Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets from EPTEK Technology Co. LTD and several related entities with offices in Taiwan and mainland China.

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Patrick Giraudeau and his group at the University of Nantes.

Porvair Sciences has posted a new online video demonstrating how nitrogen blowdown evaporators offer a useful tool for removing the solvent dry-down bottleneck in LC/MS sample preparation.

In the new video the presenter demonstrates how nitrogen blowdown evaporators can quickly and easily remove most chromatographic solvents, enabling fast recovery of dry compounds and allowing re-suspension of unknown mixtures in optimised solvents for LC/MS analysis. Additionally, the video introduces Porvair Sciences complete range of MiniVap and UltraVap blowdown evaporators. Blowdown evaporators give significant throughput advantages...

Selecting a laboratory refrigerator or laboratory freezer is not the same as visiting the local appliance store to pick out a unit for your kitchen. 

There are substantial differences.  Not only that, there is a tremendous variety of models available in terms of capacity and performance features. This post quickly describes differences between household and laboratory refrigerators and freezers. Then we’ll looks into the many feature options available....

If I mentioned that I recently sampled an amazing new craft beer, you might assume that there is a brilliant artisan behind the brew. Maybe there is.

Creating the perfect brew may be part art, but also is a great deal of good beer chemistry. Beer is brewed using the following basic ingredients: water, a source of starch (such as barley, wheat, rice, or corn), and hops. Variations in flavor result from the ingredients and additives used as well as the brewing process utilized....

Key processes in the body are controlled by the concentration of calcium in and around cells. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed the first sensor molecule that is able to visualize calcium in living animals....

Fimmic, a Finnish medtech company developing Deep Learning AI solutions for digital medical microscopy, announce that it has closed a €5M investment round to accelerate scaling of its WebMicroscope® AI Cloud for tissue diagnostics.

Led by new investor Ascend Capital Partners, the round brings the Company’s total raised funds in 2017 to €6.6M. Existing investors, including ACME Investments and STO-Rahoitus, also participated this round....

Combined organization delivers innovative, efficient safety & efficacy solutions that support all phases of clinical development

ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, has announced it has acquired iCardiac Technologies, a leading provider of centralized cardiac safety and respiratory solutions that accelerate clinical research....

Fast Track Diagnostics S.à.r.l., one of the leading global suppliers of syndromic real-time PCR multiplexing kits, has been partnering for several months with UgenTec NV, an innovative European medical device software company that develops artificially intelligent PCR interpretation software. 

From the first of January 2018, all Fast Track Diagnostics´ kits will be available on UgenTec´s FastFinder, a fully automated real-time PCR interpretation platform. This module will allow technicians to fully automate and standardise analysis of FTD´s kits with Applied Biosystems 7500 and LightCycler® 480 PCR platforms.....

Analytik are pleased to announce that Scottish researchers from the University of Glasgow have turned to Raman analytical technology to gain a better understanding of the use of colour in Roman sculpture. 

Dr Louisa Campbell is researching Paints and Pigments In the Past (PPIP) in her role as Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, a project part-funded by Historic Environment Scotland's Archaeology Programme. The project team aims to analyse and identify the compounds in pigments...

First in class anti-AMHRII monoclonal antibody is currently completing early clinical phases in ovarian cancer

GamaMabs Pharma, a biotechnology company developing optimized therapeutic antibodies targeting AMHR2 for the treatment of cancer, announces that two peer-reviewed articles have been published in the prestigious journal, Oncotarget, elaborating on the anti-tumor activity of GamaMabs’ lead compound GM102/3C23K for ovarian cancer....

Grundium is developing the first portable digital microscope scanner in the world

China based investment firm, Ascend Capital Partners, has invested two million Euros to help Grundium OY develop their innovative portable digital microscope scanner. Grundium’s vision is to bring digital microscope scanners to every pathologist’s desk.....

Sectra announces that all St. Antonius Hospital locations have now gone live with Sectra’s enterprise image management solution for radiology, nuclear medicine and cardiology. With this solution for handling medical images across multiple locations and medical disciplines in a single system, physicians at St. Antonius can seamlessly share images and information with each other. Using a single system that is tightly integrated with the Epic EMR system will also reduce the workload of the IT department....

APAS® is a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology for the automated imaging, image analysis, interpretation and reporting of growth on microbiology plates after incubation. The APAS® Independence, which is about the size of a large photocopier, improves the diagnostic efficiency of microbiology laboratories and enables faster reporting of infectious diseases

Horizon Discovery (LSE: HZD), a global leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces the launch of its new cell line-derived epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) Multiplex cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Reference Standard.

The new Reference Standard allows laboratories and assay developers to optimize, validate and routinely monitor performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based tests, next generation sequencing (NGS), and other novel assays designed to detect EGFR mutations from cfDNA.

AUREA gTOXXs: the robust and efficient alternative to conventional Genotox screening assays

Our genetic makeup affects our height, eye color, personality or life expectancy, but also the likelihood of getting vascular disease, cancer or mental illness. The integrity of our genome, the DNA, is essential to prevent, for example, cancer, premature aging and neurodegenerative diseases.....

Registration is now open for the 2018 Materials Research Exchange & Investor Showcase (MRE2018), the biggest and finest materials innovation event of its kind.

MRE2018 is delighted to extend a free early bird delegate registration offer until January 31st 2018.  Sign up today and join the entire materials landscape, from academics to spin-outs to SMEs and product designers to manufacturers and users and of course investors - all under one roof....

Deben reports on a publication in Microscopy & Microanalysis from the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science.

This shows a Deben CT500 tensile and compression stage being used in conjunction with a ZEISS Xradia Micro XCT system to enable a better understanding of ceramic matrix composites under various tensile bending loads. Dr Benedicta Arhatari is X-ray Tomography Laboratory Manager....

Molecular-biological analysis using state-of-the-art equipment at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna discovers gene transfer from bacteria – and the corresponding stress!

Thanks to genes acquired from bacteria, a fungus can degrade an environmentally harmful hydrocarbon - and comes under considerable stress in the process. These remarkable research findings, which were published recently, were obtained by a group from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.....

The Registration Committee has announced that conferee registration is now open for Pittcon 2018, the world’s premier annual conference and exposition for laboratory science.

The event will be held February 26 through March 1, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The discounted registration fee of $190 is available through February 5, 2018 ($325 after 2/5)....

Boulting Environmental Services wins Contractor of the Year award 

At the inaugural National Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) Awards, rapidly growing cleanroom and laboratory design and construction firm, Boulting Environmental Services (BES), won the Contractor of the Year Award. By working in a close collaboration with AstraZeneca, BES delivered a highly sophisticated facility...

JPK Instruments reports on the exciting research of the Kim Group in the Structural Biology Laboratory of the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, (SKKU), Suwon, South Korea using JPK's NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed AFM to study the binding of transcription factor Sox2 with super enhancers. 

Professor Kyeong Kyu Kim leads a research group in the Structural Biology Laboratory of Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, South Korea. The goal of their research is to understand the working mechanisms of Sox2, a master transcription factor that plays a role in controlling the “stemness” of cells....