New Rigaku QuickDetect mode provides users with the ability to identify residues or non-visible amounts to help keep first responders safer Wilmington, Massachusetts – Rigaku Analytical Devices, a leading pioneer of handheld and portable spectroscopic analyzers, announces the addition of QuickDetect™ mode, a capability that provides automated colorimetrics for trace or non-visible amounts to its existing [...]

Canadian Firm to Operate Alongside Existing Process Sensing Technologies Companies Michell Instruments, Analytical Industries and Rotronic   BOSTON, SAN FRANCSICO AND HERZLIYA, Israel--Battery Ventures, a global technology investment firm, has reached an agreement for its platform in the process-measurement market, Process Sensing Technologies (PST), to acquire LDetek, a global manufacturer of gas chromatography instruments and [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker today announced that it has appointed Gerald N. Herman to serve as the Company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. Mr. Herman commented: "Bruker is a leader in several life science tools and molecular diagnostics markets, and we have unique opportunities in front of us to extend our innovative thinking into adjacent [...]

Gonorrhoea, Deadly Plague and Dysentery Among Collection of Bacterial Genomes Now Publicly Available Through Collaboration with Pacific Biosciences HINXTON, United Kingdom and MENLO PARK, Calif. -- The genomes of more than 3,000 bacteria, including some of the world’s most dangerous, have been sequenced by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in collaboration with Pacific Biosciences (PacBio). Infecting tens of millions of [...]

State-of-the-art facility in high-tech industrial park will accommodate the company’s continued growth trajectory Domat/Ems, Switzerland – Hamilton Storage GmbH, a global leader in automated sample management systems, announces that it has relocated all operations to a high-technology industrial park in Domat/Ems, Switzerland. The Company is the first business to open within the industrial park and will [...]

Engineered Cells single-click ordering and knockout guarantee removes barriers to world-class CRISPR results REDWOOD CITY, California -- Synthego, the leading genome engineering solutions company, launches its Engineered Cells Portfolio with immediate access to Knockout Clone & Pool, and Advanced Cells. The Knockout Clone and Pool products enable single-click online ordering of any human cell line with [...]

FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc., licenses University of California - Irvine's technologies for derivation of microglia MADISON, Wis. -- FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc. (FCDI), a leading developer and manufacturer of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and differentiated tissue-specific iPSCs, announced today that it has entered into an exclusive patent license agreement with the University of California – Irvine (UCI) through its [...]

More than 1,000 registration dossiers successfully submitted for safe use Darmstadt, Germany — Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced that it has successfully submitted a total of more than 1,000 registration dossiers under the European chemicals regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) by the end of the [...]

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE  PRINT  E-MAIL An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Cambridge and MSD* has created the first detailed genetic map of human proteins, the key building blocks of biology. These discoveries promise to enhance our understanding of a wide range of diseases and aid development of new drugs. The [...]

BEVERLY, Mass. -- LexaGene Holdings Inc. (OTCQB:LXXGF) (TSX-V:LXG) (the “Company”), a biotechnology company that develops instrumentation for pathogen detection, announced today that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostics Laboratory. Under this agreement, Texas A&M will provide canine urine samples to LexaGene for testing on the Company’s LX6 prototype for [...]