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Schaefer SEE is attending the 9th Brainstorming Research Assembly for Young Neuroscientists – BraYn 2026, taking place from September 30 to October 2 at the University of Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini.
BraYn brings together young scientists working across key areas...
Schaefer SEE will participate as a sponsor and exhibitor at NanoInnovation 2026, taking place in Rome from 14–18 September.
Location: Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. The Faculty is located in the heart...
Schaefer SEE is pleased to announce its participation, together with partner Izon Science, at the III Congresso Nazionale della Rete Italiana Core Facilities, taking place on 3–4 September 2026 at the Università degli Studi “G. d'...
On July 9–10, Schaefer SEE will participate as a sponsor of the "Biochemistry of Tumors" Workshop, an important scientific meeting bringing together researchers from universities, research institutes and hospitals to discuss the latest...
Izon Science has announced the Pulsoid, a next-generation nanoparticle measurement system built around a solid-state...
Schaefer Italia will participate as an official sponsor of CSEVP-2026 – Conference & School on Extracellular Vesicles and Nanoparticles, one of the main...
We’re excited to share a recent scientific highlight from our partner Izon Science, a global leader in extracellular vesicle (EV) isolation and analysis technologies.
This article outlines a validated workflow for the isolation,...
You would have heard of lipid nanoparticles... those vesicles used to develop mRNA vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic – but what other applications do they have?
Join Michele from Izon Science as she looks into the world of Lipid...
Venezia | 6-10 febbraio 2023
Come visit us at our stand at the "XXVII SCHOOL OF PURE AND APPLIED BIOPHYSICS - Extracellular vesicles: from biophysical challenges to translational challenges" event in Venice, from 6 to 9 february. We will present you our scientific and technological offer: new frontiers for your scientific...
Come visit us at the QuantitatEVs workshop in Trento, from the 31st of January to the 2nd of February! We'll have a booth and we'll do a presentation with our partner Izon Science, one of the worldwide leading company in the market of the EV research field.
We'll be there with other...
As the name suggests, synovial fluid is the friction-minimising fluid from within the capsule of synovial joints. Synovial joints are the most common joint type in the human body, with examples including the hip, knee, and elbow. These joints have a propensity towards arthritides such as...
The "EVIta connect" workshop aims to facilitate interaction and possible collaboration between the various participating groups in relation to the following issues:
Despite its common position on supermarket shelves, milk is a biofluid like – and unlike - any other. Its production is under the biological control of various hormones and its composition – though standardised to a certain extent within species – is subject to the influence of disease and the...
A novel optical microscope utilizing incoherent light to generate holographic images of unlabelled live cells...
From Wednesday 8 to Friday 10 June you will find us at the Stem Cell Research Italy congress at the University of Genoa, in via Balbi 5.
This conference focuses is about scientific research in the field of stem cells.
Here's the list of the...
Research of nano-scale vesicles such as liposomes and exosomes as drug delivery vectors has progressed significantly leading to increasing numbers of FDA clinical trials. Most of these early clinical trial efforts have focused on engineered liposomes carrying a drug or gene...
Izon Science has introduced a new qEV column optimised for 1 mL sample loading volumes: the qEV1.
The new column is built with a proprietary, agarose resin which delivers improved separation, compared to the resin used in Izon’s existing range of Legacy columns.
The qEV1 was...
A running measurement on the Exoid - Next generation TRPS instrument.
TRPS continues to provide a pathway to obtaining precise insights into the physical parameters of nanoparticles in biological samples, pharmaceutical products and more. Here, we share a brief wrap-up of recent, peer-reviewed, TRPS-related publications we thought you might be interested in.
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Da sinistra a destra: Gwennan André-Grégoire Laetitia Guevel, Julie Gavard e Quentin Sabbagh.
Sharing the story of France-based researcher Dr Gwennan André-Grégoire, who is working on unravelling the EV-related pathophysiology of glioblastoma multiforme
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly aggressive and heterogenous primary tumour occurring in the central nervous...
We're excited to announce the worldwide launch of the Exoid - the next generation tunable resistive pulse sensing (TRPS) instrument. After years in development, the Exoid incorporates the proven accuracy of TRPS into a semi-automated system with improved sensitivity and usability.
Extracellular vesicles have been shown to contribute to the metastasis of melanoma and to the spread of viral infection. We discuss their potential in diagnostics and personalised medicine.
With the rapid expansion of the field of extracellular vesicle (EV) research,...
TRPS is the only technology which accurately delivers concentration of particles per unit volume across a defined particle size, accurate size distribution of these particles and simultaneous measurement of particle surface charge. Thus, reagent quality and sample preparation...
The field of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is continuously expanding with applications in biomarker discovery, rapid diagnostics, potential vaccine candidates and as vehicles of drug delivery. One of the major challenges for their application in a clinical setting is finding a scalable EV...
qNano Gold by Izon Science
Evidence implicating the pivotal role of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in stimulation of tissue regeneration is rapidly gaining pace. EVs have been explored as therapeutics for prospective clinical studies1. However, with the current state of affairs, EV production...
TRPS enables rapid quantitation and analysis of individual virus particles in real-time, ideal for assessment of viral titre and aggregation. Measurement takes a matter of minutes and each measurement only requires 40µL of sample...
Dr. Nagarjun Konduru and the team at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (UT Health)
50 million people across the world are struggling with occupational or workplace related lung diseases, says the World Health Organization, occasionally causing death and disability1. Air-borne nanoparticles (< 100nm) are one of the leading causes of occupational and environmental lung...
The FluidFM nanosyringe has been officially launched. Specifically developed for precision nano-injection directly into the nucleus or the cytoplasm of single adherent cells. The sharp apex with its 600 nm aperture...
As the EV field continues to advance, so has the need for scalability in EV isolation. Along with the recently released Automatic Fraction Collector, Izon is addressing this need with the new qEV100, a size exclusion...
A new era in exosome and extracellular vesicle (EV) isolation starts this week when the first Automatic Fraction Collectors (AFC...
Continuing advances in the EV field and the discovery of new types of nanosized particles (e.g. exomeres), has lead to researchers wanting more specific and precise EV isolation methods. As part of this process Izon has broadened the qEV platform to make available two different size separation...
An important new paper on single particle charge measurement has been published in Scientific Reports and it's worth taking a look at it. An extract from the paper is as follows: "The efficacy of this methodology is demonstrated for a range of biological case studies, including measurements of...
Here are 4 reasons why you should be using qEV SEC columns for your EV isolation:
The Enhanced Darkfield Hyperspectral Microscopy (EDFM-HS) of Cytoviva enables optical observation and spectral characterization of a wide range of nanomaterials as they interact with both biological and materials-based matrixes. No labeling or other special sample preparation is...
We are delighted to announce significant improvements to the Izon Integrated Measurement System (Izon IMS), available from today. The Izon IMS encompasses the use of TRPS instruments, measurement science, reagents, consumables, sample preparation and data analysis. With this new update, TRPS...
Background: Understanding the pathogenic role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in disease and their potential diagnostic and therapeutic utility is extremely reliant on in-depth quantification, measurement and identification of EV sub-populations.
Materials and...
We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of the new analytical-scale exosome isolation column, the qEVsingle. Based on Size Exclusion Chromatography, the qEVsingle is designed to handle 100μL samples of biological fluids (blood plasma or...
The new Application Note regarding EV Analysis for the combined use of standardised, quality assured SEC columns (qEV) with TRPS is now available for download. The combined method is simple and practical and for the first time offers an accurate and standard solution to the separation and...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are important mediators of intercellular communication and are involved in the transmission of biological information between cells to regulate a broad range of biological processes. EVs contain proteins, mRNA, and miRNA representing the cell they...
Here below we present you two videos from IZON Science. These are the registrations of two different webinars organized by IZON: the first is about "Characterizing Extracellular Vesicles from Biological Fluids", the second is about "Single-Particle Zeta Potential Determined by TRPS". Those two...
Webinar Date: Jun 2, 2016
Time: 3:00 PM UK time (GMT+1)/8:00 AM PST/11:00 AM EST
Duration: 1 hour
The talk is designed to introduce the field of zeta potentials measurements using TRPS, aimed at research students, undergraduates...
"Lipid Nanoparticle delivery of siRNA to unravel chronic pain"
In this webinar, Dr. Marc-Andre Dansereau from the Université de Sherbrooke will describe how RNAi was used to better understand how the CCL2 chemokine and its receptor, CCR2, contribute to the development of...
Webinar Date: March 10, 2016
Time: 8:00 AM PST/11:00 AM EST/15:00 GMT
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as important mediators of...
We are delighted to invite you to the 5th Izon Science Research Symposium.
Date: 1st and 2nd September, 2016
Venue: Merton College, Oxford, UK.
Last year’s symposium was a tremendous success with over 15 presentations from...
Izon Science's qEV Size Exclusion Columns are the fastest and easiest method to isolate extracellular vesicles from cell culture supernatants and complex biological fluids. Unlike other methods, size exclusion chromatography (SEC) is gentle on your samples. Your isolated vesicles will be...
The Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Centre (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, has a team led by Dr Rienk Nieuwland who are studying the detection and function of extracellular vesicles...
We are pleased to present to all our visitors two interesting articles on the TRPS technology.
The first one is about cell death, it explains how cells die every minute, millions of them. These cells need to be replaced, because they're damaged, diseased, or simply...
A recent publication by the group of Professor Yin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison highlights the advantages of TRPS for the characterisation of viruses (bullet-shaped, about 100nm size). TRPS results were compared to TEM, the current benchmark for virion...
We would like to invite you to register for the 2015 Annual Izon Science Research Symposium.
Date: 10-11 September, 2015
Venue: Merton College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The symposium will focus on advances in research using or...
Schaefer SEE is the IZON Science exclusive distributor in Italy. The IZON instruments, qNano, qMicro and qViro-x, work with the TRPS (Tunable Resistive Pulse Sensing) technology, based on the Coulter principle. This technology can provide a multi-parameter...
We would like to Invite you to attend the Third annual Izon research symposium, taking place on the 11th & 12th of September 2014 at Saint Hughs College in Oxford.
The symposium will offer an excellent opportunity to observe and discuss Izon technologies, as well as a chance to...
