Imaging

Molecular Devices

€3.3 million to improve medical imaging detail tenfold

3 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

A recent investment of €3.3 million will allow researchers to improve the detail of medical imaging ten times over, which will allow for tumour scanning...

Charles River Laboratories acquires Agilux Laboratories, Inc.

13 October 2016 | By Charles River Laboratories

Enhances Charles River’s early-stage capabilities in bioanalytical services...

Whitepaper: Uncover specific correlations in heterogeneous cell populations during drug development

3 October 2016 | By Bio-Rad Laboratories

Integrating the S3e™ Cell Sorter into sample preparation upstream of the QX200™ Droplet Digital System provided details about cell subpopulations that would have been undetectable in heterogeneous populations...

How the anthrax toxin forms a deadly “conveyer belt”

28 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

During anthrax infections, the bacterium Bacillus anthracis secretes a toxin consisting of two related enzymes named lethal factor and edema factor...

Charles River Laboratories and The Tri-Insitutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute announce strategic partnership

26 September 2016 | By Charles River Laboratories

Partnership intends to accelerate translation of discoveries into novel therapies for patients...

Imaging In-Depth Focus 2016

20 September 2016 | By Debra Taylor, Emilie Bureau, Janet Brownlees, Jenny Cook, Norman Peterson

In this Imaging In-Depth Focus: Norman Peterson, from MedImmune/AstraZeneca, looks at the practical application of in vivo optical imaging in biotherapeutic biodistribution analyses. Plus, experts from MRC Technology discuss high-content imaging in drug discovery, and Molecular Devices feature in our Q&A...

Intercontinental consortium granted €5.1 million to develop breast cancer imaging devices

15 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

Grants of more than €5 million, predominantly from the EU, will be used to develop a new imaging device for the diagnosis of breast cancer...

Practical application of in vivo optical imaging in biotherapeutic biodistribution analyses

14 September 2016 | By Dr Norman Peterson (MedImmune/AstraZeneca)

As advances in protein engineering technology have led to the production of novel and more structurally complex biopharmaceuticals, the ability of these drugs to smoothly traverse the body and arrive at their intended target site has become more unpredictable...

A picture is worth a thousand endpoints: high-content imaging in drug discovery

12 September 2016 | By Debra Taylor (MRC Technology), Emilie Bureau (MRC Technology), Janet Brownlees (MRC Technology)

Over the past few years several factors in the drug discovery industry have come together to drive an increased interest and subsequent surge in the use of high-content imaging. These include the high costs of attrition in the clinic due to lack of efficacy; increased hurdles and rising costs to…

Charles River Laboratories announces partnership with the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Consortium

10 August 2016 | By Charles River Laboratories

Charles River Laboratories announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Consortium...

Bio-Rad CFX96 Touch™ Real-Time PCR Detection System

4 August 2016 | By Bio-Rad Laboratories

The CFX96™ Optical Reaction Module converts the C1000 Touch™ Thermal Cycler chassis into the powerful and precise CFX96 Touch Real-Time PCR Detection System...

NanoRacks Plate Reader-2 successfully launched into space

18 July 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

The NanoRacks Plate Reader-2, destined for the International Space Station, allows scientists to conduct life science research in space...

Tri-I TDI expands focus to include antibody drug discovery

17 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

Tri-I TDI will extend its current relationship with Takeda from the realm of small molecule discovery into the new research area of antibody drug discovery...

Super-resolution microscopy reveals the surface of T cells

16 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

Salk Institute researchers have imaged how vital receptors on the surface of T cells bundle together when activated using super-resolution microscopy...