A cancer treatment already approved for use in certain types of cancer has been found to block cell growth in a common form of lung cancer for which there is currently no specific treatment available. The new findings, published today in Science Translational Medicine and led by the University of Glasgow, suggest that a large number of...
Comprehensive metabolic biomarker profiles of the world's largest health database to be analysed in 30 months. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. The ground-breaking research initiative....
Halide perovskites are a promising class of materials for a wide variety of optoelectronic applications such as photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, lasers and optical sensing. They have received widespread attention due to their many attractive synthetic and photophysical properties, namely: solution processability, high tunability, long charge carrier lifetimes and high charge carrier mobilities...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of premium products for advanced material characterisation, has announced the acquisition of Freeman Technology. Freeman Technology specialises in providing instruments for the measurement of powder flow properties and other behavioural properties of powders...
Novel features include modelling for drug metabolism prediction and virtual library enumeration. Enhanced data visualisation environment for more efficient data analysis and project management. Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the launch of version 6.5 of StarDrop™ that provides a complete platform for small molecule design...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, talks with Harrisburg University's Associate Professor, Catherine Santai. She leads the Integrative Sciences program teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry to undergraduates. This includes the application of benchtop NMR spectroscopy using a Magritek 60 MHz Spinsolve spectrometer...
PhoreMost, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has announced it has entered into a collaboration with o2h discovery (o2h), an Anglo-Indian medicinal chemistry company that has in-house capability to take drug discovery programmes to the IND filing stage....
Collaboration combines expertise in novel chemical compound synthesis with GMP manufacture in drug discovery. Enamine Ltd., a chemical research organization and producer of novel building blocks and screening libraries, and TBD Biodiscovery, a premium GMP manufacturer of fine chemicals including chemical active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), today announced they have entered into...
Titan Enterprises has produced an informative technical paper - 'How to specify liquid flowmeters'. The optimal liquid flowmeter for your application will vary considerably according to a wide range of operational parameters including pipe bore, flow path, liquid viscosity, particulate levels, measurement accuracy, measurement dynamic range, maintenance and target purchase price. In this 8-page technical...
The overall UK radiology equipment market spend for the six months to the end of March 2018 is down by around 30% compared to the same period in the previous year. This is according to latest figures from AXREM (the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy and Care), which represents all the major medical imaging...
Evotec AG announce having signed a transaction agreement with Sanofi to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit into its organisation. Pursuant to this agreement, Evotec will also licence-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio and initiatives. This successfully seals the exclusive negotiations between the two...
Powered by a widespread application scope and ongoing technological advancements, vacuum pump market trends have undergone a tremendous transformation since the last few years. The extensive involvement of industry players in research and development activities has been paving the way for remarkable breakthroughs in futuristic vacuum technology requirements...
Rapid, one-step, lateral flow test for real-time detection of herbicide resistance in blackgrass. Mologic Ltd, a developer of personalised diagnostics, and Newcastle University, have announced they have developed an on-farm blackgrass resistance diagnostic (BReD). The one-step, rapid lateral flow product for detecting glutathione transferase (AmGSTF1) concentrations...
An interactive preclinical PET-MR workshop with demonstrations of a new 7T integrated PET-MR multi-modality imaging system from MR Solutions and presentations from participants was held in Dijon. The Cancer Center Georges François Leclerc (CGFL) organised the event in partnership with the UK based PET-MR supplier MR Solutions to launch a new user group...
Approach is being assessed by Public Health England for its potential to routinely test all meningococcal disease cases. Researchers at the University of Leicester and Meningococcal Reference Unit have developed a new approach to assess the effectiveness of the Men B vaccine, Bexsero®, against different strains that cause meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia...
Do you send away human or animal samples such as blood, urine, faeces or tissue for diagnostic, research or clinical trials purposes? Are you aware of the specific packaging requirements necessary for legal compliance with the UN3373 regulation for transport of these category B biological materials? Now, a new website....
Testing lots of genetic variants can pick out 1 per cent of men at highest risk. Researchers plan to evaluate saliva test in GP practices. A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer. Researchers devised a new test combining these single letter genetic variants....
Attana has received an contract research order from an European Biotech company. The order is related to optimization of therapeutically antibodies. The order value is around 600 kSEK and is expected to be performed and delivered during Q3 and Q4 2018 and will affect the cash flow and financial result positively during these two quarters....
Increased content provides even more flexibility for customisation. The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom Cancer Panel content - now covering 120 fully optimised cancer related genes. The expanded content gives researchers even more freedom to customise their sequencing experiments, enabling focus on regions of interest, saving time...
Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on how groups of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are making grazing-incidence x-ray scattering measurements using a Linkam HFSX350 thermal stage on Beamline 8-ID-E under the guidance of the Time-Resolved Research group. Dr Joseph Strzalka is a physicist...
Plastics are used extensively in products and packaging. Unfortunately, these make their way into the environment and cause significant pollution, not only as bulk material but also as microplastics: small, hard-to-spot, particles. A Danish research institute is using a Raman spectroscopy system, from Renishaw, to help its clients understand and reduce the amount of microplastics in the environment...
Researchers found traces of foreign, non-human genetic material in human blood samples. It turned out that it was not a groundbreaking scientific discovery, but mostly the result of contaminated laboratory materials. Scientists led by Associate Prof. Paul Wilmes of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg recently published an article about their unexpected findings in...
A cancer treatment already approved for use in certain types of cancer has been found to block cell growth in a common form of lung cancer for which there is currently no specific treatment available. The new findings, published today in Science Translational Medicine and led by the University of Glasgow, suggest that a large number of...
Comprehensive metabolic biomarker profiles of the world's largest health database to be analysed in 30 months. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. The ground-breaking research initiative....
Halide perovskites are a promising class of materials for a wide variety of optoelectronic applications such as photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, lasers and optical sensing. They have received widespread attention due to their many attractive synthetic and photophysical properties, namely: solution processability, high tunability, long charge carrier lifetimes and high charge carrier mobilities...
Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of premium products for advanced material characterisation, has announced the acquisition of Freeman Technology. Freeman Technology specialises in providing instruments for the measurement of powder flow properties and other behavioural properties of powders...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, talks with Harrisburg University's Associate Professor, Catherine Santai. She leads the Integrative Sciences program teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry to undergraduates. This includes the application of benchtop NMR spectroscopy using a Magritek 60 MHz Spinsolve spectrometer...
PhoreMost, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has announced it has entered into a collaboration with o2h discovery (o2h), an Anglo-Indian medicinal chemistry company that has in-house capability to take drug discovery programmes to the IND filing stage....
Collaboration combines expertise in novel chemical compound synthesis with GMP manufacture in drug discovery. Enamine Ltd., a chemical research organization and producer of novel building blocks and screening libraries, and TBD Biodiscovery, a premium GMP manufacturer of fine chemicals including chemical active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), today announced they have entered into...
Titan Enterprises has produced an informative technical paper - 'How to specify liquid flowmeters'. The optimal liquid flowmeter for your application will vary considerably according to a wide range of operational parameters including pipe bore, flow path, liquid viscosity, particulate levels, measurement accuracy, measurement dynamic range, maintenance and target purchase price. In this 8-page technical...
The overall UK radiology equipment market spend for the six months to the end of March 2018 is down by around 30% compared to the same period in the previous year. This is according to latest figures from AXREM (the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy and Care), which represents all the major medical imaging...
Evotec AG announce having signed a transaction agreement with Sanofi to integrate Sanofi's infectious disease unit into its organisation. Pursuant to this agreement, Evotec will also licence-in the majority of Sanofi's infectious disease research portfolio and initiatives. This successfully seals the exclusive negotiations between the two...
Powered by a widespread application scope and ongoing technological advancements, vacuum pump market trends have undergone a tremendous transformation since the last few years. The extensive involvement of industry players in research and development activities has been paving the way for remarkable breakthroughs in futuristic vacuum technology requirements... 
Rapid, one-step, lateral flow test for real-time detection of herbicide resistance in blackgrass. Mologic Ltd, a developer of personalised diagnostics, and Newcastle University, have announced they have developed an on-farm blackgrass resistance diagnostic (BReD). The one-step, rapid lateral flow product for detecting glutathione transferase (AmGSTF1) concentrations...
An interactive preclinical PET-MR workshop with demonstrations of a new 7T integrated PET-MR multi-modality imaging system from MR Solutions and presentations from participants was held in Dijon. The Cancer Center Georges François Leclerc (CGFL) organised the event in partnership with the UK based PET-MR supplier MR Solutions to launch a new user group...
Approach is being assessed by Public Health England for its potential to routinely test all meningococcal disease cases. Researchers at the University of Leicester and Meningococcal Reference Unit have developed a new approach to assess the effectiveness of the Men B vaccine, Bexsero®, against different strains that cause meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia...
Testing lots of genetic variants can pick out 1 per cent of men at highest risk. Researchers plan to evaluate saliva test in GP practices. A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer. Researchers devised a new test combining these single letter genetic variants....
Attana has received an contract research order from an European Biotech company. The order is related to optimization of therapeutically antibodies. The order value is around 600 kSEK and is expected to be performed and delivered during Q3 and Q4 2018 and will affect the cash flow and financial result positively during these two quarters....
Increased content provides even more flexibility for customisation. The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom Cancer Panel content - now covering 120 fully optimised cancer related genes. The expanded content gives researchers even more freedom to customise their sequencing experiments, enabling focus on regions of interest, saving time...
Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on how groups of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are making grazing-incidence x-ray scattering measurements using a Linkam HFSX350 thermal stage on Beamline 8-ID-E under the guidance of the Time-Resolved Research group. Dr Joseph Strzalka is a physicist...
Plastics are used extensively in products and packaging. Unfortunately, these make their way into the environment and cause significant pollution, not only as bulk material but also as microplastics: small, hard-to-spot, particles. A Danish research institute is using a Raman spectroscopy system, from Renishaw, to help its clients understand and reduce the amount of microplastics in the environment...
Researchers found traces of foreign, non-human genetic material in human blood samples. It turned out that it was not a groundbreaking scientific discovery, but mostly the result of contaminated laboratory materials. Scientists led by Associate Prof. Paul Wilmes of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg recently published an article about their unexpected findings in...