London UK: Desktop Genetics Ltd (“DTG” or “the Company”) a software company revolutionizing the way biologists use CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with Transcriptic Inc, (Transcriptic), a California based robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences. The partnership, announced at the SynBioBeta conference, will combine DTG’s CRISPR/Cas9 design […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a formal agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to exchange instrument controls to improve the productivity and user experience of customers using software and instruments from both companies. Under the new agreement, Agilent and Thermo Fisher are exchanging instrument-control driver documentation and software for liquid […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the establishment of a collaborative partnership aimed at identifying cancer genetic mutations linked with Asian populations using Thermo Fisher’s Ion Torrent next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform. The research collaboration will take phased approaches to analyze retrospective samples from cancer patients with Asian ancestry […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and Technology company, today announced it has expanded its distribution agreements with GENEWIZ® and Oxford Genetics to provide customers with an easy-to-use, web-based ordering system that will provide instant pricing for most synthetic DNA up to 5kb. Scientists can now order synthesized genes from […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. & AUSTIN, Tex. – LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (“LifeMap”), a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., and Lab7 Systems, Inc., announced today a partnership and launch of an integrated solution in the next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) field, a multi-billion dollar, rapidly growing global market. LifeMap’s VarElect, The NGS Phenotyper, is now integrated into the Lab7 Enterprise […]

Prague — DataApex, a leader in chromatography software, and ACCHROM Instrument Technologies, a Chinese analytical instrument provider, announce the OEM cooperation. ACCHROM Technologies will market an OEM version of Clarity Chromatography Software under the name ACstation Chromatography Software. ACstation includes control drivers for a complete S6000 HPLC system that cover pumps, auto sampler, column oven […]

HILLSBORO, Ore. and SYDNEY, Australia — FEI (NASDAQ:FEIC) and the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF) have joined forces to bring the joy of microscopy to the general public through MyScope™ Outreach. “We are pleased that FEI is the first to join our MyScope™ Corporate Partner Program. With more than 60 years of microscopy […]

Asynt in conjunction with Biochromato (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) have developed the new DrySyn Spiral Evaporator which enables scientists to evaporate tubes directly in DrySyn synthesis blocks up to 12 samples at a time. Many chemists in laboratories worldwide use DrySyn heating blocks to perform syntheses in parallel in flasks, tubes and vials. Combining this proven high […]

COLUMBIA, Md. — Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) announces the opening of the Shimadzu Laboratory for Advanced Applied and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). The new 2,000-square-foot laboratory and office suite is a hub for research across the entire UWM campus, as well as a classroom for teaching the theory and practice of […]

SAN ANTONIO; SHANGHAI; CAMBRIDGE, Mass.; REYKJAVIK; and MADRID, November 3, 2015 – The San Antonio 1000 Cancer Genomes Project (SA1kCGP), WuXi NextCODE, and South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics (START) today announced a partnership that will enable San Antonio’s pioneering city-wide cancer genomics effort to contribute directly to improving the clinical treatment of cancer around the […]