Azenta, Inc. has announced that it has acquired Ziath, Ltd. and its subsidiaries ("Ziath"). Based in Cambridge, UK, Ziath is a leading provider of 2D barcode readers for life sciences applications. Founded in 2005, Ziath's innovative 2D barcode readers are a key component of the laboratory automation workflow serving pharmaceutical, biotech and academic customers worldwide...

Analytik Jena's thermal cyclers are known for their high-performance and excellent temperature management. To make them even easier and more convenient to operate and monitor, the company has launched new thermal cycler management software. Efficiency pressure and documentation obligations – the challenges in everyday life science laboratories continue to increase. With its new thermal cycler software "Biometra TSuite", Analytik Jena is addressing precisely this issue...

Automata, a leading robotics and automation company powering life sciences labs, has announced it is partnering with bit.bio, to automate a key aspect of the manufacturing process of their iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell)-derived human cell products.  bit.bio’s precision cellular reprogramming technology opti-ox is ideally suited for automation because it enables unprecedented consistency and scalability for the manufacture of human cells from iPSCs...

Observant visitors were already able to get a first glimpse at ACHEMA and analytica, and now LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG makes it official: A new digital platform – LAUDA.LIVE – is now online. With comprehensive device management, intelligent analysis and monitoring tools, and sophisticated remote maintenance capabilities, the platform maximizes the performance, uptime, and reliability of LAUDA temperature control solutions...

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. launches the Endosafe® Nexus 200™, expanding its robust endotoxin testing portfolio. The Nexus 200 is the next evolution of Charles River’s data integrity compliant, fully robotic instrument, capable of processing both undiluted or complex, serial dilutions for water, in-process, and final product testing via Endosafe Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) cartridge technology in a fully enclosed system....

More companies around the world continue turning to Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, for their next generation sequencing (NGS) needs with the Biomek NGeniuS System. The company continues building a robust demonstrated application library as it announces an application development agreement with Pillar Biosciences, which specializes in developing and commercializing IVD & RUO NGS testing solutions...

CYTENA, a BICO group company, a leading provider of high-precision instruments for handling biological cells, has launched a new instrument to streamline single-cell isolation in microbiology research. The next generation B.SIGHT is taking the company’s automated single-cell isolation capabilities to the next level with special emphasis on handling bacteria, yeast and other microorganisms...

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2022 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, April 13th with The Importance of a Complete Solution: LIMS from A to Z. This webcast is ideal for those evaluating LIMS solutions and looking for guidance in defining their functional requirements. To assist with this process, we’ll walk through a virtual glossary of laboratory automation terms that will prove valuable as you are building the ideal LIMS for your organization....

Autoscribe Informatics is pleased to announce that the prestigious Sydney, Australia, based Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics (GWCCG) is using Matrix Gemini Biobank Manager in its day-to-day operations. The team uses the solution in its cellular genomics research to help understand how diseases originate or act at a cellular level. The GWCCG works with researchers and industry partners, providing cutting edge services for both fundamental research and novel translational cellular genomics development...

INTEGRA Biosciences provides an extensive range of multichannel and electronic pipettes – as well as robotic-assisted platforms – to help increase the throughput of your cell culture workflows. Switching to electronic pipettes or automated systems has been proven to offer significant advantages over manual processes, providing reproducible results with fewer handling errors, while eliminating the painstaking work of repetitive liquid handling....

The results of Olympus’ ongoing joint research program to create an AI-based pathology diagnostic tool with the potential to streamline pathologists’ workloads were announced at the Japan Society of Digital Pathology Study annual meeting. The diagnostic tool achieved 100% sensitivity  and 50% or more specificity for all gastric biopsy pathology specimens analyzed...

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), wraps up the 2021 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, December 8th with Using a LIMS to Streamline Your Quality Management System (QMS) and Document Handling Procedures. For most laboratories, the Quality Management System (QMS) creates efficient processes, helps to meet regulatory and quality program requirements, and ensures customer satisfaction...

The eleventh ZEISS Women Award was awarded in Dresden. This prize honors outstanding female informatics students who are about to graduate. The award was offered throughout Germany and serves as a platform to publicly recognize successful young women in the digital sector and to encourage more women to consider a career in the field....

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leading solutions provider in the life sciences, diagnostics, food and environmental testing markets, has announced the launch of Signals Image Artist™ software – a next-generation image analysis and management platform for drug discovery research. The new offering is designed to help scientists accurately process and analyse their high-content screening (HCS) and cellular imaging data in a matter of hours, instead of days or weeks, so they can make more informed decisions faster...

DP5 Network is the latest version of Ziath's market leading 2D rack decoding web browser software designed to unchain scientists from their lab bench. Using high-speed, web-based communications protocols - DP5 Network can be run from a laptop, desktop, phone, tablet or any other network connected device. This powerful new software enables full control of multiple tube barcode scanners on the same LAN to be operated from one or more devices connected to that LAN....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and ChromSword, a provider of innovative software products, have collaborated to launch an automated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method development system that enables chromatographers to deliver robust and validated methods in less time and with higher confidence...

Developed by Curiosity Diagnostics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scope Fluidics S.A., the PCR|ONE SARS-CoV-2 panel is now CE-marked and can be introduced to the European market. The PCR|ONE SARS-CoV-2 panel is one of the fastest tests in the world, and is uniquely suited for near patient testing.  The SARS-CoV-2 product expand the menu of test available on the PCR|ONE system, which already includes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA/MSSA panel)....

The Alliance’s newly published heuristics address these challenges by guiding designers on critical elements of the design and data lifecycle, and to embed known data standards, including the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable). The heuristics are the result of a collaboration between two Pistoia Alliance projects, UXLS and FAIR communities, from PerkinElmer....

We are delighted to announce the new Optima Laboratory Resource Management System - LRMS version 2021.1. It is a major milestone incorporating a sophisticated engine that automates the complex scheduling process of the laboratory resources. Optima’s algorithm combines all information collected in the system setting and the historical data generated, to provide a scheduling proposal...