Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announces that, mainly as a consequence of the new U.S. tax legislation, it will take an after-tax charge on net income of approximately $110-120 million (or about $0.47-$0.52 per share) in the fourth quarter of 2017, and an additional after-tax charge in [...]

Designed for in vitro and in vivo experiments that demand video-rate confocal imaging Upright FV3000 microscope configured for electrophysiology WALTHAM, Mass. — Expanding on the successful FLUOVIEW imaging platform, users can now take advantage of the speed and flexibility of the FV3000 confocal laser scanning microscope in two new upright models designed for in vitro and in vivo [...]

NDF and PerkinElmer to collaborate on a deeper look at GNE Myopathy BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation (NDF) - the world's leading nonprofit organization focused on the rare genetic disease called GNE Myopathy (GNEM, also known as HIBM) is pleased to announce its collaboration with PerkinElmer for Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) paired with [...]

NGS platform to generate additional clinical data to build out the Skyline-Helomics D-CHIP bioinformatics platform MINNEAPOLIS -- Skyline Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:SKLN) (“Skyline” or the “Company”), producer of the FDA-approved STREAMWAY® System for automated, direct-to-drain medical fluid disposal, today announced that it is expanding into Next Generation Sequencing (“NGS”) through the licensing of an NGS platform MiSeqDx®, from Illumina. [...]

MIDDLEBORO, MA – AMETEK Brookfield, a global leader in lab and process viscometers, is pleased to announce the appointment of Joseph Plante as Division Vice President/Business Unit Manager. In his new role, Mr. Plante has responsibility for managing day-to-day operations, while promoting continued growth, customer satisfaction and innovation at AMETEK Brookfield. Mr. Plante’s career spans [...]

For years, the QuEChERS approach has made sample preparation faster and easier than traditional methods. Now, the new Q-sep extraction salts from Restek make an easy technique even simpler. Restek’s new, improved design provides the salts in a more granular form, so they flow freely and are easier to pour than powders. The convenient slim [...]

2017 Year in review It's been a busy year for us here at Spectradyne, so we thought we would give you a quick review! Sales update In 2017, Spectradyne doubled the installed base of nCS1TM instruments! Installations include our first overseas customer (in Germany), our first university customers, and several major pharmaceutical customers. Looking ahead to [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Ovation.io, Inc. (Ovation), makers of the fastest-growing clinical laboratory information and commercialization platform, and Coriell Life Sciences, Inc., an innovative provider of clinical genetic reporting solutions, announced today a partnership and platform integration designed to create a seamless ecosystem for sample and workflow management, genetic data interpretation, and external client [...]

ArcticZymes today announced the expansion of their polymerase portfolio. The IsoPol™ SD⁺ and IsoPol™ BST⁺ deliver low temperature isothermal polymerases, one with increased strand displacement, and the second an improvement over existing Bacillus stearothermophilus available today. IsoPol™ SD+ is a DNA polymerase with stronger strand displacement activity, and higher salt tolerance compared to ArcticZymes first [...]

Bright Angel Therapeutics to leverage Schrödinger’s best-in-class drug discovery platforms to develop novel therapeutics for the treatment of drug-resistant and life-threatening fungal infections New York, NY and Toronto, Canada - Schrödinger, Inc., a privately-held company dedicated to revolutionizing drug discovery through advanced computational methods, and MaRS Innovation, a non-profit organization supporting the commercialization of research breakthroughs [...]