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 [...]

Restek is pleased to announce the launch of a new standard formulation that was developed specifically for methods that couple LC with GC-FID to determine mineral oil hydrocarbon contaminants that migrate from processing equipment and packaging into food. This 10-component mix contains both mineral oil saturated hydrocarbon (MOSH) and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbon (MOAH) markers [...]

C. Gerhardt releases with DUMATHERM® CN a new model in the product series for elemental analysis. Designed for a simultaneous determination of carbon and nitrogen, it is a perfect solution for environmental and agriculture laboratories analyzing soil and plant samples. By using all the advantages of the DUMATHERM® technology the new CN delivers precise results, is [...]

Critical step in strengthening productivity of world’s most popular vegetarian oil and protein source Ness Ziona, Israel & Columbia, Missouri – Dr. Henry Nguyen, a Curators’ distinguished professor of plant sciences in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, has employed NRGene DeNovoMAGICTM, the world’s most popular genome assembly tool for crop plants, [...]

Redwood City, California – Synthego, a leading provider of genome enineering solutions, today announced that genomic industry pioneer Dr. Jennifer Doudna has joined the company’s advisory board. Doudna, best known for co-inventing CRISPR, will advise Synthego on a variety of product, partnership, and business strategy initiatives to help amplify the company’s fast-growing impact in the genome engineering [...]