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World-leading imaging centre of excellence opened in Glasgow
The University of Glasgow has officially opened its new £32M Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE).
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Pistoia Alliance launches Chemical Safety Library Service
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not for profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has today announced the launch of the Chemical Safety Library (CSL) Service, which allows hazardous reaction information to be captured, stored and shared, to improve laboratory safety.
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3D printed customised insoles for diabetes patients
14 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
In the past, insoles for patients with diabetes were hand-made by orthopaedic shoemakers. In the future, these specialist shoemakers will be able to produce insoles more cost-effectively thanks to new software and the use of 3D printers. This approach means the mechanical properties of each insole can be assessed scientifically…
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Robots help position interventional needles
28 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Precisely positioning needles will become faster thanks to a robotic arm that researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have modified specifically...
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Demands in medical automation technology brings two prominent players close
22 April 2016 | By Snehal Chougule, Allied Market Research
Here, Snehal Chougule discusses Trajan's recent investment in automation solution company, LEAP Technologies Inc...
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Amping antimicrobial discovery with high-throughput screening
16 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers from NIST have shown that high-throughput screening can dramatically speed up the challenging task of antimicrobial discovery...
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ProteinSimple iCE3 Capillary IEF System
15 December 2015 | By ProteinSimple
iCE has the resolution of traditional gel IEF but incorporates the advantages of quantitation and automation...
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AstraZeneca invests in its Cambridge lead discovery centre
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The company has announced three new partnerships that will deliver a collaborative screening platform, space-age robotics, and sound waves that can move liquids...
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Smart robot accelerates cancer treatment research
23 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The new smart research robot, developed at Uppsala University, accelerates research on cancer treatments by finding optimal treatment combinations...
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Siemens and BioNTech cooperate on production of personalised cancer vaccines
26 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Siemens and BioNTech will work together on the construction of a fully automated and digitalised production site for BioNTech's personalised cancer vaccines...
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GSK invests $95m to launch Altius with goal of radically changing and improving medicines development
17 June 2015 | By Victoria White
GSK is making a substantial investment to launch the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences (Altius), an independent, non-profit research institute...
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From hype to hope: challenging the norm in lead discovery
From the beginning of time in the drug discovery world, the integration of disciplines has driven the identification of new lead molecules. Chemists, pharmacologists and biologists work together to understand a disease state and how to perturb that state back towards a normal healthy condition. However, in the early days…
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Molecular methods rapidly gain ground in infectious disease diagnostics
12 December 2014 | By Frost & Sullivan
Convergence of immunodiagnostic and molecular tests will help meet demand in developed countries, says Frost & Sullivan...
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Formation of nano- and micro-scale drug delivery systems using microfluidic technology
The recent developments in microfluidic technology have provided an effective microreactor platform for the production of a range of pharmaceutically related materials in both nano- and micro-scale. This can be attributed to the unique characteristics that microfluidic-based reactors offer in terms of controllability and uniformity of the material characteristics, compared…
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Antibody Discovery Technologies: the partnership between academia and biopharma in the therapeutic monoclonal antibody success story
The use of monoclonal antibodies and antibody-based molecules as therapeutics to treat patients suffering with severe disease has become a major success story. Due to the exquisite specificity with which they interact with their antigen and the fact that their large binding surface can intervene at sites and targets not…