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The human brain contains approximately 86 billon neurons of different types, distributed and organized in different areas ; their functions vary according to the neuron type and its localization within the brain. However, the neuronal function also depends on its microenvironment, which is composed of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and Read more…
Vaihere Cheung obtained her technology baccalaureate in Sciences and Laboratory Techniques (STL) in 2018 at La Mennais, in French Polynesia. Afterwards, she came to Metropolitan France to pursue her studies in biological engineering at the Technological Institute in Lyon University. In this context, she performed an internship in two laboratories Read more…
Stage assistant ingénieur (~ niveau m1) prévu du 1er septembre 2020 au 12 février 2021 (6 mois) La société HCS Pharma (Loos, France) recherche un stagiaire de master 1 pour fin 2020. La personne recrutée travaillera sur un projet R&D de technologie innovante de type « Organe sur Puce » pour l’oncologie. Read more…
As we are involved in some very interesting projects, we have the chance to work with amazing specialists in many field. All these people help us to make the BIOMIMESYS® technology better, easier to use and well adapted to their work. We asked them to explain why they use BIOMIMESYS® Read more…
Dear all, We hope this email finds you, your family and colleagues well! We are available to discuss with you:– about your needs in high content screening/analysis services. We would be happy to organise videoconferences and phone calls to see how imaging can foster your R&D, by testing the safety Read more…
Our BIOMIMESYS® products are now available in the Dominique Dutscher’s catalogue. We are very happy to work with such a famous company ! Founded in 1982 in Alsace (France) Dominique Dutscher SAS is specialized in the distribution of laboratory consumables and equipment for research, biotechnology and health. We share with Read more…
The brain extracellular matrix (ECM) has a specific composition. Contrary to other organs, this ECM contains a low level of fibrous proteins, like collagen and fibronectin. Actually it is mainly composed of proteoglycans, which are composed of sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) covalently bound to a core protein. Hayluronic acid (HA), a Read more…
Clinicians and researchers worldwide are actively studying the mechanisms governing the infection of humans by SARS-CoV-2 and its consequences on their health, with the objective is to find effective therapies. We all aknowledge their important role in the current crisis – and in preventing future ones! While respiratory symptoms are Read more…
Immersive technologies (XR) are playing an increasingly important role in many areas of the healthcare sector. In HCS Pharma we monitor this progress and we have used these technologies many times, for example at the installation of our robotic platform. Then we were very happy when Laval Virtual, one of Read more…
Elisa Moya started her bachelor’s degree in 2013, in Biological Sciences, at the University of Granada, Spain. During her career period, in 2015, she studied one year in Portugal (Erasmus+). Moreover, in the summer 2016, she participated during 3 months in a research project dealing with Alzheimer’s disease in Newcastle Read more…
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is composed of macromolecules surrounding the cells. They interact with each other and with the cells, cross-link and polymerize, ensuring the maintenance and the function of organs. The primary role of ECM is to support the cells by providing adhesion support, but its role goes beyond: Read more…
Dr. Karine Hannebicque has joined our Scientific Advisory Board. She is a surgeon in breast cancer and reconstructive surgery working in Oscar Lambret Center in the Department of breast oncology since 2013. She is also Medical Coordinator of the Ambulatory Surgery Unit since 2018. After her Internship in Obstetrics & Read more…
We are really happy to welcome Prof. Lo in our Scientific Advisory Board. Prof. Lo has a huge experiment in hepatitis infection and liver diseases with more than 120 publications in this field. With help of Joseph Chou (CEO of Tokyo Future Style Taiwan), Pr Lo leads all R&D programs Read more…
As part of the validation of her Master’s degree in biotechnology (University of Lille), specializing in cellular and molecular engineering, Elise recently joined HCS Pharma. After having completed three internships from one to four months in the fields of immunology and microbiology, in France and abroad, she joined the team Read more…
Just before Covid-19 pandemic crisis widely spread to France, we attended the User Meeting organized by Molecular Devices in Hilton Garden Inn Leiden (Oegstgeest, Netherlands). We enjoyed the programme, gathering a variety of topics but with high content analysis/screening as a common technique to answer diverse scientific questions. On the Read more…
As many companies in France and in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic deeply affects our activities. For safety reasons, most of our work is now done remotely but we maintain essential activity in laboratories to take care of our cells and try to finish our ongoing customer studies. The situation Read more…
Présentation de l’entreprise HCS Pharma est une start-up biotechnologique spécialisée en imagerie cellulaire pour le criblage et l’étude de l’efficacité ou la toxicité de molécules d’intérêt pharmaceutique, cosmétique ou agroalimentaire. Nous développons pour cela nos propres modèles in vitro, en 2 et 3 dimensions, grâce à la technologie BIOMIMESYS®, qui Read more…
We will give a presentation next week (on Tuesday, 10th of March 2020) at the High-Content Cellular Imaging User meeting organized by our partner Molecular Devices, which will take place in Leiden (Netherlands). It is a great pleasure for us to attend the meeting, and to talk about the applications, Read more…
The 8th edition of the Symposium of “Functional Genomics of the Liver” (GFF) will be held from 26 to 28 February 2020 in Rennes, at the Couvent des Jacobins. Meryl, from our team, will be present with a poster about hiPSCs-derived liver organoids made with BIOMIMESYS® Liver hydroscaffold. If you Read more…
It was a real pleasure for us to be invited at the last West Data Festival, to present our last developments in Artificial Intelligence dedicated to picture analysis. We warmly thank the organizers, Laval Mayenne Technopole and ATLANPOLE biotérapies for this opportunity. We also thank Laval Virtual to help us Read more…
We are happy to tell you that HCS Pharma, SMMiL-E team (Seeding Microsystems in Medecine in Lille – European-Japanese Technologies against Cancer, CNRS UMI-2820 LIMMS/IIS) and Institut d’Electronique, de Micro-Electronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) have successfully applied to a LabCom grant (‘COMmon LABoratory’)! A LabCom aims at gathering two entities Read more…
It is now well described that in tumor biopsies, the stiffness of the cancerous tissue is higher than the surrounding non-cancerous tissue of the same organ, with a described remodeling of the ECM. The increase in rigidity is related to the stimulation of fibroblasts that increase the synthesis of glycosaminoglycans, Read more…
Are you curious about confocal microscopy and the advantages of spinning disk? This article from Teledyne Imaging explains the technology with really simple words. You will understand why we have chosen this way to create high-quality 3D pictures. Our two “ImageXpress Micro Confocal” from Molecular Devices are perfect for our Read more…