C4Diagnostics, Bertin Technologies, and Enalees announce the launch of their clinical trial of BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans, a diagnostic test for Covid-19, developed jointly with Pasteur Institute. The BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans test has been submitted to the authorities in accordance with French regulations, the detection process has been validated and a clinical trial has been launched by the consortium in order to obtain CE-IVD marking by the end of September...
From October 1, 2020, until January 15, 2021, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe can apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious 20,000 EUR prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts....
Beckman Coulter has announced that it has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its Access Interleukin-6 (IL-6) assay from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Access IL-6 is a fully automated immunoassay designed to detect IL-6 levels in serum and plasma which can be used to aid physicians identifying a severe inflammatory response and determining the risk of intubation with mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 patients...
Eppendorf introduces the refrigerated 24-place centrifuge 5425 R, the successor of its popular centrifuge 5424 R. The new device comes with a bundle of improvements, making applications in the field of molecular and cell biology easier than ever. The superior cooling system not only protects temperature-sensitive samples of any kind even at full speed, it is also ready to start immediately with a cool down time of only 8 minutes...
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is a polymer with broad utility, often used for the manufacture of highly monodisperse beads for controlled drug release and targeted drug delivery. Using microfluidic chips – such as those from Dolomite Microfluidics – to produce the beads provides the necessary precise regulation of bead size distribution, a factor that is of critical importance and can have a significant effect on the rate of drug release, as well as other features...
Porvair Sciences reports on testing that demonstrates how its hydrophilic Vyon® porous plastics exhibit outstanding performance in drug discovery applications due to the high hydrophilic void volume conversion of the materials’ pore structure after a special treatment process. Vyon® manufactured from HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and & UHMWPE (Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene) is naturally hydrophobic...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of innovative cancer therapies and diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, is pleased to announce that the BAMS™ assay to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been launched as a research kit by its partner Adeptrix (Beverly, MA, USA) and the assay has been presented by Bruker Scientific (Billerica, MA, USA), a leading mass spectrometer manufacturer, in a new application note...
Global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Sterling Pharma Solutions, has officially opened its new multi-million-pound Material Science Centre (MSC), after announcing the investment last year. The three-floor MSC comprises six ISO Class 8 cleanrooms, which house four milling and micronisation suites. The new facility, which is the latest step in the company’s continued growth plans...
New Thermo Scientific Tox Explorer Collection provides instruments, columns and consumables with reliable and validated methods for reproducible result. Clinical research, forensic and anti-doping toxicology laboratories facing the challenges of analyzing increasing numbers of analytes in biological matrices, can now easily and rapidly optimize their liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) methods for targeted screening and quantification....
EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that the novel viral transport media PrimeStore® MTM (Molecular Transport Medium) has been successfully evaluated for effective SARS-CoV-2 inactivation in a new study published by Public Health England (PHE). To work safely with live SARS-CoV-2 samples requires the use of high-containment laboratories....
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most urgent infectious disease challenges the world has faced in recent history. Presently, few treatment options exist, therefore, the need to evaluate neutralizing antibodies to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus is at an all-time high. Current screening methods to identify circulating SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies including the plaque reduction neutralization assay and other live virus cell based tests are inefficient and can require multiple days to complete.,,,
The COVID-19 crisis has led to unparalleled pressure on labs to ramp up capacity for SARS-CoV-2 testing. INTEGRA’s electronic pipettes, pipetting robots and other instruments have helped many labs tackle this challenge of increasing testing capacity while, at the same time, enhancing the reproducibility of results. VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipettes are ideal for transferring patient samples from individual collection tubes – either blood collection or swab tubes – to microplates in serological and PCR testing workflows...
Swedish Biomimetics 3000 Ltd, a life science technology company which has developed a world leading green technology platform used in the continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, has established a new head office and scientific research facilities in Copenhagen. The company, which is called Swedish Biomimetics 3000 ApS, believes that it will benefit from the sector specific expertise in Denmark in expanding its capabilities. Going forward, the company will have key operations in both the UK and Denmark....
The UK genomic tools developer, RevoluGen Ltd.,has announced new data validating the performance of its high-molecular weight (HMW) DNA extraction kit, Fire Monkey. Scientists at the UK’s Quadram Institute together with collaborators in Pakistan have published positive results from Illumina whole genome sequencing (WGS) for extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Salmonella Typhi characterization in Pakistan, using Fire Monkey....
AMSBIO announce new additions and certifications for their market-leading range of clinical grade, chemically defined cryopreservation excipient solutions - STEM-CELLBANKER® and HSC-BANKER®. STEM-CELLBANKER® DMSO Free GMP grade is a new chemically defined freezing solution that does not contain DMSO as an anti-freezing agent. It was developed for customers who prefer not to use DMSO-containing cryopreservation solution...
Gilson has developed a compact, low-cost tube filling system that has the flexibility to fill bottles, tubes, vials, or microplates quickly. With the current pandemic, there is an exponential demand for diagnostic testing of patients for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Viral transport media (VTM) is a critical component of COVID-19 test kits and is used for the collection, transport, and storage of clinical specimens....
ACCU-FUSE™ Vial Kits manufactured by Worldwide Glass Resources® provide a new level of quality and confidence for trouble-free use of limited volume vials. The ACCU-FUSE™ vial is a glass to glass, sealed in insert, limited volume vial. It can be ordered individually or pre-packaged with closures as a kit. Our current line of 24 kitted options include 11mm Large Opening Crimp, 11mm Snap-Ring, 9mm Screw Thread and 10mm Screw Thread vials. All are offered in both clear and amber....
Inhibiting the growth of harmful bacteria and minimising the threat of cross-contamination is vital in hygiene critical areas within agricultural, pharmaceutical, food processing, educational and health care laboratories. Bacteria commonly encountered in these areas are capable of prolonged survival on most surfaces, in optimal conditions they can reproduce every twenty minutes, spreading rapidly where they dwell....
SPL Guard introduces a new rack thawing station called the SPL Guard Florida—the fastest rack thawing solution on the market. With the SPL Guard Florida, researchers can thaw multiple racks at once in a controlled setting, keeping up with the ever-increasing need to process samples faster while maintaining sample integrity. The SPL Guard Florida can thaw up to 10 racks in as little as 9 minutes and can be used as a stand-alone system or integrated into a robotic workstation like a liquid handler...
In this unique new five-part weekly webinar series, Molecular Devices scientists will introduce you to various aspects of microplate reader technology in an educational and entertaining way. Starting with some basic concepts, they will explain a number of ‘urban myths’ or misconceptions each week - as well as introducing a variety of theories and technologies – ultimately enabling you to fully understand the choices you make when writing protocols, choosing a new microplate reader or optimizing an existing assay.
Scientific Laboratory Supplies are delighted to announce the new SLS Product and Chemicals Catalogues are both OUT NOW! Packed full of equipment, consumables and chemicals for any busy laboratory, regardless of application, there is plenty of choice from your favourite brands – all in one place. You will find over 15,000 products – 20% of which are new for this edition in the new product catalogue....
The seemingly effortless and instantaneous colour and iridescence changes displayed by octopuses, squid and cuttlefish is one of Nature’s most amazing sights. Now, researchers have discovered how to use the cephalopod proteins responsible for these changes to manipulate the optical refractive index (RI) of mammalian cellular compartments. By changing this intrinsic physical property of the cell, microscopists could soon be using the RIs of live cells as molecular probes...
C4Diagnostics, Bertin Technologies, and Enalees announce the launch of their clinical trial of BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans, a diagnostic test for Covid-19, developed jointly with Pasteur Institute. The BEC-SARS-CoV-2 for humans test has been submitted to the authorities in accordance with French regulations, the detection process has been validated and a clinical trial has been launched by the consortium in order to obtain CE-IVD marking by the end of September...
From October 1, 2020, until January 15, 2021, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe can apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This highly prestigious 20,000 EUR prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts....
Beckman Coulter has announced that it has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its Access Interleukin-6 (IL-6) assay from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Access IL-6 is a fully automated immunoassay designed to detect IL-6 levels in serum and plasma which can be used to aid physicians identifying a severe inflammatory response and determining the risk of intubation with mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 patients...
Eppendorf introduces the refrigerated 24-place centrifuge 5425 R, the successor of its popular centrifuge 5424 R. The new device comes with a bundle of improvements, making applications in the field of molecular and cell biology easier than ever. The superior cooling system not only protects temperature-sensitive samples of any kind even at full speed, it is also ready to start immediately with a cool down time of only 8 minutes...
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is a polymer with broad utility, often used for the manufacture of highly monodisperse beads for controlled drug release and targeted drug delivery. Using microfluidic chips – such as those from Dolomite Microfluidics – to produce the beads provides the necessary precise regulation of bead size distribution, a factor that is of critical importance and can have a significant effect on the rate of drug release, as well as other features...
Porvair Sciences reports on testing that demonstrates how its hydrophilic Vyon® porous plastics exhibit outstanding performance in drug discovery applications due to the high hydrophilic void volume conversion of the materials’ pore structure after a special treatment process. Vyon® manufactured from HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) and & UHMWPE (Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene) is naturally hydrophobic...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of innovative cancer therapies and diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, is pleased to announce that the BAMS™ assay to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been launched as a research kit by its partner Adeptrix (Beverly, MA, USA) and the assay has been presented by Bruker Scientific (Billerica, MA, USA), a leading mass spectrometer manufacturer, in a new application note...
Global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Sterling Pharma Solutions, has officially opened its new multi-million-pound Material Science Centre (MSC), after announcing the investment last year. The three-floor MSC comprises six ISO Class 8 cleanrooms, which house four milling and micronisation suites. The new facility, which is the latest step in the company’s continued growth plans...
New Thermo Scientific Tox Explorer Collection provides instruments, columns and consumables with reliable and validated methods for reproducible result. Clinical research, forensic and anti-doping toxicology laboratories facing the challenges of analyzing increasing numbers of analytes in biological matrices, can now easily and rapidly optimize their liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) methods for targeted screening and quantification....
EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that the novel viral transport media PrimeStore® MTM (Molecular Transport Medium) has been successfully evaluated for effective SARS-CoV-2 inactivation in a new study published by Public Health England (PHE). To work safely with live SARS-CoV-2 samples requires the use of high-containment laboratories....
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most urgent infectious disease challenges the world has faced in recent history. Presently, few treatment options exist, therefore, the need to evaluate neutralizing antibodies to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus is at an all-time high. Current screening methods to identify circulating SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies including the plaque reduction neutralization assay and other live virus cell based tests are inefficient and can require multiple days to complete.,,,
The COVID-19 crisis has led to unparalleled pressure on labs to ramp up capacity for SARS-CoV-2 testing. INTEGRA’s electronic pipettes, pipetting robots and other instruments have helped many labs tackle this challenge of increasing testing capacity while, at the same time, enhancing the reproducibility of results. VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipettes are ideal for transferring patient samples from individual collection tubes – either blood collection or swab tubes – to microplates in serological and PCR testing workflows...
Swedish Biomimetics 3000 Ltd, a life science technology company which has developed a world leading green technology platform used in the continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, has established a new head office and scientific research facilities in Copenhagen. The company, which is called Swedish Biomimetics 3000 ApS, believes that it will benefit from the sector specific expertise in Denmark in expanding its capabilities. Going forward, the company will have key operations in both the UK and Denmark....
The UK genomic tools developer, RevoluGen Ltd.,has announced new data validating the performance of its high-molecular weight (HMW) DNA extraction kit, Fire Monkey. Scientists at the UK’s Quadram Institute together with collaborators in Pakistan have published positive results from Illumina whole genome sequencing (WGS) for extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Salmonella Typhi characterization in Pakistan, using Fire Monkey....
AMSBIO announce new additions and certifications for their market-leading range of clinical grade, chemically defined cryopreservation excipient solutions - STEM-CELLBANKER® and HSC-BANKER®. STEM-CELLBANKER® DMSO Free GMP grade is a new chemically defined freezing solution that does not contain DMSO as an anti-freezing agent. It was developed for customers who prefer not to use DMSO-containing cryopreservation solution...
Gilson has developed a compact, low-cost tube filling system that has the flexibility to fill bottles, tubes, vials, or microplates quickly. With the current pandemic, there is an exponential demand for diagnostic testing of patients for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Viral transport media (VTM) is a critical component of COVID-19 test kits and is used for the collection, transport, and storage of clinical specimens....
ACCU-FUSE™ Vial Kits manufactured by Worldwide Glass Resources® provide a new level of quality and confidence for trouble-free use of limited volume vials. The ACCU-FUSE™ vial is a glass to glass, sealed in insert, limited volume vial. It can be ordered individually or pre-packaged with closures as a kit. Our current line of 24 kitted options include 11mm Large Opening Crimp, 11mm Snap-Ring, 9mm Screw Thread and 10mm Screw Thread vials. All are offered in both clear and amber....
Inhibiting the growth of harmful bacteria and minimising the threat of cross-contamination is vital in hygiene critical areas within agricultural, pharmaceutical, food processing, educational and health care laboratories. Bacteria commonly encountered in these areas are capable of prolonged survival on most surfaces, in optimal conditions they can reproduce every twenty minutes, spreading rapidly where they dwell....
SPL Guard introduces a new rack thawing station called the SPL Guard Florida—the fastest rack thawing solution on the market. With the SPL Guard Florida, researchers can thaw multiple racks at once in a controlled setting, keeping up with the ever-increasing need to process samples faster while maintaining sample integrity. The SPL Guard Florida can thaw up to 10 racks in as little as 9 minutes and can be used as a stand-alone system or integrated into a robotic workstation like a liquid handler...
In this unique new five-part weekly webinar series, Molecular Devices scientists will introduce you to various aspects of microplate reader technology in an educational and entertaining way. Starting with some basic concepts, they will explain a number of ‘urban myths’ or misconceptions each week - as well as introducing a variety of theories and technologies – ultimately enabling you to fully understand the choices you make when writing protocols, choosing a new microplate reader or optimizing an existing assay.
Scientific Laboratory Supplies are delighted to announce the new SLS Product and Chemicals Catalogues are both OUT NOW! Packed full of equipment, consumables and chemicals for any busy laboratory, regardless of application, there is plenty of choice from your favourite brands – all in one place. You will find over 15,000 products – 20% of which are new for this edition in the new product catalogue....
The seemingly effortless and instantaneous colour and iridescence changes displayed by octopuses, squid and cuttlefish is one of Nature’s most amazing sights. Now, researchers have discovered how to use the cephalopod proteins responsible for these changes to manipulate the optical refractive index (RI) of mammalian cellular compartments. By changing this intrinsic physical property of the cell, microscopists could soon be using the RIs of live cells as molecular probes...