The University of Glasgow will lead an innovative Pan-European research training program targeting incurable prostate cancer. The four-year Translational Research Network for Prostate Cancer (TransPot) aims to provide a multidisciplinary training program, integrating cancer biology and systems medicine to enable young researchers to become future leaders in cancer research....
Collaboration supports clinical-scale production of high purity Minicircle DNA for viral and non-viral gene transfer. BIA Separations, a leading biochromatography development and manufacturing company, and RBPS Technology (RBPS), a biotech company with proprietary Minicircle DNA technology,announce they have signed a partnership agreementto provide scalable...
Unity Scientific, a KPM Analytics Company, today announced that it has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a Manufacturing Leadership Awards winner for its outstanding achievement in the Engineering and Production Technology Leadership category, for applying 3D printing and electronic alignment technologies in the manufacturing process...
Organised by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), the day brings together scientists, speakers and exhibitors from across the community, offering an opportunity to meet like-minded people, learn new things and discover the very best scientific technology and equipment for the laboratory....
Genevac reports on special evaporative techniques for removal of solvents from oil and fat samples. Working with oils and fats can be difficult. Whether extracting and recovering additives, evaluating lipid content of foods or characterising reclaimed cooking oils before reprocessing or conversion to biofuels, oils and fats can be difficult to dry. Extraction and separation techniques...
AMSBIO has signed an agreement with Genea Biocells (San Diego, USA) to become global distribution partner to the academic community for its groundbreaking skeletal muscle differentiation product range. Genea Biocells developed the world’s first protocol to robustly differentiate human pluripotent stem cells to skeletal muscle cells with high yields and without cell sorting or genetic manipulation (Caron et al. 2016)....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Manfred Wilhelm, head of the Polymeric Materials Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Professor Wilhelm has applied Magritek’s 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer to develop a new online chemical detector for size-exclusion chromatography. Manfred Wilhelm is professor and chair of...
Porvair Sciences, in conjunction with sister company – JG Finneran Associates Inc., has produced a new informative guide to assist lab scientists select the optimum seal and closure device for different types of microplate. Choosing the correct combination of seal and closure device for each type of microplate is important to achieving best laboratory practice and to avoid unnecessary work further downstream. Microplates are a convenient method...
Deben, a leading provider of in situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on how TU Dortmund University is using their CT5000TEC compression/tensile stage to study fiber-reinforced composites. This work is being performed using a Nikon X-ray source. Ronja Scholz is a scientific assistant and PhD student in the group of...
Collaboration will use Deep Learning techniques to establish medical imaging biomarkers for more accurate diagnosis. Median Technologies (Paris: ALMDT), the industry-leading Imaging Phenomics Company® and the Nice University Hospital (CHU de Nice) today announced a collaborative agreement that uses Artificial Intelligence to identify medical imaging biomarkers for lung cancer screening.....
Research can help to identify people with mild asthma from those with moderate or severe asthma. A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University has identified biological variations in lung tissue samples that for the first time can help...
Partnership immediately provides Horizon with deeper access to Chinese diagnostic assay manufacturers and potential OEM agreements as part of stated global leadership strategy. Genewell to pursue CFDA approval of Horizon reference standards for broad distribution into Chinese clinical laboratory market....
Clinithink has helped to achieve a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Fastest genetic diagnosis. The project successfully compressed the time needed to diagnose rare genetic disorders in newborns through DNA sequencing to 19.5 hours, setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title in a seamless end-to-end process and provided further evidence of its patented CLiX natural language processing (NLP) solution used in clinical trials....
Study Results in Leading Scientific Publication Underscores Value of PerkinElmer’s Vanadis NIPT Solution. PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the publication of a research study describing the technology behind the Vanadis NIPT system. The article titled “Imaging Single DNA Molecules for High Precision NIPT” was published online in Nature Scientific Reports...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. (SSB), a leading international technology partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has been selected by ABL Europe as its primary supplier of single-use systems. Through a supply partnership with SSB, ABL Europe has successfully increased and brought online...
From material testing to environmental monitoring: At the analytica, companies and research institutions from all over the world present their latest developments. A glance at the key aspects of the international leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology shows: Here, trade fair visitors experience technological innovations as...
Findings published in Nature Communications identify stem cell survival pathway, which may serve as a potential target for new breast cancer therapies. A team of researchers in the United States has identified a new stem cell pathway that allows a highly aggressive form of breast cancer – triple-negative breast cancer – to thrive, with their findings potentially pointing the way towards new, more effective...
Genevac reports on how Eurofins Biomnis (Lyon, France) has, using a miVac Quattro concentrator and SpeedTrap frost-free cold trap, considerably improved sample preparation productivity in its specialised clinical pathology laboratory. Sébastien Chanlon, Production Manager of the Eurofins Biomnis Analytical Chemistry Business Unit, commented “My department employs a wide range of...
The Phenomics Discovery Initiative (PDi) has expanded its assay portfolio to a total of 11 complex phenotypic assays that are relevant to human pathophysiology in areas of unmet clinical need including neuropsychiatric illnesses, dementia, cancer and respiratory infections. PDi is a public-private consortium joining the pharmaceutical industry and the National Phenotypic Screening Centre...
What substances occurring naturally in foodstuffs jeopardize our health? How do pollutants affect our genetic material? Is baking paper a cause for concern? Such questions from the food sciences will be in the focus of the leading trade fair analytica and the accompanying analytica conference, taking place on the grounds of Messe München from April 10 to 13. An unhealthy diet, too many pollutants, too little exercise and...
Clinithink has helped to achieve a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Fastest genetic diagnosis. The project successfully compressed the time needed to diagnose rare genetic disorders in newborns through DNA sequencing to 19.5 hours, setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title in a seamless end-to-end process and provided further evidence of its patented CLiX natural language...
We are happy to share our latest application note where we demonstrate how the FLS1000 Photoluminescence Spectrometer can be used for studying the carrier lifetime in perovskite photovoltaic cells. We are pleased to have worked alongside the research group of Prof. Ifor Samuel at St Andrews University. Halide perovskite materials are revolutionising the field of solar cell research thanks to their low cost and high efficiency...
The University of Glasgow will lead an innovative Pan-European research training program targeting incurable prostate cancer. The four-year Translational Research Network for Prostate Cancer (TransPot) aims to provide a multidisciplinary training program, integrating cancer biology and systems medicine to enable young researchers to become future leaders in cancer research....
Collaboration supports clinical-scale production of high purity Minicircle DNA for viral and non-viral gene transfer. BIA Separations, 
Unity Scientific, a KPM Analytics Company, today announced that it has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a Manufacturing Leadership Awards winner for its outstanding achievement in the Engineering and Production Technology Leadership category, for applying 3D printing and electronic alignment technologies in the manufacturing process...
Organised by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), the day brings together scientists, speakers and exhibitors from across the community, offering an opportunity to meet like-minded people, learn new things and discover the very best scientific technology and equipment for the laboratory....
Genevac reports on special evaporative techniques for removal of solvents from oil and fat samples. Working with oils and fats can be difficult. Whether extracting and recovering additives, evaluating lipid content of foods or characterising reclaimed cooking oils before reprocessing or conversion to biofuels, oils and fats can be difficult to dry. Extraction and separation techniques...
AMSBIO has signed an agreement with Genea Biocells (San Diego, USA) to become global distribution partner to the academic community for its groundbreaking skeletal muscle differentiation product range. Genea Biocells developed the world’s first protocol to robustly differentiate human pluripotent stem cells to skeletal muscle cells with high yields and without cell sorting or genetic manipulation (Caron et al. 2016)....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Manfred Wilhelm, head of the Polymeric Materials Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Professor Wilhelm has applied Magritek’s 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer to develop a new online chemical detector for size-exclusion chromatography. Manfred Wilhelm is professor and chair of...
Porvair Sciences, in conjunction with sister company – JG Finneran Associates Inc., has produced a new informative guide to assist lab scientists select the optimum seal and closure device for different types of microplate. Choosing the correct combination of seal and closure device for each type of microplate is important to achieving best laboratory practice and to avoid unnecessary work further downstream. Microplates are a convenient method...
Deben, a leading provider of in situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on how TU Dortmund University is using their CT5000TEC compression/tensile stage to study fiber-reinforced composites. This work is being performed using a Nikon X-ray source. Ronja Scholz is a scientific assistant and PhD student in the group of...
Collaboration will use Deep Learning techniques to establish medical imaging biomarkers for more accurate diagnosis. Median Technologies (Paris: ALMDT), the industry-leading Imaging Phenomics Company® and the Nice University Hospital (CHU de Nice) today announced a collaborative agreement that 
Research can help to identify people with mild asthma from those with moderate or severe asthma. A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University has identified biological variations in lung tissue samples that for the first time can help...
Partnership immediately provides Horizon with deeper access to Chinese diagnostic assay manufacturers and potential OEM agreements as part of stated global leadership strategy. Genewell to pursue CFDA approval of Horizon reference standards for broad distribution into Chinese clinical laboratory market....
Clinithink has helped to achieve a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Fastest genetic diagnosis. The project successfully compressed the time needed to diagnose rare genetic disorders in newborns through DNA sequencing to 19.5 hours, setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title in a seamless end-to-end process and provided further evidence of its patented CLiX natural language processing (NLP) solution used in clinical trials....
Study Results in Leading Scientific Publication Underscores Value of PerkinElmer’s Vanadis NIPT Solution. PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the publication of a research study describing the technology behind the Vanadis NIPT system. The article titled “Imaging Single DNA Molecules for High Precision NIPT” was published online in Nature Scientific Reports...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. (SSB), a leading international technology partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has been selected by ABL Europe as its primary supplier of single-use systems. Through a supply partnership with SSB, ABL Europe has successfully increased and brought online...
From material testing to environmental monitoring: At the analytica, companies and research institutions from all over the world present their latest developments. A glance at the key aspects of the international leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology shows: Here, trade fair visitors experience technological innovations as...
Findings published in Nature Communications identify stem cell survival pathway, which may serve as a potential target for new breast cancer therapies. A team of researchers in the United States has identified a new stem cell pathway that allows a highly aggressive form of breast cancer – triple-negative breast cancer – to thrive, with their findings potentially pointing the way towards new, more effective...
Genevac reports on how Eurofins Biomnis (Lyon, France) has, using a miVac Quattro concentrator and SpeedTrap frost-free cold trap, considerably improved sample preparation productivity in its specialised clinical pathology laboratory. Sébastien Chanlon, Production Manager of the Eurofins Biomnis Analytical Chemistry Business Unit, commented “My department employs a wide range of...
The Phenomics Discovery Initiative (PDi) has expanded its assay portfolio to a total of 11 complex phenotypic assays that are relevant to human pathophysiology in areas of unmet clinical need including neuropsychiatric illnesses, dementia, cancer and respiratory infections. PDi is a public-private consortium joining the pharmaceutical industry and the National Phenotypic Screening Centre...
Clinithink has helped to achieve a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Fastest genetic diagnosis. The project successfully compressed the time needed to diagnose rare genetic disorders in newborns through DNA sequencing to 19.5 hours, setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title in a seamless end-to-end process and provided further evidence of its patented CLiX natural language...
We are happy to share our latest application note where we demonstrate how the FLS1000 Photoluminescence Spectrometer can be used for studying the carrier lifetime in perovskite photovoltaic cells. We are pleased to have worked alongside the research group of Prof. Ifor Samuel at St Andrews University. Halide perovskite materials are revolutionising the field of solar cell research thanks to their low cost and high efficiency...