ZEISS Innovations Help Achieve Strong Growth

08-May-2019 - The ZEISS Group had a successful end to the first six months of fiscal year 2018/19 (ended 31 March 2019) and saw its revenue rise by 9 percent to EUR 3.019 billion (1st six months of 2017/18: EUR 2.773 billion). 90 percent of this sum was generated by markets outside Germany. At EUR 443 million, ...

EPO announces the finalists for the European Inventor Award 2019

07-May-2019 - The European Patent Office (EPO) announces the 15 finalists nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019. The Award, now in its 14th year, celebrates the genius and creativity of inventors and inventor teams for their contributions to scientific and technological progress, their role in ...

Canopy Biosciences Acquires Zellkraftwerk GmbH

06-May-2019 - Canopy Biosciences, LLC, a leading provider of gene editing and gene expression products and services, announced today that it has acquired Zellkraftwerk GmbH, a leader in multiplex cytometry and a spinoff of Hannover Medical School founded by Dr Christian Hennig, Dr Jan Detmers and Ascenion. ...

Researchers grow cells in 'paper organs'

03-May-2019 - Long before scientists test new medicines in animals or people, they study the effects of the substances on cells growing in Petri dishes. However, a 2D layer of cells is a poor substitute for the much more complex 3D structure of tissues in organs. Now, researchers reporting in the ACS journal ...

Tracking Small Things in Cells

Small and tunable fluorophores for the imaging of metabolites in living cells

02-May-2019 - Living cells can react to disturbances with a changed metabolism, but direct observation of trafficking metabolites in live cells is difficult. An international team of scientists has now developed a class of remarkably small fluorophores called SCOTfluors. The dyes emit light in the visible to ...

Fraunhofer presents high-speed microscope with intuitive gesture control

25-Apr-2019 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen has developed a high-speed microscope for quality control of large-area objects for the semiconductor and electronics industries or for rapid testing of biological samples. The microscope digitizes samples with up to 500 frames per ...

New Method to Create Ultrafast 3D Images of Nanostructures

Protein structures of viruses can be analysed much faster

18-Apr-2019 - Lensless microscopy with X-rays, or coherent diffractive imaging, is a promising approach. It allows researchers to analyse complex three-dimensional structures, which frequently exist in nature, from a dynamic perspective. Whilst two-dimensional images can already be generated quickly and in an ...

Tiny light-up barcodes identify molecules by their twinkling

Tags made of flashing DNA let researchers tease apart dozens of molecules at once

16-Apr-2019 - An imaging technique developed at Duke University could make it possible to peer inside cells and watch dozens of different molecules in action at once -- by labeling them with short strands of light-up DNA that blink on and off with their own unique rhythm. "The idea is everything has its own ...

Protagen Protein Services and BioAnalytix Merge

Create Global Analytic Service Partner for Biopharmaceuticals

15-Apr-2019 - Protagen Protein Services GmbH (PPS), a full-service contract research organization (CRO) in protein analytics and BioAnalytix Inc., a Cambridge(MA)-based specialized provider of advanced analytics in biologic development announced a merger that will transform the combined company into a leading ...

analytica Vietnam continues to grow in terms of exhibitors, space and visitors

12-Apr-2019 - analytica Vietnam 2019, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City from April 3 to 5, provided a twofold cause for celebration: The country's most important industry platform for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics, celebrated its tenth anniversary, marking the most ...