Select Biosciences Ltd
Targacept Announces Designation of Lead Compound in Smoking Cessation Program
The designation triggers milestone payment of $500,000 from GlaxoSmithKline.
Galapagos and Allergan Enter Drug Discovery Collaboration
Galapagos' service division, BioFocus DPI, will provide assay development and high-throughput screening services for several Allergan targets.
Syndexa Pharmaceuticals Corporation and ChemDiv Announce Discovery Collaboration
ChemDiv will discover small molecule ligands for biotargets nominated by Syndexa.
Researchers Find that a Small Molecule can Activate an Important Cancer Suppressor Gene
An opportunity for new genetic mutations occurs each time a cell divides, so limiting the number of cell divisions in a cancer cell inhibits tumor progression.
High Speed FRET based SNP Genotyping Measurement on the PHERAstar
BMG LABTECH, KBiosciences

Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP`s) have become an invaluable tool in the field of Genetic Research. Here we show the use of BMG LABTECH´s PHERAstar multimode HTS plate reader for high speed FRET based SNP Genotyping measurement. The new KASPar™ system, developed by KBiosciences, was used to assess the best performance of the PHERAstar. Optimized optical modules with dual emission lead to improvements in speed and accuracy of measurement.
Increasing Chemist Productivity in an Open-Access Environment
ACD/Labs

“Open-Access” or “Walk-up” analytical instrumentation, has changed the way many routine analytical experiments are now run. Chemists, rather than analytical support groups, now carry the burden of processing, analysis, and interpretation of analytical data. This application note will highlight the benefits of having good NMR software tools that chemists can access, in the convenience of their own lab or office and how NMR prediction and verification algorithms can aid chemists in their interpre
  
High Throughput Surface Tension Measurement
University of Liverpool, Centre for Materials Discovery

Understanding the surface tension properties of aqueous surfactants and polymer materials is important for the pharmaceutical, coatings, paints, inks, surfactant and household products industries. The traditional methods of measuring surface tension are tedious and time-consuming, so only a few compounds can be measured by a single user per day.
High Throughput Microwave Synthesis of Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Libraries
University of Liverpool, Centre for Materials Discovery

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of new nano-porous materials of considerable academic and industrial interest due to their potential applications in gas storagechiral separations and catalysis. MOFs are prepared from the self-assembly of metal ions (nodes) and organic ligands (spacers), where the structural topology of the resulting crystalline frameworks is driven by the co-ordination preferences of these nodes and spacers. MOFs offer opportunities not available to more cl