United Kingdom Science News

IDT sponsors undergraduate iGEM teams for the second year running

Swansea University’s David Skibinski discusses the Fermi paradox at the Science Café on Wednesday, 25 April at 7.30pm.

Newly FDA-cleared fertility monitor DuoFertility offers helping hand to Khloe and Lamar, as well as two million other American couples. For suitably screened couples provides a pregnancy rate like IVF, but costs $795 instead of $15,000.

GEA Process Engineering has received an order for building the world’s largest dairy spray dryer from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order is one of the largest ever for GEA Process Engineering amounting to more than EUR 70 million.

GEA Pharma Systems will be demonstrating its solid dosage innovation in the areas of compression, containment and continuous processing at ACHEMA 2012 in Frankfurt from 18-22 June.

Seminar to discuss company’s biomarker accelerator strategy for optimising drug and diagnostic development

Tecan’s Infinite® M1000 plate reader has enabled researchers at the Institute of Entomology (ENTU), Czech Republic, to automate hourly luminescence measurement of transgenic Drosophila for the study of insect circadian clocks.

New PLEX-ID System and Three Clinical Tests Introduced in the European Union

Company targets applications including companion diagnostics and ADMET

TIDES Organisers Recognise Link Technologies’ Expertise in the Diagnostic Applications of Nucleotides

Nano and Microfluidics One of Eight Available Conference Streams

Microarray analysis tool provides researchers with biologically meaningful results

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Astech and ClearView Imaging partner to demonstrate machine vision inspection capabilities

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the 50th anniversary of its Maybridge chemistry products, a continually evolving line of bioactive molecules to accelerate drug discovery and development.

Aurora Instruments launches a compact liquid handling system for genomics applications

Astra Nova is happy to announce its latest webinar, which will be held on May12th 2012 and is dedicated to Polish-speaking clinical site representatives. The topic is "How to improve/develop a site and make it attractive to sponsors."

The revolutionary design of Tecan’s NanoQuant Plate™ has been recognized with the granting of a new European patent.

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The new IS40 ion source range from Henniker Scientific addresses both surface preparation and surface analysis applications under UHV conditions.

"Cisplatin (Cervical Cancer) - Analysis and Forecasts to 2020” provides Cisplatin sales estimates for US, EU5 and Japan.

GEA Process Engineering will be launching POWDEREYE™, a new system for in-line powder analysis, at the ANUGA exhibition in Cologne from 27 – 30 March, 2012.

GEA Pharma Systems, in association with its Brazilian partner STEQ, hosted a series of successful educational seminars in Brazil for the benefit of technical specialists in Brazilian pharmaceutical companies.

Soil and fruit eliminated as sources in a recent fatal Listeriosis scare

Scientists at the University of Cambridge are using Physik Instrumente’s P-517 3-axis precision nanopositioning system.

Training, Conference, Workshop and Exhibition at Europe’s Premier Laboratory Automation Event

New CytoSure™ ISCA +SNP array for accurate detection of copy number changes and loss of heterozygosity using a single array

TTP Labtech discusses oncology applications of acumen eX3 and mirrorball at AACR

mosquito® X1 (nanolitre pipettor) provides accurate high-throughput screening

After the successful launch of Pico-Surf™ surfactants earlier this year, Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic, has announced the release of Pico-Glide™

IDT’s DECODED newsletter discusses research carried out at the Hubrecht Institute

CM Technologies is pleased to announce the appointment of Dync B.V. as its new distributor for the powerful Cell-IQ® live cell imaging platform in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

There was a bumper turnout at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Wednesday for Science Café.

Qualiris by Stago is an innovative, flexible international external quality control (EQC) programme that can be tailored to individual requirements and scheduling needs.

The P4 Inserm-Jean Mérieux laboratory in Lyon is Europe’s largest high security pathogen laboratory, and relies on the flexibility, robustness and reliability of Tecan’s Infinite® 200 PRO monochromator­-based microplate reader.

Reinnervate and Kirkstall to collaborate on new 3D cell culture products

The concept of ‘White Biotech’ is nothing new. People have been using natural products to create health-giving products for millennia.

Blamon is pleased to announce the worlds first feasible HEAT BATTERY at the Eco-Build expo at the Excel arena London tomorrow on stand S2921 in collaboration with our preferred design engineers THESDA/SAP100.

Peter Barham looks at what gives food its flavour at the Science Café on Wednesday, 21 March at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Astech Projects Provides Leading Pharmaceutical Company with Bespoke Analytical Technology Platforms

Laboratory scale chemists offered educational workshops and seminars

Latest issue of IDT’s Decoded newsletter explains the fundamentals of artificial gene construction

SAW Instruments’ unique sam® Biosensors offer real-time, label-free kinetics on cells

GEA Levati will be promoting its new System Rotary Combined (SRC) rotary retort at the ANUGA FoodTec 2012.

GEA Process Engineering will launch its new RAY™ 2 large laboratory-sized batch freeze dryer at ANUGA FoodTec 2012, in Cologne from 27 – 30 March.

GEA Procomac will be showing its new Aseptic Dual Filling System for the filling of PET bottles with products containing particulates at ANUGA FoodTec 2012, in Cologne from 27 – 30 March.

Dr Mat Upton - Director of the University of Manchester in Medicine & Molecular Microbiology, has recently compiled a report on an examination into Germguards 8 day continuous protection against bacterial colonisation, growth, and biofilm formation.

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Henniker Scientific are pleased to announce that the Impedans Semion™ retarding field ion energy and flux analysers now feature an integrated time resolved operation mode for high time resolution studies of technological plasmas.

Effective from 1st March 2012, specialist in cell-based imaging and analysis Chip-Man Technologies will trade as CM Technologies.