Fisher Scientific UK celebrates the success of its 22nd Science World event
The 22nd Science World – ‘the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience’, took place on Thursday 10th October at the Point, Manchester. Over 500 customers attended on show day, networking with 80 of the UK’s top manufacturers of laboratory products and Fisher Scientific colleagues. The atmosphere was buzzing in this new, state of the art facility. Highlights included: seminars by Marcus du Sautoy and Ben Goldacre; back by popular request Professor Hal Sosabowski; plus opportunities for customers to meet Oscar the Robot and Miss Ballooniverse....
As one of Europe’s leading designers and manufacturers of advanced water purification equipment, Purite will naturally be taking a stand at Lab Innovations 2013, a forum for discovering innovation at the heart of the global laboratory industry.
The aim of Lab Innovations 2013 is to introduce visitors to the very latest technology that provides cost-cutting solutions, increased productivity, and higher ROI for business. Anyone visiting Purite’s stand will find efficient water purification solutions that offer all of those qualities. Purite’s staff will be on hand to demonstrate both their considerable expertise in water purification technology and the capabilities of the company’s Labwater cartridges...
BiOptix formally announced the European expansion of the BiOptix Innovators Program at MipTec & BioValley Life Sciences Week.
During the event, the company is launching the BiOptix Innovators Program into Europe, with an emphasis on partnering with key research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology/drug discovery firms. The BiOptix Innovators Program is a unique and innovative product evaluation platform that allows customers to try BiOptix SPR technology independently in their lab, on their timeframe and with complete customer and technical support during the evaluation...
Data acquisition and logging of laboratory equipment cycle data is becoming increasingly important for many laboratories and institutions. LTE Scientific’s Touchclave-Lab autoclave range addresses this issue in a number of ways. Unlike many autoclave manufacturers, Internal Data Archiving is a standard feature on all Touchclave-Lab models. Up to 5000 cycles are stored on an internal flashcard,...
PHSS Annual Members Conference 2013, Microbial Aspects of Cleanroom Manufacture
Cherwell Laboratories will be offering expert knowledge and demonstrating their comprehensive range of specialist environmental monitoring and process validation products at the forthcoming PHSS Annual Members Conference 2013, Microbial Aspects of Cleanroom Manufacture. The annual conference, to be held at Wychwood Park Hotel, Crewe on 9th & 10th October 2013, coincides with the release of the new PHSS Bio-contamination technical monograph 20....
For the first time ACHEMA 2015 is training the spotlight on three major themes
Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Industrial Water Engineering and Biobased Production will be the highlights of the world’s leading event for the process industry set to take place from 15 to 19 June 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. It goes without saying that other areas, from laboratory and analytical techniques to packaging...
Endecotts Ltd, the largest producer of quality test sieves and sieve shakers, will again ‘fly the flag’ at the Lab Innovation exhibition 2013 stand A24. Endecotts will be promoting the following products under the ‘Proud to be British’ theme as well as carrying out a ‘Win a day trip to London’ competition.
The Minor M200 is ideal for the laboratory or plant since it is compact and portable (weighing only 17 Kgs). The shakers vibrating action imparts a precise movement to the sieve stack ensuring efficient sieving and excellent repeatability. The Minor M200 is also fitted with anti-vibrating feet to ensure good stability. The Octagon D200 is perfect for the modern laboratory or on site use. It is robust, compact and sufficiently lightweight (weighs 55 Kgs) to be portable....
Carbolite will exhibit an example of its new 1200?C ‘E-Series’ compact tube furnaces, for the first time in the UK, at Lab Innovations 2013 (6 - 7 November 2013, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK).
Available from November 2013, the innovative E-Series is ideally suited to routine laboratory applications and includes 150, 300, 450 and 600 mm length furnaces, each of which can accommodate work tubes with outer diameters up to 60 mm. Carbolite is attending Lab Innovations for the first time and will exhibit alongside Retsch UK, its sister company within the Verder Scientific Division. As well as the E-Series, Carbolite will showcase the widely used Peak laboratory ovens, fully equipped with the new nanodac™ combined programmer and data logger which ensures precise temperature control and monitoring...
Bibby Scientific will exhibit some of the newest products from its range of laboratory equipment at Lab Innovations 2013. Appearing for the first time at a UK show will be the Techne Combi-Block, for use with Prime thermal cyclers, and the Jenway Genova Nano spectrophotometer. These will be joined on stand C6 by equipment from Bibby Scientific’s Electrothermal, Stuart, Jenway and Techne brands.
Techne introduced the new Combi-Block for its widely used Prime Thermal Cycler range earlier this year. The Combi-Block holds up to 33 tubes of 0.2 ml or 0.5 ml volumes, and offers an optional 25°C temperature gradient spread over its 11 columns. The provision of wells of different sizes means that a variety of consumables can be accommodated, making the Combi-Block a practical and convenient solution for laboratories with a range of different cycling requirements....
Whitehouse Scientific is once again a major sponsor of The Filtration Society’s annual international conference and exhibition, returning on 5-6 November 2013 at the Mercure Chester East Hotel, Christleton, Chester, UK.
This year the main one-day event focuses on ‘Filter Media’ and will be preceded by a ‘Media for Gas and Liquid Filtration Course’. Attendance at Filtration Society meetings is open to everyone - members, non-members, UK and non-UK delegates. The full conference programme, registration and exhibition details are now available. Dr Graham Rideal, CEO of Whitehouse Scientific and science correspondent for The Filtration Society, said, “Whitehouse Scientific is very pleased to be supporting the annual Filtration Society conference once again, in this the Society’s 49th year...
Lab Bulletin is pleased to be working with Easy Fairs this year in helping promote the Lab Innovations Exhibition & Conference being held at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham 6th – 7th November.
Lab Bulletin will be sending out a dedicated e-Newsletter to our European circulation consisting of over 21,000 readers on the 24th October and would like to offer all exhibitors at Lab Innovations the opportunity to promote their presence at the show. Taking part at exhibitions is always a costly exercise so it is important that you get the best possible maximum return from the event. Why not let visitors know what will be on display and where to find you before the event so they can book a time to visit you at your booth....
Autoscribe will be showing the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at Lab Innovations 2013.
However, Matrix Gemini is much more than an easily configurable LIMS for applications in a wide variety of laboratories including, food, pharmaceutical, chemicals, veterinary, healthcare, and environmental information management systems. It also provides a systematic quality management resource for tracking, storage, auditing and reporting of data across all segments of a business or company...
SELECTBIO is pleased to announce the 4th annual European Lab Automation Exhibition
ELA 2014 will be held in parallel with the following conferneces: Advances in NGS & Big Data, High Content Analysis, Advances in Automation & Robotics, Advances in qPCR & dPCR and Advances in Cellular Assays & Cell Culture. Building on the success of the previous years, we expect an exhibition of up to 100 of the industry’s leading solution providers, showcasing current technologies and services.....
As part of the annual EMBO and EMBL events, Olympus will be showcasing the open source microscopy concept, led by the IX3 inverted microscope frames, optimised for life science research.
Demonstrating the very latest in live cell imaging technologies, Olympus will exhibit its range of IX3 inverted microscope frames with associated software and accessories at the upcoming European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Meeting 2013, taking place in Amsterdam on 21-24 September. Delegates of the “Seeing is Believing –Imaging the Processes of Life” Symposium hosted by EMBO in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which takes place on the 3-6 October in Heidelberg (Germany), will also have the chance to discover how the Olympus open source microscopy concept is advancing live cell imaging...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an ion chromatography(IC)-based method for the accurate determination of ammonia in tobacco smoke.
Ammonia is on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) list of toxic compounds in tobacco smoke. Application Note 1054: Determination of Ammonia in Tobacco Smoke describes an approach that achieves better resolution of ammonium from other analytes present in tobacco smoke when compared to other IC methods and therefore is not subject to interference from small amines. The method has high precisions, a low detection limit (0.01 mg/L), and good recoveries (86–115%)...
Porvair Filtration Group showcases its extensive range of microfiltration products at Drinktec 2013 in Munich
At the show Porvair officially launched Stabifil™, a novel polyphenol removal product for beer and wine stabilization. Stabifil uses Porvair’s proprietary and patented technology of co-sintering Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVPP) powder with Vyon® to effect product exposure to PVPP at high flow rates with low contact time in a sanitary and highly efficient manner. Manufactured into cartridges and disc assemblies, this new product can be regenerated many times in-situ with no loss in performance...
AMSBIO, a provider of cutting-edge life science technologies and services for accelerating discovery in cancer research, has continued its sponsorship of the annual poster prize at the Beatson International Cancer Conference (7th -10th July 2013).
The two winners of the Poster Prize for the best presented and most interesting posters, were this year named as Dr Thomas R Cox and co-researchers** for their work on ‘Deep proteomic analysis of the hypoxic secretome lysyl oxidase as a critical mediator of metastatic lesion formation in bone’, and Dr Jean Albrengues & co-researchers*** for their work on ‘Production of LIF cytokine by cancer cells and fibroblasts contributes to the establishment of a pro-invasive tumour microenvironment’...Read MoreSPINNOVATION: CEO Frederic Girard joins fellow industry experts for a QbD round tableSep 13, 2013
A new article detailing a round table discussion on quality by design (QbD) authored by leading industry experts including Spinnovation Biologics CEO Frederic Girard is now available online.
Entitled ‘QbD and PAT in Upstream and Downstream Processing’, the article details the fundamental principles of QbD, how it is used to improve process control, and the impact technological advances have made on QbD biopharmaceutical upstream process optimization. Originally published in the July addition of Biopharm International the full article is now available to read...
At Lab Innovations 2013 (6-7 Nov 2013, Birmingham UK), Lab M will discuss the further extension of its Captivate™ range of Immunomagnetic Separation products for the isolation of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains associated with foodborne infection.
Captivate™ O45 is in the final stages of testing ahead of launch early in 2014 and will take the number of E. coli products in the Captivate™ range to eight. The range already covers most of the requirements in pending European regulation and, with the addition of Captivate™ O45, will fully meet the ‘Big Six’ testing requirements for meat products in the USA....
Tim Freeman, Managing Director of Freeman Technology, will deliver the keynote lecture at ‘Powder Technology in Pharma, Food, Chemistry and Metallurgy’, a new course at the University of Lund, Sweden, October 23-25 designed to support those tackling challenges in powder research and processing.
The course will help attendees to develop a better understanding of powder behaviour, of the tools available for powder characterisation, and of modern processing technology. It is suitable for those working in academia or industry, in R&D or production. Tim Freeman’s lecture will look at the basics of powder behaviour, focusing especially on powder flowability which has a defining influence on the efficiency of many processes....
Cepheid will be showcasing the latest developments in molecular diagnostics on Stand 925 in Hall 4 at this year’s IBMS Biomedical Science Congress in Birmingham.
Running from the 23rd to the 25th of September, this biennial event is one of the highlights of the medical diagnostics industry calendar and will give delegates the opportunity to explore the latest advancements in this ever changing field. Visitors to the Cepheid stand will be offered a glimpse at the future of molecular diagnostics with the GeneXpert Infinity-48s workstation. The latest addition to the acclaimed GeneXpert® range of automated diagnostics instruments, this consolidated platform enables a comprehensive menu of tests to be run on a single system, by a single operator, using the Company’s unique cartridge technology...
Glen Creston – ‘Leaders in Size reduction’ will take the stage again at the Recycling Waste Management exhibition held in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Critics say ‘Glen Creston manufactures and supplies an extensive range of quality standard machines for grinding, mixing, crushing and dispersion applications as well as bespoke machines to customer's requirements for grinding and crushing applications’. In the lead role, following a successful career crushing a wide range of materials from coal to power station bottom ash, will be the newly re-developed Roller Crusher. The Swing hammer mill and Endecotts Test sieves will be in supporting roles, following their successful run last year.
The 22nd Science World – ‘the Fisher Scientific Laboratory Experience’, took place on Thursday 10th October at the Point, Manchester. Over 500 customers attended on show day, networking with 80 of the UK’s top manufacturers of laboratory products and Fisher Scientific colleagues. The atmosphere was buzzing in this new, state of the art facility. Highlights included: seminars by Marcus du Sautoy and Ben Goldacre; back by popular request Professor Hal Sosabowski; plus opportunities for customers to meet Oscar the Robot and Miss Ballooniverse....
During the event, the company is launching the BiOptix Innovators Program into Europe, with an emphasis on partnering with key research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology/drug discovery firms. The BiOptix Innovators Program is a unique and innovative product evaluation platform that allows customers to try BiOptix SPR technology independently in their lab, on their timeframe and with complete customer and technical support during the evaluation...
Data acquisition and logging of laboratory equipment cycle data is becoming increasingly important for many laboratories and institutions. LTE Scientific’s Touchclave-Lab autoclave range addresses this issue in a number of ways. Unlike many autoclave manufacturers, Internal Data Archiving is a standard feature on all Touchclave-Lab models. Up to 5000 cycles are stored on an internal flashcard,...
Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Industrial Water Engineering and Biobased Production will be the highlights of the world’s leading event for the process industry set to take place from 15 to 19 June 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. It goes without saying that other areas, from laboratory and analytical techniques to packaging...
Available from November 2013, the innovative E-Series is ideally suited to routine laboratory applications and includes 150, 300, 450 and 600 mm length furnaces, each of which can accommodate work tubes with outer diameters up to 60 mm. Carbolite is attending Lab Innovations for the first time and will exhibit alongside Retsch UK, its sister company within the Verder Scientific Division. As well as the E-Series, Carbolite will showcase the widely used Peak laboratory ovens, fully equipped with the new nanodac™ combined programmer and data logger which ensures precise temperature control and monitoring...
Techne introduced the new Combi-Block for its widely used Prime Thermal Cycler range earlier this year. The Combi-Block holds up to 33 tubes of 0.2 ml or 0.5 ml volumes, and offers an optional 25°C temperature gradient spread over its 11 columns. The provision of wells of different sizes means that a variety of consumables can be accommodated, making the Combi-Block a practical and convenient solution for laboratories with a range of different cycling requirements....
Lab Bulletin will be sending out a dedicated e-Newsletter to our European circulation consisting of over 21,000 readers on the 24th October and would like to offer all exhibitors at Lab Innovations the opportunity to promote their presence at the show. Taking part at exhibitions is always a costly exercise so it is important that you get the best possible maximum return from the event. Why not let visitors know what will be on display and where to find you before the event so they can book a time to visit you at your booth....
Demonstrating the very latest in live cell imaging technologies, Olympus will exhibit its range of IX3 inverted microscope frames with associated software and accessories at the upcoming European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Meeting 2013, taking place in Amsterdam on 21-24 September. Delegates of the “Seeing is Believing –Imaging the Processes of Life” Symposium hosted by EMBO in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which takes place on the 3-6 October in Heidelberg (Germany), will also have the chance to discover how the Olympus open source microscopy concept is advancing live cell imaging...
Ammonia is on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) list of toxic compounds in tobacco smoke. Application Note 1054: Determination of Ammonia in Tobacco Smoke describes an approach that achieves better resolution of ammonium from other analytes present in tobacco smoke when compared to other IC methods and therefore is not subject to interference from small amines. The method has high precisions, a low detection limit (0.01 mg/L), and good recoveries (86–115%)...
Captivate™ O45 is in the final stages of testing ahead of launch early in 2014 and will take the number of E. coli products in the Captivate™ range to eight. The range already covers most of the requirements in pending European regulation and, with the addition of Captivate™ O45, will fully meet the ‘Big Six’ testing requirements for meat products in the USA....
The course will help attendees to develop a better understanding of powder behaviour, of the tools available for powder characterisation, and of modern processing technology. It is suitable for those working in academia or industry, in R&D or production. Tim Freeman’s lecture will look at the basics of powder behaviour, focusing especially on powder flowability which has a defining influence on the efficiency of many processes....
Critics say ‘Glen Creston manufactures and supplies an extensive range of quality standard machines for grinding, mixing, crushing and dispersion applications as well as bespoke machines to customer's requirements for grinding and crushing applications’. In the lead role, following a successful career crushing a wide range of materials from coal to power station bottom ash, will be the newly re-developed Roller Crusher. The Swing hammer mill and Endecotts Test sieves will be in supporting roles, following their successful run last year.