Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of the Advanced Dilution System, the ADS 2, a new automation workflow solution that will increase productivity, lower cost of ownership, and improve the overall efficiency within the laboratory. The Agilent ADS 2 is an intelligent autodilutor designed to enhance laboratory workflows. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Agilent autosamplers, ICP-OES and ICP-MS instruments and software, it offers a fully integrated, single-supplier automated solution...
The 48-position Ziath Mohawk tube picker from Azenta Life Sciences selects and picks wide, heavy, or tall tubes making this system perfect for retrieving individual whole tissue samples from storage. Proven in installations worldwide – Mohawk tube selection and picking technology avoids the need for slow and costly robotic systems. Importing a pick list, selecting, and picking larger whole tissue sample tubes takes just seconds...
The Automated Plate Seal Remover from Azenta Life Sciences is the ideal product for labs faced with repetitively removing microplate seals while preserving sample integrity. Designed as an automated system, the Automated Plate Seal Remover holds the plate down whilst the seal is peeled away, eliminating cross-contamination issues that are common when using manual seal removal techniques...
CloudLIMS, a leading SaaS company offering a secure, configurable Laboratory Information Management System, is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar titled “Navigating LIMS Data Migration: Ensuring Seamless Transition and Lab Data Integrity” on April 9, 2024, at 9 AM PDT (5 P.M. BST). The webinar will be presented by Montserrat Valdes, Sr. Scientist at CloudLIMS
Activity at Infection Innovation Consortium: iiCON, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), will be bolstered through a £10 million government investment to develop large Category Three robotic laboratories capable of handling a range of dangerous and deadly pathogens. The award is part of the Liverpool City Region Life Sciences Investment Zone plans, unveiled today, to supercharge the sector...
The Handheld 2 tube reader from Azenta Life Sciences sets the benchmark for rapid and accurate reading of individual 2D barcoded sample tubes. The Handheld 2 is a powerful, portable tube reader that can be held and operated in one hand, leaving the other free for tube handling. The intuitive device software comes pre-loaded and boots up immediately allowing you to read tube codes, review or edit the tube contents, and use preloaded “pick lists” to check off individual tubes as they are retrieved from the freezer...
FreeLIMS announces the release of a new version of its free, secure, configurable, in-the-cloud LIMS software. The version unlocks more power to its users with the roll-out of a wide range of functionality to better meet data management, automation, and regulatory requirements of laboratories. Its comprehensive range of features is designed to seamlessly address the needs of various industries including biobanks, clinical research and diagnostics, and analytical testing laboratories...
Bruker Corporation has announced a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Chemspeed Technologies AG, a Swiss provider of vendor-agnostic automated laboratory R&D and QC workflow solutions. Chemspeed is focused on modular automation and robotics solutions for chemical research, pharma drug formulation, materials research for cleantech and consumer applications...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, and RevoluGen Ltd. (RevoluGen), a UK genomics company, announce the successful automation of RevoluGen’s Fire Monkey™ High Molecular Weight (HMW) DNA extraction chemistry in a bead-based format using SPT Labtech’s firefly® automated liquid handling platform...
Optibrium, a leading developer of software and AI solutions for drug discovery, has announced the release of StarDrop 7.6, the latest version of its platform for small molecule design, optimisation and analysis. As part of the release, Optibrium introduces a new extension, Idea Tracker, with which medicinal chemists can now easily trace molecular design and optimisation decisions through every step of the complex discovery process, from idea conception to selecting candidates for synthesis...
Revvity Signals is unveiling the Signals ClinicalTM solution, a software-as-a-service (SaaS), end-to-end clinical data science platform designed to centralize all clinical trial data, providing fast, actionable insights for quicker clinical decisions and accelerated market delivery of therapeutics. This state-of-the-art solution, when integrated with enterprise-class Spotfire visual analytics, has the potential to redefine how the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and contract research industries approach clinical trial data...
Quibim, a global company pioneering imaging biomarkers for precision medicine, has announced the launch of a new product, QP-Insights, which enables researchers to leverage clinical imaging data throughout drug development programs. QP-Insights was designed alongside researchers to provide a comprehensive platform for medical images and other multi-omics (e.g. clinical and genetic) data to be stored, accessed, and analyzed...
Autoscribe Informatics (A Xybion Company) took the opportunity in a recent webinar to discuss the much-misunderstood subject of cloud hosted laboratory software solutions. This webinar gives senior managers in organizations with laboratories, the knowledge to ask the tough questions and uncover which is the right choice for them. Developed using Autoscribe’s many years of industry experience, it provides a balanced view of the benefits and limitations of on-premise and cloud solutions...
Azenta, Inc. has announced the launch of the BioArc™ Ultra (the “Ultra”), a breakthrough, automated solution for high-density, eco-friendly ultracold sample management, designed to provide a new level of performance for large-scale sample management with the potential to forever change the landscape of biorepositories. The Ultra delivers significant operational efficiency benefits, including footprint, labor and electricity cost savings as compared to other commercially available systems...
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design, development and manufacture of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces the release of firefly®+, an expansion to its established firefly genomics liquid handling platform, integrating an on-deck thermocycler and increased labware capacity to enable complete hands-free Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) library preparation...
Confience, a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2024 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, February 14, with LIMS: Promoting Productivity and Progress in Today’s Water and Wastewater Laboratories. This webcast will highlight the ways in which a LIMS may stimulate laboratory productivity and growth. This includes discussion on LIMS support for regulatory requirements around PFAS and the new EPA Lead/Copper rules...
Cresset, a provider of integrated in silico solutions for drug discovery, has released the latest version of its Flare drug discovery platform, which aims to improve ligand and structure-based drug design and the lead optimization process in early drug discovery. Flare Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) provides a quantitative method to reliably calculate relative binding affinity, enabling accurate ranking of molecules in a congeneric ligand series...
HORIBA Medical has launched the new HELO 2.0 high throughput automated hematology platform which is CE-IVDR approved. Following the success of HORIBA Medical’s previous HELO, this new generation high-end hematology range has been designed in consultation with customers to further improve and cover all needs of high throughput fully automated hematology. HELO 2.0 offers a highly flexible and efficient modular hematology solution that is fully scalable with many possible configurations for mid to large-scale laboratories...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the launch of the Gibco™ Cell Therapy Systems (CTS™) Cellmation™ Software, a first-of-its-kind automation solution designed to connect and integrate workflows across multiple Thermo Fisher Scientific cell therapy instruments while enabling cGMP compliance. This new offering can help eliminate the need for costly custom software projects and extensive validation, saving valuable time and resources during the cell therapy manufacturing process...
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, continues to lead the way with first-to-market concepts to help laboratories achieve goals faster and with greater accuracy. The company announces it has developed the first commercially available anti-TRBC2 conjugated antibody for flow cytometry, providing greater clarity to clinical researchers in the identification of T-cell neoplasms in areas including cancer research...
Autoscribe is thrilled to be demonstrating its latest Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) innovations at the industry’s leading US laboratory event PITTCON 2024. Autoscribe Informatics, now part of Xybion Digital, will showcase the industry’s leading configurable laboratory software solution, Matrix Gemini LIMS. Combining these two leading organizations in the field of laboratory informatics has doubled the installed user base and provides a comprehensive offering from preclinical systems through to contract testing...
Scitara, a market-leading innovator in laboratory digital transformation, has announced an agreement with Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), a global leader in analytical instruments and software. Under the agreement, Waters has licensed Scitara’s Digital Lab Exchange DLX™ cloud platform to communicate with Waters’ Empower™ Chromatography Data System and waters_connect™ Lab Informatics Platform to bring greater lab connectivity to an even broader set of laboratory users...