To enable researchers from European institutes to extend innovative structural biology research, the EU has invested 10 million euro to iNEXT-Discovery, through its Horizon 2020 program. The iNEXT-Discovery consortium, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Anastassis Perrakis from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute, aims to facilitate the generation of knowledge for the development of new drugs, advanced vaccines, novel biomaterials, engineered enzymes for food production, efficient biofuels, and other benefits....
Ziath has launched a competitively priced starter kit for organizations involved in food research, production and testing to keep track of samples to help improve food safety. Reflecting the threat of foodborne illnesses and product recalls, food safety is an issue of significant and growing importance to consumers, food manufacturers and research laboratories. Increasingly legislative bodies around the world are pushing for handlers along the entire food supply chain to put in place food 'track and trace' provisions to prevent....
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce its GeneSys software is now available with the addition of new ChemiRapid, Signal Accumulation Calculator (SAC) and Enhanced Image features designed to improve chemiluminescence imaging workflow and quality. The software, available for free download to users of specific Syngene imaging systems, offers picture perfect chemi blot images....
Magnetic beads are an efficient way to clean up nucleic acid samples, but most protocols involve many wash and transfer steps, which can be tedious and time consuming to carry out manually. INTEGRA Biosciences’ innovative pipetting solutions are the perfect partner for magnetic purification protocols, allowing the user to reproducibly obtain high yields for a variety of downstream applications – including PCR, NGS, Sanger sequencing, immunoprecipitation, cloning and microarrays....
Congratulations to Christophe Deben and the team at the University of Antwerp's Center for Oncological Research (CORE) on winning a fully loaded Tecan Spark® Cyto plate reader with live cell imaging and real-time cytometry. This competition, which ran from April to September 2019, required labs to submit a written proposal explaining how they would use the system to further their research and advance scientific understanding....
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Agilent Technologies are continuing their agreement to the industry-wide Instrument Control Exchange Program (ICEP) – fostering compatibility among key vendors’ instrumentation and chromatography data systems (CDS). Organizations across the life sciences and applied industries will continue to benefit from the ability to select the hardware and software that most appropriately meets their application and business needs through the sustained involvement of key vendors....
In response to the ever-increasing demand in new drug discovery and development, medicinal chemistry has progressed at a fast pace during the last ten years. To obtain a better understanding of the chemicals that are being researched, more efforts are paid to the analysis and purification of numerous compounds or polymer-bound compounds. As a professional medicinal chemistry expert as well as a leading practitioner, BOC Sciences....
The dry magnet system is helping to advance medical research at the Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine, part of the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. The system has a large axial 15 cm field of view which can be used for viewing the whole body of a rat, or other subjects in molecular detail. Simultaneous imaging, using both MRI and PET imaging at the same time, is possible as the MRI system has a PET module inserted within the bore of the dry magnet....
The Chromatrap® Protein Extraction kit from Porvair Sciences offers a fast and efficient method of extracting cytoplasmic, nuclear or total protein from mammalian cells. Combining the optimised protocol with proprietary reagents, the kit is able to provide high yields of purified active protein with low cross-fraction contamination in less than 90 minutes. Avoiding the need for ultracentrifugation steps in its protocol, the Chromatrap® Protein Extraction kit...
Micromeritics Instrument Corp., a global leader in material characterization technology, has launched the new, highly automated Sub-Sieve Autosizer II (SAS II), an instrument that boosts the productivity and accuracy of particle sizing via the air permeability technique, a benchmark in many industries. and substantially improved successor to the renowned Fisher Model 95 SubSieve Sizer (FSSS), it generates ‘Fisher numbers’ which are highly consistent to those of its predecessor...
Scientists have tested a new way to protect crops from a widespread and devastating bacterial disease, without using environmentally damaging chemical sprays. An interdisciplinary team at the University of Glasgow have revealed a new method that could protect many important crop species against the common crop bacteria Pseudomonas syringae (Ps). Ps and related bacterial species attack a wide variety of important crops in the UK and worldwide...
Dolomite Microfluidics has launched a number of new microfluidic chip options for its innovative Telos® system. The expanded range of high quality glass chips is intended to open up a number of new applications for the high-throughput Telos platform, providing a genuinely scalable option for droplet, particle and flow product generation across a wide range of industries....
SUEZ’s Water Purification Systems division, a leading UK manufacturer of water purification equipment for use in laboratories, healthcare and industrial applications, has introduced LED UV point of use disinfection technology into its range of laboratory water purification equipment. This uses long-life LEDs to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination, lower operating costs and eliminate the impact on the environment relating to the disposal of mercury lamps....
Micromeritics Instrument Corp., a global leader in material characterization technology, has introduced the new Selective Adsorption Analyzer 8100 (SAA-8100), a flexible gas delivery and management system for the precise characterization of adsorbent performance under process relevant conditions. Combining Micromeritics’ widely recognized knowledge of gas adsorption with the tried and tested technology of PID Eng and Tech...
Testa Analytical Solutions reports on considerable interest from protein scientists to use Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) as a tool for screening for the presence of aggregates as it is extremely sensitive to these larger compounds. Applications Lab Manager - Raffaele Carano said "Protein aggregation is a common challenge in the manufacturing of biological products. Protein scientists particularly like DLS because it provides them with a simple, fast and non-destructive test for aggregate detection....
We live in a three-dimensional ever-changing world. Yet in microscopy, our ability to image in 3D and at the speeds required to observe fast living processes remains a challenge. Compared to other light microscopy techniques, fluorescence microscopy can achieve high specificity and contrast, though there are still major limitations in signal-to-noise ratio and phototoxicity.
Torrey Pines Scientific announces its New Web Site featuring its complete range of chilling/heating laboratory equipment. The site is designed for easy navigation, complete product listings and security. Products include, Bench top chilling/heating incubators, Bench top chilling/heating dry baths and accessory blocks Chilling/heating and shaking dry baths for robotic decks, Programmable and digital chilling/heating and heat only HPLC column ovens....
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce it is now supplying the AirClean® AC600 Series of PCR Workstations. Some of the Workstations include HEPA filtration and all use UV irradiation to minimise the risk of airborne DNA contamination, saving scientists time by producing consistent quality DNA from their PCR....
Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for microscopy, reports on the University of Surrey’s efforts to develop the groundwork of new, state of the art ceramic composites that will revolutionise the treatment of oral disease. Dr Tan Sui is a Materials Engineering Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK...
Cresset, provider of software and contract research services for small molecule drug discovery, and Liverpool ChiroChem, (LCC) a chemical technology innovator that produces chiral small molecules for biotech and pharmaceutical R&D, announce a collaboration to design novel compound libraries with the maximum pharmacological diversity within the smallest library size. Excellent library design is the key to efficient drug discovery. 
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), is delighted to announce the appointment of Claude Hatfield as President, North American Operations. Claude brings with him a wealth of knowledge of the informatics market which includes significant experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. He held a number of positions at Ortho Pharmaceutical including coordinating workflows....
Scientists have detected an exotic tick-borne parasite within sheep in the North of Scotland, according to a new study. The research, by scientists at the University of Glasgow’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, the journal of the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). The study reports that this is the first time this organism, called Babesia venatorum (B. venatorum), has been identified in animals in the UK...