Collaboration aims to facilitate transformational biomedical science and engineering research SANTA CLARA, Calif. & LOS ANGELES--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has formed a strategic scientific collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC) Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience to create an Agilent Center of Excellence (CoE) in Biomolecular Characterization. The center will be housed [...]

Bourevestnik, Inc., subsidiary company of ALROSA, supplied and commissioned a set of X-ray luminescence sorters at the new recovery plant of the historic Cullinan mine in South Africa. The Cullinan Mine is owned 74% by Petra Diamonds Limited and is renowned as the source of very rare blue diamonds and large, high quality gem diamonds, [...]

DMU students work with local communities on the island A group of science students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU), United Kingdom, have taken part of a recent visit to Bermuda to work on promoting science with the community during a #DMUglobal trip to the island. 18 Biomedical Science, Medical Science and Forensic Science students spent a week in Bermuda [...]

Mannai becomes KineMatik Authorized Partner, in Qatar, for the KineMatik range of OpenText Content Suite Solutions. Improving Business Processes and Optimising Content, Across all Sectors Cork, Ireland – Mannai Trading Company WLL has recently been appointed as a KineMatik Authorized Partner, in Qatar,  further enhancing the Mannai solution offering in the area of innovative enterprise applications. “We [...]

Diagenode’s CATS RNA-seq library prep kits and Genialis’ transcriptomics computing platform deliver a “one tube, one click” gene expression analysis solution Denville, NJ, and Liège, Belgium, and Houston, TX Diagenode and Genialis today launched a streamlined RNA-seq data analysis workflow to assess gene expression in low input or degraded RNA samples. The integrated sample-to-analysis workflow [...]

Porvair Sciences announces a new and improved Chromatrap® ChIP-Seq kit (v.1.5) that is optimised to work from fresh and frozen extracted tissue as well as cell lines. This latest version of the popular Chromatrap® ChIP-Seq kit enables ChIP to be performed from as little as 50mg of a wide range of extracted tissue samples. The new protocol incorporates optimised lysis and [...]

Nature Biotechnology has today published a whole human genome assembly using the MinION nanopore DNA sequencer.  The consortium of researchers, from nine different institutions, demonstrated the most complete human genome generated from a single sequencing technology to date. As part of their assembly, the team were able to accurately estimate telomere lengths and resolve complex repeat [...]

Rockville, MD – Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. (MSD) is pleased to announce that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its conventional C-reactive protein (CRP) assay for in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) use in the United States. The assay uses MSD’s proprietary MULTI-ARRAY technology, which has been widely used in [...]

MILFORD, Mass.---- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced BioResolve™ RP mAb Polyphenyl 450 angstrom 2.7 micron solid core Columns intended for the reversed-phase analysis of intact or sub-unit-digested monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) using LC-UV and LC-MS. Waters' new BioResolve RP mAb Polyphenyl Columns are for the analysis of intact or sub-unit-digested monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and antibody-drug conjugates [...]

The next generation Thermo Scientific GENESYS UV-Vis spectrophotometer portfolio is optimized for usability and performance MADISON, Wis. -- Industrial QA/QC technicians, instructors and university researchers seeking robust UV-Visible spectrophotometers that are accessible, automated and network-ready can now choose from a flexible range of options with the newly designed Thermo Scientific GENESYS UV-Vis spectrophotometer family. Regarded worldwide for reliability, [...]