Tecan strengthens development and operations organizations
April 11, 2019
Dr. Wael Yared appointed as CTO and Head Research & Development and a member of the Management Board Ulrich Kanter will continue to lead the Operations division with increased responsibilities and scope Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that the Company will strengthen its global Development and Operations organizations. To [...]
Automated microscope for gentle and fast confocal 4D imaging
April 11, 2019
Enhancing ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 with ZEISS LSM 900 for optical sectioning JENA/Germany. The proven ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 is a fully integrated high-end imaging system with various incubation and detection options. It combines the easy-to-use automation of a boxed microscope with the image quality and flexibility of a classic inverted research microscope. To get better data [...]
SOPHiA GENETICS achieves CE-IVD milestone for its Solid Tumor Solution for accurate cancer detection
April 11, 2019
Lausanne, SWITZERLAND: SOPHiA GENETICS, global leader in Data-Driven Medicine, announced today the CE-IVD marking of its Solid Tumor Solution (STS), a new step in the fight against cancer. This standardized molecular diagnostic application precisely detects and characterizes all types of genomic alterations in 42 clinically relevant genes associated with a range of solid tumors such [...]
Twist Bioscience Announces Antibody Optimization Agreement with Pandion Therapeutics
April 11, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO--Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a new collaboration with Pandion Therapeutics, to apply its antibody optimization platform to the targeting arm of a bispecific antibody. Pandion Therapeutics is a biotechnology platform company developing therapeutics to achieve [...]
Culturing Cells Without Using Serum
April 11, 2019
AMSBIO announces XerumFree™ - a new concept in cell culture that allows you to culture cells without the use of serum. XerumFree™ has been developed taking into account what is missing in traditional basal cell culture media to sustain growth of all cell types, which is a nutritional approach at the cellular level. Containing no animal or human [...]
Comparative Analysis of Whole Genomes using CLC Workbenches
April 11, 2019
Introducing the Whole Genome Alignment Plugin Paula Tataru, PhD, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist The new Whole Genome Alignment plugin, available for the CLC Main Workbench, CLC Genomics Workbench, and the CLC Genomics Server, makes it straight forward to undertake comparative sequence analysis of whole genomes. Here, we introduce core functionality provided by this plugin, which includes aligning multiple genomes, [...]
Confocal.nl launches new Re-scan Confocal Microscope modules at Focus on Microscopy 2019
April 10, 2019
Amsterdam, NL: Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl, launch new Re-scan Confocal Microscopy modules at the 2019 Focus on Microscopy meeting, London, UK. New Re-scan Confocal Microscopy modules from Confocal.nl are the feature of Booth 76 at this year’s Focus on Microscopy conference and exhibition being held at the QEII Centre in London, April [...]
RoosterBio and GenCure Sign Multiple Agreements to Advance Regenerative Medicine Startups
April 10, 2019
Multiple deals signed that leverage Plug&Play cGMP hMSC systems across med tech and synthetic biology segments of the regenerative medicine industry. FREDERICK, Md. RoosterBio Inc. and GenCure, both regenerative medicine manufacturing technology leaders, have locked into multiple agreements to help companies advance their innovations to clinical testing more rapidly than ever before. Companies across the [...]
Introducing Scientifica’s FLIM Upgrade kit
April 10, 2019
Scientifica are delighted to announce the release of our FLIM Upgrade kit, providing an integrated and flexible Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging solution. Based around PicoQuant’s state-of-the-art TCSPC system, the FLIM Upgrade Kit is compatible with all Scientifica multiphoton scan head and supports galvo and resonance imaging. This allows existing multiphoton systems to be easily upgraded. The FLIM Upgrade installed on a [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Immunoassay for Kratom Alkaloid Mitragynine Screening
April 10, 2019
FREMONT, Calif., April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of the Thermo Scientific CEDIA Mitragynine (Kratom) Assay, its newest drugs of abuse test that includes supporting calibrators and controls. The CEDIA Mitragynine (Kratom) Assay can be run on commonly used clinical chemistry analyzers, allowing a broad spectrum [...]

