Merck Accelerates Mobius® Single-Use Manufacturing in Wuxi
February 24, 2018
• Investment supports growing demand for biopharmaceutical manufacturing in China • Accelerates Mobius® single-use manufacturing to bolster novel drug development Wuxi, China – Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced an additional investment to accelerate Mobius® single-use manufacturing in Wuxi, China. This investment follows a year after Merck announced its €80m Life Science investment in Nantong, [...]
February 23, 2018
Automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) solution increases efficiency and reduces manual intervention for up to 96 samples per day Reno, Nev. – Hamilton Robotics introduces the ID NIMBUS®assay ready workstation, specifically pre-configured and qualified to automate post-PCR sample processing using the well-known ForenSeq DNA Signature Prep Kit from Verogen. Forensic laboratories of any size, and especially [...]
STRECK, INC. FILES SUIT AGAINST CENATA GMBH FOR INFRINGEMENT OF ITS EUROPEAN PATENT
February 23, 2018
La Vista, NE – Streck, Inc. has filed suit against Cenata GmbH, for infringement of its European Patent No. 2228453B1, in the German district court in Mannheim. The lawsuit accuses patent infringement based upon Cenata GmbH activities in noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which Cenata identifies on its website as involving the Harmony® Test. Streck is [...]
QIAGEN opens Shared Services Center in Taguig City, Manila
February 23, 2018
Global leader in molecular testing solutions expands global presence with office in the Philippines MANILA – QIAGEN N.V. today announced the opening of QIAGEN Business Services (QBS) Manila, its new Shared Service Center in the Philippines. The new location in the Cyber Sigma building in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Manila, was officially opened today by Roland Sackers, [...]
TELOS MicroPlates for Small-Volume Fluid Samples
February 23, 2018
Kinesis TELOS® MicroPlate Plates Provides Versatility for Small-Volume Biological Fluid Samples Vernon Hills, Ill.— Kinesis TELOS MicroPlate™ plates are optimized for the sample processing and extraction of small-volume biological fluids. The microplate’s modular design, with 96-well capability, allows for flexibility in sample numbers. Full- or partially-populated plates can be processed using vacuum or positive pressure manifolds. In [...]
PromethION in the wild: high yield data announcements in human and plant DNA
February 23, 2018
A single MinION flow cell, able to run up to 512 channels at one time, can now produce more than 10-20Gb of DNA sequence data, and is being used in a variety of applications – browse our resource centre for examples. GridION, launched in 2017, is now providing an easy way of running up to five of the same [...]
Quadrupole probe analysers for UHV/XHV
February 23, 2018
The Hiden RGA series of quadrupole mass spectrometers for in-vacuum process analysis is further extended to include systems for applications from general vacuum monitoring through to specialised environmental and R&D applications. The Hiden HAL/3F series with triple-stage mass filter enhance both absolute sensitivity and mass resolution, with abundance sensitivity extended to just 5 parts-per-billion(ppb) as [...]
Bruker Acquires High-Speed QCL Infrared Microscopy Company IRM2
February 22, 2018
ETTLINGEN, Germany -- Bruker today announced that it has acquired IRM2, a developer of high-speed infrared (IR) imaging microscopes based on quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology. Innovative, fast QCL microscopy expands Bruker'stechnology portfolio and market opportunities for infrared microscopy, with applications in biological tissue analysis and materials science, and future potential in tissue diagnostics. Financial details of the transaction were not [...]
February 22, 2018
Latest release of first-in-class software solution features enhanced capabilities to integrate analysis of omic and phenotypic data from patients to improve the success rate of clinical trials Basel, Switzerland - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for biopharmaceutical research and development, today announced the release of Genedata Profiler 11.0. The latest development of the [...]
