Horizon Discovery Group plc has announced that QIAGEN N.V. will be offering an extensive package of quality control data, generated through the application of Horizon’s Reference Standards, with its GeneReader NGS System.
Deal demonstrates the impact Horizon's Reference Standards are having in supporting the rapidly growing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) market
Future joint collaborations are expected as work continues to unlock the full clinical and research potential of both technologies
Lab Innovations 2016 returns to the NEC, Birmingham, for its fifth edition. The show, which has established itself as the UK’s only event dedicated to laboratory professionals, will take place on 2 & 3 November 2016.
Laboratory professionals from a wide range of industry sectors will flock to the show to source the latest products and services on the market. Last year saw decision makers from big names such as Sainsbury’s, Kellogg’s, Rolls Royce and 3M walk the show floor. The show will also provide visitors with the opportunity to attend free educational seminars and network with like-minded individuals, often presenting numerous...
Optibrium, a developer of software for small molecule discovery, has announced that Janssen Research and Development has signed an agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop software.
The agreement will provide a global licence for StarDrop and eight of StarDrop’s optional plug-in modules.
StarDrop is a software suite that helps researchers to deliver optimally balanced, successful compounds. It brings confidence and intuitive simplicity to decision making; guiding and validating the direction taken by project teams and which compounds are prioritized...
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Horizon’s X-MAN cell lines to be made available in conjunction with Ubiquigent’s ubiquitin-related Drug Discovery Services
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon"), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies including cell models, today announced it has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with Ubiquigent Ltd (“Ubiquigent”). Under the terms of the agreement, Ubiquigent will be able to utilize Horizon’s X-MAN® cell lines as part of its ubiquitin system focused Drug Discovery Services...
The 'Global and Chinese Liquid Chromatography Industry, 2016 Market Research Report' is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global Liquid Chromatography industry with a focus on the Chinese market.
The report provides key statistics on the market status of the Liquid Chromatography manufacturers and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the industry. Firstly, the report provides a basic overview of the industry including its definition, applications and manufacturing technology. Then, the report explores the international and Chinese major industry players in detail...
Original Grace HPLC columns including Vydac, Alltima, Alltima HP, Prevail, Apollo, Allsep, Apex and Genesis HPLC columns are still available!
Hichrom is pleased to announce that we have acquired the worldwide exclusive rights to manufacture and sell these analytical HPLC column ranges from Grace. All columns are manufactured to identical protocols and to the same exacting specifications previously used by Grace/Alltech. Part numbers also remain unaffected by this acquisition. Based in the UK, Hichrom is a leading European manufacturer and distributor of UHPLC and HPLC columns, consumables and media, with manufacturing facilities accredited to both ISO9001 (Quality) and ISO14001 (Environmental) standards.
New Phenome Centre Birmingham to use Thermo Scientific mass spectrometry instruments to advance metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc, the world leader in serving science, is pleased to announce plans to extend its technology collaboration with the University of Birmingham in the UK at the University’s new Phenome Centre. Thermo Fisher will supply a range of advanced mass spectrometry instruments to be used for the centre’s research in metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies...
ISG has been awarded a contract to refurbish and extend the University of Oxford’s Tinbergen Building, to modernise and upgrade existing facilities and create new chemistry teaching laboratories.
Designed by Sir Leslie Martin and named after Nikolaas Tinbergen, joint winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Tinbergen Building is currently home to the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Department of Zoology. Commencing on site in early summer, ISG will carry out a phased refurbishment of the existing four-storey building – encompassing circa...
Investment will be used to fund commercial launch of new pancreatic and lung stem cell products for drug discovery and regenerative medicine
DefiniGEN, a leading provider of stem cell life science products, has announced that it has raised £1.5m ($2.29m) in follow-on funding. The round was led by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the University of Cambridge, and 24 Haymarket, with key investors Dr Jonathan Milner (Chairman), Providence Investment Company, Parkwalk, and Cambridge Capital Group also participating...
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, opens a new logistics center for life science and healthcare products at Amsterdam-Schiphol.
The new so-called Life Science Competence Center is located next to the airport at the business park Schiphol Southeast. It serves as a hub for the transport, transport preparation, temporary storage, and transport follow-up of active and passive temperature-controlled pharmaceutical and medicinal products....
The first annual Edinburgh Instruments’ Lectureship in Photochemistry and Photophysics at Duke University was held April 29th, 2016, with great success.
The plenary speaker, Prof. Richard Eisenberg of the University of Rochester, presented his talk, titled “Fuel from Water: The Light-Driven Generation of Hydrogen.” The lecture was attended by approximately 100 faculty, students, and researchers from Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, along with a post-lecture “meet-the-speaker” event allowing attendees to...
Genevac announces the launch of a new website that provides easily navigable access to the company’s comprehensive portfolio of evaporators and concentrators to suit almost any solvent removal application, purchasing budget or productivity requirement.
Located at www.spscientific.com/genevac - the new site offers visitors ready access to an extensive searchable library of articles, technical papers, application notes and videos in the Evaporation Insights Learning Center. Alison Wake, Genevac Product & Marketing Manager commented “We have adopted the learning center concept developed by our parent company SP Scientific who have found this information...
Faster and easier development of your own customised lateral flow assays is now possible with the new generic Rapid Assay Device (gRAD) kits from BioPorto, available exclusively in the UK from Alpha Laboratories.
This open, flexible, versatile platform is NOT analyte dependent and gives you total control to customise the assay using your chosen antibodies. It offers you endless possibilities and applications by enabling creation of lateral flow assays tailored to your needs, in a very short time. gRAD OneDetection is an optimised generic lateral flow strip that is configured with both a test line, where a biotinylated capture antibody will bind...
BioTek Instruments is proud to announce receipt of the President’s “E” Award for Exports, presented by U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, at a ceremony in Washington, DC today.
The President’s “E” Award is the highest recognition that a U.S. entity can receive for export activities, and BioTek is one of 123 companies honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce for their significant contributions to support American exports. “The “E” Awards Committee was very impressed with BioTek Instruments’ innovative scientific instrument technologies. The company’s development of a business model...
UK technology has potential to bring islet transplant therapy to thousands of patients with type 1 diabetes
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT) and University of Aberdeen, UK, today announce the creation of Islexa, a new company developing a novel technology to produce laboratory grown islets, the organoids responsible for insulin production. The technology could bring the option of an islet transplant to thousands more patients with type I diabetes. Currently in the UK, only 30-50 patients with hypoglycaemic...
Copley Scientific, a family-owned company that began supplying glassware to the UK pharmaceutical industry in 1946, is celebrating the seven decades of success that have led to its current position as the global leader in inhaled product testing equipment.
“Longevity in business is a true mark of success and in our case a direct tribute to all the staff who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to the company, over many years.” said Mark Copley, Sales Director for Copley Scientific. “The loyalty of our team is reflected in the stability of our customer base and a primary reason for our outstanding customer service and application expertise. I’d like to thank everyone...
Vitrification provides excellent survivability of embryos and oocytes through the freezing process
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), today announced the receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for expanded use of Vit Kit® vitrification media to include human oocytes. The company is the first, and only company to date, to obtain 510(k) clearance of vitrification media for use with oocytes within the US. Irvine Scientific’s Vit Kit-Freeze and...
One of the UK’s leading private hospital groups has selected a Wirral company to introduce innovative blood-tracking solutions across all 31 of its hospitals.
Nuffield Health has selected international software company MSoft eSolutions to implement its award-winning systems. Nuffield has asked MSoft to introduce three of its products – Bloodhound, Sample360 and PPID360. Bloodhound controls access to and from all blood fridges, while a bedside management system allows each barcoded blood unit to be matched with the patient’s barcoded wristband in a matter of seconds. Sample360 is a powerful phlebotomy sample...
The management team at microscopy consumables company Agar Scientific Ltd. is delighted to announce the successful completion of a management buyout of the business from Elektron Technology PLC.
The management buyout has been led by Darren Likely, Managing Director, Rob Yeo, Operations Director and Paul Light, Finance Director with the support and guidance of Foresight Group, a leading private equity firm, RBS bank and Haines Watts Corporate Finance. Agar Scientific specialises in electron microscopy consumables and accessories....
Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) commence sales of an elegant desktop optical microscope capable of zooming in on objects as tiny as structures inside living cells.
This super-resolution microscope will allow scientists to watch how individual molecules perform chemical reactions in real-time. ONI's microscope, the Nanoimager, has the footprint of a desktop computer, is about 30 times smaller and significantly less expensive than current super-resolution microscopes, and it will be manufactured in the UK. ONI have raised £1.2m in a seed funding round from Oxford Sciences Innovation...
SUEZ Treatment Solutions UK has provided two new water purification units to the University of York’s biology department – backed by a flexible service contract.
The two machines are a Select Fusion and Select Neptune. The Fusion is for analytical and life science applications that need small volumes of ultrapure water – typically up to 50 litres per day – while the Neptune is for higher volumes of up to two litres per minute. Purified water is a vital resource in the department, and is used everywhere from the tissue culture and microbiology labs to horticulture glasshouses...
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult have released their third annual survey of GMP1 cell and gene therapy manufacturing facilities in the UK.
The review summarises the capability and capacity of all cell and gene therapy manufacturing facilities in the UK that hold an MHRA-licence. The survey, initiated in 2013 has continued annually following a recommendation by the UK government House of Lords 2013-14 Regenerative Medicine report. The report highlights a number of key changes in the cell and gene therapy manufacturing landscape over the last...
Deal demonstrates the impact Horizon's Reference Standards are having in supporting the rapidly growing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) market
Laboratory professionals from a wide range of industry sectors will flock to the show to source the latest products and services on the market. Last year saw decision makers from big names such as Sainsbury’s, Kellogg’s, Rolls Royce and 3M walk the show floor. The show will also provide visitors with the opportunity to attend free educational seminars and network with like-minded individuals, often presenting numerous...
StarDrop is a software suite that helps researchers to deliver optimally balanced, successful compounds. It brings confidence and intuitive simplicity to decision making; guiding and validating the direction taken by project teams and which compounds are prioritized...
The report provides key statistics on the market status of the Liquid Chromatography manufacturers and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the industry. Firstly, the report provides a basic overview of the industry including its definition, applications and manufacturing technology. Then, the report explores the international and Chinese major industry players in detail...
Hichrom is pleased to announce that we have acquired the worldwide exclusive rights to manufacture and sell these analytical HPLC column ranges from Grace. All columns are manufactured to identical protocols and to the same exacting specifications previously used by Grace/Alltech. Part numbers also remain unaffected by this acquisition. Based in the UK, Hichrom is a leading European manufacturer and distributor of UHPLC and HPLC columns, consumables and media, with manufacturing facilities accredited to both ISO9001 (Quality) and ISO14001 (Environmental) standards.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc, the world leader in serving science, is pleased to announce plans to extend its technology collaboration with the University of Birmingham in the UK at the University’s new Phenome Centre. Thermo Fisher will supply a range of advanced mass spectrometry instruments to be used for the centre’s research in metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies...
Designed by Sir Leslie Martin and named after Nikolaas Tinbergen, joint winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Tinbergen Building is currently home to the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and Department of Zoology. Commencing on site in early summer, ISG will carry out a phased refurbishment of the existing four-storey building – encompassing circa...
DefiniGEN, a leading provider of stem cell life science products, has announced that it has raised £1.5m ($2.29m) in follow-on funding. The round was led by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the University of Cambridge, and 24 Haymarket, with key investors Dr Jonathan Milner (Chairman), Providence Investment Company, Parkwalk, and Cambridge Capital Group also participating...
The plenary speaker, Prof. Richard Eisenberg of the University of Rochester, presented his talk, titled “Fuel from Water: The Light-Driven Generation of Hydrogen.” The lecture was attended by approximately 100 faculty, students, and researchers from Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, along with a post-lecture “meet-the-speaker” event allowing attendees to...
Located at www.spscientific.com/genevac - the new site offers visitors ready access to an extensive searchable library of articles, technical papers, application notes and videos in the Evaporation Insights Learning Center. Alison Wake, Genevac Product & Marketing Manager commented “We have adopted the learning center concept developed by our parent company SP Scientific who have found this information...
This open, flexible, versatile platform is NOT analyte dependent and gives you total control to customise the assay using your chosen antibodies. It offers you endless possibilities and applications by enabling creation of lateral flow assays tailored to your needs, in a very short time. gRAD OneDetection is an optimised generic lateral flow strip that is configured with both a test line, where a biotinylated capture antibody will bind...
The President’s “E” Award is the highest recognition that a U.S. entity can receive for export activities, and BioTek is one of 123 companies honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce for their significant contributions to support American exports. “The “E” Awards Committee was very impressed with BioTek Instruments’ innovative scientific instrument technologies. The company’s development of a business model...
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT) and University of Aberdeen, UK, today announce the creation of Islexa, a new company developing a novel technology to produce laboratory grown islets, the organoids responsible for insulin production. The technology could bring the option of an islet transplant to thousands more patients with type I diabetes. Currently in the UK, only 30-50 patients with hypoglycaemic...
“Longevity in business is a true mark of success and in our case a direct tribute to all the staff who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to the company, over many years.” said Mark Copley, Sales Director for Copley Scientific. “The loyalty of our team is reflected in the stability of our customer base and a primary reason for our outstanding customer service and application expertise. I’d like to thank everyone...
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the development and manufacture of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), today announced the receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for expanded use of Vit Kit® vitrification media to include human oocytes. The company is the first, and only company to date, to obtain 510(k) clearance of vitrification media for use with oocytes within the US. Irvine Scientific’s Vit Kit-Freeze and...
Nuffield Health has selected international software company MSoft eSolutions to implement its award-winning systems. Nuffield has asked MSoft to introduce three of its products – Bloodhound, Sample360 and PPID360. Bloodhound controls access to and from all blood fridges, while a bedside management system allows each barcoded blood unit to be matched with the patient’s barcoded wristband in a matter of seconds. Sample360 is a powerful phlebotomy sample...
The management buyout has been led by Darren Likely, Managing Director, Rob Yeo, Operations Director and Paul Light, Finance Director with the support and guidance of Foresight Group, a leading private equity firm, RBS bank and Haines Watts Corporate Finance. Agar Scientific specialises in electron microscopy consumables and accessories....
This super-resolution microscope will allow scientists to watch how individual molecules perform chemical reactions in real-time. ONI's microscope, the Nanoimager, has the footprint of a desktop computer, is about 30 times smaller and significantly less expensive than current super-resolution microscopes, and it will be manufactured in the UK. ONI have raised £1.2m in a seed funding round from Oxford Sciences Innovation...
The two machines are a Select Fusion and Select Neptune. The Fusion is for analytical and life science applications that need small volumes of ultrapure water – typically up to 50 litres per day – while the Neptune is for higher volumes of up to two litres per minute. Purified water is a vital resource in the department, and is used everywhere from the tissue culture and microbiology labs to horticulture glasshouses...