Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2022 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, July 13th with LIMS: A Critical Tool for Achieving and Maintaining Regulatory Compliance. This webcast will focus on the essential role a LIMS plays in ensuring that laboratories meet and maintain the certification and accreditation requirements for their organization and industry...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator Cambridge with the aim to advance breakthroughs in human health. Illumina Accelerator, located in both San Francisco and Cambridge, is a company creation engine that partners with entrepreneurs to create genomics startups and advance innovative applications....
Up to $30m funding will be provided to advance an innovative vaccine technology that could protect against current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants and other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has partnered with a consortium of research and technological institutions to develop a novel vaccine to provide protection against COVID-19 caused by current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as to protect against other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Matrix Diagnostics – a dedicated COVID-19 testing lab in California – is relying on INTEGRA Biosciences’ EVOLVE and MINI 96 pipettes to streamline and accelerate its PCR workflows. Founded in January 2021 to meet the growing demand for testing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Matrix Diagnostics is using these user-friendly and cost-effective solutions to test up to 5000 samples a day...
INTEGRA Biosciences’ electronic handheld pipetting solutions are helping to improve the throughput capacity of bulk RNA barcoding and sequencing (BRB-seq) at Alithea Genomics in Switzerland. The company’s fast, high throughput and robust in-house BRB-seq service provides crucial gene expression data at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional RNA-seq, and the company’s workflow relies on INTEGRA VIAFLO 96 and VIAFLO 384 electronic handheld pipettes to provide the speed and precision needed for seamless plate-to-plate transfers...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has signed an agreement with the Administrative Management Committee of Wuxi National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone to significantly expand Merck’s first Asia-Pacific Mobius® Single-Use manufacturing center in China. For more than two decades, Merck’s Life Science business sector...
Hyperpolarized water boosts signal intensities of proteins, DNA and membranes. A small group of researchers including Dennis Kurzbach from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna just published in „Nature Protocols” an advanced NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) method to monitor fast and complicated biomolecular events such as protein folding...
Aptamer Group plc, the developer of novel Optimer® binders to enable innovation in the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce that it has extended its collaboration agreement with PinotBio (Gyeonggi-do, Korea), a clinical-stage oncology-focused biotechnology company, to develop four new Optimer-drug conjugates for use as precision chemotherapeutics. The partnership was first initiated in June 2021 targeting haematological cancers...
Vision-Based Sports Analytics, Training, and Player Assessment for Europe’s Top Football Club. Football is not only the world’s favorite pastime, but also a multi-billion-dollar industry. Individual players can command millions of dollars in salaries and transfer fees. With so much at stake, coaches and scouts need to make the most informed personnel choices, then, keep their players on top condition...
Hands-on cannabis testing! The market for cannabis products is expected to continue growing whilst requiring high quality equipment with excellent reproducibility for their complex analysis. In this whitepaper, the common challenges in cannabis testing by liquid chromatography are summarised. Numerous applications show how to select the ideal stationary phase for obtaining high resolution in cannabis potency testing excellent selectivity in pesticide analyses and sharp peak shapes in mycotoxin analyses...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, and Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment management firm, today announced a five-year partnership to apply a genetic-led approach to the discovery and development of novel therapies for diseases with unmet medical needs. The partnership aims to leverage genomic tools and genetic knowledge to select programs with a higher probability of success in order to lower research and development costs...
Scientists at Aerosol Research and Engineering Labs (ARE Labs) are using the VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette from INTEGRA Biosciences to increase the throughput of their bioaerosol detection protocols. This innovative pipette is speeding up serial dilutions and microbial plating, allowing the team to efficiently test the ability of purifiers to reduce the presence of microbes in circulating air...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, is expanding its membrane and filtration manufacturing capabilities in Ireland. The company will invest approximately €440 million to increase membrane manufacturing capacity in Carrigtwohill and to build a new manufacturing facility at Blarney Business Park, both in Cork, Ireland. The investment, which is the largest in a single site ever for Merck’s Life Science business sector, will create more than 370 permanent jobs by the end of 2027...
Phosphoramidites are the essential part in the chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides, short fragments of nucleotides and analogues. During the synthesis, errors can occur which is why the phosphoramidites’ purity needs to be closely monitored. In this application note, it is shown how to analyse phosphoramidites using two different separation modes: reversed phase (RP) and normal phase (NP) chromatography. Due to the complexity of the analytes different interactions can be used in order to achieve acceptable retenetion and resolution...
Since the start of the pandemic, a surge in sampling demand is putting ?laboratories under pressure, driving up the market, especially in labs that do qPCR and PCR applications. Automated liquid handling platforms, like PIPETMAX®, automate most of the liquid handling steps in your assays, increasing throughput and establishing a robust method for your laboratory workflow. Read our article "The benefits of adding robotics to your lab" to discover the major benefits of adopting automated pipetting systems into your liquid handling workflow...
PrecisionLife Limited, a global techbio company using its deep insights into disease biology and patient stratification to drive precision medicine in chronic diseases, is pleased to announce a partnership with Sano Genetics, a genetic research platform enabling patients to participate in ethical research projects, to advance understanding of the long-term effects of coronavirus infection (long COVID)...
Drawing upon decades of chromatographic expertise and knowledge, TESTA Analytical Solution is established as an OEM detector development and supply partner to a growing number of analytical and process instrumentation companies worldwide. A new case study describes how development of novel rapid scanning UV and differential refractive index detectors is helping an industrial and laboratory monitoring solutions provider offer a market leading instrumental solution for monitoring of polymerization reactions....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2022 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, July 13th with LIMS: A Critical Tool for Achieving and Maintaining Regulatory Compliance. This webcast will focus on the essential role a LIMS plays in ensuring that laboratories meet and maintain the certification and accreditation requirements for their organization and industry...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator Cambridge with the aim to advance breakthroughs in human health. Illumina Accelerator, located in both San Francisco and Cambridge, is a company creation engine that partners with entrepreneurs to create genomics startups and advance innovative applications....
Up to $30m funding will be provided to advance an innovative vaccine technology that could protect against current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants and other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has partnered with a consortium of research and technological institutions to develop a novel vaccine to provide protection against COVID-19 caused by current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as to protect against other SARS-like Betacoronaviruses...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Matrix Diagnostics – a dedicated COVID-19 testing lab in California – is relying on INTEGRA Biosciences’ EVOLVE and MINI 96 pipettes to streamline and accelerate its PCR workflows. Founded in January 2021 to meet the growing demand for testing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Matrix Diagnostics is using these user-friendly and cost-effective solutions to test up to 5000 samples a day...
INTEGRA Biosciences’ electronic handheld pipetting solutions are helping to improve the throughput capacity of bulk RNA barcoding and sequencing (BRB-seq) at Alithea Genomics in Switzerland. The company’s fast, high throughput and robust in-house BRB-seq service provides crucial gene expression data at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional RNA-seq, and the company’s workflow relies on INTEGRA VIAFLO 96 and VIAFLO 384 electronic handheld pipettes to provide the speed and precision needed for seamless plate-to-plate transfers...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has signed an agreement with the Administrative Management Committee of Wuxi National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone to significantly expand Merck’s first Asia-Pacific Mobius® Single-Use manufacturing center in China. For more than two decades, Merck’s Life Science business sector...
Hyperpolarized water boosts signal intensities of proteins, DNA and membranes. A small group of researchers including Dennis Kurzbach from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna just published in „Nature Protocols” an advanced NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) method to monitor fast and complicated biomolecular events such as protein folding...
Aptamer Group plc, the developer of novel Optimer® binders to enable innovation in the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce that it has extended its collaboration agreement with PinotBio (Gyeonggi-do, Korea), a clinical-stage oncology-focused biotechnology company, to develop four new Optimer-drug conjugates for use as precision chemotherapeutics. The partnership was first initiated in June 2021 targeting haematological cancers...
Vision-Based Sports Analytics, Training, and Player Assessment for Europe’s Top Football Club. Football is not only the world’s favorite pastime, but also a multi-billion-dollar industry. Individual players can command millions of dollars in salaries and transfer fees. With so much at stake, coaches and scouts need to make the most informed personnel choices, then, keep their players on top condition...
Hands-on cannabis testing! The market for cannabis products is expected to continue growing whilst requiring high quality equipment with excellent reproducibility for their complex analysis. In this whitepaper, the common challenges in cannabis testing by liquid chromatography are summarised. Numerous applications show how to select the ideal stationary phase for obtaining high resolution in cannabis potency testing excellent selectivity in pesticide analyses and sharp peak shapes in mycotoxin analyses...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, and Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment management firm, today announced a five-year partnership to apply a genetic-led approach to the discovery and development of novel therapies for diseases with unmet medical needs. The partnership aims to leverage genomic tools and genetic knowledge to select programs with a higher probability of success in order to lower research and development costs...
Scientists at Aerosol Research and Engineering Labs (ARE Labs) are using the VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette from INTEGRA Biosciences to increase the throughput of their bioaerosol detection protocols. This innovative pipette is speeding up serial dilutions and microbial plating, allowing the team to efficiently test the ability of purifiers to reduce the presence of microbes in circulating air...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, is expanding its membrane and filtration manufacturing capabilities in Ireland. The company will invest approximately €440 million to increase membrane manufacturing capacity in Carrigtwohill and to build a new manufacturing facility at Blarney Business Park, both in Cork, Ireland. The investment, which is the largest in a single site ever for Merck’s Life Science business sector, will create more than 370 permanent jobs by the end of 2027...
Phosphoramidites are the essential part in the chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides, short fragments of nucleotides and analogues. During the synthesis, errors can occur which is why the phosphoramidites’ purity needs to be closely monitored. In this application note, it is shown how to analyse phosphoramidites using two different separation modes: reversed phase (RP) and normal phase (NP) chromatography. Due to the complexity of the analytes different interactions can be used in order to achieve acceptable retenetion and resolution...
Since the start of the pandemic, a surge in sampling demand is putting ?laboratories under pressure, driving up the market, especially in labs that do qPCR and PCR applications. Automated liquid handling platforms, like PIPETMAX®, automate most of the liquid handling steps in your assays, increasing throughput and establishing a robust method for your laboratory workflow. Read our article "The benefits of adding robotics to your lab" to discover the major benefits of adopting automated pipetting systems into your liquid handling workflow...
PrecisionLife Limited, a global techbio company using its deep insights into disease biology and patient stratification to drive precision medicine in chronic diseases, is pleased to announce a partnership with Sano Genetics, a genetic research platform enabling patients to participate in ethical research projects, to advance understanding of the long-term effects of coronavirus infection (long COVID)...
Drawing upon decades of chromatographic expertise and knowledge, TESTA Analytical Solution is established as an OEM detector development and supply partner to a growing number of analytical and process instrumentation companies worldwide. A new case study describes how development of novel rapid scanning UV and differential refractive index detectors is helping an industrial and laboratory monitoring solutions provider offer a market leading instrumental solution for monitoring of polymerization reactions....