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Award for advanced digital pathology imaging technology

Award for advanced digital pathology imaging technology

FFEI is the proud winner of the Institute of Physics (IOP) award for Innovation! The award recognises FFEI for the development of advanced imaging technology in the field of digital pathology.
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  • / Oct 18, 2019
New laboratory products in the limelight at Lab Innovations

New laboratory products in the limelight at Lab Innovations

Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, will see a number of new product introductions at Birmingham’s NEC on 30–31 October. Many of the award-winning shows’ exhibitors will be launching or highlighting their very latest laboratory innovations, services and solutions, from general laboratory equipment and informatics, to larger-scale industrial and cleanroom technology.
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  • / Oct 18, 2019
Advanced technologies and equipment support cutting-edge research

Advanced technologies and equipment support cutting-edge research

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is dedicated to developing and providing advanced technologies and equipment for research and discovery to explore new treatment methods.
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  • / Oct 18, 2019
New research and development facility opened in Cardiff

New research and development facility opened in Cardiff

EKF Diagnostics has opened a new Research and Development (R&D) facility at its Cardiff headquarters. The new Special Projects Laboratory will focus on developing new applications for EKF’s many point-of-care and central laboratory medical products to enable the company to enter new market sectors, as well as providing additional diagnostics sales and regulatory support.
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  • / Oct 03, 2019
Showcasing sustainability in the laboratory: an innovative approach

Showcasing sustainability in the laboratory: an innovative approach

Lab Innovations will showcase multiple options to help visitors future-proof their laboratories - from innovative products, to waste reduction (time included!) and sustainability. This focus is reflected in many of Lab Innovations’ key areas, including the Sustainable Laboratory zone, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Insights and Innovation, and Live Lab theatres, as well as on the stands of numerous scientific exhibitors.
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  • / Oct 03, 2019
G-protein-coupled receptor-specific functional antibody screening

G-protein-coupled receptor-specific functional antibody screening

Velabs Therapeutics has announced that its cooperation with Chiome Bioscience, Tokyo, will be deepened, to jointly discover modulatory and functional antibodies for one of Chiome’s G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) target genes. The collaboration will capitalise on Velabs’ microfluidics-based technology in the field of functional antibody screening.
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  • / Oct 03, 2019
Applying liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to clinical research

Applying liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to clinical research

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Cedars-Sinai, a leading non-profit academic healthcare organisation, have entered into a collaboration to develop a pathway to precision medicine through the development of robust, reliable and sensitive liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based workflows for clinical research applications.
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  • / Oct 03, 2019
Telomeres: a game-changer in CLL testing

Telomeres: a game-changer in CLL testing

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is a slowly developing blood cancer in which patients produce mutated versions of white blood cells that build up in the blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes, and crowd out healthy blood cells. It progresses at different rates in different people, and in a third of patients it never progresses at all.
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  • / Oct 02, 2019
Learning from history

Learning from history

Disce ut Proficias (Learn, that you may improve) is both the motto and guiding principle of the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS), and its biennial Congress embodies this ideal. Through lectures, workshops and exhibits, all that is new and relevant to the profession is brought to the delegates. So what is the relevance of the very popular History Committee exhibit that looks at the past? Some may agree with Henry Ford, who said: “History is Bunk”, others understand that knowing where we have come from deepens our understanding and insight into where we are, how we got here and why we took that route.
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  • / Sep 19, 2019
Sophisticated next-generation centrifugation systems

Sophisticated next-generation centrifugation systems

Scientists can now access a series of sophisticated next-generation centrifugation systems designed to offer improved performance, reliability, consistency and safety. These centrifugation systems are among the first to feature a full-colour, user-friendly touchscreen interface, enabling an advanced level of functionality for improved laboratory efficiencies.
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  • / Sep 18, 2019
Olympus camera facilitates engagement in the classroom

Olympus camera facilitates engagement in the classroom

The WLAN-capable Olympus EP50 camera allows every microscope in a classroom to become a wireless imaging system, while also facilitating full standalone applications. The five-megapixel colour camera combines a full HD live image with fast, real-time sharing via smartphones and tablets – without the need for a PC.
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  • / Sep 18, 2019
Novel viruses carried by the Scottish midge discovered

Novel viruses carried by the Scottish midge discovered

Scotland’s biting midge population carries previously-unknown viruses, according to new research. The study – published in the journal Viruses and carried out by scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) – used high-throughput sequencing to study, for the first time, the total collection of viruses in the biting midge (Culicoides impunctatus).
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  • / Sep 18, 2019
Reflecting current practice in pathology

Reflecting current practice in pathology

Members of the Step Communications team responsible for the production of Pathology in Practice (PIP) will be on Stand F22 at the IBMS Biomedical Science Congress in Birmingham to discuss publishing opportunities with speakers, delegates and visitors to the exhibition.
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  • / Sep 18, 2019
Genomic and molecular microbiology

Genomic and molecular microbiology

The next British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT) Annual Scientific Conference will be held on Thursday, 14 May 2020 T the RAF Museum in Hendon. The conference is entitled The genomic and molecular revolution in microbiology: in technology we trust (or do we?).
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  • / Sep 12, 2019
Showcasing advances shaping laboratories of the future

Showcasing advances shaping laboratories of the future

Lab Innovations will be a one-stop showcase of new products and various aspects involved in future-proofing the laboratory. Visitors to the NEC, Birmingham (30–31 October) will be able to discover ways to improve workflow efficiency, benefit from advances enabled by the digital age, and make sustainable procurement decisions that both support the environment and also save money.
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  • / Sep 12, 2019
Human IgG Kappa detection kit launched

Human IgG Kappa detection kit launched

Sphere Fluidics has introduced the Cyto-Cellect Human IgG Kappa Detection Kit, to be used in conjunction with the Cyto-Mine Single Cell Analysis System for rapid and cost-effective measurement of antibody class and productivity in cell line development.
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  • / Sep 12, 2019
Project Sepsis: earlier and more reliable detection

Project Sepsis: earlier and more reliable detection

Sepsis kills five million people per year. Although it has many symptoms, they can be difficult to detect, so identifying it is very challenging. Cases can go undetected until more extreme symptoms are noticeable, by which time it is often too late to save the patient’s life.
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  • / Sep 12, 2019
Providing PCR-free target enrichment of single molecules

Providing PCR-free target enrichment of single molecules

Samplix has announced the commercial launch of its Xdrop sample preparation products for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-free target enrichment, yet maintaining PCR-level specificity. Xdrop enables single-molecule resolution and bias-free enrichment of genomic regions longer than 100 kb from as little as 1-ng genomic DNA.
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  • / Sep 12, 2019
Blood test to reduce late detection of lung cancer

Blood test to reduce late detection of lung cancer

Oncimmune, a global immunodiagnostics group, has welcomed the presentation of data by Professor Frank Sullivan (Chief Investigator on the ECLS trial) which has demonstrated the potential of Oncimmune’s EarlyCDT Lung test to reduce the incidence of patients with late-stage lung cancer at diagnosis, compared with standard clinical diagnosis.
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  • / Sep 12, 2019
MediSieve CEO receives Innovator of the Year Award

MediSieve CEO receives Innovator of the Year Award

Dr George Frodsham, founder and CEO at MediSieve, the medical device company developing ‘magnetic blood filtration’, has won the Early Career Impact Award at the BBSRC Innovator of the Year Awards 2019.
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  • / Sep 12, 2019

Upcoming Events

Lab Innovations

NEC, Birmingham (Hall 12)
30-31 October 2019

British Society for Immunology Congress

Arena and Convention Centre, Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 4FP
2-5 December 2019

The genomic and molecular revolution in microbiology: in technology we trust (or do we?).

RAF Museum, Hendon, London
14 May 2020

Clinical and Laboratory Haemostasis 2020

STEM/Atrium Conference Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
3-4 June 2020

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