Advances in technology mean that moving from microscopes to digital alternatives can now be achieved without sacrificing image quality. But this isn’t about the technology. Professor Gina Zini, reflects on the key benefits of digital developments, including better quality screening, saved time for busy morphologists, better clinical collaboration, improved training, and sharing expertise with developing countries...
Attendees of the prestigious European Congress of Veterinary Pathology will see the latest update of Autoscribe’s popular Veterinary Laboratory Management System. The world’s most configurable Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Matrix Gemini, is well known for being used by veterinary laboratories across the world for managing the full testing lifecycle, from sample reception to final reporting...
Ziath reports how its 2ml CryzoTraq™ 2-ECT storage tube maintains high sample integrity by minimising the chance of cross-contamination as their externally threaded design eliminates the possibility of sample encountering the screw thread. Cryogenic storage is widely used in laboratories to preserve valuable samples in vapour phase liquid nitrogen, a method that requires special products that can tolerate low temperatures without compromising the samples...
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K. announce a new software tool for its AB4000X range of flowmeters to enable labs to automatically validate the performance of HPLC, uHPLC and GPC/SEC pumps. The Pump Validation Software Suite has been designed to accept raw data generated by the TESTA Analytical flowmeter PC-App and perform all necessary flow calculations automatically. Using this powerful software tool - all data and parameters are automatically validated for fitness of use for validation and a summary report generated...
CloudLIMS, a leading ISO 9001:2015 certified and SOC 2 compliant company offering a secure, configurable, high-quality Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar titled “From Data Management to Quality Assurance: Exploring the Integration of Healthcare LIMS Software and ISO 15189 in Diagnostic Labs” on August 22, 2023, at 9 A.M. PDT (5 P.M. BST). The webinar will be presented by Martha Hernández, Scientist...
When working within a life sciences laboratory one of the most important assets is your samples. This is why it is imperative to preserve, store and retrieve samples while maintaining their integrity. With any large store or “library” of compounds or other samples, being able to easily retrieve a specified sub-set of samples is key to any research workflow - this is the so-called “pick list.” A new technical paper from Ziath describes how their Mirage 2D tube rack reader and Mohawk semi-automated tube picker...
The Mohawk 48 tube selector and picker from Ziath is designed to select and pick wide, heavy, or tall tubes making this new system perfect for retrieving individual whole tissue samples from storage. The Mohawk 48 uses forty-eight solenoid pins to enable a specific frozen or thawed sample tube to be raised and selected when a 48-position tube rack is presented according to a pick list from Excel or a LIMS system...
Titian Software LTD, the global leader in life sciences sample management software, and the life science company Evotec have signed a 3-year agreement to expand their collaboration around Titian Software’s Mosaic Sample Management Platform. Mosaic forms part of Evotec’s plans to expand and harmonise sample management throughout the organisation, underpinning its expanding services...
Torrey Pines Scientific announces its EchoTherm™ RIC40 Peltier-driven, compact Chilling/Heating Dry Baths with temperatures settable from 0.0ºC to 100.0ºC. They are designed for use with Robotic Systems. They are controlled via the RS232 I/O port on each RIC40 unit. The RIC40 measures 4.9” (125 mm) long by 3.3” (82 mm) wide by 3.9” (99mm) tall without a sample block. Offered as accessories are mounting brackets for Tecan decks and the broad variety of precision-made aluminum sample blocks...
Revvity has announced that its Revvity Signals Software business has entered into a strategic relationship with Scitara – a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for the scientific industry. Together, the companies will transform the way R&D teams work across the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries with technology that accelerates digital transformation in the lab environment...
The automation of laboratories used to be considered very costly and not very flexible, because the workflows are very complex and amounts of data are constantly increasing. Yet, as chemical and pharmaceutical industry product lifecycles become shorter and shorter, the need for digitalization has become urgent. In this article, Christof Franzke, Senior Technical Consultant Key Accounts at COPA-DATA, the industrial software specialist, explains the vital role of the zenon platform in the roll-out of modularization and digitalization in laboratories...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2023 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, August 9, with Why We Love LIMS: ATL Customers Tell Their LIMS Success Stories. Feedback from webcast attendees has always been very positive when we invite ATL LIMS clients to share their views on how a LIMS has become an essential component of their laboratory operations...
Tecan proudly unveils Phase Separator™, an innovative liquid separation technology that promises to save time and improve accuracy in laboratory workflows. With specific applications in liquid biopsy and biobanking, its benefits will be felt in genomics, proteomics and across multiple disease areas, from oncology and neurodegenerative disease to metabolic disorders. Phase Separator is a unique pipetting capability of the new Air Flexible Channel Arm™ (Air FCA) on Tecan’s flagship liquid handling platform, the Fluent® Automation Workstation..
Award-winning analytical instrument manufacturer Markes International has announced that it has entered into an agreement with ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions to globally sell ExtraTECH’s newly developed and patented vacuum-assisted caps for headspace microextraction. The caps ingeniously extend the applicability of headspace, SPME and SPME Arrow sample extractions by allowing analytes to be extracted under vacuum conditions with milder heating and agitation than is required using current non-vacuum methods....
New capabilities offer simplicity and walkup usability for multimode detection. Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of new Gen6 software for all Agilent BioTek detection instruments. Featuring a broad range of prebuilt experiment templates for common applications, the new software provides automated optimization tools and improved navigation through built-in data analysis functions...
CloudLIMS, a leading ISO 9001:2015 certified and SOC 2 compliant provider of laboratory informatics solutions, is proud to extend its support to psychedelics research and testing laboratories with an incomparable offer. CloudLIMS is offering its flagship, in-the-cloud Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), to psychedelics laboratories worldwide, completely free of charge for a year from today...
Revvity has announced the launch of the Fontus™ Automated Liquid Handling Workstation, a next-generation liquid handler incorporating the best technologies from Revvity’s existing platforms, designed to deliver easier and faster workflows which enable better results for next generation sequencing (NGS) and diagnostic research applications...
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...
Advances in technology mean that moving from microscopes to digital alternatives can now be achieved without sacrificing image quality. But this isn’t about the technology. Professor Gina Zini, reflects on the key benefits of digital developments, including better quality screening, saved time for busy morphologists, better clinical collaboration, improved training, and sharing expertise with developing countries...
Attendees of the prestigious European Congress of Veterinary Pathology will see the latest update of Autoscribe’s popular Veterinary Laboratory Management System. The world’s most configurable Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Matrix Gemini, is well known for being used by veterinary laboratories across the world for managing the full testing lifecycle, from sample reception to final reporting...
Ziath reports how its 2ml CryzoTraq™ 2-ECT storage tube maintains high sample integrity by minimising the chance of cross-contamination as their externally threaded design eliminates the possibility of sample encountering the screw thread. Cryogenic storage is widely used in laboratories to preserve valuable samples in vapour phase liquid nitrogen, a method that requires special products that can tolerate low temperatures without compromising the samples...
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K. announce a new software tool for its AB4000X range of flowmeters to enable labs to automatically validate the performance of HPLC, uHPLC and GPC/SEC pumps. The Pump Validation Software Suite has been designed to accept raw data generated by the TESTA Analytical flowmeter PC-App and perform all necessary flow calculations automatically. Using this powerful software tool - all data and parameters are automatically validated for fitness of use for validation and a summary report generated...
CloudLIMS, a leading ISO 9001:2015 certified and SOC 2 compliant company offering a secure, configurable, high-quality Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), is pleased to announce a complimentary webinar titled “From Data Management to Quality Assurance: Exploring the Integration of Healthcare LIMS Software and ISO 15189 in Diagnostic Labs” on August 22, 2023, at 9 A.M. PDT (5 P.M. BST). The webinar will be presented by Martha Hernández, Scientist...
When working within a life sciences laboratory one of the most important assets is your samples. This is why it is imperative to preserve, store and retrieve samples while maintaining their integrity. With any large store or “library” of compounds or other samples, being able to easily retrieve a specified sub-set of samples is key to any research workflow - this is the so-called “pick list.” A new technical paper from Ziath describes how their Mirage 2D tube rack reader and Mohawk semi-automated tube picker...
The Mohawk 48 tube selector and picker from Ziath is designed to select and pick wide, heavy, or tall tubes making this new system perfect for retrieving individual whole tissue samples from storage. The Mohawk 48 uses forty-eight solenoid pins to enable a specific frozen or thawed sample tube to be raised and selected when a 48-position tube rack is presented according to a pick list from Excel or a LIMS system...
Titian Software LTD, the global leader in life sciences sample management software, and the life science company Evotec have signed a 3-year agreement to expand their collaboration around Titian Software’s Mosaic Sample Management Platform. Mosaic forms part of Evotec’s plans to expand and harmonise sample management throughout the organisation, underpinning its expanding services...
Torrey Pines Scientific announces its EchoTherm™ RIC40 Peltier-driven, compact Chilling/Heating Dry Baths with temperatures settable from 0.0ºC to 100.0ºC. They are designed for use with Robotic Systems. They are controlled via the RS232 I/O port on each RIC40 unit. The RIC40 measures 4.9” (125 mm) long by 3.3” (82 mm) wide by 3.9” (99mm) tall without a sample block. Offered as accessories are mounting brackets for Tecan decks and the broad variety of precision-made aluminum sample blocks...
Revvity has announced that its Revvity Signals Software business has entered into a strategic relationship with Scitara – a leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for the scientific industry. Together, the companies will transform the way R&D teams work across the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries with technology that accelerates digital transformation in the lab environment...
The automation of laboratories used to be considered very costly and not very flexible, because the workflows are very complex and amounts of data are constantly increasing. Yet, as chemical and pharmaceutical industry product lifecycles become shorter and shorter, the need for digitalization has become urgent. In this article, Christof Franzke, Senior Technical Consultant Key Accounts at COPA-DATA, the industrial software specialist, explains the vital role of the zenon platform in the roll-out of modularization and digitalization in laboratories...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2023 LIMS Webcast Series on Wednesday, August 9, with Why We Love LIMS: ATL Customers Tell Their LIMS Success Stories. Feedback from webcast attendees has always been very positive when we invite ATL LIMS clients to share their views on how a LIMS has become an essential component of their laboratory operations...
Tecan proudly unveils Phase Separator™, an innovative liquid separation technology that promises to save time and improve accuracy in laboratory workflows. With specific applications in liquid biopsy and biobanking, its benefits will be felt in genomics, proteomics and across multiple disease areas, from oncology and neurodegenerative disease to metabolic disorders. Phase Separator is a unique pipetting capability of the new Air Flexible Channel Arm™ (Air FCA) on Tecan’s flagship liquid handling platform, the Fluent® Automation Workstation..
Award-winning analytical instrument manufacturer Markes International has announced that it has entered into an agreement with ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions to globally sell ExtraTECH’s newly developed and patented vacuum-assisted caps for headspace microextraction. The caps ingeniously extend the applicability of headspace, SPME and SPME Arrow sample extractions by allowing analytes to be extracted under vacuum conditions with milder heating and agitation than is required using current non-vacuum methods....
New capabilities offer simplicity and walkup usability for multimode detection. Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of new Gen6 software for all Agilent BioTek detection instruments. Featuring a broad range of prebuilt experiment templates for common applications, the new software provides automated optimization tools and improved navigation through built-in data analysis functions...
Revvity has announced the launch of the Fontus™ Automated Liquid Handling Workstation, a next-generation liquid handler incorporating the best technologies from Revvity’s existing platforms, designed to deliver easier and faster workflows which enable better results for next generation sequencing (NGS) and diagnostic research applications...
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...