On January 26, BAM – the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing – in Berlin inaugurated their new SAXS facility. The new facility, dubbed MAUS for “Multi-scale Analyser for Ultrafine Structures”, was supplied to BAM by Xenocs. BAM-President Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne, Dr. Brian Pauw and Dr. Andreas Thünemann celebrating the inauguration of the […]

JEOL UK are proud to announce that the Scottish Cryo-EM consortium has chosen the JEOL JEM-Z300FSC CRYO ARM™ 300 as their preferred automated Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM) for the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI). The SCMI consortium led by the MRC Centre for Virus Research (CVR) at The University of Glasgow, selected JEOL […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — MedGenome has expanded its sequencing capacity at its Foster City, Calif., headquarters laboratory, adding HiSeqX and NovaSeq 6000 platforms to meet the rising demands for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in research and clinical settings. The new additions increase MedGenome’s data-generation capability by a factor of five. Additionally, availability of a wide range of sequencing […]

Bourevestnik, Inc., subsidiary company of ALROSA, supplied and commissioned a set of X-ray luminescence sorters at the new recovery plant of the historic Cullinan mine in South Africa. The Cullinan Mine is owned 74% by Petra Diamonds Limited and is renowned as the source of very rare blue diamonds and large, high quality gem diamonds, […]

DMU students work with local communities on the island A group of science students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU), United Kingdom, have taken part of a recent visit to Bermuda to work on promoting science with the community during a #DMUglobal trip to the island. 18 Biomedical Science, Medical Science and Forensic Science students spent a week in Bermuda […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables developer for the life sciences industry, announced that, during the year ending December 31, 2017, it had reached several major milestones: Advion sold nearly 60 (58 actual) Compact Mass Spectrometer (CMS) units per quarter The company approached 750 CMS units shipped, with the milestone 700th order having […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced it has received more than 30 orders for multiple Ion GeneStudio S5 Systems a week after launching the new line of benchtop next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. The sequencers have been purchased by early access laboratories for application areas ranging from cancer research to metagenomics. “We are very excited to start […]

Esco Pharma Division has recently delivered and installed 3 units of Isoclean HPI in one of the biggest biotechnological companies in USA, with 17 more coming this year 2018. Installation Qualification (IQ) and Operation Qualification (OQ) has been completed, but in an unclassified environment due to client confidentiality and will be later transferred to a […]

Canada’s Minister of Defence, Harjit Sajjan, recently visited the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research (PCIGR) to announce more than $42 million in funding to support fundamental research at the University of British Columbia. During the visit to PCIGR, director – Prof. Dominique Weis, introduced Mr Sajjan to Nu’s Plasma 1700 high-resolution multi-collector ICP-MS […]

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Biobank is part of a multi-million pound project to transform cancer care in Merseyside, UK. A new case study has been published by Autoscribe Informatics which describes how the newly established Biobank is using the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for complete tracking of all of its samples. The CCC Biobank […]