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SeraCare Life Sciences inks CRADA with NCI to create positive controls for cancer assays

SeraCare Life Sciences, a leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, today announced that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to create reference materials and positive controls for cancer assays.

26 Jun 2015

Researchers advance stem cell therapy to block vision loss caused by diabetic retinopathy

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have taken a significant step forward in their efforts to use stem cells to block vision loss caused by diabetic retinopathy, a condition that affects millions of people with diabetes.

25 Jun 2015

Univercell-Biosolutions opens center of expertise with industrial, standardized approach to hiPSC production

Univercell-Biosolutions, a leading provider of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) and hiPS derived product cells for drug discovery, today announces the opening of a center of expertise with an industrial and standardized approach to hiPSC production.

25 Jun 2015

Investments in cloud-based laboratory information management systems are part of Europe’s eHealth strategy

Investments in cloud-based laboratory information management systems are part of Europe’s eHealth strategy.

25 Jun 2015

Broad Institute teams up with Google to increase access to research tools

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is teaming up with Google Genomics to explore how to break down major technical barriers that increasingly hinder biomedical research by addressing the need for computing infrastructure to store and process enormous datasets, and by creating tools to analyze such data and unravel long-standing mysteries about human health.

24 Jun 2015

Florida State Board of Pharmacy approves Unique Pharmaceuticals' license for sterile distribution

UNIQUE PHARMACEUTICALS, a 503B current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) Outsourcing Facility, today announced its licensure approval in Florida. The Florida State Board of Pharmacy review committee approved Unique Pharmaceuticals' license June 10 for distribution of sterile and non-sterile compounded medications.

23 Jun 2015

ImmunoCellular, Pure MHC partner to develop new assay for ICT-107 phase 3 registrational clinical program

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. announced an agreement with Pure MHC, an Emergent Technologies portfolio company, for development of a novel assay for quality control that will be an important component of ImmunoCellular's ICT-107 phase 3 registrational clinical program in newly diagnosed glioblastoma, anticipated to begin in the second half of 2015.

22 Jun 2015

MESA announces acquisition of Sigil

MESA Group Holdings, a Pantheon Healthcare Group company, today announced the acquisition of French diagnostic imaging service provider Sigil. Complementing MESA's recent business expansion into France with its core Multi-Vendor Service (MVS) and Managed Equipment Service (MES) offerings, the acquisition of Sigil will accelerate the development and adoption of more efficient asset management and medical equipment maintenance service solutions for public and private sector hospitals and imaging centres.

22 Jun 2015

High throughput media preparation at the Institut Curie

The Institut Curie (Paris, France), a world leader in oncology research, has reported how it has standardised on using MEDIACLAVE media preparation and MEDIAJET automated petri dish filling systems from INTEGRA Biosciences to prepare its petri dishes.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 14 Jun 2015

UCLA Medical Group earns five-star ranking from CAPG for patient care capabilities

The UCLA Medical Group has again earned the highest rating possible in an annual survey conducted by CAPG, an association representing physician organizations in 38 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

13 Jun 2015

Six physician organizations in Sutter Medical Network receive 'Elite' status

Six physician organizations in the Sutter Medical Network, including all five medical foundations, received "Elite" status today in the annual CAPG Standards of Excellence Survey—the highest possible honor awarded by the CAPG professional organization.

13 Jun 2015

Men benefit from ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms

Men benefit from one-time screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms via ultrasound. Studies provide proof that their risk of dying is reduced, the abdominal aorta ruptures less often, and emergency surgery can be avoided more often. Far fewer data are available for women and they show no relevant differences between the groups investigated.

11 Jun 2015

Elekta inks contract with Samsung Medical Center to provide the first Leksell Gamma Knife Icon to Asia

Elekta has signed a contract with one of Korea's most advanced hospitals, Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, to deliver the first Leksell Gamma Knife Icon to Asia.

From Elekta 10 Jun 2015

‘VascuBone Toolbox’ provides components required for customised vascularised bone implant

The EU project VascuBone was coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB and has reached the end of a 5-year funding period.

10 Jun 2015

Frankfurt researchers decode molecular details that provide better understanding of neurodegenerative diseases

Quality control is important - this is not only applicable to industrial production but also true for all life processes. However, whereas an enterprise can start a large-scale recall in case of any doubt, defects in the quality control systems of cells are often fatal.

9 Jun 2015

Point of care measurement of hemoglobin: an interview with Katja Lemburg, EKF Diagnostics

Katja Lemburg discusses the next generation Hemo Control being launched in Europe at EuroMedLab, Paris 21-25th June.

From EKF Diagnostics 7 Jun 2015

Pivotal Therapeutics enrolls first patient in POMEGA Phase IIa clinical trial of PVT-100

Pivotal Therapeutics Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on Omega-3 therapies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and overall health, announced today the enrollment of the first patient in Pivotal's POMEGA Phase IIa clinical trial with PVT-100.

4 Jun 2015

University of Chicago scientists develop new technique to accurately measure epigenetic changes

One of the most widely used tools in epigenetics research - the study of how DNA packaging affects gene expression - is chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), a technique that allows researchers to examine interactions between specific proteins and genomic regions. However, ChIP is a relative measurement, and has significant limitations that can lead to errors, poor reproducibility and an inability to be compared between experiments.

4 Jun 2015

Takara Bio Europe launches Cellartis DEF-CS Xeno-Free Culture Medium for iPS cell culture

Takara Bio Europe AB, formerly Cellartis AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., announced today that it is launching an advanced cell culture medium for iPS cell culture. This chemically-defined culture medium is pre-clinical grade, free from human- and animal-derived components, and designed for efficient expansion of undifferentiated human iPS cells.

3 Jun 2015

Understanding the antimicrobial action of borrelidin: an interview with Dr Min Guo, TSRI

Borrelidin is a naturally occurring antibiotic isolated from the Streptomyces species and initially from Streptomyces rochei in 1949. It is called Borrelidin because it was firstly discovered as having anti-Borrelia activity. Borrelia is a type of bacteria...

27 May 2015

Quality Control News and Research

SeraCare Life Sciences inks CRADA with NCI to create positive controls for cancer assays

Researchers advance stem cell therapy to block vision loss caused by diabetic retinopathy

Univercell-Biosolutions opens center of expertise with industrial, standardized approach to hiPSC production

Investments in cloud-based laboratory information management systems are part of Europe’s eHealth strategy

Broad Institute teams up with Google to increase access to research tools

Florida State Board of Pharmacy approves Unique Pharmaceuticals' license for sterile distribution

ImmunoCellular, Pure MHC partner to develop new assay for ICT-107 phase 3 registrational clinical program

MESA announces acquisition of Sigil

High throughput media preparation at the Institut Curie

UCLA Medical Group earns five-star ranking from CAPG for patient care capabilities

Six physician organizations in Sutter Medical Network receive 'Elite' status

Men benefit from ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms

Elekta inks contract with Samsung Medical Center to provide the first Leksell Gamma Knife Icon to Asia

‘VascuBone Toolbox’ provides components required for customised vascularised bone implant

Frankfurt researchers decode molecular details that provide better understanding of neurodegenerative diseases

Point of care measurement of hemoglobin: an interview with Katja Lemburg, EKF Diagnostics

Pivotal Therapeutics enrolls first patient in POMEGA Phase IIa clinical trial of PVT-100

University of Chicago scientists develop new technique to accurately measure epigenetic changes

Takara Bio Europe launches Cellartis DEF-CS Xeno-Free Culture Medium for iPS cell culture

Understanding the antimicrobial action of borrelidin: an interview with Dr Min Guo, TSRI

How can microdialysis benefit drug development

Global and Local Efforts to Take Action Against Hepatitis

Addressing Important Cardiac Biology Questions with Shotgun Top-Down Proteomics

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