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Lab Innovations – back for 2017!
Lab Innovations – the UK’s only dedicated showcase for laboratory technology, analytical and biotech equipment – returns for its sixth consecutive year on 1 & 2 November 2017 at the NEC, Birmingham...
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Artificial intelligence to usher in new era of drug safety automation
Genpact’s new Pharmacovigilance Artificial Intelligence solution promises to transform drug safety data management and reporting…
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Whitepaper: Raman Hyperspectral Imaging – An essential tool in the pharmaceutical field
Resulting from the combination of Raman spectroscopy and optical microscopy, Raman hyperspectral imaging has proven to be an indispensable tool in the pharmaceutical field. This article will broach a number of Raman hyperspectral imaging applications that were developed in our laboratory, in order to demonstrate the significance of the technique.
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Risk, benefit or cost: What stops patients from receiving a diagnostic test?
Diagnostic tests can help identify disease and disease probability in patients, leading to earlier treatment, but what’s the real cost?
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Hands-on lateral flow test development workshop
6 June 2017 | By BBI Solutions
BBI Solutions, in partnership with Merck and Kinematic Automation, is hosting a lateral flow seminar designed to provide a practical insight into lateral flow test development...
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Analytical techniques for faster development of drug delivery systems
The challenge of efficiently delivering a drug to its site of action, while maintaining its efficacy and minimising its potential toxicity, has received much attention in recent years, with the growing use of complex and often delicate biological molecules as therapeutic agents...
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Application note: Real-time quality prediction of continuously produced pharmaceutical granules
This application note discusses an application of Raman spectroscopy for real-time, non-destructive evaluation of chemical changes in the API...
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Whitepaper: Analyzing tablets by NIR spectroscopy
Drug analysis needs to be costeffective without compromising on accuracy. Near-infrared spectroscopy is a useful part of the pharmaceutical analysis toolbox. This report illustrates two examples of what it can do...
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Wickham Laboratories announces upcoming webinar on In-Vitro Alternatives
25 May 2017 | By Wickham Laboratories
Join us for a free webinar to discuss the challenges of transitioning from in-vivo to in-vitro methods...
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Zika Virus assay for screening blood donations
23 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Grifols now provides European countries accepting products with the CE marking with a test to detect the presence of the Zika virus in donated blood.
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New entry level reader configurations to simplify basic research
19 May 2017 | By Tecan
Tecan’s popular Infinite® 200 PRO series of multimode microplate readers has been updated to even better serve the life sciences market, with a number of new options and configurations designed to provide flexible and user-friendly solutions for entry level research applications...
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Syrris to launch Titan continuous processing scale-up system at InformEX
9 May 2017 | By Syrris
Syrris is launching its revolutionary Titan system at InformEX in Philadelphia, USA, from the 16th to the 18th of October...
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Roche receives FDA approval for bladder cancer biomarker assay
5 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The FDA has approved Roche’s biomarker assay as a complementary diagnostic to provide PD-L1 status for patients with urothelial carcinoma...
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FDA approves Roche’s high-volume immunoassay
4 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Roche’s new, dedicated high-volume testing immunoassay solution for the cobas 8000 modular analyser series, the cobas e 801 module, has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As core laboratories continue to evolve to meet the growing workload demands in an increasingly challenging environment, the cobas…
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FDA approves new combination treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia
4 May 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The drug is approved for use in combination with LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay, which is used to detect the FLT3 mutation in patients with AML...
