Merck today announced several research grants and challenges during the company’s 350th anniversary year in addition to already existing initiatives. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Reaching out to scientists all over the world with invitation to apply for research grants and to compete in research challenges Funding of up to € 350,000 per research grant or up to [...]

Santa Cruz, CA - SomaGenics announced the launch of RealSeq®-biofluids, a next-generation sequencing (NGS) library construction kit sensitive enough to detect small RNAs from cell-free biofluids. Further enhancing its efforts in the liquid biopsy arena, SomaGenics has received a 3-year Phase II SBIR grant from the NIH for the development of RealSeq®-T, a technology enabling [...]

Precision medicine in oncology, microbiology, and in vitro allergy testing is taking a major leap forward. Stratedigm, Inc. and Shero Diagnostics, Inc. have partnered together to create a new paradigm in personalized medicine. Leveraging Stratedigm’s fully automated, future-proof flow cytometry technology, Shero Diagnostics will utilize its reagent library to create single-click diagnostics tests. Shero and Stratedigm’s synergistic approach will [...]

Los Angeles, CA. - US Nuclear Corp. (OTCBB: UCLE) and Electronic Sensor Technology Inc. have signed a worldwide sales representative and resale agreement giving US Nuclear non-exclusive rights to sell the revolutionary, high-speed zNose®chemical sniffers. The zNose®chemical sniffers, recently featured in CBS Television’s CSI Miami, use advanced Surface Acoustic Wave sensors and ultra-fast gas chromatography [...]

New facility increases Clinic's capacity to analyze patient samples, advance medical research and enhance clinical care Chelmsford, Mass., and Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Clinic and Brooks Automation. Inc. (Nasdaq: BRKS) will launch a 21,000-square-foot biorepository in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood to enhance researchers’ study of human tissue samples and advance personalized medicine for an array of conditions – including cancer, heart disease, and epilepsy. This state-of-the-art [...]

New open-source algorithm produces phased diploid genome assemblies SEATTLE -- Seattle-based Phase Genomics [www.phasegenomics.com], the leader in Hi-C based genomic solutions and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. [www.pacb.com], the leader in long-read sequencing, announce the release of the FALCON-Phase software as part of a new co-development effort to improve the FALCON-Unzip genome assembly method for providing high-quality, phased diploid genome [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – At AAPG 2018, Bruker today introduces the new TRACERTM 5g handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) elemental analyzer. This latest member of the TRACER 5 family incorporates a Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) with a graphene entrance window. While the graphene is extremely thin, its unique structure makes it extremely strong. The graphene window has higher [...]

Following many years as the UK distribution partner for SPECS, the market leader in market leader in near-ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy, Scanwel is pleased to announce that we have signed a distribution agreement with Enviro Analytical Instruments, a new member of the SPECS group dedicated to the latest environmental XPS solution, the EnviroESCA. The instrument opens up new possibilities for [...]

Tokyo, Japan & Besançon, France: leading high-tech equipment company JEOL and Digital Surf, creator of Mountains® surface and image analysis technology, today announced the release of SMILE VIEW™ Map software for users of JEOL’s cutting-edge scanning electron microscope (SEM) systems. This new release will be of great benefitto researchers and engineers working in a wide [...]

Mountain View, CA—The Takara Bio Group, the leading provider of human stem cell differentiation services globally, has launched the Cellartis Directed Differentiation to Beta Cells Service for the delivery of high-quality, custom human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived beta cells for diabetes research and metabolic disease modeling. The gold standard in this field involves the use of [...]