Using metabolomics for assessing safety of chemicals may reduce the use of lab rats

"We hope that learnings from this research will be included in new guidance for the chemical industry to allow commercial laboratories to provide these services widely"

26-Feb-2024 - Scientists have discovered a more robust way of grouping chemicals and using read-across for toxicological data to meet regulatory requirements, which could greatly reduce animal testing. The safety of chemicals is taken incredibly seriously by regulators and as such industry must meet certain ...

BASF to research on alternatives to animal testing on behalf of the European Chemicals Agency

Number of animal experiments required for safety assessments of chemical substances to be further reduced

07-Feb-2024 - The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has contracted a consortium that includes BASF to conduct scientific studies on the reliability and relevance of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) as alternatives to animal testing and to promote the use of such methods in the future. The aim of the contract ...

New pathways found for biotechnological degradation of industrial waste

Microorganism breaks down phenol under extreme conditions

19-Jan-2021 - Scientists led by Dr Meina Neumann-Schaal of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, have characterised the breakdown of phenol by Saccharolobus solfataricus. Using methods from the fields of metabolomics and ...

Agilent Technologies and National University of Ireland, Galway, Open Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility

05-Feb-2009 - Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, announced the opening of a Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on the NUI Galway campus. The state-of-the-art facility is fully equipped with the latest accurate-mass quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) and triple ...

European Mass Spectrometry Award : Shimadzu awarded for Exceptional Product Line Strategy

29-Oct-2008 - Shimadzu has been awarded the 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Mass Spectrometry Product Line Strategy Award. It is presented each year to a company that has demonstrated the most insight into customer needs and product demands. The recipient company should have optimized its product line by ...

Eurofins launches cutting-edge biomarker discovery and bioanalytical services laboratory in Aurora, Colorado

11-May-2007 - Eurofins announced that their newly-established laboratory in the Fitzsimons Biotech Park in Aurora, Colorado is now fully operational and, operating under the Eurofins | Medinet brand, extends the Eurofins network of central laboratories in Europe, Asia and the US to provide services for our ...

Thermo Electron's Mass Spectrometry Technology Wins Top Award at PITTCON 2006

29-Mar-2006 - Thermo Electron Corporation announced that it received the Gold Editor's Award at PITTCON 2006. Editors in attendance voted Thermo's LTQ Orbitrap hybrid mass spectrometer the best new product introduction of the show, which featured over 1000 exhibiting companies. Used in small molecule ...

SCYNEXIS Europe is Now Selcia Following Spin Off From SCYNEXIS, Inc.

06-Jan-2006 - SCYNEXIS, Inc., a medicinal chemistry-focused drug discovery and development company, has sold its wholly-owned subsidiary in the United Kingdom, SCYNEXIS Europe Limited, to its U.K. management. The new company will operate under the name Selcia Limited. Dr. Hans Fliri, the Managing Director of ...

Syngenta and Diversa form extensive research and product development alliance

06-Dec-2002 - Syngenta and Diversa today announced they have formed a broad collaboration to establish a shared biotechnology research platform and to discover products. Diversa is to acquire certain technology rights from Syngenta for pharmaceutical applications, in exchange for equity. The transaction will ...

Bruker Daltonics Announces Six Novel Life-Science Products and Three New Bioinformatics Software Releases at PittCon 2002

21-Mar-2002 - NEW ORLEANS, Mar 18, 2002 - Bruker Daltonics Inc. today announces six major product introductions for mass spectrometry-based life science systems at the 2002 PittCon. In addition, Bruker Daltonics releases significant new software capabilities for three of its bioinformatics products. All ...