PerkinElmer Expands Food Testing Offerings with New Meat & Olive NIR Analyzer

DA 6200™ provides processors of meat and olives improved quality and process control WALTHAM, Massachusetts – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that it has launched the DA 6200™ NIR analyzer, which will help meat and olive processors to conduct quality and process control more accurately, easily and quickly. [...]

Adam Equipment Co Ltd joins Indutrade AB

Milton Keynes, U.K. – The Directors of Adam Equipment Co Ltd, a leading worldwide manufacturer of precision scales and balances for nearly 50 years, have recently sold 100% of the company shares to Indutrade AB, an international technology and industrial group based in Sweden. Indutrade is comprised of more than 200 companies globally and employs [...]

New England Biolabs® launches myNEB™, a first of its kind voice-activated digital lab assistant for Alexa

The new cloud-based service enables quick access to scientific information -- including key restriction enzyme details -- for molecular biologists in the lab. IPSWICH, Mass. -- Imagine you're at the bench performing a restriction enzyme digest, and you need information about an enzyme and don't want to have to take your gloves off. myNEB, an Alexa cloud-based [...]

FBI Approves Verogen’s Next-Gen Forensic DNA Technology for National DNA Index System

SAN DIEGO--Verogen Inc., the world’s first DNA sequencing company dedicated to forensic science, announced today that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has approved the company’s next-gen forensic DNA technology for use by forensic laboratories generating DNA profiles for upload to the National DNA Index System (NDIS). The FBI manages NDIS to enable comparison [...]

Zebra Analytix Receives Phase I SBIR Award from the National Institutes of Health

FUNDS WILL ENABLE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUMENT TO RAPIDLY AND DIRECTLY ANALYZE DRINKING WATER SAMPLES AT THE POINT OF COLLECTION.   FAYETTEVILLE, AR – Zebra Analytix™, a VIC Technology Venture Development portfolio company, announced today that it has received a National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIEHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant in the amount of $225,000. [...]

Renowned Digital PCR experts at Ghent University join hands with Stilla Technologies to expand the frontiers of Crystal™ dPCR using the Naica™ System

Ghent University, one of the leading research institutes working on digital PCR (dPCR) technology, recently signed a collaborative agreement with Stilla technologies. Stilla’s Naica system, a dPCR equipment, offers multiplexing to detect multiple target genes in a single assay with high precision and accuracy. In this collaborative project, the two parties will be joining hands [...]

Leading Cancer Center in Japan Selects Hyperion Imaging System to Expand Immuno-Oncology Research Studies in Colorectal Cancer

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced today that the Group for Innovative Cancer Treatment Division of the National Cancer Center in Japan has expanded its clinical research in colorectal cancer using the Hyperion™ Imaging System to study regulatory T (Treg) cell proliferation in tumor tissue with the goal of discovering a novel target for immunotherapy. Globally, colorectal cancer [...]

Out-of-the-Box Integration of Genedata Bioprocess® with MODDE® Streamlines Bioprocess Development DOE

Direct integration of Genedata Bioprocess® and Umetrics® Suite MODDE® software enables seamless data flow and facilitates both design and execution of experiments in large-molecule process development Basel, Switzerland ‒ Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for biopharmaceutical R&D, today announced a new out-of-the-box integration of the Genedata Bioprocess® platform with MODDE®, the Design of Experiment (DOE) software from Sartorius [...]

European Space Agency and Merck Expand Cooperation

Merck and the European Space Agency (ESA) today signed a Letter of Intent to extend by a further two years their cooperation agreement from 2016. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Successful collaboration extended by a further two years Partnership to include the future topics Biosensing and Biointerfaces Clean Meat and Liquid Biopsy technologies are further areas of focus [...]

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Launches New ambr® 15 Cell Culture Microbioreactor System

New design for improved clone selection as well as media and feed optimization in fed‑batch and perfusion mimic conditions System supports Cell & Gene therapy applications, including HEK293 for viral vector production, T-cells, iPSCs and other immune-derived cell lines Official launch at the ESACT Conference in Copenhagen (May 5–8, 2019) GOETTINGEN, Germany and ROYSTON, UK -  Sartorius [...]

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