Biomedicine

Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode four, How machine learning and lab automation are changing the future of protein therapeutics. In this article, […]

Domainex has opened a new lab facility at Unity Campus in Sawston, Cambridge. The company will be joining an existing community of biomedical companies at Unity Campus, including IONTAS, PhoreMost, Sareum and Liminal BioSciences.   Official comments  Dr Tom Mander, CEO of Domainex, said: “On the back of the strong uptake of our services by life […]

Waters Corporation and Sartorius have partnered to provide bioprocess experts with direct access to high-quality mass spectrometry (MS) data to accelerate the speed and improve the accuracy of biopharmaceutical process development.   The partnership will implement the BioAccord LC-MS System from Waters as a new bioprocess analyser with data connectivity to Sartorius’ Ambr multi-parallel bioreactor systems to deliver mass spectral […]

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 […]

The SLAS 2021 Building Biology in 3D Hybrid Symposium, originally planned for Jupiter, Florida, has been relocated to the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California, to enable current Covid-related safe meeting guidelines.   “At this time, we cannot enforce SLAS safe meeting guidelines within the state of Florida; we want to ensure that […]

BioIVT’s human AB serum product line is designed to supplement cell culture media and facilitate cell and gene therapy development.  Human AB serum contains many compounds that are vital for cell growth, including growth factors, vitamins, nutrients, trace elements and transport factors. As a result, human AB serum produces biologically relevant conditions that allow many human cell lines […]

In this podcast, Megan Thomas narrated two articles in which Akash Bhattacharya, the Senior Application Scientist at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, explains how streamlining gene therapy manufacturing will help products reach more patients, and Andreas Huhmer, Senior Director of Proteomics and Metabolomics at Thermo Fisher Scientific, discusses the value of technique when it comes to […]

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) has relaunched radiochemistry at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC) at the University of Manchester, UK. The facility, which was closed in 2020, includes the multi-million pound ‘Cyclotron’, one of only a few in the UK. It will supply radio-chemicals to drug discovery biotechs and academics, reportedly increasing the UK’s potential […]

This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Stop, collaborate and listen: a model for successful pharma and vendor engagement”. It covers a narrated article written for DDW and read aloud by Megan Thomas. Digital transformations are having wide-ranging and profound impacts within life sciences, creating both opportunities and challenges. One of those […]

Digital transformations are having wide-ranging and profound impacts within life sciences, creating both opportunities and challenges. One of those challenges is adopting new software systems to drive the transformations. A team from Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research (NIBR) recognised the need to ensure a good user experience for their in vivo study support groups. The […]