JEOL Ltd. (President & COO Izumi Oi) announces the release of a new cold field emission cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM), the CRYO ARM™ 300 II (JEM-3300), to be released in January 2021. This new cryo-EM has been developed based on the concept of “Quick and easy to operate and get high-contrast and high-resolution images”. Product development background [...]

We concur with the court's ruling that Illumina’s European Patent (EP) 1 828 412 to methods of sequencing by synthesis using ascorbic acid is invalid for obviousness and that MGI’s CoolMPS sequencing method does NOT infringe this patent, and also the finding that MGI’s CoolMPS sequencing does NOT infringe the EP 2 021 415 to [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has committed $1.5 million to Penn State to create the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility, which will expand Penn State’s biotechnology ecosystem. Sartorius’ gift expands their partnership with Penn State to advance multidisciplinary teaching and research in biotechnology through hands-on experiences for [...]

Waldkirch -- The VITROCELL® Cloud Alpha MAX is our newest innovation in the Cloud family and ­presents a great leap forward in ­automated exposure of cell cultures. It combines highly efficient testing with ease of use. The development is based on the well-known and frequently published VITROCELL® Cloud formats (6-, 12- and 24-well). Its functionality enables fully automated processes with [...]

Apricot Designs' product breadth further expands SPT Labtech’s liquid handling portfolio and advances leadership in the automated instrumentation market Cambridge, UK – SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces the acquisition of Apricot Designs Inc., headquartered in Covina, California. Apricot Designs has established [...]

Innovative charged variant analysis accelerates biologic drug development, ensuring drug safety and efficacy SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, announced the closing of its acquisition of Intabio, Inc., a privately held company and the developer of the Blaze™ System for biotherapeutic analysis and quality assessment. Blaze enables the direct coupling of imaged cIEF [...]

BOSTON, USA/REGENSBURG, GERMANY – Leading metabolomics based diagnostics company  numares AG and analytical instrumentation and solution provider Bruker Corporation have signed an agreement to collaborate to bring new diagnostics tests utilizing NMR to the laboratory market for unmet medical needs. The tests are based on the automated measurement of metabolites using a strong magnet field, and artificial intelligence. The [...]

100+ year industry veteran continues to accelerate investments to serve independent testing labs and their MDx capabilities SWEDESBORO, N.J.  -- Thomas Scientific, the largest pure-play distributor of scientific products in the US, announced the launch of its Molecular Diagnostics business unit dedicated to serving the nation's independent testing and reference laboratories. Thomas Molecular Diagnostics is [...]

Sygnature Accelerates Customers’ Drug Discovery Timelines with Improved Hit Identification, Lead Optimization Capabilities SANTA FE, N.M., USA, & NOTTINGHAM, UK –  21 January 2021  – OpenEye Scientific and Sygnature Discovery – a world-leading integrated discovery and pre-clinical solutions provider – today announced the adoption of OpenEye’s Orion™ platform to power Sygnature’s computational efforts in molecular design drug [...]

Porvair Sciences has launched a new second generation model of its Ultravap® Mistral - an automation-ready sample evaporator that offers throughput advantages to laboratories looking to optimise and accelerate sample preparation. Designed to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation, industry-leading sample drying reproducibility has been achieved by recent advancements in gas injection technology. The new and improved [...]