Recent Articles in Laboratory Exhibitions and Conferences
New Article for Download: Meeting the Expanding Needs of Global Food Testing: Analysis of Pesticides in Vegetable Matrix BrukerMar 12, 2012A recent article, originally published in "Innovations in Food Technology" (November, 2011), has been made available online at ScionHasArrived.com. Authored by Zicheng Yang & Kefei Wang, experts from Bruker's Chemical and Applied Markets division (Fremont, California) the article explores the globalization of food supplies, and discusses how manufacturers and other businesses are coping with the extensive need for food testing.
Read MoreQuotient showcases ICHM3 exploratory clinical trials at ASCPTMar 9, 2012Quotient Clinical, a business unit of Quotient Bioresearch ("Quotient"), will present two significant poster publications at the forthcoming American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) meeting to be held on March 12th to 17th in Maryland, USA...
Read MoreMicrosaic Systems Exhibits the WorldMar 9, 2012Microsaic Systems plc, the high technology company developing next generation mass spectrometry instruments, is to exhibit the Microsaic 3500 MiD at Analytica 2012, Munich, 17th - 20th April 2012, Hall A2, Booth 240. Developed in collaboration with three major pharmaceutical companies, the 3500 MiD® is the world's first chip-based mass spectrometer is an extremely robust system which is simple and intuitive to use. 90% smaller than conventional mass spectrometers... Read MoreInvited award symposium presentation on molecular orientation of electrospun fibers using nanoscale IR spectroscopy at Pittcon 2012Mar 7, 2012Anasys Instruments, the company that pioneered nanoscale thermal analysis and nanoscale IR spectroscopy using an AFM, is pleased to announce that Dr. Bruce Chase is presenting an invited talk entitled "Structure and Orientation in Electrospun Nanofibers" at the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference, as part of the Organized Contributed Session on Analytical Applications of Broadly Tunable Lasers. The presentation will include spatially resolved measurements of molecular orientation obtained by a technique combining atomic force microscopy and infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR)...
Read MoreInformatics for AutomationMar 5, 2012Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2012, is pleased to announce that Informatics for Automation will form one of the new conference streams contributing to the ELA conference and exhibition at the Conference Center Hamburg, Germany from 30th-31st May. As automation is becoming increasingly essential in many medium to high-throughput set-ups, understanding informatics and how it can provide efficient and streamlined automated workflows is incredibly important...
Read MoreAutoscribe Informatics exhibiting at Pittcon 2012Mar 1, 2012Autoscribe Informatics Inc. will be showcasing its laboratory and business management solutions at Booth 1758 during Pittcon 2012, being held March 12 -15 in Orlando, Florida. As the world's premier Conference and Exposition on laboratory science, Pittcon is the perfect event for promoting Autoscribe's extensive range of LIMS and tracking solutions and presenting new solutions as part of its continuing success within many market sectors such as water, environmental, food and health sciences in the US and Canada...
Read MoreMalvern specialist presents GPC/SEC benefits at Chromatographic Society meetingFeb 29, 2012A separation technique specialist from Malvern Instruments will speak at the upcoming symposium ‘Chromatographic characterisation and purification techniques for Biopharm', a meeting with a packed programme of presentations and workshops that will focus on monoclonal antibody-derived drugs. This 2-day event is organised by the Chromatographic Society and will be hosted at the GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre in Stevenage, UK on 14/15 March 2012. Malvern is also one of the symposium sponsors...
Read MoreThe Gold Standard for HTS Microplate Readers, the PHERAstar FS, Shines at SLAS 2012Feb 28, 2012The first inaugural SLAS took place on February 6-8th in San Diego, California with BMG LABTECH being a proud diamond sponsor of the event. Amongst the things highlighted at SLAS2012 were the PHERAstar FS, the new gold-standard for HTS instruments; the SPECTROstar Nano, a 1536-well absorbance only microplate reader that is perfect for HTS DNA concentration measurements; and the new Atmospheric Control Unit (ACU) with dual gas intake valves for CO2 and O2 regulation, making it the ultimate cell-based microplate reader...
Read MoreTTP Labtech Reports SLAS 2012 as Resounding SuccessFeb 28, 2012TTP Labtech generated substantial interest with the launch of three innovative new products at SLAS 2012. The mosquito® HV automated liquid handler, aequus non-contact solvent level monitor and arktic -80ºC biobanking solution were unveiled on the first day of the exhibition. Attracting attention from delegates and media alike, all three products were exceptionally well received, resulting in an overwhelming number of visitors to the stand over the two day exhibition... Read MoreNatural products drug discovery symposium announced Feb 28, 2012Groundbreaking research into the development of new medicines from the earth's natural resources will be the focus of a symposium in March, hosted by the University of Aberdeen. "The role of natural products and synthetic biology in drug discovery" symposium will bring together academics and industry representatives from across the UK, working in biomedicine and biotechnology...
Read MoreMalvern expert speaks on high temperature GPC at Texas polyolefins conferenceFeb 27, 2012Chromatography applications expert Wei Sen Wong from Malvern Instruments, will talk about the practicalities of high temperature gel permeation chromatography (HT-GPC) at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Joint International Polyolefins/FlexPack Conference being held in Houston, Texas, February 26-29, 2012. Malvern Instruments is also an exhibitor at the event and will display their systems at Booth #40.
Read MoreChromSoc release Final Programme for Biomolecules ConferenceFeb 23, 2012Monoclonal antibodies, proteins and biomolecules as therapeutics are enjoying very high growth in the biologically active molecules armoury of the Pharmaceutical industry. The characterisation and purification of these complex molecules are a major challenge facing scientists in the industry. This symposium will focus on solutions to these problems and discuss the unique issues presented by structurally complex, large molecular weight, biologically active molecules. An exhibition of tools necessary to address these problems will augment the lecture presentations...
Read MorePittcon 2012 Announces Exposition HighlightsFeb 21, 2012The Pittcon 2012 Exposition, which takes place March 12-15, at the Orange County Convention Center, will include 943 exhibitors (count as of February 15) that provide products, services, and support for all facets of laboratory operations in the industrial, academic, and government sectors. The exposition will display the latest technologies and instrumentation used by scientists in areas such as analytical chemistry; pharmaceutical science and drug discovery; life sciences to include forensics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics; food analysis and safety; environmental; and biotechnology- to name a few... Read MoreAutoscribe to Exhibit at ArabLab and PittconFeb 20, 2012Kicking off the 2012 exhibition schedule, Autoscribe will be promoting its extensive range of genuinely configurable LIMS and tracking solutions at Pittcon 2012 (Booth 1758), ARABLAB (Stand 444) and VETme (stand 6D51), this Spring. With over 20 years of delivering long term configurable and scalable solutions, Autoscribe has expert knowledge in the development and supply of software solutions across a wide variety of industries and market sectors such as water, environmental, veterinary, food and health sciences...
Read MoreBioplastics Research Aided by CDS Analytical PyrolyzersFeb 20, 2012One of the newest, and most promising, developments in polymer science is the emergence of bioplastics. Bioplastics are polymers made completely, or at least partially, from renewable resources like cellulose, starch, and algae. It is widely believed that increasing acceptance of bioplastics will help slow the pace of climate degradation by reducing dependence on fossil fuels. The market for bioplastics is accelerating rapidly and industry experts believe it could reach $3 billion by 2018...
Read MoreInGenius3Feb 20, 2012Come and visit Syngene stand 136 at ArabLab to see the newly launched InGenius3 gel documentation system. Designed with a compact darkroom, as well as blue, white and UV lighting options, InGenius3 offers maximum gel imaging versatility at an affordable price...
Read MoreEuropean Microscopy Congress 2012 Feb 17, 2012Light and electron microscopy across the life and physical sciences will take centre stage in Manchester from 16th - 21st September 2012. The 15th European Microscopy Congress, emc2012, will be Europe's largest ever event dedicated to microscopy and imaging. It includes an international conference comprising over 30 sessions within four symposia, an exhibition with over 100 companies, plus a programme of workshops, training opportunities, and a busy social programme. The Call for Papers has been made, and the deadline for abstract submission is 16th March...
Read MoreChemistry Automation and Compound Management Announced as ELA Conference StreamFeb 15, 2012Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2012, is delighted to announce that Compound Management will return for a second year as one of the eight highly topical conference streams. New for this year, compound management will be combined with chemistry automation, which has been highlighted as an important focus in automation. With participation from some of the industry's leading experts, Chemistry Automation and Compound Management will feature a combination of keynote presentations from Rose Gonzales, Director of Compound Management and Distribution, Pfizer and Clive Green, Associate Director of Compound Management, AstraZeneca...
Read MoreSPRIworks HT from Beckman Coulter Automates Sample Preparation for Next-generation Sequencing, Debuts at SLAS 2012Feb 14, 2012Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches SPRIworks HT*, a high-throughput solution for fragment library preparation on Illumina next-generation sequencers, at SLAS 2012, The system allows researchers to process libraries with greater speed and sample reproducibility and decreases processing costs. SPRIworks HT utilizes built-in SPRI (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilization)-based per-well size selection...
Read MoreBring a Buddy to ELA 2012Feb 14, 2012
Select Biosciences, organisers of the Second European Lab Automation (ELA) at the Congress Center Hamburg, Germany from 30th-31stMay 2012 is pleased to offer a ‘bring a buddy' discount on conference registration fees. Industry and academic delegates can qualify for up to a 30% reduction in registration fees when booking in conjunction with colleagues or collaborators providing delegates with the opportunity to save money...
Read MoreOGT to Exhibit and Present at Molecular Medicine Tri-Con 2012Feb 13, 2012Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, will be exhibiting and presenting its biomarker discovery service at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Con in San Francisco, California (19th-23rd February 2012). The conference, organized by the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, will include an OGT presentation entitled "Integrated Biomarker Discovery: Multi-Method Approach to Enable Early Biomarker Success"...
Read MoreBrukerFeb 10, 2012Bruker Chemical & Applied Markets division (CAM), US: During the recent China International Food Safety and Quality (CIFSQ) 2011 conference in Beijing, media were engaged in a briefing at the Bruker facilities. Bruker's continued and rapid growth in China is reflected in the expansion programs for Beijing's Application Laboratories and Customer Service Centers. Earlier in 2011 the Shanghai Application Laboratory facilities were formerly opened, with a 50% expansion program underway at the Beijing facility plus an additional service and sales office planned for Guangzhou...
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A recent article, originally published in "Innovations in Food Technology" (November, 2011), has been made available online at ScionHasArrived.com. Authored by Zicheng Yang & Kefei Wang, experts from Bruker's Chemical and Applied Markets division (Fremont, California) the article explores the globalization of food supplies, and discusses how manufacturers and other businesses are coping with the extensive need for food testing.
Quotient Clinical, a business unit of Quotient Bioresearch ("Quotient"), will present two significant poster publications at the forthcoming American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) meeting to be held on March 12th to 17th in Maryland, USA...
Microsaic Systems plc, the high technology company developing next generation mass spectrometry instruments, is to exhibit the Microsaic 3500 MiD at Analytica 2012, Munich, 17th - 20th April 2012, Hall A2, Booth 240. Developed in collaboration with three major pharmaceutical companies, the 3500 MiD® is the world's first chip-based mass spectrometer is an extremely robust system which is simple and intuitive to use. 90% smaller than conventional mass spectrometers...
Anasys Instruments, the company that pioneered nanoscale thermal analysis and nanoscale IR spectroscopy using an AFM, is pleased to announce that Dr. Bruce Chase is presenting an invited talk entitled "Structure and Orientation in Electrospun Nanofibers" at the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference, as part of the Organized Contributed Session on Analytical Applications of Broadly Tunable Lasers. The presentation will include spatially resolved measurements of molecular orientation obtained by a technique combining atomic force microscopy and infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR)...
Select Biosciences, organisers of European Lab Automation (ELA) 2012
Autoscribe Informatics Inc. will be showcasing its laboratory and business management solutions at Booth 1758 during Pittcon 2012, being held March 12 -15 in Orlando, Florida. As the world's premier Conference and Exposition on laboratory science, Pittcon is the perfect event for promoting Autoscribe's extensive range of LIMS and tracking solutions and presenting new solutions as part of its continuing success within many market sectors such as water, environmental, food and health sciences in the US and Canada...
A separation technique specialist from Malvern Instruments will speak at the upcoming symposium ‘Chromatographic characterisation and purification techniques for Biopharm', a meeting with a packed programme of presentations and workshops that will focus on monoclonal antibody-derived drugs. This 2-day event is organised by the Chromatographic Society and will be hosted at the GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre in Stevenage, UK on 14/15 March 2012. Malvern is also one of the symposium sponsors...
The first inaugural SLAS took place on February 6-8th in San Diego, California with BMG LABTECH being a proud diamond sponsor of the event. Amongst the things highlighted at SLAS2012 were the PHERAstar FS, the new gold-standard for HTS instruments; the SPECTROstar Nano, a 1536-well absorbance only microplate reader that is perfect for HTS DNA concentration measurements; and the new Atmospheric Control Unit (ACU) with dual gas intake valves for CO2 and O2 regulation, making it the ultimate cell-based microplate reader...
TTP Labtech generated substantial interest with the launch of three innovative new products at SLAS 2012. The mosquito® HV automated liquid handler, aequus non-contact solvent level monitor and arktic -80ºC biobanking solution were unveiled on the first day of the exhibition. Attracting attention from delegates and media alike, all three products were exceptionally well received, resulting in an overwhelming number of visitors to the stand over the two day exhibition...
Groundbreaking research into the development of new medicines from the earth's natural resources will be the focus of a symposium in March, hosted by the University of Aberdeen. "The role of natural products and synthetic biology in drug discovery" symposium will bring together academics and industry representatives from across the UK, working in biomedicine and biotechnology...
Chromatography applications expert Wei Sen Wong from Malvern Instruments, will talk about the practicalities of high temperature gel permeation chromatography (HT-GPC) at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Joint International Polyolefins/FlexPack Conference being held in Houston, Texas, February 26-29, 2012. Malvern Instruments is also an exhibitor at the event and will display their systems at Booth #40.
Monoclonal antibodies, proteins and biomolecules as therapeutics are enjoying very high growth in the biologically active molecules armoury of the Pharmaceutical industry. The characterisation and purification of these complex molecules are a major challenge facing scientists in the industry. This symposium will focus on solutions to these problems and discuss the unique issues presented by structurally complex, large molecular weight, biologically active molecules. An exhibition of tools necessary to address these problems will augment the lecture presentations...
The Pittcon 2012 Exposition, which takes place March 12-15, at the Orange County Convention Center, will include 943 exhibitors (count as of February 15) that provide products, services, and support for all facets of laboratory operations in the industrial, academic, and government sectors. The exposition will display the latest technologies and instrumentation used by scientists in areas such as analytical chemistry; pharmaceutical science and drug discovery; life sciences to include forensics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics; food analysis and safety; environmental; and biotechnology- to name a few...
Kicking off the 2012 exhibition schedule, Autoscribe will be promoting its extensive range of genuinely configurable LIMS and tracking solutions at Pittcon 2012 (Booth 1758), ARABLAB (Stand 444) and VETme (stand 6D51), this Spring. With over 20 years of delivering long term configurable and scalable solutions, Autoscribe has expert knowledge in the development and supply of software solutions across a wide variety of industries and market sectors such as water, environmental, veterinary, food and health sciences...
One of the newest, and most promising, developments in polymer science is the emergence of bioplastics. Bioplastics are polymers made completely, or at least partially, from renewable resources like cellulose, starch, and algae. It is widely believed that increasing acceptance of bioplastics will help slow the pace of climate degradation by reducing dependence on fossil fuels. The market for bioplastics is accelerating rapidly and industry experts believe it could reach $3 billion by 2018...
Come and visit Syngene stand 136 at ArabLab to see the newly launched InGenius3 gel documentation system. Designed with a compact darkroom, as well as blue, white and UV lighting options, InGenius3 offers maximum gel imaging versatility at an affordable price...
Light and electron microscopy across the life and physical sciences will take centre stage in Manchester from 16th - 21st September 2012. The 15th European Microscopy Congress, emc2012, will be Europe's largest ever event dedicated to microscopy and imaging. It includes an international conference comprising over 30 sessions within four symposia, an exhibition with over 100 companies, plus a programme of workshops, training opportunities, and a busy social programme. The Call for Papers has been made, and the deadline for abstract submission is 16th March...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches SPRIworks HT*, a high-throughput solution for fragment library preparation on Illumina next-generation sequencers, at SLAS 2012, The system allows researchers to process libraries with greater speed and sample reproducibility and decreases processing costs. SPRIworks HT utilizes built-in SPRI (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilization)-based per-well size selection...
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, will be exhibiting and presenting its biomarker discovery service at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Con in San Francisco, California (19th-23rd February 2012). The conference, organized by the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, will include an OGT presentation entitled "Integrated Biomarker Discovery: Multi-Method Approach to Enable Early Biomarker Success"...
Bruker Chemical & Applied Markets division (CAM), US: During the recent China International Food Safety and Quality (CIFSQ) 2011 conference in Beijing, media were engaged in a briefing at the Bruker facilities. Bruker's continued and rapid growth in China is reflected in the expansion programs for Beijing's Application Laboratories and Customer Service Centers. Earlier in 2011 the Shanghai Application Laboratory facilities were formerly opened, with a 50% expansion program underway at the Beijing facility plus an additional service and sales office planned for Guangzhou...