Shimadzu is embarking on a new collaboration with the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) which will focus on the development of new clinical laboratory methods using liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC-MS) for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) analysis.

Sphere Fluidics, a company developing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, has opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Granta Park, Cambridgeshire, UK, to support the company’s growth. Doubling overall capacity, the laboratories enable the team’s accelerated expansion, and the development of new, innovative products.

2D barcoded tubes are a de facto standard for high integrity sample management. However, while 2D barcoded tubes offer excellent performance, to get the most from them requires a good knowledge of common 2D barcode scanning problems and how to prevent them. A 20-page guide from Ziath provides informative solutions to the most encountered scanning […]

A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has overcome a major constraint for cutting and editing DNA by CRISPR-Cas enzymes and other technologies. The recent innovation, which is published in Nature Biotechnology [1], will simplify and expedite molecular cloning approaches and expand their utility.

Researchers from Hokkaido University and Toppan have developed a method to detect build-up of amyloid β in the brain, a characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease, from biomarkers in blood samples.