October 13, 2020
CANTON, Mass. -- Universal Sequencing Technology Corporation ('UST'), a developer of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, today is proud to announce a commercial relationship with Shanghai Bioscience Ltd. for the distribution of TELL-Seq WGS Library preparation kits in China. The TELL-Seq kit allows customers to transform their short-read DNA sequencer into a long-read DNA sequencer. The method [...]
New virtual reality software allows scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
October 12, 2020
Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new treatments for disease. Biology occurs in 3D, but up until now it has been difficult to interact with the data on a 2D computer screen in an intuitive and [...]
October 12, 2020
Herrsching am Ammersee Hamamatsu Photonics have added 4 new products to our "DIUTHAME (Desorption Ionization Using Through Hole Alumina MEmbrane)" series ionization-assisting substrates, that drastically cut the pretreatment time needed to ionize samples by laser in mass spectrometry. These new products include a miniature type, ideal for mass spectrometry imaging of small samples and a [...]
Biortus Announces Round A Financing and Launches Global Cryo-EM Innovation Center
October 12, 2020
Wuxi Biortus Biosciences Co. Ltd. (“Biortus”), a global leader in structural biology service for drug discovery, recently closed round A financing with US$15 million investment led by Bayland Capital, and the fund will be used to establish a global cryo-EM innovation center. In 2018, Biortus launched the very first commercial gene-to-structure one-stop-shop cryo-EM platform. Since [...]
October 12, 2020
Ideal for On-Site and In-Line Identification/Quantification of Components in Fluids, Gases and Solids Los Angeles, Calif., -- Si-Ware Systems introduced the first highly compact Mid-Infrared (MIR) spectral sensing platform that offers wide wavelength coverage for accurate, cost-effective detection and quantification of chemical compounds. The NeoSpectra-MIR Platform offers off-the-shelf and custom application specific products for solid, [...]
October 12, 2020
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications today announced a new commercial agreement with JAN Scientific (JANSi), a specialist provider of imaging solutions for macromolecular crystallography. The distribution agreement for North America will enable SPT Labtech to promote JANSi's plate hotels and scanning imagers for [...]
Introducing NGSgo-MX11-3 Easy as one-two-three
October 12, 2020
The multiplex you have been waiting for! Amplification primers for eleven loci are multiplexed in three tubes. The three-tube design results in lower noise levels, better-balanced alleles, and higher quality compared to a one-tube approach. This means more reliable typing results. From DNA to results in only 1,5 days! Start your amplification on day 1 [...]
October 12, 2020
Oxford Nanopore, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US CDC, Microsoft and Illumina collaborate with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to launch Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) $100 million four-year initiative will rapidly expand access to next-generation genomic sequencing tools and strengthen public health surveillance networks across Africa Oxford [...]
MilliporeSigma Licenses CRISPR Genome-Editing Technology to PanCELLa and Takara Bio USA
October 12, 2020
Licenses aim to accelerate drug discovery leading to development of new therapies PanCELLa agreement marks MilliporeSigma’s first CRISPR license for bioproduction Takara Bio USA agreement gives access to MilliporeSigma’s CRISPR integration and vector technologies for Takara’s vector products and cell engineering services MilliporeSigma today announced that it has signed agreements licensing its CRISPR technology to two [...]
Illumina Pledges US $20 Million in Sequencing Tech for Africa
October 12, 2020
Joins Africa CDC alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others in a four-year plan October 12, 2020 A dangerous novel pathogen emerging in any region is devastating, but even more so when genomics and bioinformatics infrastructure is insufficient to identify, monitor, or slow its spread. In resource-limited environments, public health officials struggle to allocate [...]
