A new application note from AMSBIO, previously presented at both the 2014 Beatson International Cancer conference and the ELRIG Drug Discovery 2014 meeting in Manchester UK, introduces a more predictive and realistic model for early stage drug screening of cancer therapeutics.
The report shows that incorporating vascular and stromal cells with breast cancer tumor spheroids allows them to more closely mimic the extracellular environment, cellular architecture and behaviour of actual tumors; this triculture promotes growth, invasion and endothelial recruitment. Current 2D models for evaluating breast cancer progression do not provide a comprehensive, physiological approach to modeling the...
Use of Picsara will provide a more streamlined and secure approach to the patient journey.
HCA International, providers of world class private hospital care, are to collaborate with Swedish-based medical imaging specialists Mawell to transform the delivery of frontline care, enhance their service to patients and improve clinical safety and security. Launching across all HCA International’s clinical UK sites early next year Picsara, a unique multidisciplinary imaging software solution, will enable medical staff across various specialities to capture, store, distribute, analyse, annotate and measure all non-radiology medical images and videos efficiently and securely to help...
Thanks to a novel software upgrade from Olympus, an optical resolution of up to 120 nm is now achieved in cell and tissue imaging.
With the new Olympus FV-OSR software, the FluoView FV1200 is transformed into a powerful system for confocal Super Resolution microscopy. Introducing a smart route to Super Resolution microscopy, the Olympus FV-OSR software module enables users of the FluoView FV1200 easy access to what was previously the domain of only specialised microscopy systems. The extra detail offered by Super Resolution technology facilitates researchers in...
Titian Software has launched Mosaic 6.0, the latest version of its pre-eminent sample management software.
Ideal for the management of compounds, biologicals and reagents, Mosaic 6.0 developments include more intuitive interfaces for ordering and inventory searching, and additional functions all designed to further streamline laboratory workflows, save valuable work-time and maximise the cost-effective use of resources. With the release of Mosaic 6.0, a new optional Assay Requesting module is available which significantly improves the efficiency of...
Digitron – an Elektron Technology brand – has announced new additions to its extensive range of robust hand-held digital thermometers.
Demanding industrial and food environments will benefit from the rugged, water resistant 1000 Series thermometers, offering speed, accuracy and performance at an affordable price. Simple, fast, reliable operation provides precise, stable readings in even the harshest environments, with a choice of thermocouples – thermistors for lower food safe temperatures, T type (-250 to 400 degrees), and K type (-200 to 600 degrees) for the more extreme heat generated by industrial applications – enabling an extensive range of...
A developer of stem cell organ regenerative medicine which was built on the foundations of a ground breaking operation which saved a ten year old boy’s life has secured funding totalling £3.1m.
Youngster Ciaran Finn-Lynch was critically ill with a rare condition that meant he had a narrow windpipe (trachea) which resulted in difficulties breathing. He had multiple operations, including inserting a metal stent to open his airway but this started to erode and cause life threatening bleeding. Ciaran is alive and well today as he was the lucky recipient of pioneering transplant surgery in 2010 which combined a donor windpipe with...
Every LC lab has a cache of C18s, but every C18 is not created equal. Because the chemistry tends to be similar, the silica support that carries this ubiquitous octadecylsilane phase becomes vitally important. When you need a general-purpose LC column, don’t just grab any C18. Choose the speed, efficiency, and long-lasting ruggedness of the new Raptor™ C18 SPP LC column....
Brookfield Engineering is making viscosity measurement easier than ever with the new Model QB Quick Action Lab Stand. The spring-loaded Model QB simplifies your testing process! With the push of a button, the viscometer glides up and down, allowing for quick positioning, rapid sample change and improved laboratory efficiency...
Read MoreBringing Photochemistry to the Bench with Vapourtec InnovationOct 14, 2014
Flow chemistry engineering firm Vapourtec has launched the easy-Photochem, a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, system that aims to bring photochemistry to the bench chemist.
Photochemistry is a powerful yet under-utilised synthetic technique. Recently there has been a resurgence in interest in photochemistry due to its ability to provide novel structures and alternative, greener synthetic routes. In developing the easy-Photochem, Vapourtec's aim is to bring photochemistry out of the hands of dedicated expert users and make the technique easily and safely available for general bench chemists. Key features of the easy-Photochem include a high intensity...
Tecan has launched the Freedom EVO® NGS workstation to simplify next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample preparation and PCR set-up.
Offering user-friendly, walkaway automation of library preparation at the touch of a button, it eliminates the need for extensive manual processing. NGS is the fastest growing application in genomics, yet many sample preparation protocols can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. The Freedom EVO NGS workstation has been designed to offer robust and reliable automation – including library preparation, quantification, qPCR set-up, normalization...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a method that uses solid-phase extraction (SPE) well plates to improve sample preconcentration prior to analysis while maintaining high levels of precision, accuracy, recovery, and sample cleanliness.
Application Note 20941: SOLAμ for Pre-Analysis Sample Concentration demonstrates the ability to decrease the lower limit of quantitation by a factor of 20 without the need for lengthy evaporation procedures that may compromise analytical results. By performing a preconcentration step during sample preparation, analysts can reduce workflow, provide stability for analytes susceptible to loss or degradation during evaporation/reconstitution, and...
Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex 2014, the UK’s showcase photonics conference & exhibition announce the programme and speakers for the meeting on Nano and Bio-Imaging.
This FREE-to-attend conference will be held on Wednesday 15th October as part of a diverse two-day event at the visitor-friendly Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Applying photonics to a broad group of imaging techniques is providing greatly increased information particularly in the fields of medicine and the life sciences. With researchers continually looking for increased resolution with the addition of chemical information, this year’s conference provides a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding field....
Innovative batch and flow reactors from leading manufacturer Syrris are proving advantageous for a variety of nanoparticle applications, offering scientists working in the field numerous benefits.
Simple to assemble with no tools required, the easy-to-use reactors enable conditions such as temperature, time, mixing, reagent ratios and concentrations to be quickly varied for rapid process optimization. Excellent mixing and temperature control ensure a narrow particle size distribution and, to further enhance reproducibility, the systems can be fully automated. Batch reactors such as the modular Atlas system offer multiple sensors including temperature, pH and turbidity, and...
Anachem is pleased to announce the launch of RAININ's new LR Low Retention pipette tips.
These new tips will improve your pipetting accuracy by minimising residual volume, particularly when transferring complex sample liquids, viscous liquids and those with reduced surface tension due to the presence of detergents and other organic constituents, by preventing samples from interacting with the polypropylene surface of the tip. For even greater flexibity with difficult sample types the LR pipette tip family includes a new...
The Pirbright Institute hosted its Centenary Conference at The University of Surrey to mark its 100th anniversary of the prevention and control of livestock infectious diseases and discuss current research into virus diseases of livestock and viruses that spread from animals to humans.
The event showcased the importance, challenges and progress in the control of livestock diseases and zoonoses and gave delegates the opportunity to interact and debate recent advances in the control, epidemiology, virology, immunology and vaccinology of viral diseases of livestock, including poultry, and viral zoonoses. Delegates were also provided with a unique opportunity to tour the Institute’s new state-of the-art high biocontainment laboratory facility, the...
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today announced its G:BOX Chemi XT4 is being used by scientists at the University of Edinburgh to accurately quantify DNA and proteins from bacteria engineered to produce metal nanoparticles.
This work is contributing to speeding up throughput of research on novel methods of processing toxic metals from contaminated soil. Researchers in the Horsfall Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are using a G:BOX Chemi XT4 multi-application imager to analyse agarose gels of bacterial DNA stained with the green fluorescent dye SafeView™. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XT4 to image SDS-PAGE gels and...
TAP Biosystems announce that its ambr250™ automated mini bioreactor system is being successfully used at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, for optimising their microbial fermentations to accelerate scale-up production of protein-based therapeutics.
Fujifilm’s scientists at Billingham in the UK are using the ambr250 system, with its independent parallel control of 24, single-use 250mL mini bioreactors in their state-of-the-art process development facility to fully evaluate process characteristics of large scale fermenters. The researchers have seen equivalent growth and protein expression profiles when comparing 20L fermenters and the ambr250 mini bioreactors for culturing E.coli and P. pastoris strains expressing a number of model proteins....
Company Wins ISO and EN Certification for its Design & Development Capabilities
Medtech innovator Medimetrics continues its expansion into the global medical devices sector with official recognition of its full design and product development capabilities and the launch of a new, fast release, drug delivery capsule. Medimetrics has newly achieved a certification of compliance to EN ISO 13485:2012. This enhanced level of certification further confirms the company’s expertise in the design, development, manufacturing and...
SP Scientific has entered into an exclusive agreement with Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) to distribute the LyoFlux® 200 Water Vapor Mass Flow Rate Monitor for laboratory and pilot scale freeze dryers.
The LyoFlux® 200 is an innovative two line-of-sight tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based device for continuous monitoring of laboratory, pilot and production scale lyophilization cycles. Operating in conjunction with SP Scientific’s LyoStar 3 development freeze dryer the LyoFlux® 200 enables users to better understand instantaneous changes in water vapor mass flow, and thus the sublimation rate for a given product during...
VICI Valco’s Cheminert Model M6 and M50 Liquid Handling Pumps are a new generation of pumps for precision handling of liquids and/or gases, producing a bidirectional pulseless flow with a range of over six orders of magnitude (5 nL/min to 5 mL/min for the M6 Pump; 1 µL/min to 25 mL/min for the M50 Pump).
An excellent replacement for syringe pumps, the Cheminert pumps offer better performance and eliminate the need for refill cycles and syringe changes. The M6 and M50 are positive displacement pumps, which means they are self-priming and tolerant of any gas which may find its way into the fluid lines. There is no separate fill cycle, and the capacity is unlimited. RS-232 and RS-485 communication protocols are incorporated into the microprocessor-driven controller...
Visit Cleaver Scientific at Lab Innovations | Stand D8 and learn how to reduce your assay time by 60%
The COMPAC-50 marks the first of a new range of innovative systems designed specifically for rapid high throughput single cell gel electrophoresis. Developed in collaboration with the Oxidative Stress Group at the University of Leicester (Leicester, UK), the unique design of the COMPAC-50 enables simultaneous electrophoresis of up to 50 COMET Assay slides saving considerable lab space and reducing slide handling time by up to two-thirds when compared to previous standard methods. This would equate to a significant time-saving of up to 90% when handling 50 COMET Assay slides....
Visit Cleaver Scientific at Lab Innovations | Stand D8
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and German Cancer Research Center and William E. Moerner, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
With the new Olympus FV-OSR software, the FluoView FV1200 is transformed into a powerful system for confocal Super Resolution microscopy. Introducing a smart route to Super Resolution microscopy, the Olympus FV-OSR software module enables users of the FluoView FV1200 easy access to what was previously the domain of only specialised microscopy systems. The extra detail offered by Super Resolution technology facilitates researchers in...
Ideal for the management of compounds, biologicals and reagents, Mosaic 6.0 developments include more intuitive interfaces for ordering and inventory searching, and additional functions all designed to further streamline laboratory workflows, save valuable work-time and maximise the cost-effective use of resources. With the release of Mosaic 6.0, a new optional Assay Requesting module is available which significantly improves the efficiency of...
Demanding industrial and food environments will benefit from the rugged, water resistant 1000 Series thermometers, offering speed, accuracy and performance at an affordable price. Simple, fast, reliable operation provides precise, stable readings in even the harshest environments, with a choice of thermocouples – thermistors for lower food safe temperatures, T type (-250 to 400 degrees), and K type (-200 to 600 degrees) for the more extreme heat generated by industrial applications – enabling an extensive range of...
Youngster Ciaran Finn-Lynch was critically ill with a rare condition that meant he had a narrow windpipe (trachea) which resulted in difficulties breathing. He had multiple operations, including inserting a metal stent to open his airway but this started to erode and cause life threatening bleeding. Ciaran is alive and well today as he was the lucky recipient of pioneering transplant surgery in 2010 which combined a donor windpipe with...
Brookfield Engineering is making viscosity measurement easier than ever with the new Model QB Quick Action Lab Stand. The spring-loaded Model QB simplifies your testing process! With the push of a button, the viscometer glides up and down, allowing for quick positioning, rapid sample change and improved laboratory efficiency...
Photochemistry is a powerful yet under-utilised synthetic technique. Recently there has been a resurgence in interest in photochemistry due to its ability to provide novel structures and alternative, greener synthetic routes. In developing the easy-Photochem, Vapourtec's aim is to bring photochemistry out of the hands of dedicated expert users and make the technique easily and safely available for general bench chemists. Key features of the easy-Photochem include a high intensity...
Offering user-friendly, walkaway automation of library preparation at the touch of a button, it eliminates the need for extensive manual processing. NGS is the fastest growing application in genomics, yet many sample preparation protocols can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. The Freedom EVO NGS workstation has been designed to offer robust and reliable automation – including library preparation, quantification, qPCR set-up, normalization...
Application Note 20941: SOLAμ for Pre-Analysis Sample Concentration demonstrates the ability to decrease the lower limit of quantitation by a factor of 20 without the need for lengthy evaporation procedures that may compromise analytical results. By performing a preconcentration step during sample preparation, analysts can reduce workflow, provide stability for analytes susceptible to loss or degradation during evaporation/reconstitution, and...
Simple to assemble with no tools required, the easy-to-use reactors enable conditions such as temperature, time, mixing, reagent ratios and concentrations to be quickly varied for rapid process optimization. Excellent mixing and temperature control ensure a narrow particle size distribution and, to further enhance reproducibility, the systems can be fully automated. Batch reactors such as the modular Atlas system offer multiple sensors including temperature, pH and turbidity, and...
These new tips will improve your pipetting accuracy by minimising residual volume, particularly when transferring complex sample liquids, viscous liquids and those with reduced surface tension due to the presence of detergents and other organic constituents, by preventing samples from interacting with the polypropylene surface of the tip. For even greater flexibity with difficult sample types the LR pipette tip family includes a new...
The event showcased the importance, challenges and progress in the control of livestock diseases and zoonoses and gave delegates the opportunity to interact and debate recent advances in the control, epidemiology, virology, immunology and vaccinology of viral diseases of livestock, including poultry, and viral zoonoses. Delegates were also provided with a unique opportunity to tour the Institute’s new state-of the-art high biocontainment laboratory facility, the...
This work is contributing to speeding up throughput of research on novel methods of processing toxic metals from contaminated soil. Researchers in the Horsfall Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are using a G:BOX Chemi XT4 multi-application imager to analyse agarose gels of bacterial DNA stained with the green fluorescent dye SafeView™. They are also utilising the G:BOX Chemi XT4 to image SDS-PAGE gels and...
Fujifilm’s scientists at Billingham in the UK are using the ambr250 system, with its independent parallel control of 24, single-use 250mL mini bioreactors in their state-of-the-art process development facility to fully evaluate process characteristics of large scale fermenters. The researchers have seen equivalent growth and protein expression profiles when comparing 20L fermenters and the ambr250 mini bioreactors for culturing E.coli and P. pastoris strains expressing a number of model proteins....
Medtech innovator Medimetrics continues its expansion into the global medical devices sector with official recognition of its full design and product development capabilities and the launch of a new, fast release, drug delivery capsule. Medimetrics has newly achieved a certification of compliance to EN ISO 13485:2012. This enhanced level of certification further confirms the company’s expertise in the design, development, manufacturing and...
The LyoFlux® 200 is an innovative two line-of-sight tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based device for continuous monitoring of laboratory, pilot and production scale lyophilization cycles. Operating in conjunction with SP Scientific’s LyoStar 3 development freeze dryer the LyoFlux® 200 enables users to better understand instantaneous changes in water vapor mass flow, and thus the sublimation rate for a given product during...
An excellent replacement for syringe pumps, the Cheminert pumps offer better performance and eliminate the need for refill cycles and syringe changes. The M6 and M50 are positive displacement pumps, which means they are self-priming and tolerant of any gas which may find its way into the fluid lines. There is no separate fill cycle, and the capacity is unlimited. RS-232 and RS-485 communication protocols are incorporated into the microprocessor-driven controller...