Pharma and biotech laboratories performing high-throughput screening, high-content screening and molecular cell biology can now benefit from a series of new automated incubators and storage solutions that offer a large capacity, fast access and wide temperature range, while helping eliminate contamination issues in high-throughput environments. The Thermo Scientific Cytomat 24 automated incubators and storage systems…

PerkinElmer. has entered into an agreement to acquire Nexcelom Bioscience for $260 Million. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2021. Nexcelom is a provider of automated cell counting instruments, image cytometry workstations, assays and a variety of cell reagents, consumables, and fit-for-purpose cell counting method selection and development instructions that follow ISO…

Enterprise literature management company DeepDyve introduces the DeepDyve Digital Library, the industry’s first fully integrated platform aimed at helping organizations discover, access and manage research papers. The Digital Library is a one-stop platform designed for small to medium-sized teams and organizations needing easy and affordable solutions for reading and organizing scientific papers. This new offering…

By Jeremy Thomas, LLNL Thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used in human patients at the University of California, San Francisco, generating never-before-seen recordings of brain activity in the hippocampus, a region responsible for memory and other cognitive functions. In a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, surgeons at…

Sustainable protein company Unibio has signed a partnership agreement with Stafilies, the holding company of Protelux, to further deepen their collaboration in developing the industrial-scale production of its high-quality Uniprotein at Protelux. Protelux is the first industrial plant that has brought Unibio’s patented U-Loop continuous-flow fermentation process into industrial-scale production. Protelux is located in Ivangorod,…

Sensofar, a technology company specializing in the field of non-contact surface metrology, has developed a new technique for characterizing the evolution of a sample’s surface topography with temperature using the S neox 3D optical profiler and Linnik interferometer coupled with Linkam’s LTS420 temperature-controlled chamber. The technique has been used to successfully map the changes in…

U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is presenting “Materials for Printed Hybrid Electronics.” a free webinar in the “Frontiers in Materials Manufacturing” webinar series, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. CT (2 – 4 p.m. E.T.) Advancements in material and device fabrication technologies have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, low-power, printed…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending May 7, 2021 closed at 4,890.37 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 0.78% (or 37.63 basis points) from the week ending April 30, 2021. The stock of 20 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.11% (Microsoft) to 6.08%…

By Ivy Kupec, EMBL To observe the swift neuronal signals in a fish brain, scientists have started to use a technique called light-field microscopy, which makes it possible to image such fast biological processes in 3D. But the images are often lacking in quality, and it takes hours or days for massive amounts of data…

By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office When you save an image to your smartphone, those data are written onto tiny transistors that are electrically switched on or off in a pattern of “bits” to represent and encode that image. Most transistors today are made from silicon, an element that scientists have managed to switch…

mHUB, an independent hardtech innovation and manufacturing center, will welcome nine high-growth startups to Chicago to participate in the premiere cohort of its Accelerated Incubation, a six-month, hands-on accelerator focused on hardtech product development and commercialization. The nine selected teams were chosen from a pool of nearly 500 applicants, 27% of whom were international teams.…

Not-for-profit The Pistoia Alliance has announced findings from a survey conducted at its spring conference. Respondents believe that emerging technologies including AI and blockchain will receive the highest level of investment in life sciences over the next 12 months (38%), followed by infectious diseases (32%), and oncology (14%). Respondents also predict that the biggest contributors…

Eikon Therapeutics has announced that it has closed a $148 million Series A financing led by The Column Group with participation from Foresite Capital, Innovation Endeavors and Lux Capital. The company also announced the appointment of Roger M. Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D., as its new CEO. Eikon’s drug discovery platform evolved from super-resolution microscopy, a ground-breaking…

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt; DLR) to explore how quantum computing could help create better simulation models for battery development to aid future energy utilization. The collaboration will see DLR – the national aeronautics and space research center of the Federal Republic of Germany…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched a CO2 incubator that combines optimal cell growth capabilities with certified cleanroom compatibility, effectively addressing the growing need among biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and clinical laboratories for high-performance incubation systems that meet stringent cleanroom and cGMP standards. The Thermo Scientific Heracell Vios CR CO2 Incubator expands the Thermo Scientific Cell Therapy Systems…

Bio-Rad Laboratories, life science researcher and manufacturer of clinical diagnostic products, announces the launch of the Reliance SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit (IVD) for European markets after having met the CE-IVD mark requirements. The Reliance SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit is a real-time reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) test that can detect nucleic acid in SARS-CoV-2, the virus associated with COVID-19…

A new line of corrosion resistant multi-position stirring analog hot plates and stirrers, from Torrey Pines Scientific, feature 5 or 9 stirring positions making them suitable for acid digestions and working with most any corrosive solutions. The large 12 in. (305 mm) square ceramic heater tops have a temperature range to 450° C. A purge…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending April 30, 2021 closed at 4,852.74 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was up 0.72% (or 34.51 basis points) from the week ending April 23, 2021. The stock of six R&D World Index members gained value from 0.11% (AbbVie) to 7.89%…

Early this year Energy Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) secured commitments of $20 million in financing, for direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology. Based in the US, EnergyX is a technology company that is focused on delivering the latest scientific innovations in sustainable lithium extraction methods and solid-state battery energy storage systems. This funding also makes EnergyX the…

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), IBM and Red Hat are combining forces to develop best practices for interfacing high-performance computing (HPC) schedulers and cloud orchestrators, an effort designed to prepare for emerging supercomputers that take advantage of cloud technologies. Under a recently signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), researchers aim to enable next-generation workloads by integrating…

A refractometer measures the index of refraction for a material, which could be a gas, a liquid or a transparent solid such as glass. They achieve this by passing light through the sample and measuring the refraction — the amount that the light bends. Most commonly, aqueous solutions are measured, providing an indication concentration. Examples…

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Shimadzu) and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have entered into a joint research agreement to apply mass spectrometry technology toward the development of tools to quantitate nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and related compounds in biological specimens. The key objective of the collaboration, with Professor Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., in the…

Scientists from the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) have developed an algorithm that provides valuable insights into the physics underlying quantum systems – paving the way for significant advances in quantum computation and sensing, and potentially turning a new page in scientific investigation. In physics, systems of particles and their evolution are…

Aigenpulse has released the latest version of CytoML Experiment Suite, its automated, end-to-end, machine-learning software designed to streamline and automate cytometry analysis at scale and replace manual gating processes. The latest release (v5.2) introduces new unbiased analysis features and an easy-to-use interface with no need for difficult installation or program scripting. Users can perform automated…

By Coury Turczyn The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed its award-winning artificial intelligence software system, the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning, to General Motors for use in vehicle technology and design. The AI system, known as MENNDL, uses evolution to design optimal convolutional neural networks – algorithms used by…