SGD Pharma, announces its goal to become the global market leader in primary pharmaceutical glass packaging. CEO Olivier Rousseau explains that SGD Pharma intends to significantly grow in 2024, with a sustained and consistent approach to its commercial, innovation, industrial, sustainability, HR and M&A strategies. Underpinning this objective Rousseau outlines the investment achievements already notched up in 2023, to illustrate how SGD Pharma has paved the way for this planned growth...
The cost and availability of helium is becoming increasingly challenging for labs, that can lead to a disruption to analysis. It’s becoming a real headache for analysts, and the situation is not going to improve! Using hydrogen as a carrier gas is a tried-and-tested way to alleviate this problem. Markes’ award-winning Multi-Gas enabled thermal desorbers use hydrogen carrier gas (along with both nitrogen and helium, if you prefer), and when coupled with your GC–MS overcome the problem we’re seeing with helium...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the launch of the Gibco™ Cell Therapy Systems (CTS™) Cellmation™ Software, a first-of-its-kind automation solution designed to connect and integrate workflows across multiple Thermo Fisher Scientific cell therapy instruments while enabling cGMP compliance. This new offering can help eliminate the need for costly custom software projects and extensive validation, saving valuable time and resources during the cell therapy manufacturing process...
From April 9 to 12, 2024, analytica, the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology, and ceramitec, the world’s leading trade fair for the ceramics industry, will be held in parallel at the Munich Exhibition Center. This will create added value for exhibitors and visitors at both events, as the entire value chain from material development to analytical precision will be covered...
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has appointed Dr Christian Baber as its new Chief Portfolio Officer. Dr Baber brings 30 years’ industry expertise, including experience of leading both R&D and technology divisions for global pharmaceutical organizations focused on informatics and predictive modelling for drug discovery...
Cherwell, cleanroom microbiology solutions expert, is excited to announce it is joining the AnalytiChem group of companies. Cherwell will join seven other businesses within the group, located across Europe, North America and Australia. Cherwell was founded in 1971 and serves customers across the UK and internationally with a range of products and solutions focused on environmental and process monitoring within pharmaceutical manufacturing...
Using technology originally designed for defect detection in electronics manufacturing, the newly built “ExA-SPIM” microscope is showing scientists the mouse brain as it’s never been seen before. ExA-SPIM, developed by a team at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, a division of the Allen Institute, is a one-of-a-kind microscope built for capturing images of the entire mouse brain at incredible resolution. The images coming off the scope allow the scientists to view individual neurons and their wiring in the context of the entire mouse brain...
Autoscribe is thrilled to be demonstrating its latest Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) innovations at the industry’s leading US laboratory event PITTCON 2024. Autoscribe Informatics, now part of Xybion Digital, will showcase the industry’s leading configurable laboratory software solution, Matrix Gemini LIMS. Combining these two leading organizations in the field of laboratory informatics has doubled the installed user base and provides a comprehensive offering from preclinical systems through to contract testing...
PharmaKure, a clinical stage company developing precision medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, announces a research collaboration agreement with the Faculty of Pharmacy in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), one of the largest comprehensive universities in Malaysia. The partnership is focused on advancing research initiatives on the use of machine learning tools to predict Alzheimer’s Disease using blood via academic-industry partnerships...
Centricity Research, one of North America’s largest clinical research networks with headquarters in Columbus, Georgia and Toronto, Ontario, has announced that it has acquired Morehead City, North Carolina-based Lucas Research, extending the organization’s reach and capabilities. Operating five research sites in North Carolina – in Morehead City, New Bern and Hickory – Lucas Research is the fifth clinical research company to join Centricity Research since the organization launched in November 2021...
Scitara, a market-leading innovator in laboratory digital transformation, has announced an agreement with Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), a global leader in analytical instruments and software. Under the agreement, Waters has licensed Scitara’s Digital Lab Exchange DLX™ cloud platform to communicate with Waters’ Empower™ Chromatography Data System and waters_connect™ Lab Informatics Platform to bring greater lab connectivity to an even broader set of laboratory users...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that the Agilent Resolve Handheld Raman Spectrometer has been recognized for excellence as a tool for emergency responders following independent use and evaluation by both the UK’s National CBRN Centre, and the US’ Department of Homeland Security. In the United Kingdom, the Resolve instrument received the National CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) Centre Certificate of Merit for 2023...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), kicks off the 2024 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, January 17 with Top Ten Reasons Why Your Laboratory Needs a LIMS Today. This webcast is ideal for organizations seeking guidance as they justify acquiring a LIMS. The highlight of our presentation will be counting down a list of the top ten reasons why a typical testing laboratory should invest in a LIMS...
Dozens of science and technology development payloads returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on December 22 as SpaceX’s 29th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission, contracted by NASA, successfully concluded. More than 30 payloads sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory® returned on this mission, many of which were life science investigations aimed at benefiting humanity by improving care for patients on Earth...
Carterra Inc., the world leader in label-free high-throughput antibody discovery and development, and ENPICOM B.V., an innovative bioinformatics software solutions provider, announced today a collaboration to streamline the analysis of rapidly growing sequencing and antibody screening data generated in the lab. The collaboration will focus on accelerating the identification of clinical-grade antibody candidates with improved characteristics...
DeepMirror, a University of Cambridge spin-out company developing intuitive design software for the discovery of novel therapeutic drugs, has announced the launch of its Early Access Programme after a successful closed beta programme during which chemists were invited to test the software over several months. The software allows users to tap into AI-driven insights to improve and accelerate molecular design across the drug discovery pipeline...
Two health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland have gone live with Clinisys WinPath, at the start of a series of deployments from the Core Laboratory Information Management System or Core LIMS project. This project, which is being led by the Business Services Organisation, will see every pathology service in Northern Ireland adopt the laboratory information system to support the modernisation of services...
Microtrac MRB, a leading provider of particle size and shape analysis instruments, and Mark & Wedell, a global supplier of automated representative sampling systems and project management services, announced today that they have entered a strategic partnership to distribute Microtrac's Camsizer Online products worldwide as part of Mark & Wedell's JAWO sampling business unit...
An optimised separation of up to 48 carotenoids was successfully achieved using a reliable YMC Carotenoid column with C30 modification. This allowed a mixture of stereomutated carotenoid standards to be detected at different wavelengths. The success of this method was confirmed with a human plasma sample. 24h after the consumption of carotenoid-containing vegetables and fruits, several known carotenoids as well as three unidentified peaks were detected...
Waters Corporation announced it has been awarded the prestigious Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency (ACT) label for its Waters Xevo TQ Absolute system from My Green Lab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the sustainability of scientific research. The Xevo TQ Absolute system is a compact benchtop tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer with industry-leading performance and design features that make it one of the most sustainable analytical systems in its class...
Yourgene Health (part of the Novacyt group of companies), a leading international molecular diagnostics group, and PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced a collaboration to optimise size selection for long-read sequencing workflows. PacBio has qualified Yourgene’s LightBench® instrument for size selection of long DNA fragments, enabling high yields for HiFi sequencing data...
In an informative new blog post - AMSBIO reflects on a selection of the ground breaking life science and biomedical research undertaken by its customers during 2023. From deciphering the intricacies of cancer progression mechanisms to revolutionising wound care, AMSBIO is delighted to have played a supporting role in these scientific endeavours. Discover an exciting collaboration led by Dr. Ashley M. Laughney from Weill Cornell Medicine and Dr. Samuel F. Bakhoum from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...