Designation follows recent announcement on development of first companion diagnostic using the Oncomine Precision Assay on the new Ion Torrent Genexus System CARLSBAD, Calif. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Oncomine Precision Assay to identify low-grade glioma (LGG) patients with isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 and 2 (IDH1 and IDH2) […]

Increased capacity required to meet growing demand for Raman imaging microscopes Ulm, Germany — WITec GmbH, the technology leader in correlative Raman microscopy, is expanding its headquarters building in Ulm. The new addition will offer more space for production and quality assurance, laboratories for development and customer demonstrations or sample measurements, larger conference rooms and […]

Park Systems expends its leadership in Europe by establishing Park Systems UK Limited, based in Nottingham to serve the best the British and Irish SPM community I am delighted to be appointed as part of the UK Park Team and to continue their vision of sharing innovative technology for the purpose of continuing the legacy […]

Users can now collaborate in real-time on Microsoft Office documents within the CDD Vault platform Burlingame, California — Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD), provider of the CDD Vault web-based research informatics platform, announced that it has officially joined the Microsoft Cloud Storage Program. As part of this group of software vendors, CDD now provides direct integration of Microsoft Office […]

Tokyo, Japan Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that a Yokogawa CSU-W1 confocal scanner unit has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). This CSU-W1 is a core component of Chiyoda Corporation’s COSMIC confocal microscope system, which will be installed in “KIBO,” the ISS’s Japanese Experiment Module, and is expected to start being used in […]

$2.4 Million in Orders Received for 12 BaroShear K45 Systems to Be Built in Initial Manufacturing Run SOUTH EASTON, Massachusetts — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” or the “Company”), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure-based instruments, consumables, and platform technology solutions to the worldwide biotechnology, biotherapeutics, cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, and […]

BOSTON—Seven Bridges, the industry-leading bioinformatics ecosystem provider, today announced the successful completion of independent examinations for SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3 and HIPAA. The examinations were conducted by independent service auditor Schellman and Company, LLC. These additions to the Seven Bridges compliance portfolio complement the company’s existing ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and […]

Certification affirms commitment to providing highest standards of quality and customer service Bishop’s Stortford, UK: Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, today announced it has achieved certification to the internationally recognised standard ISO 9001:2015 for its quality management system (QMS). The […]

ISO 13485 CERTIFICATION ANNOUNCEMENT – GMP COMPLIANT PROTEINS ROSEMONT, IL – Proteintech Group, Inc, the benchmark in antibodies and proteins, announces completion of its ISO 13485 certification for medical devices. With  this certification, Proteintech’s HumanKine® Human cell-expressed cytokines and growth factors are now available in GMP-compliant versions for use in clinical trials and commercial manufacturing. Cytokines […]

Funds to support the research and development of vaccines for COVID-19. Ipswich, MA — New England Biolabs (NEB®) has announced its pledge of $100,000 to the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC) at Mass General Hospital (MGH). The funds will be used to support the search for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes […]