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Centauri Therapeutics raises £24 million to advance anti-microbial resistance research

Centauri Therapeutics, an immunotherapy company founded by Animatrix Founders LLP and focused on the treatment of infectious diseases, has closed a £24 million (US$32 million) Series A investment round. The funds will support the continued advancement of the company’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research and development, using the Alphamer platform to identify and progress novel antibacterial […]

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BioMed X Institute and Boehringer Ingelheim start new research project in brain sensor development

German independent research institute BioMed X has started a new research project ‘Advanced Biomarker Detection for Pharma-cological Monitoring in the Brain’ (BDB) in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim. The objective of the research group ‘BDB’ is to develop a continuous monitoring biosensor for direct detection of small molecule biomarkers in rodent brain tissue to support the […]

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Arctoris and Evariste Technologies form a joint venture to identify novel small lolecule cMET Inhibitors for non-small cell lung cancer

Arctoris, a tech-enabled biopharma company, and Evariste Technologies, an AI-drug discovery company, have formed a joint venture to identify novel small molecule kinase inhibitors for treatment of patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).

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Agilent expands manufacturing capacity in Shanghai

Agilent Technologies says they plan to invest $20 million to expand their Shanghai manufacturing centre to meet growing demand in China for the company’s advanced liquid chromatography (LC), spectrometer and mass spectroscopy (MS) systems.

Mumps virus sequencing methods for high-resolution outbreak analysis

Despite the enormous success of mumps vaccination campaigns around the world, there has recently been a significant increase in mumps cases and outbreaks in vaccinated populations. As a result, tracking the molecular epidemiology of mumps outbreaks has increased in importance. Here we examine the challenges and limitations associated with traditional molecular genotyping tools and compare […]

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High-sensitivity success for achy breaky hearts

In May 2018, a rapid assessment and risk stratification pathway was implemented in Unscheduled Care for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome, using high-sensitivity (hs) Troponin T. Patients could be ruled out and discharged within one hour of presentation to the Emergency Department. The assay was validated and its safety and clinical effectiveness assured through […]

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Approaches to solving gadolinium-based interference in selenium measurement

Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element in many biological processes. Se is measured in many sample matrices. The gold standard Se measurement method is inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Monitoring alternative isotopes, applying correction factors, and utilizing ICP with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer are approaches to mitigate the interference of doubly-charged gadolinium.

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Rapid supercritical fluid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (SFC-MS/MS) for the routine quantification of retinol and α-tocopherol in human serum and plasma

As interest in vitamins A and E has increased in recent years, so too has the need for rapid and reliable methods by which these compounds can be assayed. The development of a supercritical fluid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (SFC-MS/MS)-based method with an automated extraction procedure provides faster analysis than other chromatographic-based methods and improved specificity.

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Use of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for rapid disease screening

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that in such situations there are some simple questions that benefit from fast answers: Who has got the disease; Who has had the disease; and Who remains unexposed. The technique of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has the potential to help answer these questions and we caught up with Professor Berlo (McGill University, […]

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