With chemists engineering new “designer drugs” everyday, law enforcement and regulatory bodies need testing to quickly and accurately determine the composition of these compounds. This study will present a static headspace method for rapidly determining drug components for use in forensic applications. A HT3 Headspace Analyzer will be used to examine bath salt samples for the presence of mephedrone (MPD) and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MPDV or MDPK) by GC/MS.
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of serum-free and chemically defined cell culture media for bioproduction and cell therapy manufacturing, has announced the establishment of an Innovation and Collaboration Center in Suzhou New District, China. Through this new center, experts will collaborate with customers to design upstream cell culture processes that meet their biomanufacturing needs...
BioChromato Inc. has published an interview that describes a new bioremediation technique developed by a leading Environmental Research Center and how the Smart Evaporator C1 offers a productive tool for preparing microbial degradation culture media for analysis. The novel bioremediation technique, based upon patented degrading microorganisms impregnated on carbonized wood, has been demonstrated to detoxify persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that cannot be decomposed by natural processes in soil.
A diffraction grating is used to separate polychromatic light into its constituent wavelengths. In a Raman spectrometer diffraction gratings are used to separate the constituent wavelengths of the collected Raman scatter onto different pixels of the CCD camera for detection. All Raman spectrometers will require at least one diffraction grating and will frequently be configured to contain more than one to allow the user optimum grating selection for their samples and excitation wavelength(s).
Global provider of human and animal biospecimens - AMSBIO offers a custom procurement service enabling researchers to source specific biofluid and tissue samples which are not already available in their extensive biorepository. To support increasingly complex research, AMSBIO aims to provide a full range of blood-based products, including whole blood, serum, plasma, blood and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)....
ACHEMA 2022 – the World Forum for the Process Industries – will be held at the Frankfurt Fairground from 22 to 26 August 2022, instead of 4 to 8 April 2022 as originally planned. This decision was made in view of the increasing uncertainty caused by the new Corona variant after intensive discussions with the community and in the ACHEMA Committee...
YMC-Triart C18 UHPLC columns with an ID of 1 mm are the ideal choice for high sensitivity LC/MS analyses. In this new application note, the screening of 6 antineoplastic drugs is shown. This analysis requires the highest sensitivity since even the smallest amounts of these drugs need to be detected due to their adverse very serious, life-threatening effects. By choosing a high efficiency column with a small internal diameter of 1 mm and coupling it to mass spectrometry the benefit becomes clear: excellent peak shapes – also for low sensitivity compounds!
As key partners of the prestigious Imperial College London in the field of optical imaging and its use, Leica helps Imperial drive forward research and innovation through the next generation of biomedical engineering research. Both Imperial campuses in South Kensington and White City are equipped with cutting-edge imaging solutions from Leica Microsystems, such as THUNDER imaging systems and STELLARIS confocal microscope systems...
INTEGRA Biosciences – a leading supplier of liquid handling tools – has released comprehensive guidance on how to best care for pipettes to ensure they deliver continuous and prolonged accuracy. The company offers a clear care plan for manual and electronic pipettes to enable reliable research results year after year. Pipetting is an integral part of many routine lab processes, and precise and dependable results rely on both operator technique and equipment operating at full capacity..
Formedix, a leading provider of clinical trial software solutions, announces the launch of the Formedix ryze Community, to provide their customers with a location to collaborate, expand their knowledge and share information. Through a range of tools, the ryze Community will support the pharmaceutical industry to streamline and enhance clinical trial set-up and build. The new platform includes a user forum and knowledge base, allowing customers to learn from the wider scientific community...
Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Elkay Laboratory Products (UK) Ltd, a distributor of critical laboratory consumables, instruments and services with headquarters in Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Elkay Labs further enhances Calibre Scientific’s growing presence in the United Kingdom. Elkay Labs is a premier distributor of products including liquid handling, specimen collection, storage, biobanking, test tubes, caps and vials, filtration and centrifugation...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that the performance of its SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assays are not impacted by the emergence of Omicron (B.1.1.529), a variant of concern that was recently identified by the World Health Organization (WHO). There are more than 30 Omicron mutations reported in the S gene of SARS-CoV-2. PerkinElmer’s assays do not target the S gene for SARS-CoV-2 detection and are not affected by these S gene mutations...
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MolGen B.V. is grounded in its history of developing and marketing advanced bulk chemistry kits for DNA/RNA extraction that successfully satisfied the needs of seed and plant breeding, MolGen today remains committed to finding new ways to advance how it helps those who work in agriculture laboratories. Based in The Netherlands, leveraging from a knowledgeable environment, MolGen has grown in just a few short years and now offers agriculture partners of all sizes a wide range of chemistry tools...
Following the decade-long success of the UK's leading laboratory exhibition, Lab Innovations, Lab Innovations South is launching 20 April 2022. Lab Innovations South is a new dedicated one-day event for laboratory professionals working within life sciences sectors in the golden triangle. It is the sister event for the UK’s leading laboratory exhibition, Lab Innovations. The event will bring together 300 of the UK’s leading Life Sciences researchers and laboratory decision makers...
INTEGRA’s automated pipetting solutions are helping scientists meet the challenge of efficiently pooling potentially infectious samples prior to testing for disease surveillance and diagnostics, increasing throughput and accelerating time to results. Pooling of patient samples is commonly used in immunoassays and molecular diagnostics to increase testing capacity while reducing reagent costs for the analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious agents....
NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, announces its partnership with Sanofi for the development of new DNA-Encoded Libraries (DELs). This multi-year agreement will see the partners join forces to design both general and focused chemical libraries, and carry out screening activities to identify new and useful chemical structures...
Asynt reports upon a new paper, written by a multidisciplinary team of experts at the Institute for Process Research and Chemistry (iRPD) at the University of Leeds (UK), that describes how the fReactor flow chemistry system with add-on photochemical flow modules improves synthetic reactions commonly used in the preparation of drug intermediates. In contrast to many tubular or plate-based flow chemistry systems, the Asynt fReactor with Photo Flow modules is especially well-suited...
RAFT Solutions Limited (RAFT) and Personalised Diagnostics Limited (PDX) have announced the formation of their transformative joint new venture Veterinary Diagnostics Solutions Limited, trademarked VETDX. This platform will bring efficiencies and better responsiveness in animal diagnostic testing through the deployment of the PDX Software as a Service platform in both traditional clinical pathology and in the increasing adoption of point of care (POC) diagnostics....
Alpha Laboratories Ltd. (Eastleigh, UK) and shuttlepac Ltd. (Telford, UK) are delighted to announce that the unique and innovative ShuttlePouch™ has been awarded Flexible Plastic Pack of the Year in the 2021 UK Packaging Awards. Developed by shuttlepac, ShuttlePouch provides a compliant UN3373 sample packaging solution that protects users from exposure to biological samples during transit and on arrival at the laboratory...
The results of Olympus’ ongoing joint research program to create an AI-based pathology diagnostic tool with the potential to streamline pathologists’ workloads were announced at the Japan Society of Digital Pathology Study annual meeting. The diagnostic tool achieved 100% sensitivity and 50% or more specificity for all gastric biopsy pathology specimens analyzed...
The call for submissions aims at raising the visibility of research results that have been achieved with Analytik Jena equipment and technology – especially with a view to its potential for applications and new possibilities in the field. The panel will accept submissions of findings and applications that have been published within the past three years. The prize for the best submissions will be 1000 euros for personal use...