AUSTIN, Texas, — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced a restructuring plan focused on its Assay and Related Products (“ARP”) Segment’s Newborn Screening Group and its Brisbane, Australia office. The Company anticipates it will reduce its workforce by approximately 5% and close its Brisbane, Australia office. This plan has been put in place to reduce […]

WaterTrax, a leading water and wastewater data management software provider, announced today that they have named Gray Matter Systems as an authorized reseller of its WaterTrax Data Management software in selected US states. WaterTrax offers a suite of cloud-based data management software products to help water and wastewater utilities manage water quality data with a […]

DENVER, CO – ViroCyt, LLC, the leader in the field of rapid virus quantification, disclosed today the addition of two new distributors to its growing international network. Biotech Europe will sell and support ViroCyt’s Virus Counter in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). CESCO Bioengineering Ltd. will […]

INDIANAPOLIS — PerFix-Expose1 and PerFix-nc1, innovative new reagent kits for intracellular staining from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, minimize sample manipulation for a streamlined workflow that delivers high quality results. Developed for use on Beckman Coulter’s Gallios1 and Navios2 series flow cytometers and compatible with all Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ fluorochromes, the kits enable a clear […]

Milford, Mass. – Waters Corporation today announced the acquisition of Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd., a world leader in proteomics and metabolomics analysis software based in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Nonlinear Dynamics is best known for its highly-acclaimed Progenesis software which offers researchers unique ways to analyze and visualize the raw proteomic data. Waters and Nonlinear Dynamics […]

LabArchives, LLC and Cornell University announced today that Cornell has purchased a subscription to the LabArchives platform for the storage, organization, sharing, and publication of research data. Effective immediately, LabArchives is now available at no charge to all Cornell faculty and students working at its main campus in Ithaca, New York. LabArchives is a browser-based […]

ST. PAUL, Minn.– 3M Food Safety announced today that its 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Salmonella has been validated through AOAC INTERNATIONAL as a First Action Official Method of AnalysisSM (OMA method number 2013.09) for the detection of Salmonella in selected foods. A complete review of the study conducted for this AOAC-OMA validation will be published […]

Northeastern’s University’s Marine Sci­ence Center will soon house a tissue col­lec­tion from the world’s most rare, strange, and remark­able ocean crea­tures. Based on the part­ner­ship between North­eastern, Ocean Genome Legacy and New Eng­land Bio­labs, the uni­ver­sity will be home to the Ocean Genome Legacy Center of New Eng­land Bio­labs—a pub­licly acces­sible biorepos­i­tory of DNA sam­ples […]

Milford, Mass. –– Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today unveiled its new web-based Oasis® Method Development Tools designed to help customers reduce their sample preparation method development time as part of Waters Simple Prep™ campaign. Based on the customers’ sample requirements, the Oasis Method Development Tools will recommend the optimized solid-phase extraction (SPE) protocol to develop […]

ALAMEDA, Calif.– LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today the release of MalaCards, Version 1.04. The new release is available at https://www.malacards.org. MalaCards is a new database of human diseases and their annotations that is modeled on the architecture and richness of the popular GeneCards® database of human genes (https://www.genecards.org). LifeMap Sciences […]