INDIANAPOLIS – BioStorage Technologies, a global provider of comprehensive sample management solutions for the bioscience industry, including storage, cold chain logistics and virtual sample intelligence, is expanding its support to scientific and academic research activities, specifically in Northeast United States. Most recently, this included the hiring of Douglas King as the Senior Scientific Advisor and […]

Alexandria, MN, – Douglas Scientific, a provider of Array Tape™ for high throughput screening in bioscience laboratories, today announced the appointment of Joe Salo as the company’s new Vice President of Engineering. Salo will be responsible for managing the engineering team that designs and develops the Company’s laboratory automation platform. Salo has over 20 years […]

Shanghai, China, – QIAGEN today announced that it has signed an agreement with Bio-X Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University to open a joint translational medicine lab in Shanghai. The lab is the first of its kind between QIAGEN and a major research institution in China and is a key milestone in the Company’s expansion […]

WARREN, N.J., — Roka Bioscience announced today that their Atlas Salmonella Detection Assay has received AOAC Performance Tested Methods(SM) certification from the AOAC Research Institute (AOAC-RI). The independent laboratory study was conducted by Silliker, Inc., as part of the AOAC-RI independent third-party validation process. The Atlas Salmonella Detection Assay runs on the Atlas System, an […]

Pion Inc. introduces the Skin PAMPA Test System, specifically designed to predict the permeability of drugs and dermal formulations through the human skin. The Skin PAMPA Test System excels as a complimentary screen prior to Franz Cell testing due to the lower cost, enhanced usability, higher throughput and reduced sample requirements. Pre-coated with a proprietary […]

Männedorf, Switzerland,– The P4 Inserm-Jean Mérieux laboratory in Lyon is Europe’s largest high security pathogen laboratory, and relies on the flexibility, robustness and reliability of Tecan’s Infinite® 200 PRO monochromator¬based microplate reader for use with Risk Group 4 pathogens including the Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Nipah and Hendra viruses. Stéphane Mely, Biological Technics Engineer in the […]

Cambridge, UK – An exciting technological collaboration integrating TTP Labtech’s mosquito® X1 automated nanolitre pipettor with a well-known microplate mover has been set up, bringing an innovative hit-picking solution to the University of Michigan. This fully automated system is being utilised by the University’s High Throughput Screening (HTS) Core, Centre for Chemical Genomics, to automate […]

Irvine, CA- Effective March 15, BioDot Inc is expanding its global reach within Japan. The company has decided to forgo using a distributor supply chain and to staff its own entity. Barbara McIntosh, VP Sales & Marketing of BioDot feels “as BioDot continues to grow, it is critical to us that the message to our […]

Ann Arbor, MI- 3D Biomatrix, a leader in the development of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture products, has collaborated with Eppendorf to produce definition files for automated dispensing of media into 3D Biomatrix’s Perfecta3D[TM] Hanging Drop Plates. For users of the epMotion systems, these protocols will allow for high throughput cell culture automation and spheroid formation […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, has selected the Agilent SureSelect XT Human All Exon target enrichment system along with the Agilent Bravo automated liquid-handling platform as part of the Erasmus Rucphen Family study to identify genetic risk factors for some complex genetic disorders. The […]