ORLANDO– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the Pittcon debut of its new range of Thermo Scientific SOLA solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges and plates. Using a proprietary design and manufacturing technique, SOLA™ combines polyethylene frit materials and stationary phase components into one, uniform entity. As a result, these […]

SiliCycle, primarily renowned as a world leader for its UltraPure silica gels, has created the new SiliaPrepX family of polymeric SPE cartridges and well plates in order to become the one stop shop for all solid-phase extraction treatments. «At SiliCycle, we are committed to offer the best and most diversified product lines for analytical, chromatography […]

Gothenburg, Sweden. Denator AB announced today that cancer and pain research groups at three of Sweden’s leading universities; CREATE Health at the Division of Protein Technology at Lund University, the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet and the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, have chosen to integrate heat stabilization of […]

OBERKOCHEN, Germany — Carl Zeiss has launched the AURIGA® Laser, a new advanced system combining the specific advantages of the AURIGA® CrossBeam (FIB-SEM) workstation with the capabilities of a pulsed micro-focus laser for fast ablation of material. AURIGA® Laser is particularly useful for the examination of samples where the target structure is deeply buried under […]

SAN DIEGO– Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) today introduced the TruSeq Amplicon – Cancer Panel, a highly multiplexed panel that will allow researchers to accurately sequence hundreds of the most relevant cancer loci, even in difficult samples such as formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) tumor samples. With the ability to detect mutations below 5% frequency, the TruSeq Amplicon assay […]

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 […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SHENZHEN, China, Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and BGI today announced a collaborative effort to develop methodologies designated for next-generation genome-wide association studies. The methodologies will assist scientists pursuing disease and drug research. The goal of the collaboration is to create a next-generation super exome, using Agilent’s SureSelect technology. The super […]

Fluidigm Corporation unveiled a new custom assay design service for high-sample throughput amplicon resequencing on Illumina platforms at the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting. The Access Array™ Target-Specific Primers, when used with the Fluidigm Access Array System, allow for fast, simple, and inexpensive preparation of up to 480 amplicons per sample […]

WALTHAM, Mass., PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR), the largest cell and DNA biobank in the United States, has adopted the Company’s technologies for automation of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) sample preparation. Next […]

Los Altos, CA, Boreal Genomics, a developer of sequence-based enrichment technology, introduced the OnTarget™ Allele Enrichment System today through an early access program. The OnTarget™ System utilizes Boreal’s novel technology for the depletion of wild-type alleles with single nucleotide selectivity for improved detection of both known and unknown rare cancer mutations. OnTarget™ enables clinicians and […]