April 27, 2020
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA & ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. Illumina, Inc. has donated sequencing systems and related consumables to the African Union Commission through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to strengthen SARS-CoV-2 sequencing capabilities and capacity in 10 African countries. The cargo arrived Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last week and the equipment is being [...]
April 27, 2020
IPSWICH, Mass. -- New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced a transition to a 100% recyclable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) for shipment of most of its products. The new packaging was developed by TemperPack, a U.S. company that focuses on providing sustainable solutions for cold chain shipping. While fully recyclable, this new packaging maintains the proper shipping [...]
April 27, 2020
CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) announced today the launch of a novel enzyme master mix (Inhibitor Tolerant 1-step RT-qPCR Mix) that eliminates the need to use an RNA extraction kit prior to running the patient sample through a molecular assay. By eliminating this step, total assay cost is lower and processing times for [...]
April 27, 2020
MIDDLETON, Wis. – Gilson and QIAGEN have entered into a strategic partnership that will provide researchers the ability to limit operator dependent variation in their manual nucleic acid extraction results and improve the traceability of their workflows. This agreement brings together two influential leaders in the life science industries: Gilson, a global manufacturer of sample preparation [...]
April 27, 2020
WATERFORD, Wisconsin -- Today Avidity Science announces significant steps in expanding its global leadership in water purification solutions via the acquisition of the Cascada Lab Water Purification product line from Pall® China and establishing manufacturing and distribution operations in Jiaxing, China. These investments expand Avidity's portfolio of water purification solutions for science and provide regional capabilities to enhance its support [...]
New Partnership Announced Between SciCrunch and ChromoTek
April 27, 2020
SAN DIEGO -- SciCrunch's Antibody Registry announced this week that it has partnered with ChromoTek to assign unique identifiers (RRIDs) to ChromoTek's line of Nanobody based immunoreagents and antibodies. The partnership increases the database of RRIDs available for bioscience researchers use considerably both companies say. "I am delighted that we can form this partnership with [...]
April 27, 2020
SAN DIEGO – TriLink BioTechnologies®, a Maravai LifeSciences company and a leader in the production of nucleic acids for research, diagnostics and therapeutics applications, and Imperial College London, a public research university located in the United Kingdom, announced today that they have entered into a partnership in which TriLink will manufacture self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) for [...]
Flow chemistry firm Vapourtec joins fight against Coronavirus
April 27, 2020
Cambridge (UK): Flow chemistry engineering firm Vapourtec is looking to collaborate with industrial and academic organisations by offering its resources and experience to those currently involved in the fight against Coronavirus. Vapourtec founder and MD Duncan Guthrie commented: “We are able to aid and support research in the fight against COVID-19. “Our labs are well [...]
April 24, 2020
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Today, Berkeley Lights, Inc., a leader in Digital Cell Biology, launched new capabilities to empower the Opto Cell Therapy Development 1.0 workflow. The workflow consists of a collection of software capabilities, reagents, and protocols to be run on the Beacon® and LightningTM systems. With the new capabilities researchers can now perform multiple [...]
TruSight Oncology Family Grows with Liquid Biopsy and High-Throughput Assays
April 24, 2020
Providing customers with a versatile, scalable, sample-to-report workflow Bringing comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) one step closer to the standard of care in oncology, Illumina is now shipping TruSight™ Oncology 500 ctDNA (TSO 500 ctDNA), our first liquid biopsy solution for detecting cancer biomarkers, and TruSight Oncology 500 High-Throughput (TSO 500 HT), enabling high-throughput implementation by large [...]
