Avacta and Adeptrix will collaborate to develop and manufacture an Affimer-based BAMS coronavirus antigen test that will provide clinicians with a significant expansion of the available testing capacity for COVID-19 infection in hospitals. Adeptrix’s novel BAMS platform combines enrichment of the sample to improve sensitivity with the power of mass-spectrometry to improve specificity...
Alfa Chemistry Testing Lab, a professional testing and analysis organization, have released nano-products safety evaluation services for companies and agencies that are engaged with the development and application of nano-products. Nanomaterials exhibit unique physical and chemical properties in contrast with engineered materials....
From sourdough starters to biotechnological bugs, micro-organisms make the products society wants and needs. The new European Green Deal is dependent on engineered microbes to make biochemicals to replace oil and synthetic chemicals as building blocks for consumer goods. Microbes can be repurposed to make useful products but one limitation is that many microbes are not able...
Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software, and Octo, a premiere information technology systems provider to the U.S. Federal Government, are pleased to announce the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository (COVID-DPR), a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health....
When UCLA’s Dr. Araceli Espinosa-Jeffrey sent human brain cells into space, her goal was to gain a better understanding of how neural stem cells grow and develop in microgravity. That understanding is key to discovering more about the serious issues of intracranial hypertension affecting astronauts returning from space. The information may also one day be used to further cell replacement therapies...
Merck and Baylor College of Medicine have announced an extension of their ongoing collaboration to advance a manufacturing platform to fight Covid-19, designed to accelerate transition to Phase 1 clinical trials. “Vaccine manufacturing is extremely complicated, so we are collaborating on a process development approach to accelerate manufacturing of Baylor’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate...
By Professor Georgina Ellison-Hughes, Dr Rocio Martinez-Nunez and Dr Rui Ribeiro Galao, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London. With promises of antibody tests being rolled out in the next few days to NHS and care staff in England, and retailers told not to send home-testing kits as their accuracy is questioned, it is timely to consider what we do and don’t know about these tests....
Agilent Technologies Inc. announces that biotech startup Trilogy Sciences has been awarded an Agilent Golden Ticket at LabCentral, a leading biotech innovation hub based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. LabCentral is a shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups. The Golden Ticket provides funding of one lab bench space for a year...
Jian-Wei Pan, Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, is the winner of the prestigious ZEISS Research Award 2020. He is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of quantum technology. One of the most remarkable results of Jian-Wei Pan's research is the distribution of entangled photons over a distance of 1,200 km, by far the longest distance ever reached....
PerkinElmer, Inc. is actively working with our global customers – which include specialty and reference diagnostic labs, clinics, hospitals, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical labs, academia, and governmental and research institutes – to combat the pandemic. Our innovative detection, workflow, and research solutions are being used to drive better outcomes as the world responds to COVID-19....
Scientifc Laboratory Supplies (SLS) Launches a comprehensive range of products aimed at companies welcoming employees back after the lockdown has been eased. As the government releases more guidelines on how employers and their employees should prepare for the return to work, SLS appreciates there will be increased apprehension about the health and well-being of staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Postnova Analytics reports how its latest generation of Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) systems are providing labs worldwide with a uniquely powerful technique to characterize and quantitate virus and virus-like particles. Virus and virus-like particles are widely used in the healthcare industry for vaccination via immune response stimulation....
To capture the importance of this initiative, and in anticipation of the grand opening of the Ellison Institute’s new building, Olympus has created a video, highlighting the relationship between imaging analysis tools and precision cancer medicine. One focus of the partnership is encouraging projects that engage translational oncology and precision anti-cancer drug screening...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced it has received a contract from the U.S. government to provide highly specialized viral transport media (VTM) for COVID-19 sample collection. The VTM is used during collection of patient samples for proper transport to laboratories that can test for the presence of the virus....
The Coronavirus Pandemic has now reached millions of cases globally. The race is on to develop a vaccine, countries are ramping up testing, and companies are committing resources to the development of test kits. Worldwide Glass Resources® has joined the effort by allocating capacity and manufacturing custom engineered vials for Covid 19 kits....
Conversations on face mask efficacy and supply for frontline workers and the general public have been heated topics amid the Covid-19 pandemic. As the first in a series of monthly “Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations,” three leading scientific experts will provide facts and data-driven insights on the current global mask supply, filtration properties of masks and a preview of technological innovations improving masks...
Scientists have discovered a malaria transmission-blocking microbe, making an important stride in the fight against the disease. The disease kills around 400,000 people each year and imposes a huge burden on Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently stressed the need to continue the efforts against malaria, despite the necessary focus on COVID-19...
By combining Mologic’s independently verified COVID-19 lateral flow test with BioSure’s market-leading design, the companies have created a self-test for COVID-19 that can be used without any training being required. The innovative design has been proven to be extremely easy to use, requires only a fraction of a drop of blood and gives the user their own result in just 10 minutes...
The sensitivity of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer is underpinning a pioneering multinational research initiative. This is designed to transform the lives of those suffering from a disfiguring and potentially life threatening parasitic disease. The research team has just secured a grant of eight million Euros from the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership...
Vision Engineering, a 61 year old British leading designer and manufacturer of high-quality visual measurement and inspection technologies, has attained ISO 17025:2017 accreditation from UKAS and is now a UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 7706. The award of ISO 17025:2017 by UKAS Accreditation, which is globally recognised, is the only mechanism that determines the technical competence and integrity of the organisations offering testing and calibration services....
The Eppendorf Group is expanding its production capacity at the Oldenburg in Holstein site in Germany by building two additional production halls. As a result, Eppendorf Polymere GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eppendorf AG, will increase its total capacity by around 30 percent from 2021. A milestone for this targeted expansion was reached May 14, 2020 with the topping-out ceremony for the second hall currently under construction....
Dr Laura Moro-Martin, freelance medical writer at Kolabtree, the freelance platform for scientists, explores the effects of COVID-19 on maternal health. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to escalate worldwide, with Europe and the USA now the epicentres of the pandemic. As of May 1, there are over three million declared cases and almost 240,000 deaths globally, with many countries undergoing community transmission....
Avacta and Adeptrix will collaborate to develop and manufacture an Affimer-based BAMS coronavirus antigen test that will provide clinicians with a significant expansion of the available testing capacity for COVID-19 infection in hospitals. Adeptrix’s novel BAMS platform combines enrichment of the sample to improve sensitivity with the power of mass-spectrometry to improve specificity...
Alfa Chemistry Testing Lab, a professional testing and analysis organization, have released 
From sourdough starters to biotechnological bugs, micro-organisms make the products society wants and needs. The new European Green Deal is dependent on engineered microbes to make biochemicals to replace oil and synthetic chemicals as building blocks for consumer goods. Microbes can be repurposed to make useful products but one limitation is that many microbes are not able...
Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software, and Octo, a premiere information technology systems provider to the U.S. Federal Government, are pleased to announce the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository (COVID-DPR), a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health....
When UCLA’s Dr. Araceli Espinosa-Jeffrey sent human brain cells into space, her goal was to gain a better understanding of how neural stem cells grow and develop in microgravity. That understanding is key to discovering more about the serious issues of intracranial hypertension affecting astronauts returning from space. The information may also one day be used to further cell replacement therapies...
Merck and Baylor College of Medicine have announced an extension of their ongoing collaboration to advance a manufacturing platform to fight Covid-19, designed to accelerate transition to Phase 1 clinical trials. “Vaccine manufacturing is extremely complicated, so we are collaborating on a process development approach to accelerate manufacturing of Baylor’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate...
By Professor Georgina Ellison-Hughes, Dr Rocio Martinez-Nunez and Dr Rui Ribeiro Galao, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London. With promises of antibody tests being rolled out in the next few days to NHS and care staff in England, and retailers told not to send home-testing kits as their accuracy is questioned, it is timely to consider what we do and don’t know about these tests....
Agilent Technologies Inc. announces that biotech startup Trilogy Sciences has been awarded an Agilent Golden Ticket at LabCentral, a leading biotech innovation hub based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. LabCentral is a shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups. The Golden Ticket provides funding of one lab bench space for a year...
Jian-Wei Pan, Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, is the winner of the prestigious ZEISS Research Award 2020. He is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of quantum technology. One of the most remarkable results of Jian-Wei Pan's research is the distribution of entangled photons over a distance of 1,200 km, by far the longest distance ever reached....
PerkinElmer, Inc. is actively working with our global customers – which include specialty and reference diagnostic labs, clinics, hospitals, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical labs, academia, and governmental and research institutes – to combat the pandemic. Our innovative detection, workflow, and research solutions are being used to drive better outcomes as the world responds to COVID-19....
Scientifc Laboratory Supplies (SLS) Launches a comprehensive range of products aimed at companies welcoming employees back after the lockdown has been eased. As the government releases more guidelines on how employers and their employees should prepare for the return to work, SLS appreciates there will be increased apprehension about the health and well-being of staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Postnova Analytics reports how its latest generation of Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) systems are providing labs worldwide with a uniquely powerful technique to characterize and quantitate virus and virus-like particles. Virus and virus-like particles are widely used in the healthcare industry for vaccination via immune response stimulation....
To capture the importance of this initiative, and in anticipation of the grand opening of the Ellison Institute’s new building, Olympus has created a video, highlighting the relationship between imaging analysis tools and precision cancer medicine. One focus of the partnership is encouraging projects that engage translational oncology and precision anti-cancer drug screening...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced it has received a contract from the U.S. government to provide highly specialized viral transport media (VTM) for COVID-19 sample collection. The VTM is used during collection of patient samples for proper transport to laboratories that can test for the presence of the virus....
The Coronavirus Pandemic has now reached millions of cases globally. The race is on to develop a vaccine, countries are ramping up testing, and companies are committing resources to the development of test kits. Worldwide Glass Resources® has joined the effort by allocating capacity and manufacturing custom engineered vials for Covid 19 kits....
Conversations on face mask efficacy and supply for frontline workers and the general public have been heated topics amid the Covid-19 pandemic. As the first in a series of monthly “Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations,” three leading scientific experts will provide facts and data-driven insights on the current global mask supply, filtration properties of masks and a preview of technological innovations improving masks...
Scientists have discovered a malaria transmission-blocking microbe, making an important stride in the fight against the disease. The disease kills around 400,000 people each year and imposes a huge burden on Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently stressed the need to continue the efforts against malaria, despite the necessary focus on COVID-19...
By combining Mologic’s independently verified COVID-19 lateral flow test with BioSure’s market-leading design, the companies have created a self-test for COVID-19 that can be used without any training being required. The innovative design has been proven to be extremely easy to use, requires only a fraction of a drop of blood and gives the user their own result in just 10 minutes...
The sensitivity of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer is underpinning a pioneering multinational research initiative. This is designed to transform the lives of those suffering from a disfiguring and potentially life threatening parasitic disease. The research team has just secured a grant of eight million Euros from the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership...
Vision Engineering, a 61 year old British leading designer and manufacturer of high-quality visual measurement and inspection technologies, has attained ISO 17025:2017 accreditation from UKAS and is now a UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 7706. The award of ISO 17025:2017 by UKAS Accreditation, which is globally recognised, is the only mechanism that determines the technical competence and integrity of the organisations offering testing and calibration services....
The Eppendorf Group is expanding its production capacity at the Oldenburg in Holstein site in Germany by building two additional production halls. As a result, Eppendorf Polymere GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eppendorf AG, will increase its total capacity by around 30 percent from 2021. A milestone for this targeted expansion was reached May 14, 2020 with the topping-out ceremony for the second hall currently under construction....
Dr Laura Moro-Martin, freelance medical writer at Kolabtree, the freelance platform for scientists, explores the effects of COVID-19 on maternal health. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to escalate worldwide, with Europe and the USA now the epicentres of the pandemic. As of May 1, there are over three million declared cases and almost 240,000 deaths globally, with many countries undergoing community transmission....