The European Patent Office has granted a patent to m2p-labs of Baesweiler, Germany, for an innovative microbioreactor device to facilitate high-throughput bioprocess optimization in the life science market. 48 microbioreactors are placed on a standard microtiter plate which is about the size of a smart phone. This is key in order to optimize a multitude [...]

World’s first commercially available platform for high-throughput single-cell DNA analysis expands capabilities to include HiSeq and new targeted panels CHICAGO.—Mission Bio, Inc., a leader in single-cell DNA analysis and precision genomics, today announced at the American Association for Cancer Research 2018 annual meeting multiple premier cancer centers have added the Tapestri platform to their laboratories. [...]

Seattle, WA – RareCyte, Inc., a global rare cell detection and liquid biopsy company announces its newest product, CyteFinder HT in conjunction with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago April 15 through 18. CyteFinder HT, RareCyte’s newest member of the CyteFinder family enables high-speed whole slide imaging with up to [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Patrick Kaltenbach, senior vice president, Agilent and president, Life Sciences and Analytical Group (LSAG), will leave the company on April 20, 2018. A replacement process for Kaltenbach's position is underway, drawing on Agilent's deep internal leadership bench. "Patrick and his team have built on Agilent's [...]

Porvair Sciences introduces new black Krystal UV Quartz bottomed microplates that offer excellent optical transmission in the wavelength range 185nm to 1100nm making them ideal for labs looking to make Circular Dichroism (CD) measurements. Circular Dichroism is a well-established technique for studying optical isomers (chirality) and secondary structure such as alpha / double helix in biological molecules. Consequently, the technique [...]

Torrance, Calif. – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces bioZen – a new series of LC solutions for bioseparations in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and academic research. The series encompasses both proven and entirely new media spanning two particle platforms – core-shell and thermally modified [...]

CHICAGO -- One in 285 children born in the U.S. this year alone will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday1, yet, until recently, too little was known about the genetic alterations that drive their cancers to appropriately manage the disease. To address this global issue, Thermo Fisher Scientific today announces it has established the International [...]

Comprehensive circulating tumor DNA reference materialS FOR NGS assay development, validation, and daily run controls MILFORD, Mass. -- SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, announces two new upcoming additions to the Seraseq™ Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) portfolio of reference materials, ctDNA Complete™ and ctDNA Panels. These new reference [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, announced a strategic collaboration between its Biotech business unit and Artesyn Biosolutions, a leading innovator in single-use components and fluid management technologies. The agreement will encompass a co-development partnership, delivering complete solutions from clinical to commercial-scale for single-use automated bioprocessing systems. [...]

Sartorius will supply equipment for Penn State’s new Fermentation Facility in the university’s Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology. Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Penn State University have entered into a collaborative partnership to advance multidisciplinary teaching and research in biotechnology, the company and university announced in an April 16, 2018 press release. This long-term relationship [...]