Drug development has become increasingly difficult and understanding formulation design space and the interplay raw materials properties and processing parameters have on the final drug product have never been more important. The rise of computational methods for drug design has yielded increasingly complex molecules....
Lab refrigerators and lab freezers come in various sizes and temperature capabilities, many of which are designed for specific storage functions. What you store in these units has a large part in determining the type of unit you purchase. This post will cover decision-making factors such as storage temperature capability and whether manual or auto-defrost equipment should be specified...
Postnova Analytics reports on how Thermal Field Flow Fractionation has been successfully used to elucidate the core microstructure, morphology and chain arrangement of self-assembling block copolymers. This pioneering study was undertaken by the renowned research group under Professor H Pasch at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, University of Stellenbosch...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today convened industry, academic and clinical experts in Precision Medicine from across Scotland and across the globe, bringing together the sector to declare its intention to lead the world in this exciting new development. Scotland’s Precision Medicine Summit, which was held in Perth, was co-chaired by University of Glasgow....
Clinithink has been selected to receive the RARE Champion of Hope – Collaborations in Science and Technology award at the 7th Annual RARE Patient Advocacy Summit. Over 200 individuals and organizations worldwide were nominated by their peers for a RARE Champion of Hope award...
Laborama will celebrate its 20th edition in 2019 in a new location. After more than 10 years in Brussels Kart Expo, Laborama will call Palace 3 of Brussels Expo its new home. Over the years, Laborama has grown to become the largest trade fair for the laboratory sector in Belgium and Luxembourg...
BioAscent Discovery Limited has announced the appointments of Angus Morrison, PhD, as Director of Chemistry and Stuart McElroy, PhD,as Director of Biosciences, to oversee the development and delivery of BioAscent’s integrated drug discovery services....
The non-antibiotic compounds, tested in animal models, prevented production of gut byproduct linked to heart attack and stroke in humans. Researchers at Cleveland Clinic in the United States have designed a potential new class of drugs that may reduce cardiovascular risk by targeting a specific microbial pathway in the gut....
The 9th annual World Orphan Drug Congress is the marketplace for orphan drug professionals looking at the complete value chain of orphan drug development, from clinical development and R&D to corporate development and market access....
MtoZ Biolabs, an up-rising service provider specialized inadvanced proteomics, bioinformatics and biopharmaceutical analysis, released a series of untargeeted metabolomics analysis services to further assist researchers study in this field. These service series are supported by an LC-MS-based multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) and GC-MS-based single ion monitoring (SIM) metabolomics platform.
Postnova Analytics reports on how Thermal Field Flow Fractionation has been successfully used to elucidate the core microstructure, morphology and chain arrangement of self-assembling block copolymers. This pioneering study was undertaken by the renowned research group under Professor H Pasch at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)...
University of Leicester animal study could help to assess disease progression and alleviate symptoms in humans. Ultrasound conducted before a patient develops symptoms could improve early detection of diseases in blood vessels, research led by the University of Leicester has shown....
Optical Surfaces Ltd announces that it has received an order from the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) for twelve ultra-fast focusing 370mm diameter aspheric lenses for its Orion petawatt laser research facility. World-class expertise and cutting-edge science, engineering and technology lie at the heart of AWE work, spanning the life cycle of nuclear warheads from initial concept and design...
Promega UK the Life Sciences Company, based on the University of Southampton Science Park in Hampshire, is proud to announce that two UK iGem (The International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation) groups are among 10 international projects to have won sponsorship from Promega Corporation as part of the worldwide iGem competition for up and coming scientists. Two teams from the University of Manchester and...
Tomocube’s revolutionary holotomography technique delivers 3D structural and chemical information quickly and simply without any labelling or pre-preparation. A spin-out company from the renowned Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon has been established to commercialize the revolutionary Holotomography (HT) microscopy developed...
Which brand of pipette to use may not be your first consideration when designing your laboratory workflows and SOPs to follow good laboratory practice (GLP), but choosing the right pipette can make it much easier to achieve consistent results. INTEGRA’s electronic pipettes – including the VIAFLO, VOYAGER and VIAFLO 96/384 ranges – are designed to meet the demands of the modern laboratory...
A Dolomite Bio system is helping researchers in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark to explore the potential of single cell RNA sequencing for personalized treatment of bladder cancer. Associate Professor Iver Nordentoft explained: “Our focus is on translational research to obtain a deeper understanding of bladder cancer....
Cherwell Laboratories, supplier of environmental monitoring and process validation products, has confirmed its continued support for the Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Sciences Society (PHSS) - UCL Q3P Annual Conference 2018. This year’s event will address the key challenges in manufacturing and aseptic processing in the new area of Biological and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs), considering issues in GMP compliance and...
As part of this collaboration, Horizon will lead the development and application of single cell RNAseq-linked pooled CRISPR screening using a key discovery paradigm of the pharma partner. Horizon will use the development process, acquired infrastructure, and optimization data in order to further develop and improve these tools to offer to future partners, as part of its research services operations...
Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester leading £2 million project funded by the NIHR Global Health Research Programme. Researchers from Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester will lead a £2 million project to address patients with chronic lung disease in the developing world through pulmonary rehabilitation. Chronic lung disease is associated with cigarette smoking...
MtoZ Biolabs, an international contract research organization (CRO) providing advanced proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and biopharmaceutical analysis services, announce that it has launched an updated platform for protein n-terminal sequencing.This sophisticated N-T sequencing platform consisting of Edman sequencing and protein N-T de novo sequencing with their advantages complementary to each other...
Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy and leaders in sample characterization solutions, Linkam Scientific Instruments, reports on the research of Professor Xiaoming “Shawn” He of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland. Professor He's research is focused on developing multiscale biomaterials to engineer living cells and tissues for two applications: Cancer treatment and cell-based medicine...