New library preparation solution for targeted next-generation sequencing is first to combine gene panel design customization with ultra-high sensitivity CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the launch of its Ion AmpliSeq HD technology, the latest next-generation library preparation innovation that, for the first time, provides clinical researchers with the flexibility to custom design gene panels without [...]

Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of premium products for advanced material characterization, today announced the acquisition of Freeman Technology. Freeman Technology specializes in providing instruments for the measurement of powder flow properties and other behavioral properties of powders. Freeman Technology, located in Tewkesbury, UK, manufactures instruments which deliver data to assist its customers [...]

Sunnyvale, CA – Arrayit Corporation (OTC: ARYC), a life sciences and personalized medicine company, announces that the company has engaged a nationwide network of professional sales representatives (“sales reps”) to sell and distribute the company’s allergy tests across the Continental United States, with focus areas in the Pacific Northwest, West, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, Midwest, Northeast and [...]

QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA Global automation supplier, NovaTech, LLC announced that it has installed its process automation equipment at the WeylChem US manufacturing facility in Elgin, South Carolina. NovaTech’s D/3® Distributed Control System (DCS) is part of a new $10 million site expansion which is needed to support a long-term, customer tolling project. The D/3 controls and automates the [...]

PerkinElmer’s Syngistix™ for AA Express software is the latest addition to the Syngistix Atomic Spectroscopy Software platform and the newest instrument control software option for the PinAAcle® 900H flame/furnace atomic absorption (AA) spectrometer. Leveraging the icon-based design of the Syngistix platform, Syngistix for AA Express reduces complexity and accelerates analysis time with a streamlined, three-step [...]

PARIS -- At the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Conference (www.ismrm.org), Bruker announced the launch of the next version of its preclinical imaging software, ParaVision 360.  It is the most advanced research-grade software for preclinical MRI, and has now also been extended to nuclear molecular imaging.  ParaVision 360 enables sequential or simultaneous PET/MR measurements and analysis in [...]

How are my cells doing? PAULA, the world’s first Personal AUtomated Lab Assistant, always knows the answer! PAULA, the world’s first Personal AUtomated Lab Assistant from Leica Microsystems, is ready to help out cell-lab users. As a new member of the team, PAULA would take over a large number of time-consuming, routine manual tasks that [...]

First Center of Excellence to Focus on Clinical Research and Biomarker Development SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that the Netherlands Cancer Institute will become the first in a series of Centers of Excellence (COE) for NanoString’s Digital Spatial Profiling (DSP) platform. The goal of [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA, today announced the expansion of its next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions product line to include the high throughput Twist Human Core Exome Kit, a library preparation and target enrichment kit, with the ability to run up to [...]

Extended kit configurations provide increased flexibility and utility for high throughput sequencing NovaSeq™ has enabled researchers to employ novel experimental approaches to explore genetic variation associated with health and disease. The throughput and compelling economics of the new platform are enabling broader and deeper studies, many of which weren’t practical even a few years ago. [...]