Elizabeth McCombs Appointed Chief Technology Officer at BD
April 28, 2021
John DeFord to join newly formed external Scientific Advisory Board FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the appointment of Elizabeth McCombs as executive vice president and chief technology officer, effective April 26, 2021, succeeding John DeFord. McCombs, 45, will be responsible for [...]
Quanterix Appoints Laurie Olson to Board of Directors
April 28, 2021
Pharmaceutical veteran adds deep expertise in commercial and corporate strategy BILLERICA, Mass. -- Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, today announced the appointment of Laurie Olson to its Board of Directors, effective April 27, 2021. Olson is a seasoned pharmaceutical executive who brings more than three [...]
April 28, 2021
SAN DIEGO --Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) has committed US $60 million in sequencing capabilities to a global pathogen genomics initiative, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other public and private entities. The initiative expands on the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) announced in October 2020, and will help create a [...]
New Genedata Selector Release Enhances Automation Support for Biosafety Applications
April 28, 2021
Automating Complex NGS-based Workflows for Biosafety Testing from Assay Development to Monitoring throughout Scale-Up and Production Basel, Switzerland—Genedata, the leading provider of enterprise software for biopharmaceutical R&D, today announced a new release of its first-in-class Genedata Selector® software platform that enables the automation of complex next-generation sequencing (NGS) based workflows. The new release Genedata Selector [...]
Twist Bioscience and Vivlion Partner to Generate gRNA Libraries for CRISPR Applications
April 28, 2021
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & FRANKFURT -- Twist Bioscience Corporation (Nasdaq: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, and Vivlion GmbH, a company providing next-generation CRISPR gRNA libraries and screening services for the global R&D market, today announced a collaboration for the generation of [...]
CytoSMART redefines automated cell counting with a new fluorescence cell counter
April 28, 2021
The Netherlands – Life Science Newswire – Today CytoSMART Technologies has announced the release of its first fluorescence cell counter. The CytoSMART Exact FL is an automated, dual fluorescence cell counter with an expanded field of view and unmatched performance. Although the system’s footprint is very small, its specifications rival most, if not all alternative [...]
New Rigaku Handheld LIBS Analyzer Provides High Performance Metal Alloy Analysis
April 28, 2021
Rigaku Analytical Devices launches new KT-500 handheld alloy analyzer for superior analysis of carbon steels and more. Using proven LIBS technology, the KT-500 is ideal for quality control and positive material identification applications. Wilmington, Massachusetts – Rigaku Analytical Devices, a leading pioneer of handheld spectroscopic analyzers, has announced the launch of the KT-500 - a [...]
Doubling the Resolution of Structured Illumination Microscopy
April 28, 2021
New Image Reconstruction Algorithm Enhances Super-Resolution Microscope ZEISS Elyra 7 Jena, Germany | ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions ZEISS introduces SIM², a groundbreaking image reconstruction algorithm that increases the resolution and sectioning quality of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) data. With SIM² on the microscope system ZEISS Elyra 7, life science researchers can now double the conventional [...]
‘Real Breakthrough’ in COVID-19 Testing
April 27, 2021
A partnership between UC Davis and Maurice J. Gallagher Jr., chairman and CEO of Allegiant Travel Company, has led to a new rapid COVID-19 test. A recent study published Nature Scientific Reports shows the novel method to be 98.3 percent accurate for positive COVID-19 tests and 96 percent accurate for negative tests. “This test was made from [...]
Allegro 3D Awarded $997,692 from the National Science Foundation
April 27, 2021
Small Business Innovation Research Program Provides Seed Funding for R&D SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES -- Allegro 3D, Inc. has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant for $997,692 to conduct research and development (R&D) work on a novel high-throughput biofabrication platform. This platform can create physiologically relevant in [...]
