QIAGEN announces broadening of GeneReader NGS System applications into hereditary disease analysis

Delivering valuable insights with solution anchored by GeneReader NGS System and utilizing QIAact target enrichment panels and gold-standard QIAGEN bioinformatics solutions Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today introduced seamless next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions for a wide range of hereditary diseases on the GeneReader NGS System, the complete [...]

PAA makes automation easy at SLAS Europe 2018

Expert lab automation advice and budget-friendly S-LAB™ plate handler available on booth 405 Farnborough, UK. Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader in laboratory automation, will be providing extensive automation advice and showcasing its S-LAB™ automated plate handler onbooth 405 at the SLAS Europe conference in Brussels, June 27-29th 2018. Now available to end users, the S-LAB is an easy-to-use, [...]

NanoCellect Biomedical Names New CEO

San Diego, Calif. – NanoCellect Biomedical Inc., a leader in the development and manufacture of innovative tools for cell analysis and sorting, today announced that Chris Neary has joined the company’s management team as CEO.  The appointment is part of NanoCellect’s expansion following its successful introduction of the unique Wolf® Cell Sorter system.  Neary will [...]

Synthetic Genomics Appoints Reinhard J. Ambros, Ph.D., Former Global Head of the Novartis Venture Fund to Board of Directors

SAN DIEGO, CA — Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a leader in designing and programming biology for function, today announced Reinhard J. Ambros, Ph.D., has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Ambros was the global head of the Novartis Venture Fund from 2005 to 2017 and built one of the largest and most active corporate Biotechnology [...]

Ovizio Imaging Systems appoints Dr. Emilie Viey as Chief Executive Officer

Brussels – Ovizio Imaging Systems, a life science imaging technology company, announces the appointment of Emilie Viey as CEO and board member. Dr. Viey will lead Ovizio’s further development as solution provider for imaging applications in Life Sciences. Emilie Viey joins Ovizio Imaging Systems from ACEA Biosciences, a Cell Analysis instruments company based in San Diego [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Donates Rapid DNA Analysis Technology to Help Reunite Families Recently Separated at Border

Accredited technology quickly and accurately identifies parentage relationships while preserving privacy WALTHAM, Mass. --  Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it is offering to donate $1 million worth of rapid DNA analyzers and related technology to support efforts to reunite children and parents recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Thermo Fisher's breakthrough technology can go from sample [...]

Grand Opening for UC Irvine Materials Research Institute and JEOL Center for NanoScale Solutions

Peabody, MA When is a Grand Opening truly grand? When the facility and symposium is as impressive as the one at the University of California Irvine Materials Research Institute and the JEOL Center for Nanoscale Solutions. The three-day event kicked off on June 6, 2018 with a welcome from Dr. Xioaqing Pan, Director of the University of California Irvine [...]

“Bourevestnik” Inc. has supplied an X-ray fluorescence analyzer ARF-7

In summer 2018, Bourevestnik Inc. has delivered and commissioned the “Specialized wave-dispersive analyzer ARF-7” at Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat (NMMC, Navoi, Uzbekistan Republic). NMMC is a multi-field mining and processing enterprise, and it is ranked in the top ten of global leading companies in the production of gold and uranium. The NMMC’s structure includes [...]

Compact Lab Safety Shields

Asynt has expanded its range of Lab Safety Shields. Manufactured in the UK, Asynt Lab Safety Shields fit neatly around all major stirrer hotplate brands providing lab scientists with enhanced safety while maintaining easy access to hotplate controls and good all-round visibility of the reaction or process. Built in robust 5mm polycarbonate, the new Large [...]

Park Systems, leading Manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes Continues Global Expansion with New Distributors in Europe

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Park Systems, world-leading manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM)OK announced two new European distributors as part of a continued global expansion that began with the opening of the Park European Headquarters and Park NanoScience Center in Manheim Germany.  Newly appointed distributors for Park Systems are AVBA Hi-Tech Services Ltd in Israel and CN Technical Services Ltd [...]

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