Boston – The Pistoia Alliance, a global alliance of life science companies, vendors, publishers and academic groups, and Scilligence Corporation are pleased to announce the release of the major new extension to the HELM Web Editor. New functionalities enable the editor to support the representation of biomolecules with some structural uncertainty or ambiguity and also adds [...]

Within the life sciences, deriving neuronal activity in deep brain regions is an important process. In neuroscientific experiments, nerve cells are labeled with fluorescent proteins, which are optically excited by laser pulses that have the ability to transmit neuronal activity by fluorescence differences. Researchers from the Gene Circuit Behavior Department of the Max Planck Institute [...]

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), is pleased to announce that Steve Chase is joining the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This appointment is effective immediately and concludes a search process conducted by ATL’s executive leadership team. As CEO, Steve will oversee ATL’s ambitious near and long-term [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cofactor Genomics, leading developer of advanced RNA analysis tools, announced today that they have entered into an agreement with the National Cancer Institute, along with agreements with research groups at three other academic and pharma institutions, to demonstrate the clinical utility of their immune-profiling assay, Cofactor Paragon. These research collaborations are centered [...]

Exclusive two-way licensing deal promises to accelerate growth for both companies Frederick, MD — Akonni Biosystems Inc. and Chinese in vitro diagnostics company, Righton, announce a commercial agreement that enables Righton to sell Akonni’s products for nucleic acid purification and molecular diagnostics to reaserchers, clinical laboratories, and hospitals in China. The products to be sold include TruTip®, Akonni’s best-in-class [...]

FREDERICK, MD. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RURO, Inc., a leading provider of LIMS, LIS, RFID and other laboratory solutions, announces Limfinity®version 7, the latest iteration of the company’s information software platform. RURO solutions, including LimitLIS®, BiobankPro®, Limfinity® TSI, and Study Manager™ are all built on the Limfinity® platform. Since its last major release, RURO has used aspects of [...]

Allows users to measure performance and characteristics at temperatures above 100°C  WHAT: In response to customer needs, Perten Instruments, a PerkinElmer company, has launched a new version of the Rapid Visco Analyser™: the RVA 4800. With an extended temperature range (up to 140°C), the RVA 4800 instrument performs even more valuable analyses for a variety of applications. [...]

Funding will support new manufacturing facility, commercial expansion, and development of new innovative products. Oxford, UK. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd, the company behind the only portable real-time DNA/RNA sequencer, MinION, has raised £100M ($140M) in new investment. Funds were raised from global investors including GIC (Singapore), CCB International (CCBI, China), Hostplus (Australia), and existing investors. The [...]

Collaboration offers potential for PCR-free microRNA biomarker detection with high-specificity and ultra-sensitivity LEXINGTON, Mass.-- Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ:QTRX), a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, today announced a collaboration with DestiNA Genomics, a manufacturer of patented reagents for nucleic acid detection. Both companies are pioneering microRNA detection and this collaboration brings [...]

Aachen, Germany: Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Manfred Wilhelm, head of the Polymeric Materials Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Professor Wilhelm has applied Magritek’s 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer to develop a new online chemical detector for size-exclusion chromatography. Manfred Wilhelm is professor [...]