SKOKIE, Ill. –– NanoProfessor?, the global leader in hands-on undergraduate nanotechnology education, announced today that it has accepted an invitation to join Innovation Plaza, a partnership between academia and several science and engineering-based industry organizations with a goal of increasing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in Latin America. Innovation Plaza, which was formally […]

Agilent Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: A) and Spain’s Centre for Omic Sciences announced that they will collaborate on mass spectrometry and NMR-based metabolomics, and automation applied to research in integrated systems biology. The Centre for Omic Sciences, or COS, was established by the Rovira i Virgili University, in collaboration with the Technological Centre of Nutrition and […]

CHICAGO, Ill. –– The NanoFabrication Systems Division of NanoInk is pleased to announce E-Hong Instruments Co., Ltd. will serve as its distributor in Taiwan for its desktop nanofabrication equipment including the NLP 2000 System, the DPN 5000 System, and MEMsfabricated consumables. NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division brings sophisticated nanofabrication to the laboratory in an easy-to-use and […]

With this new interface, researchers can quickly generate exceptionally flexible designs for high-performance, targeted resequencing, using Agilent’s HaloPlex and SureSelect systems. Now, in just three simple steps, they can create custom sequencing panels tailored to their specific projects. Targeted resequencing of genes/genomic regions is a key step in detecting mutations associated with congenital disease. “With […]

SKOKIE, Ill. –– NanoProfessor?, the global leader in hands-on undergraduate nanotechnology education, announced today that SENAI (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial) and SESI (Serviço Social da Indústria) of São Paulo, Brazil recently incorporated the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program into five mobile nanotechnology classrooms in launching its Nanomundo Nanotechnology Educational Program. SENAI is Brazil’s largest organization […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has today announced the release of its new Genefficiency™ RNA Sequencing (RNA-Seq) Service. Taking advantage of OGT’s experience in optimised sequencing project design and advanced data analysis, this new service overcomes the need for expensive and time-intensive in-house bioinformatics […]

Männedorf, Switzerland, – Salzburg, Austria and Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2012 – Tecan and JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BIONTECH AG, today announced a collaborative agreement between the two specialist companies. Within the scope of the agreement, the parties agree to co-promote JPT’s wide range of catalog peptide arrays and profiling capabilities […]

Roche announced today the launch and immediate availability of multiple new SeqCap EZ Library target enrichment products. SeqCap EZ Library is a method that enables the enrichment of the whole exome or custom regions of interest prior to next-generation sequencing. The new products are designed to enhance genetic variant discovery and detection in basic and […]

CHICAGO, Sept.– St. Louis-based life science company, Sigma-Aldrich, announced today in conjunction with Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, plans to expand its operations in Scotland by investing in the development of a new powder manufacturing facility on its Irvine site. SAFC, a top 10 global fine chemical supplier and manufacturer of specialty chemicals and biologics […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with BioDiscovery, Inc., enabling BioDiscovery customers to access Agilent SureFISH probes directly from BioDiscovery’s Nexus software. Researchers using a variety of cytogenetic microarray platforms can now quickly identify aberrations via Nexus and immediately identify/link to available oligonucleotide-based fluorescent in situ […]