Co-exclusive global licence covers manufacture and integration of CEGX TrueMethyl® technology for oxidative bisulfite sequencing (oxBS-Seq) with Targeted Methylation and NuGEN Ovation Methyl-Seq systems
Cambridge Epigenetix (CEGX) and NuGEN Technologies, leaders in innovative epigenetic technologies, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement to integrate the CEGX TrueMethyl technology for oxidative bisulfite sequencing (oxBS-Seq) with NuGEN’s innovative NGS library preparation kits...
Notable private equity firm invests £2.5 million in the Cambridge-based biotech
Private equity firm Calculus Capital, a leading EIS and VCT investor, has further expanded its life science portfolio, by investing £2.5m in Cambridge-based Axol Bioscience (Axol), a provider of stem cells produced from reprogrammed human blood and tissue cells....
Today Lonza announced an endothelial cell application center, which expands Lonza’s support for researchers.
This new online suite provides scientists with educational materials and product information to assist with vital endothelial cell research. As endothelial cells regulate many homeostatic processes within the body, their dysfunction has important implications for diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer....
Sartorius and Johnson Matthey both based in Royston, hosted an ‘Introduction to Children Challenging Industry (CCI)’ event at Sartorius’ Royston site in July 2017.
The event was attended by several local science and technology companies who wanted to find out more about the CCI programme, designed to provide 9-11-year-old children with positive perceptions of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) based careers....
Formulating a budget should be the first thing that comes to mind when dealing with money.
Unavoidable but essential, it is just as important in a lab as in other aspects of life; and while you don’t receive any more money simply by budgeting, it does allow you to make the most of the money you have. Radleys, a UK leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment, is here to help with a few tips to help with budgeting in the lab....
A set of 13 sixteenth century Italian wind instruments has been brought back to life thanks to the unique skills of specialist Swiss restorers and the high sensitivity and dynamic range of the Andor iKon-L CCD camera.
The resulting intensely-detailed 3D models of the composite wood, metal and leather structures provided valuable information about the construction methods of the original instrument makers and were used to guide their restoration in Basel, Switzerland.....
Recognizes potential of the breath biopsy platform to transform diagnostics - ReCIVA Breath Sampler will be on display from Friday August 18th, 2017
Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company, has announced that its disease breathalyzer, ReCIVA™ has been selected to feature in the Tomorrow’s World gallery at the Science Museum, London. The exhibition aims to inspire visitors with award-winning, cutting-edge scientific advances....
SAPPHIRE Offers The Ideal Solution for Precise and Accurate Isotopic Analysis for a Wide Range of Applications.
Nu Instruments, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high- performance mass spectrometers, is pleased to announce the release of SAPPHIRE, a new collision / reaction cell multi-collector inductively coupled mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS)....
A growing list of experts from the global drug discovery community have signed up to join the speaker panel at ELRIG’s 11th annual Drug Discovery event (3-4 October 2017, ACC, Liverpool, UK).
The event provides a forum to share ideas and thoughts on current and future practices with speakers discussing their latest, unpublished findings. Dr Mene Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, IMED Biotech Unit AstraZeneca, and Dr Nessa Carey, International Director at PraxisUnico and Visiting Professor at Imperial College have joined the list of esteemed speakers....
Discovery leads to new approach to treatment entering phase II trial
Scientists have discovered a new way of attacking oesophageal cancer cells that could make use of an existing drug in a new approach to treatment. Their study discovered a genetic weakness or ‘Achilles’ heel’ in oesophageal cancer cells that makes them particularly sensitive to a drug called ibrutinib...
IDEX Health & Science, LLC have announced plans to occupy a new, state-of-the-art facility in Rochester, New York that will enable scalable future growth of its optical components, sub-systems, and filters business.
In 2014, IDEX Health & Science believed that bringing together its Life Science Optics, Scientific Fluidics and Optical Technologies businesses would yield a highly differentiated platform that could better serve the life science, semiconductor, and defense markets...
JPK Instruments is pleased to report on the Yin group in the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow.
They are studying cells and how they react with their surroundings using JPK's NanoWizard® AFM and CellHesion® module. Professor Huabing Yin is a senior lecturer in the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow.....
A University of Dundee student is taking matters into his own hands this summer as he develops new sign language for specialist biological terms currently missing from formal British Sign Language (BSL).
Liam Mcmulkin, a second year Life Sciences student who has been deaf since birth, came up with the idea after becoming frustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in BSL. BSL is used by approximately 87,000 people across the UK but the scientific lexicon effectively stops at advanced higher level/A-level in school....
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) today announced the launch of the first Cas9 enzyme variant that extensively reduces off-target effects in CRISPR genome editing without compromising on-target activity.
The Alt-R® S.p. HiFi Cas9 Nuclease 3NLS enzyme is a recombinant S. pyogenes Cas9 mutant that improves specificity while maintaining a high editing efficiency similar to wild-type Cas9. The launch represents a major step towards therapeutic use of CRISPR, which has previously borne the risk of the unwanted off-target editing events observed with wild-type Cas9....
Asynt reports that it has supplied Redbrick Molecular Ltd (Sheffield, UK) with a wide range of synthetic organic chemistry equipment for its new environmentally responsible laboratory.
Owned by an expandable group of leading UK universities, Redbrick Molecular has unparalleled access to intellectual property generated by these partners allowing them to produce novel strategic building blocks and organic fragments that are attractive to industrial medicinal chemists.....
New method pushes the frontier in imaging resolution and distinguishes individual features in single molecules
Just as we are becoming familiar with super-resolution microscopes breaking the optical diffraction barrier to resolve details just 20 nm apart, scientists at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have demonstrated an optical resolution of less than five nanometers (<5 nm).....
Horizon Discovery, a global leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announced it has released a complete, high-quality, well annotated sequence of its GS Knockout CHO-K1 bioproduction cell line.
The sequence will be made available publicly via the Ensembl website at EMBL-EBI, to serve the community as a resource to drive research and innovation in bioproduction at Horizon and across the industry.
The latest version of eve® can integrate with a wide range of third-party bioreactors and equipment from a number of different suppliers, e.g. Sartorius DCU, Applikon or Matlab
eve® offers now a large number of communication protocols, supports all OPC standards and offers a Rest API which can be used to connect analytical devices and softwares. This allows eve® to cover the vast majority of bioreactors, incubator shakers and analytical devices providing the possibility to record bioprocess data from heterogeneous sources....
Bruker and Partner Diagnosticum form Hungarian Wine Consortium to Develop Hungarian Wine Models.
The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture has selected Bruker’s collaboration partner Diagnosticum to implement a new program to authenticate and identify Hungarian wines. Diagnosticum and Bruker will form the Hungarian Wine Consortium and develop a Hungarian wine model based on Bruker’s NMR FoodScreenertechnology for rapid and comprehensive wine-profiling....
New Thermo Scientific Aquilos FIB/SEM protects sample integrity and enhances productivity for cryo-electron tomography workflow
The new Thermo Scientific Aquilos is the first commercial cryo-DualBeam (focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope) system dedicated to the preparation of frozen, thin lamella samples from biological specimens for high-resolution tomographic imaging in a cryo-transmission electron microscope (cryo-TEM)....
Penetration testing is a fast and accurate measure of the consistency of fluids, gels and pastes.
Ointments with a low consistency for example can be more thoroughly applied on the skin and more easily absorbed. On the other hand, a substance with a high consistency can be used to cover a wound effectively.Using small sample quantities the PNR 12 penetrometer from Anton Paar provides quick and easy measurements of sample consistency....
PerkinElmer, Inc. announce the launch of PerkinElmer Genetics' clinical genomics services. Through its integrated laboratories in the U.S., India and China, PerkinElmer offers a global genomic lab testing platform that performs screening and diagnostic testing, specializing in newborn screening....
Cambridge Epigenetix (CEGX) and NuGEN Technologies, leaders in innovative epigenetic technologies, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement to integrate the CEGX TrueMethyl technology for oxidative bisulfite sequencing (oxBS-Seq) with NuGEN’s innovative NGS library preparation kits...
Private equity firm Calculus Capital, a leading EIS and VCT investor, has further expanded its life science portfolio, by investing £2.5m in Cambridge-based Axol Bioscience (Axol), a provider of stem cells produced from reprogrammed human blood and tissue cells....
This new online suite provides scientists with educational materials and product information to assist with vital endothelial cell research. As endothelial cells regulate many homeostatic processes within the body, their dysfunction has important implications for diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer....
The event was attended by several local science and technology companies who wanted to find out more about the CCI programme, designed to provide 9-11-year-old children with positive perceptions of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) based careers....
Unavoidable but essential, it is just as important in a lab as in other aspects of life; and while you don’t receive any more money simply by budgeting, it does allow you to make the most of the money you have. Radleys, a UK leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment, is here to help with a few tips to help with budgeting in the lab....
The resulting intensely-detailed 3D models of the composite wood, metal and leather structures provided valuable information about the construction methods of the original instrument makers and were used to guide their restoration in Basel, Switzerland.....
Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company, has announced that its disease breathalyzer, ReCIVA™ has been selected to feature in the Tomorrow’s World gallery at the Science Museum, London. The exhibition aims to inspire visitors with award-winning, cutting-edge scientific advances....
Nu Instruments, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high- performance mass spectrometers, is pleased to announce the release of SAPPHIRE, a new collision / reaction cell multi-collector inductively coupled mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS)....
The event provides a forum to share ideas and thoughts on current and future practices with speakers discussing their latest, unpublished findings. Dr Mene Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, IMED Biotech Unit AstraZeneca, and Dr Nessa Carey, International Director at PraxisUnico and Visiting Professor at Imperial College have joined the list of esteemed speakers....
Scientists have discovered a new way of attacking oesophageal cancer cells that could make use of an existing drug in a new approach to treatment. Their study discovered a genetic weakness or ‘Achilles’ heel’ in oesophageal cancer cells that makes them particularly sensitive to a drug called ibrutinib...
In 2014, IDEX Health & Science believed that bringing together its Life Science Optics, Scientific Fluidics and Optical Technologies businesses would yield a highly differentiated platform that could better serve the life science, semiconductor, and defense markets...
They are studying cells and how they react with their surroundings using JPK's NanoWizard® AFM and CellHesion® module. Professor Huabing Yin is a senior lecturer in the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow.....
Liam Mcmulkin, a second year Life Sciences student who has been deaf since birth, came up with the idea after becoming frustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in BSL. BSL is used by approximately 87,000 people across the UK but the scientific lexicon effectively stops at advanced higher level/A-level in school....
The Alt-R® S.p. HiFi Cas9 Nuclease 3NLS enzyme is a recombinant S. pyogenes Cas9 mutant that improves specificity while maintaining a high editing efficiency similar to wild-type Cas9. The launch represents a major step towards therapeutic use of CRISPR, which has previously borne the risk of the unwanted off-target editing events observed with wild-type Cas9....
Owned by an expandable group of leading UK universities, Redbrick Molecular has unparalleled access to intellectual property generated by these partners allowing them to produce novel strategic building blocks and organic fragments that are attractive to industrial medicinal chemists.....
The sequence will be made available publicly via the Ensembl website at EMBL-EBI, to serve the community as a resource to drive research and innovation in bioproduction at Horizon and across the industry.
eve® offers now a large number of communication protocols, supports all OPC standards and offers a Rest API which can be used to connect analytical devices and softwares. This allows eve® to cover the vast majority of bioreactors, incubator shakers and analytical devices providing the possibility to record bioprocess data from heterogeneous sources....
The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture has selected Bruker’s collaboration partner Diagnosticum to implement a new program to authenticate and identify Hungarian wines. Diagnosticum and Bruker will form the Hungarian Wine Consortium and develop a Hungarian wine model based on Bruker’s NMR FoodScreener technology for rapid and comprehensive wine-profiling....
The new Thermo Scientific Aquilos is the first commercial cryo-DualBeam (focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope) system dedicated to the preparation of frozen, thin lamella samples from biological specimens for high-resolution tomographic imaging in a cryo-transmission electron microscope (cryo-TEM)....
Ointments with a low consistency for example can be more thoroughly applied on the skin and more easily absorbed. On the other hand, a substance with a high consistency can be used to cover a wound effectively.Using small sample quantities the PNR 12 penetrometer from Anton Paar provides quick and easy measurements of sample consistency....
PerkinElmer, Inc. announce the launch of PerkinElmer Genetics' clinical genomics services. Through its integrated laboratories in the U.S., India and China, PerkinElmer offers a global genomic lab testing platform that performs screening and diagnostic testing, specializing in newborn screening....