Breaking News on Laboratory Equipment

Product news in brief - week 35

LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of new product releases and product news, with new offerings from Aura, Horiba Jobin Yvon, Integra, Metrohm, Millipore, Promega, Roche and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Sigma-Aldrich jump on the LentiExpress for RNAi screening

Sigma-Aldrich has launched a new technology that promises to dramatically simplify and speed-up high-throughput (HT) RNAi screening of the human kinome.

Raising the standard of proteomics data

A new series of reporting guidelines have been developed by researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in an effort to aid proteomics data integration and comparison.

Synthetic MAb purification tech edges closer to market

The UK arm of biopharma company ProMetic has hit a milestone with its breakthrough synthetic molecule solution for protein purification.

MicroCal pushes ITC towards secondary screening applications

The launch of the world's fastest isothermal titration calorimeter (ITC) could herald a new dawn for a technique traditionally hampered by throughput limitations and the need for large amounts of sample.

Measuring bioprocess shear stress

A new device has been developed enabling researchers to study the stability of therapeutic proteins against shear stresses to allow better bioprocess optimisation.

Big pharma learning drug safety lessons

Big pharma is learning from past failures to improve its ability to predict drug toxicity earlier in the development process.

Industry news in brief - week 35

LabTechnologist.com brings you a round-up of industry news, with developments at Affymetrix, Agilent, Bruker Daltonics, Ciphergen (now Vermillion) and Emerson Process Management.

Symyx expands lab automation tools

Symyx Technologies has released a machine designed to automate the sample preparation stage of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) solubility experiments, saving researchers valuable time.

Liquid chromatography on the up in US

The US market for liquid chromatography is looking 'very promising', according to a new report.

Merck-Frosst pushing mass spectroscopy into overdrive

Merck-Frosst Canada is pushing the limits of mass spectroscopy (MS), hoping to speed it up enough to achieve true high-throughput screening of difficult drug targets.

Award for preclinical services firm

Domainex, a London- and Cambridge-based preclinical services firm has won an industry award for its bottleneck-breaking genomics technology.

Vivalis scores another cell culture technology

French biopharmaceutical company Vivalis has added another cell culture technology to its stronghold as it moves to dominate the avian stem cell market.

Applied Biosystems expanding genotyping access

Through a new service partnership, Applied Biosystems is helping scientists study genetic variations - even if they can't access or afford the necessary lab equipment.

Product news in brief - week 34

LabTechnologist.com brings you a round-up of recent product news, with new releases and news from Copley Scientific, Uniqsis, Q Chip and Applied Biosystems.

Amgen's approach to selectivity predictions

Amgen has outlined how it uses computer models to predict the selectivity of small molecule drugs.

Industry news in brief - week 33

LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of industry news, featuring developments at Amphion Innovations, Durham Scientific Crystals, Celsis, Biotage, and Malvern Instruments.

Private firms make attractive 'prey'

Privately held lab equipment firms are increasingly 'prey for value hunters', according to a new analyst report from Plimsoll Publishing.

Agilent expands microarray offering with FFPE sample labelling kit

Using technology recently licensed from Kreatech, Agilent has launched a kit to enable researchers to more easily access genetic information from formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples.

First 3D images of living cell a 'dream'

A US scientist says he has fulfilled his dream by creating the first 3D images of a living cell, finally allowing researchers to study them in their natural state.

Product news in brief - week 33

LabTechnologist.com brings you a round-up of recent product news, with new releases and news form Bruker, FEI, Illumina, Millipore, Paraytec and Sigma-Aldrich.

Invitrogen takes the stress out of stem cell 'passaging'

The launch of Invitrogen's Stempro EZPassage should substantially reduce the time and stress involved in dividing up cultures of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) colonies.

PerkinElmer expands LC/MS validation service

PerkinElmer has expanded its multi-vendor service offering to help firms reduce the cost of regulatory compliance in pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing quality control laboratories.

Demand for laboratory supplies continues unabated

As second quarter financial results continue to be released laboratory suppliers Sigma-Aldrich and Invitrogen have both posted 13 per cent revenue growth.

Industry news in brief - week 32

LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of industry news, featuring developments at Affymetrix, Mettler-Toledo, Fluidigm, Oxford Instruments, Qiagen and TTP Labtech.

Jeol ups the ante with new 'entry level' NMR machine

Jeol has launched a new NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectrometer that brings a high performance instrument to routine drug discovery and quality control applications, all in an 'entry level' package.

PerkinElmer reduces the cost of cellular imaging

PerkinElmer has launched an 'introductory configuration' of its Opera system to lower the upfront cost of adding high content screening (HCS) to drug discovery and systems biology programmes.

Weekly comment

Speculation on gene therapy trial death 'premature'

Targeted Genetics said it was 'premature as well as irresponsible' to draw any conclusions on what caused the death of a patient who participated in a clinical trial testing the safety of the firm's new gene therapy.

Abraxis acquires rights to discovery platform

Abraxis Bioscience has bought the worldwide rights to a discovery platform designed to generate new therapeutics and identify new drug targets that alter the p53 tumour suppressor signalling pathway.

Lab equipment manufacturers see record growth

With second quarter financial results being released thick and fast, laboratory instrument manufacturers Bruker Biosciences and Illumina have both seen very strong revenue growth.

ChanTest to expand ion-channel screening

ChanTest has received private equity financing by Ampersand Ventures to enable the company to expand its library of ion channel-expressing cell lines for drug screening.

Celsis tech gets pharma recognition

Celsis' Rapid Microbiological Method (RMM) has been included in GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) successful Veramyst New Drug Application (NDA), paving the way for broader acceptance of the time saving technique.

Asuragen moves ahead with microRNA offering

Asuragen has launched a newly expanded miRNA expression profiling service that can search over 13,000 human candidate miRNAs.

Entelos to develop liver injury model for the FDA

The search for better models to predict drug-induced human liver damage has led the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) to turn to Entelos to design a 'virtual liver' to guide biomarker and assay development.

Applied Biosystems breaks the $2bn barrier

Applied Biosystems (ABI) passed the $2bn (€1.46bn) revenue mark during 2007; however profits took a hit due to the acquisition of next generation DNA sequencing technology.

Product news in brief - week 31

LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of product news with new releases from Anachem, Bruker, ICR, PANalytical, StellarNet and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Company Profile: Thermo Fisher Scientific

LabTechnologist.com brings you an exclusive interview with Greg Herrema - president of the Scientific Instruments division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

PADI dives into the chemical analysis of solids

UK researchers have developed a new way to make compounds fly into a mass spectrometer (MS) that could provide benefits for researchers working in drug discovery and quality control (QC) laboratories.

Teaching computers to read chemical structures

German scientists have developed software that can recognise chemical structure images and convert them into a computer readable format to enable graphical searching of patents and scientific papers.