Anton Paar Releases New Generation of Instruments for Mechanical Surface Testing
January 18, 2018
The scratch testers, instrumented indentation testers, and tribometers can be combined on one platform or used separately. A technical redesign to Generation 3 scratch testers brought a number of new features which make the Anton Paar instruments the most versatile and precise instruments on the market. ASHLAND, Va. Based on Anton Paar’s unmatched 35 years [...]
Isogenic Panels of Neuronal iPSC Derivatives
January 18, 2018
AMSBIO announces the launch of a new range of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived neural stem cells (NSCs) and neural lineage progenitors. For several years, neuroscience research using cell line and animal models of degenerative neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease has been challenged to translate results into in vivo conditions, whether [...]
January 18, 2018
Arima-HiC services is selected by the prestigious G10K consortium to generate 'near-gapless' reference genome assemblies for all vertebrate order species (phase-1). In a second related story, Arima Genomics today launches an early access program for its rapid, robust and easy-to-use Arima-HiC kits to satisfy the high demand for Hi-C technology. San Diego, CA Arima Genomics, [...]
January 18, 2018
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN; “Applied DNA”, “the Company”), today announced it will introduce a GeoTyping™ Beta Program, for the month of February, to brands and retailers interested in identifying country-of-origin in cases of cotton fiber substitution. Applied DNA is asking those interested to provide cotton samples suspected to contain cotton [...]
QIAGEN receives FDA approval to expand use of EGFR test in lung cancer
January 18, 2018
Extended labelling claim adds detection of three additional gene mutations to provide the most comprehensive mutation panel for GILOTRIF® Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a PMA supplement extending the indications for use of QIAGEN’s therascreen® EGFR [...]
January 18, 2018
Brings two decades of proven sales, marketing and team management expertise at Becton Dickinson, Pfizer and Sanofi to oversee the growth of WuXi NextCODE’s China business and operations 18 January 2018 – WuXi NextCODE, the emerging global standard platform for genomic data, today announced the appointment of Louis Yuan as senior vice president and China General [...]
Record Sales for Advion’s Single Quadrupole Compact Mass Spectrometer
January 18, 2018
ITHACA, N.Y. — Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables developer for the life sciences industry, announced that, during the year ending December 31, 2017, it had reached several major milestones: Advion sold nearly 60 (58 actual) Compact Mass Spectrometer (CMS) units per quarter The company approached 750 CMS units shipped, with the milestone 700th order having [...]
Olympus TruResolution™ Objectives Maximize Resolution in Deep Imaging for Neuroscience Research
January 17, 2018
Deliver an industry-first automatic spherical aberration compensation function Left: Olympus TruResolution Objective; Right: 3D reconstructed image of mouse in vivo brain (Thy1-YFP-H mouse sensory cortex) acquired using TruResolution objective with auto adjustment function. Image data courtesy of Dr. Hiromu Monai, Dr.Hajime Hirase and Dr. Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN BSI-Olympus Collaboration Center For high-res images click here. For video of mouse in vivo brain click here. [...]
CP Lab Safety Inc. Acquires major assets of Chemical Feed Safety Supply Inc.
January 17, 2018
Novato, California – Today, CP Lab Safety, a leading manufacturer and supplier of laboratory safety & environmentally friendly products, announced that the company has acquired major assets of Chemical Feed Safety Supply (CFS2). CFS2 is the manufacturer of Drum Feed Safety Clamps, designed to provide a safe solution to any chemical feed system. CFS2's Safety Clamps [...]
Vela Diagnostics signs license agreement with UCSF
January 17, 2018
Singapore – Vela Diagnostics signs a license agreement with the The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for two technologies, known as: FLASH (Finding Low Abundance Sequences by Hybridization); and DASH (Depletion of Abundant Sequences of Hybridization) - innovative technologies for enriching rare sequences in nucleic acid libraries. This agreement provides the framework for Vela Diagnostics to use and practice the FLASH and DASH technologies [...]

