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From litres to nanolitres: scaling dosing control from macro to micro
Precision and accuracy are essential for liquid dosing applications to ensure quality and safety. While these factors are vital at the micro level, macro scale applications, involving litres of product, can also make significant efficiency gains by optimising dosing...
Reprocell Europe – Advancing global life sciences from NETPark
Reprocell Europe, part of the global life sciences company Reprocell Inc. (Japan), is a leading example of high-tech inward investment operating successfully from the North East Technology Park (NETPark) in County Durham.
The company’s site within the science park’s Plexus...
Beyond Reach: Enabling the New Era of Digital-First Pharma
When the internet became part of everyday life, it reshaped how people communicated, learned, and worked. Today, we face a similar shift: Gen Alpha is the first generation to grow up with AI as a native presence.
For pharma, this...
‘Significant’ decline in cost of dependency-forming medicines prescribed in England
New data reveals a 57% drop in costs when compared to Q1 (April to June) 2015/16.
Recently published NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) data shows a significant reduction in the cost of dependency-forming medicines prescribed in the community, falling by...
Lab advances: it’s a tight fit
Mark Withers, senior purchasing technician at King’s College London, explores how laboratories can adapt to lab space shortages.
The UK’s science sector faces a critical lab space shortage. This is especially true in the golden triangle region including London, Oxford...
Ready-to-use sterile CAR-T cell lines for leukemia research.
Amsbio offers a growing list of experimental cell lines, recombinant proteins, and screening services to help accelerate the development of new CAR-T cell therapies.
Personalized treatment for cancer reached a new milestone in 2017 with the FDA approval of CAR-T...
Comprehensive range of characterized compounds and libraries for drug discovery
Amsbio offers a wide selection of over 325,000 pre-characterized chemical compounds to support your drug screening applications for discovery and development.
From individual inhibitors, agonists and natural products to ready-to-screen compound libraries, these cost-effective, high-quality reagents are perfect for both...
The Changing Face of Bowel Cancer: Rethinking Screening for a Younger Generation
Bowel cancer, also referred to as colorectal cancer, is cancer of the colon or rectum. In 2023, the World Health Organization stated that Bowel Cancer is the third most common cancer globally; responsible for roughly 10% of all cancer...
Custom ELISA Kits for accurate, reliable results
At Abbexa, we produce custom ELISA kits for your research needs. This is a comprehensive service which covers immunogen design, production, immunisation, purification, and validation.
ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay) is a plate-based assay technique that allows for detection and quantification of...
Europa Biosite Announces Exclusive UK & Ireland Partnership between Bio X Cell and Cambridge Bioscience
Europa Biosite is pleased to announce that Bio X Cell has appointed Cambridge Bioscience, a proud member of Europa Biosite, as its exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom and Ireland. This strategic partnership ensures that researchers across the UK...
Is cloud collaboration the key to smarter traceability?
As global supply chains grow more complex, companies are under pressure to trace every product, part, and process with speed and accuracy. But what really moves the needle on traceability? Is cloud collaboration the game-changer businesses have been waiting...
Building a resilient supply chain with data, traceability, and authenticity
In today’s fast-paced global economy, supply chains face unprecedented challenges - from volatile markets to evolving customer demands and tightening regulations. The result? Companies can no longer rely on outdated, rigid supply chain models. Instead, resilience, transparency, and agility...
Orion Corporation’s artwork management transformed by Loftware Smartflow
Learn how Orion, a global pharmaceutical company, streamlined its packaging operations and supported business growth by implementing Loftware Smartflow.
Orion is a globally operating pharmaceutical company who develop, manufacture, and market human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients.
The Packaging...
How Orion Corporation streamlined 8,000+ projects and accelerated time-to-market
As Pharma 4.0 reshapes the pharmaceutical landscape, digital transformation is key to optimizing supply chain efficiency, compliance, and product identification.
Orion Corporation, a global pharmaceutical organization, recognized the need to modernize its artwork management as part of its complex packaging processes...
Unlock Pharma Labeling Innovation: 5 Expert Q&As Inside
In the ever-evolving pharmaceutical landscape, maintaining consistent, agile, and compliant labeling is more vital than ever. That’s why our industry expert roundtable - featuring voices from Pfizer, LEO Pharma, IQVIA, Opus Regulatory, and Loftware -comes just at the right...
5 questions (and answers) on mastering translations in clinical trials
Labeling can be a major bottleneck in clinical trial supply chains, with delays potentially halting, or even in extreme cases collapsing entire studies.
Managing country-specific labels for multi-national and multi-region trials is particularly complex and time-consuming, requiring accurate translation and...
Connect 2 Cleanrooms Expands Calibration Expertise with Particles Plus® Training
In early July, members of the Connect 2 Cleanrooms team attended the hands-on ‘Service and Calibration Training’ workshop delivered by their trusted partner, Particles Plus®.
As specialists in cleanroom design, build, and ongoing lifecycle support, Connect 2 Cleanrooms understand the...
iPSC protocol opens the door to explore male infertility treatments.
Amsbio reports how the Sasaki Lab within the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) devised a protocol in which induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could be utilized to produce reconstituted human testes.
Since the original 2020...
Siemens recognition for Bürkert enables improved development
Fluid control specialist Bürkert has become an official Siemens Product Partner for Siemen’s SIMATIC Automation Systems. The new partnership will extend integration capabilities for OEMs and end users with a focus on valve islands for process industries. Following decades...
Exceptional transfection reagent for widest range of cell lines
GenePORTER® Gold from Amsbio is a highly reproducible, lipid-based gene transfection reagent delivering exceptional efficiency across the widest range of cell lines.
Utilizing proprietary Advanced Carrier Enhancement (ACE) technology - GenePORTER® Gold delivers outstanding transfection efficiency and transgene expression levels...
Connect 2 Cleanrooms Launches Predesigned Cleanroom Range for Fast, Flexible Contamination Control
Connect 2 Cleanrooms, award-winning specialists in cleanroom design, build, and maintenance, has unveiled its new predesigned cleanroom range.
Built on over 20 years of industry expertise, the predesigned cleanroom range offers ISO 14644-1 class 7 compliance in a selection of...
High purity exosome standards enhance research reproducibility
Amsbio offers a wide range of highly pure, lyophilized exosome standards designed to support reproducibility and standardization in extracellular vesicle (EV) research.
Exosomes are small lipid nanoparticles actively secreted by exocytosis in most living cells. Regulating pleiotropic physiological and pathological...
New pinch valve provides secure connection for biopharma applications
Flow control specialist Bürkert has released a new pinch valve for use in single-use biopharma applications. The new Type 2707 Pinch Valve ensures process safety and reliability with a stainless steel locking and pinch mechanism that optimises flow while...
Innovation in dialysis equipment
In 2022, over 30,000 people were undergoing kidney dialysis in the UK, all of whom will require precision machinery, either at home or in a dialysis centre, to remove metabolites and toxins from their blood. As the incidence of...
Surface Acoustic Wave: flow measurement and prevention of biofilm in WFI loops
Flow control specialist Bürkert has developed a flowmeter that uses Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology that also helps to prevent the formation of biofilms in Water for Injection (WFI) loops. Designed for the pharmaceutical sector, Bürkert’s Type 8098 FLOWave...
Clinically Validated Collagenase and Neutral Protease Enzymes
Amsbio, in association with Nordmark Biochemicals, has expanded its range of Collagenase and Neutral Protease NB enzymes with GMP grade formats and protocols to support advanced tissue dissociation workflows for applications from research to clinical use.
These enzymes, derived from...
Genetic screening plan welcome but questions ‘unanswered’
The government has announced that every newborn baby in England will have their genetic code mapped to test for a wide range of conditions, part of a plan that will also see £650m invested in DNA research by 2030.
Oxford-based...
Optimising Stem Cell Research
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells with the unique ability to self-renew and differentiate into specialised cell types.
They are essential for tissue repair, regenerative medicine, and disease modelling. Derived from both embryonic and adult tissues, stem cells are classified by...
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: Preventing Fraud in Life Sciences
Companies must start tackling fraud in life sciences now ... or face huge consequences when the new law takes effect in September, says Trevor Francis, Serious Fraud Partner at Blackfords LLP.
The global life sciences sector is famously notorious for...
Liverpool aims to be global leader in biologics
A new project led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) will enable the seamless translation of innovative vaccine and drug research into new medicines to prevent disease, save lives and boost the regional economy.
BRITE, a cross-sector partnership which...