The Growing Electron Microscopy Group at Covalent’s Silicon Valley lab significantly expands its team and instrument portfolio for FIB-SEM and S/TEM analysis. Sunnyvale, CA.  Covalent Metrology, a leading provider of analytical services in North America, announces the installation of two new Thermo Fisher Scientific Helios 5 UC DualBeam focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopes (FIB-SEMs). Covalent now has […]

Gencove’s cost-effective genome-wide sequencing and analysis will provide genomic insights for TMG’s soybean program. NEW YORK and CAMBÉ, Brazil — Gencove, the leading low-pass whole genome sequencing (LP-WGS) company and Tropical Improvement & Genetics (TMG), Brazil’s plant genomics company, today announced that TMG will be using Gencove’s LP-WGS platform to study soybeans as part of […]

Tübingen, Germany: CeGaT, a global provider of sequencing services for research, clinical studies, and human genetic diagnostics, is investing in new NovaSeq 6000 sequencing systems from Illumina. This acquisition is a strategically important move given CeGaT’s rapid corporate growth. CeGaT has acquired a sixth and seventh NovaSeq 6000 to meet the increasing demand for sequencing […]

  Chicago, IL USA — Smithers, a leading provider of testing, consulting, information, and compliance services invested in an Agilent 8890 GC/5977B MSD for cannabis testing. This highly sensitive, state-of-the-art system enables Smithers to refine and expand our terpenes analysis. In addition to superior resolution for terpenes profiling, its automation and configurability reduces the time […]

An increasing number of ANAB or AL2A certified forensic laboratories in the U.S. are now using STRmix™ – sophisticated forensic software capable of resolving mixed DNA profiles previously regarded as too complex or degraded to interpret – in casework, according to statistics recently compiled by STRmix™. The new data indicate that 80% of certified U.S. […]

UCL’s SPiDER Group and Synthace launch first of a kind partnership to investigate the future of scientific research processes. Synthace recently announced the development of the first no-code life sciences R&D cloud, enabling automated experimentation and insight sharing between scientists to accelerate innovation. LONDON & BOSTON — The past two years of the coronavirus pandemic […]

Oxford Nanopore technology will be used by Genomics England to investigate and validate at increasing scale the benefits of sequencing for improving patient care and advancing research to develop new treatments. Genomics England’s “Long-Read Sequencing Programme” takes advantage of Oxford Nanopore’s ability to sequence any-length fragments of DNA, including long and ultra-long   Oxford Nanopore has […]

La Rioja, SPAIN – Estación Enológica de Haro (EEH), a public and governmental laboratory situated in the major wine growing region La Rioja, Spain, announces its new wine analysis service for public and private organizations in the oenological sector. The first of its kind to be provided by a laboratory in Spain, the service uses Bruker’s […]

SEOUL, South Korea and BURLINGAME, Calif. — Arum Therapeutics Inc. (Arum), a leading pharmaceutical company that specializes in the discovery of new molecules and molecule combinations to target novel oncology announced today that it had implemented CDD Vault, a research data management platform developed by Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. (CDD), in its laboratories in Gangseo-gu, Seoul. […]

Toronto, CANADA — ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D, today announced that Pharmaron Inc. has chosen to equip their scientists with ACD/Labs’ industry leading NMR processing and interpretation software. Among the applications adopted by Pharmaron is ACD/Structure Elucidator Suite, bringing computer assisted structure elucidation into their analytical services […]