SLS partner with Kinesis Ltd to provide pipette servicingApr 21, 2011Nottingham based Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) has teamed up with leading pipette calibration and repair specialists, Kinesis Ltd. The new partnership means SLS customers now benefit from a comprehensive service that covers the whole pipettor lifecycle from supply to servicing...
Read MoreUniversity of Nottingham and BioFocus sign compound management agreementApr 20, 2011BioFocus announced today that its Compound Focus, Inc. subsidiary has signed a compound management services agreement with the University of Nottingham, UK. Under the terms of this agreement, Compound Focus will select, source, acquire, perform quality control checks and reformat a compound collection before returning to the Managed Chemical Compound Collection (MCCC) at the University of Nottingham...
Read MoreScreening Europe & Protein Crystallography among scheduled conference streams at ELA 2011Apr 20, 2011Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, are delighted to announce that Screening Europe and Advances in Protein Crystallography will be among the streams of this highly topical conference & exhibition. The inaugural event will take place 30 June - 1 July in the historic city of Hamburg, Germany and will bring together ten distinct conference tracks with 20 expert speakers per track...
Read MoreNew Life Science Awards Event Precedes ELA 2011Apr 19, 2011Select Biosciences and co-organisers, Langton Howarth, are pleased to announce that the inaugural Life Science Awards will be held on the evening of 29 June at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Hamburg, Germany. Celebrating the very best of the industry's achievements worldwide, the ceremony precedes the first European Lab Automation (ELA) conference and exhibition, which will take place at the adjoining Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH), 30 June - 1 July...
Read MoreWYATT TECHNOLOGY UNVEILS NEW BROCHURE FOR ITS NEWLY LAUNCHED MApr 19, 2011
Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular characterization, has published a brochure in support of its new electrophophoretic mobility instrument, the MöbiuζTM. The 10 page brochure is a comprehensive document that outlines the unique capabilities of The MöbiuζTM, including an increased number of detectors at a variety of angles which produce a greater amount of data than any other "zeta-potential" instrument...
Read MoreERT Awarded over $10 Million of ePRO Business from Major Pharma - Increasing its Position as a Leading ePRO ProviderApr 19, 2011ERT, a global technology-driven provider of clinical services and customizable medical devices to biopharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, announced today that it was awarded three new contracts with top tier pharmaceutical companies, totaling over $10 million for its electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) business. The company has been selected to provide its diverse multi-modality solutions, reinforcing its position as a leading provider of multi-mode ePRO devices and services...
Read MoreGilson announce Seal of Assurance for UK CustomersApr 19, 2011Gilson has today launched a new stamp of approval for its official sales and support centres within the UK by introducing the ‘Gilson Seal of Assurance' scheme. The Gilson Seal of Assurance confirms customers will receive the true Gilson experience, support and commitment that they expect from the leading manual liquid handling manufacturers. All products are guaranteed to be genuine, sourced directly from Gilson and fully supported by the manufacturer's warranty and technical expertise...
Read MorePoster and podium presentations for Malvern team at Polymer Processing Society Annual Meeting 2011Apr 18, 2011Dr Gerhard Heinzmann from Malvern Instruments will make poster and podium presentations at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, which takes place in Marrakech, Morocco from 10-14 May 2011. The subject of the poster is Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) measurement of polymer gels, while the podium presentation will discuss the use of gel permeation chromatography (GPC) to study poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA)...
Read MoreLeica Microsystems and Definiens Announce Co-Marketing in the Area of Drug Discovery ResearchApr 15, 2011Leica Microsystems, a leading global designer and producer of precision optical systems, and Definiens, the leading Health Image IntelligenceTM company, today announced a co-marketing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Definiens and Leica will cooperatively market their complementary products and host joint workshops and educational events. Customers will benefit from streamlined high-content image analysis, allowing them to better identify and understand pathways and mechanisms...
Read MoreSigma Life Science Launches Suite of Knockout Rats to Model ParkinsonApr 15, 2011Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL), announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has created a suite of knockout rat models of Parkinson's disease in collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF). Developed using the proprietary SAGEspeedTM model creation process, these off-the-shelf rat models represent a breakthrough in Parkinson's disease research, overcoming the inherent limitations of the existing mouse models...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Launches Global Enterprise ServicesApr 15, 2011
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced Global Enterprise Services, a suite of customizable service offerings that simplifies service delivery and increases laboratory productivity, providing laboratories with global resources to drive business efficiency and cost savings...
Read MoreinstrAction and Protagen Form Strategic AllianceApr 15, 2011instrAction GmbH, Ludwigshafen, the specialist for design and production of selective separation matrices and Protagen AG, Dortmund, a GMP certified service laboratory for protein analysis signed a strategic alliance for the development of customized instrAction ® Phases for downstream processing of biotherapeutics...
Read MoreEuropean Lab Automation 2011 to Highlight Advances in the Automation of methods and equipmentApr 14, 2011Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, are delighted to announce that the Advances in Microarray Technology, Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress and Next Gen Sequencing Europe meetings will be joining the streams of this new, highly topical conference & exhibition, held in Hamburg, Germany, from 30 June - 1 July 2011...
Read MoreMucosis Starts Clinical Study with its Lead Product, FluGEMApr 14, 2011Dutch biotechnology company Mucosis B.V. today announced the start of a Phase 1 clinical study with its lead product FluGEMTM, a novel improved influenza vaccine for the elderly. It is the first-ever study in man with a vaccine candidate based on MimopathTM, a proprietary platform technology for developing more potent vaccines...
Read MoreAccelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. partners with CambridgeSoft integrating ATL TITAN with ChemACXApr 14, 2011Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leading supplier of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), is excited to announce its partnership with CambridgeSoft® Corporation to provide the integration of ATL TITANTM Chemical Management Package and CambridgeSoft Available Chemicals eXchange (ChemACX). ChemACX will add another level of data management to ATL TITANTM's Chemical Management Package, a highly configurable SOA solution...
Read MoreDutch firm launches worldApr 14, 2011Each year over eight million people die of cancer worldwide. Patients' chances of survival vary widely: depending on the type of cancer involved, the stage at which it is diagnosed and the speed with which appropriate treatment is launched. Skyline Diagnostics B.V., a Dutch firm associated with the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, has developed a unique diagnostic test for patients with a particular form of blood cancer. The test combines several DNA technologies into a single diagnostic chip, which determines a patient's risk profile in just four days...
Read MoreNew radiotherapy technique may save more healthy breast tissueApr 13, 2011A new study will confirm whether an advanced radiotherapy technique that uses imaging of titanium clips implanted during surgery can reduce side-effects from breast cancer treatment. The study, led by The Institute of Cancer Research and funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme, will compare image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) with the standard imaging technique.
Read MoreFluidigm Access Array Technology Helps Identify Mutations in LeukemiaApr 13, 2011Fluidigm has announced that MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory (www.mll.com) has used the company's Access ArrayTM technology to help it uncover mutations in over 80 percent of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) patients, providing new insights into the molecular heterogeneity of the disease. MLL researchers applied the unique properties of the Fluidigm Access Array System to prepare the samples and barcode the amplicons for next-generation deep-sequencing using 454 sequencing technology...
Read MoreFLIR IR Camera Technology Debuts at Daytona 500Apr 13, 2011FLIR Advanced Thermal Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art IR camera system called the 'Heat Seeker' that has enabled broadcaster - Fox Sports to record the extreme temperatures which develop on NASCAR motor vehicles during their recent Daytona 500 live broadcast...
Read MoreBioFocus leads compound library market with innovative business modelApr 13, 2011BioFocus announced today that it has established an innovative and unique model for the sale of its SoftFocus compound libraries. Going forward, BioFocus will provide a limited number of clients with SoftFocus libraries on a subscription basis only. These libraries are designed to target protein families of particular interest to the subscribers. This shared exclusivity model will allow clients access to high value, novel compounds with limited competition on derived intellectual property...
Read MoreSigma Life Science and SwitchGear Genomics launch a human genome-wide MISSION 3' UTR Lenti GoClone library to identify and validate targets for microRNA regulationApr 13, 2011Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq:SIAL), today announced the availability of over 10,000 MISSION 3' UTR Lenti GoClones, powered by SwitchGear Genomics Inc., for straightforward microRNA (miRNA) target validation. This novel target reporter system combines SwitchGear Genomics' reporter assay expertise with Sigma Life Science's patented lentiviral technology to provide ready-to-use vectors that can enable scientists to understand gene regulation in a variety of cell types, including primary cells.
Read MoreKINAXO Extends Collaboration with Takeda Apr 12, 2011KINAXO Biotechnologies GmbH announced today that it has entered a second collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited Osaka, Japan. Under the agreement KINAXO will apply its quantitative phosphoproteomics technology PhosphoScout ® to assist in research of drugs under development at Takeda. This will allow Takeda to take early educated decisions on drug efficacy and safety. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed...
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Nottingham based Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) has teamed up with leading pipette calibration and repair specialists, Kinesis Ltd. The new partnership means SLS customers now benefit from a comprehensive service that covers the whole pipettor lifecycle from supply to servicing...
BioFocus announced today that its Compound Focus, Inc. subsidiary has signed a compound management services agreement with the University of Nottingham, UK. Under the terms of this agreement, Compound Focus will select, source, acquire, perform quality control checks and reformat a compound collection before returning to the Managed Chemical Compound Collection (MCCC) at the University of Nottingham...
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, are delighted to announce that Screening Europe and Advances in Protein Crystallography will be among the streams of this highly topical conference & exhibition. The inaugural event will take place 30 June - 1 July in the historic city of Hamburg, Germany and will bring together ten distinct conference tracks with 20 expert speakers per track...
Select Biosciences and co-organisers, Langton Howarth, are pleased to announce that the inaugural Life Science Awards will be held on the evening of 29 June at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Hamburg, Germany. Celebrating the very best of the industry's achievements worldwide, the ceremony precedes the first European Lab Automation (ELA) conference and exhibition, which will take place at the adjoining Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH), 30 June - 1 July...
Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular characterization, has published a brochure in support of its new electrophophoretic mobility instrument, the MöbiuζTM. The 10 page brochure is a comprehensive document that outlines the unique capabilities of The MöbiuζTM, including an increased number of detectors at a variety of angles which produce a greater amount of data than any other "zeta-potential" instrument...
ERT, a global technology-driven provider of clinical services and customizable medical devices to biopharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, announced today that it was awarded three new contracts with top tier pharmaceutical companies, totaling over $10 million for its electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) business. The company has been selected to provide its diverse multi-modality solutions, reinforcing its position as a leading provider of multi-mode ePRO devices and services...
Gilson has today launched a new stamp of approval for its official sales and support centres within the UK by introducing the ‘Gilson Seal of Assurance' scheme. The Gilson Seal of Assurance confirms customers will receive the true Gilson experience, support and commitment that they expect from the leading manual liquid handling manufacturers. All products are guaranteed to be genuine, sourced directly from Gilson and fully supported by the manufacturer's warranty and technical expertise...
Dr Gerhard Heinzmann from Malvern Instruments will make poster and podium presentations at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, which takes place in Marrakech, Morocco from 10-14 May 2011. The subject of the poster is Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) measurement of polymer gels, while the podium presentation will discuss the use of gel permeation chromatography (GPC) to study poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA)...
Leica Microsystems, a leading global designer and producer of precision optical systems, and Definiens, the leading Health Image IntelligenceTM company, today announced a co-marketing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Definiens and Leica will cooperatively market their complementary products and host joint workshops and educational events. Customers will benefit from streamlined high-content image analysis, allowing them to better identify and understand pathways and mechanisms...
Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL), announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has created a suite of knockout rat models of Parkinson's disease in collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF). Developed using the proprietary SAGEspeedTM model creation process, these off-the-shelf rat models represent a breakthrough in Parkinson's disease research, overcoming the inherent limitations of the existing mouse models...
hermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced Global Enterprise Services, a suite of customizable service offerings that simplifies service delivery and increases laboratory productivity, providing laboratories with global resources to drive business efficiency and cost savings...
instrAction GmbH, Ludwigshafen, the specialist for design and production of selective separation matrices and Protagen AG, Dortmund, a GMP certified service laboratory for protein analysis signed a strategic alliance for the development of customized instrAction ® Phases for downstream processing of biotherapeutics...
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2011, are delighted to announce that the Advances in Microarray Technology, Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress and Next Gen Sequencing Europe meetings will be joining the streams of this new, highly topical conference & exhibition, held in Hamburg, Germany, from 30 June - 1 July 2011...
Dutch biotechnology company Mucosis B.V. today announced the start of a Phase 1 clinical study with its lead product FluGEMTM, a novel improved influenza vaccine for the elderly. It is the first-ever study in man with a vaccine candidate based on MimopathTM, a proprietary platform technology for developing more potent vaccines...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leading supplier of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), is excited to announce its partnership with CambridgeSoft® Corporation to provide the integration of ATL TITANTM Chemical Management Package and CambridgeSoft Available Chemicals eXchange (ChemACX). ChemACX will add another level of data management to ATL TITANTM's Chemical Management Package, a highly configurable SOA solution...
Each year over eight million people die of cancer worldwide. Patients' chances of survival vary widely: depending on the type of cancer involved, the stage at which it is diagnosed and the speed with which appropriate treatment is launched. Skyline Diagnostics B.V., a Dutch firm associated with the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, has developed a unique diagnostic test for patients with a particular form of blood cancer. The test combines several DNA technologies into a single diagnostic chip, which determines a patient's risk profile in just four days...
A new study will confirm whether an advanced radiotherapy technique that uses imaging of titanium clips implanted during surgery can reduce side-effects from breast cancer treatment. The study, led by The Institute of Cancer Research and funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme, will compare image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) with the standard imaging technique.
Fluidigm has announced that MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory (www.mll.com) has used the company's Access ArrayTM technology to help it uncover mutations in over 80 percent of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) patients, providing new insights into the molecular heterogeneity of the disease. MLL researchers applied the unique properties of the Fluidigm Access Array System to prepare the samples and barcode the amplicons for next-generation deep-sequencing using 454 sequencing technology...
FLIR Advanced Thermal Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art IR camera system called the 'Heat Seeker' that has enabled broadcaster - Fox Sports to record the extreme temperatures which develop on NASCAR motor vehicles during their recent Daytona 500 live broadcast...
KINAXO Biotechnologies GmbH announced today that it has entered a second collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited Osaka, Japan. Under the agreement KINAXO will apply its quantitative phosphoproteomics technology PhosphoScout ® to assist in research of drugs under development at Takeda. This will allow Takeda to take early educated decisions on drug efficacy and safety. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed...