ERS Genomics Limited and DefiniGEN Ltd announced today a license agreement to provide DefiniGEN with access to ERS Genomic’s CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology patents. DefiniGEN will combine their best-in-class iPSC (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) differentiation platform with CRISPR/Cas9 technology to generate a range of innovative preclinical human models. "The company’s gene editing technical portfolio has been further strengthened by licensing of this cutting-edge technology and will allow us....
IC-MS is a proven method for the highly sensitive and selective analysis of anions, oxoanions, herbicides, and pesticides. Metrohm enhances the benefits of this method by integrating inline sample preparation for more convenience, higher throughput, and better reproducibility of results. A technical poster gives an overview of the many possible applications. The Metrohm IC-MS method is dedicated to develop selective, sensitive, robust and accelerated applications for the detection of ions in matrix-loaded samples....
SLS has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Europe. The report is a celebration of high-growth and most dynamic small and medium sized businesses across Europe. To be included in the list, companies needed to show consistent revenue growth over a minimum of three years, significantly outperforming their country peers. More detail on the methodology can be found in the report online....
Semiconductor quantum dots possess an array of attractive properties, including; high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQY), solution processability and highly tuneable band gaps. These properties make quantum dots ideal for optoelectronic devices such as light emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers where they serve as emitters or in photodiodes and solar cells where they serve equally well as light absorbers. In addition, their light emission properties also make them a promising new class of fluorescent probe for biomedical fluorescence imaging...
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced it had entered into a collaboration with the University of Nottingham, a pioneering research institution and university. Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software will be available to a number of 4th year MSci Chemistry project students at the University of Nottingham as part of their training in modern drug discovery to aid in the design of potential new candidate compounds for integrin inhibition in fibrotic diseases and malaria, as part of their collaboration with GSK....
The UK’s Artificial Intelligence revolution gets new backing, as the Business Secretary announces five new centres of excellence for digital pathology and imaging, including radiology, using AI medical advances. The centres will use AI, an area the government is backing in its modern Industrial Strategy, to find new ways to speed up diagnosis of diseases to improve outcomes for patients. The centres will be spearheaded by some of the UK’s leading medical companies including GE Healthcare, Siemens, Philips, Leica, Canon and Roche Diagnostics....
Testa Analytical Solutions reports how the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland) determined molecular weight and radius of gyration of polymeric microgels and nanogels by static multiangle laser light scattering (SLS) measurements using a BI-200SM goniometer. A nanogel is a two-component system of a diameter in the range of tens of nanometers, consisting of an intramolecularly crosslinked polymer chain...
With the concerted efforts of its scientists, BOC Sciences recently released fluorescent labeling service to facilitate the research work in the scientific community, adding to its already existing service portfolio encompassing custom synthesis, process R&D, bioconjugation, carbohydrate synthesis, and more. Fluorescent labelling is the process of covalently binding fluorescent dyes to biomolecules such as nucleic acids or proteins so that they can be visualized by fluorescence imaging....
How do you package your send-away pathology samples? Are you spending too much time and money on packaging your samples correctly? If you are currently wrapping tubes and using boxes to transport samples by courier or Royal Mail, this could be costing you a lot more and taking much longer than necessary. The Transport of Dangerous Goods Regulations require patient specimens and other biological samples to be transported according to UN3373 Biological Substance Category B, P650 Packaging Instruction...
Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, beat all records for the show, attracting 3,113 attendees - a 10% increase on the previous year. Underlying the headline number were significant increases in visitors involved in purchasing products and services. Overall, 79% of visitors were involved in the purchasing decision, with a 43% increase in lab managers, a 53% increase in lab technicians, and an impressive 125% increase in procurement managers. In addition, the number of scientists attending increased by 49%...
Scotland is to have its own £15.8m artificial intelligence health research centre, which promises to enable better patient diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics, to be known as iCAIRD, brings together a pan-Scotland collaboration of 15 partners from across academia, the NHS, and industry. Greg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), announced that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10million in iCAIRD...
Oxford HighQ, a spinout from Oxford University, aims to revolutionise chemical and nanoparticle sensor technology with ‘quantum’ sensors up to 10,000 times more sensitive than current counterparts. Oxford HighQ, a quantum technologies spinout from Oxford University, has launched with £2.1m in seed funding to commercialise components of quantum computing technology developed at the University, providing a step change in performance for chemical and nanoparticle sensing....
BioAscent’s COO, Sylviane Boucharens named in top 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness. BioAscent Discovery Limited’s COO, Dr Sylviane Boucharens, has been included in the BioBeat 2018 list of 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness. Her nomination follows an incredibly successful year in which she has spearheaded the company’s expansion to become a fully integrated drug discovery CRO. Co-founded by Dr Boucharens in 2013, BioAscent initially focused on compound management....
Absolute Antibody Ltd., specialists in antibody sequencing, engineering and recombinant expression with a vision to make recombinant antibody technology accessible to all, has announced the opening of a new facility in northeast England. The new facility more than doubles Absolute Antibody’s laboratory space and will enable an even greater increase in its antibody production capacity, allowing the company to better service customers and accelerate the expansion of its recombinant antibody portfolio....
DefiniGEN Ltd are pleased to announce the commercial licensing of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the USA, to develop human cell disease models to support preclinical metabolic disease therapeutic programmes. Broad Institute CRISPR-Cas9 technology will be combined with DefiniGEN’s best-in-class induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) differentiation platform to generate preclinical cell models which can accelerate....
Breakthrough technology cuts screening time by 10 times compared to circular dichroism (CD) devices with auto samplers and is at least 100 times faster than standard HPLC processes. Bio-Logic (France) and Hinds Instruments (United States) are pleased to announce the launch of the EKKO®, the world’s first high throughput CD microplate reader. EKKO® demonstrates significant potential for the pharmaceutical industry and any organization working in the field of asymmetric synthesis, catalysis and organic/medicinal chemistry....
Provepharm Life Solutions and partner Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were selected for project focusing on anti-malaria treatment in endemic regions. Provepharm Life Solutions, a French independent pharmaceutical and life sciences group which revitalizes known molecules, announces today it has won the 2018 Prix Galien-Medstartup Award. The company was selected or its collaborative project with the Experimental Therapeutics branch (ET), Medical Research Directorate, Africa (MRD-A), and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences....
Platform Patent for Clustering a Subset of Antigens for Diagnosing Diseases. ImmunArray, a molecular diagnostic company co-headquartered in Rehovot, Israel and Richmond, Virginia, whose novel blood tests are pioneering new and more accurate ways to diagnose diseases detected by changes in the immune system, has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a new patent that covers one of ImmunArray’s core diagnostic protocols – generic methods....
Frost & Sullivan has presented INTEGRA Biosciences with the ‘2018 Global Laboratory Pipetting Company of the Year’ award, recognizing its products as innovative, revolutionary and able to fulfil the needs of customers. Frost & Sullivan’s transformational health research group conducted extensive research using key benchmarking criteria across two main areas – visionary impact and performance, and customer impact – to compare companies in the industry, and found that INTEGRA surpassed the competition....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc., a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2018 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, November 14th with Automating Cannabis Testing with LIMS.This webcast will provide valuable guidance for organizations looking to select and implement a LIMS to help manage their cannabis testing operations. With the legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational uses within several states in the US, and recently in Canada, the need for analytical testing laboratories has grown significantly....
The words of Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, “Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order”, could not be more truefor gene editing. Here, Maya Raghunandan, freelancer for online platform for freelance scientists Kolabtree and molecular biologist, explains some key applications of gene editing and its ethical implications. Gene editing applications span various industries, most notably food and healthcare. It refers to specific, intentional alterations to the DNA sequence of a cell, tissue or organism....
The biocluster located in the Greater Paris region is the first European park to receive the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) award. Genopole, a French biocluster dedicated to research in the fields of genetics and biotechnology, today announces it has received the AURP Award of Excellence for Outstanding Research Park. This is the first time a member outside the US has been acknowledged. The announcement was made during AURP’s International Annual Conference in Baltimore (Maryland)...
ERS Genomics Limited and DefiniGEN Ltd announced today a license agreement to provide DefiniGEN with access to ERS Genomic’s CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology patents. DefiniGEN will combine their best-in-class iPSC (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) differentiation platform with CRISPR/Cas9 technology to generate a range of innovative preclinical human models. "The company’s gene editing technical portfolio has been further strengthened by licensing of this cutting-edge technology and will allow us....
IC-MS is a proven method for the highly sensitive and selective analysis of anions, oxoanions, herbicides, and pesticides. Metrohm enhances the benefits of this method by integrating inline sample preparation for more convenience, higher throughput, and better reproducibility of results. A technical poster gives an overview of the many possible applications. The Metrohm IC-MS method is dedicated to develop selective, sensitive, robust and accelerated applications for the detection of ions in matrix-loaded samples....
SLS has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Europe. The report is a celebration of high-growth and most dynamic small and medium sized businesses across Europe. To be included in the list, companies needed to show consistent revenue growth over a minimum of three years, significantly outperforming their country peers. More detail on the methodology can be found in the report online....
Semiconductor quantum dots possess an array of attractive properties, including; high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQY), solution processability and highly tuneable band gaps. These properties make quantum dots ideal for optoelectronic devices such as light emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers where they serve as emitters or in photodiodes and solar cells where they serve equally well as light absorbers. In addition, their light emission properties also make them a promising new class of fluorescent probe for biomedical fluorescence imaging....jpg)
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced it had entered into a collaboration with the University of Nottingham, a pioneering research institution and university. Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software will be available to a number of 4th year MSci Chemistry project students at the University of Nottingham as part of their training in modern drug discovery to aid in the design of potential new candidate compounds for integrin inhibition in fibrotic diseases and malaria, as part of their collaboration with GSK....
The UK’s Artificial Intelligence revolution gets new backing, as the Business Secretary announces five new centres of excellence for digital pathology and imaging, including radiology, using AI medical advances. The centres will use AI, an area the government is backing in its modern Industrial Strategy, to find new ways to speed up diagnosis of diseases to improve outcomes for patients. The centres will be spearheaded by some of the UK’s leading medical companies including GE Healthcare, Siemens, Philips, Leica, Canon and Roche Diagnostics....
Testa Analytical Solutions reports how the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland) determined molecular weight and radius of gyration of polymeric microgels and nanogels by static multiangle laser light scattering (SLS) measurements using a BI-200SM goniometer. A nanogel is a two-component system of a diameter in the range of tens of nanometers, consisting of an intramolecularly crosslinked polymer chain...
With the concerted efforts of its scientists, BOC Sciences recently released fluorescent labeling service to facilitate the research work in the scientific community, adding to its already existing service portfolio encompassing custom synthesis, process R&D, bioconjugation, carbohydrate synthesis, and more. Fluorescent labelling is the process of covalently binding fluorescent dyes to biomolecules such as nucleic acids or proteins so that they can be visualized by fluorescence imaging....
How do you package your send-away pathology samples? Are you spending too much time and money on packaging your samples correctly? If you are currently wrapping tubes and using boxes to transport samples by courier or Royal Mail, this could be costing you a lot more and taking much longer than necessary. The Transport of Dangerous Goods Regulations require patient specimens and other biological samples to be transported according to UN3373 Biological Substance Category B, P650 Packaging Instruction...
Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, beat all records for the show, attracting 3,113 attendees - a 10% increase on the previous year. Underlying the headline number were significant increases in visitors involved in purchasing products and services. Overall, 79% of visitors were involved in the purchasing decision, with a 43% increase in lab managers, a 53% increase in lab technicians, and an impressive 125% increase in procurement managers. In addition, the number of scientists attending increased by 49%...
Scotland is to have its own £15.8m artificial intelligence health research centre, which promises to enable better patient diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. The Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics, to be known as iCAIRD, brings together a pan-Scotland collaboration of 15 partners from across academia, the NHS, and industry. Greg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), announced that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10million in iCAIRD...
Oxford HighQ, a spinout from Oxford University, aims to revolutionise chemical and nanoparticle sensor technology with ‘quantum’ sensors up to 10,000 times more sensitive than current counterparts. Oxford HighQ, a quantum technologies spinout from Oxford University, has launched with £2.1m in seed funding to commercialise components of quantum computing technology developed at the University, providing a step change in performance for chemical and nanoparticle sensing....
BioAscent’s COO, Sylviane Boucharens named in top 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness. BioAscent Discovery Limited’s COO, Dr Sylviane Boucharens, has been included in the BioBeat 2018 list of 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness. Her nomination follows an incredibly successful year in which she has spearheaded the company’s expansion to become a fully integrated drug discovery CRO. Co-founded by Dr Boucharens in 2013, BioAscent initially focused on compound management....
Absolute Antibody Ltd., specialists in antibody sequencing, engineering and recombinant expression with a vision to make recombinant antibody technology accessible to all, has announced the opening of a new facility in northeast England. The new facility more than doubles Absolute Antibody’s laboratory space and will enable an even greater increase in its antibody production capacity, allowing the company to better service customers and accelerate the expansion of its recombinant antibody portfolio....
Breakthrough technology cuts screening time by 10 times compared to circular dichroism (CD) devices with auto samplers and is at least 100 times faster than standard HPLC processes. Bio-Logic (France) and Hinds Instruments (United States) are pleased to announce the launch of the EKKO®, the world’s first high throughput CD microplate reader. EKKO® demonstrates significant potential for the pharmaceutical industry and any organization working in the field of asymmetric synthesis, catalysis and organic/medicinal chemistry....
Provepharm Life Solutions and partner Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were selected for project focusing on anti-malaria treatment in endemic regions. Provepharm Life Solutions, a French independent pharmaceutical and life sciences group which revitalizes known molecules, announces today it has won the 2018 Prix Galien-Medstartup Award. The company was selected or its collaborative project with the Experimental Therapeutics branch (ET), Medical Research Directorate, Africa (MRD-A), and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences....
Platform Patent for Clustering a Subset of Antigens for Diagnosing Diseases. ImmunArray, a molecular diagnostic company co-headquartered in Rehovot, Israel and Richmond, Virginia, whose novel blood tests are pioneering new and more accurate ways to diagnose diseases detected by changes in the immune system, has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a new patent that covers one of ImmunArray’s core diagnostic protocols – generic methods.....jpg)
Frost & Sullivan has presented INTEGRA Biosciences with the ‘2018 Global Laboratory Pipetting Company of the Year’ award, recognizing its products as innovative, revolutionary and able to fulfil the needs of customers. Frost & Sullivan’s transformational health research group conducted extensive research using key benchmarking criteria across two main areas – visionary impact and performance, and customer impact – to compare companies in the industry, and found that INTEGRA surpassed the competition....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc., a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2018 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, November 14th with Automating Cannabis Testing with LIMS.This webcast will provide valuable guidance for organizations looking to select and implement a LIMS to help manage their cannabis testing operations. With the legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational uses within several states in the US, and recently in Canada, the need for analytical testing laboratories has grown significantly....
The words of Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, “Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order”, could not be more truefor gene editing. Here, Maya Raghunandan, freelancer for online platform for freelance scientists Kolabtree and molecular biologist, explains some key applications of gene editing and its ethical implications. Gene editing applications span various industries, most notably food and healthcare. It refers to specific, intentional alterations to the DNA sequence of a cell, tissue or organism....
The biocluster located in the Greater Paris region is the first European park to receive the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) award. Genopole, a French biocluster dedicated to research in the fields of genetics and biotechnology, today announces it has received the AURP Award of Excellence for Outstanding Research Park. This is the first time a member outside the US has been acknowledged. The announcement was made during AURP’s International Annual Conference in Baltimore (Maryland)...