New facility will help alleviate bottlenecks in manufacturing that impact preclinical research December 16, 2019 - GE Healthcare (GEHC) Life Sciences and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have come together to establish a Large Scale Viral Vector Manufacturing Facility. The new facility will provide large quantities of high-quality recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for preclinical research. [...]

WELLESLEY, Mass., GARDNER, Mass. and LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Ampersand Capital Partners announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Peptides International and merged it with existing portfolio company New England Peptide. This merger brings together two leading providers of peptide synthesis services as well as a broad catalog of unique peptide products to assist in [...]

NIS.ai enables researchers to easily and accurately extract unbiased data from vast amounts of datasets Nikon Instruments Inc., innovator of advanced microscope systems, today announced NIS.ai, a powerful image analysis and processing module for NIS-Elements that leverages Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. NIS.ai is a suite of new AI-based processing tools that utilizes convolutional neural networks to learn [...]

HERCULES, Calif.–Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that the Company is making good progress recovering from a ransomware attack that was detected on Bio-Rad’s network on December 5, 2019. Once the malicious software was detected, Bio-Rad immediately took certain systems offline [...]

Hamburg, December 2019   Until January 15, 2020, researchers up to 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe are invited to apply online for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2020. This prize acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical [...]

Dolomite Bio, a leading provider of high throughput single cell technology, and S2 Genomics, a manufacturer and provider of automated tissue sample preparation systems, today announced a collaboration to combine S2 Genomics’ SingulatorTM capabilities with Dolomite Bio’s single cell Nadia platform. Achieving high-quality single cell data from solid tissues relies on consistent and reproducible cell or nuclei dissociation procedures. To overcome challenges often seen with manual cell dissociation methods, and to provide researchers with exceptional single cell data quality, Dolomite Bio and S2 Genomics are collaborating to develop an integrated single cell workflow. The integrated workflow enables solid tissues to be [...]

Columbus, OH -- Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE:MTD) announced today that Marco Gadola has retired as a director of the Board. Mr. Gadola is assuming significant new commitments effective January 1, 2020 which are time-intensive and limit his ability to contribute to METTLER TOLEDO. Robert F. Spoerry, Chairman of the Board, stated, "We want to thank [...]

SEATTLE — RareCyte, Inc. (“RareCyte” or “the Company”) a Life Sciences company creating liquid and tissue biopsy analysis platforms with emphasis on rare cell detection announced today the completion of a $22M financing from new and existing investors. The funding will drive a global sales expansion for its instrument and consumables platform used in research [...]

Columbus, OH -- Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE:MTD) announced today that Marco Gadola has retired as a director of the Board. Mr. Gadola is assuming significant new commitments effective January 1, 2020 which are time-intensive and limit his ability to contribute to METTLER TOLEDO. Robert F. Spoerry, Chairman of the Board, stated, "We want to thank Marco for his role as director and wish [...]

SAN DIEGO – Pipette.com provides customers with different pipette types and now lab equipment. Pipettes are a common laboratory tool used to transport measured volumes of liquid and come in a multitude of channels, displacements and construction materials. Pipette.com will also now offer orbital shakers from Oxford Lab Products, Eppendorf, Scientific Industries, Benchmark Scientific, and Labnet to help grow cultures, [...]