Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that the company’s customer demonstration laboratory in Waldbronn, Germany has received the highest level of Green Lab Certification, the gold standard in laboratory sustainability best practices. The Green Lab Certification from My Green Lab is recognized by the UN Race to Zero campaign as a key measure of progress for pharmaceutical and medical technology companies toward a zero-carbon future...
A new laboratory automation platform has been demonstrated to facilitate the running of complex scientific experiments in laboratories operating under COVID-19 constraints such as social distancing and stay-at-home orders. The platform, developed by Philip Morris International (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) in collaboration with SBX Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), uses artificial intelligence to plan and optimize laboratory operations under any number of risk scenarios...
A breakthrough in training for the cannabis testing industry has been launched thanks to a collaboration between experts in the National Measurement Laboratory (NML), hosted at LGC, and the reference materials division at LGC Standards. The rapid expansion of the global cannabis industry has led to sharply increased demand for safety and purity testing, but analytical laboratories are reporting a severe shortage of experienced cannabis testing staff...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, announce Dr Becky Upton as its first female president. Dr Upton will lead the Pistoia Alliance’s strategy and defining its future within areas of increasing importance to the industry, such as data standards, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and precision medicine. Dr Upton will build on the Alliance’s work as champions of science, through pre-competitive collaborative projects...
Ziath announce the launch of a new dual capability coded tube reader – the Duo. This affordably priced addition to the Ziath range combines the proven 2D-barcode reading technology of the Uno single tube reader with the fast accurate linear barcode reading of the company’s Cyclops adaptor. The new Duo tube reader provides a compact benchtop solution for fast and accurate reading of both code types....
To develop new drugs and vaccines, detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks – the biomolecules – is required. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a groundbreaking microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological particles to be studied in their natural state in a completely new way...
Analytik Jena is expanding its range of interchangeable pipetting heads for the fully automated liquid handling platform CyBio FeliX. The specialist for analysis and life science solutions in Jena is offering a dedicated solution for applications in the areas of normalization and hit picking with its SELECT Head. Using the SELECT Head, the user can handle up to eight channels in any combination, thereby gaining even greater flexibility for their applications....
SPT Labtech ("SPT" or "The Company") a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces its acquisition by EQT IX Fund ("EQT Private Equity"), a purpose-driven, global investment organization, from current owners Battery Ventures. The deal will underpin and accelerate SPT Labtech’s impressive trajectory of market growth and leadership in innovative product development...
LifeArc and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) have launched a new partnership to accelerate development of new diagnostic tests, treatments, and devices from scientific research discoveries to benefit people with dementia, which around 900,000 people in the UK are living with. At the heart of the five-year partnership is a £30 million commitment by medical research charity LifeArc to the UK DRI to support dementia research at six UK host universities...
Designed to enable clean, safe synthesis – the DrySyn Classic Starter kit from Asynt is an attractively priced package for labs looking to undertake heated reactions in the most commonly-used round bottomed flasks (50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000ml). This versatile starter kit also includes heat resistant handles which enable fast, simple, and safe lifting of your heated reaction flask...
Matrix Stability, Autoscribe Informatics’ software solution for managing stability and shelf-life studies is to be demonstrated at the Stability VI Symposia hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in London. Matrix Stability provides a complete stability management system. Users can create stability protocols that define all required stability study attributes including pull schedules, cycles, storage conditions and test requirements for specific batches...
University Hospital Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust has signed a commercial collaboration agreement with Automata to develop new applications for laboratory automation technology. Automata is a London based biotech company providing robotic automation solutions to the life sciences industry. Comprising proprietary hardware, single-platform software and a world-class service, Automata partners with labs to take the hassle out of automation, empowering them to achieve more reliable results faster than ever before....
Porvair Sciences announce eGecko² – an automated barcode application system that provides the ideal high throughput solution for precisely applying barcode labels onto racks of plates and Petri dishes. Based upon a robust and proven label printer and print engine, the eGecko² is a completely integrated printer and application unit in one, requiring only an electrical supply for operation. A choice of easily exchangeable operating heads allows you to apply labels on both flat and curved surfaces....
Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable medical products for global health, today formally introduced its first portfolio company, Global Access Diagnostics (GADx). GADx has been created to address gaps in the global provision of diagnostics with a focus on expanding affordable access to quality tests. The Company combines expertise in rapid diagnostics development from Mologic Ltd with low-cost manufacturing and scale-up capability of sister company, Global Access Diagnostics (GAD)...
Ziath has published a new catalogue that provides an informative technical introduction to its extensive range of innovative readers, scanners, software, automated tube selectors and accessories for tracking and management of life science samples. Over the last two decades, Ziath has established itself as a global leader for sample tracking of 2D barcoded tubes in applications including biobanking. compound management and COVID-19 patient sample management....
The theoretical design of cylindrical chamber autoclaves has clear and distinct sterilizing operational advantages. It can handle high temperatures and pressures despites a design that has thinner walls than rectangular/square chamber autoclaves. With less metal to heat up it makes the whole steam sterilizing process faster. They are better suited to high pressure micro-environments, require less reinforcement and insulation, and suffer less wear and tear over the life of the autoclave...
Micromeritics Instrument Corp., a global leader in material characterization technology, has announced the release of the AutoChem III catalyst characterization system. Dynamic chemisorption and temperature-programmed reaction measurements by the AutoChem III provide performance metrics that are critical to developing the new catalyst materials that will drive technologies for carbon capture and utilization, the hydrogen economy and other net zero technologies....
Bruker Corporation displays its high-value scientific instrumentation, software and integrated solutions for applications in materials and energy research, biopharmaceuticals, applied markets, as well as life science and translational research at Analytica 2022. Frank H. Laukien, PhD, President and CEO of Bruker Corporation, commented: “Our differentiated high-value scientific instruments and solutions shown at Analytica 2022 demonstrate the diversity, flexibility and high performance that Bruker brings to the world of laboratory science....
An excellent mood in five halls, delighted faces and many lively discussions at the exhibition booths: At analytica 2022, the international laboratory industry met again in person from June 21 to 24 in Munich. At the world’s leading trade fair, 891 exhibitors presented their innovations for the entire range of laboratory and analytics technology, life sciences and biotechnology to around 26,000 visitors...
The world's first electron diffractometer offers measurement results of unprecedented quality for the pharmaceutical, electromobility and new materials sectors. The Experience Center for Electron Diffraction has now started operations in Basel-Allschwil. The Swiss company ELDICO Scientific operates the world's first electron diffractometer there...
The Ellutia 800 Series Thermal Energy Analyser (TEA) has become the industry standard for nitrosamine detection thanks to its selectivity and sensitivity for nitroso compounds. For testing of pharmaceutical drugs, the 800 Series TEA can be interfaced to a chemical stripping system that allows for rapid testing of apparent total nitrosamine content (ATNC). This quickly gives an accurate result for the total nitrosamine content of a sample, showing both volatile and non-volatile components...
The Micronic 0.80ml Tube with External Thread provides research labs the best volume to height ratio compared to similar sample storage tubes in the market. With its mere 38.3mm height the 0.80ml tube offers 0.75ml working volume at ambient temperature. The temperature storage range of the 0.80ml biobanking tube varies from vapor phase LN2 up to +100?C which makes the tube fit various laboratory needs...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that the company’s customer demonstration laboratory in Waldbronn, Germany has received the highest level of Green Lab Certification, the gold standard in laboratory sustainability best practices. The Green Lab Certification from My Green Lab is recognized by the UN Race to Zero campaign as a key measure of progress for pharmaceutical and medical technology companies toward a zero-carbon future...
A new laboratory automation platform has been demonstrated to facilitate the running of complex scientific experiments in laboratories operating under COVID-19 constraints such as social distancing and stay-at-home orders. The platform, developed by Philip Morris International (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) in collaboration with SBX Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), uses artificial intelligence to plan and optimize laboratory operations under any number of risk scenarios...
A breakthrough in training for the cannabis testing industry has been launched thanks to a collaboration between experts in the National Measurement Laboratory (NML), hosted at LGC, and the reference materials division at LGC Standards. The rapid expansion of the global cannabis industry has led to sharply increased demand for safety and purity testing, but analytical laboratories are reporting a severe shortage of experienced cannabis testing staff...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, announce Dr Becky Upton as its first female president. Dr Upton will lead the Pistoia Alliance’s strategy and defining its future within areas of increasing importance to the industry, such as data standards, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and precision medicine. Dr Upton will build on the Alliance’s work as champions of science, through pre-competitive collaborative projects...
Ziath announce the launch of a new dual capability coded tube reader – the Duo. This affordably priced addition to the Ziath range combines the proven 2D-barcode reading technology of the Uno single tube reader with the fast accurate linear barcode reading of the company’s Cyclops adaptor. The new Duo tube reader provides a compact benchtop solution for fast and accurate reading of both code types....
To develop new drugs and vaccines, detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks – the biomolecules – is required. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a groundbreaking microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological particles to be studied in their natural state in a completely new way...
Analytik Jena is expanding its range of interchangeable pipetting heads for the fully automated liquid handling platform CyBio FeliX. The specialist for analysis and life science solutions in Jena is offering a dedicated solution for applications in the areas of normalization and hit picking with its SELECT Head. Using the SELECT Head, the user can handle up to eight channels in any combination, thereby gaining even greater flexibility for their applications....
SPT Labtech ("SPT" or "The Company") a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces its acquisition by EQT IX Fund ("EQT Private Equity"), a purpose-driven, global investment organization, from current owners Battery Ventures. The deal will underpin and accelerate SPT Labtech’s impressive trajectory of market growth and leadership in innovative product development...
LifeArc and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) have launched a new partnership to accelerate development of new diagnostic tests, treatments, and devices from scientific research discoveries to benefit people with dementia, which around 900,000 people in the UK are living with. At the heart of the five-year partnership is a £30 million commitment by medical research charity LifeArc to the UK DRI to support dementia research at six UK host universities...
Designed to enable clean, safe synthesis – the DrySyn Classic Starter kit from Asynt is an attractively priced package for labs looking to undertake heated reactions in the most commonly-used round bottomed flasks (50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000ml). This versatile starter kit also includes heat resistant handles which enable fast, simple, and safe lifting of your heated reaction flask...
Matrix Stability, Autoscribe Informatics’ software solution for managing stability and shelf-life studies is to be demonstrated at the Stability VI Symposia hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in London. Matrix Stability provides a complete stability management system. Users can create stability protocols that define all required stability study attributes including pull schedules, cycles, storage conditions and test requirements for specific batches...
University Hospital Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust has signed a commercial collaboration agreement with Automata to develop new applications for laboratory automation technology. Automata is a London based biotech company providing robotic automation solutions to the life sciences industry. Comprising proprietary hardware, single-platform software and a world-class service, Automata partners with labs to take the hassle out of automation, empowering them to achieve more reliable results faster than ever before....
Porvair Sciences announce eGecko² – an automated barcode application system that provides the ideal high throughput solution for precisely applying barcode labels onto racks of plates and Petri dishes. Based upon a robust and proven label printer and print engine, the eGecko² is a completely integrated printer and application unit in one, requiring only an electrical supply for operation. A choice of easily exchangeable operating heads allows you to apply labels on both flat and curved surfaces....
Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable medical products for global health, today formally introduced its first portfolio company, Global Access Diagnostics (GADx). GADx has been created to address gaps in the global provision of diagnostics with a focus on expanding affordable access to quality tests. The Company combines expertise in rapid diagnostics development from Mologic Ltd with low-cost manufacturing and scale-up capability of sister company, Global Access Diagnostics (GAD)...
Ziath has published a new catalogue that provides an informative technical introduction to its extensive range of innovative readers, scanners, software, automated tube selectors and accessories for tracking and management of life science samples. Over the last two decades, Ziath has established itself as a global leader for sample tracking of 2D barcoded tubes in applications including biobanking. compound management and COVID-19 patient sample management....
The theoretical design of cylindrical chamber autoclaves has clear and distinct sterilizing operational advantages. It can handle high temperatures and pressures despites a design that has thinner walls than rectangular/square chamber autoclaves. With less metal to heat up it makes the whole steam sterilizing process faster. They are
Micromeritics Instrument Corp., a global leader in material characterization technology, has announced the release of the AutoChem III catalyst characterization system. Dynamic chemisorption and temperature-programmed reaction measurements by the AutoChem III provide performance metrics that are critical to developing the new catalyst materials that will drive technologies for carbon capture and utilization, the hydrogen economy and other net zero technologies....
Bruker Corporation displays its high-value scientific instrumentation, software and integrated solutions for applications in materials and energy research, biopharmaceuticals, applied markets, as well as life science and translational research at Analytica 2022. Frank H. Laukien, PhD, President and CEO of Bruker Corporation, commented: “Our differentiated high-value scientific instruments and solutions shown at Analytica 2022 demonstrate the diversity, flexibility and high performance that Bruker brings to the world of laboratory science....
An excellent mood in five halls, delighted faces and many lively discussions at the exhibition booths: At analytica 2022, the international laboratory industry met again in person from June 21 to 24 in Munich. At the world’s leading trade fair, 891 exhibitors presented their innovations for the entire range of laboratory and analytics technology, life sciences and biotechnology to around 26,000 visitors...
The world's first electron diffractometer offers measurement results of unprecedented quality for the pharmaceutical, electromobility and new materials sectors. The Experience Center for Electron Diffraction has now started operations in Basel-Allschwil. The Swiss company ELDICO Scientific operates the world's first electron diffractometer there...
The Ellutia 800 Series Thermal Energy Analyser (TEA) has become the industry standard for nitrosamine detection thanks to its selectivity and sensitivity for nitroso compounds. For testing of pharmaceutical drugs, the 800 Series TEA can be interfaced to a chemical stripping system that allows for rapid testing of apparent total nitrosamine content (ATNC). This quickly gives an accurate result for the total nitrosamine content of a sample, showing both volatile and non-volatile components...
The Micronic 0.80ml Tube with External Thread provides research labs the best volume to height ratio compared to similar sample storage tubes in the market. With its mere 38.3mm height the 0.80ml tube offers 0.75ml working volume at ambient temperature. The temperature storage range of the 0.80ml biobanking tube varies from vapor phase LN2 up to +100?C which makes the tube fit various laboratory needs...