INTEGRA Biosciences’ electronic pipettes, automation platforms, and peristaltic pumps are being used to increase the throughput and reproducibility of serial dilutions. These highly flexible instruments are easily adapted to numerous different applications to simplify a range of liquid handling workflows and enhance lab productivity. Serial dilutions are widely used across many life science disciplines and performing them correctly underpins the success of later studies...
In 2022, raw sewage was pumped into English rivers and seas for 1.75 million hours, or 200 cumulative years. Despite awareness of the need for environmental safeguarding growing every year, UK waterways still suffer pollution of the foulest kind. And it isn’t only sewage that waste companies have to worry about: here Matt Allen, product manager for elemental analysers at SciMed, the UK’s largest distributor of lab equipment, explains why testing water for halogen species will be a serious consideration in the near future...
Illumina Inc., a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, has announced the launch of the latest version of DRAGEN™ software for analysis of next-generation sequencing data. DRAGEN 4.2 expands award-winning accuracy combined with its renowned flexibility and scalability to enable efficient workflows and extract meaningful insights from genomic data...
Laboratory digital transformation pioneer Scitara has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner network with its Digital Lab Exchange DLX™ cloud platform. The two organizations are now also embarking on a collaboration to develop next-generation products to drive digital transformation in the lab. The first iPaaS for Science, Scitara DLX connects every instrument, application, and resource in the lab to support data flow and compliant data management throughout the enterprise...
Automata, a leading automation company powering life sciences labs, announces its partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to unlock the power of open, integrated automation for cancer sample testing. With Automata’s support, the hospital’s Clinical Genomics Service, which is the cancer testing laboratory for the North Thames Genomics Laboratory Hub (NTGLH), will double its genomic testing capacity through a new robotic sample processing platform...
The Mirage 2D barcode reader from Ziath has been optimized for reading Individual Access 2D coded PCR plates from 4titude, both part of Azenta Life Sciences, Burlington, MA. The Individual Access PCR plate is part of the acclaimed Framestar range from 4titude which combines the rigidity of a polycarbonate frame with the excellent thermal transfer properties of polypropylene in each thermal cycler well...
Revvity, Inc. has announced the launch of its Signals Research Suite, a unified, cloud-native SaaS platform that drives scientific collaboration across R&D disciplines from drug discovery to specialty chemicals material development. The new solution from Revvity Signals Software, the software and informatics arm of Revvity, is available worldwide. It integrates the Revvity Signals Notebook, VitroVivo and Inventa applications into a single, robust solution that supports the entire drug development process...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has released version 12 of Aivia, its flagship AI image analysis software. Aivia 12 incorporates the Cellpose deep learning model to tackle dense neuron images, improving soma detection by as much as 46%. This release also streamlines AI-enabled 3D tracing of Golgi-stained images using new updates to the neuron analysis workflow. Neuroscientists can now harness the power of AI with little or no AI training to study neuronal morphology...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2023 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, July 12, with LIMS: Your Secret Weapon to Avoiding the Most Common Mistakes in the Laboratory. Testing laboratories across many industries experience challenges on a daily basis. Sometimes these challenges cause laboratory staff to make mistakes, negatively affecting the lab’s overall performance...
The hot topic of digital integration was explored in a recent webinar by Autoscribe Informatics. Interfacing with laboratory instruments and external corporate systems has become an essential part of connecting laboratories in the modern world. The tight labor market, coupled with the need to reduce costs, has formed a perfect storm, driving laboratories to seek new solutions to improve their efficiency...
Founded in 1993 by Dr.Ehab Adeeb, LEG is recognized today as one of the leading professional companies in Egypt, known for deep technical knowledge, high quality support, and specialization in most laboratory supplies and services. Over the years Labtec has expanded its activity to serve more and more QC and R&D labs across a broad range of market segments, including the petroleum/petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, environmental, hospitals & health care, universities, and food industries...
Cresset, innovative provider of solutions for CADD, DMTA efficiency and contract research, releases Flare™ V7, a comprehensive drug design platform that integrates the power of ligand and structure-based methods. New features and methods in Flare V7 include significantly enhanced Dynamics and Flare FEP calculations, a new ensemble docking method, enhanced quantitative SAR (QSAR) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) methods, and more tools to...
Indica Labs announces the launch of a service offering deployment and on-going support of its HALO® digital pathology software in a fully managed cloud-hosted environment powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service enables organizations to benefit from Indica Labs’ software development and cloud deployment expertise while maintaining full ownership and control over their AWS account...
Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, has launched new integrations and features that connect data and analytics tools directly in Benchling with just a few clicks, providing scientists with a connected platform to make faster decisions and generate better insights. Scientists now have out-of-the-box integrations to leading scientific analytics tools like JMP as well as Pluto and Watershed...
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...
Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has launched Autonomous Microscopy powered by Aivia. This new AI-based detection workflow for confocal microscopy automates the detection of rare events. It follows what the user has defined as the objects of interest that will trigger the rare event scan. Users benefit from the potential to discover more by automatically detecting up to 90% of rare events during an experiment...
High quality European manufactured CryzoTraq™ tubes from Ziath are designed for cryogenic storage of your valuable samples and specimens at temperatures as low as minus 196°C. Available in 2 ml and 5 ml formats, CryzoTraq™ tubes have a 2D Datamatrix barcode ultrasonically welded into the base of the tube to ensure full sample traceability. This unique code is reproduced with a Code 128 linear barcode and human readable text on the tube side...
Laboratory digital transformation pioneer, Scitara, announces new releases to its SOC 2-certified Digital Lab Exchange DLX™ cloud platform to improve the user experience, enhance instrument connectivity, and deliver new automation to the lab. Scitara DLX is a cloud-based infrastructure that connects every instrument, application, and resource in the lab to support data flow throughout the enterprise...
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...
Digital Surf announce the release of the tenth major version of the company’s renowned Mountains® software analysis platform for surface metrology & microscopy, trusted by 50+ leading instrument manufacturers and 22,000+ users. Version 10 highlights include: A new product family for users of light microscopes, MountainsImage®, providing a complete toolkit for pre-processing and analyzing image data...
Closed, fully automated, and configurable robotic platform for cell therapy manufacture can achieve 30-fold increase in space efficiency and reduces production costs and labour by 51% and 16-fold respectively. Cellular Origins, a TTP Company focused on enabling scalable, cost-effective and space-efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies (CGTs), has announced the launch of Constellation™, its closed, configurable, robotic platform at the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT) Annual Meeting 2023..