As part of the Analysis for Innovators program round 6, Queensgate, in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), were awarded funding for a project to investigate parasitic motion/off-axis errors in multi-axis nanopositioning stages, and develop a unique and practical correction methodology. Full details of the research are available in a paper previously presented at ASPE and EUSPEN...
Nikon Instruments Inc. has unveiled the winners of the 48th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year’s first place prize was awarded to Grigorii Timin, supervised by Dr. Michel Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva, for his remarkable image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. Masterfully blending imaging technology and artistic creativity, Timin utilized high-resolution microscopy and image-stitching to capture this species of Phelsuma grandis day gecko...
Global Healthcare Opportunities, or GHO Capital Partners LLP, the European specialist investor in global healthcare, today announces its investment in Sapio Sciences (“Sapio”), a high growth integrated lab informatics platform helping to transform and accelerate life science R&D for international biopharmaceutical companies, CROs and clinical diagnostic labs...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) the leading supplier of equipment, chemicals and consumables for laboratory use in the UK – are excited to announce the acquisition of Sparks Lab Supplies, expanding its product and service offering in the Republic of Ireland. Established in 1996, Sparks are a laboratory consumables, reagents and equipment supplier based in Dublin and they are renowned for the personalised service they provide...
INTEGRA Biosciences has released a new eBook covering everything you need to know about PCR. This free resource is suitable for all user levels, from complete beginners starting out, all the way to experienced scientists who would simply like a skills refresh. The eBook features in-depth explanations, high-quality application notes and lots of helpful information to enable you to become a PCR pro in no time...
Live Webinar | December 13th, 2022 | 2 - 3.30 PM. For the development of the ZEISS Lattice Lightsheet 7, the ZEISS Microscopy team has received the " Deutscher Zukunftspreis" - the German President's Award for Technology and Innovation. This is a wonderful achievement and to mark the award ZEISS would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about the technology and how it is used to accelerate 3D Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy...
Sartorius BIA Separations (BIA), a leading bio-chromatography company, now part of the international life science group Sartorius, and Exopharm Ltd., a company at the forefront of transformative medicines using exosomes, or extracellular vesicles (EVs), announced they have entered into a formal collaboration. The two companies have signed a Material Transfer Agreement and associated collaborative programme that aims to exploit the synergy...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, has announced that Novozymes, the global leader in biological solutions, will expand the use of the Benchling R&D Cloud across its entire R&D organization. After initially rolling out Benchling to improve collaboration and accelerate innovation within select strain and engineering research and development (R&D) teams, the company determined Benchling was the right solution to create a central source of truth for data, collaboration, and insights across all Novozymes’ R&D teams...
Rapid 2D barcode rack readers and automated tube picking equipment from Ziath are helping Colorifix (Norwich, UK) to accelerate development of revolutionary biological dyes to help the textile industry dramatically reduce its environmental impact. Dyeing of fabrics by the textile industry represents one of Man’s most polluting industrial processes, using many toxic chemicals and over 5 trillion litres of water every year...
Trauma is the main cause of premature death internationally, resulting in more deaths in people under 40 years of age than all other causes combined. Even trauma victims that are taken to hospital have a high mortality rate, in part due to massive systemic inflammatory reactions leading to the dysfunction of organs that were not initially injured. A team at Oslo University Hospital in Norway has been investigating the role of the protein HMGB1...
Perfect skin, clear conscience. Asynt reports how sustainable cosmetics innovator – Keracol Ltd (Leeds, UK) is using its DrySyn heating blocks and CondenSyn air condensers in the development and scale-up of their award-winning Dr Craft Mandarin green beauty product range. Keracol Ltd is a sustainable cosmetics spin-out company born from over 15 years of scientific research between Professor Chris Rayner and Professor Richard Blackburn of the University of Leeds, UK...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) are excited to announce plans to move to a new, state-of-the-art National Distribution Centre based on the Fairham Business Park development in Clifton, Nottingham. The new multi-million-pound facility, is three times bigger than the current SLS site and will ensure the company’s plans for continued growth can be achieved for many years to come. Once the building is complete, SLS will invest a further £3.5m for an extensive “fit out” process...
IDEXX, the global leader in rapid microbiology testing for water, has acquired Tecta-PDS, an innovative Canadian company that has introduced automation to water microbiology testing for parameters including E. coli and total coliforms. The acquisition allows IDEXX to expand its range of water microbiology testing options for both laboratory-based and in-field testing...
Lab equipment manufacturer Starlab, which is headquarted in Hamburg, has been nominated for ‘Sustainable Laboratory Product of the Year’ in the annual Scientists’ Choice Awards, for its TipOne® Sterile Refill System. The refill system has been developed as a plastic-saving, cost-effective alternative to racked sterile tips, while still fulfilling the high standards required by any laboratory for sterile tips and filter tips...
One of the many benefits of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is that all laboratory data is captured in one place. This allows laboratories to easily extract Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and detailed management statistics from the data, providing a rich source of information to optimize operations and eliminate wastage. Yet few laboratories take maximum advantage of this capability...
Esya Labs will be partnering with MSD (tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA) for this grant to validate peripheral biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease and accelerate potential therapeutics development. MJFF’s mission is to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease through funding diagnostic and therapeutic research efforts to improve the lives of those living with Parkinson’s disease...
Malvern Panalytical (Malvern, UK) and Applied Photophysics (Leatherhead, UK) have announced their commercial agreement for Malvern Panalytical to distribute Protein Stable’s microplate-based differential scanning fluorimeter, SUPR-DSF, in the United States of America and Canada. The SUPR-DSF provides researchers with high-throughput protein stability screening using the technique of Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DSF)....
University of Birmingham spinout ChromaTwist Ltd has secured £487k of equity investment to develop its new class of fluorescent dyes for the flow cytometry reagent market. This second round of equity investment, which brought in funds from Directors, existing Angel investors, angelgroups and the University of Birmingham will allow the company to continue product development with industry partners, and enable rapid development of products for market entry as soon as 2023...
Leica Microsystems and Cell Signaling Technology (CST) have announced a partnership to validate CST antibodies on the Cell DIVE multiplexed imaging solution. As an open multiplexing system, Cell DIVE offers unparalleled flexibility in antibody selection, allowing researchers to design custom antibody biomarker panels. Knowing that selected CST antibodies have been tested and verified using the Cell DIVE multiplexing workflow gives researchers the ability to move forward with confidence...
UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd. is pleased to announce its agreement with Tecan, a pioneer and global leader in laboratory automation, for the manufacturing and supply of Tecan’s 96-well filter plates to be used in RevoluGen’s automated Fire Monkey™ High Molecular Weight (HMW)-DNA extraction kits. Automated DNA extraction using these specialized 96-well plates, which incorporate the proprietary Fire Monkey extraction technology...
Sphere Fluidics, a company developing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, announce that it has opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Granta Park, Cambridgeshire, UK, to support the Company’s growth. Doubling overall capacity, the laboratories enable the team’s accelerated expansion, and the development of new, innovative products...
Evident Corporation, a premier manufacturer of life science imaging systems, and Ultivue, Inc., an industry leader in multiplexing tools and novel image analysis solutions for tissue biomarker studies, announced a collaborative agreement to promote whole slide imaging using multiplexed immunofluorescence (mIF) assays to advance translational research in the Americas...
As part of the Analysis for Innovators program round 6, Queensgate, in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), were awarded funding for a project to investigate parasitic motion/off-axis errors in multi-axis nanopositioning stages, and develop a unique and practical correction methodology. Full details of the research are available in a paper previously presented at ASPE and EUSPEN...
Nikon Instruments Inc. has unveiled the winners of the 48th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year’s first place prize was awarded to Grigorii Timin, supervised by Dr. Michel Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva, for his remarkable image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. Masterfully blending imaging technology and artistic creativity, Timin utilized high-resolution microscopy and image-stitching to capture this species of Phelsuma grandis day gecko...
Global Healthcare Opportunities, or GHO Capital Partners LLP, the European specialist investor in global healthcare, today announces its investment in Sapio Sciences (“Sapio”), a high growth integrated lab informatics platform helping to transform and accelerate life science R&D for international biopharmaceutical companies, CROs and clinical diagnostic labs...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) the leading supplier of equipment, chemicals and consumables for laboratory use in the UK – are excited to announce the acquisition of Sparks Lab Supplies, expanding its product and service offering in the Republic of Ireland. Established in 1996, Sparks are a laboratory consumables, reagents and equipment supplier based in Dublin and they are renowned for the personalised service they provide...
INTEGRA Biosciences has released a new eBook covering everything you need to know about PCR. This free resource is suitable for all user levels, from complete beginners starting out, all the way to experienced scientists who would simply like a skills refresh. The eBook features in-depth explanations, high-quality application notes and lots of helpful information to enable you to become a PCR pro in no time...
Live Webinar | December 13th, 2022 | 2 - 3.30 PM. For the development of the ZEISS Lattice Lightsheet 7, the ZEISS Microscopy team has received the " Deutscher Zukunftspreis" - the German President's Award for Technology and Innovation. This is a wonderful achievement and to mark the award ZEISS would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about the technology and how it is used to accelerate 3D Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy...
Sartorius BIA Separations (BIA), a leading bio-chromatography company, now part of the international life science group Sartorius, and Exopharm Ltd., a company at the forefront of transformative medicines using exosomes, or extracellular vesicles (EVs), announced they have entered into a formal collaboration. The two companies have signed a Material Transfer Agreement and associated collaborative programme that aims to exploit the synergy...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, has announced that Novozymes, the global leader in biological solutions, will expand the use of the Benchling R&D Cloud across its entire R&D organization. After initially rolling out Benchling to improve collaboration and accelerate innovation within select strain and engineering research and development (R&D) teams, the company determined Benchling was the right solution to create a central source of truth for data, collaboration, and insights across all Novozymes’ R&D teams...
Rapid 2D barcode rack readers and automated tube picking equipment from Ziath are helping Colorifix (Norwich, UK) to accelerate development of revolutionary biological dyes to help the textile industry dramatically reduce its environmental impact. Dyeing of fabrics by the textile industry represents one of Man’s most polluting industrial processes, using many toxic chemicals and over 5 trillion litres of water every year...
Trauma is the main cause of premature death internationally, resulting in more deaths in people under 40 years of age than all other causes combined. Even trauma victims that are taken to hospital have a high mortality rate, in part due to massive systemic inflammatory reactions leading to the dysfunction of organs that were not initially injured. A team at Oslo University Hospital in Norway has been investigating the role of the protein HMGB1...
Perfect skin, clear conscience. Asynt reports how sustainable cosmetics innovator – Keracol Ltd (Leeds, UK) is using its DrySyn heating blocks and CondenSyn air condensers in the development and scale-up of their award-winning Dr Craft Mandarin green beauty product range. Keracol Ltd is a sustainable cosmetics spin-out company born from over 15 years of scientific research between Professor Chris Rayner and Professor Richard Blackburn of the University of Leeds, UK...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) are excited to announce plans to move to a new, state-of-the-art National Distribution Centre based on the Fairham Business Park development in Clifton, Nottingham. The new multi-million-pound facility, is three times bigger than the current SLS site and will ensure the company’s plans for continued growth can be achieved for many years to come. Once the building is complete, SLS will invest a further £3.5m for an extensive “fit out” process...
IDEXX, the global leader in rapid microbiology testing for water, has acquired Tecta-PDS, an innovative Canadian company that has introduced automation to water microbiology testing for parameters including E. coli and total coliforms. The acquisition allows IDEXX to expand its range of water microbiology testing options for both laboratory-based and in-field testing...
Lab equipment manufacturer Starlab, which is headquarted in Hamburg, has been nominated for ‘Sustainable Laboratory Product of the Year’ in the annual Scientists’ Choice Awards, for its TipOne® Sterile Refill System. The refill system has been developed as a plastic-saving, cost-effective alternative to racked sterile tips, while still fulfilling the high standards required by any laboratory for sterile tips and filter tips...
One of the many benefits of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is that all laboratory data is captured in one place. This allows laboratories to easily extract Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and detailed management statistics from the data, providing a rich source of information to optimize operations and eliminate wastage. Yet few laboratories take maximum advantage of this capability...
Esya Labs will be partnering with MSD (tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA) for this grant to validate peripheral biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease and accelerate potential therapeutics development. MJFF’s mission is to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease through funding diagnostic and therapeutic research efforts to improve the lives of those living with Parkinson’s disease...
Malvern Panalytical (Malvern, UK) and Applied Photophysics (Leatherhead, UK) have announced their commercial agreement for Malvern Panalytical to distribute Protein Stable’s microplate-based differential scanning fluorimeter, SUPR-DSF, in the United States of America and Canada. The SUPR-DSF provides researchers with high-throughput protein stability screening using the technique of Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DSF)....
University of Birmingham spinout ChromaTwist Ltd has secured £487k of equity investment to develop its new class of fluorescent dyes for the flow cytometry reagent market. This second round of equity investment, which brought in funds from Directors, existing Angel investors, angelgroups and the University of Birmingham will allow the company to continue product development with industry partners, and enable rapid development of products for market entry as soon as 2023...
Leica Microsystems and Cell Signaling Technology (CST) have announced a partnership to validate CST antibodies on the Cell DIVE multiplexed imaging solution. As an open multiplexing system, Cell DIVE offers unparalleled flexibility in antibody selection, allowing researchers to design custom antibody biomarker panels. Knowing that selected CST antibodies have been tested and verified using the Cell DIVE multiplexing workflow gives researchers the ability to move forward with confidence...
UK genomics company, RevoluGen Ltd. is pleased to announce its agreement with Tecan, a pioneer and global leader in laboratory automation, for the manufacturing and supply of Tecan’s 96-well filter plates to be used in RevoluGen’s automated Fire Monkey™ High Molecular Weight (HMW)-DNA extraction kits. Automated DNA extraction using these specialized 96-well plates, which incorporate the proprietary Fire Monkey extraction technology...
Sphere Fluidics, a company developing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, announce that it has opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Granta Park, Cambridgeshire, UK, to support the Company’s growth. Doubling overall capacity, the laboratories enable the team’s accelerated expansion, and the development of new, innovative products...
Evident Corporation, a premier manufacturer of life science imaging systems, and Ultivue, Inc., an industry leader in multiplexing tools and novel image analysis solutions for tissue biomarker studies, announced a collaborative agreement to promote whole slide imaging using multiplexed immunofluorescence (mIF) assays to advance translational research in the Americas...