May 5, 2021
Autoscribe Informatics is delighted to announce that it has appointed Axis Solutions Africa as our distributor in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi to sell, configure and support the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) products. With Head Office in Harare, Zimbabwe, Axis Solutions Africa provide a range of technology services and consulting solutions, including Healthcare and [...]
May 5, 2021
Oxford Nanopore has released new protocols enabling the rapid, cost effective sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19. Research teams are able to access sequencing technology in days, without capital cost, for quick set-up of rapid turnaround SARS-CoV-2 sequencing. From initial characterisation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome to the rapid identification of variants, researchers have been utilising nanopore sequencing to [...]
M&G invests £35 million in Oxford Nanopore Technologies
May 4, 2021
M&G plc today announces that it has participated in a private transaction totalling £195 million, investing £35 million in Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Nanopore). The company was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford. The investment has been made by M&G’s newly formed Catalyst team, who are investing up to £5 [...]
May 4, 2021
UPPSALA, Sweden -- Olink Holding AB (publ) (Nasdaq: OLK) today announced that its Olink® Explore 1536/384 platform is now available to researchers in Europe through the SciLifeLab National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) and the Affinity Proteomics Uppsala unit at SciLifeLab Clinical and Immunological platform (APU) by their combined capability SciLifeLab Explore lab. This is the first [...]
Picarro Releases New High-Throughput Modes for the L2130-i Isotopic Water Analyzer
May 4, 2021
New Express and Survey modes proven to reduce measurement time of 100 samples by as much as 68 hours Santa Clara, CA — Picarro Inc., a leading provider of gas concentration and stable isotope analyzers and systems for science and industrial applications, today released the Express and Survey Modes for the L2130-i Isotopic Water Analyzer. The new measurement [...]
faCellitate strengthens its international distribution network
May 4, 2021
Mannheim -- FaCellitate, a venture team of Chemovator GmbH, the internal business incubator of BASF, and a specialist in the development of polymeric surface coatings for cell culture consumables, announced today their first distribution agreements. “Fueled by the positive customer feedback on our first product line - BIOFLOAT, we quickly identified best-in-class partners to increase our [...]
May 4, 2021
MultiVac improves efficiency for topographic characterization of non-conductive, beam-sensitive or outgassing samples when using low keV imaging Brno, Czech Republic ―TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. announces the release of its new MultiVac module to provide the option for adding low vacuum and variable pressure capability to TESCAN SEMs. Varying the in-chamber atmosphere is an established technique [...]
May 4, 2021
The ForenSeq MainstAY Kit makes next-generation sequencing (NGS) accessible and practical for the average forensic laboratory. SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Verogen Inc. announced today that it is debuting an affordable entry point to NGS on the MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System with the commercial launch of the ForenSeq MainstAY Workflow. The kit targets the core autosomal and Y-STR loci [...]
Purigen Biosystems Adds CE Mark for Ionic® Purification System Launch in UK and European Union
May 4, 2021
Company rapidly expanding commercial operations to enable more researchers to extract higher yields of DNA and RNA from FFPE samples in one hour with minimal hands-on time Pleasanton, Calif. – Purigen Biosystems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation technologies for extracting and purifying nucleic acids from biological samples, today announced the CE (Conformité Européene) marking [...]
May 4, 2021
SAN DIEGO -- Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO), announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue US Patent No. 10,995,364 today, May 4, 2021. The patent, titled “METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SINGLE-MOLECULE WHOLE GENOME ANALYSIS” covers methods for labeling DNA molecules with one or more sequence-specific probes and detecting the signal from [...]

