestigious Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society among his accolades. He received the award, presented in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science of microscopy, on 17 November 2011 during the 50th Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition in New Jersey, and he joins a list of previous recipients who have made significant contributions to the field. Dr. Lewis is being recognized specifically for the development of chemical imaging microscopy...
Read MoreDolomite and Clearbridge BioMedics develop revolutionary instrument for cancer detectionNov 23, 2011Microfluidics expert, Dolomite, is delighted to announce its collaboration with Clearbridge BioMedics in the development of a novel instrument capable of detecting and isolating Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) from small quantities of whole, unprocessed blood. The innovative ClearCellTM System can isolate, enumerate and most importantly retrieve wholly intact and viable CTCs from patient whole blood. Benefiting a broad range of application areas including molecule analysis, cancer diagnostics and cancer treatment decisions, this revolutionary instrument also paves the way for personalised cancer medication for patients...
Read MoreBio-Industry leader Dr Louis J Nisbet leads BioCity forwardNov 23, 2011New Chairman of BioCity Nottingham Louis J Nisbet DSc PhD assumes his position this month amidst significant changes and challenges in the global life sciences sector. With increasing fragmentation in the drug discovery industry and the dramatic reduction in government-funded support for early-stage firms, BioCity Nottingham is providing office and laboratory facilities, infrastructure support and finance for smaller bioscience companies who are discovering new market opportunities...
Read MoreSygnature Discovery: New Bioscience Group Fully-Operational & Winning ProjectsNov 22, 2011Sygnature Discovery, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, has today provided an up-date on its new Bioscience group. The team was established in August 2011 and is already involved in a number of drug discovery activities for clients, including integrated discovery projects and in vitro biology-only projects...
Read MoreUniversity of Texas researchers use Malvern Viscotek systems to characterize challenging polymersNov 22, 2011The Viscotek multi-detector gel permeation chromatography (GPC) system from Malvern Instruments is proving to be the ideal solution for researchers at The University of Texas at Austin whose work is taking them to the very limits of what can be achieved by GPC. The research team from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is using multiple Viscotek GPC instruments to help guide the development of new monomers and polymers for use in high performance solar cells...
Read MoreNew white paper outlines solution for reliable multi-way fluidic connectionsNov 22, 2011Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic devices, has launched a new white paper addressing the challenges faced by engineers and scientists when working with microfluidic connections. Traditional solutions for tube-to-tube and tube-to-chip connections, which consist of a selection of unions, take up a lot of space and involve a time consuming set-up and problem of sealing when using multiple unions. Furthermore they only allow the connection of one fluid tube at a time...
Read MoreJULABO Unveils the New PRESTONov 21, 2011JULABO's new PRESTO® represents an entirely new generation of highly dynamic temperature control systems. The new PRESTO® systems are designed for precise temperature control as well as rapid temperature changes, making them ideal for reactor vessels, material stress tests, or temperature simulations...
Read MoreReinnervate and Mirus Bio announce collaboration with the launch of the new 3D Transfection System for the transfection of cells cultured in alvetexNov 18, 2011Reinnervate (Sedgefield, UK) and Mirus Bio (Madison, USA) today announced a commercial agreement to launch a new range of products for the transfection of cells cultured in 3D. Under the agreement, Mirus will produce and sell kits combining TransIT®-3D Transfection Reagent, alvetex® 3D cell culture plates and detailed protocols for achieving transfection of selected cell lines growing in 3D...
Read MoreFascinating Images Reveal Climbing Abilities of Geckos and SpidersNov 18, 2011Scientists from Lewis and Clark College, working collaboratively with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) in the USA have examined the fascinating climbing skills of geckos and spiders using the ORION helium ion microscope from Carl Zeiss. High resolution images displaying unique definition and detail rendition reveal even the finest structures on the feet of these animals. This imaging advances the understanding of how the masterly climbing skills of these creatures are attributable to adhesive forces or, in other words, intermolecular attractions...
Read MoreImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Selects Leica Microsystems to Provide Automated IHC platforms Across all SitesNov 18, 2011Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has one of the largest immunohistochemistry / in situ hybridization (IHC / ISH) workloads in the United Kingdom, performing almost 120,000 IHC slides a year. The Trust has selected Leica Microsystems' BOND platform to provide advanced IHC and ISH staining capabilities for cellular pathology services at its Hammersmith, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital sites. These hospitals are integrated with the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, rated in 2011 as a top 10 global university by Times Higher Education in conjunction with Thomson Reuters...
Read MoreResearch on Dendrites Wins 2011 Eppendorf & Science PrizeNov 18, 2011The Portuguese scientist, Tiago Branco M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London has won the 2011 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his research on dendrites. His work shows how dendrites discriminate temporal input sequences and apply different integration rules depending on input location. These findings give insight on how the brain performs the computations that underlie behaviour, and suggest that even single neurons can solve complex computational tasks...
Read MoreBioCity attracts AstraZeneca and Pfizer entrepreneursNov 17, 2011Six brand new companies started by former AstraZeneca Charnwood employees will create a total of 15 jobs within BioCity Nottingham by the end of November this year, contributing to the total of 35 new jobs created at BioCity out of the global pharmaceutical giant's closure of the East Midlands' site. In addition, top scientists leaving Pfizer in Sandwich are starting to enquire about BioCity support with the first virtual tenant recently confirmed...
Read MoreLicense Agreement Between Leica Microsystems, the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Research CenterNov 16, 2011Leica Microsystems has signed an agreement with the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) for the development of the next generation of super-resolution STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) microscopy. This gives Leica Microsystems the license to develop the new technology, called gated STED, into a commercial product and put it on the market...
Read MorePharmaceutical packaging products benefit from firm yet flexible polymerNov 16, 2011Porvair Filtration Group is at the forefront of new material development and products for the medical, pharmaceutical and life science markets. The company's range of proprietary BioVyonTM sintered porous plastic materials and products have been developed using novel technologies to help advance the achievable technical boundaries in these markets...
Read MoreExco InTouch Wins Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award in Recognition of Significant GrowthNov 16, 2011Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient communication solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, today announced that it is a winner of the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50. The awards, now in their 14th year, are an independent ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK, based on percentage growth in revenue over five years. Exco InTouch was placed as the 44th fastest growing company in the country and the 7th fastest growing company in the South East...
Read MoreDxTerity and Caliper Life Sciences Partner to Deliver NEAT Multiplex Assays on Caliper's LabChip Dx PlatformNov 15, 2011DxTerity Diagnostics, Inc. and Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) announced today that the companies have entered into a co-development and co-marketing strategic collaboration that will allow researchers to perform DxTerity's NEAT multiplex diagnostic assays on Caliper's LabChip Dx instrument platform minimizing sample processing time without compromising data quality. Caliper's future LabChip Dx instruments will include specific diagnostic identification, scoring and reporting software, developed in collaboration with DxTerity...
Read MoreFerring Pharmaceuticals Acquires Cytokine PharmaSciences IncNov 15, 2011Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Ferring) announced today that it has completed the purchase of Cytokine PharmaSciences Inc. (CPSI) and its UK subsidiary Controlled Therapeutics (Scotland) Ltd. (CTS), a global biopharmaceutical company with a particular focus in obstetrics...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, helps you to decrease your time to market with its custom coating service. The complete custom coating capabilities of MicroWell plates are detailed in the new interactive and searchable Thermo Scientific immunoassay plate guide. Thermo Fisher Scientific's proven strengths in surface treatment, surface capabilities and production enables you to improve your output, with shorter lead times. Furthermore, each plate undergoes strict quality control in a certified facility to ensure high quality and consistency throughout the entire process...
Negative developments in business relations for example default of payment or loss of accounts receivable are for the most part no coincidence. With correctly interpreted, as well as clear indicators to risks, uncertainties in monetary transactions can be minimized. Customers and business partners are on the safe side with FRITSCH - Milling and Sizing though. The independent rating agency Hoppenstedt Kreditinformationen (credit information) awarded FRITSCH the "Hoppenstedt CreditCheck Top Rating-Certificate" 2011...
Providing a simple and robust solution for many laboratories, protein sequencing utilizing automated Edman degradation chemistry remains a vital method of producing unambiguous data on biopharmaceutical or biochemical materials. An Edman sequencer, such as Shimadzu's innovative PPSQ series instrument, is ideal for producing N-Terminal Sequencing information for proteins and peptides and is less complex to use than many alternative mass spectrometry-based techniques...
Leading European IT directors and senior healthcare IT executives have gathered this week at the HIMSS Europe CIO Summit in Geneva (November 20-22) to recognise the best use and adoption practices for healthcare IT in Europe. The events of the HIMSS CIO Summit can be followed in a Live Newsticker at www.healthtechwire.com/himss...
GOW-MAC® Instrument Co. has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce for its innovation and exportation of instruments and components for use in gas analysis and gas chromatography to foreign companies. GOW-MAC officers Jeffrey B. Lawson, President, and Kenneth B. Fincke, Vice President, were presented the US Department of Commerce’s Export Achievement Certificate (EAC) at company headquarters in Bethlehem, PA, on November 10th...
Dr E. Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer at Malvern Instruments can now count the prestigious Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society among his accolades. He received the award, presented in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science of microscopy, on 17 November 2011 during the 50th Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition in New Jersey, and he joins a list of previous recipients who have made significant contributions to the field. Dr. Lewis is being recognized specifically for the development of chemical imaging microscopy...
Microfluidics expert, Dolomite, is delighted to announce its collaboration with Clearbridge BioMedics in the development of a novel instrument capable of detecting and isolating Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) from small quantities of whole, unprocessed blood. The innovative ClearCellTM System can isolate, enumerate and most importantly retrieve wholly intact and viable CTCs from patient whole blood. Benefiting a broad range of application areas including molecule analysis, cancer diagnostics and cancer treatment decisions, this revolutionary instrument also paves the way for personalised cancer medication for patients...
New Chairman of BioCity Nottingham Louis J Nisbet DSc PhD assumes his position this month amidst significant changes and challenges in the global life sciences sector. With increasing fragmentation in the drug discovery industry and the dramatic reduction in government-funded support for early-stage firms, BioCity Nottingham is providing office and laboratory facilities, infrastructure support and finance for smaller bioscience companies who are discovering new market opportunities...
Sygnature Discovery, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, has today provided an up-date on its new Bioscience group. The team was established in August 2011 and is already involved in a number of drug discovery activities for clients, including integrated discovery projects and in vitro biology-only projects...
The Viscotek multi-detector gel permeation chromatography (GPC) system from Malvern Instruments is proving to be the ideal solution for researchers at The University of Texas at Austin whose work is taking them to the very limits of what can be achieved by GPC. The research team from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is using multiple Viscotek GPC instruments to help guide the development of new monomers and polymers for use in high performance solar cells...
JULABO's new PRESTO® represents an entirely new generation of highly dynamic temperature control systems. The new PRESTO® systems are designed for precise temperature control as well as rapid temperature changes, making them ideal for reactor vessels, material stress tests, or temperature simulations...
Reinnervate (Sedgefield, UK) and Mirus Bio (Madison, USA) today announced a commercial agreement to launch a new range of products for the transfection of cells cultured in 3D. Under the agreement, Mirus will produce and sell kits combining TransIT®-3D Transfection Reagent, alvetex® 3D cell culture plates and detailed protocols for achieving transfection of selected cell lines growing in 3D...
Scientists from Lewis and Clark College, working collaboratively with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) in the USA have examined the fascinating climbing skills of geckos and spiders using the ORION helium ion microscope from Carl Zeiss. High resolution images displaying unique definition and detail rendition reveal even the finest structures on the feet of these animals. This imaging advances the understanding of how the masterly climbing skills of these creatures are attributable to adhesive forces or, in other words, intermolecular attractions...
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has one of the largest immunohistochemistry / in situ hybridization (IHC / ISH) workloads in the United Kingdom, performing almost 120,000 IHC slides a year. The Trust has selected Leica Microsystems' BOND platform to provide advanced IHC and ISH staining capabilities for cellular pathology services at its Hammersmith, Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital sites. These hospitals are integrated with the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, rated in 2011 as a top 10 global university by Times Higher Education in conjunction with Thomson Reuters...
The Portuguese scientist, Tiago Branco M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London has won the 2011 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his research on dendrites. His work shows how dendrites discriminate temporal input sequences and apply different integration rules depending on input location. These findings give insight on how the brain performs the computations that underlie behaviour, and suggest that even single neurons can solve complex computational tasks...
Six brand new companies started by former AstraZeneca Charnwood employees will create a total of 15 jobs within BioCity Nottingham by the end of November this year, contributing to the total of 35 new jobs created at BioCity out of the global pharmaceutical giant's closure of the East Midlands' site. In addition, top scientists leaving Pfizer in Sandwich are starting to enquire about BioCity support with the first virtual tenant recently confirmed...
Leica Microsystems has signed an agreement with the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) for the development of the next generation of super-resolution STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) microscopy. This gives Leica Microsystems the license to develop the new technology, called gated STED, into a commercial product and put it on the market...
Porvair Filtration Group is at the forefront of new material development and products for the medical, pharmaceutical and life science markets. The company's range of proprietary BioVyonTM sintered porous plastic materials and products have been developed using novel technologies to help advance the achievable technical boundaries in these markets...
Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient communication solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, today announced that it is a winner of the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50. The awards, now in their 14th year, are an independent ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK, based on percentage growth in revenue over five years. Exco InTouch was placed as the 44th fastest growing company in the country and the 7th fastest growing company in the South East...
DxTerity Diagnostics, Inc. and Caliper Life Sciences, Inc
Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Ferring) announced today that it has completed the purchase of Cytokine PharmaSciences Inc. (CPSI) and its UK subsidiary Controlled Therapeutics (Scotland) Ltd. (CTS), a global biopharmaceutical company with a particular focus in obstetrics...