The precision diagnostics company BillionToOne has announced a significant development in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. BillionToOne has developed a highly accurate and cost-effective novel COVID-19 test protocol, unlocking the capacity to perform 1+ million tests per day in the United States alone. Test reagents will be available in 2 weeks, pending....
Independent Site Management Organisation Panthera is working with sponsors who need to press ahead with trials which can be done safely. “The safety of clinical trial patients and staff is paramount. We are working with our clients in pharma and CROs to assess each trial to see if it needs to be suspended, delayed or if it can carry on in a way that is safe both for the clinicians and participants” commented Stuart Young CEO...
Merck has launched its LANEXO™ Lab Inventory, Safety and Compliance Management System, a new digital laboratory informatics solution designed to drastically reduce1 time in labs and improve data quality and traceability. “Today, 85 percent of labs are using paper or Excel to manage consumables data, and 25 percent of time is spent managing these data — taking scientists away from bench research,” said Jean-Charles Wirth...
The universal digital platform from Metrohm integrates the latest laboratory balance from Sartorius. Thanks to an extension (QApp) implemented on the balance, Cubis® II from Sartorius has become a fully integrated module of the OMNIS platform. Opening OMNIS to leading third-party manufacturers underlines the commitment of the global market leader in titration to create the preferred universal digital platform for the laboratory of the 21st century....
LGC has launched a Proficiency Testing (PT) service for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19) by nucleic acid amplification testing, one of the first global schemes for COVID-19. As increasing numbers of diagnostic methods are made available in the global fight against COVID 19, it is essential that laboratories ensure that their application of methods and subsequent results are reliable and accurate...
The new Agilent GenetiSure Cyto microarrays include updated, clinically relevant content from respected databases. The probes on the Cyto microarrays provide high-resolution detection of copy number variations, and copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity associated with developmental delay, neuropsychiatric disorders, intellectual disability, congenital anomalies, or unexplained dysmorphic features in constitutional DNA samples.
Care Access Research, the leader in rapid development and management of high-performing clinical research sites, announced it is leading a validation trial in conjunction with the FDA for a new at-home COVID-19 test developed by a private genomics lab that manufactures DNA screening kits. The goal of this validation study is to evaluate the efficacy of the new at-home test for diagnosing COVID-19....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2020 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, April 15th with Getting More from Your LIMS and Knowing When It's Time to Upgrade. This webcast will be ideal for laboratories who currently are using a LIMS but realize that changes in business requirements, regulatory compliance...
The Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association (PBOA), a trade group that represents Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) and other service providers in the bio/pharmaceutical sector, reports that many of its member companies are actively involved in helping their clients develop and produce treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics for COVID-19....
The new Cell Count & Viability Starter Kit automates cell counting and viability measurements in a mammalian cell suspension. When used with BioTek’s Cytation™ Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers or Lionheart™ Automated Imagers in a workflow, researchers may quickly and automatically image and analyze cell counts in multiple samples. The Starter Kit includes the Cell Count & Viability App...
Electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) pioneer, BioData, announces its support for the global science community with the introduction of a new video conferencing service in its leading Labguru ELN platform, free of charge for all customers. The new LabRoom tool facilitates live global collaboration, experiment planning and tracking, as well as data collation and analysis, all within the Labguru electronic web notebook...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) have pulled together a selection of products which can be used in the fight against COVID-19, whether through patient care, diagnostic testing or scientific research. They understand how important the continuation of your critical work is and they are doing everything they can to maintain the supply of laboratory products to you....
INTEGRA Biosciences is offering labs a chance to win a VIAFLO multichannel electronic pipette of their choice. The VIAFLO electronic pipette is designed to offer better pipetting for virtually any application, helping you to get amazing results much quicker. Electronic pipettes can enhance the productivity and performance of a workflow by maximizing reproducibility and minimizing the risk of errors or operator-to-operator variability....
The University of Glasgow will host a major COVID-19 testing facility in Glasgow, in support of current UK and Scottish Governments and NHS efforts against the coronavirus pandemic. This is part of a series of measures to increase testing and response to the spread of COVID-19 across the UK. It will be opened in collaboration with the Scottish Government and industry experts from BioAscent Discovery Ltd and the University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit....
PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, are continuing to scale up operations to ensure the critical enzyme mix for COVID-19 tests remain available to the UK and global healthcare systems as demand for testing rises. To meet current and upcoming requirements and ensure supply chain security, PCR Biosystems has already significantly increased – and will continue to increase...
Scientists on Standby has been rapidly conceptualised and launched in response to the COVID-19 crisis and in anticipation of the increasing pressure on UK diagnostic testing laboratories and facilities in the coming weeks and months. The portal enables scientists with relevant skills and experience to volunteer their time, expertise and support for COVID-19 screening and testing....
Save time and order prepacked glass columns! Are you lacking the time to pack your column? Or don’t you have sufficient experience? Here is the solution! Rely on the experience of YMC and use prepacked ECO or ECOPLUS columns. Our packing expertise is your advantage. You may choose from the following packing services for ECO and ECOPLUS columns in standard and custom dimensions...
Safety and identification specialist Brady Corporation offers signs for download to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Anyone can freely download the print-ready files from Brady websites. All signs offered are compliant or in line with the ISO 7010 international standard to maximise recognition anywhere in the world. Each sign includes a quickly recognisable icon for almost any COVID-19 safety measure....
Britain could be testing up to 100,000 patients per day for COVID-19 and have results back within 24 hours – if many researchers who are currently sitting at home were classed as key workers and redundant taxi drivers and delivery companies enlisted. hat is the view of infectious disease expert Professor Colin Garner who has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask why we are creating “a central testing facility in Milton Keynes”...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced the availability of the Thermo Scientific AcroMetrix Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) RNA Control, its latest quality control product to monitor and validate COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests. In an effort to combat the recent Coronavirus outbreak, Thermo Fisher designed and developed this control as a synthetic RNA, non-infectious control...
New IgM and IgG antibody assays will help indicate whether a person potentially developed immunity against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Beckman Coulter announce that it is developing assays to identify IgM and IgG antibodies to the coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2. The assays will be designed for use on any of its high- throughput Access family of immunoassay systems...
In 2020, Eppendorf AG, the Hamburg life science company is presenting its highly prestigious research prize for the 25th time. The independent Eppendorf Award Jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Jahn selected Prof. Dr. Randall J. Platt, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as the 2020 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators....
The precision diagnostics company BillionToOne has announced a significant development in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. BillionToOne has developed a highly accurate and cost-effective novel COVID-19 test protocol, unlocking the capacity to perform 1+ million tests per day in the United States alone. Test reagents will be available in 2 weeks, pending....
Independent Site Management Organisation Panthera is working with sponsors who need to press ahead with trials which can be done safely. “The safety of clinical trial patients and staff is paramount. We are working with our clients in pharma and CROs to assess each trial to see if it needs to be suspended, delayed or if it can carry on in a way that is safe both for the clinicians and participants” commented Stuart Young CEO...
Merck has launched its LANEXO™ Lab Inventory, Safety and Compliance Management System, a new digital laboratory informatics solution designed to drastically reduce
The universal digital platform from Metrohm integrates the latest laboratory balance from Sartorius. 
LGC has launched a Proficiency Testing (PT) service for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19) by nucleic acid amplification testing, one of the first global schemes for COVID-19. As increasing numbers of diagnostic methods are made available in the global fight against COVID 19, it is essential that laboratories ensure that their application of methods and subsequent results are reliable and accurate...
The new Agilent GenetiSure Cyto microarrays include updated, clinically relevant content from respected databases. The probes on the Cyto microarrays provide high-resolution detection of copy number variations, and copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity associated with developmental delay, neuropsychiatric disorders, intellectual disability, congenital anomalies, or unexplained dysmorphic features in constitutional DNA samples.
Care Access Research, the leader in rapid development and management of high-performing clinical research sites, announced it is leading a validation trial in conjunction with the FDA for a new at-home COVID-19 test developed by a private genomics lab that manufactures DNA screening kits. The goal of this validation study is to evaluate the efficacy of the new at-home test for diagnosing COVID-19....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2020 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, April 15th with Getting More from Your LIMS and Knowing When It's Time to Upgrade. This webcast will be ideal for laboratories who currently are using a LIMS but realize that changes in business requirements, regulatory compliance...
The Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association (PBOA), a trade group that represents Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) and other service providers in the bio/pharmaceutical sector, reports that many of its member companies are actively involved in helping their clients develop and produce treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics for COVID-19....
The new Cell Count & Viability Starter Kit automates cell counting and viability measurements in a mammalian cell suspension. When used with BioTek’s Cytation™ Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers or Lionheart™ Automated Imagers in a workflow, researchers may quickly and automatically image and analyze cell counts in multiple samples. The Starter Kit includes the Cell Count & Viability App...
Electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) pioneer, BioData, announces its support for the global science community with the introduction of a new video conferencing service in its leading Labguru ELN platform, free of charge for all customers. The new LabRoom tool facilitates live global collaboration, experiment planning and tracking, as well as data collation and analysis, all within the Labguru electronic web notebook...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) have pulled together a selection of products which can be used in the fight against COVID-19, whether through patient care, diagnostic testing or scientific research. They understand how important the continuation of your critical work is and they are doing everything they can to maintain the supply of laboratory products to you....
INTEGRA Biosciences is offering labs a chance to win a VIAFLO multichannel electronic pipette of their choice. The VIAFLO electronic pipette is designed to offer better pipetting for virtually any application, helping you to get amazing results much quicker. Electronic pipettes can enhance the productivity and performance of a workflow by maximizing reproducibility and minimizing the risk of errors or operator-to-operator variability....
The University of Glasgow will host a major COVID-19 testing facility in Glasgow, in support of current UK and Scottish Governments and NHS efforts against the coronavirus pandemic. This is part of a series of measures to increase testing and response to the spread of COVID-19 across the UK. It will be opened in collaboration with the Scottish Government and industry experts from BioAscent Discovery Ltd and the University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit....
PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, are continuing to scale up operations to ensure the critical enzyme mix for COVID-19 tests remain available to the UK and global healthcare systems as demand for testing rises. To meet current and upcoming requirements and ensure supply chain security, PCR Biosystems has already significantly increased – and will continue to increase...
Scientists on Standby has been rapidly conceptualised and launched in response to the COVID-19 crisis and in anticipation of the increasing pressure on UK diagnostic testing laboratories and facilities in the coming weeks and months. The portal enables scientists with relevant skills and experience to volunteer their time, expertise and support for COVID-19 screening and testing....
Save time and order prepacked glass columns! Are you lacking the time to pack your column? Or don’t you have sufficient experience? Here is the solution! Rely on the experience of YMC and use prepacked ECO or ECOPLUS columns. Our packing expertise is your advantage. You may choose from the following packing services for ECO and ECOPLUS columns in standard and custom dimensions...
Safety and identification specialist Brady Corporation offers signs for download to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Anyone can freely download the print-ready files from Brady websites. All signs offered are compliant or in line with the ISO 7010 international standard to maximise recognition anywhere in the world. Each sign includes a quickly recognisable icon for almost any COVID-19 safety measure....
Britain could be testing up to 100,000 patients per day for COVID-19 and have results back within 24 hours – if many researchers who are currently sitting at home were classed as key workers and redundant taxi drivers and delivery companies enlisted. hat is the view of infectious disease expert Professor Colin Garner who has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask why we are creating “a central testing facility in Milton Keynes”...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced the availability of the Thermo Scientific AcroMetrix Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) RNA Control, its latest quality control product to monitor and validate COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests. In an effort to combat the recent Coronavirus outbreak, Thermo Fisher designed and developed this control as a synthetic RNA, non-infectious control...
New IgM and IgG antibody assays will help indicate whether a person potentially developed immunity against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Beckman Coulter announce that it is developing assays to identify IgM and IgG antibodies to the coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2. The assays will be designed for use on any of its high- throughput Access family of immunoassay systems...
In 2020, Eppendorf AG, the Hamburg life science company is presenting its highly prestigious research prize for the 25th time. The independent Eppendorf Award Jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Jahn selected Prof. Dr. Randall J. Platt, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as the 2020 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators....