Developed for automated applications - Porvair Sciences 96-well polypropylene microplates provide the perfect vessel for Biobanks and Biorepositories looking to store and maintain the integrity of their valuable specimens over prolonged periods of time. Biobanking is the process by which samples of body fluids or tissue are collected for research use to improve our understanding of health and disease. However, keeping these biological specimens in long-term sample storage conditions comes with a key challenge...
LGC Maine Standards¹ announces the release of VALIDATE® Immunosuppressants (ISx) to meet the linearity and calibration verification needs of clinical laboratories running the Abbott ARCHITECT/ALINITY or Siemens Dimension platform(s). The product, which includes analytes Cyclosporine (CSA), Tacrolimus (TAC), and Sirolimus (SIRO), is formulated in human whole blood, using the CLSI EP06-A “equal delta” sample preparation method, and provides five distinct concentrations...
Eppendorf has made a strategic investment in BigOmics Analytics SA, a software company from Switzerland that develops digital cloud-based self-service tools to analyze molecular biology research data. “We’re excited to invest in BigOmics,” said Peter Fruhstorfer, Co-CEO of Eppendorf SE, upon signing the agreement. “With its expertise and digital know-how, the company is a perfect fit for Eppendorf and our ambition to improve work processes in the lab and set them up for the future...
The Mohawk tube selector and picker from Ziath employs a linear rack reader and ninety-six pins that allow a frozen or thawed sample tube to be raised when a rack is scanned according to a picklist. The use of this innovative technology avoids the need for slow and expensive robotics which can take minutes to process racks. Using a Mohawk - a rack is scanned, and tubes selected and picked in just seconds...
New Inspyra module combines chemists’ expertise with exploratory capabilities of automated compound design. Optibrium Ltd, a leading developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the release of the latest version of StarDrop™, its comprehensive software platform for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis. More than 160 organisations currently use StarDrop, including many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies....
Simplified calculation model for tissue properties developed at Karl Landsteiner University for Health Sciences Krems (Austria). Viscous mechanical properties of biological tissues can now be described more easily than before. This is shown by a recently published paper of a team of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Krems. The team demonstrates that an established mathematical model for soft biological tissues can be greatly simplified, allowing extensive time and cost savings...
EVONETIX LTD the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has announced it has achieved enzymatic DNA synthesis capability with its proprietary, thermally controlled synthesis chemistry. The culmination of a three-year development program, supported by Innovate UK and in collaboration with Durham University, the results demonstrate that Evonetix’s unique, semiconductor array-based platform is compatible with both chemical and enzymatic DNA synthesis...
BioChromato has published a technical note that compares using Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) and Thermal Desorption (DART) sample preparation methods for Mass Spectrometry analysis of Nylon 6,6. Synthesized by polycondensation of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid – Nylon 6,6 is a polyamide or nylon that is commonly used in the textile and plastic industries. Nylon 6,6 is a polymer of choice when high mechanical strength, rigidity, good stability under heat and/or chemical resistance are required....
Tip Biosystems is very pleased to announce the most versatile member of the Photopette® spectrophotometer family to date - the Photopette® Aqua. The handheld and portable “Aqua” is the result of a collaborative effort with Merck to produce a device that can measure numerous aqueous parameters, including Nitrate, Nitrite, Ammonium, Phosphate, and Chlorine, among others....
With the addition of Overwatch’s end-to-end animal study management and execution system, Benchling’s R&D Cloud platform will be able to tackle the challenge of preclinical reproducibility, and help biopharma companies and contract research organisations (CROs) reduce errors, increase confidence for first-in-human studies, and ultimately get drugs to patients faster...
An overview of recent technologies for core facilities. With inverted lattice light sheet and lattice structured illumination microscopy, two new technologies provide access to novel and exciting live imaging experiments. They enable exploration of subcellular dynamics for longer periods of time without the need for special sample preparation – using standard dyes and standard sample carriers....
“Automation and industrialization of COVID-19 PCR-testing will facilitate an immense scale-up of the global PCR-testing capacity. It will allow for a new approach to keep society open: preventive, regular testing (twice per week), which will create green bubbles and get us ahead of the curve” - Niels Kruize, CCO, MolGen. To get ahead of the curve, we will need to change our methodology of COVID-19 testing...
A 'waste collection' tidies up our cells. If something does not go according to plan, serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson's may develop. Molecular biologist Sascha Martens from the University of Vienna together with international partners – researchers of the University of Pennsylvania, Monash University, the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt and the UC Berkeley – investigate the associated process: autophagy...
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging can present challenges, especially for non-conductive biological samples. Rapid imaging with the desired resolution requires high electron doses and acceleration voltages, which can cause charging effects and sample damage that compromise image quality. ZEISS Sense BSD combines high-resolution ultrastructural imaging with a new degree of efficiency and image quality, making TEM-like imaging possible with your SEM...
NHS guidelines for gene testing miss half of people carrying inherited genetic changes linked to cancer, a new study reports. Scientists assessed patients who received testing in the private sector to see who would have been eligible for a genetic test under the NHS – and what the consequences would have been of missing testing. The team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that applying NHS guidelines for gene testing would have excluded many people...
Porvair Sciences high performance, precision manufactured Vyon® porous plastics are perfect support materials for chromatographic resins used in the isolation and purification steps of pharmaceutical drug and vaccine production. Manufactured from virgin-grade polymers, compliant with EU and US food and pharmaceutical regulations, Vyon® porous plastics were developed in response to industry demands for higher technical specification, cleaner materials with improved physical-chemical properties...
HORIBA UK Limited will introduce a new network licence option for its QSP 2.0 (Quality Slide Program) affordable digital tool for skill evaluation and training in morphology at IBMS Congress 2022. This now enables up to 50 users across various locations, even in different countries, to directly access this valuable digital morphology resource as it works on VPN and local networks. The new QSP 2.0 Network Licence is ideal for large hospital Trusts with multiple sites and users, or Universities/Medical Schools for remote teaching...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation and a Life Sciences company of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), has launched Mica, the world’s first Microhub. A Microhub is a new type of wholly integrated imaging solution that leverages machine learning software, automation tools and unique fluorescence unmixing techniques to automate the imaging workflow for researchers, regardless of their microscopy experience levels...
The new LabElite® Handheld DeCapper from Hamilton Storage provides rapid and repeatable decapping and capping of 48- and 96-format racked tubes. This semi-automated device bridges the gap between manual and fully automated sample de/capping tasks for those who see greater efficiencies with less physical strain yet are not quite ready to migrate to a fully automated workflow...
Tired of the slow and tedious process of identifying non-target compounds and/or setting up semi-quantitative analysis for those compounds? Imagine a system that provides superior identification by combining Library Search, Retention Index (RI), and Accurate Mass to confidently ID unknowns. Imagine a system that does so automatically, without the need for tedious standards and visually highlights correct identifications among a long list of possible matches...
Biotage helps shape the sustainable science of tomorrow and our future society for the benefit of humankind – HumanKind Unlimited. With this principle Biotage has set out a commitment to unleashing the potential of humanity by working tirelessly to improve the health and wellbeing of both our customers through greener and more efficient solutions, and our own employees through smarter working practices....
Dotmatics Ltd, an Insightful Science company that provides scientific informatics software to drive the automation of lab data workflows and accelerate critical R&D discovery, has announced the release of Dotmatics Platform 22.1. Dotmatics Platform is the common framework that underpins the Company’s web-based scientific applications and allows them to work together to provide users with seamless end-to-end workflows...
Developed for automated applications - Porvair Sciences 96-well polypropylene microplates provide the perfect vessel for Biobanks and Biorepositories looking to store and maintain the integrity of their valuable specimens over prolonged periods of time. Biobanking is the process by which samples of body fluids or tissue are collected for research use to improve our understanding of health and disease. However, keeping these biological specimens in long-term sample storage conditions comes with a key challenge...
LGC Maine Standards¹ announces the release of VALIDATE® Immunosuppressants (ISx) to meet the linearity and calibration verification needs of clinical laboratories running the Abbott ARCHITECT/ALINITY or Siemens Dimension platform(s). The product, which includes analytes Cyclosporine (CSA), Tacrolimus (TAC), and Sirolimus (SIRO), is formulated in human whole blood, using the CLSI EP06-A “equal delta” sample preparation method, and provides five distinct concentrations...
Eppendorf has made a strategic investment in BigOmics Analytics SA, a software company from Switzerland that develops digital cloud-based self-service tools to analyze molecular biology research data. “We’re excited to invest in BigOmics,” said Peter Fruhstorfer, Co-CEO of Eppendorf SE, upon signing the agreement. “With its expertise and digital know-how, the company is a perfect fit for Eppendorf and our ambition to improve work processes in the lab and set them up for the future...
The Mohawk tube selector and picker from Ziath employs a linear rack reader and ninety-six pins that allow a frozen or thawed sample tube to be raised when a rack is scanned according to a picklist. The use of this innovative technology avoids the need for slow and expensive robotics which can take minutes to process racks. Using a Mohawk - a rack is scanned, and tubes selected and picked in just seconds...
New Inspyra module combines chemists’ expertise with exploratory capabilities of automated compound design. Optibrium Ltd, a leading developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the release of the latest version of StarDrop™, its comprehensive software platform for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis. More than 160 organisations currently use StarDrop, including many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies....
Simplified calculation model for tissue properties developed at Karl Landsteiner University for Health Sciences Krems (Austria). Viscous mechanical properties of biological tissues can now be described more easily than before. This is shown by a recently published paper of a team of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Krems. The team demonstrates that an established mathematical model for soft biological tissues can be greatly simplified, allowing extensive time and cost savings...
EVONETIX LTD the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has announced it has achieved enzymatic DNA synthesis capability with its proprietary, thermally controlled synthesis chemistry. The culmination of a three-year development program, supported by Innovate UK and in collaboration with Durham University, the results demonstrate that Evonetix’s unique, semiconductor array-based platform is compatible with both chemical and enzymatic DNA synthesis...
BioChromato has published a technical note that compares using Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) and Thermal Desorption (DART) sample preparation methods for Mass Spectrometry analysis of Nylon 6,6. Synthesized by polycondensation of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid – Nylon 6,6 is a polyamide or nylon that is commonly used in the textile and plastic industries. Nylon 6,6 is a polymer of choice when high mechanical strength, rigidity, good stability under heat and/or chemical resistance are required....
Tip Biosystems is very pleased to announce the most versatile member of the Photopette® spectrophotometer family to date - the Photopette® Aqua. The handheld and portable “Aqua” is the result of a collaborative effort with Merck to produce a device that can measure numerous aqueous parameters, including Nitrate, Nitrite, Ammonium, Phosphate, and Chlorine, among others....
With the addition of Overwatch’s end-to-end animal study management and execution system, Benchling’s R&D Cloud platform will be able to tackle the challenge of preclinical reproducibility, and help biopharma companies and contract research organisations (CROs) reduce errors, increase confidence for first-in-human studies, and ultimately get drugs to patients faster...
An overview of recent technologies for core facilities. With inverted lattice light sheet and lattice structured illumination microscopy, two new technologies provide access to novel and exciting live imaging experiments. They enable exploration of subcellular dynamics for longer periods of time without the need for special sample preparation – using standard dyes and standard sample carriers....
“Automation and industrialization of COVID-19 PCR-testing will facilitate an immense scale-up of the global PCR-testing capacity. It will allow for a new approach to keep society open: preventive, regular testing (twice per week), which will create green bubbles and get us ahead of the curve” - Niels Kruize, CCO, MolGen. To get ahead of the curve, we will need to change our methodology of COVID-19 testing...
A 'waste collection' tidies up our cells. If something does not go according to plan, serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson's may develop. Molecular biologist Sascha Martens from the University of Vienna together with international partners – researchers of the University of Pennsylvania, Monash University, the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt and the UC Berkeley – investigate the associated process: autophagy...
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging can present challenges, especially for non-conductive biological samples. Rapid imaging with the desired resolution requires high electron doses and acceleration voltages, which can cause charging effects and sample damage that compromise image quality. ZEISS Sense BSD combines high-resolution ultrastructural imaging with a new degree of efficiency and image quality, making TEM-like imaging possible with your SEM...
NHS guidelines for gene testing miss half of people carrying inherited genetic changes linked to cancer, a new study reports. Scientists assessed patients who received testing in the private sector to see who would have been eligible for a genetic test under the NHS – and what the consequences would have been of missing testing. The team at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that applying NHS guidelines for gene testing would have excluded many people...
Porvair Sciences high performance, precision manufactured Vyon® porous plastics are perfect support materials for chromatographic resins used in the isolation and purification steps of pharmaceutical drug and vaccine production. Manufactured from virgin-grade polymers, compliant with EU and US food and pharmaceutical regulations, Vyon® porous plastics were developed in response to industry demands for higher technical specification, cleaner materials with improved physical-chemical properties...
HORIBA UK Limited will introduce a new network licence option for its QSP 2.0 (Quality Slide Program) affordable digital tool for skill evaluation and training in morphology at IBMS Congress 2022. This now enables up to 50 users across various locations, even in different countries, to directly access this valuable digital morphology resource as it works on VPN and local networks. The new QSP 2.0 Network Licence is ideal for large hospital Trusts with multiple sites and users, or Universities/Medical Schools for remote teaching...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation and a Life Sciences company of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), has launched Mica, the world’s first Microhub. A Microhub is a new type of wholly integrated imaging solution that leverages machine learning software, automation tools and unique fluorescence unmixing techniques to automate the imaging workflow for researchers, regardless of their microscopy experience levels...
The new LabElite® Handheld DeCapper from Hamilton Storage provides rapid and repeatable decapping and capping of 48- and 96-format racked tubes. This semi-automated device bridges the gap between manual and fully automated sample de/capping tasks for those who see greater efficiencies with less physical strain yet are not quite ready to migrate to a fully automated workflow...
Tired of the slow and tedious process of identifying non-target compounds and/or setting up semi-quantitative analysis for those compounds? Imagine a system that provides superior identification by combining Library Search, Retention Index (RI), and Accurate Mass to confidently ID unknowns. Imagine a system that does so automatically, without the need for tedious standards and visually highlights correct identifications among a long list of possible matches...
Biotage helps shape the sustainable science of tomorrow and our future society for the benefit of humankind – HumanKind Unlimited. With this principle Biotage has set out a commitment to unleashing the potential of humanity by working tirelessly to improve the health and wellbeing of both our customers through greener and more efficient solutions, and our own employees through smarter working practices....
Dotmatics Ltd, an Insightful Science company that provides scientific informatics software to drive the automation of lab data workflows and accelerate critical R&D discovery, has announced the release of Dotmatics Platform 22.1. Dotmatics Platform is the common framework that underpins the Company’s web-based scientific applications and allows them to work together to provide users with seamless end-to-end workflows...