Particle Metrix, developers of versatile particle characterization solutions for the life sciences, report on the work of the Baur Laboratory in the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital of Erlangen.
The Group, which is part of the Translational Research Center at the University, is working to quantify extracellular vesicles in plasma of patients. Andreas Baur leads a group in the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital of Erlangen. Their research focuses on the quantification of extracellular vesicles (EV) in plasma of patients. The group has used several different approaches as recently demonstrated in...
Researchers at North Carolina State University, led by Prof. Felix Castellano, have shown for the first time that the photogenerated triplet exciton in semiconductor nanocrystals can be harvested by surface bound molecular acceptors, exhibited by a six-order magnitude increase in the lifetime of the originally prepared excited state.
The research publication, featured in the prominent Science Magazine and titled “Direct observation of triplet energy transfer from semiconductor nanocrystals,” highlights the use of carefully constructed materials and multiple spectroscopic techniques to measure and characterize the triplet exciton energy transfer from cadmium selenide (CdSe) semiconductor nanocrystals, prepared by Prof. Mikhail Zamkov and...
International connectivity available to Algeria?s scientists, academics and students has recently been upgraded from 622Mbps to 2.5Gbps by networking organisation GÉANT and its regional partner ASREN (Arab States Research and Education Network).
The fourfold capacity increase is an early result of AfricaConnect2, the EU-funded pan-African connectivity project which supports the establishment of research and education (R&E) internet networks across Africa. ?Algeria has been connected continuously to Europe since 2004 - the longest of any partner country in the regional networking projects GÉANT manages?, commented Steve Cotter, CEO GÉANT...
See the latest advances in fluorescent cell analysis from Eikonix
The Countstar Fluorescence Cell Analyser offers a number of key advantages over existing technologies. It has some significant differences from other cell analysis devices and out-performs many others on the market.The combination of bright-field illumination with up to 5X magnification, 4 fluorescence excitation wavelengths and 5 emission wavelength filters give the system a very wide and flexible choice of sample options....
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the teaching of practical chemistry to students at Bloomfield College in New Jersey.
Dr Maria Vogt is Professor of Chemistry at Bloomfield College, an undergraduate college in New Jersey. She teaches lectures and runs labs in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Having had a prior research career and publishing more than 45 papers, Dr Vogt now devotes her efforts to prepare students for the "real world" by exposing them to as many hands-on and instrumental skills as possible prior to...
Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex 2016, the UK's showcase photonics conference & exhibition hosted the biennial London Roadshow at Imperial College.
Attendance increased with delegates attracted by an excellent scientific program which focused this year on applications in the life sciences. Photonex London returned to Imperial College in South Kensington with an exciting conference program on advances in photonic tools and techniques for the life sciences. The opening session focussed on the world of optical nanoscopy: meaning to look at new ways to...
This more powerful tool will now give you more promising results and yield in your DNA amplification work even cheaper.
Vivantis is pleased to announce the new 2X At Taq Master Mix (Hot Start). For a limited time there is a 20% off introductory offer. This more powerful tool will now give you more promising results and yield in your DNA amplification work. The 2X At Taq Master Mix is an optimised ready-to-use 2X concentrated DNA amplification mixture containing At Taq DNA Polymerase, reaction buffer, dNTPs, and MgCl2. At Taq DNA polymerase is a complex of specific anti-Taq monoclonal antibody with...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research into the interaction of bacteria with microstructured surfaces in the Department of Physics at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Dr Christine Müller-Renno is a member of the Ziegler Group in the Physics Department at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The main topics of their research are in nano- and microelectronics, as well as in medical engineering and fluid analysis. Other topics include catalysts and stain-resistant coatings by the use of nanomaterials. The Group uses the JPK NanoWizard® AFM to study the...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announces it will bring Fisher Scientific “Science World” to the Berlin Congress Center on 1 June 2016.
Science World is a well-established and popular event that began in the UK in the 1990’s. It showcases the latest in laboratory innovations with product demonstrations ideal for anyone who works in the laboratory. Taking its first step into continental Europe, Science World was held at the Berlin Congress Center in 2014. The 2015 event took place at the Congress Center in Düsseldorf. Frank Schestag, Fisher Scientific...
Viscometers, Rheometers, Texture Analyzers and Powder Flow Testers
Brookfield AMETEK has released their new 2016 full-color catalog with complete details on all product lines. The 2016 Catalog announces the acquisition of Brookfield Engineering Laboratories by AMETEK, Inc., an NYSE listed company (symbol: AME). Brookfield joins AMETEK ‘s Instrumentation and Specialty Controls (ISC) Division within the Electronic Instruments Group. The Catalog also presents the New DVE Viscometer, the most affordable...
Eppendorf’s new refrigerated Centrifuge 5920 R combines extraordinary high capacity with enhanced temperature management in a very compact and ergonomic product design.
Centrifuge 5920 R can accommodate up to 4 x standard 1 Liter Nalgene® bottles, as well as up to 108 x 15mL conical tubes, and 52 x 50mL conical tubes, enabling researchers to spin large volumes at any one time, in applications such as bioprocessing or cell culture. Additionally, the universal rotor bucket design means researchers can spin both plates and tubes in the same bucket without the need to purchase separate...
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has introduced InfinityLab, a product family of liquid chromatography instruments, columns and supplies. A key element of this introduction is the new Agilent 1260 Infinity II liquid chromatography system, which will bring high-end technology from Agilent’s flagship 1290 Infinity II LC into the company’s core platform. The Agilent 1220 Infinity II LC (available in August)...
The Chromatographic Society is to hold a four day chromatography educational event in the Lake District, for post-graduate students and novice chromatographers.
The event, which will be held from 14th – 17th October at the Wordsworth Hotel in Grasmere, comes during the society’s diamond anniversary year. Delivered by a number of renowned expert chromatographers, namely Professor Mel Euerby from Shimadzu, Tony Taylor from Crawford Scientific, Professor Tony Edge from Agilent, Dr John Lough from the University of Sunderland and Dr Paul Ferguson from...
Advanced Detection, Imaging and Diagnostics Solutions for Today’s Modern Laboratory
WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it will showcase several of its innovative solutions at Analytica 2016, the international trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology in Munich, Germany. “We are pleased to highlight our wide range of instruments, software and services with this...
How Providing Comprehensive Data Can Accelerate Drug Development
Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource today announced that its scientific experts will be presenting a live webinar about optimizing biosimilar analysis on Thursday, June 2, at 3 pm BST, 10 am EDT. The webinar is essential listening for researchers who want to understand how to select optimal clones and processes to accelerate development of their biosimilars. During the one-hour webinar, Dr. Martin De Cecco, and...
MR Solutions, of Guildford has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category.
This award is announced on the Queen’s birthday, 21April and is one of the UK’s highest accolades recognising business achievement. This has been achieved in recognition of MR Solutions’ development of a preclinical multi-modality MRI scanner which does away with the need for liquid helium cooling. In order for high powered MRI scanners to operate the magnet needs to be cooled to a very low...
BioTek Instruments is pleased to announce its collaboration with Merck on an integrated solution for long-term live cell experiments and dynamic time-lapse analyses, including automated cell perfusion and imaging.
The solution leverages each company’s respective expertise, and consists of BioTek’s new Lionheart™ FX Automated Live Cell Imager and Merck’s new CellASIC® ONIX2 Microfluidic System. This collaborative solution was introduced at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting recently held in New Orleans, LA. The Lionheart FX Automated Live Cell Imager is optimized for live cell...
ARGENX announced today having signed a major deal with AbbVie in the field of immuno-oncology.
This deal is the result of a highly productive collaboration between ARGENX, a biotech company, and the teams of Professors Pierre Coulie and Sophie Lucas of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), who are recognized worldwide as leaders in the field of immuno-oncology. This collaboration has resulted in an innovative therapeutic approach to stimulate the immune system of cancer patients...
Hakim Yadi, chief executive of the Northern Health Science Alliance, responded to the report issued by MedCity today forecasting a shortage of lab space in London.
He said: “The North has invested heavily in wet lab space and has an abundance of available low-cost space for companies looking to work in close proximity to leading hospitals and universities such as the stellar facilities at Alderley Park near Manchester, City Labs in the centre of Manchester, NETpark and the Wilton Centre in Durham and Teesside, and the new Liverpool Science Park...
Unlike traditional pipettes which utilize a single rotating plunger to set volumes, the new EVOLVE manual pipette range from INTEGRA features a revolutionary approach that allows users to set volumes more than ten times faster.
Available in single, eight and twelve channel formats, covering a volume range of 0.2 – 5,000 µl, the ultra-lightweight, well balanced design of the EVOLVE enhances productivity and comfort even during prolonged pipetting sessions....
The Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, part of the University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, is taking advantage of Anachem’s recently launched Rainin TerraRack™ pipette tip racks to minimize storage and waste disposal requirements.
Ian Newton, Scientific Officer in the Näthke lab, explained: “Our laboratory is focused on adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), a multi-functional protein which has a role in a variety of basic cellular processes, including cell migration, cell adhesion, and proliferation. Mutations in APC are closely linked with both inherited and sporadic colon cancer, and we use a variety of techniques to investigate the various protein interactions of APC in vivo....
The Group, which is part of the Translational Research Center at the University, is working to quantify extracellular vesicles in plasma of patients. Andreas Baur leads a group in the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital of Erlangen. Their research focuses on the quantification of extracellular vesicles (EV) in plasma of patients. The group has used several different approaches as recently demonstrated in...
The research publication, featured in the prominent Science Magazine and titled “Direct observation of triplet energy transfer from semiconductor nanocrystals,” highlights the use of carefully constructed materials and multiple spectroscopic techniques to measure and characterize the triplet exciton energy transfer from cadmium selenide (CdSe) semiconductor nanocrystals, prepared by Prof. Mikhail Zamkov and...
The fourfold capacity increase is an early result of AfricaConnect2, the EU-funded pan-African connectivity project which supports the establishment of research and education (R&E) internet networks across Africa. ?Algeria has been connected continuously to Europe since 2004 - the longest of any partner country in the regional networking projects GÉANT manages?, commented Steve Cotter, CEO GÉANT...
The Countstar Fluorescence Cell Analyser offers a number of key advantages over existing technologies. It has some significant differences from other cell analysis devices and out-performs many others on the market.The combination of bright-field illumination with up to 5X magnification, 4 fluorescence excitation wavelengths and 5 emission wavelength filters give the system a very wide and flexible choice of sample options....
Dr Maria Vogt is Professor of Chemistry at Bloomfield College, an undergraduate college in New Jersey. She teaches lectures and runs labs in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Having had a prior research career and publishing more than 45 papers, Dr Vogt now devotes her efforts to prepare students for the "real world" by exposing them to as many hands-on and instrumental skills as possible prior to...
Attendance increased with delegates attracted by an excellent scientific program which focused this year on applications in the life sciences. Photonex London returned to Imperial College in South Kensington with an exciting conference program on advances in photonic tools and techniques for the life sciences. The opening session focussed on the world of optical nanoscopy: meaning to look at new ways to...
Vivantis is pleased to announce the new 2X At Taq Master Mix (Hot Start). For a limited time there is a 20% off introductory offer. This more powerful tool will now give you more promising results and yield in your DNA amplification work. The 2X At Taq Master Mix is an optimised ready-to-use 2X concentrated DNA amplification mixture containing At Taq DNA Polymerase, reaction buffer, dNTPs, and MgCl2. At Taq DNA polymerase is a complex of specific anti-Taq monoclonal antibody with...
Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform that facilitates accessibility to unique bioresearch materials from laboratories across the globe, today announced the availability of a Zika virus antibody from Vanderbilt University. While researchers scramble to increase the pace of research toward treatment and prevention measures for the Zika virus, the virus’s geographical distribution continues to widen during this epidemic.
Dr Christine Müller-Renno is a member of the Ziegler Group in the Physics Department at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. The main topics of their research are in nano- and microelectronics, as well as in medical engineering and fluid analysis. Other topics include catalysts and stain-resistant coatings by the use of nanomaterials. The Group uses the JPK NanoWizard® AFM to study the...
Science World is a well-established and popular event that began in the UK in the 1990’s. It showcases the latest in laboratory innovations with product demonstrations ideal for anyone who works in the laboratory. Taking its first step into continental Europe, Science World was held at the Berlin Congress Center in 2014. The 2015 event took place at the Congress Center in Düsseldorf. Frank Schestag, Fisher Scientific...
Brookfield AMETEK has released their new 2016 full-color catalog with complete details on all product lines. The 2016 Catalog announces the acquisition of Brookfield Engineering Laboratories by AMETEK, Inc., an NYSE listed company (symbol: AME). Brookfield joins AMETEK ‘s Instrumentation and Specialty Controls (ISC) Division within the Electronic Instruments Group. The Catalog also presents the New DVE Viscometer, the most affordable...
Centrifuge 5920 R can accommodate up to 4 x standard 1 Liter Nalgene® bottles, as well as up to 108 x 15mL conical tubes, and 52 x 50mL conical tubes, enabling researchers to spin large volumes at any one time, in applications such as bioprocessing or cell culture. Additionally, the universal rotor bucket design means researchers can spin both plates and tubes in the same bucket without the need to purchase separate...
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has introduced InfinityLab, a product family of liquid chromatography instruments, columns and supplies. A key element of this introduction is the new Agilent 1260 Infinity II liquid chromatography system, which will bring high-end technology from Agilent’s flagship 1290 Infinity II LC into the company’s core platform. The Agilent 1220 Infinity II LC (available in August)...
The event, which will be held from 14th – 17th October at the Wordsworth Hotel in Grasmere, comes during the society’s diamond anniversary year. Delivered by a number of renowned expert chromatographers, namely Professor Mel Euerby from Shimadzu, Tony Taylor from Crawford Scientific, Professor Tony Edge from Agilent, Dr John Lough from the University of Sunderland and Dr Paul Ferguson from...
WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it will showcase several of its innovative solutions at Analytica 2016, the international trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology in Munich, Germany. “We are pleased to highlight our wide range of instruments, software and services with this...
Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource today announced that its scientific experts will be presenting a live webinar about optimizing biosimilar analysis on Thursday, June 2, at 3 pm BST, 10 am EDT. The webinar is essential listening for researchers who want to understand how to select optimal clones and processes to accelerate development of their biosimilars. During the one-hour webinar, Dr. Martin De Cecco, and...
This award is announced on the Queen’s birthday, 21April and is one of the UK’s highest accolades recognising business achievement. This has been achieved in recognition of MR Solutions’ development of a preclinical multi-modality MRI scanner which does away with the need for liquid helium cooling. In order for high powered MRI scanners to operate the magnet needs to be cooled to a very low...
The solution leverages each company’s respective expertise, and consists of BioTek’s new Lionheart™ FX Automated Live Cell Imager and Merck’s new CellASIC® ONIX2 Microfluidic System. This collaborative solution was introduced at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting recently held in New Orleans, LA. The Lionheart FX Automated Live Cell Imager is optimized for live cell...
This deal is the result of a highly productive collaboration between ARGENX, a biotech company, and the teams of Professors Pierre Coulie and Sophie Lucas of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), who are recognized worldwide as leaders in the field of immuno-oncology. This collaboration has resulted in an innovative therapeutic approach to stimulate the immune system of cancer patients...
He said: “The North has invested heavily in wet lab space and has an abundance of available low-cost space for companies looking to work in close proximity to leading hospitals and universities such as the stellar facilities at Alderley Park near Manchester, City Labs in the centre of Manchester, NETpark and the Wilton Centre in Durham and Teesside, and the new Liverpool Science Park...
Available in single, eight and twelve channel formats, covering a volume range of 0.2 – 5,000 µl, the ultra-lightweight, well balanced design of the EVOLVE enhances productivity and comfort even during prolonged pipetting sessions....