Edinburgh-based biotech company Ingenza Ltd. has made a significant breakthrough in the race to develop and manufacture a cost-effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Ingenza has been working closely with researchers at Oxford University and the UK CPI, Wilton, since the start of the outbreak, and the collaboration is continuing to make excellent progress...
Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading provider of recombinant antibody products and services, has announced the availability of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies derived from individuals infected with COVID-19. The antibodies, originally generated by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have been engineered into recombinant formats useful for COVID-19 research and diagnostic development....
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Glasgow, has announced findings that could pave the way to a new treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The breakthrough findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, identify a new class of drugs that reverse the symptoms of asthma in animal models....
Ziath reports strong uptake of its Mohawk semi-automated tube picker in smaller biobanks and biorepositories. Small biobanks and biorepositories need to select tubes from cold racks straight from the freezer, but cannot afford the huge investment in robotics to fully automatically pick and place tubes from racks. The Mohawk, being small and compact, can simplify picking tubes, up to 16 in one go, from a 96-position tube rack....
Small environmental and academic teaching laboratories specializing in water analysis can benefit from simpler setup and operation and improved quality with a new, compact ion chromatography (IC) system that can bring an advanced level of simplicity to anion and cation analyses of drinking water.The new Thermo Scientific Dionex Easion ion chromatography system is a user-friendly instrument...
IBMS Council delivers a position statement on the need for accreditation and registered staff in all laboratories doing COVID-19 testing. The national response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required an unprecedented increase in the UK’s capacity to provide timely and accurate testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) supports the UK government strategy to control the virus by increasing testing numbers and by implementing the test, track and trace programme....
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that its Hand Sanitizer Analyzer instrument can be used to test for the presence of methanol in alcohol-based hand sanitizer products with pass/fail results delivered in 30 seconds or less. Recent warnings and recalls from the FDA indicate that methanol can be toxic to consumers if absorbed through the skin and life threatening if ingested...
Honeywell’s story began more than 200 years ago when German chemist Johann Daniel Riedel successfully manufactured pharmaceutical products. While the world has changed greatly since then, Honeywell have remained committed to providing the highest quality chemicals through innovative and cutting-edge manufacturing processes. Honeywell offer a wide range of Research Chemicals under their own brands...
More than 305,000 high-resolution, multi-channel COVID-19 cellular images captured in less than four weeks with Molecular Devices ImageXpress® Micro Confocal High-Content Imaging System are now available to the scientific community. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting millions around the globe, researchers are racing to develop a vaccine or drug treatment. In an effort to better understand the cellular responses to COVID-19, the digital biology company Recursion has publicly released the world’s largest imaging dataset....
If you are looking for a column to separate your antibodies from their fragments as well as from their aggregates, YMC-SEC MAB is your first choice! The column is designed to separate high and low molecular weight ranges, due to its 250 Å pore size. High column stability as well as excellent reproducibility is guaranteed! The 2019 SCIENTISTS’ CHOICE AWARD NOMINEE is designed for...
Autoscribe Informatics has just released a new case study in conjunction with Swiss Precision Diagnostics (SPD) who have replaced their legacy Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with Matrix Gemini. The new LIMS integrates data from volunteer sample collection, laboratory testing and a clinical biobank to provide integrated data management across their organization....
In the paper, ‘Monitoring chemistry in situ with the Smart Stirrer —a magnetic stirrer bar with an integrated process monitoring system’ published in the journal ACS Sensors, researchers from the School of Engineering, the Mathematics Institute and WMG at the University of Warwick present their innovative stirrer sensor. The small device, called “Smart Stirrer”, performed a function of a conventional laboratory stir bar, has...
Intravacc and the Celonic Group has announced that they have signed a research agreement to further design, develop and produce a Covid-19 vaccine based on an immunogenic Spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 combined with Intravacc’s prorietary Outer Membrane Vesicle (OMV) technology. In the beginning of March this year Intravacc started working on the development of four candidate coronavirus vaccines...
This year, in addition to the academic year course ‘Honors Computational Medicinal Chemistry’, 80 rising juniors and seniors will embark upon a special summer short-course entitled ‘Computing COVID-19’, utilizing StarDrop in conjunction with other bioinformatics tools. Optibrium’s lead product, StarDrop, is a comprehensive suite of integrated software...
ZEISS introduces the Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox for its industry-leading ZEISS Xradia 3D X-ray microscope and computed tomography systems. With the Toolbox, two modules are announced: an upgraded ZEISS OptiRecon for iterative reconstruction, and ZEISS DeepRecon, microscopy’s first commercially available deep learning reconstruction technology....
The Symposium Chairmen and Organizers of the 50th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2021-Duesseldorf) are delighted to announce the conference dates and details for the upcoming 2021 edition of the HPLC symposium series...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (“LSTM”) to clinically validate the rapid, saliva-based coronavirus antigen test that Avacta is developing with Cytiva. LSTM has been at the forefront of research into infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases since 1898....
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected to grow in the coming years. Here, Katie Gray, marketing manager at Lab Innovations 2020, the largest laboratory event in the UK, looks at why labs will need to become more adaptable....
Tecan is excited to announce an agreement with Thomas Scientific, a distributor of laboratory solutions and equipment, to support the sales of Tecan’s detection instruments and consumables portfolio in the US. This collaboration will allow Tecan to expand its presence for these product lines and reach a wider customer base across the academic and biotech communities....
With Move It®, Eppendorf AG announces the market entry for Adjustable Spacing Pipettes, which they have redefined from scratch according to their own premium standards. Eppendorf thus responds to customer requests for an efficient and safe solution for synchronous pipetting of a series of samples between different vessel formats, such as between tubes and plates....
Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation for laboratories, has introduced its latest nitrogen gas generator innovations with the launch of a new suite of products engineered to support SCIEX’s newly released Mass Spectrometry platforms. Developed in collaboration with and exclusively for SCIEX, the new suite of products comes in three variants, each tested and validated by SCIEX, for use with the new SCIEX Triple Quad™ 7500 LC-MS/MS System...
Researchers are turning to INTEGRA Biosciences VIAFLO 96/384 handheld electronic pipette for rapid and precise filling of specialized 3D cell culture plates, to increase throughput and meet the demands of high volume drug discovery programs. Specialized 3D cell culture plates, such as Corning® Elplasia® microplates, enable highly reproducible growth of uniform 3D cultures for downstream applications...
Edinburgh-based biotech company Ingenza Ltd. has made a significant breakthrough in the race to develop and manufacture a cost-effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Ingenza has been working closely with researchers at Oxford University and the UK CPI, Wilton, since the start of the outbreak, and the collaboration is continuing to make excellent progress...
Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading provider of recombinant antibody products and services, has announced the availability of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies derived from individuals infected with COVID-19. The antibodies, originally generated by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have been engineered into recombinant formats useful for COVID-19 research and diagnostic development....
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Glasgow, has announced findings that could pave the way to a new treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The breakthrough findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, identify a new class of drugs that reverse the symptoms of asthma in animal models....
Ziath reports strong uptake of its Mohawk semi-automated tube picker in smaller biobanks and biorepositories. Small biobanks and biorepositories need to select tubes from cold racks straight from the freezer, but cannot afford the huge investment in robotics to fully automatically pick and place tubes from racks. The Mohawk, being small and compact, can simplify picking tubes, up to 16 in one go, from a 96-position tube rack....
Small environmental and academic teaching laboratories specializing in water analysis can benefit from simpler setup and operation and improved quality with a new, compact ion chromatography (IC) system that can bring an advanced level of simplicity to anion and cation analyses of drinking water.The new Thermo Scientific Dionex Easion ion chromatography system is a user-friendly instrument...
Autoscribe Informatics has just released a new case study in conjunction with Swiss Precision Diagnostics (SPD) who have replaced their legacy Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with Matrix Gemini. The new LIMS integrates data from volunteer sample collection, laboratory testing and a clinical biobank to provide integrated data management across their organization....
In the paper, ‘Monitoring chemistry in situ with the Smart Stirrer —a magnetic stirrer bar with an integrated process monitoring system’ published in the journal ACS Sensors, researchers from the School of Engineering, the Mathematics Institute and WMG at the University of Warwick present their innovative stirrer sensor. The small device, called “Smart Stirrer”, performed a function of a conventional laboratory stir bar, has...
Intravacc and the Celonic Group has announced that they have signed a research agreement to further design, develop and produce a Covid-19 vaccine based on an immunogenic Spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 combined with Intravacc’s prorietary Outer Membrane Vesicle (OMV) technology. In the beginning of March this year Intravacc started working on the development of four candidate coronavirus vaccines...
This year, in addition to the academic year course ‘Honors Computational Medicinal Chemistry’, 80 rising juniors and seniors will embark upon a special summer short-course entitled ‘Computing COVID-19’, utilizing StarDrop in conjunction with other bioinformatics tools. Optibrium’s lead product, StarDrop, is a comprehensive suite of integrated software...
ZEISS introduces the Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox for its industry-leading ZEISS Xradia 3D X-ray microscope and computed tomography systems. With the Toolbox, two modules are announced: an upgraded ZEISS OptiRecon for iterative reconstruction, and ZEISS DeepRecon, microscopy’s first commercially available deep learning reconstruction technology....
The Symposium Chairmen and Organizers of the 50th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2021-Duesseldorf) are delighted to announce the conference dates and details for the upcoming 2021 edition of the HPLC symposium series...
Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (“LSTM”) to clinically validate the rapid, saliva-based coronavirus antigen test that Avacta is developing with Cytiva. LSTM has been at the forefront of research into infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases since 1898....
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected to grow in the coming years. Here, Katie Gray, marketing manager at Lab Innovations 2020, the largest laboratory event in the UK, looks at why labs will need to become more adaptable....
Tecan is excited to announce an agreement with Thomas Scientific, a distributor of laboratory solutions and equipment, to support the sales of Tecan’s detection instruments and consumables portfolio in the US. This collaboration will allow Tecan to expand its presence for these product lines and reach a wider customer base across the academic and biotech communities....
With Move It®, Eppendorf AG announces the market entry for Adjustable Spacing Pipettes, which they have redefined from scratch according to their own premium standards. Eppendorf thus responds to customer requests for an efficient and safe solution for synchronous pipetting of a series of samples between different vessel formats, such as between tubes and plates....
Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation for laboratories, has introduced its latest nitrogen gas generator innovations with the launch of a new suite of products engineered to support SCIEX’s newly released Mass Spectrometry platforms. Developed in collaboration with and exclusively for SCIEX, the new suite of products comes in three variants, each tested and validated by SCIEX, for use with the new SCIEX Triple Quad™ 7500 LC-MS/MS System...
Researchers are turning to INTEGRA Biosciences VIAFLO 96/384 handheld electronic pipette for rapid and precise filling of specialized 3D cell culture plates, to increase throughput and meet the demands of high volume drug discovery programs. Specialized 3D cell culture plates, such as Corning® Elplasia® microplates, enable highly reproducible growth of uniform 3D cultures for downstream applications...