Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of its next generation Agilent InfinityLab LC Series portfolio, which includes the 1290 Infinity III LC, 1260 Infinity III Prime LC, and 1260 Infinity III LC systems, all including the biocompatible versions. These are the first HPLC systems on the market to feature the new Agilent InfinityLab Assist Technology, offering enhanced, built-in system assistance capabilities...
Waters Corporation has announced waters_connect Data Intelligence software, a new cloud-based application that helps customers in regulated industries improve how they access, organize, analyze, and drive productivity from laboratory information. The software leverages data from Waters Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) enabling laboratories to achieve confident audit-readiness, helping laboratory managers respond more quickly to audit inquiries with insights...
Vapourtec’s recently launched, pioneering eBPR is an innovative, self-contained, electronically adjustable back pressure regulator that does not require any external reference gas pressure. Back pressure regulators (BPR) have, until now, been fixed and manually or electronically adjustable through the external control of gas pressure. Vapourtec MD Duncan Guthrie explained: “A BPR is a critical part of any flow chemistry system...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...
Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions introduces DuoVane®, a new series of rotary vane vacuum pumps. Usable worldwide, reliable and efficient, they are the optimized successors to the proven pumps from the Pascal and DuoLine series. The DuoVane vacuum pumps achieve a pumping speed of 6 to 22 m³/h. Equipped with a motor that corresponds to the energy efficiency class IE2, these pumps ensure an uncomplicated operation worldwide...
Laboratory specialist, Asynt, announces a new unique and extensive range of photochemistry reactors as part of their broad catalogue of both batch and flow equipment which enable flexible use for chemists over a wide range of applications and scales. Advancements in reactor technology in recent years has catalysed the rediscovery of ‘reagentless’ activation methods such as photochemistry, and the resulting new tools have changed the way researchers access photochemistry techniques and devise their synthetic routes and chemistries...
Thermo Fisher Scientific is exhibiting at filtration trade show FILTECH 2024 held from 12-14 November, at the Koelnmesse Halls in Cologne, Germany. Leaders and technical experts from Thermo Fisher will be present to offer expertise in electron microscopy and discuss how this technique provides an advanced solution, optimising material analysis for filtration...
PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced SPRQ, an improved sequencing chemistry for its Revio™ long-read sequencing system. The new chemistry will reduce Revio DNA input requirements by 4x to 500ng per sample, which enables more sample types such as saliva extracted with PacBio’s new Nanobind protocol and tumor samples to be sequenced with HiFi sequencing technology...
A new imaging technique could mean patients with aggressive brain tumours benefit from cutting edge immunotherapy treatments, according to researchers. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy, and track the response over time...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has taken another step to assure mass photometry is a simpler, more efficient bioanalytics tool with the release of a powerful expansion of its consumables portfolio. The introduction of next-generation microfluidic chips and improvements to Refeyn’s microfluidic system – as well as a new protein calibration standard – will save users time, while ensuring reproducibility across experiments and labs, and supporting a broader range of applications...
Labguru (Biodata Inc.), a leading provider of lab data management solutions, has integrated with NetSuite to create a smoother connection between Labguru’s inventory module and the broader business management system. Labguru’s mission is to simplify and optimize lab operations for the biopharma and life science industries worldwide. With this new functionality, lab managers can effortlessly add items to their shopping lists in Labguru, automatically creating and submitting sales orders in NetSuite...
AMSBIO has launched CellO-IF – an all-in-one immunofluorescent staining reagent kit designed to accelerate the labelling organoids and spheroids directly in hydrogels or extracellular matrices, while preserving delicate structures and cellular integrity. Immunofluorescence (IF) allows detection and localization of antigens in diverse types of tissues in various cell preparations. The technique provides excellent sensitivity and amplification of signal by comparison to immunohistochemistry...
Sapio Sciences, the science-aware™ lab informatics platform, thas announced the addition of new Electronic Batch Record (EBR)functionality to Sapio GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) LIMS. Designed for laboratories that must comply with GMP, 21 CFR 11, and EU Annex 11 standards, the Sapio GMP LIMS offers unparalleled flexibility to meet compliance standards in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, clinical research and diagnostics, food and beverage, chemicals, and environmental testing...
Revvity, Inc. has announced the launch of Revvity Transcribe AI, an innovative optical character recognition (OCR) service designed to convert handwritten text on test request forms into a digitized format. This cutting-edge solution is now available to clinical laboratories, aiming to streamline workflows and reduce manual data entry tasks. Revvity Transcribe AI addresses the need for laboratories to quickly and accurately process test request forms...
Open access publishing start-up DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation - Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. The award recognises the innovation behind DeSci Publish, the world’s first open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology. The Lab Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the key achievements by individuals and businesses that are driving the future of scientific industries globally...
BioPORTER® protein delivery reagent from AMSBIO is proven to efficiently transport functionally active proteins directly into living cells eliminating the traditional DNA transfection, transcription, and protein translation process. Employing a unique lipid-based protein delivery system – BioPORTER® makes studying protein functionality faster and easier than ever before...
Colossal, the de-extinction and species preservation company, announces numerous breakthrough successes in all stages of the thylacine de-extinction effort that put the company much closer to returning the iconic thylacine to Australia. From the generation of the highest quality ancient genome to date, to breaking records in multiplex genome editing, to innovations in assisted reproductive technologies for marsupials...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has unveiled its MiSeq™ i100 Series of sequencing systems, delivering unparalleled benchtop speed and simplicity to advance next-generation sequencing (NGS) for labs. The two new benchtop instruments, MiSeq i100 and MiSeq i100 Plus Systems, will empower customers to unlock powerful insights through an affordable, comprehensive solution that is simple to understand and use, even for those with limited NGS expertise...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has released SpectraPlex, a 3D high-multiplex solution for spatial discoveries on the STELLARIS confocal platform. This groundbreaking innovation sets a new benchmark for 3D spatial phenotyping in life science research. In recent years, Omics techniques – Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics – have taken a central role in life science research...
ZEISS announces the new ZEISS Crossbeam 550 Samplefab, a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) optimized for fully automated preparation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples (lamellae). Built for efficiency and throughput in the semiconductor lab, ZEISS Crossbeam 550 Samplefab provides recipe-based automation for the routine TEM sample preparation work of bulk milling, lift-out and thinning at any number of target points on the sample...
The American scientist Laura Seeholzer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, has won the 2024 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work on elucidating a role for airway neuroendocrine cells in responding to external threats. “Laura Seeholzer’s essay brilliantly describes how she identified a group of laryngeal and tracheal neuroendocrine cells that protect our airways” explained Dr. Peter Stern, Senior Editor at the journal Science and Chairman of the Prize Jury...
Sapio Sciences, the science-aware™ lab informatics platform, has announced the addition of new immunogenicity bioanalysis features to its industry-leading lab informatics platform. These new capabilities in the Sapio LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) and Sapio ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook)solutions streamline testing workflows for detecting anti-drug antibodies (ADA) and neutralizing antibodies (NAb)...
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of its next generation Agilent InfinityLab LC Series portfolio, which includes the 1290 Infinity III LC, 1260 Infinity III Prime LC, and 1260 Infinity III LC systems, all including the biocompatible versions. These are the first HPLC systems on the market to feature the new Agilent InfinityLab Assist Technology, offering enhanced, built-in system assistance capabilities...
Waters Corporation has announced waters_connect Data Intelligence software, a new cloud-based application that helps customers in regulated industries improve how they access, organize, analyze, and drive productivity from laboratory information. The software leverages data from Waters Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) enabling laboratories to achieve confident audit-readiness, helping laboratory managers respond more quickly to audit inquiries with insights...
Vapourtec’s recently launched, pioneering eBPR is an innovative, self-contained, electronically adjustable back pressure regulator that does not require any external reference gas pressure. Back pressure regulators (BPR) have, until now, been fixed and manually or electronically adjustable through the external control of gas pressure. Vapourtec MD Duncan Guthrie explained: “A BPR is a critical part of any flow chemistry system...
Shift Bioscience is a biotech company using generative AI models to understand how activation of different genes can reverse the aging process. This research is a fundamental step forward in designing more effective drugs to treat age-related diseases. Today the company announced that it has raised $16M (£12.5M) in Seed funding, led by BGF, with existing investors F-Prime Capital, Kindred Capital, and Jonathan Milner participating...
Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions introduces DuoVane®, a new series of rotary vane vacuum pumps. Usable worldwide, reliable and efficient, they are the optimized successors to the proven pumps from the Pascal and DuoLine series. The DuoVane vacuum pumps achieve a pumping speed of 6 to 22 m³/h. Equipped with a motor that corresponds to the energy efficiency class IE2, these pumps ensure an uncomplicated operation worldwide...
Laboratory specialist, Asynt, announces a new unique and extensive range of photochemistry reactors as part of their broad catalogue of both batch and flow equipment which enable flexible use for chemists over a wide range of applications and scales. Advancements in reactor technology in recent years has catalysed the rediscovery of ‘reagentless’ activation methods such as photochemistry, and the resulting new tools have changed the way researchers access photochemistry techniques and devise their synthetic routes and chemistries...
Thermo Fisher Scientific is exhibiting at filtration trade show FILTECH 2024 held from 12-14 November, at the Koelnmesse Halls in Cologne, Germany. Leaders and technical experts from Thermo Fisher will be present to offer expertise in electron microscopy and discuss how this technique provides an advanced solution, optimising material analysis for filtration...
PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, has announced SPRQ, an improved sequencing chemistry for its Revio™ long-read sequencing system. The new chemistry will reduce Revio DNA input requirements by 4x to 500ng per sample, which enables more sample types such as saliva extracted with PacBio’s new Nanobind protocol and tumor samples to be sequenced with HiFi sequencing technology...
A new imaging technique could mean patients with aggressive brain tumours benefit from cutting edge immunotherapy treatments, according to researchers. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy, and track the response over time...
Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technologies, has taken another step to assure mass photometry is a simpler, more efficient bioanalytics tool with the release of a powerful expansion of its consumables portfolio. The introduction of next-generation microfluidic chips and improvements to Refeyn’s microfluidic system – as well as a new protein calibration standard – will save users time, while ensuring reproducibility across experiments and labs, and supporting a broader range of applications...
Labguru (Biodata Inc.), a leading provider of lab data management solutions, has integrated with NetSuite to create a smoother connection between Labguru’s inventory module and the broader business management system. Labguru’s mission is to simplify and optimize lab operations for the biopharma and life science industries worldwide. With this new functionality, lab managers can effortlessly add items to their shopping lists in Labguru, automatically creating and submitting sales orders in NetSuite...
AMSBIO has launched CellO-IF – an all-in-one immunofluorescent staining reagent kit designed to accelerate the labelling organoids and spheroids directly in hydrogels or extracellular matrices, while preserving delicate structures and cellular integrity. Immunofluorescence (IF) allows detection and localization of antigens in diverse types of tissues in various cell preparations. The technique provides excellent sensitivity and amplification of signal by comparison to immunohistochemistry...
Sapio Sciences, the science-aware™ lab informatics platform, thas announced the addition of new Electronic Batch Record (EBR)functionality to Sapio GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) LIMS. Designed for laboratories that must comply with GMP, 21 CFR 11, and EU Annex 11 standards, the Sapio GMP LIMS offers unparalleled flexibility to meet compliance standards in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, clinical research and diagnostics, food and beverage, chemicals, and environmental testing...
Revvity, Inc. has announced the launch of Revvity Transcribe AI, an innovative optical character recognition (OCR) service designed to convert handwritten text on test request forms into a digitized format. This cutting-edge solution is now available to clinical laboratories, aiming to streamline workflows and reduce manual data entry tasks. Revvity Transcribe AI addresses the need for laboratories to quickly and accurately process test request forms...
Open access publishing start-up DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation - Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. The award recognises the innovation behind DeSci Publish, the world’s first open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology. The Lab Awards, now in its fourth year, celebrates the key achievements by individuals and businesses that are driving the future of scientific industries globally...
BioPORTER® protein delivery reagent from AMSBIO is proven to efficiently transport functionally active proteins directly into living cells eliminating the traditional DNA transfection, transcription, and protein translation process. Employing a unique lipid-based protein delivery system – BioPORTER® makes studying protein functionality faster and easier than ever before...
Colossal, the de-extinction and species preservation company, announces numerous breakthrough successes in all stages of the thylacine de-extinction effort that put the company much closer to returning the iconic thylacine to Australia. From the generation of the highest quality ancient genome to date, to breaking records in multiplex genome editing, to innovations in assisted reproductive technologies for marsupials...
Illumina, Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has unveiled its MiSeq™ i100 Series of sequencing systems, delivering unparalleled benchtop speed and simplicity to advance next-generation sequencing (NGS) for labs. The two new benchtop instruments, MiSeq i100 and MiSeq i100 Plus Systems, will empower customers to unlock powerful insights through an affordable, comprehensive solution that is simple to understand and use, even for those with limited NGS expertise...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has released SpectraPlex, a 3D high-multiplex solution for spatial discoveries on the STELLARIS confocal platform. This groundbreaking innovation sets a new benchmark for 3D spatial phenotyping in life science research. In recent years, Omics techniques – Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics – have taken a central role in life science research...
ZEISS announces the new ZEISS Crossbeam 550 Samplefab, a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) optimized for fully automated preparation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples (lamellae). Built for efficiency and throughput in the semiconductor lab, ZEISS Crossbeam 550 Samplefab provides recipe-based automation for the routine TEM sample preparation work of bulk milling, lift-out and thinning at any number of target points on the sample...
The American scientist Laura Seeholzer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, has won the 2024 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work on elucidating a role for airway neuroendocrine cells in responding to external threats. “Laura Seeholzer’s essay brilliantly describes how she identified a group of laryngeal and tracheal neuroendocrine cells that protect our airways” explained Dr. Peter Stern, Senior Editor at the journal Science and Chairman of the Prize Jury...
Sapio Sciences, the science-aware™ lab informatics platform, has announced the addition of new immunogenicity bioanalysis features to its industry-leading lab informatics platform. These new capabilities in the Sapio LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) and Sapio ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook)solutions streamline testing workflows for detecting anti-drug antibodies (ADA) and neutralizing antibodies (NAb)...