Nanopore service providers update: three new providers, and more

With the addition of three new service providers, we recap some of the work that is underway around the world by labs offering nanopore sequencing as a service. KeyGene KeyGene is the go-to AgBiotech company for higher crop yield & quality. Our goal is to help organizations with their toughest R&D challenges, combining our cutting [...]

Anton Paar ShapeTec Bosnia starts up in new production hall

With its production site in Bosnia, Anton Paar is contributing to the reconstruction of an area with which there are personal ties. So it was obvious to go to a region that is easily accessible, with good experiences with reference companies and where German is even spoken more often than one might think. The new [...]

MILabs installs new VECTor5CT at Italian’s prestigious Veneto Institute of Oncology

Padova, Italy and Utrecht, the Netherlands The Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV) has acquired MILabs’ latest generation VECTor5CT as a key imaging tool to support its translational oncology mission, entrusted by the Italian Ministry of Health and the Organization of the European Cancer Institutes. Due to its high-resolution imaging capabilities, MILabs’ preclinical Versatile Emission Computed Tomography [...]

B&W Tek Announces QTRam for Content and Blend Uniformity Testing

Newark, Delaware B&W Tek is proud to announce the QTRam™ for nondestructive and real-time pharmaceutical content and blend uniformity measurement powered by the award-winning STRaman™ technology at CPhI North America on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. The QTRam provides the platform for solid dosage content uniformity testing to confirm proper concentration of the active ingredients in [...]

HE FUTURE OF PROTEIN A CHROMATOGRAPHY HAS ARRIVED… Introducing Praesto® Jetted A50

Purolite Life Sciences, a pioneer in resin innovation for close to 40 years, continues to lead the future of chromatography by combining Jetting - an innovative process that produces 50 µm uniform size agarose beads with high surface area - together with a modern, high performing protein A ligand that delivers outstanding performance. Praesto® Jetted [...]

Brooks Automation Announces the Acquisition of a Canadian Biorepository

CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRKS) announced today that it has acquired BioSpeciMan Corporation, a Canadian provider of storage services for biological sample materials headquartered in Montreal, Canada with operations in both Montreal and Kutztown, PA.  The total cash purchase price of the acquisition was approximately US$5 million, subject to customary working capital and other adjustments. BioSpeciMan, founded in 2002, [...]

Agilent Announces Executive Appointments

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Highlights: Jacob Thaysen named President, Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group, moving from Agilent’s Diagnostics and Genomics Group Sam Raha appointed President, Diagnostics and Genomics Group, moving from Agilent Strategy and Corporate Development Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Jacob Thaysen, currently, senior vice president, Agilent and president, Diagnostics and [...]

BIO-TECHNE ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENT

MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation announced today that it has hired Kim Kelderman as President, Diagnostics and Genomics, effective April 30, 2018.  Mr. Kelderman will be based in California and will lead Bio-Techne's diagnostics business; he will also drive and develop our strategic initiatives in genomics and genomics-based diagnostics.  With this appointment Mr. Kelderman will become an executive officer [...]

Dr. Heiner Dreismann, Former CEO of Roche Molecular Systems and Diagnostics Veteran, Joins MyDx Executive Advisory Board

Dr. Dreismann To Also Serve as Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board; Assist MyDx In Seeking Development Partners and Strategic Partners  San Diego, CA -- MyDx, Inc. (OTC: MYDX), a science and technology company and creator of MyDx® (My Diagnostic), the first multi-use handheld chemical analyzer designed for Cannabis professionals and retail consumers to understand the chemical profile [...]

JPK reports on research of the Mestroni Lab at the University of Colorado Denver which use the JPK NanoWizard® AFM to help in the characterization of cardiomyopathies.

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research of Professor Luisa Mestroni’s research laboratory which specializes in the study of genetics of cardiac muscle diseases. They use the JPK NanoWizard® AFM to help the characterization of cardiomyopathies. Professor Luisa Mestroni heads a laboratory studying [...]

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