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Omron donates cutting-edge laboratory to help UH engineering students gain real-world skills

The University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering recently unveiled a cutting-edge laboratory donated by the Omron Foundation, the charitable arm of automation solutions provider Omron in the United States.

From Omron Healthcare, Inc. 31 May 2019

LABVOLUTION highlights developments and future trends in lab technology

For anyone keen on experiencing the very latest in lab technology, LABVOLUTION was the place to be. Three major trends – automation, digitization and big data – featured prominently throughout the show, as reflected by a proliferation of robots and monitors at exhibitors' stands.

From LABVOLUTION 24 May 2019

Ziath announces opening of direct operations in the U.S.

Instrumentation control and information management product specialists - Ziath has announced the opening of direct operations in the US with the appointment of a general manager.

From Ziath Ltd 22 May 2019

Micronic introduces wider spectrum of hybrid tubes

Micronic widens the range of successful “hybrid” tubes. The leader in sample storage introduced 4 coding concepts, a tube with multiple sample identification methods, last year.

From Micronic 21 May 2019

Electron microscopy project could revolutionize the search for new drugs

The search for new drugs to combat diseases more effectively could be revolutionized through a new £30 million electron microscopy project.

17 May 2019

How an “Internet of Things for science labs” startup is going viral

Amazon and Google gave us smart homes, where household items are reordered automatically as soon as stock runs low, and all of our devices and apps are interconnected and centralised.

From Labstep 17 May 2019

Penn Medicine launches free, 'self-service' AI tool for data analytics

The Penn Medicine Institute for Biomedical Informatics has launched a free, open-source automated machine learning system for data analysis that is designed for anyone to use, from a high school student looking to gain insight on their baseball team's statistics, to trained researchers looking for associations between cancer and environmental factors.

16 May 2019

Scientists develop new test to examine a drug's embryotoxicity in cell cultures

Medications have to be safe for mothers-to-be and for their unborn children. Before the authorities will approve a new drug, it must be tested in animal trials on pregnant rodents and, as a rule, pregnant rabbits.

14 May 2019

Tech-savvy people more likely to accept and use digital healthcare providers

Would you trust a robot to diagnose your cancer? According to researchers at Penn State, people with high confidence in machine performance and also in their own technological capabilities are more likely to accept and use digital healthcare services and providers.

11 May 2019

Creating biologically functional tissue using 3D printing techniques

The future of medicine is biological - and scientists hope we will soon be using 3D-printed biologically functional tissue to replace irreparably damaged tissue in the body.

6 May 2019

Porvair Sciences' ultra-flat Krystal glass bottom microplates for imaging applications

The family of ultra-flat Krystal glass bottom microplates from Porvair Sciences provide unmatched performance for high-throughput screening and tissue culture applications.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 26 Apr 2019

Small army of tiny robots can remove dental plaque

A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth.

25 Apr 2019

Ziath to showcase its latest products at forthcoming exhibitions

Ziath Ltd. has announced that it will showcase its latest 2D coded tube scanners, imagers and semi-automated Mohawk tube selector at the forthcoming ISBER 2019, LabVolution, the Symposium for Cell Biology and Cryopreservation and ELRIG-France conferences and exhibitions.

From Ziath Ltd 25 Apr 2019

Lonza to host free 60-minute webinar – “Adaptimmune: Implementing a Paperless QC Micro Laboratory”

On 7 May 2019, Lonza will host a free 60-minute webinar during which Adaptimmune Therapeutics will explain their decision to move to a paperless QC microbiology laboratory.

From Lonza 24 Apr 2019

Porvair Sciences offers highly effective P3 microplate for biological sample clean-up

The Protein Crash technique used by the Porvair Sciences P3 microplate is highly effective at removing proteins from biological samples prior to analysis.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 24 Apr 2019

Novel system enables researchers to study bacteria within mini-tissues in a dish

Engineering bacteria to intelligently sense and respond to disease states, from infections to cancer, has become a promising focus of synthetic biology.

19 Apr 2019

New discovery transforms conventional microfluidics into open-space microfluidics

Microfluidics refers to the manipulation of fluids in microscale devices. Commonly called "labs on a chip," microfluidic systems are used to study and analyze very small-scale chemical or biological samples, replacing the extremely expensive and cumbersome instruments used for traditional biological analyses.

19 Apr 2019