March 18, 2019
Online service portal allows scientists to monitor lab performance with 24/7 remote access and control Saves time and improves lab productivity with remote diagnostics and assistance Facilitates data traceability, audits and lab accreditation Burlington, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma today announced a new cloud-based, remote lab water service and monitoring capability available on all Milli-Q® CLX 7000 clinical [...]
The VERITY® 1910 MS Detector Offers Expanded Mass Range for Detection of Peptides and Small Proteins
March 16, 2019
Middleton, WI - Gilson announced today the launch of the VERITY® 1910 MS Detector, offering numerous enhancements over its popular VERITY 1900 Detector, including an expanded mass range of 50–1400 m/z. This broader mass range addresses the detection needs of many pharmaceutical and biotech scientists performing preparative chromatography purifications on peptides and small proteins. The enhanced [...]
BrightSpec, Inc. to Acquire Substantial Assets of BioTools, Inc.
March 15, 2019
Charlottesville, Virginia—BrightSpec, Inc., a privately held life science instrumentation company, announced today that it entered into a letter of intent to purchase substantial assets from BioTools, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) including the portions of its business related to the Vibrational Circular Dichroism spectrometer, the Raman Optical Activity spectrometer, and the FT-IR protein analyzer. Dr. Rina Dukor, BioTools [...]
Autoscribe Informatics now has a distributor in South Korea
March 15, 2019
Autoscribe Informatics is proud to announce that it has appointed Infowiz as our distributor in South Korea for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) products. Infowiz, based in Seoul, is a company focused on the delivery of specialist software for laboratories providing project management consultants and implementation experts. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia [...]
KNAUER INTRODUCES NEW LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMNS AND MEDIA FOR PROTEIN PURIFICATION
March 15, 2019
The new Sepapure® columns and media represent high-quality alternatives for common protein purification tasks like size-exclusion (SEC), affinity (AC) and ion-exchange (IEX) chromatography. Sepapure FPLC columns come as prepacked ready-to-use 1 ml or 5 ml cartridges and can also be purchased as bulk material. The media for affinity as well as ion-exchange chromatography are based [...]
March 14, 2019
Ovation.io, a next-generation clinical informatics company, today announced Series A funding of $5 million led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from new investors Borealis Ventures, Nat Turner, Zach Weinberg, and existing investors StagedotO and David Shaw. Ovation.io provides operations and intelligence software for next-generation precision diagnostic labs. Ovation will use the funding to accelerate lab deployment [...]
Bruker Announces Acquisition of Scientific Software Provider Arxspan
March 14, 2019
Enhanced Focus on Pharma and Biopharma Software and Workflow Solutions BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced that it has acquired Arxspan LLC, a provider of cloud-based scientific software and workflow solutions, based in Southborough, Massachusetts. Arxspan is known for its line of cloud-based products for the management of research data under the Arxlab® brand. [...]
March 14, 2019
COLUMBIA, Md. — Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of the Nexera Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph series, incorporating artificial intelligence as Analytical Intelligence, allowing systems to detect and resolve issues automatically. The Nexera series makes lab management simple by integrating IoT and device networking, enabling users to easily review instrument status, optimize resource allocation, and achieve higher [...]
Real-time Biochemistry of Living Cells and Whole Organisms
March 14, 2019
AMSBIO has added a new range of GCaMP calcium indicators (jGCaMP7b, jGCaMP7c, jGCaMP7f, jGCaMP7s) to their portfolio of ready-to-use adeno-associated virus (AAV) biosensor products. These viruses encoded biosensors are supplied ready for use for neural activity studies in vivo. AAV Biosensors provide a snapshot of intracellular interactions, specifically active brain circuitry. Using fluorescent protein-based AAV biosensors allows permanent [...]
March 14, 2019
Prof Hon-Ming Lam from The Chinese University of Hong Kong teamed with BGI Genomics and other experts to complete the first reference-grade wild soybean genome, published in Nature Communications Soybean is an economically important crop first domesticated in China. Wild soybeans contain genes that could be used to improve agronomic traits of cultivated soybean, including stress [...]

