Sterile 96-Well Plate Seal for Cell Culturing

BioChromato Inc. has introduced a gamma sterilized version of its popular RAPID Slit Seal for scientists looking to eliminate solvent evaporation from samples when culturing cells in 96-well microplates.Proven in labs worldwide, RAPID Slit Seal is a proprietary self-closing microplate seal  that returns to its original state even when punched with an HPLC or LC/MS [...]

Major companies and retailers join BASF’s reciChain pilot to improve circular economy and traceability of recycled plastics in Canada

CSSA, Layfield, London Drugs, Merlin Plastics, NOVA Chemicals, Recycle BC, Return-It, Save on Foods and V.I.P. Soap become part of the stakeholder consortium that enables better sorting, traceability and transparency throughout the value chain For the pilot project in British Columbia, BASF is also partnering with Deloitte as a strategic advisor The technology by Security Matters [...]

Stirling Ultracold and Medline Announce U.S. Distribution Agreement

Expands Stirling Ultracold’s ability to reach health systems and clinical operations   SU105UE undercounter model (shown stacked) and ULT25NEU portable model available in Medline’s portfolio ATHENS, Ohio — Stirling Ultracold, innovative developer and manufacturer of ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers for life science and biopharma research, announced today a new distribution agreement with Medline Industries, Inc., [...]

Brooks Life Sciences Announces BioStore IIIv, the First -80°C Liquid Nitrogen-based, Automated Storage System to Offer Inventory Control and Reporting Capabilities

Ideal for Cell and Gene Therapy and COVID-19 research, BioStore IIIv provides improved thermal stability for stored materials, risk mitigation advantages and processes which are documented and repeatable    CHELMSFORD, Mass. –  Brooks Life Sciences, a division of Brooks Automation, today announced the immediate availability of BioStore™ IIIv, an automated next-generation alternative to manual -80͒°C mechanical freezers. BioStore [...]

CN Bio makes key senior appointments to support international commercial development

Appointments include James Craven as Chief Commercial Officer and Brian Manning as US Head of Sales Cambridge, UK: CN Bio, a leading cell culture company that has developed single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of drug discovery, today announced the appointments of James Craven as Chief Commercial Officer and Dr. [...]

INTEGRA’s pipetting solutions streamline workflow for Radix BioSolutions

Contract research organization (CRO) Radix BioSolutions is using the entire span of INTEGRA pipetting products to streamline its workflows and increase reproducibility. Dr Kerry Oliver, President and CSO of Radix, explained: “Our services cover everything from quantifying biomarkers and reagent labeling services to the development and production of multiplexed assays, and we use INTEGRA products across our workflow.” Using a whole range of INTEGRA products offers [...]

Lexogen Appoints Stéphane Barges as New CEO

VIENNA -- Today Lexogen, the transcriptomics and next-generation sequencing company, announced that Stéphane Barges, PhD, MBA has been appointed as new Chief Executive Officer effective from September 1, 2020. Stéphane Barges of Lexogen Dr. Barges said "Lexogen is already a renowned company thanks to the quality of its very innovative products and of its customer support [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Confirms Offer to Acquire QIAGEN Shares Expires on August 10

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today confirmed that its offer to acquire all of QIAGEN's ordinary shares for an increased price of €43.00 per share in cash will expire at 24:00 hours (Frankfurt am Main local time) / 18:00 hours (New York local time) on [...]

Atlas Copco has acquired a technology for process diagnostics and control in the semiconductor industry

Nacka, Sweden, August 4, 2020: Atlas Copco has acquired the technology and operating assets of iTrap. The iTrap is an ion trap mass spectrometer instrument capable of highly sensitive real time gas analysis. The instrument is used for diagnostics or process control in semiconductor process chambers. The business is located in Oberkochen, in southern Germany, [...]

Loop Genomics looks to displace Sanger sequencing with a massively parallel, low-cost long-read NGS approach

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Loop Genomics has come one step closer to replacing Sanger sequencing with NGS. Loop's new product enables massively parallel multiplexing of colonies and cloned DNA's into a single tube and sequencing them on NGS instruments, reducing the time and cost of sequencing cloned DNA. "The decades old practice of sequencing amplicons from colonies is still prohibitively [...]

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