Horizon Discovery Group, the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies announces that it has broadened its gene editing capabilities through the amendment of a pre-existing license with ERS Genomics to include the full commercial rights for the use of CRISPR edited cell lines for the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) manufacturing of biotherapeutics.
The Company has also entered into a grant-funded collaboration with Solentim, the developer of the Cell MetricTM and dedicated instrumentation for cell line development, to establish automated approaches for the gene editing of cell lines.
Read More4 Ways to Create a More Eco-Friendly LabFeb 1, 2017
Climate change is happening and every workplace has a part to play in reducing our total carbon footprint. Individual laboratories and those in schools, universities and other institutions are no different. Labs are being held accountable more and more on how they manage energy, recycle waste and conduct experiments.
The good news is there a few steps every lab can take to create an eco-friendlier environment, without compromising results. Radleys, a leading provider of scientific glassware, is here to offer some top tips for creating a greener lab…
ChargePoint Technology, the high growth manufacturer and innovator of specialist high containment and sterile transfer valves, has secured multi-million pound investment to meet global demand for its ground-breaking devices.
The Liverpool-based company struck a deal with private equity investor LDC, part of Lloyds Banking Group, to capitalise on the strong and increasing demand for its solutions internationally, particularly in North America, Europe and Asia, whilst accelerating sales of its innovative AseptiSafe® Bio product and investment in the development of new products in the aftercare market....
Postnova Analytics reports on how the inorganic analysis team within LGC (Teddington, UK) has been using the AF2000 Field Flow Fractionation system coupled to Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) to characterise nanomaterials in complex sample matrices for clinical, cosmetic and food use.
Nanomaterials are known to be present in over 1300 commercial products. As a result of the European Union (EU) recently providing a precise definition of a nanomaterial for regulatory purposes, it has become important to be able to characterise nanomaterials reliably to understand their behaviour in contact with humans and the environment....
Investment will fund commercial launch of breath biomarker R&D services and clinical trials in lung and colon cancer screening
Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, today announced that it has successfully raised $11.55 million USD (£9.3 million GBP) financing. The investment round was led by existing investors, and will be used to commercially launch the company’s breath biomarker R&D services, including the opening of a new high volume clinical facility, and to fund ongoing clinical trials in lung and colon cancer screening. The funding follows...
The Royal Microscopical Society have announced Allison Winton as their new Chief Executive.
Since 1839, the RMS has been championing microscopy, supporting scientists at all stages of their career and promoting the science to a wider audience. But behind the scenes, a dedicated team of office staff ensure the Society is serving its members and hosting high quality events to scientists all over the world....
Read MoreWaters CE-Marks In Vitro Diagnostic MassTrak Vitamin D SolutionJan 30, 2017
Waters Corporation announced that its fully-validated Waters® MassTrak™ Vitamin D Solution is now CE-marked in accordance with IVD Directive 98/79/EC for the quantitative measurement of 25(OH) D2 and D3 (25-OH-VitD) from human plasma and serum.
The IVD LC-MS/MS system solution is a complete solution consisting of reagents and consumables, instrumentation, and software and support services for clinical laboratories routinely measuring vitamin D in patient samples*. The Vitamin D solution is currently only available for sale in Europe.
Dr Carolyn Tarrant receives Research Councils grant to study antimicrobial resistance
A researcher from the University of Leicester has been awarded a prestigious Research Councils grant to study antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from a new perspective. Dr Carolyn Tarrant, Associate Professor and co-lead of the SAPPHIRE research group at the University of Leicester is the recipient of a £250,000 award from the Research Councils’ Tackling AMR initiative, which will fund a two year...
Synpromics Ltd, the leading synthetic promoter and gene control company, is pleased to announce a research collaboration with GE Healthcare to jointly develop customised synthetic promoters optimised for GE Healthcare’s proprietary biopharmaceutical manufacturing platform.
Synpromics will develop a complex bar-coded library of synthetic promoters, using its proprietary PromPT™ platform, for extensive screening in GE Healthcare’s Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) - based expression system. The resulting characterised promoter toolbox is anticipated to have broad applicability for increasing the yield of a range of biopharmaceuticals, including proteins difficult to manufacture....
Antibiotic Research UK’s first research programme finds a number of drugs that can break antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria
Antibiotic resistant infections are predicted to lead to 10 million deaths per year globally by 2050 at a cost of up to $100 trillion to the world economy. In the UK at least 5,000 people per year die from resistant infections...
The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) through its annual grant programme helps young investigators pursue ground-breaking research to advance our understanding of microorganisms and find better approaches to diagnose, prevent and treat infectious diseases.
The society is highlighting two outstanding projects that have been funded through its research grants; one was a study on resistance after treating patients with antifungal drugs and another on the genetic evolution of the human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype 16 causing most of the HPV-related anogenital cancers in humans....
SP Scientific announces the launch of a new dedicated website for its PennTech® brand of advanced aseptic processing equipment for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
As the only U.S.-based manufacturer to offer complete vial handling solutions covering washing, sterilization, filling, stoppering, capping and both tray and freeze dryer loading/unloading equipment – SP Scientific’s PennTech® brand has earned an international reputation for supplying reliable, high performance equipment....
Asynt has announced a new post-pump adapter kit that enables its CondenSyn air condenser to be used as an effective exhaust trap for laboratory vacuum pumps.
Rotary evaporators typically have an integral water or dry ice condenser which, when combined with a well-controlled automatic vacuum pump, provides an effective trap for most solvent vapours. However some solvent will always escape the condenser trap and make its way into the exhaust of the vacuum pump and out into your laboratory environment....
DR Hakim Yadi, chief executive of the Northern Health Science Alliance, has been recognised for his services to healthcare technology and the economy with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year’s Honours List.
Dr Yadi is the founding CEO of the Northern Health Science Alliance Ltd (NHSA). Hakim led the formation of the NHSA, which links eight universities, eight NHS Teaching Trusts and four Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). Together the Alliance covers a population of over 15 million people. The NHSA acts as a single portal bringing together research, health science innovation and commercialisation to benefit researchers, universities, hospitals, patients as well as commercial partners...
FLIR Systems reports on how its T1030sc thermal imaging camera is helping bat conservation and research efforts.
Bats play a major role in our ecosystem, but due to numerous threats bat populations have declined significantly over the years. FLIR thermal imaging technology is now playing a key role in helping experts understand, and conserve, bat populations in the UK. A video report from bat conservation advisors, Simon Holmes and Joe Nunez-Mino, from the Bat Conservation Trust in the UK, explains the important role that FLIR’s T1030sc thermal imaging cameras play in...
SP Scientific announces the on-demand availability of a popular webinar by Jake Luoma of Genentech Inc. that discusses how controlled nucleation has emerged as a technology which promises improvements in lyophilization process throughput and consistency.
In this presentation, Mr. Luoma examines the benefits of the technology for high fill-volume configurations and presents new data regarding the mechanism of the ControLyo™ Technology. The presentation shows how gaining a more complete understanding of the mechanism of nucleation using ControLyo™ Technology ensures more robust freezing when scaling from the lab to commercial-scale freeze dryers....
Technology provides access to a new set of sensitive biosensors that will facilitate drug discovery
Domain Therapeutics, a France- and Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of new drug candidates that target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), announces the signing of a licensing agreement for its GPCR BioSens-All™ technology with Alkermes, a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing medicines for the treatment of central nervous system diseases....
Hichrom's 2017 training programme is now available featuring courses covering every area of HPLC, UHPLC, GC and sample preparation and delivered by world-renowned experts.
Whether you are a relative newcomer to chromatography or a seasoned veteran, you can benefit from one of our courses. New courses for 2017 include Pharmaceutical Data Integrity, Preparative HPLC and Method Development for HILIC Separations.Costs for our courses are just £55 for a short course and from £195 for a day course and ChromSoc, RSC and IBMS members all receive a 10% discount on all courses....
The Coates Lab at the University of California Berkeley focuses on environmental and fossil fuel microbiology, and relies on Rainin to maintain its large pool of pipettes.
Laboratory manager Anna Engelbrekston explained: “Our group’s research concentrates on oil reservoir microbes, specifically looking at inhibiting the production of hydrogen sulfide by sulfate reducing microorganisms, which causes oil reservoir souring....
How sensitive spectroscopy tools can help identify substances linked to honeybee population decline
Ocean Optics enables highly sensitive, trace-level Raman spectroscopy measurements with its RAM-SERS-SP Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy substrates. The company recently demonstrated the power of the substrates’ proprietary gold-silver nanosponge alloy with a real world example related to the honeybee die-off problem...
Gates Foundation Grant to address market need for high volume, affordable and rapid cycle time pharmaceutical proteins.
DuPont Industrial Biosciences have announced receipt of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a new area of research. The research project, which commences immediately, aims to create new production systems to enable affordable, protein-based biologic medications, such as antibodies....
New research at the Guangdong Medical University suggests a laser-based approach could be the latest breakthrough in prostate cancer detection.
The proposed non-invasive blood test uses a combination of two techniques: surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and a new mathematical analysis technique called support vector machine (SVM). Together, these techniques produce an accuracy up to 98.1 percent; a far cry from the relative guesswork of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests...
The Company has also entered into a grant-funded collaboration with Solentim, the developer of the Cell MetricTM and dedicated instrumentation for cell line development, to establish automated approaches for the gene editing of cell lines.
The good news is there a few steps every lab can take to create an eco-friendlier environment, without compromising results. Radleys, a leading provider of scientific glassware, is here to offer some top tips for creating a greener lab…
The Liverpool-based company struck a deal with private equity investor LDC, part of Lloyds Banking Group, to capitalise on the strong and increasing demand for its solutions internationally, particularly in North America, Europe and Asia, whilst accelerating sales of its innovative AseptiSafe® Bio product and investment in the development of new products in the aftercare market....
Nanomaterials are known to be present in over 1300 commercial products. As a result of the European Union (EU) recently providing a precise definition of a nanomaterial for regulatory purposes, it has become important to be able to characterise nanomaterials reliably to understand their behaviour in contact with humans and the environment....
Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, today announced that it has successfully raised $11.55 million USD (£9.3 million GBP) financing. The investment round was led by existing investors, and will be used to commercially launch the company’s breath biomarker R&D services, including the opening of a new high volume clinical facility, and to fund ongoing clinical trials in lung and colon cancer screening. The funding follows...
Since 1839, the RMS has been championing microscopy, supporting scientists at all stages of their career and promoting the science to a wider audience. But behind the scenes, a dedicated team of office staff ensure the Society is serving its members and hosting high quality events to scientists all over the world....
The IVD LC-MS/MS system solution is a complete solution consisting of reagents and consumables, instrumentation, and software and support services for clinical laboratories routinely measuring vitamin D in patient samples*. The Vitamin D solution is currently only available for sale in Europe.
A researcher from the University of Leicester has been awarded a prestigious Research Councils grant to study antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from a new perspective. Dr Carolyn Tarrant, Associate Professor and co-lead of the SAPPHIRE research group at the University of Leicester is the recipient of a £250,000 award from the Research Councils’ Tackling AMR initiative, which will fund a two year...
Synpromics will develop a complex bar-coded library of synthetic promoters, using its proprietary PromPT™ platform, for extensive screening in GE Healthcare’s Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) - based expression system. The resulting characterised promoter toolbox is anticipated to have broad applicability for increasing the yield of a range of biopharmaceuticals, including proteins difficult to manufacture....
Antibiotic resistant infections are predicted to lead to 10 million deaths per year globally by 2050 at a cost of up to $100 trillion to the world economy. In the UK at least 5,000 people per year die from resistant infections...
The society is highlighting two outstanding projects that have been funded through its research grants; one was a study on resistance after treating patients with antifungal drugs and another on the genetic evolution of the human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype 16 causing most of the HPV-related anogenital cancers in humans....
As the only U.S.-based manufacturer to offer complete vial handling solutions covering washing, sterilization, filling, stoppering, capping and both tray and freeze dryer loading/unloading equipment – SP Scientific’s PennTech® brand has earned an international reputation for supplying reliable, high performance equipment....
Rotary evaporators typically have an integral water or dry ice condenser which, when combined with a well-controlled automatic vacuum pump, provides an effective trap for most solvent vapours. However some solvent will always escape the condenser trap and make its way into the exhaust of the vacuum pump and out into your laboratory environment....
Dr Yadi is the founding CEO of the Northern Health Science Alliance Ltd (NHSA). Hakim led the formation of the NHSA, which links eight universities, eight NHS Teaching Trusts and four Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). Together the Alliance covers a population of over 15 million people. The NHSA acts as a single portal bringing together research, health science innovation and commercialisation to benefit researchers, universities, hospitals, patients as well as commercial partners...
Bats play a major role in our ecosystem, but due to numerous threats bat populations have declined significantly over the years. FLIR thermal imaging technology is now playing a key role in helping experts understand, and conserve, bat populations in the UK. A video report from bat conservation advisors, Simon Holmes and Joe Nunez-Mino, from the Bat Conservation Trust in the UK, explains the important role that FLIR’s T1030sc thermal imaging cameras play in...
In this presentation, Mr. Luoma examines the benefits of the technology for high fill-volume configurations and presents new data regarding the mechanism of the ControLyo™ Technology. The presentation shows how gaining a more complete understanding of the mechanism of nucleation using ControLyo™ Technology ensures more robust freezing when scaling from the lab to commercial-scale freeze dryers....
Domain Therapeutics, a France- and Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of new drug candidates that target G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), announces the signing of a licensing agreement for its GPCR BioSens-All™ technology with Alkermes, a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing medicines for the treatment of central nervous system diseases....
Whether you are a relative newcomer to chromatography or a seasoned veteran, you can benefit from one of our courses. New courses for 2017 include Pharmaceutical Data Integrity, Preparative HPLC and Method Development for HILIC Separations.Costs for our courses are just £55 for a short course and from £195 for a day course and ChromSoc, RSC and IBMS members all receive a 10% discount on all courses....
Laboratory manager Anna Engelbrekston explained: “Our group’s research concentrates on oil reservoir microbes, specifically looking at inhibiting the production of hydrogen sulfide by sulfate reducing microorganisms, which causes oil reservoir souring....
Ocean Optics enables highly sensitive, trace-level Raman spectroscopy measurements with its RAM-SERS-SP Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy substrates. The company recently demonstrated the power of the substrates’ proprietary gold-silver nanosponge alloy with a real world example related to the honeybee die-off problem...
DuPont Industrial Biosciences have announced receipt of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a new area of research. The research project, which commences immediately, aims to create new production systems to enable affordable, protein-based biologic medications, such as antibodies....
The proposed non-invasive blood test uses a combination of two techniques: surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and a new mathematical analysis technique called support vector machine (SVM). Together, these techniques produce an accuracy up to 98.1 percent; a far cry from the relative guesswork of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests...