Development of robot-based solutions for laboratory automation

University of Rostock and Yaskawa agree to continue their cooperation

17-Apr-2024 - The Center for Life Science Automation (CELISCA) at the University of Rostock and Yaskawa have agreed to continue their cooperation in the development of robot-based solutions for laboratory automation. As one of the first European users ever, the institution will also employ a robot model of the ...

Waters Corporation and Princeton University Announce Multi-Year Research Collaboration

Agreement to take on real-world challenges in biologics and materials research

28-Jun-2023 - Waters Corporation announced a multi-year research collaboration with Princeton University that will enable scientists, faculty, and students to work together to bring theirdiverse skills and backgrounds to solve complex challenges in biochemistry and materials science. "Solving the biggest ...

Time-resolved crystallography for the masses

“The Spitrobot will greatly accelerate research in enzymatic mechanisms"

08-May-2023 - Scientists from four research institutes in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld have joined forces to develop a ground-breaking experimental setup. Their new Spitrobot greatly simplifies observing changes in proteins as they carry out their functions. This makes time-resolved crystallography ...

PreOmics announces early investors’ exit and closing of Series B financing

Bruker is now a majority investor in PreOmics

19-Jan-2022 - PreOmics GmbH, a Martinsried, Germany-based developer of innovative automation and sample preparation tools and consumables for unbiased, deep proteomics analysis by mass spectrometry, has raised €13.5m in a Series B financing round provided by Bruker Corporation. PreOmics was founded in 2016 by ...

Integrated approach streamlines genome sequencing to advance single-cell technology

10-Aug-2021 - A single cell can reveal much about the biological world through genomic sequencing. Scientists can compare a single, isolated cell to other samples, analyzing the differences and similarities to better understand how the organisms originated and evolved — or even to discover entirely new ...

€6 M to develop and launch a kit dedicated to sample preparation for single-cell RNA-sequencing

Paris-based biotechnology startup raises Series A financing

26-Feb-2020 - Scipio bioscience, a Paris-based biotechnology company, developing a new generation of single-cell sequencing solutions, announces that it has secured a €6.0 M Series A financing from an international syndicate led by M Ventures (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the corporate venture capital arm of ...

3.3 million euros for PreOmics

19-Dec-2018 - PreOmics develops and produces innovative technologies for the pre-analytics of samples for mass spectrometry. Today, the processing of samples for mass spectrometry is usually carried out according to homemade protocols. These processes are slow, not reproducible, not robust and cannot be ...

Half a needle in a haystack

New method rapidly detects trace amounts of small molecule compounds

07-Nov-2018 - Russian researchers from Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences(GPIRAS) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology(MIPT) have developed the world’s first ultrasensitive method for rapid detection of small molecules. This method detects trace amounts of ...

Microfluidic molecular exchanger helps control therapeutic cell manufacturing

15-Oct-2018 - Researchers have demonstrated an integrated technique for monitoring specific biomolecules - such as growth factors - that could indicate the health of living cell cultures produced for the burgeoning field of cell-based therapeutics. Using microfluidic technology to advance the preparation of ...

New method measures single molecules from nanoliter of blood in real time

09-Oct-2018 - University of Groningen scientists, led by Associate Professor of Chemical Biology Giovanni Maglia, have designed a nanopore system that is capable of measuring different metabolites simultaneously in a variety of biological fluids, all in a matter of seconds. The electrical output signal is ...