A new CE-IVD marked diagnostic test for microsatellite instability (MSI) in solid tumours, the OncoMate™ MSI Dx Analysis System (OncoMate™ MSI) by Promega, offers UK clinicians a new option for testing for Lynch Syndrome....
A new report details potential paths to solutions to overcoming the global Covid-19 crisis and ways to prepare for or even prevent a future pandemic. "There is a tremendous need for a common set of scientific facts about the virus and reliable, verified data," said "Udit Batra, member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science. "We are aiming to establish a common baseline of agreed priorities upon which we can engage the wider scientific and innovation community to...
3D label-free imaging identifies real-time cholesterol sorting mechanism in Plasmodium falciparum-infected human erythrocytes. The first study to elucidate the sequential dynamics of membrane cholesterol transport in erythrocytes infected with live Plasmodium falciparum parasites has been successfully concluded using the 3D label-free imaging capability of holotomography microscopy....
Manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE) and protective rubber clothing can now quickly gain CE stamp of approval through the use of Ellutia automated Permeation analysis system. The automated systems speeds up analysis time through new simultaneous testing methods, to determine the rubber glove material resistance to chemical permeation specified under European Regulation EN 16523-1.[1] Test results can be reported as specified by ISO to qualify for the appropriate CE mark for essential protective clothing....
Rutherford has entered into a £55m development framework agreement with Equitix Limited. Under of the terms of the agreement, Rutherford and Equitix will establish up to five new diagnostic facilities in the UK, to provide diagnostic services to the NHS and to private patients. Each centre will provide a variety of diagnostics services including Positron Emission Tomography–Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computed Tomography, Ultrasound, Endoscopy, X-Ray and other relevant diagnostic services...
ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D,has announced that ACD/ChemSketch Freeware has been downloaded by over two million users worldwide. This free version of ChemSketch, intended for academic and personal use, has been accessible for more than two decades to students, academics, and scientists to communicate research and create teaching materials....
Dotmatics Ltd., a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BioBright LLC, a leader in automating the flow of data from laboratory instruments to a secure cloud. BioBright is a privately-owned scientific lab data automation company based in Boston, MA, dedicated to creating the smart laboratory of the future driven by the move to data-centric research....
Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform to facilitate access to unique lab-made bioresearch materials, today announced the availability of the Delta-G-VSV Pseudotyping System for coronavirus research applications. The system, developed by the Michael Whitt laboratory at University of Tennessee, enables studies of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness at just biosafety level 2 (BSL-2) containment....
INTEGRA’s range of VOYAGER and VIAFLO single and multichannel electronic pipettes can help laboratories to enhance precision and accuracy, and improve ergonomics, while saving time and reducing costs. There are many reasons why working with electronic pipettes is the sensible choice. The improvement in ergonomics and increase in productivity and performance is enormous. Programs can be standardized, improving reproducibility by preventing operator-to-operator variability and minimizing manual errors...
Waters Corporation has announced a new fragmentation technique and an imaging option for its high-resolution mass spectrometers giving research scientists working across a broad range of end markets including biomedical, biopharmaceutical and food research, greater experimental freedom to explore the intricacies of peptides, proteins, and protein complexes....
Researchers in the Department of Pharmacy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich are using chips from Dolomite Microfluidics to reliably and consistently produce monodisperse particles for targeted delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. This microfluidic encapsulation technology is ideal for gene silencing applications in cancer immunology and inflammatory diseases, where siRNA can potentially be used to down-regulate genes associated with these pathologies....
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on clinical research and diagnostic laboratories to process more samples, much more quickly. INTEGRA Biosciences offers a range of pipetting systems designed to speed up PCR-based screening workflows, without requiring complex installations or needing lab staff to spend time undertaking specialist training and developing new protocols....
An advanced laboratory dedicated to leading Wales’ national Covid-19 testing has been established in Cardiff, thanks to collaboration between Public Health Wales and one of the world’s leading diagnostics companies. Creating a national Covid-19 testing lab at the University Hospital of Wales is an important part of the Welsh Government’s Test, Trace, Protect strategy and has been made possible thanks to the support...
Safe and contamination-free: The fluid aspiration systems BVC are the perfect solution for safe, sensitive, and efficient aspiration of cell culture supernatants. Biosafety cabinets (BSC) class I or II are indispensable for cell culture work and R&D in life science. They offer high protection level inside and outside, but also require a high investment....
Today’s High Tech laboratory environment demands the best results, achieved using the latest safety and production solutions. Combined with the best consumables and equipment HPLC is a powerful tool in analysis, a must for today’s results driven, cost conscious laboratory. Whatever HPLC/UHPLC method is used in the laboratory, choosing the right solvents, safety handling equipment and filtration method is...
Bruker has launched a powerful new Wine-Profiling™ module in its FoodScreener™ platform to help wine producers, importers, and testing laboratories detect and prevent wine fraud. The easy-to-operate Wine-Profiling 4.0 allows rapid verification of variety and origin of a wine sample at the touch of a button....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and MSAID GmbH, a software company transforming proteomics with deep learning, announce an exclusive license agreement to develop and commercialize deep learning tools for proteomics, making MSAID's Prosit-derived framework widely accessible to proteomics laboratories. The availability of deep learning tools will enable improved confidence in proteomics research results, primarily in the areas of protein profiling using label-free or tandem mass tag (TMT)-based quantification, and a variety of new applications....
Sygnature Discovery, a leading independent integrated drug discovery and pre-clinical services company, is supporting Professor Sachin Gupte, a pharmacologist at the New York Medical College (Valhalla, NY, USA), in his endeavours to find a drug treatment for the lung damage that can result from Covid-19 infection. Sygnature has synthesised two important compounds, which Prof Gupte will test in a model of coronavirus-induced lung injury. Sygnature’s work has been undertaken on a pro bono basis.
Cresset, innovative provider of software for molecule discovery and design, releases version 4 of Flare, their structure-based design platform, which presents a smarter and faster way to perform Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) calculations. “Drug discovery chemists, and academic researchers, use FEP to accurately predict compound activity in lead optimization projects,” said Giovanna Tedesco, Head of Products at Cresset....
PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, has announced the launch of qPCRBIO Probe 1-Step Virus Detect, a high-concentration 4x RT-qPCR kit designed specifically for ultra-sensitive, high-throughput detection of viral RNA sequences, including SARS-CoV-2. The new kit, which marks the latest addition to PCR Biosystems’ specialized RT-qPCR offering, enables users to add more sample to their reactions to boost analytical sensitivity, even when working with small volume reactions....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recognizes the winners of the 2020 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) Research Award. Now in its sixth year, the research competition selects scientists from a pool of international applicants based on innovation and the potential impact of their work in proteomics using TMT. The proprietary TMT and TMTpro reagents are exclusively licensed to Thermo Fisher Scientific by Proteome Sciences, PLC....
MOBILion Systems, Inc. showcased its first ion mobility separations product to the biopharma drug development and academic research markets, with data from its first beta users, during the American Society for Mass Spectrometry’s (ASMS) 2020 virtual conference. MOBILion Systems is commercializing a patented ion mobility separations technology, called Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulation (SLIMTM)..
A new CE-IVD marked diagnostic test for microsatellite instability (MSI) in solid tumours, the OncoMate™ MSI Dx Analysis System (OncoMate™ MSI) by Promega, offers UK clinicians a new option for testing for Lynch Syndrome....
A new report details potential paths to solutions to overcoming the global Covid-19 crisis and ways to prepare for or even prevent a future pandemic. "There is a tremendous need for a common set of scientific facts about the virus and reliable, verified data," said "Udit Batra, member of the Merck Executive Board and CEO, Life Science. "We are aiming to establish a common baseline of agreed priorities upon which we can engage the wider scientific and innovation community to...
3D label-free imaging identifies real-time cholesterol sorting mechanism in Plasmodium falciparum-infected human erythrocytes. The first study to elucidate the sequential dynamics of membrane cholesterol transport in erythrocytes infected with live Plasmodium falciparum parasites has been successfully concluded using the 3D label-free imaging capability of holotomography microscopy....
Manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE) and protective rubber clothing can now quickly gain CE stamp of approval through the use of Ellutia automated Permeation analysis system. The automated systems speeds up analysis time through new simultaneous testing methods, to determine the rubber glove material resistance to chemical permeation specified under European Regulation EN 16523-1.[1] Test results can be reported as specified by ISO to qualify for the appropriate CE mark for essential protective clothing....
Rutherford has entered into a £55m development framework agreement with Equitix Limited. Under of the terms of the agreement, Rutherford and Equitix will establish up to five new diagnostic facilities in the UK, to provide diagnostic services to the NHS and to private patients. Each centre will provide a variety of diagnostics services including Positron Emission Tomography–Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computed Tomography, Ultrasound, Endoscopy, X-Ray and other relevant diagnostic services...
ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D,has announced that ACD/ChemSketch Freeware has been downloaded by over two million users worldwide. This free version of ChemSketch, intended for academic and personal use, has been accessible for more than two decades to students, academics, and scientists to communicate research and create teaching materials....
Dotmatics Ltd., a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BioBright LLC, a leader in automating the flow of data from laboratory instruments to a secure cloud. BioBright is a privately-owned scientific lab data automation company based in Boston, MA, dedicated to creating the smart laboratory of the future driven by the move to data-centric research....
Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform to facilitate access to unique lab-made bioresearch materials, today announced the availability of the Delta-G-VSV Pseudotyping System for coronavirus research applications. The system, developed by the Michael Whitt laboratory at University of Tennessee, enables studies of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness at just biosafety level 2 (BSL-2) containment....
INTEGRA’s range of VOYAGER and VIAFLO single and multichannel electronic pipettes can help laboratories to enhance precision and accuracy, and improve ergonomics, while saving time and reducing costs. There are many reasons why working with electronic pipettes is the sensible choice. The improvement in ergonomics and increase in productivity and performance is enormous. Programs can be standardized, improving reproducibility by preventing operator-to-operator variability and minimizing manual errors...
Waters Corporation has announced a new fragmentation technique and an imaging option for its high-resolution mass spectrometers giving research scientists working across a broad range of end markets including biomedical, biopharmaceutical and food research, greater experimental freedom to explore the intricacies of peptides, proteins, and protein complexes....
Researchers in the Department of Pharmacy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich are using chips from Dolomite Microfluidics to reliably and consistently produce monodisperse particles for targeted delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. This microfluidic encapsulation technology is ideal for gene silencing applications in cancer immunology and inflammatory diseases, where siRNA can potentially be used to down-regulate genes associated with these pathologies....
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on clinical research and diagnostic laboratories to process more samples, much more quickly. INTEGRA Biosciences offers a range of pipetting systems designed to speed up PCR-based screening workflows, without requiring complex installations or needing lab staff to spend time undertaking specialist training and developing new protocols....
An advanced laboratory dedicated to leading Wales’ national Covid-19 testing has been established in Cardiff, thanks to collaboration between Public Health Wales and one of the world’s leading diagnostics companies. Creating a national Covid-19 testing lab at the University Hospital of Wales is an important part of the Welsh Government’s Test, Trace, Protect strategy and has been made possible thanks to the support...
Safe and contamination-free: The fluid aspiration systems BVC are the perfect solution for safe, sensitive, and efficient aspiration of cell culture supernatants. Biosafety cabinets (BSC) class I or II are indispensable for cell culture work and R&D in life science. They offer high protection level inside and outside, but also require a high investment....
Today’s High Tech laboratory environment demands the best results, achieved using the latest safety and production solutions. Combined with the best consumables and equipment HPLC is a powerful tool in analysis, a must for today’s results driven, cost conscious laboratory. Whatever HPLC/UHPLC method is used in the laboratory, choosing the right solvents, safety handling equipment and filtration method is...
Bruker has launched a powerful new Wine-Profiling™ module in its FoodScreener™ platform to help wine producers, importers, and testing laboratories detect and prevent wine fraud. The easy-to-operate Wine-Profiling 4.0 allows rapid verification of variety and origin of a wine sample at the touch of a button....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and MSAID GmbH, a software company transforming proteomics with deep learning, announce an exclusive license agreement to develop and commercialize deep learning tools for proteomics, making MSAID's Prosit-derived framework widely accessible to proteomics laboratories. The availability of deep learning tools will enable improved confidence in proteomics research results, primarily in the areas of protein profiling using label-free or tandem mass tag (TMT)-based quantification, and a variety of new applications....
Sygnature Discovery, a leading independent integrated drug discovery and pre-clinical services company, is supporting Professor Sachin Gupte, a pharmacologist at the New York Medical College (Valhalla, NY, USA), in his endeavours to find a drug treatment for the lung damage that can result from Covid-19 infection. Sygnature has synthesised two important compounds, which Prof Gupte will test in a model of coronavirus-induced lung injury. Sygnature’s work has been undertaken on a pro bono basis.
Cresset, innovative provider of software for molecule discovery and design, releases version 4 of Flare, their structure-based design platform, which presents a smarter and faster way to perform Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) calculations. “Drug discovery chemists, and academic researchers, use FEP to accurately predict compound activity in lead optimization projects,” said Giovanna Tedesco, Head of Products at Cresset....
PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, has announced the launch of qPCRBIO Probe 1-Step Virus Detect, a high-concentration 4x RT-qPCR kit designed specifically for ultra-sensitive, high-throughput detection of viral RNA sequences, including SARS-CoV-2. The new kit, which marks the latest addition to PCR Biosystems’ specialized RT-qPCR offering, enables users to add more sample to their reactions to boost analytical sensitivity, even when working with small volume reactions....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recognizes the winners of the 2020 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) Research Award. Now in its sixth year, the research competition selects scientists from a pool of international applicants based on innovation and the potential impact of their work in proteomics using TMT. The proprietary TMT and TMTpro reagents are exclusively licensed to Thermo Fisher Scientific by Proteome Sciences, PLC....
MOBILion Systems, Inc. showcased its first ion mobility separations product to the biopharma drug development and academic research markets, with data from its first beta users, during the American Society for Mass Spectrometry’s (ASMS) 2020 virtual conference. MOBILion Systems is commercializing a patented ion mobility separations technology, called Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulation (SLIMTM)..