AUSTIN, Texas -- L7 Informatics, Inc., formerly Lab7 Systems, a leader in informatics solutions and services for data intensive scientific applications and personalized medicine, is pleased to announce today the release of Enterprise Science Platform 2.0 (ESP) with a validated pre-built Microsoft Azure connector to the Microsoft Genomics service on the Azure cloud. The upcoming ESP [...]

The Board of Directors of Datacolor AG has appointed Philipp Hediger (43) as new Chief Financial Officer. He will take over the function of CFO as of November 1, 2018.   Philipp Hediger holds a Master degree in Business Administration from the University of Fribourg. He held similar or same leading management positions in the area [...]

Significant Enhancements to Sequel System Enable >99% Accuracy for Single-Molecule Reads up to 15 kb; Throughput Increases by 2- to 4-Fold MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced major enhancements to its Sequel® System, including a new version (6.0) of its software, [...]

MinIT, a rapid analysis and device control accessory for nanopore DNA sequencing, is now arriving with genomics researchers. Scientists will use it to run the MinION DNA/RNA sequencer, opening up high-throughput, real-time nanopore sequencing to more users in more locations. MinIT is equipped with a state-of-the-art NVIDIA AGX system, to enable real-time, high-throughput data analysis. [...]

In Vitro Diagnostic Device Designed for Dried Blood Spot Analysis MILFORD, Mass.--Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) introduced the RenataDX™ Screening System, a flow-injection tandem mass spectrometry (FIA-MS/MS) system for rapid high-throughput analysis of extracted dried blood spots and other human biological matrices. “Waters has long been a trusted specialty measurement partner for mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory. Continuing [...]

Royalty bearing license agreement to commercialise a product incorporating the Affimer technology Wetherby and Cambridge, UK, 10 October 2018: Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has agreed a commercial license with New England Biolabs® (NEB®) (Ipswich MA, USA), a global leader in the discovery and production of enzymes [...]

Funding to support commercialization of ExoView™ system BOSTON--NanoView Biosciences, an emerging leader in the field of exosome detection and characterization, today announced the closing of a $10 million Series B financing led by Northpond Ventures. Existing investors, including Sands Capital Ventures and PBM Capital Group, participated in the financing round. Proceeds will be used to [...]

Label individual cells with uniquely identifiable, expressed barcodes to understand how different experimental conditions affect distinct groups of cells from a common progenitor MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Cellecta, Inc. today introduced the CloneTracker XP™ Expressed Lentiviral Barcode Library and CloneTracker XP™ Barcoded CRISPR Library product lines. The ability to label and trace individual cells is a powerful experimental [...]

SAN DIEGO – Maravai LifeSciences, a leader in providing reagents to researchers, biotherapeutics manufacturers and OEM partners worldwide, today announced that it has hired Christopher Shaffer as senior director of oligonucleotide process development for TriLink BioTechnologies. In this new position, Shaffer will develop and refine processes that improve overall efficiency and will be instrumental when TriLink [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--The first hyperspectral images from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) Hyperspectral Imager have been received and transmitted back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). The imager, designed by DLR, is the first payload hosted aboard the Teledyne (NYSE:TDY) Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) platform. DESIS is [...]