Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” CDD is proud to announce this Spring-time release of CDD Vault that delivers ELN and API enhancements to make working together within the CDD Vault platform a true success! Duplicate ELN Entries Sometimes, scientific research involves reproducibly performing [...]

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Laboratory safety software company BioRAFT announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Stanford University to acquire the license to the ChemTracker brand and intellectual property. The agreement will enable BioRAFT to combine ChemTracker's powerful chemical safety and regulatory information database with BioRAFT's enterprise solution and user-friendly interface. Development will begin [...]

Maximizing synergies and further expanding the bio-medical business FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) has announced today that it is acquiring all the outstanding shares* of Irvine Scientific Sales Company, Inc. (ISUS) and IS JAPAN CO.,LTD., (ISJ) leading companies in cell culture media, and signed a stock purchase agreement for about US$800 million today. In recent years, [...]

LA JOLLA, CA — March 29, 2018 —SGI-DNA Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), today launched BioXp™ Libraries for rapidly building diverse synthetic DNA fragments including degenerate, scanning, and variant libraries. For researchers working in drug discovery biology, structural biology, synthetic biology, and antibody and enzyme engineering, BioXp™ Libraries overcome several traditional [...]

One-day event in Beijing convened more than 400 leaders from government, academia and industry to discuss precision medicine advancement BEIJING -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today sponsored the first China-U.S. Precision Medicine Summit, along with co-hosts CEO Roundtable on Cancer, China Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. The [...]

BPATest enables food and agricultural laboratories to isolate and purify BPA for analysis in as little as ten minutes MILFORD, Mass.--Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced VICAM®, a Waters® Business, introduced a sensitive, precise determination of Bisphenol A (BPA) for food and agricultural laboratories. VICAM’s BPATest™ quickly isolates and purifies BPA for analysis from 0.1 to 50 parts per billion in [...]

AXT have recently completed the first Australian installation of a XtaLAB Synergy-S protein X-ray crystallography system from Rigaku Oxford Diffraction in Australia, the world leaders in crystallography. The system was installed at School of Molecular Sciences at the University of Western Australia with funding secured by a team of researchers led by Professor Alice Vrielink via the ARC LIEF [...]

SANTA ANA, California: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation has announced it has agreed to sell Irvine Scientific Sales Company, Inc. and IS Japan Co., Ltd. to FUJIFILMCorporation (FujiFilm). JXTG Energy acquired Irvine Scientific in 1987 and launched IS Japan in 1989; both companies have continuously expanded to become significant suppliers of cell culture media and products [...]

Collaboration plans to establish Biocept as Thermo Fisher Center of Excellence for liquid biopsy and to pursue commercial opportunities in both pharmaceutical and clinical markets SAN DIEGO -- Biocept, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOC), a leading commercial provider of liquid biopsy tests designed to provide physicians with clinically actionable information to improve the outcomes of patients diagnosed with cancer, announces [...]

Laboratory network standardizes on common NGS platform to efficiently profile patient samples across multiple cancer centers CARLSBAD, Calif. -- At risk cancer patients across Canada may now be able to have their tumors molecularly profiled using next-generation sequencing (NGS) as part of a national effort to expedite enrollments in clinical trials. Led by Exactis Innovation, a non-profit organization [...]