Series A round co-led by Silicon Valley investor DCVC and London-based Draper Esprit. EVONETIX LTD, the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, has announced that it has completed a $12.3 million (£9 million) financing to advance the development of its technology. The financing was co-led by DCVC (Data Collective) of Palo Alto, CA and European-based Draper Esprit, and included the Morningside group, alongside...

Enamine REAL database of synthetic compounds accessible via UCSF’s online ZINC platform. Enamine Ltd., a chemical research organization and producer of novel building blocks and screening libraries, has today announced that it has expanded its collaboration on ZINC, a comprehensive online database of purchasable compounds curated by the Irwin and Shoichet laboratories in the Department of...

Laboratory safety cabinet and enclosure manufacturer Bigneat Ltd has installed a custom designed and manufactured controlled environment system to answer the specific needs of a leading transfusion diagnostics company. The company has developed an innovative diagnostic system that will allow automated blood type testing and disease screening, providing significant clinical benefits - significant savings in testing costs and rapid results...

Metrohm USA welcomes its Tampa employees to their new North American headquarters in Riverview, Florida. Since breaking ground in February 2017, the 90,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility has evolved into a space that exemplifies Metrohm’s continued commitment to its customers and employees. “Metrohm’s dedication to the people that use our instruments and those who support them make us who we are as a company....

Absolute Antibody Ltd., an Oxford, UK-based company with a vision to make recombinant antibody technology accessible to all, and Kerafast Inc., a Boston, MA-based company with a mission to facilitate access to unique laboratory-made reagents, today announced a merger of the two companies. The merger brings together two companies with a shared commitment to improving the selection of research tools available to the scientific community....

New technology will be included in the second generation of CODIM products, providing access to single molecule tracking with true nanoscopic molecular resolution. BioAxial, a key player in live cell super resolution microscopy, announces that it has been granted a US patent covering ‘black fluorophore’, a pivotal component of ‘dark tracking’ technology. This patent consolidates BioAxial’s patent portfolio, which already comprises...

Astell Scientific, the leading UK manufacturer of laboratory autoclaves, is delighted to announce the launch of a new website and brand name covering its range of aqueous Effluent Decontamination Systems (EDS). Under the name AstellBio, the Kent based company will offer custom built sterilization systems designed to treat waste water from BSL level 3 laboratories and other specialist research and high containment facilities...

Coming to Washington, DC USA is the largest and most recognized global conference where internationally acclaimed experts in the world of liquid phase separations will address cutting-edge research, critical and emerging technologies, and novel solutions to important problems in pharmaceutical, environmental, and industrial R&D. Are you interested in mass spectrometry, chromatography, or electrophoresis? Are you solving complex analytical problems....

Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed-water analysis instrumentation and software, has been presented with the 2018 Global On-site Lubricating Oil Analysis Equipment Customer Value Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan, a global market research consulting firm. This recognition is part of Frost & Sullivan’s 2018 Best Practices Award program. To receive this award, an organization must be best-in-class in three key areas: understanding demand, nurturing a brand, and differentiating from the competition....

Innovative solutions drive long term healthcare programs and accelerate clinical development. ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced that it has been named to the Journal of mHealth’s annual Global Digital Health 100, an international benchmark for mobile, digital and connected technologies in healthcare. The Global Digital Health 100 is one of the HealthTech industry’s foremost technology award programs....

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, and OncoSec Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ: ONCS), a company developing intratumoral cancer immunotherapies, are pleased to announce they have entered into a research collaboration to combine Avacta’s Affimer protein platform with OncoSec’s gene delivery technology ImmunoPulse®. The research programme will evaluate the benefits of delivering Affimer protein genes directly into tumors using the OncoSec technology....

The live launch of Malvern Panalytical's Morphologi 4 and Morphologi 4-ID. February 14th 2 PM GMT / 9 AM EST. Be the first to learn about the new Morphologi 4 Range of automated static imaging systems - designed to help you understand and optimize your processes and particulate samples by delivering robust and reproducible insight into particle size, shape and chemical ID...

Funding from the Walloon Region will enable Univercells to initiate a development program aimed at driving down costs of biosimilars manufacturing. Univercells SA, a technology company dedicated to delivering innovative and cost-effective biomanufacturing solutions, announces that it has received a grant  from the Walloon Region. Pierre-Yves Jeholet, vice president and minister of economic affairs, industry, research, innovation, digital, employment and training in the Walloon government granted the company €2.4M....

Uniqsis,, a market leader in flow chemistry, reports following excellent business growth in 2017 that it has recruited a further sales / support specialist to be located at its office in Cambridge. Paul Pergande, Managing Director of Uniqsis commented "We are very pleased to welcome Steve Evans to Uniqsis. Steve's strong technical background as well as his in-depth knowledge of continuous flow reactor equipment and applications will be a major asset to both Uniqsis and its customers worldwide"....

Porex Corporation will showcase advanced solutions for laboratory and medical professionals that speed fluid transfer of diagnostics, improve accuracy and purity in liquid handling, and enhance wound management and improve clinical outcomes. These innovations, offering new unmatched capabilities for a wide range of life science applications, will be  demonstrated at Booth #1539....

Dr Robert Lutz appointed as CSO to support development of next-generation PermaLink® Antibody Drug Conjugates - Dr Jon Roffey appointed to Scientific Advisory Board.Glythera Limited (Glythera), the next generation antibody drug conjugate (ADC) development company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Robert Lutz as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr Lutz will lead the advancement of Glythera’s portfolio of Antibody Drug Conjugates....

Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2018 Young Chemist Award, Chi-En Lin. Chi-En is a Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University where he works under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffrey T. La Belle, Assistant Professor at the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering. Chi’s research focuses on the development of a panel of electrochemical biosensors for the diagnosis and management of complex diseases and comorbidity.

BIA Separations (BIA), a leading biochromatography development and manufacturing company, today announced it has appointed Pete Gagnon as Chief Scientific Officer. In his new role, he will drive the company’s new product and applications development, with a focus on the purification of products for gene therapy, oncolytic vaccines, exosomes and similar, and specifically increasing the safety of these products....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently announced the winners of the Fisher Scientific Channel Supplier Awards during its annual Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference held in Malta. From January 22-25, 2018, more than 750 delegates attended the Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference at the Dolmen Hotel, Malta. This was the seventh event of its kind, bringing together delegates from 20 different countries.....

BBI, a leading manufacturer of raw materials and finished test platforms, already provides human antigens, antibodies, serum and plasma products and clinical chemistry enzymes, for the in-vitro diagnostics market. Now with the acquisition of MBS they have strengthened their antibody offering, providing a comprehensive portfolio and custom services to deliver a total reagent solution for any immunoassay development....

Finnish high-tech company FocalSpec, specialized in devices for fast surface measurement and on-line testing of challenging materials and shapes, and Digital Surf, global provider of Mountains® surface analysis software solutions, have teamed up to release FocalSpec Map, a cutting-edge software package bringing a whole new set of tools to users of the Finnish company’s innovative Line Confocal Imaging (LCI) technology....

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received an order from Strathclyde Intense Laser Interaction Studies (SILIS) Group, from University of Strathclyde (UK) for three ultra-high performance off-axis parabolic mirrors in special custom vacuum motorised mounts. The mounted mirrors to be developed by Optical Surfaces Ltd. will be used on several beamlines of the facilities 350TW laser which is designed to support an extensive research portfolio in laser-plasma physics and multidisciplinary applications....