March 20, 2020
On March 18 and March 19, 2020 respectively, the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of select Danaher businesses by Sartorius. Both approvals are an important milestone for the transaction originally announced in October 2019, the completion of which is still subject to clearance by the Chinese antitrust enforcement [...]
March 20, 2020
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research announces the release of accessories enabling environmental control and nanoelectrical measurements on the Jupiter XR large-sample atomic force microscope (AFM). The accessories include the PolyHeater, for heating samples up to 300°C, the CoolerHeater, with a cooling/heating range of -30 to 120°C, a fluid cell and probe holder for imaging in liquid, and conductive AFM probe holders for [...]
March 19, 2020
Company Builds Leadership Team for Next Stage of Growth with Expanded Commercialization of Organs-on-Chips Product Suite BOSTON, Mass. – March 19, 2020 – Emulate, Inc., today announced that Jim Corbett has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Martin Madaus, Ph.D., has been appointed Executive Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. These life science [...]
Jury invalidates PacBio’s patents in U.S. patent trial against Oxford Nanopore
March 19, 2020
After more than one week of evidence, a federal jury in Delaware found in favour of Oxford Nanopore and invalidated all four patents asserted by Pacific Biosciences ("PacBio") in this litigation. During the trial, the jury heard evidence that PacBio had never performed nanopore sequencing, before or after they filed patents that allegedly cover nanopore [...]
Eppendorf acquires centrifuge business of Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
March 19, 2020
Eppendorf strengthens one of its core businesses and expands centrifuge business Koki Holdings focuses on the power tool business Eppendorf becomes a global full-line provider of high-performance premium centrifuges and consolidates its leading market position Financial terms were not disclosed Hamburg/Tokyo – Eppendorf AG and Koki Holdings Co., Ltd., have reached an agreement that Eppendorf [...]
Introduces CleanPlex® SARS-CoV-2 NGS Panel for Research and Surveillance of COVID-19 Coronavirus
March 19, 2020
HAYWARD, Calif., — Paragon Genomics, Inc., a leader in amplicon-based target enrichment solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS) and precision medicine, today announced availability of its CleanPlex® SARS-CoV-2 Panel for COVID-19 coronavirus detection, tracking and research via amplicon-based target enrichment for NGS applications. The highly multiplexed target enrichment panel covers the entire genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus [...]
March 19, 2020
BOSTON, Mass. — Emulate, Inc. today announced that the company has completed the 150th installation of its Zoë® instrument, part of a lab-ready platform for Organs-on-Chips technology for use by researchers across many industries, particularly with early adopters conducting R&D related to drug discovery and development. Emulate has expanded its portfolio of commercially available Zoë-compatible [...]
Beckman Coulter Launches CytoFLEX nano Flow Cytometer
March 19, 2020
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Revolutionizes Nanoparticle Analysis, Enabling Characterization Down To 40 nm With Launch of CytoFLEX nano Flow Cytometer Instrument Breaks the Boundaries of EV Detection, Providing Access to New Data Points INDIANAPOLIS, USA − Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation and a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), [...]
Shoreline Biome launches convenient lysis-free DNA amplicon product
March 18, 2020
FARMINGTON, Conn.— Shoreline Biome, a microbiome research company that develops tools for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, recently unveiled a convenient new solution for the generation of 16S and StrainID amplicons The Shoreline Waveamplicon kit contains the same innovative amplification capabilities as the Shoreline Complete kit. It is a convenient solution for [...]
March 18, 2020
Tokyo, Japan – Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has developed the SU10 Single Cellome™ Unit, a device that uses a nanopipette*1 to inject substances such as genes and drugs and aspirate intracellular materials at target locations in individual cells. Targeting the biological research market, the SU10 is being released on this date in Japan, with release [...]
