VWR and EPL Open New GxP Archive & Biorepository Facility
February 8, 2018
RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR, part of Avantor, and EPL Archives, LLC celebrated the opening of a new 24-acre campus and purpose-built biorepository facility in Leesburg, VA. The first facility opening on this campus offers over 155,000 square feet of new storage capacity, designed to support the full spectrum of EPL professional biorepository services. EPL provides secure storage [...]
Agilent to Support Korea Doping Control Center
February 8, 2018
Facility to test urine samples from thousands of athletes SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will collaborate with the Doping Control Center in Seoul, South Korea, to ensure that athletes from around the world are quickly and accurately tested to determine whether any have been using banned substances to enhance their performances. [...]
QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus gains approval in Japan
February 8, 2018
Unique immune detection technology and flexible workflow for tuberculosis control efforts HILDEN, Germany & TOKYO--QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare has approved QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus (QFT®-Plus) as an in vitro diagnostic to detect tuberculosis (TB) infection. QFT-Plus is the fourth generation of QIAGEN’s [...]
The Scottish Cryo-EM consortium has chosen the JEOL JEM-Z300FSC CRYO ARM™ 300
February 8, 2018
JEOL UK are proud to announce that the Scottish Cryo-EM consortium has chosen the JEOL JEM-Z300FSC CRYO ARM™ 300 as their preferred automated Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM) for the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI). The SCMI consortium led by the MRC Centre for Virus Research (CVR) at The University of Glasgow, selected JEOL [...]
ETP’s Next Generation MagneX Micro Detector
February 8, 2018
ETP are proud to announce that we are bringing an all-new detector to market. ETP’s next generation MagneX Micro Detector encompasses ETP’s award winning cross-field MagneTOF technology. This industry-leading technology provides the support needed for applications requiring a high performance miniature detector. Some of the features of the new Micro detector include: High performance miniaturized [...]
NuGEN Announces Launch of a New Streamlined Library Preparation Kit – Celero DNA-Seq
February 8, 2018
San Carlos, California Today NuGEN Technologies announces a breakthrough DNA-Seq library system giving researchers a simplified library preparation system for Illumina sequencers. The new system, Celero™ DNA-Seq, features a fast, addition-only workflow that eliminates in-process bead purifications. The system also features a breakthrough library quantitation method that saves both time and cost. In line with NuGEN’s new indexing solutions, [...]
VELP Scientific Inc. New Service Center
February 8, 2018
Since 2013, when we opened our first subsidiary VELP Scientific Inc. in the USA, our daily mission has been to ensure the maximum customer satisfaction of our premium quality products and technical support. As of 2018, we are proud to announce the enhancement of our US Service Center with qualified and skilled VELP chemists and engineers, in order to offer the best possible support [...]
Oxford Nanopore Successfully Defends PacBio lawsuit
February 8, 2018
In November 2016, PacBio filed a Complaint with the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) alleging that Oxford Nanopore infringed two of PacBio’s patents and seeking to prevent Oxford Nanopore from selling its product in the United States. Today, the ITC Commission has made a Final Determination affirming the Administrative Judge’s decision that Oxford Nanopore has not [...]
February 8, 2018
RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands & Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA — Bluebee, a company driving global genomic data-driven medicine, and New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB®) have partnered to provide a secure and convenient data processing solution for NEB’s NEBNext Direct target enrichment technology. Through this partnership, Bluebee enables NEB’s NEBNext Direct customers the ability to rapidly analyze, store and [...]
February 8, 2018
Tablet with microplate app and electronic pipette are first Internet of Things devices in the Gilson Connect Family Limited release program to involve scientific community in product enhancements Middleton, Wis. —Gilson launches Gilson Connect, a cloud-connected platform that powers a product line of Bluetooth®-enabled, smart liquid handling devices designed to help scientists achieve verifiable science. [...]

