ZEISS present new microscope hard- and software for imaging of cleared tissue at Neuroscience meeting
Clearing methods make tissue transparent, thus allowing scientists to image deep into large biological samples such as tissue sections, brains, embryos, organs, spheroids or biopsies. The enhanced optical penetration depth even allows detection of fluorescent signals from whole organs. This means clearing is a promising technique when, for example, investigating neuronal networks in mouse brains....
Read MoreBringing Images to Life with cellSens 1.12Nov 20, 2014
With the new Olympus cellSens imaging software offering new functions and support for the latest microscopy hardware, life science researchers can now observe and react to the most elusive events taking place within biological samples.
Assisting researchers in gaining a deeper understanding of dynamic biological processes, the new cellSens imaging software (version 1.12) ensures the most efficient use of valuable time-lapse experiments and the latest microscopy hardware. Building on the capabilities introduced by Olympus with its unique Graphical Experiment Manager (GEM) interface, cellSens 1.12 allows the user to truly get in touch with their sample. Enabling effortless...
High-level Control Added to Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Workflows
Beckman Coulter Genomics, providers of expert genomics solutions to research and healthcare institutions worldwide, has integrated a Genologics Clarity Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) into their Illumina HiSeq-based workflows to offer Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) with the highest level of data management and methods control. RNA sequencing, target capture, whole-genome sequencing and pre-made library samples are...
Building on the success and principles of SMART Automation, Sakura Finetek proudly introduces the next step in Total Laboratory Automation: Tissue-Tek® AutoSection® Automated Microtome, advancing histopathology laboratories and improving patient care.
Genedata Expressionist® for Genomic Profiling helps Takara Bio to manage, process, and analyze large NGS datasets.
The investment in the Genedata platform underlines Takara Bio’s commitment to stay at the forefront of genomic research and to offer highest quality services to its customers. Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Takara Bio Inc., a leading global biotechnology company, has chosen Genedata Expressionist for Genomic Profiling as its key software platform for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The platform will be integrated with in-house and third party data analysis tools and...
High Throughput Screening for Raman chemical analyzers
HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the release of its new MultiWell module for the acclaimed LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. The module transforms the HORIBA portfolio of Raman microscopes into efficient high throughput chemical analyzers, coupling the non-destructive chemically rich analysis with high sample turn around and fast return on...
The Matrix Gemini LIMS from Autoscribe meets the requirements of highly regulated laboratories by providing audit trails, time and date stamping of all actions and version control of all reference data, such as test definitions.
This helps with compliance to any guidelines that require change control, validation and audit trailing of changes to stored data. Examples include cGLPs and cGMPs and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 in pharmaceutical companies, NELAC and ISO 17025 in water and food testing laboratories or NAMAS / UKAS regulations. With Matrix Gemini in use in a wide range of industries and applications, experts from Autoscribe are available to discuss in...
Anasys Instruments reports on the new AFM-IR results from the Energy Research Group at NIST just published in the journal for Advanced Optical Materials. The paper is entitled “Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic modes with the PTIR technique.”
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and the University of Maryland have used photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) to characterize individual plasmonic nanomaterials in order to obtain absorption maps and the first examples of absorption spectra with nanometer-scale resolution. Nanostructuring of plasmonic materials enables engineering of their resonant optical response and creates new opportunities for applications that benefit from...
StarDrop 6.0 gives researchers the freedom to explore and organise complex project data in a flexible and intuitive way
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the release of version 6.0 of its StarDrop™ software platform. This major new release introduces Card View™, an intuitive and highly flexible environment to view and interact with compound data in the context of discovery projects. Card View provides a unique and highly visual way to interpret data on compounds and their relationships, clearly highlighting the best chemistries and...
Today, Dutch biomedical big data company GENALICE officially launched its all-in-one appliance for Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) data processing, the GENALICE VAULT, at the annual conference of the American Society of Human Genetics.
The VAULT is designed to optimally serve genomics teams to perform large-scale DNA studies, including population calling. GENALICE MAP offers processing speed increases over a hundred fold and superior outcome data in comparison to other pipelines with significant cost savings for its users. December last year, the company successfully launched the first version of its breakthrough NGS data processing software solution...
Proteome Discoverer™ users can generate spectral libraries with Spectronaut™ software
Biognosys AG, a Swiss Proteomics Company, announced today the new release of its Spectronaut™ software for analysis of Hyper Reaction Monitoring (HRM) data that will now support spectral library generation from the Thermo Scientific™ Proteome Discoverer™ platform. From August 2013 Spectronaut™ software supports the analysis of DIA data generated on the Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer....
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a user-friendly tool that provides technical assistance for gas chromatography (GC) methods and applications.
Designed with the expert advice of columnist John Hinshaw, the GC Troubleshooting Guide provides a step-by-step process to easily diagnosis common symptoms. The guide combats difficulties laboratory professionals can encounter when running GC methods: high levels of noise, spiking peaks, ghost peaks, decreasing retention times, and irreproducible results. This tool—offered both as an iPad mobile application and for desktop systems...
Leading research and advisory firm, BioInformatics LLC, today announced that 50 companies have met the criteria for nomination as a potential recipient of the prestigious Life Science Industry Awards®.
Over 1,000 scientific customers named more than 400 individual life science companies as “best-in-class” in 30 different award categories. Only 50, however, met the criteria for inclusion as a nominee on the ballot ballot now being completed by thousands of scientists around the world. Their votes will determine the Winners to be named at a gala ceremony to be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC on November 18, 2014...
The ASpect CS software package version 2.0 for High-Resolution Continuum Source (HR-CS) AAS with the contrAA® series provides innovative new features significantly increasing productivity, flexibility and operation comfort.
The main new features include simultaneous multi-element analysis of any number of analytical wavelengths within the spectrum window. Integration ranges for each line can be selected freely, for increased sensitivity. A new background correction method and an improved spectral correction of interferences allow simple and automatic correction of complex structured spectral background and overlapping matrix lines. ASpect CS is operated...
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has released an updated version of its feature-rich method evaluation software, StatisPro 3.0.
StatisPro software guides users through protocols to establish and verify test method performance characteristics. The protocols faithfully follow CLSI standards, so users can be confident that their analyses meet regulatory and accreditation requirements. This new version, StatisPro 3.0, includes an implementation of CLSI document EP09-A3—Measurement Procedure Comparison and Bias Estimation Using Patient Samples; Approved Guideline...
GENALICE and Knome, Inc. jointly announced that the Swiss Foundation for People with Rare Diseases has chosen to use their solutions in tandem to improve the Foundation’s processing and analysis of their Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data.
GENALICE MAP is an ultra-fast and highly accurate NGS data preprocessing solution and will be connected to Knome’s informatics and genomics interpretation system, the knoSYS® platform. “In the era of high volume NGS data production, a streamlined and affordable pipeline for data processing and analysis is key,” explains Gabor Matyas from the Foundation. “The combination of the solutions of GENALICE and Knome allows our work to...
Use of Picsara will provide a more streamlined and secure approach to the patient journey.
HCA International, providers of world class private hospital care, are to collaborate with Swedish-based medical imaging specialists Mawell to transform the delivery of frontline care, enhance their service to patients and improve clinical safety and security. Launching across all HCA International’s clinical UK sites early next year Picsara, a unique multidisciplinary imaging software solution, will enable medical staff across various specialities to capture, store, distribute, analyse, annotate and measure all non-radiology medical images and videos efficiently and securely to help...
Thanks to a novel software upgrade from Olympus, an optical resolution of up to 120 nm is now achieved in cell and tissue imaging.
With the new Olympus FV-OSR software, the FluoView FV1200 is transformed into a powerful system for confocal Super Resolution microscopy. Introducing a smart route to Super Resolution microscopy, the Olympus FV-OSR software module enables users of the FluoView FV1200 easy access to what was previously the domain of only specialised microscopy systems. The extra detail offered by Super Resolution technology facilitates researchers in...
Titian Software has launched Mosaic 6.0, the latest version of its pre-eminent sample management software.
Ideal for the management of compounds, biologicals and reagents, Mosaic 6.0 developments include more intuitive interfaces for ordering and inventory searching, and additional functions all designed to further streamline laboratory workflows, save valuable work-time and maximise the cost-effective use of resources. With the release of Mosaic 6.0, a new optional Assay Requesting module is available which significantly improves the efficiency of...
The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) recently introduced a video series featuring Society members sharing their opinions about SLAS and how the organization has helped their careers.
Thirteen SLAS members participated in the series, including professional researchers, engineers and scientists from AstraZeneca, Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Promega Corporation and the University of California Los Angeles. “This video series is a wonderful testament to the relevance and value of SLAS to our...
Designed especially for the Phenom Desktop SEM PoroMetric Software for Fully Automated Measurement and Analysis of Pores
The visualization and analysis of pores is easier than ever before with the Phenom desktop SEM and the PoroMetric software. The combination of speed, ease of use and superb imaging quality of the Phenom and image pore analysis software of PoroMetric creates a powerful tool for inspecting wide range of samples like filters and membranes...
Read MoreTop Ten Reasons for Deploying a LIMS Needs AssessmentSep 12, 2014
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) will host the seventh in a series of webcasts on Wednesday, September 17, 2014, to share information on the Top Ten Reasons for Deploying a LIMS Needs Assessment.
A LIMS and Automation Assessment provides tools utilized to identify not only requirements, but what types of laboratory automation technologies, methods and training should be provided to a laboratory in order to improve productivity, efficiency, and data quality, while meeting regulatory compliance requirements. A LIMS Needs Assessment can be vital in assisting organizations in determining what the best options are for...
Clearing methods make tissue transparent, thus allowing scientists to image deep into large biological samples such as tissue sections, brains, embryos, organs, spheroids or biopsies. The enhanced optical penetration depth even allows detection of fluorescent signals from whole organs. This means clearing is a promising technique when, for example, investigating neuronal networks in mouse brains....
Assisting researchers in gaining a deeper understanding of dynamic biological processes, the new cellSens imaging software (version 1.12) ensures the most efficient use of valuable time-lapse experiments and the latest microscopy hardware. Building on the capabilities introduced by Olympus with its unique Graphical Experiment Manager (GEM) interface, cellSens 1.12 allows the user to truly get in touch with their sample. Enabling effortless...
Beckman Coulter Genomics, providers of expert genomics solutions to research and healthcare institutions worldwide, has integrated a Genologics Clarity Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) into their Illumina HiSeq-based workflows to offer Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) with the highest level of data management and methods control. RNA sequencing, target capture, whole-genome sequencing and pre-made library samples are...
The investment in the Genedata platform underlines Takara Bio’s commitment to stay at the forefront of genomic research and to offer highest quality services to its customers. Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Takara Bio Inc., a leading global biotechnology company, has chosen Genedata Expressionist for Genomic Profiling as its key software platform for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The platform will be integrated with in-house and third party data analysis tools and...
HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the release of its new MultiWell module for the acclaimed LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. The module transforms the HORIBA portfolio of Raman microscopes into efficient high throughput chemical analyzers, coupling the non-destructive chemically rich analysis with high sample turn around and fast return on...
This helps with compliance to any guidelines that require change control, validation and audit trailing of changes to stored data. Examples include cGLPs and cGMPs and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 in pharmaceutical companies, NELAC and ISO 17025 in water and food testing laboratories or NAMAS / UKAS regulations. With Matrix Gemini in use in a wide range of industries and applications, experts from Autoscribe are available to discuss in...
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and the University of Maryland have used photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) to characterize individual plasmonic nanomaterials in order to obtain absorption maps and the first examples of absorption spectra with nanometer-scale resolution. Nanostructuring of plasmonic materials enables engineering of their resonant optical response and creates new opportunities for applications that benefit from...
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the release of version 6.0 of its StarDrop™ software platform. This major new release introduces Card View™, an intuitive and highly flexible environment to view and interact with compound data in the context of discovery projects. Card View provides a unique and highly visual way to interpret data on compounds and their relationships, clearly highlighting the best chemistries and...
The VAULT is designed to optimally serve genomics teams to perform large-scale DNA studies, including population calling. GENALICE MAP offers processing speed increases over a hundred fold and superior outcome data in comparison to other pipelines with significant cost savings for its users. December last year, the company successfully launched the first version of its breakthrough NGS data processing software solution...
Biognosys AG, a Swiss Proteomics Company, announced today the new release of its Spectronaut™ software for analysis of Hyper Reaction Monitoring (HRM) data that will now support spectral library generation from the Thermo Scientific™ Proteome Discoverer™ platform. From August 2013 Spectronaut™ software supports the analysis of DIA data generated on the Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer....
Designed with the expert advice of columnist John Hinshaw, the GC Troubleshooting Guide provides a step-by-step process to easily diagnosis common symptoms. The guide combats difficulties laboratory professionals can encounter when running GC methods: high levels of noise, spiking peaks, ghost peaks, decreasing retention times, and irreproducible results. This tool—offered both as an iPad mobile application and for desktop systems...
Over 1,000 scientific customers named more than 400 individual life science companies as “best-in-class” in 30 different award categories. Only 50, however, met the criteria for inclusion as a nominee on the ballot ballot now being completed by thousands of scientists around the world. Their votes will determine the Winners to be named at a gala ceremony to be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC on November 18, 2014...
The main new features include simultaneous multi-element analysis of any number of analytical wavelengths within the spectrum window. Integration ranges for each line can be selected freely, for increased sensitivity. A new background correction method and an improved spectral correction of interferences allow simple and automatic correction of complex structured spectral background and overlapping matrix lines. ASpect CS is operated...
StatisPro software guides users through protocols to establish and verify test method performance characteristics. The protocols faithfully follow CLSI standards, so users can be confident that their analyses meet regulatory and accreditation requirements. This new version, StatisPro 3.0, includes an implementation of CLSI document EP09-A3—Measurement Procedure Comparison and Bias Estimation Using Patient Samples; Approved Guideline...
With the new Olympus FV-OSR software, the FluoView FV1200 is transformed into a powerful system for confocal Super Resolution microscopy. Introducing a smart route to Super Resolution microscopy, the Olympus FV-OSR software module enables users of the FluoView FV1200 easy access to what was previously the domain of only specialised microscopy systems. The extra detail offered by Super Resolution technology facilitates researchers in...
Ideal for the management of compounds, biologicals and reagents, Mosaic 6.0 developments include more intuitive interfaces for ordering and inventory searching, and additional functions all designed to further streamline laboratory workflows, save valuable work-time and maximise the cost-effective use of resources. With the release of Mosaic 6.0, a new optional Assay Requesting module is available which significantly improves the efficiency of...
Thirteen SLAS members participated in the series, including professional researchers, engineers and scientists from AstraZeneca, Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Promega Corporation and the University of California Los Angeles. “This video series is a wonderful testament to the relevance and value of SLAS to our...
The visualization and analysis of pores is easier than ever before with the Phenom desktop SEM and the PoroMetric software. The combination of speed, ease of use and superb imaging quality of the Phenom and image pore analysis software of PoroMetric creates a powerful tool for inspecting wide range of samples like filters and membranes...
A LIMS and Automation Assessment provides tools utilized to identify not only requirements, but what types of laboratory automation technologies, methods and training should be provided to a laboratory in order to improve productivity, efficiency, and data quality, while meeting regulatory compliance requirements. A LIMS Needs Assessment can be vital in assisting organizations in determining what the best options are for...