Lab technicians and clinicians are on the front lines of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. With the realities of more infections putting governments, health agencies, and the scientific community under additional pressure, ensuring the safety of skilled resources at all times should be a priority for principal investigators and lab managers...
Porvair Sciences has launched its new generation Ultravap® Levante nitrogen blowdown sample evaporator. The second generation system offers the many benefits associated with Porvair's flagship evaporator, the Ultravap® Mistral, in an affordable, easy-to-use package. This state-of-the-art single microplate evaporator is designed to meet the current needs of most chromatography laboratories...
Following the BBC Panorama’s undercover investigation into a COVID-19 lighthouse laboratory, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) reiterates the need for more HCPC registered staff and UKAS accreditation in these laboratories. From the outset of the pandemic, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has emphasised the fact that “high quality staff deliver high quality services...
New research, using cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (CryoEM), has revealed key insights into a vital DNA repair process, which is implicated in resistance to cancer treatments. Led by the University of Glasgow and published in Nature Structural Biology, the research is based on data and models collected from the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI)...
Micronic, leader in innovative sample storage and automation solutions, launches a new Screw Cap for Tubes with External Thread. The Screw Cap IG has an improved gripping for both manually and automated handling, the newly designed lead-in on top of the Screw Cap ensures a better tube placement and the optimized cap height (5.8mm) makes storage in automated stores more efficient...
Markes International Ltd has launched a next-generation passive sampler that combines all the benefits of radial and axial VOC samplers, in an evolution of design that the company says will ultimately make large scale air monitoring studies easier to run and more affordable: the Pocket Diffuser Sampler (‘POD’ Sampler)...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation software, have announced a strategic technology collaboration to develop an integrated and comprehensive software automation platform for Thermo Fisher’s standardized COVID-19 Testing Platform. The integration will result in increased testing throughput and support global healthcare initiatives...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced its industry-leading documentation, workflow and decision making Signals™ informatics platform is being expanded to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with Insightful Science, a software company serving the global life sciences community....
GranuTools now offering its expertise and extended range of instruments to characterize powders and granular materials in various conditions/geometries. It is well known that flow properties of powders are governed by the intrinsic grain properties and forces acting on and between the grains. However, what one often forgets is the dramatic influence of the conditions under which powders are processed (stress state, flow field, relative humidity, and temperature)....
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of a real-time reverse transcription (qRT) PCR-based diagnostic kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The CE-IVD mark is in accordance with the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Directive 98/79/EC and is available for immediate distribution....
The common cold virus could offer some level of protection against COVID-19 infection, according to a new study. The research – published in Journal of Infectious Diseases and led by scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) – found that human rhinovirus (the virus that causes the common cold) triggers an innate immune response that seems to block SARS-CoV-2...
Download this free infographic from Thermo Fisher Scientific to learn about SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication, disease progression and spread of COVID-19, and the importance and types of COVID-19 testing. There are different types of technologies used to test for SARS-CoV-2. The two tests that are most often used are PCR and antigen. PCR is 99% accurate and detects viral ....
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), are pleased to announce a further consolidation of their Merck relationship after being appointed as an official distributor for the Merck – Supelco® Range of Analytical Products. Comprising of over 500,000 products, the comprehensive range from SLS provides a solution to most applications...
High performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is the industry standard for cannabinoid extraction, but Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) offers a cost effective alternative with comparable yields and purity. Below we describe how each method works and what differences to take into consideration during cannabis testing....
When every moment matters, laboratories are asked to rapidly convey test results enabling prompt reactions. Acura®electro micropipettes bring fast and reliable results with excellent ergonomics. During the past year, research activities were mainly focused on COVID-19 related topics to better understand and monitor the current pandemic....
Ziath has introduced an easy upgrade path for the many users of DataPaq 3 sample management software products to its powerful new DP5 suite of products. Principle advantages of upgrading to DP5 include the ability to work wirelessly using a graphical user interface that will run from your smart phone, tablet or laptop; access to increased data export options; adding additional information to output files....
IONTAS Limited (IONTAS) and FairJourney Biologics S.A (FJB)., leaders in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, have announced the identification of neutralizing antibodies, which bind to multiple emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The results, generated from a combination of phage display technology and B-cell receptor repertoire sequencing of hospitalized COVID-19 patients....
For the second time since its initial presentation in 2019, Analytik Jena is honoring extraordinary scientific accomplishments in the areas of chemical analysis and molecular biology with the Analytik Jena Science Award. Winners in 2020 are Dr. Daniel Bäcker for his analysis of oncologically relevant substances with anti-tumor active metal complexes and Dr. Geoffrey A. Behrens of DKMS Life Science Lab GmbH...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Protein Metrics, a developer of world-class software tools for protein characterization, have entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing agreement to provide advanced mass spectrometry data processing and analysis capabilities to drive innovation across the full spectrum of biopharmaceutical and proteomics applications...
Insightful Science, a leading software provider serving the global life sciences community, announced today that it has entered into a transaction to acquire Dotmatics, an industry leading cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform. By integrating Insightful Science’s software applications into Dotmatics cloud-first enterprise data management solution, the company will provide an end-to-end scientific research platform....
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has a wide range of effects on laboratories around the world. This includes not only the current high volume of requests for PCR tests for the novel coronavirus. It has challenged laboratories worldwide with respect to quickly adopting digital technologies to cope with the new norms of social distancing, remote work away from laboratory benches...
Excalibur Healthcare Services (“Excalibur”) announce it has created an innovative ‘freedom passport’ which can pave the way for people to mix safely in public and travel securely in large numbers without spreading Covid infection. The ‘passport’ has been developed through a pioneering partnership between Excalibur, led by Professor Sir Chris Evans, OBE, and his lateral flow diagnostics team in Cambridge, and Sensyne Health plc...
Lab technicians and clinicians are on the front lines of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. With the realities of more infections putting governments, health agencies, and the scientific community under additional pressure, ensuring the safety of skilled resources at all times should be a priority for principal investigators and lab managers...
Porvair Sciences has launched its new generation Ultravap® Levante nitrogen blowdown sample evaporator. The second generation system offers the many benefits associated with Porvair's flagship evaporator, the Ultravap® Mistral, in an affordable, easy-to-use package. This state-of-the-art single microplate evaporator is designed to meet the current needs of most chromatography laboratories...
Following the BBC Panorama’s undercover investigation into a COVID-19 lighthouse laboratory, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) reiterates the need for more HCPC registered staff and UKAS accreditation in these laboratories. From the outset of the pandemic, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has emphasised the fact that “high quality staff deliver high quality services...
New research, using cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy (CryoEM), has revealed key insights into a vital DNA repair process, which is implicated in resistance to cancer treatments. Led by the University of Glasgow and published in Nature Structural Biology, the research is based on data and models collected from the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI)...
Micronic, leader in innovative sample storage and automation solutions, launches a new Screw Cap for Tubes with External Thread. The Screw Cap IG has an improved gripping for both manually and automated handling, the newly designed lead-in on top of the Screw Cap ensures a better tube placement and the optimized cap height (5.8mm) makes storage in automated stores more efficient...
Markes International Ltd has launched a next-generation passive sampler that combines all the benefits of radial and axial VOC samplers, in an evolution of design that the company says will ultimately make large scale air monitoring studies easier to run and more affordable: the Pocket Diffuser Sampler (‘POD’ Sampler)...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation software, have announced a strategic technology collaboration to develop an integrated and comprehensive software automation platform for Thermo Fisher’s standardized COVID-19 Testing Platform. The integration will result in increased testing throughput and support global healthcare initiatives...
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced its industry-leading documentation, workflow and decision making Signals™ informatics platform is being expanded to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with Insightful Science, a software company serving the global life sciences community....
GranuTools now offering its expertise and extended range of instruments to characterize powders and granular materials in various conditions/geometries. It is well known that flow properties of powders are governed by the intrinsic grain properties and forces acting on and between the grains. However, what one often forgets is the dramatic influence of the conditions under which powders are processed (stress state, flow field, relative humidity, and temperature)....
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of a real-time reverse transcription (qRT) PCR-based diagnostic kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The CE-IVD mark is in accordance with the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Directive 98/79/EC and is available for immediate distribution....
The common cold virus could offer some level of protection against COVID-19 infection, according to a new study. The research – published in Journal of Infectious Diseases and led by scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) – found that human rhinovirus (the virus that causes the common cold) triggers an innate immune response that seems to block SARS-CoV-2...
Download this free infographic from Thermo Fisher Scientific to learn about SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication, disease progression and spread of COVID-19, and the importance and types of COVID-19 testing. There are different types of technologies used to test for SARS-CoV-2. The two tests that are most often used are PCR and antigen. PCR is 99% accurate and detects viral ....
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), are pleased to announce a further consolidation of their Merck relationship after being appointed as an official distributor for the Merck – Supelco® Range of Analytical Products. Comprising of over 500,000 products, the comprehensive range from SLS provides a solution to most applications...
High performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is the industry standard for cannabinoid extraction, but Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) offers a cost effective alternative with comparable yields and purity. Below we describe how each method works and what differences to take into consideration during cannabis testing....
When every moment matters, laboratories are asked to rapidly convey test results enabling prompt reactions. Acura® electro micropipettes bring fast and reliable results with excellent ergonomics. During the past year, research activities were mainly focused on COVID-19 related topics to better understand and monitor the current pandemic....
Ziath has introduced an easy upgrade path for the many users of DataPaq 3 sample management software products to its powerful new DP5 suite of products. Principle advantages of upgrading to DP5 include the ability to work wirelessly using a graphical user interface that will run from your smart phone, tablet or laptop; access to increased data export options; adding additional information to output files....
IONTAS Limited (IONTAS) and FairJourney Biologics S.A (FJB)., leaders in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, have announced the identification of neutralizing antibodies, which bind to multiple emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The results, generated from a combination of phage display technology and B-cell receptor repertoire sequencing of hospitalized COVID-19 patients....
For the second time since its initial presentation in 2019, Analytik Jena is honoring extraordinary scientific accomplishments in the areas of chemical analysis and molecular biology with the Analytik Jena Science Award. Winners in 2020 are Dr. Daniel Bäcker for his analysis of oncologically relevant substances with anti-tumor active metal complexes and Dr. Geoffrey A. Behrens of DKMS Life Science Lab GmbH...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Protein Metrics, a developer of world-class software tools for protein characterization, have entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing agreement to provide advanced mass spectrometry data processing and analysis capabilities to drive innovation across the full spectrum of biopharmaceutical and proteomics applications...
Insightful Science, a leading software provider serving the global life sciences community, announced today that it has entered into a transaction to acquire Dotmatics, an industry leading cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform. By integrating Insightful Science’s software applications into Dotmatics cloud-first enterprise data management solution, the company will provide an end-to-end scientific research platform....
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has a wide range of effects on laboratories around the world. This includes not only the current high volume of requests for PCR tests for the novel coronavirus. It has challenged laboratories worldwide with respect to quickly adopting digital technologies to cope with the new norms of social distancing, remote work away from laboratory benches...
Excalibur Healthcare Services (“Excalibur”) announce it has created an innovative ‘freedom passport’ which can pave the way for people to mix safely in public and travel securely in large numbers without spreading Covid infection. The ‘passport’ has been developed through a pioneering partnership between Excalibur, led by Professor Sir Chris Evans, OBE, and his lateral flow diagnostics team in Cambridge, and Sensyne Health plc...