Thermo Scientific Mass Frontier 8.0 software with Thermo Scientific Orbitrap ID-X Tribrid Mass Spectrometer streamlines small-molecule unknown compound identification and structural elucidation. Pharmaceutical scientists are now able to overcome challenges associated with the identification and characterization of small molecules and their fragments with Thermo Scientific Mass Frontier 8.0 software, which quickly translates complex data into actionable, sharable knowledge...
Scotland is to have its own £15.8m artificial intelligence health research centre, which promises to enable better patient diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics, to be known as iCAIRD, brings together a pan-Scotland collaboration of 15 partners from across academia, the NHS, and industry. Greg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), announced that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10million in iCAIRD...
Absolute Antibody Ltd., specialists in antibody sequencing, engineering and recombinant expression with a vision to make recombinant antibody technology accessible to all, has announced the opening of a new facility in northeast England. The new facility more than doubles Absolute Antibody’s laboratory space and will enable an even greater increase in its antibody production capacity, allowing the company to better service customers and accelerate the expansion of its recombinant antibody portfolio....
DefiniGEN Ltd are pleased to announce the commercial licensing of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the USA, to develop human cell disease models to support preclinical metabolic disease therapeutic programmes. Broad Institute CRISPR-Cas9 technology will be combined with DefiniGEN’s best-in-class induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) differentiation platform to generate preclinical cell models which can accelerate....
Titan Enterprises reports that the rugged, clean bore construction of its Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter range makes them ideal for a wide range of low flow laboratory applications and very easy to clean between experiments. Available in 60°C and 110°C temperature versions and a 30 bar higher pressure model, the flowmeters use patented ‘time-of-flight’ ultrasonic technology that enable them to operate with...
Breakthrough technology cuts screening time by 10 times compared to circular dichroism (CD) devices with auto samplers and is at least 100 times faster than standard HPLC processes. Bio-Logic (France) and Hinds Instruments (United States) are pleased to announce the launch of the EKKO®, the world’s first high throughput CD microplate reader. EKKO® demonstrates significant potential for the pharmaceutical industry and any organization working in the field of asymmetric synthesis, catalysis and organic/medicinal chemistry....
Provepharm Life Solutions and partner Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were selected for project focusing on anti-malaria treatment in endemic regions. Provepharm Life Solutions, a French independent pharmaceutical and life sciences group which revitalizes known molecules, announces today it has won the 2018 Prix Galien-Medstartup Award. The company was selected or its collaborative project with the Experimental Therapeutics branch (ET), Medical Research Directorate, Africa (MRD-A), and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences....
After adding lots of hand-held refractometers last year, PCE Instruments have recently launched a new tabletop Abbe refractometer, it stands out by its high accuracy (4 decimal places). It measures the refractive index and the sugar content in % Brix, it has 100 memory locations and users can save user profiles and samples. The large (5.6 ") LED touch screen with backlight makes operation easy and the robust case guarantees a long service life. To avoid measurement errors, the meter has a calibration function....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc., a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2018 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, November 14th with Automating Cannabis Testing with LIMS.This webcast will provide valuable guidance for organizations looking to select and implement a LIMS to help manage their cannabis testing operations. With the legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational uses within several states in the US, and recently in Canada, the need for analytical testing laboratories has grown significantly....
The words of Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, “Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order”, could not be more truefor gene editing. Here, Maya Raghunandan, freelancer for online platform for freelance scientists Kolabtree and molecular biologist, explains some key applications of gene editing and its ethical implications. Gene editing applications span various industries, most notably food and healthcare. It refers to specific, intentional alterations to the DNA sequence of a cell, tissue or organism....
Global support for Holotomography Microscopy as company prepares for introduction of second microscope model. A comprehensive network of specialist imaging companies has been unveiled to support the sales and maintenance of Tomocube’s holotomography microscopes around the world. Covering North America, Europe and Asia, the 23-strong group is being launched as Tomocube prepares to introduce its second microscope model in less than three months....
Joint further development of 3D visualizations of multidimensional image data. ZEISS and arivis have now expanded and deepened their cooperation, which began in 2014. The companies are pursuing the common goal of enabling new findings in life sciences and in materials research by improving the presentation and analysis of digital data. Modern microscope systems with high-resolution optics record ever increasing amounts of data, which can only be displayed and analyzed with the help of advanced software...
University of Leicester researchers have developed a computer system to scan large sets of genomes in deadly pathogens. Innovative computer software developed by University of Leicester scientists is shedding new light on the genetic makeup of deadly pathogens responsible for meningitis and gastroenteritis. The software, called ‘PhasomeIt’, rapidly scans through large sets of genomes and identifies their phase variable genes, whilst also comparing all of these genes against one another....
Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. announces its new line of multi-position analog stirring hot plates and stirrers featuring 5 or 9 stirring positions. The large 12” (305 mm) square ceramic heater tops have a temperature range to 450°C. The 5-position stirring units can stir 5-800ml beakers, and the 9-position units can stir 9-500ml beakers of aqueous solutions from 100 to 1500 rpm. Each stirring position is individually controlled so different vessels can be stirred at different speeds at the same time on one plate surface....
Electric fields destroy listeria without damaging nutrients. Team from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, identifies conditions for inactivating Listeria while maintaining product quality during the processing of whey proteins. Low temperatures and an acidic environment create the ideal conditions for applying an effective method of inactivating Listeria (and other germs) in the processing of whey proteins...
The new Bubble Pressure Tensiometer - BPT Mobile is an instrument for determining the surfactant content by investigating the dynamic surface tension (SFT) of a solution. This mobile solution works independently from a computer and providing results within a few seconds, which is a particularly essential feature for quality control applications. Whether an industrial bath obtains the required cleaning or wetting effect is dependent on the concentration of free surfactants, which decreases over time....
Testa Analytical Solutions e.K. has introduced a Surface Zeta Potential option for its NanoBrook range of zeta potential analysers. Adding the new surface zeta potential option to a Nanobrook analyser allows you to measure the electrical charge on materials like coated glass, plastic, tape, or other flexible surfaces. The system uses known probe particles and purpose-designed electrode to calculate surface zeta potential. Leveraging proprietary phase analysis light scattering (PALS) technology...
Empirical Bioscience announce that they have introduced the EB Pure Total RNA Kit and the EB Pure DNase 1 Digestion Kit for the fast and reliable purification of RNA from cells or soft tissue. The High-Bind configuration of the EB Pure Total RNA Kit specifically, but reversibly, binds RNA under optimized conditions allowing proteins and other contaminants to be removed. It also allows for the binding of RNA in high-salt and elution in a low-salt buffer, and each column can bind up to 100 µg of RNA...
Porvair Sciences new UltraVap Mistral XT 100 allows for the first time, full automated dry down of organic solvent-based samples in tubes up to 100mm in length. The UltraVap Mistral XT 100 is Porvair Sciences latest fully robot compatible nitrogen blow-down evaporator, suitable for integration adjacent to most leading laboratory liquid handling robots. Designed with the demands of linear robots very much in mind, the UltraVap Mistral XT 100...
Join us for the day on 4 December 2018 at Schauenburg Analytics, Offenbach am Main, Germany, for a free-to-attend workshop, and learn about the recent advances in VOC and SVOC sampling and analysis for GC–MS. You’ll also have an opportunity to have a look around the laboratory and get hands-on with the instrumentation. What you'll learn...
The ECM 630 Exponential Decay Wave Electroporator is a versatile system ideal for high efficiency transformation of bacteria, yeast, and other microorganisms with DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules. BTX has updated and improved this product by adding an easy to use color touchscreen interface, enhanced safety features, pre-set experimental protocols to electroporate the most commonly used cell types, ability to create, edit...
AMSBIO has added an important new product to its immunotherapy range - a PD-L2 / TCR activator - CHO Recombinant Cell Line. PD-L2 is one of the key players in immune checkpoint therapy, which is the focus of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine . This work pioneered by Professor James P Allison from the USA and Professor Tasuku Honjo from Japan, has led to treatments for cancers, such as melanoma, lung cancer and others based upon immune checkpoint therapy...
Thermo Scientific Mass Frontier 8.0 software with Thermo Scientific Orbitrap ID-X Tribrid Mass Spectrometer streamlines small-molecule unknown compound identification and structural elucidation. Pharmaceutical scientists are now able to overcome challenges associated with the identification and characterization of small molecules and their fragments with Thermo Scientific Mass Frontier 8.0 software, which quickly translates complex data into actionable, sharable knowledge...
Scotland is to have its own £15.8m artificial intelligence health research centre, which promises to enable better patient diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics, to be known as iCAIRD, brings together a pan-Scotland collaboration of 15 partners from across academia, the NHS, and industry. Greg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), announced that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10million in iCAIRD...
Absolute Antibody Ltd., specialists in antibody sequencing, engineering and recombinant expression with a vision to make recombinant antibody technology accessible to all, has announced the opening of a new facility in northeast England. The new facility more than doubles Absolute Antibody’s laboratory space and will enable an even greater increase in its antibody production capacity, allowing the company to better service customers and accelerate the expansion of its recombinant antibody portfolio....
DefiniGEN Ltd are pleased to announce the commercial licensing of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the USA, to develop human cell disease models to support preclinical metabolic disease therapeutic programmes. Broad Institute CRISPR-Cas9 technology will be combined with DefiniGEN’s best-in-class induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) differentiation platform to generate preclinical cell models which can accelerate....
Titan Enterprises reports that the rugged, clean bore construction of its Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter range makes them ideal for a wide range of low flow laboratory applications and very easy to clean between experiments. Available in 60°C and 110°C temperature versions and a 30 bar higher pressure model, the flowmeters use patented ‘time-of-flight’ ultrasonic technology that enable them to operate with...
Breakthrough technology cuts screening time by 10 times compared to circular dichroism (CD) devices with auto samplers and is at least 100 times faster than standard HPLC processes. Bio-Logic (France) and Hinds Instruments (United States) are pleased to announce the launch of the EKKO®, the world’s first high throughput CD microplate reader. EKKO® demonstrates significant potential for the pharmaceutical industry and any organization working in the field of asymmetric synthesis, catalysis and organic/medicinal chemistry....
Provepharm Life Solutions and partner Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were selected for project focusing on anti-malaria treatment in endemic regions. Provepharm Life Solutions, a French independent pharmaceutical and life sciences group which revitalizes known molecules, announces today it has won the 2018 Prix Galien-Medstartup Award. The company was selected or its collaborative project with the Experimental Therapeutics branch (ET), Medical Research Directorate, Africa (MRD-A), and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences....
After adding lots of hand-held refractometers last year, PCE Instruments have recently launched a new tabletop Abbe refractometer, it stands out by its high accuracy (4 decimal places). It measures the refractive index and the sugar content in % Brix, it has 100 memory locations and users can save user profiles and samples. The large (5.6 ") LED touch screen with backlight makes operation easy and the robust case guarantees a long service life. To avoid measurement errors, the meter has a calibration function....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc., a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2018 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, November 14th with Automating Cannabis Testing with LIMS.This webcast will provide valuable guidance for organizations looking to select and implement a LIMS to help manage their cannabis testing operations. With the legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational uses within several states in the US, and recently in Canada, the need for analytical testing laboratories has grown significantly....
The words of Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, “Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order”, could not be more truefor gene editing. Here, Maya Raghunandan, freelancer for online platform for freelance scientists Kolabtree and molecular biologist, explains some key applications of gene editing and its ethical implications. Gene editing applications span various industries, most notably food and healthcare. It refers to specific, intentional alterations to the DNA sequence of a cell, tissue or organism....
Global support for Holotomography Microscopy as company prepares for introduction of second microscope model. A comprehensive network of specialist imaging companies has been unveiled to support the sales and maintenance of Tomocube’s holotomography microscopes around the world. Covering North America, Europe and Asia, the 23-strong group is being launched as Tomocube prepares to introduce its second microscope model in less than three months....
Joint further development of 3D visualizations of multidimensional image data. ZEISS and arivis have now expanded and deepened their cooperation, which began in 2014. The companies are pursuing the common goal of enabling new findings in life sciences and in materials research by improving the presentation and analysis of digital data. Modern microscope systems with high-resolution optics record ever increasing amounts of data, which can only be displayed and analyzed with the help of advanced software...
University of Leicester researchers have developed a computer system to scan large sets of genomes in deadly pathogens. Innovative computer software developed by University of Leicester scientists is shedding new light on the genetic makeup of deadly pathogens responsible for meningitis and gastroenteritis. The software, called ‘PhasomeIt’, rapidly scans through large sets of genomes and identifies their phase variable genes, whilst also comparing all of these genes against one another....
Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. announces its new line of multi-position analog stirring hot plates and stirrers featuring 5 or 9 stirring positions. The large 12” (305 mm) square ceramic heater tops have a temperature range to 450°C. The 5-position stirring units can stir 5-800ml beakers, and the 9-position units can stir 9-500ml beakers of aqueous solutions from 100 to 1500 rpm. Each stirring position is individually controlled so different vessels can be stirred at different speeds at the same time on one plate surface....
Electric fields destroy listeria without damaging nutrients. Team from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, identifies conditions for inactivating Listeria while maintaining product quality during the processing of whey proteins. Low temperatures and an acidic environment create the ideal conditions for applying an effective method of inactivating Listeria (and other germs) in the processing of whey proteins...
The new Bubble Pressure Tensiometer - BPT Mobile is an instrument for determining the surfactant content by investigating the dynamic surface tension (SFT) of a solution. This mobile solution works independently from a computer and providing results within a few seconds, which is a particularly essential feature for quality control applications. Whether an industrial bath obtains the required cleaning or wetting effect is dependent on the concentration of free surfactants, which decreases over time....
Testa Analytical Solutions e.K. has introduced a Surface Zeta Potential option for its NanoBrook range of zeta potential analysers. Adding the new surface zeta potential option to a Nanobrook analyser allows you to measure the electrical charge on materials like coated glass, plastic, tape, or other flexible surfaces. The system uses known probe particles and purpose-designed electrode to calculate surface zeta potential. Leveraging proprietary phase analysis light scattering (PALS) technology...
Empirical Bioscience announce that they have introduced the EB Pure Total RNA Kit and the EB Pure DNase 1 Digestion Kit for the fast and reliable purification of RNA from cells or soft tissue. The High-Bind configuration of the EB Pure Total RNA Kit specifically, but reversibly, binds RNA under optimized conditions allowing proteins and other contaminants to be removed. It also allows for the binding of RNA in high-salt and elution in a low-salt buffer, and each column can bind up to 100 µg of RNA...
Porvair Sciences new UltraVap Mistral XT 100 allows for the first time, full automated dry down of organic solvent-based samples in tubes up to 100mm in length. The UltraVap Mistral XT 100 is Porvair Sciences latest fully robot compatible nitrogen blow-down evaporator, suitable for integration adjacent to most leading laboratory liquid handling robots. Designed with the demands of linear robots very much in mind, the UltraVap Mistral XT 100...
Join us for the day on 4 December 2018 at Schauenburg Analytics, Offenbach am Main, Germany, for a free-to-attend workshop, and learn about the recent advances in VOC and SVOC sampling and analysis for GC–MS. You’ll also have an opportunity to have a look around the laboratory and get hands-on with the instrumentation. What you'll learn...
The ECM 630 Exponential Decay Wave Electroporator is a versatile system ideal for high efficiency transformation of bacteria, yeast, and other microorganisms with DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules. 
AMSBIO has added an important new product to its immunotherapy range - a PD-L2 / TCR activator - CHO Recombinant Cell Line. PD-L2 is one of the key players in immune checkpoint therapy, which is the focus of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine . This work pioneered by Professor James P Allison from the USA and Professor Tasuku Honjo from Japan, has led to treatments for cancers, such as melanoma, lung cancer and others based upon immune checkpoint therapy...