Astell Scientific, leaders in sterilization since 1884, are pleased to announce the launch of their new website.
Following recent corporate branding changes and the release of a new-look autoclave range, the new website combines these elements into a dynamic online platform suitable for browsing on modern digital devices. The website employs a bold and simple site structure designed to enhance navigation and showcase the full range of sterilization products available to customers....
SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom FH Panels enable streamlined investigation of FH and customisation of content
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its customisable SureSeq™ NGS panel range with the launch of the SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom FH Panel – allowing fast and cost-effective study of variants in familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The new panel delivers both single nucleotide variation (SNV) and copy number variation (CNV) detection on a single small NGS panel assay...
A £1.4million investment will provide more space for life sciences companies at a Nottingham Enterprise Zone site - thanks to funding from the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, Boots and MediCity.
Boots, the UK's leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer; MediCity, the business incubation site for health, wellbeing and life sciences enterprises; and D2N2 will fund the refurbishment of further areas within MediCity to create an additional 29,800 square foot space to host a cluster of new and growing health, medical technology and life sciences sector companies....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it has delivered 34 events across Europe in 2016, including Sweden, Norway and Finland which came into the mix for the first time.
Emily Quinton, European marketing communications manager, commented: “This has been a great year for Activate Science. The programme continues to go from strength to strength and has extended into 11 countries, reaching nearly 3,000 delegates.” Activate Science events are aimed at all laboratory personnel, including anyone who uses or purchases products...
Porvair Sciences will showcase two important technical breakthroughs at PAG XXV in San Diego (USA) from January 14-18, 2017.
Their brand-new 96-well Seed Genomics plate sets a new standard for high throughput plant genomics sample preparation. Unlike most commercially available deep well plates, the Seed Genomics plate has been proven to withstand demanding applications using steel ball bearings in the wells shaken at up to 1500rpm used to homogenise seeds, leaves or tissue ready for DNA extraction...
Spectro Scientific noted five years of the company’s growth in the Chinese market with a celebratory event in Beijing.
More than 100 industrial customers, government representatives, and members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences attended the gathering. Spectro Scientific global sales vice president Yuegang Zhao, company chief financial officer Carey Ross, and the staff of the Spectro Beijing office hosted the event, where local speakers revealed development trends in oil analysis technologies implemented in Chinese industrial facilities....
Asynt announces an updated version of its best practice guide developed to enable laboratory personnel to more safely use heating block systems.
Written in conjunction with the Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews (UK) and Advanced Chemical Safety Inc. (USA) the illustrated guide leads you through best practices for glassware inspection, setting up your reaction, heating your reaction and the post-reaction cool down phase.....
Olympus’ DP74 microscopy camera enhances return on investment by efficiently delivering sensitive fluorescence and brightfield imaging in one camera.
With a 60 frames per second live image and a 20.7 megapixel resolution it delivers a lifelike experience on-screen while also introducing intelligent features to make everyday operation faster and more convenient. Helping to save time and increase comfort at the microscope, Olympus’ new DP74 camera for brightfield and fluorescence delivers intelligent imaging....
The preparative and process chromatography market is expected to reach $8,950 million by 2019 from $6351.5 million in 2014, at a CAGR of 7.1%.
The global Preparative and Process Chromatography market is categorized on the basis of products and services, end user, and geography. The service segment is expected to register the highest growth rate in the Preparative and Process Chromatography market, by products and services, during the forecast period....
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on the exciting “COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts” exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Amongst various analytical instruments, the ASD FieldSpec 4 system was used to characterise both inorganic and organic materials (pigments and binders) on a number of illuminated manuscripts. The “COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts” exhibition celebrates the Fitzwilliam’s 2016 bicentenary....
Glass Solutions, a world leader in the manufacture of high quality, precision glassware, is the supplier of choice for a wide variety of laboratories, providing specialist scientific glassware backed by unrivalled service and support.
With extensive in-house expertise, combined with the UK’s largest advanced glass-blowing facility, the company is ideally placed to produce exceptional quality, precision manufactured glassware to suit a wide variety of laboratory applications. Based in a modern, purpose-built facility....
SP Scientific has published a white paper that discusses how the pharmaceutical industry and safety regulators are putting more emphasis on the importance of using external washers to remove particles from the outside of vials.
Many organizations today are electing to install external vial washers in association with filling applications involving powders, high potency liquids and freeze-dried materials to minimize the risk of operator or end-user exposure to harmful products. The white paper provides an informative introduction to...
Partnership will focus on the development of new therapeutics for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Mironid Ltd, a leader in cell signalling-directed drug development, and the University of Sheffield, has announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to identify and develop new molecules for the treatment of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease...
New funds will be used to expand world’s largest human genomic data portal
Repositive, the company that created the world’s largest portal for accessing human genomic research data, has closed a Series A funding round of £2.5m. The investors include lead investor, Ananda Social Venture Fund, Force Over Mass Capital and sees Amadeus Capital Partners and Jonathan Milner increase their investments, having previously participated in seed funding Repositive....
BioTek’s BioSpa Live Cell Imaging System fully automates live cell imaging workflows for robust, real-time results without the need for manual intervention.
The BioSpa System has a compact footprint for use on benchtops and in biosafety cabinets, and consists of the BioSpa™ 8 Automated Incubator and Cytation™ 5 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader. BioTek’s liquid handling instruments may also be linked with the BioSpa System for complete, walk away automation from sample preparation through image analysis....
Data from the largest Phase III trial ever conducted in myeloma have shown a significant, 95%, increase in progression free survival (PFS) in myeloma patients receiving lenalidomide maintenance treatment.
Researchers from the Myeloma XI trial have concluded that the use of maintenance lenalidomide treatment results in highly significant improvements in PFS for patients of all ages, and it should be used as standard care. This pathway of the trial explored the use of oral lenalidomide taken until disease progression, compared to no maintenance treatment....
Postnova Analytics reports on the recent investment by the Department of Chemistry at University College London (UCL) in an AF2000 Field Flow Fractionation (FFF) System to assist them in their development of novel nanoscale vehicles for drug delivery.
UCL has pioneered the engineering of novel nanoscale drug delivery vehicles which can be tuned to release a range of cargos. The drug delivery system is based upon the synthesis of self-assembled spherical polymer vesicles known as polymersomes. Polymersomes are biocompatible and stable making them ideal for the development of drug delivery systems...
Product offers smaller sample volumes and four times higher throughput than traditional assays
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today launched the MILLIPLEX® MAP Human High Sensitivity cytokine panelfor faster and more cost-effective human cytokine assays. The new panel allows researchers to achieve four times higher throughput than traditional assays while using smaller sample sizes....
Trajan Scientific and Medical welcomed Federal Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science, Hon. Greg Hunt MP to the company’s Global Headquarters in Melbourne.
The visit provided the opportunity for Trajan to showcase its leadership approach to leveraging academic and commercial partnerships to deliver innovative solutions to the global scientific and medical market....
AMSBIO reports on the recent publication in Nature Protocols by Dr Meritxell Huch and co-workers which describes development of culture conditions that allow the long-term expansion of adult primary tissues from the liver and pancreas into self-assembling 3D organoid cultures.
Traditionally adult somatic tissues have proven difficult to expand in vitro, largely because of the complexity of recreating appropriate environmental signals in culture. Huch** and co-workers have overcome this problem and describe recently established protocols for the long-term (> 1 year) expansion and genetic manipulation of adult liver and pancreas cells in 3D organoid culture...
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are using a METTLER TOLEDO Rainin Pos-D™ positive-displacement pipette to investigate the role of chemical dispersants in the biodegradation of oil in Arctic marine environments.
Taylor Gofstein, a PhD student, explained: “Little is known about the fate of oil or oil spill response chemicals – like dispersants – in Arctic waters, since most studies regarding dispersants are performed in temperate regions. There is currently a pretty hot debate in the environmental microbiology community about the role dispersants play in the biodegradation of oil....
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in custom oligonucleotide synthesis, announces the winners of its 2016 Sustainability Award contest.
This award recognizes innovative research that has the potential to make a global impact in the area of biodiversity. This year’s winning projects highlight the importance of sustaining biodiversity in groundwater, seed banks, and the microbiome of birds....
Following recent corporate branding changes and the release of a new-look autoclave range, the new website combines these elements into a dynamic online platform suitable for browsing on modern digital devices. The website employs a bold and simple site structure designed to enhance navigation and showcase the full range of sterilization products available to customers....
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has expanded its customisable SureSeq™ NGS panel range with the launch of the SureSeq myPanel™ NGS Custom FH Panel – allowing fast and cost-effective study of variants in familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The new panel delivers both single nucleotide variation (SNV) and copy number variation (CNV) detection on a single small NGS panel assay...
Boots, the UK's leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer; MediCity, the business incubation site for health, wellbeing and life sciences enterprises; and D2N2 will fund the refurbishment of further areas within MediCity to create an additional 29,800 square foot space to host a cluster of new and growing health, medical technology and life sciences sector companies....
Emily Quinton, European marketing communications manager, commented: “This has been a great year for Activate Science. The programme continues to go from strength to strength and has extended into 11 countries, reaching nearly 3,000 delegates.” Activate Science events are aimed at all laboratory personnel, including anyone who uses or purchases products...
Their brand-new 96-well Seed Genomics plate sets a new standard for high throughput plant genomics sample preparation. Unlike most commercially available deep well plates, the Seed Genomics plate has been proven to withstand demanding applications using steel ball bearings in the wells shaken at up to 1500rpm used to homogenise seeds, leaves or tissue ready for DNA extraction...
More than 100 industrial customers, government representatives, and members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences attended the gathering. Spectro Scientific global sales vice president Yuegang Zhao, company chief financial officer Carey Ross, and the staff of the Spectro Beijing office hosted the event, where local speakers revealed development trends in oil analysis technologies implemented in Chinese industrial facilities....
Written in conjunction with the Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews (UK) and Advanced Chemical Safety Inc. (USA) the illustrated guide leads you through best practices for glassware inspection, setting up your reaction, heating your reaction and the post-reaction cool down phase.....
With a 60 frames per second live image and a 20.7 megapixel resolution it delivers a lifelike experience on-screen while also introducing intelligent features to make everyday operation faster and more convenient. Helping to save time and increase comfort at the microscope, Olympus’ new DP74 camera for brightfield and fluorescence delivers intelligent imaging....
The global Preparative and Process Chromatography market is categorized on the basis of products and services, end user, and geography. The service segment is expected to register the highest growth rate in the Preparative and Process Chromatography market, by products and services, during the forecast period....
Amongst various analytical instruments, the ASD FieldSpec 4 system was used to characterise both inorganic and organic materials (pigments and binders) on a number of illuminated manuscripts. The “COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts” exhibition celebrates the Fitzwilliam’s 2016 bicentenary....
With extensive in-house expertise, combined with the UK’s largest advanced glass-blowing facility, the company is ideally placed to produce exceptional quality, precision manufactured glassware to suit a wide variety of laboratory applications. Based in a modern, purpose-built facility....
Many organizations today are electing to install external vial washers in association with filling applications involving powders, high potency liquids and freeze-dried materials to minimize the risk of operator or end-user exposure to harmful products. The white paper provides an informative introduction to...
Mironid Ltd, a leader in cell signalling-directed drug development, and the University of Sheffield, has announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to identify and develop new molecules for the treatment of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease...
Repositive, the company that created the world’s largest portal for accessing human genomic research data, has closed a Series A funding round of £2.5m. The investors include lead investor, Ananda Social Venture Fund, Force Over Mass Capital and sees Amadeus Capital Partners and Jonathan Milner increase their investments, having previously participated in seed funding Repositive....
The BioSpa System has a compact footprint for use on benchtops and in biosafety cabinets, and consists of the BioSpa™ 8 Automated Incubator and Cytation™ 5 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader. BioTek’s liquid handling instruments may also be linked with the BioSpa System for complete, walk away automation from sample preparation through image analysis....
Researchers from the Myeloma XI trial have concluded that the use of maintenance lenalidomide treatment results in highly significant improvements in PFS for patients of all ages, and it should be used as standard care. This pathway of the trial explored the use of oral lenalidomide taken until disease progression, compared to no maintenance treatment....
UCL has pioneered the engineering of novel nanoscale drug delivery vehicles which can be tuned to release a range of cargos. The drug delivery system is based upon the synthesis of self-assembled spherical polymer vesicles known as polymersomes. Polymersomes are biocompatible and stable making them ideal for the development of drug delivery systems...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today launched the MILLIPLEX® MAP Human High Sensitivity cytokine panelfor faster and more cost-effective human cytokine assays. The new panel allows researchers to achieve four times higher throughput than traditional assays while using smaller sample sizes....
The visit provided the opportunity for Trajan to showcase its leadership approach to leveraging academic and commercial partnerships to deliver innovative solutions to the global scientific and medical market....
Traditionally adult somatic tissues have proven difficult to expand in vitro, largely because of the complexity of recreating appropriate environmental signals in culture. Huch** and co-workers have overcome this problem and describe recently established protocols for the long-term (> 1 year) expansion and genetic manipulation of adult liver and pancreas cells in 3D organoid culture...
Taylor Gofstein, a PhD student, explained: “Little is known about the fate of oil or oil spill response chemicals – like dispersants – in Arctic waters, since most studies regarding dispersants are performed in temperate regions. There is currently a pretty hot debate in the environmental microbiology community about the role dispersants play in the biodegradation of oil....
This award recognizes innovative research that has the potential to make a global impact in the area of biodiversity. This year’s winning projects highlight the importance of sustaining biodiversity in groundwater, seed banks, and the microbiome of birds....