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Study provides early glimpse of gut's microbial landscape

A collaborative effort by a team of researchers from three institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge and Washington University in St. Louis provided an early glimpse of how microbial communities in the gut - known collectively as the gut microbiome - are spatially organized, uncovering a surprising degree of mixing among different bacterial members.

11 Oct 2017

Agilent collaborate with Doulix to promote SureVector cloning kits

Double Helix Technologies (Doulix) announced today a collaboration with Agilent Technologies Inc. to promote Agilent's SureVector next-generation cloning kits through Doulix’s web platform. Through this partnership, synthetic biologists will be able to choose among SureVector’s standard DNA parts to design custom plasmids using Doulix’s web platform.

From Agilent Technologies - Genomics 11 Oct 2017

Panasonic launches new, energy-efficient VIP ECO Ultra Low Temperature Upright Freezer

Panasonic Biomedical Sales Europe B.V. has introduced a new VIP ECO Ultra Low Temperature Upright Freezer. This new model includes enhanced features that further improve the footprint and ease-of-use of the VIP ECO ULT Freezer for cost-saving and environmentally friendly sample storage.

From PHC Europe B.V. 11 Oct 2017

Scientists find new way to produce brain cells from single iPSC

Li Gan, PhD, wants to find treatments to help patients with Alzheimer's disease. Like most researchers, she's hit a few major roadblocks.

10 Oct 2017

New computer program identifies different cell types based on gene expression patterns

"How many different cell types are there in a human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows," says Professor Stein Aerts from KU Leuven and VIB, Belgium. But thanks to a new method developed by his team, that may be about to change.

10 Oct 2017

Effects of having familiar, good neighbors revealed in bird study

Birds who live next door to family members or to other birds they know well are physically healthier and age more slowly, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

10 Oct 2017

Newly discovered compound causes cancer cell death, whilst sparing healthy cells

Researchers have discovered a compound that can trigger cancer cells to self-destruct, without causing any damage to healthy cells.

10 Oct 2017

Human minibrains expose psychedelic drug effects, study reveals

A Brazilian study has detected variations in signaling pathways that are associated with neurodegeneration, inflammation, and neural plasticity stimulated by a compound from the dimethyltryptamine family known as 5-MeO-DMT.

10 Oct 2017

Awards for contributions to analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy announced by Pittcon

The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of 13 prestigious awards honoring scientists who have made outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. Each award will be presented in a scheduled symposium during Pittcon 2018, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, which will be held February 26-March 1, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida.

From Pittcon 10 Oct 2017

Penn Medicine professor receives New Innovator Award from NIH

Hao Wu, PhD, an assistant professor of Genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. These awards provide each recipient $1.5 million over five years to pursue high-risk, high-reward investigations that could have implications for human health.

9 Oct 2017

Freezing Point Osmometry in Life Science Applications

Osmometry is a method to determine a sample´s osmolality. This is the total number of osmotically active particles solved in a solution. These particles influence the colligative properties of the solution, which include the boiling and freezing point but also the vapor pressure for instance.

From KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH 9 Oct 2017

New microcapsules represent promising vectors for application of genome-editing tools

Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with their colleagues from St. Petersburg, Hamburg and London have conducted a study in the course of which it was found out that polymer and hybrid silica-coated microcapsules are more efficient in genome-editing when applying CRISPR-Cas9 system.

6 Oct 2017

New webinar highlights importance of data integrity in GxP-regulated laboratories

As regulators continue to tighten their inspection approaches, it is critical for managers and scientists in regulated laboratories to understand the key issues surrounding data integrity and be able to demonstrate compliance.

6 Oct 2017

ITL Group returns to MEDICA 2017 to discuss future of diagnostic devices

Leading medical device design and manufacturing company, ITL Group returns to the MEDICA tradeshow in Düsseldorf, Germany this November with a simple message – ‘your future rests with us.’

From Vitl Life Science Solutions 6 Oct 2017

CGT Catapult’s iPSC line licensed to Universal Cells for creating universal donor cell line

The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult today announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement to provide its clinical-grade induced Pluripotent Stem Cell line to Seattle based Universal Cells.

6 Oct 2017

Bruker introduces new ALPHA II FTIR spectrometers for laboratories and classrooms

Today Bruker launched the new ALPHA II, the latest generation of the ALPHA series of compact FTIR spectrometers. The ALPHA II features fully-automated test routines for validation regarding operational qualification and performance validation as well as innovations in temperature-stabilized detector and high-quality IR source technology.

From Bruker 6 Oct 2017

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Study provides early glimpse of gut's microbial landscape

Agilent collaborate with Doulix to promote SureVector cloning kits

Panasonic launches new, energy-efficient VIP ECO Ultra Low Temperature Upright Freezer

Scientists find new way to produce brain cells from single iPSC

New computer program identifies different cell types based on gene expression patterns

Effects of having familiar, good neighbors revealed in bird study

Newly discovered compound causes cancer cell death, whilst sparing healthy cells

Human minibrains expose psychedelic drug effects, study reveals

Awards for contributions to analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy announced by Pittcon

Penn Medicine professor receives New Innovator Award from NIH

Freezing Point Osmometry in Life Science Applications

New microcapsules represent promising vectors for application of genome-editing tools

New webinar highlights importance of data integrity in GxP-regulated laboratories

ITL Group returns to MEDICA 2017 to discuss future of diagnostic devices

CGT Catapult’s iPSC line licensed to Universal Cells for creating universal donor cell line

Bruker introduces new ALPHA II FTIR spectrometers for laboratories and classrooms

Forsyth researchers win $5.4 million NIH award to pursue research on oral microbes

Transitioning to automated liquid handling

Powerful new approach could aid design of better drugs with fewer side-effects

UCLA researchers develop new method to rapidly measure cell's stiffness and size

Innovations in baculovirus–insect cell expression systems

Compound Management and its Crucial Role in Early Pharmaceutical Research

Natural products: the next frontier in drug discovery

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