PhoreMost, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has announced it has entered into a collaboration with o2h discovery (o2h), an Anglo-Indian medicinal chemistry company that has in-house capability to take drug discovery programmes to the IND filing stage....
AMSBIO announces MyEZGel™ 3D-iPSC Matrix - a powerful new tool for in vitro 3D human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) culture, enabling more accurate in vivo predictions in life science research and development. MyEZGel™ 3D-iPSC is a synthetic xeno-free hydrogel matrix inspired by muscle and spider silk proteins. Beneficially, MyEZGel™ is proven to overcome basic problems associated with traditional...
Helping drive research forward at a faster rate, Olympus cellSens 2.1 speeds up image analysis with improved capabilities for flexible camera and microscope control. The updates ensure cellSens remains a powerful tool covering a wide range of applications and benefitting routine microscopy users as well as advanced imaging facilities....
The overall UK radiology equipment market spend for the six months to the end of March 2018 is down by around 30% compared to the same period in the previous year. This is according to latest figures from AXREM (the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy and Care), which represents all the major medical imaging...
An interactive preclinical PET-MR workshop with demonstrations of a new 7T integrated PET-MR multi-modality imaging system from MR Solutions and presentations from participants was held in Dijon. The Cancer Center Georges François Leclerc (CGFL) organised the event in partnership with the UK based PET-MR supplier MR Solutions to launch a new user group...
Do you send away human or animal samples such as blood, urine, faeces or tissue for diagnostic, research or clinical trials purposes? Are you aware of the specific packaging requirements necessary for legal compliance with the UN3373 regulation for transport of these category B biological materials? Now, a new website....
Compact in design, Resolve Optics Model 228 is a full featured, high performance RUVIS lens proven in the world of fingerprinting and forensic investigation. The Model 228 lens offers a true high-resolution macro viewing capability by imaging onto a RUVIS scope with a 1:1 lens magnification whilst exactly matching the optical resolution of both lens and image intensifier...
Testing lots of genetic variants can pick out 1 per cent of men at highest risk. Researchers plan to evaluate saliva test in GP practices. A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer. Researchers devised a new test combining these single letter genetic variants....
Attana has received an contract research order from an European Biotech company. The order is related to optimization of therapeutically antibodies. The order value is around 600 kSEK and is expected to be performed and delivered during Q3 and Q4 2018 and will affect the cash flow and financial result positively during these two quarters....
Increased content provides even more flexibility for customisation. The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom Cancer Panel content - now covering 120 fully optimised cancer related genes. The expanded content gives researchers even more freedom to customise their sequencing experiments, enabling focus on regions of interest, saving time...
Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on how groups of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are making grazing-incidence x-ray scattering measurements using a Linkam HFSX350 thermal stage on Beamline 8-ID-E under the guidance of the Time-Resolved Research group. Dr Joseph Strzalka is a physicist...
Multistep, automated workflows designed to be versatile, fast and offer high throughput. Laboratories can now automate manual steps and achieve high sample throughput and high productivity with a new autosampler and liquid handling system intended for use in pharmaceutical, contract research, food safety, environmental, clinical research and forensic workflows...
Plastics are used extensively in products and packaging. Unfortunately, these make their way into the environment and cause significant pollution, not only as bulk material but also as microplastics: small, hard-to-spot, particles. A Danish research institute is using a Raman spectroscopy system, from Renishaw, to help its clients understand and reduce the amount of microplastics in the environment...
Asynt in partnership with the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) has developed the new CondenSyn Distillation Adapter as an aid to chemistry labs worldwide seeking to go water-free. The new adapter allows chemists to use the CondenSyn air condenser in a vertical orientation for distillation purposes. Available as a complete air reflux / distillation...
AMSBIO announces the launch of StemFit® Basic03 clinical grade stem cell culture for regenerative medicine. Provided as a animal-origin free, ready to use media for cell therapy applications, StemFit® AK03N which is the Japanese version of Basic03 has already been accepted by Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, Japan (PMDA) for retinal regenerative medicine clinical trials....
New, easy-to-use analytical detection system extracts meaningful data quickly from acquisition to analysis. Scientists can now use a powerful new system to automatically capture as much spectral information about small molecules as possible and efficiently translate this into confident identification of chemical compounds....
New temperature control technology for demanding applications. Immersion circulators, heating circulators, and refrigerated circulators of the new DYNEO series incorporate pioneering technology with high standards for accuracy, cost efficiency, ergonomics, and precision in temperature control. With their high heating and cooling capacities and forward-facing control, DYNEO units are designed for...
The Siemens technology group and Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, have agreed on long-term cooperation in the area of automation. This agreement provides that Sartorius Stedim Biotech will preferably use Siemens automation technologies, which will include....
Scientists have identified a pattern of genetic changes that could pick out men with advanced prostate cancer who are likely to benefit from immunotherapy. Developing a genetic test to pick out these men could speed up the path of immunotherapy into use for prostate cancer patients. A major clinical trial earlier this month became the first to show that immunotherapy could work in advanced prostate cancer...
Easy-to-use software helps identify unknown compounds and extracts high-confidence understanding from complex mass spectra. Scientists working in metabolomics, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and environmental and forensic science can now use a fully integrated software toolkit to transform complex, unknown mass spectra generated from small molecule analysis into...
Torrey Pines Scientific announces its new EchoTherm™ HPLC Column Chiller/Heater Model CO30 with the largest, easiest to access chamber available. This new column chiller/heater has a temperature range from 4.0°C to 70.0°C readable and settable to 0.1°C. The PID temperature control software regulates temperatures to ±0.2°C, even at ambient....
International competition rewards four top proteomics researchers for outstanding innovation and impact. Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recognize the winners of the 2018 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) Research Award at the opening of a breakfast workshop held on June 6, 2018, in conjunction with the 66th American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference