Thermo Fisher Scientific Collaboration Delivers Automated Nanoliter Hit-picking PlatformJun 23, 2011Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new efficient, high-throughput platform for hit-picking of compounds for secondary screening. The solution, developed in collaboration with TTP LabTech for BioFocus, integrates the Thermo Scientific RapidStak microplate mover and the TTP LabTech mosquito® X1 nanoliter pipettor to provide exceptional high-speed plate handling and precision, low-volume sampling from high-density formats...
Read MoreCenix BioScience Signs Collaboration and Technology License Agreement for In Vivo siRNA DeliveryJun 23, 2011Cenix BioScience GmbH, a leading contract research organization specializing in RNAi-based research in vitro and in vivo, today announced that, together with its new subsidiary, Cenix BioScience Belgium bvba ("Cenix"), it has signed a Collaboration and Technology License Agreement with Beerse, Belgium-based Janssen Research & Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV ("Janssen"), to improve the in vivo applicability of siRNA-based experimentation, focusing on the further co-development of DARE, a proprietary Cenix siRNA delivery technology...
Read MoreEppendorf Centrifuge 5424 R wins a Jun 22, 2011Eppendorf AG celebrates success in a leading global design competition which attracted 4,433 entries from 1,700 companies in over 60 nations. Centrifuge 5424 R, a premium 24-place microcentrifuge, has been honoured for design excellence in the life science and medicine category of ‘red dot award: product design 2011'...
Read MoreSpecial package price for the Biochrom EZ Read 400 ELISA reader and Biochrom microplate washerJun 22, 2011As any scientist or technician knows, successful ELISA assays require a robust and easy to use microplate reader, and a rugged yet thorough microplate washer. For a limited period, Biochrom customers can purchase the Biochrom EZ Read 400 ELISA reader and a choice of either the Asys Atlantis 2 or Anthos Fluido 2 W2 microplate washers for a special package price. Valid for orders placed until the end of September 2011...
Read MoreERT Announces Appointment of New President and CEOJun 22, 2011ERT, a global technology-driven provider of clinical services and customizable medial devices to biopharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Jeffrey S. Litwin, M.D. its new President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board...
Read MoreLabel-Free Detection for Glycosylation ProfilingJun 21, 2011At the Seventh annual PEGS conference held in Boston, MA, TTP LabTech released data demonstrating the use of their novel acoustic biosensor, LIBRA2, for the study of glycosylation patterns on cell membranes. TTP LabTech invited scientists to Booth 304 to view the data and discuss future developments and applications of the LIBRA2 technology...
Read MoreUniversity of Georgia materials researchers rely on MalvernJun 20, 2011"The Viscotek gel permeation chromatography system with triple detection is the most important tool in our laboratory," said Assistant Professor Jason Locklin of the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Engineering, University of Georgia, when referring to the Viscotek TDAmax system from Malvern Instruments...
Read More2D Gel Image Analyser at Major Ophthalmology Centre Is Being Successfully used to Study Proteomic Profiles of Ocular DiseasesJun 17, 2011Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is pleased to announce its Dyversity 2D gel imaging system is being used by scientists at one of Latin America's most prestigious Ophthalmological Institutions, the Institute of Ophthalmology "Fundación Conde de Valenciana" in Mexico, to study which proteins are associated with ocular diseases...
Read MoreAnasys scientific co-founder appointed to prestigious professorship in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignJun 17, 2011Anasys Instruments is pleased to announce that Dr William P King has been appointed as the Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his faculty position at UIUC, Dr. King serves as a key scientific advisor to Anasys Instruments...
Read MoreEnergy efficient extraction fume hood technology benefits from improved filter selectivityJun 16, 2011Cambridge-based laboratory supplier, Camlab is now exclusively offering a new environmentally-friendly solution from ERLAB in the form of the new energy saving Green Fume Hood range that offers all the benefits of traditional filtration hoods while solving the problem of limited filter selectivity...
Read MoreCreate your own shirts - at the Eppendorf Fashion Community!Jun 16, 2011Eppendorf are now inviting all members of the Eppendorf ep-points rewards program to redeem their collected points for a voucher which can be exchanged for an individual item of clothing with an Eppendorf print. The new Eppendorf shop at the Eppendorf partner Spreadshirt allows customers to create their own product in no time: simply select a product (for example a T-shirt), decide on one of the many available Eppendorf prints and add your own text. You can use your ep-points voucher to pay for your product...
Read MoreDionex Joins Forces with the Genevac Corporation to Reduce Solvent Use in Sample PreparationJun 15, 2011Dionex is pleased to announce its partnership with Genevac Corporation, the world's leader in evaporation science and engineering. The product released as a result of this new partnership is the RocketTM Evaporator, which can perform unattended evaporation and concentration of up to six 450 mL flasks or 18 ASE® tubes in parallel. A patented two-stage cold trap built into the evaporator guarantees high levels of solvent recovery and fast evaporation, even for the most volatile organic soents...
Read MoreScientific Lab Supplies launches the INTEGRA VIAFLO 96 well electronic pipettorJun 14, 2011Exclusively available through SLS, the INTEGRA VIAFLO 96 introduces a totally new concept in 96 channel pipetting which is affordable and simple to use. Providing a full range of pipetting modes including repeat dispense, sample dilute, serial dilution and the ability to programme with customized step-based programmes, it renders 96 and 384 well parallel pipetting as easy as manual single channel pipetting...
Read MoreColder Products Company Achieves ISO 13485 Quality Certification for Medical DevicesJun 14, 2011Colder Products Company, the leader in connections for medical devices, announces the successful certification of its ISO 13485:2003 Quality Management System. This certification confirms that Colder connectors are designed and manufactured to the highest standards of the medical device market...
Read MoreRoslin Cellab Selects BioCision's CoolCell for Cryopreservation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell LinesJun 14, 2011Roslin Cellab, the preeminent incubator for stem cell research and a leading provider of stem cell research services to life sciences companies, has selected BioCision's®CoolCell® freezing container for cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cell lines. The decision by Roslin Cellab - a subsidiary of the Roslin Foundation and sister company to Roslin Cells, a world leader in the isolation of new clinical grade undifferentiated stem cells for use in research and therapy - comes after a comprehensive review of the CoolCell product line. CoolCell will replace the organization's conventional cryopreservation tools sitewide...
Read MoreCrystallics Jun 13, 2011Avantium Pharma BV, a leader in solid state research and pre-formulation for the pharmaceutical industry over the last 11 years, has been spun out from Avantium Holding BV in a management buy-out to create Crystallics...
Read MoreDry powder nasal sprays a hot topic at RDDJun 13, 2011Laser diffraction particle size analysis, already widely used in the characterization of a variety of OINDPs (orally inhaled and nasal drug products) is proving its value in the development of some of the newest drug delivery formulations - dry powder nasal sprays. This was the conclusion of a well-attended workshop on ‘Characterizing the Performance of Nasal Dry Powder Devices' presented by Dr Paul Kippax, from Malvern Instruments, and Dr Julie Suman, President of NextBreath LLC, during May's Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe 2011 (RDD 2011) conference in Berlin, Germany...
Read MoreFreeman Technology to present poster on wet granulation at the International Granulation Conference 2011Jun 13, 2011Freeman Technology will be presenting a poster ‘The characterisation of granulation wet masses using powder rheometry', at the International Granulation Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland from 20-22 June 2011. The poster describes how to steer wet granulation towards a desirable endpoint using Freeman Technology's FT4 Powder Rheometer...
Read MoreEdinburgh Start-Up Creates WorldJun 10, 2011A University of Edinburgh based start-up company has created the world's first 3D hologram based on the properties of a Nobel Prize winning scientific discovery which enhances biomedical research into the behavioural activity of proteins. Holoxica, which specialises in Holography and 3D Display has made the world's first ever medical imaging hologram of a Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) structure, allowing scientists to visualise the structure without any glasses or other visual aids...
Read MoreLinkam tensile stage chosen to control stress in growth of human collagen by the University of LiverpoolJun 10, 2011Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been chosen by the Physics Department of the University of Liverpool to study the effects of controlling stresses applied during the growth of collagen secreted from human fibroblast cells The research goal of Senior Research Assistant, Dr Caroline Smith, and her colleagues at the University of Liverpool is to advance the treatment of tendon injuries by developing a method of growing oriented human collagen....
Read MoreSeparating ELA from the CrowdJun 10, 2011Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, today announced that the inaugural Advances in Separation Technology (AST) conference will form one of the ten conference streams at ELA. Integrating perfectly within ELA, AST will provide delegates an opportunity, unique in Europe, to discuss technique and technology advancements which enhance the separations workflow and productivity. AST will bring together a long list of respected academic faculty members and leading vendor...
Read MoreCarl Zeiss Reports Global GrowthJun 10, 2011Carl Zeiss has ended the first six months of fiscal year 2010/11 with a substantial improvement in sales and earnings over the previous year: revenues totaled EUR 2.143 billion, and earnings before income tax (EbIT) EUR 355 million. In addition to the full consolidation of the eyeglass business as the new Vision Care business group for the first time, strong organic growth - particularly in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Medical Systems and Industrial Metrology business groups - contributed to the positive half-yearly balance sheet presented by the company in Stuttgart...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new efficient, high-throughput platform for hit-picking of compounds for secondary screening. The solution, developed in collaboration with TTP LabTech for BioFocus, integrates the Thermo Scientific RapidStak microplate mover and the TTP LabTech mosquito® X1 nanoliter pipettor to provide exceptional high-speed plate handling and precision, low-volume sampling from high-density formats...
Cenix BioScience GmbH, a leading contract research organization specializing in RNAi-based research in vitro and in vivo, today announced that, together with its new subsidiary, Cenix BioScience Belgium bvba ("Cenix"), it has signed a Collaboration and Technology License Agreement with Beerse, Belgium-based Janssen Research & Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV ("Janssen"), to improve the in vivo applicability of siRNA-based experimentation, focusing on the further co-development of DARE, a proprietary Cenix siRNA delivery technology...
Eppendorf AG celebrates success in a leading global design competition which attracted 4,433 entries from 1,700 companies in over 60 nations. Centrifuge 5424 R, a premium 24-place microcentrifuge, has been honoured for design excellence in the life science and medicine category of ‘red dot award: product design 2011'...
As any scientist or technician knows, successful ELISA assays require a robust and easy to use microplate reader, and a rugged yet thorough microplate washer. For a limited period, Biochrom customers can purchase the Biochrom EZ Read 400 ELISA reader and a choice of either the Asys Atlantis 2 or Anthos Fluido 2 W2 microplate washers for a special package price. Valid for orders placed until the end of September 2011...
ERT, a global technology-driven provider of clinical services and customizable medial devices to biopharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Jeffrey S. Litwin, M.D. its new President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board...
At the Seventh annual PEGS conference held in Boston, MA, TTP LabTech released data demonstrating the use of their novel acoustic biosensor, LIBRA2, for the study of glycosylation patterns on cell membranes. TTP LabTech invited scientists to Booth 304 to view the data and discuss future developments and applications of the LIBRA2 technology...
"The Viscotek gel permeation chromatography system with triple detection is the most important tool in our laboratory," said Assistant Professor Jason Locklin of the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Engineering, University of Georgia, when referring to the Viscotek TDAmax system from Malvern Instruments...
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is pleased to announce its Dyversity 2D gel imaging system is being used by scientists at one of Latin America's most prestigious Ophthalmological Institutions, the Institute of Ophthalmology "Fundación Conde de Valenciana" in Mexico, to study which proteins are associated with ocular diseases...
Anasys Instruments is pleased to announce that Dr William P King has been appointed as the Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his faculty position at UIUC, Dr. King serves as a key scientific advisor to Anasys Instruments...
Cambridge-based laboratory supplier, Camlab is now exclusively offering a new environmentally-friendly solution from ERLAB in the form of the new energy saving Green Fume Hood range that offers all the benefits of traditional filtration hoods while solving the problem of limited filter selectivity...
Eppendorf are now inviting all members of the Eppendorf ep-points rewards program to redeem their collected points for a voucher which can be exchanged for an individual item of clothing with an Eppendorf print. The new Eppendorf shop at the Eppendorf partner Spreadshirt allows customers to create their own product in no time: simply select a product (for example a T-shirt), decide on one of the many available Eppendorf prints and add your own text. You can use your ep-points voucher to pay for your product...
Dionex is pleased to announce its partnership with Genevac Corporation, the world's leader in evaporation science and engineering. The product released as a result of this new partnership is the RocketTM Evaporator, which can perform unattended evaporation and concentration of up to six 450 mL flasks or 18 ASE® tubes in parallel. A patented two-stage cold trap built into the evaporator guarantees high levels of solvent recovery and fast evaporation, even for the most volatile organic soents...
Exclusively available through SLS, the INTEGRA VIAFLO 96 introduces a totally new concept in 96 channel pipetting which is affordable and simple to use. Providing a full range of pipetting modes including repeat dispense, sample dilute, serial dilution and the ability to programme with customized step-based programmes, it renders 96 and 384 well parallel pipetting as easy as manual single channel pipetting...
Colder Products Company, the leader in connections for medical devices, announces the successful certification of its ISO 13485:2003 Quality Management System. This certification confirms that Colder connectors are designed and manufactured to the highest standards of the medical device market...
Roslin Cellab, the preeminent incubator for stem cell research and a leading provider of stem cell research services to life sciences companies, has selected BioCision's®CoolCell® freezing container for cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cell lines. The decision by Roslin Cellab - a subsidiary of the Roslin Foundation and sister company to Roslin Cells, a world leader in the isolation of new clinical grade undifferentiated stem cells for use in research and therapy - comes after a comprehensive review of the CoolCell product line. CoolCell will replace the organization's conventional cryopreservation tools sitewide...
Avantium Pharma BV, a leader in solid state research and pre-formulation for the pharmaceutical industry over the last 11 years, has been spun out from Avantium Holding BV in a management buy-out to create Crystallics...
Laser diffraction particle size analysis, already widely used in the characterization of a variety of OINDPs (orally inhaled and nasal drug products) is proving its value in the development of some of the newest drug delivery formulations - dry powder nasal sprays. This was the conclusion of a well-attended workshop on ‘Characterizing the Performance of Nasal Dry Powder Devices' presented by Dr Paul Kippax, from Malvern Instruments, and Dr Julie Suman, President of NextBreath LLC, during May's Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe 2011 (RDD 2011) conference in Berlin, Germany...
Freeman Technology will be presenting a poster ‘The characterisation of granulation wet masses using powder rheometry', at the International Granulation Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland from 20-22 June 2011. The poster describes how to steer wet granulation towards a desirable endpoint using Freeman Technology's FT4 Powder Rheometer...
A University of Edinburgh based start-up company has created the world's first 3D hologram based on the properties of a Nobel Prize winning scientific discovery which enhances biomedical research into the behavioural activity of proteins. Holoxica, which specialises in Holography and 3D Display has made the world's first ever medical imaging hologram of a Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) structure, allowing scientists to visualise the structure without any glasses or other visual aids...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been chosen by the Physics Department of the University of Liverpool to study the effects of controlling stresses applied during the growth of collagen secreted from human fibroblast cells The research goal of Senior Research Assistant, Dr Caroline Smith, and her colleagues at the University of Liverpool is to advance the treatment of tendon injuries by developing a method of growing oriented human collagen....
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, today announced that the inaugural Advances in Separation Technology (AST) conference will form one of the ten conference streams at ELA. Integrating perfectly within ELA, AST will provide delegates an opportunity, unique in Europe, to discuss technique and technology advancements which enhance the separations workflow and productivity. AST will bring together a long list of respected academic faculty members and leading vendor...
Carl Zeiss has ended the first six months of fiscal year 2010/11 with a substantial improvement in sales and earnings over the previous year: revenues totaled EUR 2.143 billion, and earnings before income tax (EbIT) EUR 355 million. In addition to the full consolidation of the eyeglass business as the new Vision Care business group for the first time, strong organic growth - particularly in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Medical Systems and Industrial Metrology business groups - contributed to the positive half-yearly balance sheet presented by the company in Stuttgart...