Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today recognized the progress and impact of genomic technologies on pathogen preparedness and response. Following the boost in sequencing infrastructure and capabilities driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, today genomic technologies are enabling public health agencies and health care systems to better prepare for, and respond to, pathogenic threats...
The Lab Awards, brought to you by Lab Innovations in partnership with Laboratory News, are back and bigger than ever at this year’s show, where winners will be crowned in categories such as sustainability, collaboration and innovation. In previous years, the lab awards has been hosted on the exhibition floor at Lab Innovations, but, this year, the thirteen winners will claim their prizes on the evening of November 1 at The Vox, Birmingham as part of a special black-tie gala dinner...
The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK has announced the keynote speakers for Drug Discovery 2023, taking place at the ACC in Liverpool from 18–19 October. Prof Janet Hemingway CBE, FRS, Founding Director of Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), and Dr Dave Powell, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of LifeArc will lead this year’s event focussing on diverse thinking and new perspectives...
Over 450 delegates gathered at ExCeL London on 23-24 May 2023 for the inaugural Genomics and Precision Medicine Expo, in partnership with Genomics England. The conference and exhibition delivered 13 sessions presented by 20 leading speakers in the field. A wide range of professionals, including consultants, pharmacists, healthcare scientists, nurses, pathologists and GPs, attended the event to advance their knowledge and bridge the gap between science and patient care.
The Institute for Cancer Research (ICR), part of the University of London, is using VIAFLO electronic pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its preclinical drug screening and translational medicine workflows. These pipettes are used to help identify new drug targets and advance into clinical trials, significantly increasing the center’s throughput and reproducibility of results...
Bruker Corporation announce that is has closed the acquisition of ZONTAL Inc., an innovative platform provider for the digital transformation of the analytical laboratory, and for integrated biopharma technical data solutions. This acquisition further strengthens Bruker BioSpin’s Integrated Data Solutions (IDS) software division, which includes Mestrelab Research, Arxspan and Optimal...
Reactant concentrations can be easily monitored and adjusted by simply controlling the input/output flow rates into/out of the reactor, which gives chemists greater accuracy when carrying out complex reactions. The stirring of solutions within the reactor also ensures that reactants remain evenly mixed, resulting in consistent products across different batches. Furthermore, since reactions occur in real time with CSTRs, their residence times are much shorter compared to batch processing methods...
Next month, Priorclave will be highlighting its new laboratory and research grade autoclave ranges on stand A71, Hall 2 at Analytica Lab Africa 2023. There are three new core research grade laboratory autoclave groups, each with several models and offering more features and benefits than previously available as standard. Currently there are more than 70 standard Priorclave autoclaves, including Benchtop, Top Loading and Front-Loading models with either cylindrical or rectangular chambers, and capacities ranging from 40 to 850 litre...
INTEGRA Biosciences has developed a comprehensive article exploring the key benefits of electronic benchtop liquid handling systems, as well as the telltale signs that indicate it's time to make the switch, to help you make the transition to a more efficient, accurate and user-friendly pipetting solution. INTEGRA offers a range of innovative benchtop liquid handling systems – from the MINI 96 electronic pipette and VIAFLO 96 and VIAFLO 384 handheld electronic pipettes to the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot – that are designed to fit any budget...
ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D, and Virscidian, a provider of analytical informatics and processing software, has announced a collaboration to better support mutual customers undertaking high throughput analyses. The partners independently bring decades of experience and expertise in vendor-neutral solutions for analytical data processing and management...
Two key challenges in chemistry innovation are solved simultaneously by exploring chemical opportunities with artificial intelligence. Researchers in Japan have developed a machine learning process that simultaneously designs new molecules and suggests the chemical reactions to make them. The team, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo, published their results in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials...
On January 1st 2023 the 11th edition of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) took effect. In course of revision, it was harmonised with the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP), British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) so that the general chapter 2.2.46 on chromatographic separation techniques received an update. To keep you up to date on the permitted changes, YMC's technical experts have compiled for you these new rules in a helpful technical note, which lists all relevant allowed changes on one page...
Biotage has completed the acquisition of Astrea Bioseparations, a high-growth chromatography solutions provider from Gamma Biosciences, a life sciences tools platform created by KKR. Astrea’s over 150 employees worldwide will join Biotage, and the company’s production sites in Cambridge, UK, Isle of Man, Boston, USA, and Joliette, Canada become an important part of Biotage’s global presence. Biotage’s expanded portfolio will now include chromatography resins, absorbents, and columns...
LynxDx, a Michigan diagnostics laboratory specializing in prostate cancer screening and risk prediction, acquired liquid handling solutions from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its sample preparation for high throughput COVID-19 testing. The lab is now in the process of moving these products over to prostate cancer screening, where they are helping to improve result accuracy and turnaround times and, ultimately, support timely diagnosis and treatment...
Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC™) Process Analysis System and the Sartorius™ Resolute® BioSMB™ multi-column chromatography platform will give bioprocess engineers access...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, invests € 35 million in biosafety testing at its Glasgow and Stirling sites, Scotland. Biosafety testing is a critical step in the drug development and manufacturing process that ensures drugs are safe, efficacious, and meet regulatory requirements. The expansion will create nearly 500 new jobs, bringing Merck’s workforce to over 1,200 employees across the two sites...
The Earlham Institute has been awarded £31.4m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UKRI, to deliver an ambitious programme of research, develop new technology, and deliver innovation and impact over the next five years. This investment covers two new strategic programmes of research - Cellular Genomics and Decoding Biodiversity - and two National Bioscience Research Infrastructures (NBRIs) - Transformative Genomics and the Earlham Biofoundry...
Have you read a ton of articles on phase contrast microscopy, but still can’t get the full picture? Well then, watch the second movie in the mini-movie series, “Microscopy With ibidi,” for a simple explanation of how this microscopy technique works. In this short movie, we will show you why this microscopy technique is so important for scientists. and how phase contrast makes almost transparent cells clearly visible...
An international team of scientists from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Germany employed state-of-the-art biochemical and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) methods to study the spliceosome in intricate detail and answer long standing questions about how it works. The spliceosome operates like a nanobot, processing RNA – genetic instructions copied from DNA – in a key step to allow the building of complex proteins...
The Verder Group is proud to announce the successful acquisition of ERWEKA, a highly regarded German company renowned for its development and manufacturing of premium tablet testing equipment. With this acquisition Verder Scientific further strengthens its position and accelerates the growth trajectory in targeted niche markets with high state of the art equipment...
As the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer has touched the lives of most Americans. In an effort to improve treatments for patients on Earth by better understanding how cancer spreads, a team of researchers is sending cancer organoids to space in an investigation sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory. In collaboration with Axiom Space, researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Sanford Stem Cell Institute, will study the properties of cancer stem cells...
With the historically significant SPECORD device from Analytik Jena, a representative of one of the most proven analytical technologies celebrates its 60th birthday. The fact that the SPECORD spectrophotometer is still an important instrument for UV/Vis analysis worldwide is due both to the SPECORD technology, which has grown over decades, and to its continuous further development. This powerful combination is behind its ability to withstand the constantly increasing quality demands of the analysis market...
Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today recognized the progress and impact of genomic technologies on pathogen preparedness and response. Following the boost in sequencing infrastructure and capabilities driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, today genomic technologies are enabling public health agencies and health care systems to better prepare for, and respond to, pathogenic threats...
The Lab Awards, brought to you by Lab Innovations in partnership with Laboratory News, are back and bigger than ever at this year’s show, where winners will be crowned in categories such as sustainability, collaboration and innovation. In previous years, the lab awards has been hosted on the exhibition floor at Lab Innovations, but, this year, the thirteen winners will claim their prizes on the evening of November 1 at The Vox, Birmingham as part of a special black-tie gala dinner...
The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK has announced the keynote speakers for Drug Discovery 2023, taking place at the ACC in Liverpool from 18–19 October. Prof Janet Hemingway CBE, FRS, Founding Director of Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), and Dr Dave Powell, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of LifeArc will lead this year’s event focussing on diverse thinking and new perspectives...
Over 450 delegates gathered at ExCeL London on 23-24 May 2023 for the inaugural Genomics and Precision Medicine Expo, in partnership with Genomics England. The conference and exhibition delivered 13 sessions presented by 20 leading speakers in the field. A wide range of professionals, including consultants, pharmacists, healthcare scientists, nurses, pathologists and GPs, attended the event to advance their knowledge and bridge the gap between science and patient care.
The Institute for Cancer Research (ICR), part of the University of London, is using VIAFLO electronic pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its preclinical drug screening and translational medicine workflows. These pipettes are used to help identify new drug targets and advance into clinical trials, significantly increasing the center’s throughput and reproducibility of results...
Bruker Corporation announce that is has closed the acquisition of ZONTAL Inc., an innovative platform provider for the digital transformation of the analytical laboratory, and for integrated biopharma technical data solutions. This acquisition further strengthens Bruker BioSpin’s Integrated Data Solutions (IDS) software division, which includes Mestrelab Research, Arxspan and Optimal...
Reactant concentrations can be easily monitored and adjusted by simply controlling the input/output flow rates into/out of the reactor, which gives chemists greater accuracy when carrying out complex reactions. The stirring of solutions within the reactor also ensures that reactants remain evenly mixed, resulting in consistent products across different batches. Furthermore, since reactions occur in real time with CSTRs, their residence times are much shorter compared to batch processing methods...
Next month, Priorclave will be highlighting its new laboratory and research grade autoclave ranges on stand A71, Hall 2 at Analytica Lab Africa 2023. There are three new core research grade laboratory autoclave groups, each with several models and offering more features and benefits than previously available as standard. Currently there are more than 70 standard Priorclave autoclaves, including Benchtop, Top Loading and Front-Loading models with either cylindrical or rectangular chambers, and capacities ranging from 40 to 850 litre...
INTEGRA Biosciences has developed a comprehensive article exploring the key benefits of electronic benchtop liquid handling systems, as well as the telltale signs that indicate it's time to make the switch, to help you make the transition to a more efficient, accurate and user-friendly pipetting solution. INTEGRA offers a range of innovative benchtop liquid handling systems – from the MINI 96 electronic pipette and VIAFLO 96 and VIAFLO 384 handheld electronic pipettes to the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot – that are designed to fit any budget...
ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D, and Virscidian, a provider of analytical informatics and processing software, has announced a collaboration to better support mutual customers undertaking high throughput analyses. The partners independently bring decades of experience and expertise in vendor-neutral solutions for analytical data processing and management...
Two key challenges in chemistry innovation are solved simultaneously by exploring chemical opportunities with artificial intelligence. Researchers in Japan have developed a machine learning process that simultaneously designs new molecules and suggests the chemical reactions to make them. The team, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo, published their results in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials...
On January 1st 2023 the 11th edition of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) took effect. In course of revision, it was harmonised with the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP), British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) so that the general chapter 2.2.46 on chromatographic separation techniques received an update. To keep you up to date on the permitted changes, YMC's technical experts have compiled for you these new rules in a helpful technical note, which lists all relevant allowed changes on one page...
Biotage has completed the acquisition of Astrea Bioseparations, a high-growth chromatography solutions provider from Gamma Biosciences, a life sciences tools platform created by KKR. Astrea’s over 150 employees worldwide will join Biotage, and the company’s production sites in Cambridge, UK, Isle of Man, Boston, USA, and Joliette, Canada become an important part of Biotage’s global presence. Biotage’s expanded portfolio will now include chromatography resins, absorbents, and columns...
LynxDx, a Michigan diagnostics laboratory specializing in prostate cancer screening and risk prediction, acquired liquid handling solutions from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its sample preparation for high throughput COVID-19 testing. The lab is now in the process of moving these products over to prostate cancer screening, where they are helping to improve result accuracy and turnaround times and, ultimately, support timely diagnosis and treatment...
Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC™) Process Analysis System and the Sartorius™ Resolute® BioSMB™ multi-column chromatography platform will give bioprocess engineers access...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, invests € 35 million in biosafety testing at its Glasgow and Stirling sites, Scotland. Biosafety testing is a critical step in the drug development and manufacturing process that ensures drugs are safe, efficacious, and meet regulatory requirements. The expansion will create nearly 500 new jobs, bringing Merck’s workforce to over 1,200 employees across the two sites...
The Earlham Institute has been awarded £31.4m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UKRI, to deliver an ambitious programme of research, develop new technology, and deliver innovation and impact over the next five years. This investment covers two new strategic programmes of research - Cellular Genomics and Decoding Biodiversity - and two National Bioscience Research Infrastructures (NBRIs) - Transformative Genomics and the Earlham Biofoundry...
Have you read a ton of articles on phase contrast microscopy, but still can’t get the full picture? Well then, watch the second movie in the mini-movie series, “Microscopy With ibidi,” for a simple explanation of how this microscopy technique works. In this short movie, we will show you why this microscopy technique is so important for scientists. and how phase contrast makes almost transparent cells clearly visible...
An international team of scientists from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Germany employed state-of-the-art biochemical and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) methods to study the spliceosome in intricate detail and answer long standing questions about how it works. The spliceosome operates like a nanobot, processing RNA – genetic instructions copied from DNA – in a key step to allow the building of complex proteins...
The Verder Group is proud to announce the successful acquisition of ERWEKA, a highly regarded German company renowned for its development and manufacturing of premium tablet testing equipment. With this acquisition Verder Scientific further strengthens its position and accelerates the growth trajectory in targeted niche markets with high state of the art equipment...
As the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer has touched the lives of most Americans. In an effort to improve treatments for patients on Earth by better understanding how cancer spreads, a team of researchers is sending cancer organoids to space in an investigation sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory. In collaboration with Axiom Space, researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Sanford Stem Cell Institute, will study the properties of cancer stem cells...
With the historically significant SPECORD device from Analytik Jena, a representative of one of the most proven analytical technologies celebrates its 60th birthday. The fact that the SPECORD spectrophotometer is still an important instrument for UV/Vis analysis worldwide is due both to the SPECORD technology, which has grown over decades, and to its continuous further development. This powerful combination is behind its ability to withstand the constantly increasing quality demands of the analysis market...