PrecisionLife

PrecisionLife establishes strategic CNS drug development collaboration with Nanopharmaceutics

PrecisionLife, a leading techbio company driving precision medicine into complex chronic diseases, and Nanopharmaceutics, a clinicalstage pharmaceutical development company, have established a strategic collaboration aiming to accelerate and de-risk the development of Nanopharmaceutics’ portfolio of central nervous system (CNS) assets.

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OGT establishes commercial partnership with Applied Spectral Imaging

OGT, a Sysmex Group company and leading global provider of clinical research and diagnostic solutions, has formed a new commercial partnership with Applied Spectral Imaging (ASI), a global leader in advanced biomedical imaging with a comprehensive product portfolio for karyotyping, H&E, IHC and FISH analysis. The agreement will grant OGT rights to market ASI’s proprietary […]

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ELRIG UK appoints Nick Clare to Board as Vendor Strategy Work Group Lead

The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) has appointed Nick Clare to the ELRIG board. He will chair and lead the Vendor Strategy Work Group to help ensure the vendors’ perspectives and interests are represented within the ELRIG board.

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New analgesic shows positive results in pre-clinical trial

Danish biotech Tetra Pharm Technologies announced promising results from a pre-clinical in vitro trial of its pain-relieving drug – TPT0301 – using a novel drug delivery technology. It was compared against more commonly used formulations for drug delivery in the oral cavity.

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WorldLab & EuroMedLab 2023

The 25th International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (WorldLab) and 25th European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EuroMedLab) was hosted by the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC), on the occasion of their 55th Annual congress at the new Rome Convention Center from 21-25 May 2023.

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The vast uses and advancements in flow cytometry

by Dr James McCracken Most of us will have some sort of knowledge or experience of flow cytometers, even if it’s just at the level of knowing that they are large instruments that have their own lab space and a dedicated team of people to run them and that they usually seem to be used […]

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Assessing critical bleeding

A near-patient approach to combat post-partum hemorrhage by Catherine Pedrosa Fibrinogen is an essential part of the blood clotting process, and rapid testing of plasma fibrinogen concentrations aids decision-making in critical care situations, notably in postpartum hemorrhage. In 2020, around 1000 women in the World Health Organization European Region died owing to complications related to […]

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Beckman Coulter at EuroMedLab 2023

The use of immunoassays is widespread in clinical lab testing as these assays have inherent high specificity and high sensitivity, and are very amenable to high-throughput formats. These attributes make them particularly useful for the measurement of low concentrations of low molecular weight drugs, metabolites or biomarkers that indicate disease diagnosis or prognosis. Although there […]

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Epigenetics and pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease, usually first diagnosed at a late stage when the opportunity for the most effective therapy has been missed, and survival rates have not improved for decades. Early detection of the disease is crucial for giving patients the chance of therapy, but, so far, the search for serum protein biomarkers […]