New application dramatically reduces paperwork and the risk of errors and equipment failures
Laboratories throughout the country are highly automated operations but logging instruments checks and calibrations to meet regulatory requirements is still mostly a manual paper task. A new medical application virtually eliminates the need for paper logs and allows laboratory engineers and technicians to perform routine quality inspections and equipment maintenance using a tablet...
Specialised Imaging Ltd reports as of 1st October 2016 the formation of a new division - Wegapixel focusing on the design and development of advanced CMOS imaging sensors.
Wegapixel has been set-up as a turn-key solutions provider for custom CMOS image sensors. In addition to conventional imager design, the company brings together unique expertise in many application areas including high speed imaging, electron microscopy, X-ray digital imaging as well as UV and IR imaging....
At the recent International Symposium on GPC/SEC and Related Techniques in Amsterdam, Postnova Analytics presented a well-received lecture entitled 'Comprehensive Characterization of Natural Rubber Samples using Thermal Field-Flow-Fractionation coupled with MALS and Triple Detection'.
The presentation by Dr Gerhard Heinzmann included an informative introduction to the Thermal Field Flow Fractionation (TF3) technique, a comparison of the technique versus using GPC/SEC and application examples including data from a complex natural rubber sample. The speaker explained how advantageously TF3 is able to separate samples by both particle size and chemical composition at the same time....
Magritek reports on how the Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Chemistry at Karel de Grote University College in Antwerp is using a Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer in both teaching and research.
Dr Jeroen Geuens is a member of the Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Chemistry (CESC) based in Antwerp at the Karel de Grote University College. The Centre specialises in research and services related to chemical and production processes together with offering professional degree courses.....
Until now, the only way to diagnose disease accurately using a microscope has been to take samples and send them back to a laboratory for expensive and time-consuming tests, carried out by experienced pathologists.
With the arrival of the ioLight microscope however, vets can immediately look at the sample and be able to either reassure pet owners or farmers , or prioritise laboratory diagnosis and treatment, if they are concerned. Launched in 2016, the ioLight microscope is the first professional-quality pocket digital microscope....
Research led by University of Leicester paves way for developing new treatments
‘The study demonstrated for the first time that a protein called PP5 was significantly upregulated in the lungs of severe asthmatic patients compared to healthy controls. We are extremely excited by this paradigm shift observation.’ - Dr Yassine Amrani, University of Leicester. A new study led by the University of Leicester to understand how to improve the health of severe asthma patients has made a breakthrough finding....
Quorum Technologies report on the use of their Q150T ES combined sputter coating and carbon coating system selected as a general purpose workhorse facility for the Biomedical Imaging Unit at Southampton University.
The Biomedical Imaging Unit (BIU) is a core facility which provides a diagnostic and research service in high quality/high resolution microscopy. It is a joint facility run for the benefit of, and jointly funded by, the University of Southampton and Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust with eight full time staff....
Content was king at Lab Innovations 2016. When the show closed its doors on Thursday it had delivered over 20 hours of educational content including seminar programmes from Campden BRI, NetComposites, the Science Council and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The show, which is the UK’s only event for laboratory professionals, also featured over 40 product or company launches plus two days of Live Lab demonstrations. Matt Benyon, Managing Director of Easyfairs, Lab Innovations organisers, commented: “The show once again proved it’s the must-attend event for the laboratory industry. We had more launches, new ideas and concepts live on the showfloor than ever before....
Read MoreDomain Therapeutics and Medicxi launch Mavalon Therapeutics, Aimed at Halting the Progression of ParkinsonNov 7, 2016
Medicxi will invest up to €9m ($10m) in the asset-centric company to show clinical efficacy of Mavalon’s GDNF-inducer drug candidate, an mGluR3 PAM molecule discovered by Domain Therapeutics.
Domain Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the discovery and development of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) drugs, today announces the creation of Mavalon Therapeutics, a company focused on stopping the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Medicxi, a venture fund dedicated to financing asset-centric companies, has committed up to €9m ($10m) in Mavalon. Over the past two decades, biotech companies and clinicians have tried to...
Horizon announces new bioproduction outlicense deal with a minimum value of £500,000
Novel licensing model allows early access over a 5 year period to bioproduction cell line innovations as well as for immediate use of Horizon’s GS Null CHO K1 bioproduction cell line for drug manufacturing. Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, announces a new licensing agreement with an unnamed commercial partner for access to Horizon bioproduction cell lines....
Chromatrap® has published a comprehensive Applications Compendium that includes hints and tips to improve your Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments, increase the effectiveness of your ChIP-seq library preparation and brings together its latest application notes in one informative document.
Chromatrap® solid-state ChIP technology has been adopted and shown by leading research groups worldwide to be more efficient than conventional bead-based methodologies. This is because the solid phase porous polymer, functionalized with either protein A or G, provides a greater surface area for chromatin antibody binding with very low non-specific binding.....
Siemens Healthineers has been collaborating with the University of Cambridge to install a new type of MRI scanner, which will allow researchers to see detail in the brain as tiny as a grain of sand.
The Siemens 7T Terra MRI has the potential to bring a new era of personalised treatments to major illnesses, including cancer, dementia and mental health conditions. The cutting-edge machinery gives researchers the opportunity to study how the brain encodes information, including things like individual memories. This means the scanner will now be able to now pick up on extremely small structures, including those associated with the early stages of Alzheimer...
Markes International has announced the launch of a new technology for high-capacity sorptive extraction of organic chemicals from liquids and solids.
The new HiSorb product range includes probes and accessories that sorptively extract volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) for analysis by thermal desorption (TD)–GC–MS. They can be used for both immersive extraction from liquids, or headspace sampling from solids. “HiSorb will especially appeal to existing TD users looking to extend their capabilities”, says HiSorb Product Manager Dr Lara Kelly...
Dr Shaun Cowley from the University of Leicester delivers Frank May Prize lecture
The lecture, delivered by Dr Shaun Cowley from the University’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, was free and open to the public and presented his latest research on gene regulation, examining how and why our bodies decide which genes should be switched on and which should be...
This year's MicroTAS Video Competition has been won by Enrica Rollo from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland, for her entertaining comparison between cleanrooms and kitchens.
The annual competition – run by microfluidics specialist Dolomite and Lab on a Chip, and supported by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society – embraces the lighter side of life sciences and chemistry, while giving delegates a chance to win €2,500 worth of Dolomite microfluidics equipment. Enrica's winning entry was a recipe for a 'Micropillars Chocolate Cake', providing an imaginative yet informative explanation of how micropillar electrodes...
Hookipa Biotech AG announces the award of a fifth major grant from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (Forschungs-Förderungs-Gesellschaft, FFG), the leading public funding agency for translational research in Austria.
A EUR 4.16 million grant has been awarded for the second year of a multi-year research and development project. The grant will be used to further substantiate the broad applicability of Hookipa’s arenaviral vector technologies for the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies and to progress the development of Hookipa’s lead oncology product HB201 for the treatment of HPV...
BioHub at Alderley Park, operated on behalf of Manchester Science Partnerships by life science incubation specialist, The BioCity Group, has been named as "Best UK Life Science Incubator" at the OBN Awards.
The OBN Awards celebrate innovation and achievement across the UK life sciences Industry, with categories covering Biotech, Medtech, Synthetic Biology and Digital Health and recognise achievements from emerging to late stage R&D companies to large pharma and life sciences investors. Judges were asked to consider which incubator provides the best service to start-up and emerging companies....
Quite often, generic pipette tips on a multichannel pipette resemble a mountain range rather than perfectly aligned tips.
The reason for misaligned tips lies in the widespread generic tip cone and tip fitting design as well as in the memory effect of the tip material, which gradually moves back to its original, non-stretched shape. Pipette tips not being perfectly level on a multichannel pipette are very likely to cause issues such as different immersion depths or faulty touch offs of individual tips, leading to negatively impacted pipetting results....
Genevac reports on a customer paper that describes the development and advantages of a new evaporative methodology for Mass Spectroscopic (MS) analysis replacing the traditional Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) technique for preparing environmental samples.
In recent years HPLC/MS/MS and UPLC have become the sensitive and specific techniques of choice for the detection of algal toxins in water. While the majority of published studies employ SPE for preparing environmental samples for MS or UPLC analysis, using this methodology can be very time consuming. In this paper a direct solvent evaporation methodology...
GENVASC study involving University of Leicester aims to improve risk prediction of Coronary Artery Disease
A team of researchers from the University of Leicester and NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit (LCBRU) in conjunction with colleagues from Primary Care and Leicester and Leicestershire CCGs have recruited their 20,000th participant to a landmark genetics study. The Genetics and Vascular Health Check study (GENVASC) aims to determine whether the addition of genetic information can better...
Bibby Scientific Ltd is offering an exclusive 10% discount to visitors to their stand, G5, at Lab Innovations.
Bibby Scientific will showcase the latest products from Jenway, Electrothermal, PCRmax, Stuart and Techne. Lab Innovations 2016 is the UK’s only event dedicated to lab professionals and returns to the NEC, Birmingham, from the 2nd to the 3rd of November after five consecutive years. The new PCRmax Alpha Cycler 2, dual block thermal cycler, will be revealed at the event.....
GILUPI GmbH announces the release of clinical data from a prostate cancer setting in August 2016.
The scientific paper demonstrate the isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood of prostate cancer patients with GILUPI CellCollector®. Liquid biopsy - isolating and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood of prostate cancer patients - can provide additional information on prognosis of patients, treatment efficacy and molecular tumor evolution.....
Laboratories throughout the country are highly automated operations but logging instruments checks and calibrations to meet regulatory requirements is still mostly a manual paper task. A new medical application virtually eliminates the need for paper logs and allows laboratory engineers and technicians to perform routine quality inspections and equipment maintenance using a tablet...
Wegapixel has been set-up as a turn-key solutions provider for custom CMOS image sensors. In addition to conventional imager design, the company brings together unique expertise in many application areas including high speed imaging, electron microscopy, X-ray digital imaging as well as UV and IR imaging....
The presentation by Dr Gerhard Heinzmann included an informative introduction to the Thermal Field Flow Fractionation (TF3) technique, a comparison of the technique versus using GPC/SEC and application examples including data from a complex natural rubber sample. The speaker explained how advantageously TF3 is able to separate samples by both particle size and chemical composition at the same time....
Dr Jeroen Geuens is a member of the Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Chemistry (CESC) based in Antwerp at the Karel de Grote University College. The Centre specialises in research and services related to chemical and production processes together with offering professional degree courses.....
With the arrival of the ioLight microscope however, vets can immediately look at the sample and be able to either reassure pet owners or farmers , or prioritise laboratory diagnosis and treatment, if they are concerned. Launched in 2016, the ioLight microscope is the first professional-quality pocket digital microscope....
‘The study demonstrated for the first time that a protein called PP5 was significantly upregulated in the lungs of severe asthmatic patients compared to healthy controls. We are extremely excited by this paradigm shift observation.’ - Dr Yassine Amrani, University of Leicester. A new study led by the University of Leicester to understand how to improve the health of severe asthma patients has made a breakthrough finding....
The Biomedical Imaging Unit (BIU) is a core facility which provides a diagnostic and research service in high quality/high resolution microscopy. It is a joint facility run for the benefit of, and jointly funded by, the University of Southampton and Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust with eight full time staff....
Domain Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the discovery and development of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) drugs, today announces the creation of Mavalon Therapeutics, a company focused on stopping the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Medicxi, a venture fund dedicated to financing asset-centric companies, has committed up to €9m ($10m) in Mavalon. Over the past two decades, biotech companies and clinicians have tried to...
Novel licensing model allows early access over a 5 year period to bioproduction cell line innovations as well as for immediate use of Horizon’s GS Null CHO K1 bioproduction cell line for drug manufacturing. Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, announces a new licensing agreement with an unnamed commercial partner for access to Horizon bioproduction cell lines....
Chromatrap® solid-state ChIP technology has been adopted and shown by leading research groups worldwide to be more efficient than conventional bead-based methodologies. This is because the solid phase porous polymer, functionalized with either protein A or G, provides a greater surface area for chromatin antibody binding with very low non-specific binding.....
The Siemens 7T Terra MRI has the potential to bring a new era of personalised treatments to major illnesses, including cancer, dementia and mental health conditions. The cutting-edge machinery gives researchers the opportunity to study how the brain encodes information, including things like individual memories. This means the scanner will now be able to now pick up on extremely small structures, including those associated with the early stages of Alzheimer...
The new HiSorb product range includes probes and accessories that sorptively extract volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) for analysis by thermal desorption (TD)–GC–MS. They can be used for both immersive extraction from liquids, or headspace sampling from solids. “HiSorb will especially appeal to existing TD users looking to extend their capabilities”, says HiSorb Product Manager Dr Lara Kelly...
The lecture, delivered by Dr Shaun Cowley from the University’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, was free and open to the public and presented his latest research on gene regulation, examining how and why our bodies decide which genes should be switched on and which should be...
The annual competition – run by microfluidics specialist Dolomite and Lab on a Chip, and supported by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society – embraces the lighter side of life sciences and chemistry, while giving delegates a chance to win €2,500 worth of Dolomite microfluidics equipment. Enrica's winning entry was a recipe for a 'Micropillars Chocolate Cake', providing an imaginative yet informative explanation of how micropillar electrodes...
A EUR 4.16 million grant has been awarded for the second year of a multi-year research and development project. The grant will be used to further substantiate the broad applicability of Hookipa’s arenaviral vector technologies for the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies and to progress the development of Hookipa’s lead oncology product HB201 for the treatment of HPV...
The OBN Awards celebrate innovation and achievement across the UK life sciences Industry, with categories covering Biotech, Medtech, Synthetic Biology and Digital Health and recognise achievements from emerging to late stage R&D companies to large pharma and life sciences investors. Judges were asked to consider which incubator provides the best service to start-up and emerging companies....
The reason for misaligned tips lies in the widespread generic tip cone and tip fitting design as well as in the memory effect of the tip material, which gradually moves back to its original, non-stretched shape. Pipette tips not being perfectly level on a multichannel pipette are very likely to cause issues such as different immersion depths or faulty touch offs of individual tips, leading to negatively impacted pipetting results....
In recent years HPLC/MS/MS and UPLC have become the sensitive and specific techniques of choice for the detection of algal toxins in water. While the majority of published studies employ SPE for preparing environmental samples for MS or UPLC analysis, using this methodology can be very time consuming. In this paper a direct solvent evaporation methodology...
A team of researchers from the University of Leicester and NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit (LCBRU) in conjunction with colleagues from Primary Care and Leicester and Leicestershire CCGs have recruited their 20,000th participant to a landmark genetics study. The Genetics and Vascular Health Check study (GENVASC) aims to determine whether the addition of genetic information can better...
Bibby Scientific will showcase the latest products from Jenway, Electrothermal, PCRmax, Stuart and Techne. Lab Innovations 2016 is the UK’s only event dedicated to lab professionals and returns to the NEC, Birmingham, from the 2nd to the 3rd of November after five consecutive years. The new PCRmax Alpha Cycler 2, dual block thermal cycler, will be revealed at the event.....
The scientific paper demonstrate the isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood of prostate cancer patients with GILUPI CellCollector®. Liquid biopsy - isolating and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood of prostate cancer patients - can provide additional information on prognosis of patients, treatment efficacy and molecular tumor evolution.....