Merck has acquired all ownership rights to the Process Pad platform from Simplyfeye Softwares. The web-based platform provides on-demand access, across functions and with suppliers, to data for aggregation, analysis, visualization and management.

Calibre Scientific announced the acquisition of Medline Scientific, a distributor of laboratory consumables and equipment with headquarters in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Medline Scientific further enhances Calibre Scientific’s growing distribution presence in the United Kingdom.

When Mr Spock and his friends beamed on the surface of an unknown planet, they used fancy instruments to detect life signs. Like many other gadgets “invented” in the Stark Trek Universe, this gadget my be closer to become a reality than you might think.

Gold nanoparticles can be used in a variety of ways, i.e. as active ingredient carriers in medicine. Although their synthesis is already very successful today, it is difficult to predict how the particles interact with the environment and humans. Scientists are therefore intensively investigating the behaviour of nanoparticles in order to make them more efficient and safer.

Lab Innovations will once again offer a one-stop showcase of new products and various aspects involved in future-proofing the laboratory. Visitors to the trade fair at the NEC, Birmingham on 30 and 31 October, will be able to discover ways to improve workflow efficiency, benefit from advances enabled by the digital age, and make sustainable procurement decisions.

Do we have our best ideas while walking? Indeed, but even small movements while sitting improve creativity, as two researchers have discovered.

Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the primordial soup of ancient Earth.

Malvern Panalytical, a company providing advanced analysis and services solutions for the pharma drug product development, as well as services and solutions for other industries, has announced its acquisition of Creoptix, a specialist bioanalysis sensor company.

Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have developed anticancer nanomaterials by simulating the volcano-induced dynamic chemistry of the deep ocean.

Corals are shown to recycle their own waste ammonium using a surprising source of glucose — a finding that reveals more about the relationship between corals and their symbiotic algae.