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Evotec and Harvard University to collaborate on development of new class of antibacterials

Evotec AG announced a research collaboration with Harvard University aimed at discovering and developing novel anti-bacterial agents based on a highly validated target family involved in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. Under the Agreement, researchers at Harvard and Evotec will collaborat ... more

Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems

Naturally occurring "keystone" molecules that have powerful behavioral effects on diverse organisms often play large but unrecognized roles in structuring ecosystems, according to a theory proposed in the June issue of BioScience. The authors of the theory, Ryan P. Ferrer of Seattle Pacific ... more

Predicting risky sexual behavior

A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas found that risky sexual behavior can be predicted by cultural, socioeconomic and individual mores in conjunction with how one views themselves. Katherine Hertlein of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will prese ... more

Vitamin C does not lower uric acid levels in gout patients

Despite previous studies touting its benefit in moderating gout risk, new research reveals that vitamin C, also known ascorbic acid, does not reduce uric acid (urate) levels to a clinically significant degree in patients with established gout. Vitamin C supplementation, alone or in combinat ... more

Proteome atlas for the tuberculosis pathogen

Photographers know the problem all too well: with the naked eye, you can see which branch a bird is sitting on, but spotting the bird in the blur of branches through the telephoto lens for high-magnification images requires considerable skill. It is a similar story for researchers who are l ... more

Carl Zeiss Meditec improves its results in first six months of financial year 2012/2013

In the first six months of financial year 2012/2013 medical technology company Carl Zeiss Meditec increased its revenue by 2.6% compared with the same period of the previous year, to € 443 million. Earnings before interest and tax improved to € 64.1 million (previous year: € 61.1 million); ... more

Evonik selects OPX Biotechnologies for joint development of bio-based chemicals

 OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) and Evonik Industries AG announced the two companies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop certain bio-based specialty chemicals. The joint-development agreement signed May 3rd 2013 calls for OPXBIO to use its proprietary EDGE™ (Efficiency Dir ... more

Frost & Sullivan commends Merck Serono for its excellence in product differentiation

Merck Serono announced that based on its recent analysis of the human growth hormones (HGH) market, Frost & Sullivan recognises Merck Serono with the 2013 Europe Product Differentiation Excellence Award. “Merck Serono is lauded for its cutting-edge drug delivery devices - easypod® and cool. ... more

SYGNIS reports results for the first quarter of 2013

SYGNIS Pharma AG announced its financial results according to IFRS for the first quarter of 2013, ending 31 March 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, revenues amounted to €0.1 million; operating expenses amounted to €1.3 million. Operating expenses include sales, general & administrative co ... more

Cells must use their brakes moderately for effective speed control

How cells regulate their own function by "accelerating and braking" is important basic knowledge when new intelligent medicines are being developed, or when plant cells are tweaked to produce more bioenergy. In a study published by Nature Communications, researchers at Uppsala and Umeå univ ... more

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Analytik Jena to develop products for sepsis diagnostics

Analytik Jena has acquired all of the assets of the insolvent company SIRS-Lab GmbH as part of an asset deal. SIRS-Lab, a company that develops molecular diagnostics methods and testing systems for life-threatening infections like sepsis, had filed for insolvency in December 2012. Analytik ... more

Disposable immunosensor for determination of leptin in serum and breast milk

Scientists in Spain have developed a disposable magnetic bead-based immunosensor to detect the hormone leptin. Leptin helps regulate food intake and is thought to play a role in obesity. This new sensor is very sensitive with a lower limit of detection than current immunoassays. The sensor ... more

Characterisation of mercury-binding protein

A 2D-HPLC-UV-ICP-MS system has been developed by scientists in China for the separation and recognition of mercury-binding proteins in human plasma. Environmental mercury can come from both natural and anthropogenic sources and then be biomagnified through the food chain. Exposure can come ... more

analytica Vietnam 2013 – Platform for innovations

For three days, high-quality laboratory equipment and the latest analysis devices were the focus of the third analytica Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. 114 exhibitors from ten countries presented their exhibits to more than 3,400 trade visitors. The content in the program of related events, wh ... more

Analytik Jena announces forecast for financial year 2012/2013

Analytik Jena AG (AJA) expects sales for the current financial year 2012/2013 to exceed EUR 100.0 m for the first time in the Company's history. This was announced today by the manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, life science instruments and optoelectronics in the run-up to its Annu ... more

Reading the human genome

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have achieved a major advance in understanding how genetic information is transcribed from DNA to RNA by providing the first step-by-step look at the biomolecular machinery that reads ... more

Taking the gamble out of DNA sequencing

Two USC scientists have developed an algorithm that could help make DNA sequencing affordable enough for clinics – and could be useful to researchers of all stripes.Andrew Smith, a computational biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, developed the algorithm alo ... more

High throughput phenotyping of uropathogenic E. coli isolates with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

UK scientists have designed a high throughput method to determine the phenotypes of the different Escherichia coli strains that cause urinary tract infections. The method couples bacterial growth requirements to Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The majority of urinary tract infectio ... more

Dying Brightly

Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, occurs tens of millions of times every day in every human body. Researchers in South Korea have devised an easy method to detect apoptotic cells by fluorescence, as they report in Chemistry—An Asian Journal. Their method makes it easier to detect imprope ... more

Mobile material analysis by NIR spectrometer in sugar cube format

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS will be presenting an extremely miniaturized near-infrared spectrometerThis device enables analysis of gaseous, liquid and solid materials immediately on site instead of taking samples for lab analysis. The optical bench is smaller tha ... more

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Evotec and Harvard University to collaborate on development of new class of antibacterials

Evotec AG announced a research collaboration with Harvard University aimed at discovering and developing novel anti-bacterial agents based on a highly validated target family involved in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. Under the Agreement, researchers at Harvard and Evotec will collaborat ... more

Proteome atlas for the tuberculosis pathogen

Photographers know the problem all too well: with the naked eye, you can see which branch a bird is sitting on, but spotting the bird in the blur of branches through the telephoto lens for high-magnification images requires considerable skill. It is a similar story for researchers who are l ... more

Carl Zeiss Meditec improves its results in first six months of financial year 2012/2013

In the first six months of financial year 2012/2013 medical technology company Carl Zeiss Meditec increased its revenue by 2.6% compared with the same period of the previous year, to € 443 million. Earnings before interest and tax improved to € 64.1 million (previous year: € 61.1 million); ... more

Emphasis on X-ray quality spurs adoption of radiography, finds Frost & Sullivan

The need to improve the efficiency and quality of X-ray examinations will drive healthcare facilities across Europe to install computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems. The emergence of retrofit systems based on flat panel technology has popularised DR systems, and wil ... more

ZEISS presents half-year financial figures

During the first six months of fiscal year 2012/13 the business trend in the ZEISS Group was marked by the difficult conditions experienced in some markets. Nevertheless, the Group concluded the first half of the year (ended 31 March) with revenue totaling EUR 1.978 billion (first six month ... more

Evogene reports first quarter 2013 financial results

Evogene Ltd. (EVGN) announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Revenues for the first quarter of 2013 grew to $4.6 million, compared to $4.2 million for the same period in 2012. Evogene’s current revenues consist primarily of research and licensing revenues ... more

Chemistry breakthrough sheds new light on illness and health

From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current contrast agents and dyes are expensive, di ... more

Analytik Jena to develop products for sepsis diagnostics

Analytik Jena has acquired all of the assets of the insolvent company SIRS-Lab GmbH as part of an asset deal. SIRS-Lab, a company that develops molecular diagnostics methods and testing systems for life-threatening infections like sepsis, had filed for insolvency in December 2012. Analytik ... more

Plate reader for drug discovery

The trend towards automated high content assays, particularly for systems biology and drug discovery, has stimulated the development of automated fluorescence microscopy systems to image sample arrays. Today’s commercially available high content analysis (HCA) instruments predominantly empl ... more

3D microfluidic liver on a chip

Researchers in South Korea have developed a three-dimensional liver model that can recreate cell signalling within the organ. The liver on a chip could cut tests on animals by providing an accurate artificial model of how the organ responds to new drugs. The team, led by SangHoon Lee, at Ko ... more

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Analytik Jena to develop products for sepsis diagnostics

Analytik Jena has acquired all of the assets of the insolvent company SIRS-Lab GmbH as part of an asset deal. SIRS-Lab, a company that develops molecular diagnostics methods and testing systems for life-threatening infections like sepsis, had filed for insolvency in December 2012. Analytik ... more

Quinten identifies a combination of two synergistic markers that predicts a favorable response to treatment in breast cancer

Quinten announced the identification of two discriminating biological marker candidates which are indicative of a favorable response to treatment in women suffering from triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). In the sub-group with both markers in combination, 86 per cent of women responded t ... more

Oslo study: 3D mammography in combination with 2D breast exam finds significantly more cancers than 2D breast exam alone

Hologic, Inc.announced that a new study published in Radiology, found that the addition of three dimensional mammography screening technology to a 2D breast screening exam significantly increased cancer detection while reducing the number of false positives. The study, "Comparison of Digita ... more

Diagnostics Company SIRS-Lab insolvent

SIRS-Lab requested the opening of insolvency proceedings. The company, founded ten years ago, develops molecular diagnostic technologies for life-threatening infections as sepsis, also known as blood poisoning. Sepsis claims 250.000 victims per year in the USA alone. Therefore SIRS-Lab has ... more

Lab21 announces sale of South Carolina Operations

Lab21 Limited announced the sale of its laboratory operations based in South Carolina to Reedy Acquisitions Corp, an entity formed by the existing local management and South Carolina based investors. In addition to an immediate cash benefit for Lab21 Ltd, the sale will remove a loss-making ... more

Method developed by VTT targets diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease

A software tool called PredictAD developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland promises to enable earlier diagnosis of the disease on the basis of patient measurements and large databases. Alzheimer’s disease currently takes on average 20 months to diagnose in Europe. VTT has shown ... more

Researchers discover gender-based differences in Alzheimer's disease

All patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lose brain cells, which leads to a shrinking, or atrophy, of the brain. But the pattern of gray matter loss is significantly different in men and women, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North Ameri ... more

Rapid Detection of Malaria

An estimated 220 million people become infected with malaria each year. The disease is often lethal – particularly in tropical developing countries with insufficient health care services. The infected suffer from a high fever. As this is also the case with other germs, however, it is import ... more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens New Manufacturing Facility in China

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced the official opening of its new facility in Suzhou, China, for the manufacturing of life sciences consumables and equipment. The facility expands the company’s global manufacturing footprint and establishes local production capabilities to meet increa ... more

Skuldtech identifies new predictive markers for pancreatic cancer survival resulting from its proprietary technology platform

Skuldtech, a genomic and pharmacogenomic company specialized in developing diagnostic tests, announced it has successfully used its technological platform to identify new biomarkers during a phase III clinical trial. This discovery made it possible to file a marketing authorization applicat ... more

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ZEISS presents half-year financial figures

During the first six months of fiscal year 2012/13 the business trend in the ZEISS Group was marked by the difficult conditions experienced in some markets. Nevertheless, the Group concluded the first half of the year (ended 31 March) with revenue totaling EUR 1.978 billion (first six month ... more

Analytik Jena to develop products for sepsis diagnostics

Analytik Jena has acquired all of the assets of the insolvent company SIRS-Lab GmbH as part of an asset deal. SIRS-Lab, a company that develops molecular diagnostics methods and testing systems for life-threatening infections like sepsis, had filed for insolvency in December 2012. Analytik ... more

Core facilities: Widening access to research instrumentation

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved funding for ten additional core facilities to make existing research instrumentation more easily and efficiently accessible to researchers. This decision was made by the DFG's Joint Committee. The projects wi ... more

analytica Vietnam 2013 – Platform for innovations

For three days, high-quality laboratory equipment and the latest analysis devices were the focus of the third analytica Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. 114 exhibitors from ten countries presented their exhibits to more than 3,400 trade visitors. The content in the program of related events, wh ... more

Analytik Jena announces forecast for financial year 2012/2013

Analytik Jena AG (AJA) expects sales for the current financial year 2012/2013 to exceed EUR 100.0 m for the first time in the Company's history. This was announced today by the manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, life science instruments and optoelectronics in the run-up to its Annu ... more

Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Life Technologies Corporation

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Life Technologies Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fisher will acquire Life Technologies for $76.00 in cash per fully diluted common share, or approximately $13.6 billion, plus the assumption of net debt at close ($2.2 billion as ... more

Copley Scientific’s Swiss office celebrates 10 years in business

Copley Scientific’s Swiss office is currently celebrating its tenth highly successful year of providing expert sales and technical support to customers across Europe. Based in Therwil, the office delivers high quality, local language services to France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerla ... more

Mobile lab for epidemiological applications

The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT is working on future lab technology. The project is funded by the state government of Germany´s Saarland and unites local and national partners from industry and craftsmanship. Built and financed in the framework of the project »Labor ... more

DURAN Group launches anniversary campaign to celebrate 120 years of laboratory glassware

His invention revolutionised modern chemistry: at the end of the 19th century, Otto Schott, founder of modern glass technology and what is now SCHOTT AG, invented a laboratory glass made from borosilicate glass, a completely new type of technical glass. It was the first special glass with h ... more

Qlucore targets academic and commercial biotech, life science markets with Novo Newton

Qlucore has announced an agency agreement with Novo Newton Scientific Ltd. Novo Newton will assist in marketing Qlucore's Omics Explorer software in Ireland, Spain, Italy and South Africa. Recently Qlucore has also signed a distribution agreement in Japan, and raised investment finance for ... more

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Evotec and Harvard University to collaborate on development of new class of antibacterials

Evotec AG announced a research collaboration with Harvard University aimed at discovering and developing novel anti-bacterial agents based on a highly validated target family involved in bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. Under the Agreement, researchers at Harvard and Evotec will collaborat ... more

SYGNIS reports results for the first quarter of 2013

SYGNIS Pharma AG announced its financial results according to IFRS for the first quarter of 2013, ending 31 March 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, revenues amounted to €0.1 million; operating expenses amounted to €1.3 million. Operating expenses include sales, general & administrative co ... more

Environmental significance of chiral persistent organic pollutants

Enantioselectivity has been recognized in the fields of life science, pharmacology, modern medicine, and chemistry. The increasing release of chiral persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the environment in recent decades has led to an increase in scientific research into their environme ... more

Plate reader for drug discovery

The trend towards automated high content assays, particularly for systems biology and drug discovery, has stimulated the development of automated fluorescence microscopy systems to image sample arrays. Today’s commercially available high content analysis (HCA) instruments predominantly empl ... more

European Medicines Agency reorganisation

The first details of the planned reorganisation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have been announced. Rooted firmly in the Agency’s overall public and animal health mission, the changes reflect a renewed focus on three key elements: how to better support the scientific work of the EMA ... more

Double functionalisation of titanium-based nanoparticles for drug delivery

Scientists in India report the functionalisation of TiO2 nanoparticles with two different biomolecules – tris-(nitrilo tris-acetic acid) and biotin. The biocompatible nanoparticles is non-cytotoxic and can deliver multiple biomolecules into the cell. In the future the nanoparticles could ac ... more

3D microfluidic liver on a chip

Researchers in South Korea have developed a three-dimensional liver model that can recreate cell signalling within the organ. The liver on a chip could cut tests on animals by providing an accurate artificial model of how the organ responds to new drugs. The team, led by SangHoon Lee, at Ko ... more

Nanoparticles for remote-controlled drug delivery

Scientists from Singapore report the development of a nanoparticle-based drug delivery vehicle that is capable of releasing drugs upon external stimuli. They have made amphiphilic polymer coated gold nanoparticles which self-assemble into vesicles. The hydrophobic polymer on the gold nanopa ... more

European Medicines Agency receives interim decisions of the General Court of the EU on access to clinical and non-clinical information

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been ordered by the General Court of the European Union not to provide documents as part of two access-to-documents requests until a final ruling is given by the Court. These interim rulings were made as part of court cases brought by two pharmaceutic ... more

Unethical advertising at launch of antidepressants

The new feature of the antidepressant drugs of the 1990s was that they had milder side-effects than their predecessors. Combined with aggressive marketing, this meant that annual sales in Sweden increased from just under EUR 18 million to over EUR 100 million in the space of just a few year ... more

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Predicting risky sexual behavior

A recent study by a team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas found that risky sexual behavior can be predicted by cultural, socioeconomic and individual mores in conjunction with how one views themselves. Katherine Hertlein of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will prese ... more

Vitamin C does not lower uric acid levels in gout patients

Despite previous studies touting its benefit in moderating gout risk, new research reveals that vitamin C, also known ascorbic acid, does not reduce uric acid (urate) levels to a clinically significant degree in patients with established gout. Vitamin C supplementation, alone or in combinat ... more

Cells must use their brakes moderately for effective speed control

How cells regulate their own function by "accelerating and braking" is important basic knowledge when new intelligent medicines are being developed, or when plant cells are tweaked to produce more bioenergy. In a study published by Nature Communications, researchers at Uppsala and Umeå univ ... more

Body fat hardens arteries after middle age

In young people, blood vessels appear to be able to compensate for the effects of obesity. But after middle age, this adaptability is lost, and arteries become progressively stiffer as body fat rises – potentially increasing the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. The researchers sug ... more

Allergic disease worsens respiratory symptoms and exacerbations in COPD

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who also have allergic disease have higher levels of respiratory symptoms and are at higher risk for COPD exacerbations, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "Although allergic sensitiz ... more

Future hospitalization may be linked to insomnia

Having trouble falling or staying asleep? According to a new study led by a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, insomnia may be an important indicator of future hospitalization among middle-aged and older adults. They examined the association between ... more

Environmental significance of chiral persistent organic pollutants

Enantioselectivity has been recognized in the fields of life science, pharmacology, modern medicine, and chemistry. The increasing release of chiral persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the environment in recent decades has led to an increase in scientific research into their environme ... more

Emphasis on X-ray quality spurs adoption of radiography, finds Frost & Sullivan

The need to improve the efficiency and quality of X-ray examinations will drive healthcare facilities across Europe to install computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems. The emergence of retrofit systems based on flat panel technology has popularised DR systems, and wil ... more

Novel study reports marijuana users have better blood sugar control

Regular marijuana use is associated with favorable indices related to diabetic control, say investigators. They found that current marijuana users had significantly lower fasting insulin and were less likely to be insulin resistant, even after excluding patients with a diagnosis of diabetes ... more

Early formula use helps some mothers breastfeed longer

Recent public health efforts have focused extensively on reducing the amount of formula babies are given in the hospital after birth. But in the first randomized trial of its kind, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that giving small amounts of formula in the first few days of life ... more

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