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Dr. Tom Knapman, Director of Strategic Brand at SCIEX, explains how bioconvergent advances will help [...]
The Lab of the Future will fuse automation, speed and remote work says Thomas Marshall, [...]
More than half of all scientific research is irreproducible, and more than 80% of scientific research data is being lost within 20 years. In the biomedical field alone, irreproducible research costs the industry £28 billion (US$38 billion) every year. Megan Thomas talks to Founder of Labstep Jake Schofield, about this issue. MT: Huge amounts of scientific data […]
Genoskin, a biotechnology company using live ex vivo human skin to test therapeutic and non-therapeutic products, has launched Mantis, a new spatial biology imaging platform dedicated to skin immunology. This new offer was developed by Genoskin’s recently appointed CSO Dr. Nicolas Gaudenzio and his team at Inserm. What is Mantis? Mantis is a spatial biology solution designed to analyse human skin and […]
Dr Rob Burgess, Chief Business Officer for Sino Biological, has been interviewed on Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland. This television series examines companies around the world currently impacting different sectors of business and society. “I’m delighted with the chance to outline the company’s global impact on human health and biomedical research and I look forward […]
UPM Biomedicals has entered into an agreement with PerkinElmer to act as a distributor of the UPM GrowDex and GrowDase range of products. This new collaboration will offer researchers a complete solution for high throughput screening (HTS) of 3D cell cultures in early drug discovery, combining PerkinElmer’s cell imaging and automation solutions and knowledge with UPM’s animal-free 3D reagent […]
New research has moved a step forward in understanding how glucocorticoid hormones (‘stress hormones’) act upon the brain and what their function is. The findings could lead to more effective strategies in the prevention and treatment of mental health disorders. The study, led by academics at the University of Bristol and published in Nature Communications, […]
The University of Dundee has received £1 million from the Wolfson Foundation to contribute to the costs of fitting-out the Tay Cities Regional Innovation Hub with laboratories and facilities required by high-growth biomedical companies seeking to develop new medicines and medical technologies. The Innovation Hub is central to Growing the Tay Cities Biomedical Cluster, a […]
Two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine induce lower levels of antibodies that are able to recognise and fight the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) than against other strains. These laboratory findings from the Francis Crick Institute and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) UCLH Biomedical Research Centre are published as a Research letter in […]
Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK), a charity tackling bacterial antibiotic resistance, has launched its 2021 Small Research Grants / Career Development Awards scheme. This is the charity’s largest grants programme to date. The charity will be awarding one grant of up to £50,000 and six grants of up to £25,000 each. Monies applied for can be […]
bit.bio is a synthetic biology company working on producing every human cell type at scale, with the aim of transforming the research and medicine landscape. Farah Patell-Socha, PhD, VP Research Products tells Lu Rahman about some of the company’s groundbreaking work in this field and the benefits it is creating for disease modelling and drug […]
LifeNet Health LifeSciences, provider and collaborators in human in vitro biology and drug discovery optimisation, is highlighting innovative human cell and tissue-based research solutions at this year’s ToxExpo. The showcase includes the new, all-human Tri-Culture model, thyrocytes for use in 3D models and genotyped human hepatocytes. It can be found at the Society of Toxicology […]