A Schlenk Line is a tubular glass apparatus commonly used in chemistry or material laboratory research to carry out experiments under a vacuum and an inert atmosphere (like nitrogen or argon). It is used when samples are sensitive to air/moisture and the vacuum is also often used to remove the last traces of solvent from a sample. A Schlenk Line typically contains a dual glass manifold with multiple ports; the number of ports is configurable....
Porvair Sciences has published an in-depth application report demonstrating how their Microlute® CP Reverse Phase Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) microplates provide a robust and highly reproducible SPE LC-MS sample preparation methodology for a range of neutral, acidic, and basic analytes. As a sample preparation method - Solid Phase Extraction is widely acknowledged as a 'go to' tool for the clean-up of samples before analysis by hyphenated techniques such as LC/MS or GC/MS...
INTEGRA Biosciences – a leading provider of high quality laboratory equipment – supplies a comprehensive range of liquid handling tools that are ideal for sterile cell biology workflows. Each piece of equipment, from electronic pipettes to robotic pipetting systems and media dispensers, has been expertly designed to fit comfortably under a laminar flow hood to reduce the risk of cell culture contamination....
Benchling, pioneer of the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, announces its continued European expansion, following a strong year of growth. The company achieved triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth in the market in its most recent fiscal quarter, with the number of customers in Europe increasing 184% from last year. This expansion comes as Benchling reveals it has raised $100 million in Series F funding at a $6.1 billion valuation...
Lab Innovations 2021 was a great opportunity for the scientific community to hear about innovative new product launches available from SLS. As the scientific world continues to evolve and seek more innovative and sustainable laboratory solutions, SLS showcased a range of excellent new products available now. Jellagen®, the winner of the Most Impactful Sustainable Product Development 2021 from the Lab Awards...
EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that it has acquired Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory LLC (“ADL Health”), a Texas based PCR-focused testing laboratory certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”) for high-complexity molecular diagnostics testing. ADL Health’s CLIA-certified laboratory covers the fields of clinical, forensic and microbiological tests...
Vision Engineering Limited (Woking, UK) has announced the launch of VE Cam, a new, simple to use compact digital microscope for a wide range of applications. Launching at Productronica 2021 in Munich, VE Cam is available in two variants with differing fields of view (FOV).VE Cam 50 (50mm FOV) & VE Cam 80 (80mm FOV) offer the power, speed and efficiency of digital imaging in a compact package...
CN Bio, a leading Organ-on-a-chip Company (OOC) that designs and manufactures single- and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), has announced a research collaboration with the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), a global collaborative infectious disease R&D programme, to validate the next generation of COVID-19 research tools. iiCON’s £174 million programme brings together industry, academia, and clinicians to accelerate the discovery, development...
SCION Instruments announce the launch of the next generation of GCs designed for the ultimate user-experience. Combining high performance, productivity and flexibility, the launch of the GC8300 and GC8500 takes Scion’s gas chromatographers to the next level. Both the GC8300 and GC8500 benefit from an improved, intuitive user interface with larger 10” full colour touch screen providing improved visual quality and a superior overview of all instrument status, access to methods and automation...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announce innovative proteomics solutions and a series of co-marketing agreements with industry experts, advancing the throughput, comprehensiveness and quality of proteomics workflows for applications such as single-cell studies and translational research. The company will showcase these relationships, as well as new additions to its industry-leading offering of mass spectrometry (MS) and chromatography instruments, during the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Reconnect event...
Torx Software Limited, provider of technology for managing small molecule discovery chemistry, announces the release of Torx Test™ and Torx Analyze™ to complete the Torx platform. Torx is a single web-based solution that enables drug discovery teams to work together, share knowledge, manage resources and track progress throughout the Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) workflow....
A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a team of UK and German scientists. Both the antibody-based treatment and the protein-based vaccine developed by the team reduced Alzheimer’s symptoms in mouse models of the disease. The research is published in Molecular Psychiatry. The work is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Leicester, the University Medical Center Göttingen and the medical research charity LifeArc....
Automata has announced the launch of Automata Labs: an accessible automated robotic system to empower life science labs to innovate and upscale at pace. Automata Labs is a complete workflow robotic automation system. It transforms labs of all shapes and sizes, providing scientists with accessible, and flexible, end-to-end lab automation. Until now, robotic automation has often been out of reach for lab managers with ambitions to scale up their lab’s capability and capacity...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the launch of its Signals Research™ Suite , a full cloud based solution, deployed on Amazon Web Services. The suite is a secure, informatics platform, providing integrated, end-to-end scientific data and workflow management for pharmaceutical and industrial customers. Designed to help drive more informed and accelerated decision making around drug, compound and formulation candidates...
CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, today announced it has been acquired through a majority shareholding by Apposite Capital LLP, the healthcare specialist private equity investor. The investment will support CrestOptics’ international commercial expansion and boost product development and innovation, establishing the company as an attractive commercial partner and employer in the life science industry...
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in providing cell culture solutions for Life Science and Medical markets, announced the expansion of its Armstrong R&D Center of Excellence at its headquarters in California. This expansion marks an ongoing commitment to the advancement of discovery research, bioproduction, cell and gene therapy, assisted reproductive technologies and cytogenetics in its Life Sciences and Medical Media divisions....
Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announce that it has completed the transaction to acquire LabArchives. LabArchives is a widely used research data management application, serving 600,000 scientists in academic, non-profit and commercial organizations. Built as the central information hub in research labs, it automates data capture, enhances collaboration, creates seamless workflows, and improves lab efficiency....
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, has announced the launch of the CFX™ Opus 96 Dx System and the CFX™ Opus 384 Dx System, real-time PCR detection systems that have been listed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IVD testing and that meet the CE-IVD requirement for IVD use in Europe....
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K has introduced new laser options for its HK Series differential refractometer to enable precise determination of specific refractive index increment (dn/dc) at the same wavelength as the light scattering application under investigation. Light scattering is a tried and trusted method for measuring molecular weight and therefore a widely used tool for analyzing biopolymers, polymers and proteins....
Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) leading cancer research organizations, have agreed to enter into a partnership to establish an in-house liquid biopsy testing service using Guardant Health’s industry-leading proprietary digital sequencing platform....
INTEGRA’s VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is supporting crucial experimental work in longitudinal HIV studies. There have recently been tremendous breakthroughs in treatment of HIV infections, but challenges still remain. Scarlette Abbou, an engineer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), explained her lab’s work in this field: “CD4 T-cells – among others – act as reservoirs for HIV, and are established during the earliest stage of infection....
Stratix Labs has unveiled Instant Inoculator™ QC microorganisms, a novel ready-to-use product that delivers reference microorganisms to solid media with a simple one-step method. Each device comes individually sealed with authentic reference microorganisms coated and preserved on the applicator region. Using a patent-pending technology, the Instant Inoculator™ directly transfers isolated colonies to solid media. It requires no preparation, no rehydration, and no liquid handling....
A Schlenk Line is a tubular glass apparatus commonly used in chemistry or material laboratory research to carry out experiments under a vacuum and an inert atmosphere (like nitrogen or argon). It is used when samples are sensitive to air/moisture and the vacuum is also often used to remove the last traces of solvent from a sample. A Schlenk Line typically contains a dual glass manifold with multiple ports; the number of ports is configurable....
Porvair Sciences has published an in-depth application report demonstrating how their Microlute® CP Reverse Phase Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) microplates provide a robust and highly reproducible SPE LC-MS sample preparation methodology for a range of neutral, acidic, and basic analytes. As a sample preparation method - Solid Phase Extraction is widely acknowledged as a 'go to' tool for the clean-up of samples before analysis by hyphenated techniques such as LC/MS or GC/MS...
INTEGRA Biosciences – a leading provider of high quality laboratory equipment – supplies a comprehensive range of liquid handling tools that are ideal for sterile cell biology workflows. Each piece of equipment, from electronic pipettes to robotic pipetting systems and media dispensers, has been expertly designed to fit comfortably under a laminar flow hood to reduce the risk of cell culture contamination....
Benchling, pioneer of the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, announces its continued European expansion, following a strong year of growth. The company achieved triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth in the market in its most recent fiscal quarter, with the number of customers in Europe increasing 184% from last year. This expansion comes as Benchling reveals it has raised $100 million in Series F funding at a $6.1 billion valuation...
Lab Innovations 2021 was a great opportunity for the scientific community to hear about innovative new product launches available from SLS. As the scientific world continues to evolve and seek more innovative and sustainable laboratory solutions, SLS showcased a range of excellent new products available now. Jellagen®, the winner of the Most Impactful Sustainable Product Development 2021 from the Lab Awards...
EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that it has acquired Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory LLC (“ADL Health”), a Texas based PCR-focused testing laboratory certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”) for high-complexity molecular diagnostics testing. ADL Health’s CLIA-certified laboratory covers the fields of clinical, forensic and microbiological tests...
Vision Engineering Limited (Woking, UK) has announced the launch of VE Cam, a new, simple to use compact digital microscope for a wide range of applications. Launching at Productronica 2021 in Munich, VE Cam is available in two variants with differing fields of view (FOV).VE Cam 50 (50mm FOV) & VE Cam 80 (80mm FOV) offer the power, speed and efficiency of digital imaging in a compact package...
CN Bio, a leading Organ-on-a-chip Company (OOC) that designs and manufactures single- and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), has announced a research collaboration with the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), a global collaborative infectious disease R&D programme, to validate the next generation of COVID-19 research tools. iiCON’s £174 million programme brings together industry, academia, and clinicians to accelerate the discovery, development...
SCION Instruments announce the launch of the next generation of GCs designed for the ultimate user-experience. Combining high performance, productivity and flexibility, the launch of the GC8300 and GC8500 takes Scion’s gas chromatographers to the next level. Both the GC8300 and GC8500 benefit from an improved, intuitive user interface with larger 10” full colour touch screen providing improved visual quality and a superior overview of all instrument status, access to methods and automation...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announce innovative proteomics solutions and a series of co-marketing agreements with industry experts, advancing the throughput, comprehensiveness and quality of proteomics workflows for applications such as single-cell studies and translational research. The company will showcase these relationships, as well as new additions to its industry-leading offering of mass spectrometry (MS) and chromatography instruments, during the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Reconnect event...
Torx Software Limited, provider of technology for managing small molecule discovery chemistry, announces the release of Torx Test™ and Torx Analyze™ to complete the Torx platform. Torx is a single web-based solution that enables drug discovery teams to work together, share knowledge, manage resources and track progress throughout the Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) workflow....
A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a team of UK and German scientists. Both the antibody-based treatment and the protein-based vaccine developed by the team reduced Alzheimer’s symptoms in mouse models of the disease. The research is published in Molecular Psychiatry. The work is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Leicester, the University Medical Center Göttingen and the medical research charity LifeArc....
Automata has announced the launch of Automata Labs: an accessible automated robotic system to empower life science labs to innovate and upscale at pace. Automata Labs is a complete workflow robotic automation system. It transforms labs of all shapes and sizes, providing scientists with accessible, and flexible, end-to-end lab automation. Until now, robotic automation has often been out of reach for lab managers with ambitions to scale up their lab’s capability and capacity...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the launch of its Signals Research™ Suite , a full cloud based solution, deployed on Amazon Web Services. The suite is a secure, informatics platform, providing integrated, end-to-end scientific data and workflow management for pharmaceutical and industrial customers. Designed to help drive more informed and accelerated decision making around drug, compound and formulation candidates...
CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, today announced it has been acquired through a majority shareholding by Apposite Capital LLP, the healthcare specialist private equity investor. The investment will support CrestOptics’ international commercial expansion and boost product development and innovation, establishing the company as an attractive commercial partner and employer in the life science industry...
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in providing cell culture solutions for Life Science and Medical markets, announced the expansion of its Armstrong R&D Center of Excellence at its headquarters in California. This expansion marks an ongoing commitment to the advancement of discovery research, bioproduction, cell and gene therapy, assisted reproductive technologies and cytogenetics in its Life Sciences and Medical Media divisions....
Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announce that it has completed the transaction to acquire LabArchives. LabArchives is a widely used research data management application, serving 600,000 scientists in academic, non-profit and commercial organizations. Built as the central information hub in research labs, it automates data capture, enhances collaboration, creates seamless workflows, and improves lab efficiency....
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, has announced the launch of the CFX™ Opus 96 Dx System and the CFX™ Opus 384 Dx System, real-time PCR detection systems that have been listed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IVD testing and that meet the CE-IVD requirement for IVD use in Europe....
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K has introduced new laser options for its HK Series differential refractometer to enable precise determination of specific refractive index increment (dn/dc) at the same wavelength as the light scattering application under investigation. Light scattering is a tried and trusted method for measuring molecular weight and therefore a widely used tool for analyzing biopolymers, polymers and proteins....
Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) leading cancer research organizations, have agreed to enter into a partnership to establish an in-house liquid biopsy testing service using Guardant Health’s industry-leading proprietary digital sequencing platform....
INTEGRA’s VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is supporting crucial experimental work in longitudinal HIV studies. There have recently been tremendous breakthroughs in treatment of HIV infections, but challenges still remain. Scarlette Abbou, an engineer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), explained her lab’s work in this field: “CD4 T-cells – among others – act as reservoirs for HIV, and are established during the earliest stage of infection....
Stratix Labs has unveiled Instant Inoculator™ QC microorganisms, a novel ready-to-use product that delivers reference microorganisms to solid media with a simple one-step method. Each device comes individually sealed with authentic reference microorganisms coated and preserved on the applicator region. Using a patent-pending technology, the Instant Inoculator™ directly transfers isolated colonies to solid media. It requires no preparation, no rehydration, and no liquid handling....